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hellenhighwater · 2 months

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I was doing research on the ArtPrize thing, because research is how I handle very nearly any issue, and I'm trying to set my expectations reasonably, given that it's one of the largest and most lucrative art competitions in North America. And I was reading up on the voting process, because some of the prizes are awarded based on popular vote. The first vote by an individual has to be placed on a smartphone in the geographic region of Grand Rapids, MI, but subsequent votes (one a day per entry) can be from anywhere, so long as the phone started in GR. There's $600,000 in awards and grants this year, so voting matters in determining who gets not-insignificant amounts of money.

You know how many votes were cast last year? 30,000. Thirty thousand. Across every category, not just for the winning art piece. That is not actually that many votes. I have more than that number of you right here, my poor captive audience.

Now, if I can just figure out how to get all of you into Grand Rapids during the month of September, I'd have this in the bag. It wouldn't have to be for long. Just a brief convention of fellow tunglr users, for just a moment, just a quiiiick....dash...c

#anyone who votes for me gets an extra hour in the ballpit #genuinely I will be doing my best for this but realistically I think I do have to tap into some more fringe demographic to win anything #because historically winning entries are 1. large 2. happy 3. related to some specific element of the artists identity #and what i am doing is 1. small 2. a bummer my dudes and 3. as divorced from my individual identity as i can make it #still! I do not half ass things! I shall be wholeassing this art prize operation #and that will also mean that I will have a queued series of posts #probably process videos etc #with the voting link in september #and a hashtag you can use to block it im not cruel #i shall continue to provide updates as we go

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soulprompts · 17 days

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i wanted to take a quick beat to remind all of you that this time of year can be especially hectic for a LOT of people. schools are back up and running, college has begun, the summer has come to an end and introduced a new routine that many of us will find challenging and possibly overwhelming.

this post is meant to remind you of a few key facts for our self-awareness! including:

you are not a bad person in any capacity for deleting your inbox. i just deleted mine and it had 348 ish in there. you might want to delete yours with fifty. honestly? none of that is something that reflects on your character. you have a real life to tend to, don't be stressing over your prompts, your friends will understand and likely do the exact same thing!

same as above, you're not a bad person for deleting your drafts. listen to me. spring cleaning just happens in september on tumblr. it's okay! you are doing so well! look at you, prioritising your own mental health! super proud of you, have a sticker, don't be losing sleep over this.

spring cleaning might also include going through your followers, now this is IMPORTANT: you are not a bad person for making your mutual count smaller, you are similarly not a bad person if someone removes you from their mutuals via soft or hard blocking. the thing is that 200 mutuals is maybe manageable for some people in the summer, but once you have finals and deadlines in the mix? forget about it. it doesn't mean a single thing beyond "i'm stressed and i feel like that might change if i have less people to write with".

anyway, i love you all, drink some water, eat that snack, be a snack, snacks are amazing and so are you. stop beating yourself up for having limits. nobody is paying you to be here. this is your hobby. imagine if your friend was stressing out over painting? exactly. stop stressing out over tumblr rp. love you all! <3

#psa.#( me saying this to myself in the mirror as i cry after deleting my inbox )#( BUT SERIOUSLY WHY ARE WE STRESSING )#( IT'S SEPTEMBER WE HAVE THINGS TO DO )#( cannot afford to be stressed at work AND writing with my friends! )#( be serious and be KIND to yourselves! )

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icewindandboringhorror · 21 days

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sneepy cozy time....

#cats #longing to one day hopefully feel sleepy cozy like this again...#There was a pretty cool week here so I thought we had progressed closer to cool fall weather but... NO #..wrong!! It's like 80F in my room right now and was 98F outside yesterday. We get two more 'cooler' days and then #it starts going up again and will be in the high 90s possibly 100 something later this week #in my mind september should be COOOOOLLLL!!!!! or at least STARTING to get there.. Like mid 80s at the highest.#I am going to explode the world with evil wizard powers aaRGHaaHHHHHHHH #OR at least it should get down really low at night. I think thats the main thing is if it's 95 in the day and only 62 for like 3 hours in #the middle of the night then even leaving a fan in windows all night is not enough to fully cool down the house because its just not #enough cold air or cool for long enough. If it were 98 in the day but 15F outside at night then you could probably bring cool air inside al #night and your house would be at a relatively low starting point for the next days heat.#Like for example - in my apartment on a hot and sunny day. Even with every window #closed and blocked off with thick layers of reflective stuff and also not using the stove or doing anything to generate heat - the apartmen #will still go up on average about 6 - 8 degrees in one day. Peaking around 8 - 10pm night time. If I start off with the house cooled down #to 60F. then the highest it would get is 66 - 68 which is tolerable #.But if the lowest I can cool the apartment all night is still only 75F #then it's going to be 81 - 83F by the end of the day. So really it would be bearable (ISH)#for it to be warm as long as it was colder at night.#Though still the IDEAL is to not have to structure my life around envrionmental management and constantly be checking the #outdoor temperature so I can put the fans in the second that it's colder outside than it is inside and putting elaborate curtain systems #up and down at the exact right times and meal prepping 4 days in advance so I dont have to use the stove for 3 days and blah blah blah #Life in the colder weather months is so effortless and breezy in that sense. I can just have the window open all day and get natural light.#I can cook whatever I want. I can wear what I like. I can move around the house freely without needing to always #carry a fan around with me or douse myself in water.#ANYWAY.... oh if only that were me.... snuggled in a warm blanket ... a comforting wintery image...

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alluralater · 4 months

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hey everyone, i won’t be as active for a while. got home last night super late after being on the road for 20 some odd hours. dealing with some family things and as an older sister, my priority of taking care of my siblings comes first before anything else. being on here is amazing for me but i don’t think i’ll have much time for it. reminder to please treat those in your life who are battling addiction with patience and care. i lost my older brother (sweetest person i’ve ever known and he remained that way up until his last night) to suicide and alcoholism, trauma and ptsd, depression and his feelings of hopelessness. talk with the people you care about. another of my siblings is dealing with the same and i refuse to let it escalate to such a terrifying end twice in less than a fucking year. remind the people you care about that there are beautiful things to live for. show them kindness and love. there is all kinds of misinformation out there but know this, you can make a difference for someone. don’t let them suffer in silence.

#if you have me on snap then you saw the super gorgeous views and such on my way to idaho but what you did not see was me picking #up my little sister. propping her body up with pillows in a hotel room to make sure she didn’t aspirate on her own vomit in her sleep.#pouring out her water bottle of white claw and talking to her about drug use.#i never make her feel as though she has disappointed me or that she should feel ashamed. shame helps nothing. love helps everything.#i’m going to get her back into treatment soon- i just need her to know she has a home when she’s out. detoxing here first and being #positively reinforced for every single step of the process is so fucking important. it was terrifying to learn that if i had not gone to ge #her when i did that she probably would have died there in the next few weeks.#my fear of death for her is not what guides me though and there’s a huge difference between that and doing something out of love. being #there in dire moments is important yes- but being there through the mundanity of recovery is JUST as vital. it’s a process and it’s hard.#she’s moving in with me for awhile so i can help her through this sensitive time in her recovery.#she’s trying so hard and being recognized for that has literally been making her sob. knowing she has people who truly care for her is #everything. now that my stepdad is away from her like across the country i can actually finally help her. she’s starting to understand and #without me saying anything- she is starting to see what he’s done to her and our family. she needs love and support and stability. she need #reasons to live. sorry im kinda rambling a lot in these tags but i just… i can’t lose another one. the love i carry for my siblings is #unlike any other. i’ve treated them like my children since i was a child and those are my own issues but our mother is gone now too so it i #up to me.#losing my brother last september and my mom the year before that- grief has just been back to back.#in the hotel room i couldn’t sleep. she fell asleep so quickly and all i could do was watch her and think about all of the things i want to #do to make her feel like her life has value and worth enough to stay here and not go. my little sister is forever four years old in my mind #yes she’s an adult of 23 but she is a baby to me. she’s so young and she has so much ahead of her. she deserves a happy and fulfilled life.#our lives have been… very hard. 4 out of 5 of us are still standing and i plan on keeping it that way.#this is not the pain olympics or whatever but listen- if i put an adult in any of the situations we were in as children they would not #survive. we only did because there was no other choice. now there are escapes and we are old enough to try them all- every single one of us #has searched for some escape. it spirals and escalates and it doesn’t help but it is an escape. giving her love and affection and getting #her the help she needs and doing it the RIGHT way- it lessens the need for escape. there is nothing wrong with being an addict.#addiction ends one of two ways. life or death. unfortunately there is no in between. she’s going to feel everything- bad and good. i want #her to know there is so much good. that she is good. every move i make right now matters so i don’t think i’ll have time for tumblr or #much socializing.#just a heads up yk. thank you for your patience in advance <3

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sieglinde-freud · 29 days

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thinking about them and banging my head against the wall again whats new. they are making me so emo. god. what the fuck

#ann plays fates #theyre like all i can think about rn #its that time of the year #i mean i think about them both constantly separately but its always when september comes #do i get hit with the laslow/nyx rarepair brainrot i think #that just lasts through fall and winter #not that im complaining. i think eventually i will have posted the entire fucking conversation #i cant help it. each part gives me a segment of dialogue to be ill about #i have ‘but with burdens so heavy dont you think we can lean on eachother a bit?’ on my wall #ROMANCE. TO ME (girl who is aroace)#also underrated thing about them i like how nyx flirts back #its more prevalent in their A support but shes so fun with him even beyond the bonding over traumatic pasts #i think with laslow he does a lot of flirting right bc hes laslow but a lot of the time its like #no ones matching his energy #i was gonna say match his freak but i dont think he has any freak if im so real with u #if he does its buried beneath five metric tons of shame and embarrassment #and i like how his… laslow-ness kinda gives nyx space to let loose if that makes sense #like he can match her maturity because he. you know. all of that #but hes still young and so she can find a little bit of reprieve from it all in his attitude and blah blah blah #if that makes sense #they r just so perfect. TO ME #ive only ever written and posted one thing for them but i have like five million (like six) things in my drafts i need to get back #into writing. rarepair hell gotta feed myself #also that was like two years ago it kinda sucks a bit but thats fine its called growth #i just miss them. i dont really have the brainpower to play fates but i have enough to think about them #i mean i played a little but ive mostly just been doing dumb shit with the class system and not rly playing the game #we’ll get to it #im supposed to be sleeping

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todayisafridaynight · 2 months

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We rlly don’t need another majima game 😭 please give other characters a chance he already had the spotlight in 0😔

lord if i speak on goro majima.

#snap chats #my last nerve was seeing him front and center on that Three Legends shirt with daigo and saejima im SICK OF HIM #what do you MEAN the Sixth Chairman is backseating majima. like thats his retainer PUT DAIGO UP FRONT #it aint even bias its gen just like. why is the sixth chairman not treated the most important. thats The Chairman of the whole shit #EX chairman whatever we know what i mean #'snap its just a shirt' and these are just my balls alright its all the little things that are like Dawg Cmon #i woulda got the shirt cause it looks like somethign youd get from claires and thats hilarious However ... im annoying.#ill say this then play y0 and be like Ah..... i love you...#fr tho im sick of him GO AWAY YOU ARE NOT THAT GUY #im that meme of spiderman holding back the train and the trains saying mean things about majima #this ire is only brought by rggtwt mates insisting majima needs any more content. like at all.#they gave majima a y0 statue but as far as i can see kiryu doesnt have one like What.#ik i say id skip y0 kiryu if i could during replays and its never that serious but still .... the hell...#my brother in christ majima does not need any more why are you acting starved #i get it hes your fave but my god. goku this trains heavier than i thought i cant do it #ive had beef with rggtwt ever since they tried to say majima was more important to kiryu than haruka. like brb eating a cactus #rgg making gaiden was the worst thing they couldve done cause now everyone wont stop mentioning charas getting a gaiden game #MAJIMA OF ALL OF THEM DOES NOT NEED ONE MFER THATS WHAT Y0 WAS FOR. WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT #THEY GAVE HIM AN EXTRA STORY IN YK2 ALSO LIKE RGG IS DOING THE MOST FOR A SIDE CHARACTER #anyway this is why im happy saejima and akiyama are getting figures. ESPECIALLY AKIYAMA #I FEEL LIKE WE NEVER SEE SHIT OF THAT GUY and saejima. tbh. but still ... akiyama esp just feels left out #big hope other charas start to get more love. like my daughter haruka ok rgg plesae drop one of her idol statues thank you #on a lighter note september is almost upon us which means two things #1.) i have to move back to school at the end of the month 2.) rgg news is soon .....#SOOO curious as to what's on the horizon .. maybe ill stream it for the first time in nine thousand years #ok bye im gonna eat cereal <- diced spam and rice

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morororinnnn · 2 months

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erm did i say my favorite idol group was Deep cut erm i don’t think so

might draw them tonight idk

anyway i’m officially team Future bc i want futuristic splatoon it’ll be fire

#for only one reason i hope Team present doesn’t win #bc bro wouldn’t that just be the same stuff going on 😭#but it would also be interesting to see what the devs do with it if present does happen to an #win* not an 😭#anyway go team future #i may not be able to contribute bc school starts in september for me 😭😭#but plsssss do it for meeee #do it for ai characterssss #for futureistic weaponsssss #🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺👉👈#splatoon #splatoon community #team future #i hope so badly that future means O.R.C.A. and tartar get to be relevant and get marr- i mean contribute to the lore more #bc they were kinda a one off thing #😕#IM FIGHTING TOOTH N TAIL FOR TEAM FUTURE #👿👿👿 I MEAN #well also whichever twi teams lose means we have a chance of two dlcs next game #bc of like the thing that caused side order yk?#sweeeeeet :333

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jigencaps · 1 year

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#lupin #tokyo crisis #WERE SO BACK #sorry ive been on zelda lockdown and #[oversharing incoming]#the last month was so crazy for me i got rejected from my dream program which #made me decide to do this other program that is CHEAPER and EASIER and i am actually GUARANTEED A JOB #(my dream program wasnt really my dream anymore dont feel bad i was looking for an excuse to give up on that for a while)#but this other program is in the city where my bf lives so we got an apartment #its only like 3 things technically but it feels like a lot for one month #anyway. im back and will have much more free time come september

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ween-kitchens · 15 days

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dude crochet is truly a craft that gives you so much hubris. like i was fully fully convinced I could crochet an entire hat (without a pattern btw. I just thought 'hey this looks like it might work' and decided to give it a go) within less than an hour. it's now 2am and needless to say I have not fully completed the hat i’m making up on the spot

#I do think this is a good idea #because the pattern i’m making up on the spot seems to avoid all the problems I have with most hats whilst also functioning very well as a #hat for keeping me warm #cause it's autumn and england is englanding like immediately it's foggy as fuck over here #which I am hype about cause usually it's difficult for me to keep track of the months if the weather is off #last year we had two heatwaves in september and october so GKFDH I will gladly take fog #anyway I wanna make a pumpkin hat and a frog hat in the same format #and fuck knows if i'm actually gonna finish either #but if I do I think i'll use them both a lot #cause I get painfully cold ears but I hate wearing tight hats #and the thing I figured out seems to cover my ears without being super tight?#we shall see #anyway I should go to bed but I think i’m just gonna keep goin HLFHDK #wren wrambles #crochet

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yllowpages · 17 days

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#apologizing for my absence YET AGAIN #i've been so scatterbrained #and i decided to start a thing for september #where i write one short screenplay per day #in order to just like... practice and know how to get ideas flowing #which will come in handy when my friends and i do a competition at the end of the month #where we have to write film and edit a short film in just 36 hours #but i do have some drafts i'm hoping to get to #i want to write here #and plot with characters #i have an OC i'm hoping to finally bring onto the blog officially #anyway i hope everyone has been having a lovely time <3

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commanderfreddy · 1 year

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hey cool news - one of my short stories (Lady in Waiting) has been reprinted in a charity anthology! all proceeds go to the Trevor Project (and thanks to a generous parallel donation, us writers all got a token payment of US$40, which was great because we signed up to do charity for free lol)

Mirrors Reflecting Shadows is a multi-publisher project from Roi Fainéant, OUTCAST, and Anxiety Press(es) that collects 34 high-concept, high-octane, high-quality short stories from basically every genre you can shake a stick at, including personal essays.

many stories tackle LGBTQ+ themes directly while others deal with more abstract takes on love, rebirth, community and actualisation, and while nobody's required to self-ID i can tell you that most of us behind the scenes are part of the family one way or another

grab a print or epub edition here and let me know what you think!

i wanna know what stories everyone connected with (and which ones they didn't), what concepts you found compelling, what phrases got stuck in your brain, and what shit you just found fun to read 💕

#short fiction #the trevor project #lgbt books #queer reads #book launch #what the hell do people tag these things with #bookblr #? do we still say bookblr? i am so old #booktok #yeah put it on booktok lmao #short story #anthology #fred writes #fred says a thing #i like to make complete content warning lists for anthologies I'm in but i AM currently moving across the planet so that will have to come #much later (like september) im afraid #theres literally 34 stories in this thing though so I assure you there will be something up youre alley in here #theres something up every alley lmao my fairy tale lesbians are rubbing shoulders with coke dealers in this book and it rules

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afterlife-2004 · 24 days

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THE 🔥FLAMES🔥OF DISASTER⁉️⁉️‼️

Here’s a link to the original tweet by @//FurabioOtoMAD on Twitter :D!

They also uploaded the video onto YouTube! XDDDDDDD

Go check it out!

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damndude69 · 29 days

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#I do this thing where I keep comparing myself and my life to other people my age who live like ‘normal lives’ where they live with just #their partner and work decent-ish paying jobs #and don’t live near family/have large family obligations #like I make slightly more than minimum wage #my health stuff had been getting worse #my fiancé is disabled/chronically ill and working her ass off so she doesn’t have excess energy #which leaves a lot of house work on me #which is fine and I don’t mind #and our household is me my fiancé my 23 yo sister and we’ve all lived together for like 3 years now and my sister makes a lot more money &#helps with house stuff #/maintenance #but my younger sister and her 9 month old moved in at the beginning of summer because her baby daddy is a scum bag #and she’s 20 and really mentally unwell #so a lot of baby care falls on me & my fiancé #along with trying to help my sister with her mental health #which is like not normal levels of unwell it’s like serious shit and she’s completely unmedicated and going through a real hard time and not #adjusting to motherhood well cause she was 19 and shouldn’t have had a baby #and like she knows that but what’s done is done #she can’t move back in with my parents because her relationship with them is too fucked #and like there’s also complicated stuff safety and bad ppl in her life so that’s a stress inducing factor #she’s unemployed and I’m not sure will ever be able to work and can’t drive #not her fault just the reality we live in #also we’re the ppl who live closest to my grandmother who’s health has been rapidly declining so a lot of that has fallen on my other sister #and me to manage #I also have to pet sit a lot because I need the money #and when I come home I have to spend all my time getting the house back in order #also I’m about to be losing a days worth of pay starting September cause the kids I nanny are doing two half days a week of prek #which means less money & with these grocery bills and two more mouths to feed is gonna fuck me in the ass #so like yeah I don’t have the time or energy for hobbies I spend all my damn free time trying to keep the house clean or taking care of #The baby & like it’s just the way it is but it’s not comprable to how all the ppl I knew in highschool r living rn

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yee-haw-wizard · 1 month

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damn bros i can tell me adderall dosage needs to be upped because I've had issues with boredom for the last few months and today I took two of a lower dosage of it (I ran out of 25mg so I took 2 20mg for the hell of it) and WOWIE I'm preparing for my new job like a champ and the pain of being bored is gone

#hey dr just for funsies I took twice my old dosage and I think that fixed me #can we get that changed?#like seriously!#I might message my doctor and be like #i dont have an appointment until september unfortunately #i love drugs! so much!#I can't stress how much better i feel today I might even stay up past 9 doing things #mcdeaks speaks #adhd

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encrucijada · 9 months

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can someone tell my brain we aren't waiting for anything and we can sit down and write in peace

#i'm laying in bed going oh i can't get this done i have something due. HONEY WE DO NOT WE'RE ON SUMMER BREAK #but of course then the probpem becomes oh i want to write 13 things at once so i will do nothing :3 #i have a flash fic to finish that commission has been in my kofi since like september.....#i wanted to wrote pt.2 of pointed north but idk if that's happening anytime soon #i need to be possessed by the pjo hyperfixation again. maybe the show will make a miracle happen 👀#😔 i want to play dolls but idk with which dolls #pia.txt

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jackredfieldwasmyjacob · 2 months

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my birthday couldn't have started better holy fuck

#my mum and sister brought me chocolate con churros for breakfast which !!!!!!!!!#i myself didn't even realise i wanted them today but YES that was the correct choice #but that wasn't the best thing #this friend of mine who's doing a phd and that sometimes tells me about opportunities and stuff #texted me today and told me she found out my phd advisor managed to get approval for her project #a project about identity in ancient greece. guess what my phd project is about. lol.#anyways. that project will get an fpi selection process in which they'll select phd candidates to do the phd within that project #and my friend told me they apparently had someone in mind but she didn't know who #that's why she texted me. cause she thinks it's me. cause there's not many more options basically #the professor hasn't emailed me or anything but that's normal for her. we thought it would be best for me to email her in september #to remind her i exist and what i want to do and you know.. who knows #cause the thing about fpis is. how to put this. they're rigged. kinda. they usually have the person they want to get on the team in mind #and the fpi is just like the administrative way to do it

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