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one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

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You have to learn how to say no without you feeling like you’re being mean. Setting boundaries is how you see who does and doesn’t respect you, your time, or your emotional well-being. Anyone who sees your boundaries and thinks your being mean or tries to push that boundaries is not a person you owe your time or attention.

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NO WAY

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What to do now? A guide for uncertain times:

Right now: do something other than social media or reading the news. Play a game, pick up a hobby, go for a walk, try a new recipe, ground yourself in something. Let your brain process everything by putting it on the back burner, let it percolate. Remember that you do have a voice, that the worst thing you can do is check out, that the most radical thing you can do is be kind.

Next few weeks: Keep working on the things that bring you joy. Make plans for the future. Assess where you are and where you want to be — physically, mentally, personally, geographically. Schedule doctor’s appointments. Delete your Twitter. Make new friends, connect with old ones, talk to your neighbors, join a community group. If you have a supportive family, talk to them too. Donate to the ACLU. By propping up others, teaching others, reassuring others, you help yourself too. Find a mutual aid group. Keep your head up. Love yourself and don’t wallow in despair. Remember that you do have a voice, that the worst thing you can do is check out, that the most radical thing you can do is be kind.

Next few months: execute on the plans for the future. Keep going with those hobbies. Keep loving yourself. Read reliable, fact-based news. Delete your Twitter (for real this time). Bake bread for your neighbor. Celebrate the holidays. Buy concert tickets as far out as you can, give yourself things to look forward to. Volunteer at a community center. Take a class. Teach others about how us queers and faggots are just people too. Remember that you do have a voice, that the worst thing you can do is check out, that the most radical thing you can do is be kind.

Next 6 months: Keep executing your plans. Write your representatives. Plant a little garden. Learn an instrument. Go to a zoo. Keep reading fact-based news (AP, Reuters, ProPublica, NPR even though it’s a bit biased to the left). Donate to the ACLU. When the sun comes out, get some bread, cheese, apples, and grapes, put them in a basket, go for a gay little picnic. Don’t make another Twitter account. Stock up on meds. Learn a new TTRPG. Pick up a fibrecraft. Remember that you do have a voice, that the worst thing you can do is check out, that the most radical thing you can do is be kind.

Next 4 years: make little baby steps to move towards your plans. Keep building relationships. Vote in local elections. Donate to the ACLU. Volunteer for state or national elections. Recognize that you live in a stupendously large country with assloads of diversity. Love yourself. Lift up other people. Remember that you do have a voice, that the worst thing you can do is check out, that the most radical thing you can do is be kind.

Shit is going to be really really rough for many many people. But if you’re reading this, you can’t give up, you can’t give in, you have to keep going. If you’re trans, if you’re queer, if you’re a freak and a faggot, you have to live.

Full disclaimer that I live in western Washington state, I’m white, I have a tremendous amount of privilege. I do my damndest to help people and use my own privilege to help others. I’m not perfect nor infallible, but reach out if you need something.

And if you’re still reading this, I love you.

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does it ever drive you crazy...

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GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

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Writing Notes: Elements of Art

The elements of art are components or parts of a work of art that can be isolated and defined. They are the building blocks used to create a work of art.

LINE A mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.

Horizontal lines suggest a feeling of rest or repose because objects parallel to the earth are at rest. In landscape paintings, horizontal lines help give a sense of space. The lines delineate sections of the landscape, which recede into space. They also imply continuation of the landscape beyond the picture plane to the left and right.

Vertical lines often communicate a sense of height because they are perpendicular to the earth, extending upwards toward the sky. In a church interior painting, vertical lines may suggest spirituality, rising beyond human reach toward the heavens.

Horizontal and vertical lines used in combination communicate stability and solidity. Rectilinear forms with 90-degree angles are structurally stable. This stability suggests permanence and reliability.

Diagonal lines convey a feeling of movement. Objects in a diagonal position are unstable. Because they are neither vertical nor horizontal, they are either about to fall or are already in motion. The angles of a ship and rocks on the shore convey a feeling of movement or speed in a stormy harbor scene.

The curve of a line can convey energy. Soft, shallow curves recall the curves of the human body and often have a pleasing, sensual quality and a softening effect on the composition. The edge of a pool in a photograph may gently lead the eye to the sculptures on the horizon.

SHAPE A closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can express length and width.

FORM A three-dimensional shape expressing length, width, and depth. It is the basis of sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts. Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms. They can be seen from more than one side.

Geometric shapes and forms include mathematical, named shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles, cubes, spheres, and cones. Geometric shapes and forms are often man-made. However, many natural forms also have geometric shapes. Example, a cabinet decorated with designs of geometric shapes.

Organic shapes and forms are typically irregular or asymmetrical. Organic shapes are often found in nature, but man-made shapes can also imitate organic forms. Example, a wreath uses organic forms to simulate leaves and berries.

SPACE The area between and around objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth.

Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.

COLOR Light reflected off of objects. Color has 3 main characteristics:

Hue - the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.

Value - how light or dark it is.

Intensity - how bright or dull it is.

White is pure light; black is the absence of light.

Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors.

Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet).

Intermediate colors, sometimes called tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. Some examples of intermediate colors are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet.

Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel (an arrangement of colors along a circular diagram to show how they are related to one another).

Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors. For example, red and green are complements, because green is made of blue and yellow.

When complementary colors are mixed together, they neutralize each other to make brown.

TEXTURE The surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures do not always feel the way they look; for example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly, but if you touch the drawing, the paper is still smooth.

Texture depicted in two-dimensions. Artists use color, line, and shading to imply textures. In a painting, a man's robe may be painted to simulate silk. The ability to convincingly portray fabric of different types was one of the marks of a great painter during the 17th century.

Surface texture. The surface of a writing desk is metallic and hard. The hard surface is functional for an object that would have been used for writing. The smooth surface of a writing desk reflects light, adding sparkle to the piece of furniture.

Principles of Design

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"I understood it from the beginning."

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Through the Night - Arthur Leclerc

ᥫ᭡: pairing: Arthur Leclerc x reader

ᥫ᭡: warnings: uses of cherie, mon amour and baby.

ᥫ᭡: a/n: last fic of the year guys. ending it with some arthur comfort. based on this request

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Your voice cracked over the phone “I can’t do this anymore, Arthur” 

Arthur’s heart ached at your self-loathing. He knew that you have been struggling lately with balancing your life, but hearing you like this suffocated him. 

“Where are you?” he asked, he needed to see you. 

He was met with silence for a while. “At the park,” you sniffled.

“Stay where you are, mon amour.” he told you. 

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He immediately grabbed his jacket and left in no time, not even considering the fact that it was freezing or late. The cold weather bit at his face as he sprinted through the busy streets to find you. Despite the busyness of the city, the park was questionably empty. No one else was there apart from you at that hour. But that was the reason why you went there in the first place. 

The closer Arthur got to you, the slower his pace until he was in front of you “y/n?” he called, out of breath.

“Why are you here?” you ask, avoiding his gaze. You couldn’t face him. Not like this, like a mess. 

He crouched down in front of you to meet your gaze, his hands resting on your knees. “Because I care, baby.”

Your eyes red from the litres of tears you’d cried in the past couple of hours. “It’s not worth it, Arthur. No matter how much I try to get myself together, for myself, for my family, for you, I fail. I can’t figure it out. I’m just too… broken. You deserve someone much better Arthur, someone who is not-“

“Hey, hey, cherie” Arthur interrupted you. He lifts a hand from your knee to cup your cheek. “I don’t care how broken you think you are. I’m not going anywhere.”

Your vulnerability was fully displayed as you cried even more at his words. Tears pouring like a waterfall. 

He got up to sit next to you on the bench, as he wrapped his arms around you in a hug. “Only I get to decide what I deserve, and I want you. I choose you, I always will.”

His words manage to calm you down a bit, the realisation that you weren’t entirely alone after all settling in. For the first time that night you managed to let yourself relax (at least as much as you could). Yet despite this, the doubts still lingered. “What if I disappoint you?”

“You aren’t a disappointment. Not to me, not to any one. I am proud of you.” he whispered softly in your hair. 

You allowed yourself to lean into embrace, letting his words sink in as you buried your head into his neck looking for warmth. Arthur notices, and takes off his jacket, handing it to you. “You must be cold. Who knows how long you have been here.”

Too tired to protest, you let him wrap his jacket around you. The warmth of it immediately engulfing you adding to the comfort of Arthur’s arms. The two of you sat silence for a while, neither wanting to break the peaceful atmosphere. 

But when you start to drift off on Arthur’s shoulder, exhausted from crying, he pulled away from the hug a bit to look at you. 

“Let’s go home, yeah? You need to rest.” he said, slowly helping you up.

You made your way home, hand in hand under the moonlight. The night had been hard, but with Arthur by your side, better days didn’t seem so far away.

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Unusual Fic-Specific Asks for Authors

Send me one of my fics + one of the following:

Perspective Flip: I’ll write a scene from [that fic] from another character’s point-of-view

BTS: I’ll write a DVD commentary about my personal favorite passage from [that fic]

A Thousand Words: I’ll create a photoset/gifset that, IMO, sums up the main themes/concepts I intended for [that fic]

Fusion Dance: Send me a possible fusion (coffeeshop, Hogwarts, zombie apocalpyse, etc.) and I’ll translate at least one scene of [that fic] into such a ‘verse

For Want of a Nail: Send me a minor detail to be changed (i.e., Character A chooses blue instead of red, Characters B and C swap places in one scene) and I’ll tell you how [that fic] would be different

Time After Time: Send me a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of [that fic], or sometime in the past before the story started, and I’ll tell you what happened then

The Million Dollar Question: Ask me any random question, big or small, about off-screen events in [that fic] and I’ll answer it!

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F1 LAPTOP WALLPAPER PACK

They are finally here! A couple of posts ago I said I was working on a new wallpaper pack. The backgrounds are in 4k, suitable for laptop sizes, they work on PC but may lose some quality, I hope you like them as much as I do.

I'm really happy and proud for these nice pieces, sincerely my favorites were Alpine and Aston Martin.

Here you can find other sets of wallpapers made by me! colorized, retouched and edited by @hotgirlswatchf1

PLEASE, DON'T RE-POSTS ON PINTEREST, TWITTER OR INSTAGRAM.

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— lando norris x ‘godlight’ by noah kahan

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Every time a small child starts crying or having a tantrum in my vicinity and I catch the parents glancing at me I’ve started saying “me when…”.

Friend kept trying to tell his crying kindergartener to calm down and relax and the kid growled “I AM relaxed” while visibly tensing every muscle in his body and I was like “oh that’s me at work every day” and we had a chuckle.

Parents look to other adults like “shit are they mad? Do they think my kid is acting like a demon?” And this response is my attempt to say “no. I think your kid is just acting like a human being.”

I WISH I could fling myself on the ground and cry because I experienced a minor inconvenience.

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*to me ACTIVE fan means seeking out to watch every game/match/event possible, having knowledge of athletes/teams/games/rules, possibly owning merch or participating in online chat!

as usual reblog for bigger sample size and in the reblog say what your first sport was!!

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“what’s your tumblr?” not unless you get real cool with a bunch of stuff really quickly

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a handy guide to shipping