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To remind yourself and myself.

The one and ONLY way you fail at writing is if you stop writing.

Obsession beats talent.

The more you write, the better you get. There's no other possibility. The only way to get better is to keep moving.

Writing is like a muscle to train. Just keep training and you'll eventually be better.

To fail in a document means to learn from a mistake and to be better. Failure = improvement

You are privileged to even want to write. You're rare. And you're telling me you're giving up on that? Embrace your craft.

Thousands of writers came before you. Thousands will after you. Thousands are around you. If they can do it, you can.

Think of the worst book you've ever read. You know why that author published and you didn't? Because they had the audacity to believe in THAT crime scene of a manuscript.

If they can do it like THAT, so can you.

Most famous writers published after 30. The biggest ones in their 40s and 50s. You still have time to write.

You're okay. Breathe. You're fine.

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takes you by the hand. please please please if you're stuck on your WIP or you can't figure out how to progress the scene PLEASE skip ahead. skip a few lines ahead. skip until the next Thing you can think of happens. skip to it skip to it skip to it. you may uncover what you were missing in the midst of your next scenes and you may discover that just transitioning straight to Next Part works flawlessly. skip it. don't sink. skip.

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Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

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house of the dragon fashion: daemon’s s1 wardrobe (requested by anonymous)

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Google docs isn’t deleting your docs just because they have lewd text.

OP turned off reblogs of the post due to being debunked, but here’s a link of the reblog so you can still read stuff. Hate Google all you want but misinformation helps no one.

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I was just doodling, nothing specific, just wanted to scribble doodle, and what emerged was this cute little Elucien! I'm debating if I should color it and make it a full picture instead of a doodle. =P

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Public Service Announcement

Bottoming still does not always equal submissive. Being more feminine, still, does not always equal bottoming. The converse are true, too!

Free your minds from the gender binary. We’re already writing faerie porn, do we gotta bring patriarchal gender norms into it too?

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THE MUMMY (1999)

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just a cute little fact but august 1st is also designated as the universal birthday for shelter dogs whose actual birthdays are unknown

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) dir. Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans

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we gotta stop letting politicians name the laws they propose. every year there's at least one bill that would ban immigrants from libraries and let health insurance companies assassinate cancer patients and it's called like "the save children from cannibals and be nice to puppies act"

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some of the comments on my censorship post are like “um I think books should be rated like movies because some books feature stuff like gang rape that teens shouldn’t be allowed read”

ok. now imagine being a librarian and looking a teenager who’s been gang raped in the eye and saying “oops, sorry, can’t allow you to read this one, it’s for big kids and you’re not ready for it”

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sorry im not done gatsbyposting. the nyc celebrations for its 100th anniversary are so uniquely deranged. like here you have a book that absolutely scathes new york parties & dress-up & entertainment & alcohol & careless wealthy east coast elites. and the way the city is celebrating the 100th anniversary of one of the most beautifully written & personally devastating literary tragedies this country has ever produced is by. offering 10% off gatsby-themed cocktails at luxury bars. hosting pay-to-attend 1920s themed costume balls in the wealthiest areas of midtown. setting up penthouse hotel suites to ostensibly resemble locations from the book. a few hours ago at an exclusive private event they had the cast of the glamorous broadway musical, all in designer clothes, light up the empire state building green to advertise their show where tickets cost up to $670. one of them said the green light ‘represents the beauty of the american dream.’ i think you could power all manhattan with energy generated from the rotational torque of f scott fitzgerald spinning wildly in his grave

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My husband (has cancer) is a frequent customer of a local family-run pharmacy. It’s much more personal and welcoming there than at a chain pharmacy — they recognize us and I feel very comfortable asking them questions about medications (husband currently has a lot).

Anyway this week my husband’s prior authorization for a medication was delayed and he decided he would pay the out-of-pocket cost rather than wait a couple days for medicine he needs to go to work. It was a $100 prescription so this was tough but not earth-shattering.

Anyway; the lead pharmacist noticed that he was being charged for his normally-insured medication, asked him about it, and took 50% off as a gift. He said every year at Christmas they have staff and community contribute to a fund to help people pay for medications, and whenever a usual customer is facing an unexpected charge, they can cover some of the cost.

Reminder to support your local businesses, build your local community!

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With AI being pushed at us on every turn and famous people pushing AI and everything pushing AI:

here's some organisations to donate to that plant trees and here's how to make Ecosia your default browser (which plants trees with every search)