#throwback to high school

[lesbianshepard]

Come on, baby, calm me down You're the only one who knows how

[marinecorvid]

don’t you dare forget the sun // get scared

[thegaythespian]

I can’t believe I used to wake up at 5:30 every day and be in bed around 10pm

I’m only thinking about this bc I need to be up by 6 tomorrow to select my classes for next semester

[g4yr4t]

and we stood up with fight and we broke down the door we promised we would not be afraid any more

-samantha crain, "lions"

[shrimpfriedeggs]

Father of three....

old animation from several years ago!

[mischas]

The O.C. 1.02 The Model Home

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I volunteer with an organization of very high needs disabled people and I have to say, they delight in using AI to put stories together. It even inspires them to make their own edits and additions, though many struggle with typing or verbal skills. I don't want to tell anyone how to feel but it seems like weird ideological purity policing to exclude them from a social event where they might connect to people and find community.

So my first question is: why AI specifically? Why not literally any other method of writing? If they're capable of doing edits/additions, then why can't they first write the story out using speech-to-text, or an AAC device, or dictate it to someone else, and then edit/add to it later?

Coming up with ideas/a plot is creative and requires skill, but it's a different kind of creativity and skill than actually writing it down/connecting those dots. Like, James Patterson doesn't write most of his books; he writes out long outlines for a ghostwriter to work off of, then makes notes or changes to the draft before sending it back to the ghostwriter. It would be unfair to say that he doesn't have any skills at all, but it would also be unfair to say that he wrote all of his books himself when they were actually mostly written by someone else. A lot of the time, movies will have separate credits for the person who came up with the idea and the person who actually wrote the screenplay, because they are separate things requiring different skills.

NaNoWriMo, as a concept, is about practicing the latter skill. You're presumed to have already learned how to come up with ideas – otherwise, what would you work on for a month? The actual work of crafting enough sentences that your story becomes a full text and not an outline is really fucking hard, and that's why so many writers get stalled at the ideas stage and never actually write anything. If you don't have those skills to start, that's okay, because most people don't! The whole point is to practice them over the month! And even if you never hit 50k (I haven't!), you can at least say that you practiced that skill. Even if you only wrote ten words a day because that's literally the most you can do, writing ten words every day for thirty days is still a huge accomplishment!

To use the marathon metaphor from the originating post: both driving a car and running a marathon are skills, but they are not the same skill. If you can't run a marathon – if you are just trying to get to the point where you can walk briskly for five miles without tasting blood when you breathe – reaching that goal is still an accomplishment, even if you're not full on running a marathon. If you are just starting to learn how to drive without having a panic attack, being able to do that is also an accomplishment, even if it's not the same thing as winning the Indy500. Modest goals are still goals and achieving them is a thing to be celebrated.

But I don't think it's ideological purity to say that there's a difference between achieving a very modest goal because the "full thing" is just not feasible for whatever reason, and achieving a totally different goal entirely. "I finally drove to the store and back all by myself!" is genuinely great, but not something you'd necessarily work on in your running group.

[promisemvself]

that time HSM won an Emmy and Vanessa got so emotional over it and started to cry 🥹

[renard-dartigue]

Oh my God Kendrick's concert was amazing, showing of and platforming other LA artists as well. My personal highlights were Dj Mustard, Tyler The Creator, and YG(he had the best fit on stage ngl, I need it NOW). As well as Kendrick's crew Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock. And then the original goat Dr Dre showed up to represent the oldies!

It truly was Kendrick and Friends lol.

Then Kendrick not only performing Not Like Us once but 5 TIMES! IN A ROW!

Drake won't be able to show his face in California ever again lmao.

[irving11kyrie]

[morningtou]

I encountered a Pokemon Violet glitch where a Zangoose started spawning into every indoor map that I entered. I can’t for the life of me imagine why since it started while I was IN THE DESERT??? ZANGOOSE DONT SPAWN FROM WHERE DID U COME FROM???? Anyway I wanted to see if he would follow me home

[spacecravat]

this is MY lestat

[mercyillustrator]

Throwback a year before I had tumblr around Feb-March 2021 as my senior year where I used to doodle them in class during free time I remember I used to bring my sketchbook and alcohol markers. Crazy thing that where my old classmates loved my art and used to beg me to draw them 😂 anyways non Kirby fanart but Y2K cartoon that grew up as my childhood expect three of them as 2010s as my teenage year. I used to be a fan of Dreamkeepers, RWBY, Steven universe cuz of my classmate plus I was a weeb as an anime fan back then as a phase. k/da and atla is like an inspiration and a quirky one :3

Soon I’ll redraw them from my old drawing back then as I used to be Mercy.Drawing

- 💠🎨Mercy🎨💠

[felicitea-art]

i randomly felt like drawing bonnie appetite from epcot's defunct kitchen kabaret show as a pony, i know literally no one knows who this is but i put way too much effort into it not to post lmao

[everydayzefron]

Zac and Vanessa Hudgens at the premiere of High School Musical 3, 2008

[battle-subway-ghost]

Also if you're wondering how the hell I'm digging up 10 year old posts from old facebook groups that never got any attention: I'm not very normal about investigating things like this.