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You know, I will never ever write a masterpiece. I will never write something with a complicated plot and surprising twists. I will never write anything that exposes the heart or the world or society and I will not anything that changes a person.

And that’s okay. It doesn’t mean I don’t have the talent. It doesn’t mean I don’t have the skill or the motivation or the desire. It doesn’t mean I’ll never write anything great. 

It just means that I have other things to write. Something softer. Something cuter. 

If I can make someone laugh. If I can make something happy that they looked at words and thought it worth the time they spent on then, that that’s what I want to write. 

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Flower Shop AUs: the crash course no one asked for

Alright my dudes, I worked in a flower shop when I was in high school and I’m here to bring you some potentially useful information for all your flower shop AU needs. this is all my own experience, take it with a grain of salt, etc etc etc.

making a custom arrangement right when someone requests it (ie they walk in and say “I want XYZ” and the florist then making an arrangement on the spot and selling it, all in one customer interaction) is pretty rare- I see it in fic a lot, but I can only imagine it happening on a really slow day, and probably from a pretty good-natured florist. custom arrangements tend to be something that are ordered well in advance for very special occasions (weddings, quinceñeras, etc), because you’ll be paying for the consultation and the time that it will take to design the arrangement.

most places will have a bunch of pre-designed arrangements to choose from- there’ll be pictures of the options near the register, often with cheesy names like “a thousand wishes” or “happiness blooms”. because greens keep longer than flowers, a shop usually keeps a stash of greenery arranged in vases, so when someone orders one, you just have to add fresh flowers to a pre-made vase. if someone came in and said “I want this pre-designed arrangement, but with X instead of Y”, that’s a pretty reasonable request.

customers usually don’t know anything about flowers. you get a lot of people coming in and basically asking “what do you think my date/partner/parent will like?” the obvious answer is “why the fuck would I know?” but that’s “impolite” or whatever, so a good florist will ask questions about what the person likes, if they have a favorite color, what your price range is, etc. basically you have to just pretend you know what the recipient wants- ultimately, in nearly every circumstance they’ll just be happy to receive flowers, so it’s hard to go wrong.

sorry to say it, but I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone, florist or not, who was actually familiar with flower meanings. like it honestly never came up. it’s a fun element to include in a story, but realistically the only way someone’s going to “get the message” of an arrangement is if you tell them directly that the flowers are meant to “say” something, or maybe if you’ve talked about flower language in the past.

often, in the process of unpacking, processing, and storing flowers, you’ll get a few flowers that break at the stem, which makes them essentially unusable in an arrangement (generally speaking, longer stems=more expensive) however, you could, in theory, save any snapped-stem flowers, make a little bouquet of them, and give it to someone. (I did this a few times when I was working in the back room- I literally just snuck discarded flowers into my backpack. a rose with a 5” stem would get thrown out normally, but if you save it it still looks adorable in a mason jar). I’m just saying, “florist gives crush a little bouquet nearly every day” is something we need a lot more of, and it’s totally feasible.

a list of things a person might do while working in a flower shop (if you need to just have ambient activity or whatever):

“front of house” work: 

arrangement, including assembling dozens of identical arrangements assembly-line style

taking orders (on the phone and in person), usually from people who know fuck all about flowers. requires the patience of a saint and/or a take-no-shit attitude.

general cashier/sales work. a lot of flower shops will also sell potted plants, small gifts/trinkets, greeting cards, chocolate, etc. so there’s the usual maintenance, stocking, etc associated with retail.

“back-of-house” work: 

opening and processing shipments (flowers have to be unpacked and have the ends of the stems sliced off with one of those guillotine-ish paper cutting things, then stuck in buckets of water. a single shipment can take hours, especially if the flowers are delicate or individually wrapped)

clean-up, which involves sweeping pounds of plant matter into two-foot-tall mountains, then shoveling the mountains into garbage cans. “shoveling” is not a hyperbole there, you literally use a snow shovel as a dust pan. it’s a full-body workout.

clean-up in the cool room/walk-in (the giant refrigerator where the flowers are kept). same as normal clean-up, but there are more shelves and corners to get packed with leaves and shit. also it’s about two degrees above freezing. this is an excellent opportunity for sharing sweatshirts, coats, etc.

organizing orders by zip code and date of delivery. during a busy period, this is a one or two person job that involves being stuck in the walk-in for hours. great potential for “begrudgingly realizing I like this person’s company” moments.

delivering arrangements! door-to-door is a one person job usually, but delivering to a single location (ie taking flowers to a wedding or graduation) takes two or more people taking an often-very-long drive in a truck/van. (I’m not saying “road trip games” but that’s exactly what I’m saying).

little details (idk maybe for someone to notice about the florist character?): 

when you work in a flower shop, you will smell like flowers until you wash it off in the shower. the smell lingers like you wouldn’t believe.

calluses!! a florist might have calluses on the outside of their thumb and the backs of their fingers from holding scissors and clippers (the location’s hard to explain but if you hold a pair of scissors, all the places where the scissors touch your skin), on the bases of their fingers on the palm side (from carrying buckets, etc), and possibly on their fingertips (especially the tip of the thumb) from snapping stems and generally working with their hands all day.

also, your hands are a little damp nearly all day, so a florist is likely to have some really chapped skin, in the winter especially.

lilies are normally sold with the stamen removed, so they don’t get pollen stains on the petals. lily pollen stains everything it touches, so when your job is to remove the stamens of a hundred or so lilies, your fingers will be stained yellow for a while.

also, green-stained fingertips and nails are common. (snapping stems with your thumbnail will turn it green, stripping leaves off stems will stain the space between your forefinger and thumb)

scraped-up hands and arms. it just happens- it’s physical work with a lot of sharp tools, nicks and scratches are going to happen.

it’s pretty physically taxing work, especially if your boss has a “no sitting on the job” rule (mine did.) after an especially busy day of work, your character will probably be exhausted and sore. massages? massages.

If you use any of this/if this is helpful, feel free to let me know/tag me! I’m @navigatrix on AO3 :))

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Sparkly Headers and Dividers

Some sparkly headers and dividers I have on my notes that I want to share with you all  (≧◡≦) ♡ 

‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 　　 *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥

༶•┈┈⛧┈♛ ♛┈⛧┈┈•༶

ﾟ+*:ꔫ:*﹤　　﹥*:ꔫ:*+ﾟ

*+:｡.｡　　｡.｡:+*

♥*♡∞:｡.｡　　｡.｡:∞♡*♥

ˑ༄ؘ ۪۪۫۫ ▹▫◃ ۪۪۫۫ ༄ؘ ˑ

☆彡  ☆ミ

⭑･ﾟﾟ･*:༅｡.｡༅:*ﾟ:*:✼✿　　✿✼:*ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑

☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆

*°:⋆ₓₒ　　ₓₒ⋆:°*

・‥…━━━━━━━☆☆━━━━━━━…‥・

⋆┈┈｡ﾟ❃ུ۪ ❀ུ۪ ❁ུ۪ ❃ུ۪ ❀ུ۪ ﾟ｡┈┈⋆

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»»——⍟——««

★・・・・・・★・・・・・・★・・・・・・★

⋇⋆✦⋆⋇　 ⋇⋆✦⋆⋇

｡o°✥✤✣ 　　 ✣✤✥°o｡

＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚　　˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊

#headers #dividers #study notes #studyblr #aesthetic notes

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Do you think that Loki was a good husband? Because I saw a lot of people talking that he was an amazing husband! I don't agree with them so I wanted to ask you what your opinion is.

He's only a good husband if you are happy with your husband cheating on you, and having secret children with another woman.

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Julian K. Jarboe, "As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an Altar of Love." Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel

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The internet is literally the only place where I can freely express myself. 

My blog is a private thing that is open to everyone in the world except to the people I know in real life.

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Witch Hat Atelier (a young girl's quest to become a witch)

Let me start off by praising this manga's beautiful art. Everything in the manga panels look so charming and magical.

This manga tells the story of a girlnamed Coco who dreamt of becoming a wizard someday but those who don't possess can't which means she had to abandon that dream. That was until a wizard came to her town and his magic fascinated everyone, of course, including our young protagonist.

Coco's curiosity and her deep fascination for magic got the best of her which set an event that would change her life from then on.

Coco is a lovable character who's flaws are countered by her kindness and determination. The story seemed quite basic at first and I was initially drawn by the art but as I read further, I was hooked by the events and the charcters.

This manga is definitely a must read for everyone ♥.

#manga recommendation #manga art #manga #fantasy manga

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How do you get anything done if you're just answering questions on Tumblr all day?

I’ve hired people to do the actual writing, to answer emails for me, even people who do Zoom calls pretending to be me. They don’t mind. They watch me sitting here, glued to Tumblr, churning out answer after answer all the time, and they know what I’m doing is more important than anything they are doing. 

Or, y’know, I open the inbox every couple of days, answer a few questions that can be answered quickly and easily, and then go back to work.

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Really needed this one ♡

some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

(hope this helps some ppl)

#writingblog #writing tips #writing improvement

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People, meaning art friends, art tutors, my family and some other observers of my art, have asked me why I do traditional art, or why I don’t do any/more digital art.

This has now become a more pressing question for me as I’ve realised now, as I am heading into the big wide world of ‘getting a job’, digital art is now more valued than traditional art in the areas of art I wish to pursue. Which I find astonishing since it’s been a little over 2 decades since digital art was introduced, and the history of traditional art has been around since humanity began. Yet there seems to be less importance in traditional art for jobs now, starting a culture where if you are an artists, you seemingly must do digital art to get anywhere.

Which is unfortunate.

Not everyone can afford a drawing tablet. Not everyone can afford digital art software. Not everyone can afford a computer or a tablet. Yet there are amazing artists out there who don’t need it. It’s easy to get ahold of paper, pens and pencils than it is to get ahold of digital art equipment, unless you can afford it, and not everyone can.

And this is NOT to shit on digital artists at all. There are amazing digital artists out there, some of them I feel honoured to be friends with. Their skills and the thousands of ways they can create art are stunning. And digital art’s progression and impression on society is unstoppable. Which is why I want traditional art to keep up with digital art.  

I do traditional art to keep traditional art relevant, I try to keep it up to date with digital art, I try to show that you can still do what digital art does, that you can achieve similar if not the same things as digital art pieces do. I do traditional art and share it with others in hope that others will feel encouraged to draw and not feel held back from money and tech limitations.

So that’s one reason why I do traditional art over digital art. And it’s the main one.

Bonus reasons I prefer making traditional art over digital art; I love getting art supplies. Going into an art shop for me is like what a chocolate shop is for a small child. I love seeing all the thousands of colours in so many mediums where you can make any art in so many ways.

Another reason is: with traditional art, I’m not as dependant on tech. If there’s a power cut, my art is still ‘saved’ because it didn’t leave the page as soon as the lights went off (the most I’d be effected is I’d need another light source in order to see). Although I still use tech in my day to day life for other stuff (writing; writing this for instance), drawing in a sketchbook gives my eyes a rest from staring at screens, which is a good thing for me at the least (prone to headaches and has bad eyesight).  

And I don’t have to learn how to make a mark on a page with traditional art, there’s no specific buttons to click, no layers I need, no settings to get right, no specific things I have to activate in order to draw a line; I pick up a pencil, put it on a page and drag it along with my hand. Simple.

Plus after so many years of drawing, I can physically see my progression, I can tell the difference between the materials I used in the past compared to now. And although others would argue that digital art’s advantage in erasing mistakes easier (so much so that there is practically no evidence of any mistake made in the first place) would make traditional art look more risky, I find the risk is worth it. Looking at a completed work of art and still seeing the outlines of mistakes in the background feels more gratifying, that despite making a mistake here and there, I managed to complete something from it, and learnt from that mistake to get better.

And I hope people who also do traditional art get that same satisfying feeling of seeing their completed piece.

I find physical marks more grounding that virtual marks.

But that’s just me. 

And that’s why I do traditional art.  

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scenes in fruits basket that have literally shaped the way i perceive love:

yuki breaking the piece of  chalk so it doesn’t trigger machi’s anxiety

haru holding rin and telling her he will always be there to carry her when she isn’t strong enough to walk on her own

tohru clinging onto kyo in his true form because she knows that if she lets go he will never come back

feel free to add your own

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Ugh, my babies ♥

you’re my best friend

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2018.04.09

ジオラマの街/flower　クロワッサンシカゴ

https://nico.ms/sm33001334

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Mabuchi Kou is ♥

I just absolutely love this panel on Ao Haru Ride ♡♡♡

#ao haru ride #mabuchi kou #yoshioka futaba #shoujo

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The volume IS the message

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fly with me through the stars (the background is transparent hehe pls click the image :D)