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holdurown · 7 months ago
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the fucked up and unhealthy nature of greek myths is a feature, not a bug. if you’re going to engage with greek myths you need to be prepared to engage with fucked up narratives at face value. send post
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holdurown · 7 months ago
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hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
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holdurown · 7 months ago
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ocean vuong on writing metaphors
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holdurown · 7 months ago
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Small Ways To Improve Your Life
make your bed to immediately make your room look more put together
water first, then coffee or tea
pray or meditate, even just for ten minutes, to set the tone for your day
browse the news headlines ( & read the articles that interest you when you’ve got time)
wear something you feel b o m b in
listen to music while doing your daily activities-commuting, cleaning, cooking, exercising
smile at at least two people
smile at YOURSELF
call or message someone you love
eat food that makes you feel radiant
make lists of things you need to accomplish for the day
stretch for 10 minutes
record in your phone the positive thoughts you have so you can remember them
carry water with you (always always always)
shut off your phone for an hour and have some ME time
take a hot shower or bath at the end of a stressful day
try to make plans to spend time with someone at least once a week
think about 3 things you are grateful for at the end of each day
do something calming, relaxing, and non-electronic 30 minutes before you sleep
sleep pants-less
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holdurown · 7 months ago
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gabriel garcía márquez
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holdurown · 7 months ago
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Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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Louise Gluck
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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so eye-opening to understand that self-love and self-sufficiency are inherently different concepts. if you enjoy going to places alone, cooking alone, taking a walk by yourself, you’re self-sufficient—able to both rely on and luxuriate in your own company in instances where you’re on your own. but self-love has more to do with how compassionate you are to yourself when you make mistakes: with understanding that failure is human, that it’s unavoidable at times, and that you should be kind to yourself when it happens rather than critical of your shortcomings. this is why the whole adage that “you can’t truly be loved by someone else until you love yourself” kind of falls flat for me. finding someone else who’s emotionally secure & available has been proven to help you become more compassionate/kind/patient to yourself (self-love), even if you already know how to spend time alone (self-sufficiency). confusing these two things has led people to mistakenly believe that wanting human connection means that you can’t rely on yourself, when in reality it’s perfectly valid to want a bond that strengthens your self-esteem and encourages you to pursue life the way you want to
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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SELF CARE CHEAT SHEET!!
read this before attempting any skincare advice
how to be a polished sugar baby on a budget
how to treat yourself on a low budget
what to do after a long day
how not to be hard on yourself
staying healthy while studying
need a confidence boost? stand like this
how to deal with mental illness
feel better masterpost
back to school self-care advice
hygiene/beauty masterpost | my make up masterpost | make up masterpost | simple steps for perfect make up | more make up tips | highlighting/contouring
6 ab moves 
hair oil benefits
what is your acne telling you? | another useful post about acne
headaches
masterpost for rough times
the sex ed your parents didn’t give you
head to toe self care
7 simple ways of saying no
compilation of sex tips 
limits of the human body
when to change your toothbrush, workouts etc
useful hoe tips | more +
love yourself
“how to make love”
Dear Teenagers and young adults becoming sexually active for the first time
foods that fix everything
22 less difficult ways to practise self care
self care wheel
superhero workouts | lose 500 calories at home
bad habits and how to break them
stop biting nails
stop procrastinating 
stop skipping breakfast
stretches to improve every aspect of your body
stop cracking knuckles
stop falling asleep late 
list of stress relievers
remove a splinter
smoothie masterpost
morning yoga
hair masterpost
self care masterpost
period hacks | alleviate menstrual cramps
sounds to soothe anxiety | another tip | panic attacks | calming down
things to do when you’re scared, anxious | reduce anxiety
self help for anxiety
what to eat before you run
how to get shit done
how to get ahead in life
self care infographic 
study guide for health (basic first aid, healthy hobbies etc)
a+ self care advice | more lovely advice
coping skills
get rid of negative self talk
feeling sad? | not having a good day? | if anyone is sad | feeling anxious for school? | in case you’re having a bad night | unfuck tomorrow morning
study food
health life hacks
what to do with food poisoning
self talk to end obsessions
self care ideas/tips
what to do with you’re bleeding and don’t have a band aid
why you should drink a lot of water
other cheat sheets
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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anyway this came up before but for those just tuning in i for one am still not over how lattimore translated οὐλομένη as “sluttish” when it refers to clytemnestra.
it means “accursed” or “destructive” and it’s the same word that famously describes the wrath of achilles in the second line of the iliad
but no, he didn’t think “oh cool, the ghost of agamemnon in the odyssey describes his murder at clytemnestra’s hands as if she were as destructive as achilles’ wrath! let’s make that clear to the reader by using the same word!”– on the contrary, he apparently thought “the murderer is a woman, so there’s only one option here, she’s a slut.”
shame him.
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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Monster (2023) - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
If a human gets a pig's brain transplanted, is it still human or is it a pig?
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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Repetitions:
1. I find a home everywhere that I go
2. The search for freedom is an encounter with death
3. To be passionate is to cultivate innocence - an eternal dance with the world
4. The best opportunities come through allowing fragmentation - to be whole at all times is to never make space for change
5. Love requires curiosity
6. Don’t mistake your hunger for emptiness
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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Thé Hélène cixous essay?
absolutely! that piece of david whyte’s poem, the “You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.” echoes the same sentiments i find in hélène cixous’ essay, coming to writing, specifically this part (found on page 40 + 41):
“Let yourself go! Let go of everything! Lose everything! Take to the air. Take to the open sea. Take to letters. Listen: nothing is found. Nothing is lost, everything remains to be sought. Go, fly, swim, bound, descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will be, leave yourself, shrug off the old lies, dare what you don’t dare, it is there that you will take pleasure, never make your here anywhere but there, and rejoice in the terror, follow it where you’re afraid to go, go ahead, take the plunge, you’re on the right trail. 
Listen you owe nothing to the past, you owe nothing to the law. Gain your freedom: get rid of anything, vomit up everything, give up everything. Give up absolutely everything, do you hear me? All of it! Give up your goods. Done? Don’t keep anything whatever you value, give it up. Are you with me? Search yourself, seek out the shattered, the multiple I, that you will still be further on, and merge from one self, shed the old body, shake off the Law. Let it fall with all its weight, and you, take off, don’t turn back: it’s not worth it, there’s nothing behind you, everything is yet to come. One can emerge from death, I believe, only with an irrepressible burst of laughter.”
cixous goes a little further with it, but it is the same tone within the theme of leaving behind what does not bring you alive, in whyte’s words. how nothing is found, nothing is lost, and everything remains to be sought. how there is always more to see, more to experience, and that importance of loving who you are, whom you will be  ––  both of these pieces seem to jump across time, here and there, and in a way give you a mirror, to imagine, and see yourself off in the distance of time, and grasp what could be waiting; like dreaming, like hope. 
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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“Telling stories doesn’t solve anything, doesn’t reassemble broken lives. But perhaps it is a way of understanding the unthinkable. If a story haunts us, we keep telling it to ourselves, replaying it in silence while we shower, while we walk down streets, or in our moments of insomnia.”
— Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (via luthienne)
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holdurown · 8 months ago
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Extremely niche but I want to look a little into colour theory or colour as a literary motif or really accessible colour science. Anyone’s read something good about this? (except for Goethe’s Theory of Colours which I have and is a blast and a little dizzying—Goethe you did it again you beautiful weirdo.)
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