#but i do!!!

[sexynetra]

SIX SENTENCE SUNDAY

I was going to work on this more during my shift but then I remembered it is Oscars day and I’m chronically addicted to awards shows 😔 anyways here’s the intro to my grandekofi bar au <3

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Two drinks. Just two.

That was how many drinks it took for Dame to admit she was in love with Tia. Well, admit it to herself at least.

She stared at her reflection in the grimy bathroom mirror of the bar Hannah had dragged them all out to for her birthday. Even with the dingy lighting, Dame could see the flush of her cheeks, left over from when Tia had wrapped her arms around her waist as they waited at the bar. It wasn’t long after that that she had excused herself.

#six sentence sunday #sss #grandekofi #I do have more than this written I realize that intro makes it seem like I don’t #but I do!!! #I just think the intro is compelling enough to post :) #anyways Oscar’s are going okay so far da’vine won but I had it muted during her speech bc I’m at work #so I’ll watch that when I get home #and they showed a dog :) #I don’t like jimmy Kimmel so he’s annoying me but whatever #anyways!!!! #my writing #La grande dame #tia kofi #dametia #drag race #rpdr #RuPaul’s drag race #uk vs the world #ukvtw2 #drag race uk vs the world

[levia-san]

OC-tober Day 1 - Favourite OC

I was so reluctant to post this because i didnt want to out my favourite but my friend guessed who it was on first try, so I guess I'm not as subtle in playing favourites than I thought LMAO

#zemi #my ocs #crying #its like admitting who your favourite child was #after saying you care for them all equally #but i do!!! #its just shes the most fun to draw and i like tall ladies....... #tall gay ladies #i say that but she doesnt care abotu you unless youre that person #lmao #that and survivors guilt #oc tober #bweirdoctober

[catcatb0y]

I was already having a shit day! Why can't I even trust fucking creators to tag their heavily triggering content!!!! Die a thousand deaths!!!

#sa/nc are REALLY popular triggers #there is NO FUCKING WAY it should be THIS FUCKING DIFFICULT to exist without seeing them #but I do!!! #all the fucking time!!!! #with tags like 'Light Angst' at best! #every single time in the 'Romance' genre #'oh what if I forced myself onto you but then called it romantic?' :3:3:3 what if I devoured you whole and put your bloody head on a steak #what if I tore you limb from limb while you begged me to stop #by your logic wouldn't that be romantic? #I like to think of violence as romantic #I mean I do #but like #when you continously write one half of thr party EXPLICITLY UNHAPPY WITH THE ACTION #IT LOOSES ANY GROUND IT ORIGINALLY HELD #FUCKING STOP #TAG YOUR SHIT

[pizzaqueen]

When the song you want to use on your fic soundtrack was released the year after the fic was set 😞

#i mean if the duffers don’t care about when a song was released I guess I don’t have to #but I do!!! #well tbf a couple of my fic soundtracks have later released songs on them #but I try to keep them as accurate as possible #it just gets me in the right mood/frame of mind #also i'm a pedant about some things :P

[spectroscopes]

One of the things that is really annoying to me about how casually people will lie or make derogatory speculations about public figures is that I really don’t actually like being a celebrity defender, I find it embarrassing to fight for like Jeremy Strong’s honour online. It’s just extraordinarily annoying to see people talk about him as if he is an abuser just for being intense and weird and I find it deeply bothersome how much more offensive people find it when someone is serious about their art than anything else. I can’t really deal with seeing people say there’s no reason to defend him from people acting like bullies about him knowing big words (which he does see! he knows people do this!) because he’s “obnoxious to work with” because of his process when Brian Cox was shouting at a photographer at the Succession premiere which to me indicates he’s probably a lot more difficult to work with than Strong is.

Like, idk, maybe people could just stop being weird and projecting things onto complete strangers. James Cameron throwing a party for the crew of Avatar 3 is not actually evidence that he’s a dangerous abuser (real take I saw a few weeks ago) and Jeremy Strong saying a story development on Succession made sense dramaturgically while still being shocking and devastating is not an insult to Jesse Armstrong it is in fact a compliment. And saying stuff like this is a thousand times more parasocial and weird than pointing out that these are very weird projections to make for the sake of being a hater. Just imo.

#defending james cameron online is a lot more embarrassing though because he actually doesn’t care #but i do!!! #i want people to care about real abuse not make up fake abuse to try to own a movie director over #the man nearly got into a physical fight with harvey weinstein that had to be broken up does that count for nothing

[iheartmoons]

it's wild when people my age say "the author wasn't even thinking about this while writing!"

because--

as someone who writes, yeah i do think about all of it actually!! i think abt plosives + sibilance, and i'm constantly reminding myself to think about sentence length when it's droning on too much or it's too choppy, and i do think about whether it's compound or complex or simple, because sometimes when there's too much of one, it loses it's effect. and yeah, i do think about the symbolism of writing this colour, and using this word instead of that word. and even the names are carefully chosen, yes!! and does this metaphor work?? or it is pointless? do i want the pov to be more childlike or more knowledgeable?? and yes!! i also think about the syntax!! bc word order is very important. i think about how the words roll off the tongue, or if this sounds too clunky to say. or if this sounds too straight-forward to say and i also think abt comma placement, and semi-colon placement, and dash placement, and---

#its alright if YOU dont think about all these things #but i do!!! #even if it's mostly subconscious #plus sometimes i dont tbh i just be writing #but a lot of the time i do!! #so if i'm thinking abt these things surely this famous author was also thinking abt these things 😭😭 #its just silly that they think literature isnt worth analysing

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

god my attraction to real people feels so fleeting in comparison to people and things that aren't real. it's so constantly frustrating

#this would be different if i didn't really experience crushes #but i do!!! #and like...they don't exist #i want to have that with a real person #but they never feel like my attachment to fictional crushes #nothing can be like that #nothing lives up to it #personal #crushes #fictional crushes #vent #rant

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

#art #i had to block multiple people because of this post and i easily could have blocked more #do you guys have any idea how exhausting it is to hear 400 people make the exact same unfunny joke each thinking they're being original #or worry that another person might get harassed over a post i made because of the way people are talking about them #or be harassed/insulted YOURSELF because some people don't know how to fucking behave #you guys don't get reblogs back. you should be grateful i'm leaving the post up at all.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[its-yashas-strong-arms]

FINALLY some good fucking feature ideas from the tumblr devs. tamagotchi renaissance now

#give us pets! give us pets! #lots of other suggestions too #i was randomly selected to be a tester apparently so i might get to do an interview and user test some shit too whichll be fun

[ladychlo]

Motaz Azaiza interviewed by Ajstream after fleeing Gaza, please do watch the whole interview...

#he just turned 24 yo #I can't imagine how many dreams aborted by what's happening #please do watch the whole interview #motaz azaiza #free palestine #gaza

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere #I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but #langblr #duolingo #duo #language learning #language learning apps #mandarinblr #resource #reference

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

#like literally every time ive hesitated sending a text or complimenting someone or stuff ive thought of it #like youre right. what if i played it a little risky what do i have to lose in doing a nice thing!!!!!! ur so right!!!!!!!! #but its forever lost cos i cant search it with any words cause its an image #misery and pain. you know how it is #my post

[justalittlebluetiefling]

#i don't believe that people for serious reasons sort their books any way but by author #and then obviously by release date/series within that #i am being told that i am being JUDGY #also if you sort your books any other way HOW DO YOU FIND THEM #i really need to know #polls #can't believe i forgot to include genre in here

[opiumvampire]

fuck w me

#my mommys cookie recipe except she makes them peanut butter cookies and i dont like peanut butter so we’re doing sugar cookies #sure hope nothing weird happens

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

#rambles #if you are a person who is into delicate skills #like lacemaking or printing or sewing #you will know fair well just how non expansive the knowledge online is in comparison to written guides from like the 50s #there was a time where at least one person in the household had to know a constructive skill #but in the modern day there is just less ans less demands for comprehensive guides #library propaganda #im stuck doing an essay rn but bc i have covid i cant go to the library and its totally fucked me #i want to source a lot of the stuff i read irl but i just cant go and get it and theres no online ver