#broaden skills

[bitchesgetriches]

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[fizpup]

artfight week #1!

unicorn belongs to @horse-time-babey

waddle dee belongs to @starflungwaddledee

dragon belongs to @theleatherdragon

eevee belongs to @lu-nya

[ierotits]

"but I can't find any adult books I like :( it's too hard" go to a library. please. go to a library and walk up to a librarian and say "please help me find a book" librarians WANT to help you. give them a list of YA and kids books you like and there will be someone there who WANTS to go wandering the adult fiction section giving you suggestions. take the books home. try them. hate some of them. try another one. until you find something you like. make a librarians day and give them a book recommending task and you will find something you like. there are so many books out there stop reading the same kids series over and over again.

[yudol-skorbi]

i am taking some illustration courses rn and i mean...this piece comes out kinda cool but MAN does it take forever to render.....

i think its cool to like have this skill in your arsenal and rendering can be kinda relaxing sometimes but i want to stat gnawing an drywall and it's not even halfway done yet :/ I AM NOT USED TO WORK THIS SLOW MAAAAN WHAT DO YOU MEAN DETAILED RENDERING TAKES TIME this is such a fucked up concept :/

[maelancoli]

everyone is more capable of reading books and academia they’re intimidated by than they think they are. it’s like working out a muscle. it takes a little practice but anyone can increase the limits of their reading retention, vocabulary and imagination. it’s an effort worth pursuing and a skill to be coveted as society grows more and more anti intellectual. and i think pursuing more challenging materials actually enriches and adds more value to your lighter reading as well

[greyrain23]

A gift for @unriding !!

"Even though he's busy."

Word count: 530

Evie woke up to a loud clatter in the kitchen, along with the smell of.. burning? Shooting up in bed, she threw the covers off, trying to blink the sleep from her eyes as she stumbled out of the bedroom and towards the kitchen.

“What's burning..!?” Expecting to be talking to herself, with Moze usually gone before she wakes up, she halted when spotting him dropping a tray of blackened cookies onto the top of the stove with a frown, and suddenly turning to face his beautiful partner.

“..you weren't supposed to wake up yet..” Evie blinked, eyes flickering from the cookies to Moze.. was he pouting??

“What're you doing..?” she walked closer, finally out of that half-asleep, half-panicked awake stake. “Well.. I was..” he turned away, and she could see the very faint hint of pink on his cheeks.

“I was trying to surprise you.” He turned back, pressing his lips together. “Did you see the gift..?” Seeing the confusion and curiosity in her smile, Moze gestured vaguely towards the bedroom. “On your nightstand.”

“I didn't. I rushed when I smelled something burning.” her smile grew wider, and she glanced back at the bedroom door with curiosity, yet she only moved when Moze gently nudged her shoulder and walked with her into the room where a little purple box with a pink ribbon did indeed sit on the nightstand on her side of the bed.

Evie felt another gentle nudge on the center of her back, prompting her to sit down as Moze grabbed the pretty little present and held it out for her to take. “Merry Christmas.” His voice was a soft murmur as he pressed a kiss to her forehead while she untied the bow.

Pulling the lid of the box off, her face lit up in delighted surprise at the makeup that sat inside, thoughtfully set on some pretty tissue paper. “I saw you looking at them while we were out.”

Evie blinked up at him, a small laugh escaping her lips “that was like a month ago when I saw these.” Moze simply shrugged.

“Oh, let me give you my gift, then!” She hopped up, tugging on his hand to lead him out to the Christmas tree. Grabbing the gift underneath, she sat down with him on the couch, squishing up against his side and kissing his cheek. “Merry Christmas~”

His expression stayed the same, but his eyes softened as he looked at his lover and turned to look at the gift in his hands. Unwrapping the pretty Christmasy paper, he pulled out the leather gloves, almost like his current ones, but as he looked closer, he felt his chest warm at the pink thread sewn into the inside wrist ‘Love Evie’.

“..how much did these cost?” Obviously they were custom made to match his other ones. Evie shook her head “that's for me to know.” She grinned and he held back a sigh, wrapping his arm around her waist. “Thank you.”

Outside was cold with snow falling quietly, but it was cozy warm inside, especially knowing that Moze could spend the whole day with his beloved.

“Wanna try making those cookies again?”

[ddejavvu]

Hi, i just wanted to ask how you were doing, as I appreciate your writing a lot and would rather you didn't burn out as it is not fun (says a burnt out writer)

hey baby! thanks for checking in on me, that's very sweet of you <3 I'm doing alright, unfortunately I am getting burnt out but not necessarily on writing! I'm taking 4 classes this semester and one of them is extremely rigorous, I'm talking 2 8-minute long speeches researched, written, memorized, and performed every week. on top of that I work 40 hours and I'm trying to maintain a stable romantic relationship so i find myself with very little me time which can make it hard to write! but I'm on vacation in ny with my best friend this week so I'm hoping to unwind! We're actually writing side-by-side right now it's very cutesy and fun and healing <3

[raffaellopalandri]

The two faces of creativity

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[princesssarcastia]

every time someone writes a man doing carpentry and home repairs as some kind of shorthand for said male character living out a common masculine ideal i find it really disconcerting because that's the thing my mom does in her spare time.

it's very much a, I know exactly what you're doing BECAUSE it is not having the intended effect on my conclusions/assumptions about this character as a reader, sort of dissonance

[immobiliter]

so we know that dehya can read seeing as she reads the letter her father left for her at the very end of her story quest ( i feel like literacy rates are not particularly great in the desert, so dehya is probably a rarity in that regard ), but i don't think she bears any great love for reading. i think she was taught to read by kusayla in his well-meaning but fumbled attempts to prepare her for a life beyond the desert ( knowing that literacy would stand her in good stead when she eventually left the desert and was employed by the homayani family ), but dehya only learned to the extent that it was a functional skill. she could read letters, she could read signs and documents and merc contracts, but you would be hard pressed to ever find dehya reading a book.

this doesn't mean that she doesn't enjoy stories, however. her father would stage plays for the whole of dakah al-ahmar and was clearly a man with a very vivid imagination who enjoyed verbal storytelling ( and for all the man's faults, as a child dehya enjoyed that escapism from the harshness of desert life ). so this means that dehya would much rather someone read or tell or even act out a story than she would actually sit down and read a book herself.

[stepseduworldblog]

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Virtual Reality Classrooms: Stepping into Tomorrow

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[protonpowered]

I've been stuck (again I know) in something of a drawing rut, so I've fallen back onto the fail safe of drawing memes, this time the 'tasteful sideboob meme' since I've been feeling self indulgent lately

I've got four slots full with the ranger boys (brax, nef, qwark, and ratchet) but now I'm wracking my head for the fifth, artists choice of shirt cut, slot.

[starclove]

someone convince me that blender is super easy and fun…

[kopivie]

Albedo shows you another memory. This one is a storybook, illustrated elegantly but undoubtedly for children.

“Was this yours?”

He shakes his head. “No. My sister’s.”

He turns a page. A young girl’s face smiles up at you from the paper. She looks kind. You glance between her and Albedo; you can see the resemblance.

“You loved her?” you ask.

“Very much. She was the brightest thing this world ever knew.” He combs through the storybook, talking about his sister and the lost memories he can only ever brush against here; the games they played, the smiles they shared, and the fondness he has never lost for her, even now.

The look in his eyes is faraway. He’s lost, you notice. Lost in a different time and in some ways a different place. His attention is completely elsewhere. He’s wandering away from you and into what was with that hint of a wistful smile on his face which doesn’t quite mind being there. Honestly, you think he’s telling himself all of this more than he is you.

And, for now, you let him.

-🎻 anon

i wonder how heartbreaking it would be if, when you asked if he loved his sister, he paused...

"did you love her?"

and albedo's little smile fades into nothingness. there's a slight draw to his brows when he replies, "i don't know." he seems confused. "perhaps i did, once upon a time. it was so long ago." his smile returns but with a bitterness that is palpable. "time is not kind to survivors."

[unbound-space-trash]

I have a phone interview shortly for a course I applied for, and nearly all the information they gave me to look at beforehand or have available during the interview, is for a different course

and I will absolutely be bringing this up during the interview