Welcome in my head :)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mixedbagofships
wrens-wramblings

I'd rather have a thousand "OHMIGOD WE WERE RIGHT!!!" theory confirmed moments where due to good storytelling and foreshadowing the audience was able to figure out parts of the future plot than just one more stupid twist that makes no narrative sense to avoid being "predictable".

If people knowing anything about your plot spoils the show entirely maybe it's just no good lmao.

It's not worth ruining your narrative themes and character integrity just so everyone is shocked. Sometimes twists that have been guessed .... Are better.

commiefaggoth
ahtokasano

btw it's okay if you can only convince yourself to do things with silly reasons. when i wash my face i narrate a "skincare routine" youtube video in my head. once, a pretty girl once said she was attracted to me while i was moving crates around, and that was my motivation to do yard work today. exercising is a lot easier when i think about how i want to be able to pick up my niece and swing her around even when she's older.

so like if pretending you're doing real-life stardew valley gets you out in the sun, or if making yourself a good meal makes you feel like you're the host of a cooking show, do it! do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself!

switchelsweets
pikestaff

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

themythicalcodfish

To wit:

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switchelsweets

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

daveyfromnowhere
somecutething

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

(via Ant.Giovanni)

luidilovins

I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

urbanfantasyinspiration

Human: play?

Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!

urbanfantasyinspiration

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littleredwritingcat
piosplayhouse

This is perhaps too much of an academic opinion but it's become clearer to me over the years that many people on social media see racism as a permanent scarlet letter on someone's record rather than an underlying ideology that anyone can recite and perpetuate unknowingly. These words from How To Be An Anti-Racist have always stuck with me

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mikkeneko

[Image ID: Two passages clipped out of a textbook. Text reads:
"MY RACIST INTRODUCTION * 11
"racist itself back to its proper usage. "Racist" is not -- as Richard Spencer argues -- a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a "slur." It is descriptive, and the only way to undo what is racist is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it. The attempt to turn this usefully descriptive term into an almost unusable slur is, of course, designed to do the opposite: to freeze us into inaction.

THE GOOD NEWS is that racist and antiracist are not fixed identifies. We can be a racist one minute and an antiracist the next. What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment, determines what -- not who -- we are."
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kriff-the-jedi
scienceisdope

Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than 36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children were using their brains' executive functions, particularly "working memory." That's the system we use for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension.


Here’s full study: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/478386


If you enjoyed this post, please give it a ❤️ and check out @scienceisdope for more science and daily facts.

daughter-of-sapph0

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kriff-the-jedi
hoothalcyon

fuck it, I'm romanticizing underrated ao3 works now. 8,000 word fics with only 13 kudos, even after 5 months. multi-chaptered works with only 11 comments from the same 3 people and the author themself. incredibly specific works featuring OC's mingling with canon characters that only get 5 kudos. rare-pair fics. gift works that are literally ONLY for the receiver.

energievie

Maybe it's an unpopular opinion but...

Sorting fics by kudos and/or hits is not always the best idea.

It's a good start for those who are new to a fandom but sticking to this sorting criteria only results in gems getting overlooked and the constant recirculation of the same handful of stories to the detriment of newer, less popular ones that might be just as good or, dare I say, even better.

I get that all fandoms have their classics but how are new authors or authors with a smaller following supposed to get a chance if only the popular fics are brought forward and kept at the front?