#But not very formal unfortunately

[celeluwhenfics]

Officially confirming that having deadlines and adulting issues and an upcoming language exam is the #1 way to stir up writing inspo.

I couldn't write a line this weekend, but ideas and solutions to plot problems are fluttering all over the place.

[thegroundhogdidit]

he would NOT fucking say that

[rosenfey]

things that are hard to find: writing advice that isn't condescending.

[mantisgodsdomain]

You may say to yourself things such as "wow, mantis god, you seem really behind for bugtober this year", and you would be right, but what you can't see behind the scenes is that we are actually being surprisingly productive in the hours of the day that are not dedicated to school, it's just that some months ago we happen to have thought to ourself "well, we enjoy learning things, so maybe we should take a hack at school since the grant is decent, get some actual certification on our resume so we can get a real job" and then forgot that the reason we don't already have official certification is because formal schooling historically has had worse effects on our overall mental health than almost literally anything else in our life, and now that's eating 4-6 hours of our life per day with an extra few hours of recovery after which makes it unfortunately difficult to work on art.

[sugarcarnation]

skk plus kouyou trio has taken over my brain

[oozeandgoo-art]

everyone is sooo in love with vakori on account of le is so cool and smart and deeply pragmatic and is also completely batshit insane

[malachia-il-bibliotecario]

when I tell you that I NEED a three piece suit

[teawizard]

Is there still time to say everything you wanted to for so long?

Bruno finds himself in a situation he feared one day would come: Daniela leaves Encanto - only for a few months though - and she still doesn't know the truth. The truth he's been holding very close to his chest for years now.

Translation:

to Daniela

from Bruno

open when you're alone

please

[mybrainproblems]

it really strikes me as odd how adversarial fans are about the spn writers and talk about hating them or thinking they're bad at writing. because 1) they're the ones creating/continuing this piece of media that you clearly do love or at least care about and 2) if they were genuinely bad at writing, you wouldn't be here. the show would've fallen off the viewership and ratings cliff and would have been cancelled years ago and not run for fifteen seasons.

and these folks will have the one or two writers that they stan but will claim they're the only ones who knew what they were doing and honestly? 4 episodes in a 20-23 episode season does not carry a season/show. no single writer is carrying an entire season on their episodes alone and it's not like they weren't conferring with each other at all during the writing process.

idk. it just feels really really weird to see folks be so negative about the ppl who are creating the thing that they supposedly love, and it seems like a really miserable way to engage with a piece of media. not to mention that tbh it's pretty disrespectful to the writers to assume that they have no knowledge of their own craft. the majority of writers on spn have been at worst competent (i am setting aside the content of their writing bc that's a separate issue. sera gamble die by my sword.)

and tbh so much of what ppl talk about in terms of writerly incompetence just comes across as personal gripes about the plot not going in the direction they wanted or an inability to grasp that spn is a goddamn genre show and not a family drama. genres have their own language and trope toolboxes and you need to meet it where it is, not criticize it for being something that it isn't and never was intended to be.

[undertakerbarbie]

negative shout out to my minor headcold giving my darling gf horrible tonsillitis 🫡

[trans-xianxian]

the thing about like professionalism in the job search process is like.... I don't really understand all of the social rituals of it? like I know that there are templates and guides out there showing you how to respond to certain things, but none of them Sound like me, they sound like templates, and I don't know where I'm supposed to insert my own voice or what words I have to say where or in what ways I'm allowed to be casual. all of these little rituals just seem kind of pointless and showy and confusing to me so I never really understand how to use them, even tho I'm Years into working

[bathroomcorpse]

anyway elias majored in philosophy in undergrad and when auggie sees his diploma (because he's the kind of guy who hangs up his diploma) he makes fun of him (he does not have a leg to stand on. he's about to get a bfa.)

[lemonadeandlanguages]

hi! whats ur native language and how did u learn ur other 2? thnx :D

Hi! :)

My native language is Spanish, and I learnt English and French at school mostly. I went to and English school for the first two years of elementary and I grew up reading and watching TV in English, and then I transferred to French school for the rest of my elementary and secondary education, so I learnt French that way.

So yeah, I just learnt both as a really young kid 😅

[donuts4evry1]

fun fact the monterey bay aquarium has (what I hope is) an atolla jellyfish hanging from the ceiling and I think it is very cool :)

[tauruswiftie]

one thing i love is when you read a book or watch a show or w/e that really resonates with you and the writer’s style imprints on your own speech patterns for awhile

[schoolhater]

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.