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[authorchrisalex]

Daily Digest 5/1/23

It’s been quite a while since I’ve done one of these.

To be honest, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done any writing. I’ve recently figured out I can only split my focus on one Big Goal at a time and for the past year or so, that was my health.

Now that I’ve got that mostly under control I’m starting to shift back into writing mode.

And it feels 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥!

I got up this morning with the intention of heading to High Ground Coffee and spending three-ish hours writing with the OC Writers group, but mornings…

So I ended up getting there around 10:20 or so. I did get some words down and it felt weird and good trying to find that groove again.

But, it’s me and things never go as planned. I forgot to plug my computer in last night, so the battery was dead. And I don’t like actual writing with pen and paper because it’s slow and then I have to type everything over and it’s tedious and boring and I never do it. Pen and paper are for outlines and plotting.

But I did have my phone and of there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years it’s that I do my best work writing on my phone.

It’s weird. I went without a computer for over 3 years and during that time I wrote on my phone. I wrote at amusement parks, in line at the DMV, when traveling in planes, trains, and automobiles (but not while driving!).

I don’t know what it is about the tiny screen that lets the creativity flow, yet it does. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Lately, when I would be working on the laptop, I spend a good 30 minutes just staring at the blinking curser the entire time. But today, in the less than 30 minutes I spent actually writing today, I got in a solid 302 words.

Anyhoo, that’s about all I had time for today. It’s a day off the Day Job so I have errands to run (cats need to be fed, after all), and a birthday to celebrate—can you believe Dad turns 77 years young this year?—so we’re going out to dinner tonight. Tomorrow is a home day, so I should be able to bust out the rest of this story tomorrow.

On a side note, I set up my phone’s home screen with widgets and one of them is quotes and motivations. This was the one that popped up when I left my writing session. Fitting don’t you think? 😆

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁

Story: 302

Web: 0

Social: 591

Total: 893

Here we are celebrating Dad’s birthday on Radiator Springs Racers. Shhh…🤫 Mom will kill me if she finds this picture online. Thankfully she doesn’t have Tumblr. 🤣

[honysoytquimalpence]

[copperbadge]

When I was in college, round about 2002 or so, I did a paper on hate groups that necessitated a couple of visits to Stormfront, a white supremacist website and message board. One of the pages on the site was a "children's page" operated by the child of Storrmfront's founder, which was a unique form of horrifying. But I also remember looking at a photo of the kid on the site and thinking, that poor fuckin' kid, what kind of chance did he ever have?

But it was just a paper and that was just a photo of a child I didn't know, so I turned in the paper and graduated and got on with life.

In 2016, @archwrites posted a link to an article by the Washington Post titled "The White Flight of Derek Black" (sorry about the paywall, Arch's post quotes some relevant parts here). I thought it looked like an interesting read: it was about a white supremacist named Derek Black and a group of campus activists at the school Black eventually attended, who set out to see if they could change his mind about race with radical kindness. In large part because of their work, Black eventually renounced white supremacy and became an antiracist.

And then I hit a photo in the article and gasped, because I recognized it. I'd seen the same photo on the Stormfront children's website. The kid I'd seen and pitied was grown up and had gotten out. Immensely satisfying to see.

But it was just a news story about someone I didn't even know, so I posted about how pleased I was to see it, and I got on with life again.

This morning, I woke to the news (sorry, it's the Daily Fail) that R. Derek Black, now 35, has just published a memoir, The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism. And in the epilogue, they come out as trans.

I can't imagine better news I could have heard about them -- that they're out, they're thriving, and they're embracing themself.

Congratulations, kid. It's a great new photo.

[ID: A recent photograph of R. Derek Black, with long curly red hair, wearing a floral collared shirt and a red cardigan, smiling for the camera.]

[akanemnon]

Idk

[caleod]

28-7-24

[dailydetectiveking]

Can you draw her eating a nice snack (some mushrooms)?

Sometimes all you need is a bowl of raw boletus.

[stele3]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protesters-say-fico-dragging-slovakia-russia-ukraine-gas-dispute-2025-01-10/

[narfin-frood]

so like is wander an herbivore or is he vegetarian by choice. and is sylvia a carnivore

[davidtennantontwitter]

#DavidTennant Treat 4 Today for Sunday 31st December 2023

A page of our favourite photos of David from this year in the link.

Which is your favourite photo of David from 2023?

https://davidtennanttreat4today.blogspot.com/2023/12/1231DTT4T.html

[aid-daily]

Hi there

Would you like some tea? This isn’t a trick cross my heart

-Foxloredaily

Uhm. I would say yes, even if it is a trick, but I don’t have a digestive system.

[joukaiweek]

Daily Digest: Day 1

prompts: star / dragon

Check out the amazing works posted for today's prompts so far!

Art

inspired by "88☆彡 by marasy and kemu" by @dusical-moodle

"something is missing" by @twottie-m8

"Hey, this is a really nice machine. Shame her owner has absolutely no taste!" by @amazingferret

Your boyfriend is a well-known singer and decide to write you a song by @luxielovesparkles

Dragons by @wisyhana

star & dragon by @hopefullyidontscrewthisup

Written

Idolize by @unfriendlyamazon (Rated M)

Melting Points - Chapter 1 by @5cs-fanart-and-misc (Rated M)

Bad Dragon by @unfriendlyamazon (Rated E)

Your legend impels the tides in every ocean there is - Chapter 1 by @alectoperdita (Rated T)

star by @saiikavon (Unrated but SFW)

Skin to Scales - Chapter 1 by @rosalind-hawkins (Rated E)

A Start by @arien-elensar (Rated G)

dragon by @madam-murder (Unrated)

star by @madam-murder (Unrated)

Check out the daily round-ups from other days:

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Please take a moment to reblog and express your appreciation for all the writers and artists by reblogging their works or checking out their blogs! Without their participation, there would be no Joukai Week.💜

[zhengzi]

i've been feeling much better now

throat is still a slight bit sore but no longer excruciatingly so

hopefully another week should be enough for my throat to heal up a lot more and finally let me eat apples again ;-;

and my stomach has calmed down a lot as well so definitely gonna continue taking kefir and repopulate my gut with good bacteria

[copperbadge]

Meant to link this sooner but life briefly got away from me -- tl;dr it was discovered last month that over 1500 ancient artefacts were stolen from the British Museum by a senior museum curator. Who has been selling them on eBay for years. (Allegedly. And possibly the museum knew about it much earlier and covered it up, given he was dismissed earlier this year; the theft was actually uncovered by someone who linked the curator's twitter and ebay accounts.)

Lots of talk these past two weeks about how this does not give the museum much of a leg to stand on the next time it tries to assert it's a better caretaker of Greek antiquities than, well, Greece. The marbles being returned in our lifetime is a stronger possibility than ever.

Been a bad year for the museum, aside from the blessing of my presence there in April...

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

extremely fucked up that eating healthy makes me gassy. i decide i'm gonna have a nutritious bowl of quinoa, veggies, and lean meat for lunch and my body thanks me by giving me unbearable abdominal pain for the following six hours that can only possibly be relieved by getting into a yoga pose and ripping a ten second long uninterrupted fart. unbelievable

[studiohromi]

Collagetober Day 8: Entrance/Exit

Mixed media (oil pastel, vintage magazine/book ephemera, flash card, scrapbook stickers) on textured black paper

Prompt list by @marianneburgerstudio