#useful reblog

[desperatepleasures]

one time I used the ben affleck smoking reaction image in the family group chat and my mom replied with the funniest possible response which was: "mommy doesn't know who the guy is???" and that phrase has not left my brain since. I'll see blorbos on my dash that I don't recognize and I'll be like well it seems mommy doesn't know who the guy is.

[word-count-bullet-count]

I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

[girldraki]

[tartsinarat]

Furiously taps the sign as well for you guys because you’re all worthy and deserve the world

Tapping the sign.

[ableism]

I know i’m functionally a gay DARE officer at this point but I do in fact feel some sort of way about Cocaine being back in vogue. Surely I sound like a square + narc and I’ll concede ok do whatever you want, nobody can materially stop another person from using drugs if they really want to 🤷🏻 I don’t really care that it’s hip to do party drugs, moreso I want to articulate a general level of caution and concern that I never see a sidecar of harm reduction and safe using practices along with the commonplace clips of people straight up snorting coke I’ve seen for “brat summer!!!1!!”

You 🫵 are not immune to ingesting fentanyl or any number of other additives. Do you think drugs at the gay club are different than the drugs people are taking under bridges and in gutters? I promise they’re not! So if you want to use drugs and continue being alive, do your part to be safe. Protecting yourself protects others and your community.

Do not accept drugs from strangers. Test your drugs with fentanyl test strips. Carry narcan and know how to administer it. Never use alone. Have an exit strategy if you’re using drugs in a public space. Know the contact information for your local harm reduction groups, overdose emergency hotline, and if you need/want it, addiction treatment orgs. This is all the bare minimum for community care if you intend to be out in the world using drugs. Mainly I encourage you all to be buzzkills if it means you don’t have to die of an accidental overdose. Overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans under 40. I have a whole lot of social workers in my network and however bad you think the synthetic opioid crisis is, it’s worse. The war stories I’ve heard from my people on the ground are… The shit of nightmares. Don’t let it be you or anybody you love.

If you live in the state of Georgia, DM me for a longer list of resources.

Fentanyl information (harm reduction.org)

Get Narcan

How to use fentanyl test strips

Call 311 to find out where to get Narcan in your community at no cost to you

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

[kachikirby]

IF YOU LIVE IN THE US, PLEASE READ THIS

Posting this from the bird app since I hope it can help people.

People have been contacting the White House directly to demand a recount, especially since there has been evidence that not every ballot has been counted and will be thrown away if it hasn't been cured.

The link to contact the White House is here!

The following screenshot comes from here!

If you need help writing something, check under the cut! I've provided a prewritten response from one of the replies!

"I am a concerned citizen, and I need you to hear me. I urge you to recount the ballots from this election and investigate election interference. Bomb threats have been called into multiple polling locations, causing some to close early. Domestic terrorists have burned ballot boxes. An unprecedented number of ballots have been rejected and require curing. There have been reports of polling officers allowing voter intimidation in and outside of polling places across the country and an estimated 20 million mail in ballots are unaccounted for. In addition, many people have reported that ballots were not counted for suspicious reasons such as signature invalidation which is information that vote counters do not have access to. These events have occurred in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, for instance."

Feel free to add and change what you want, this is just a base for you to work off of.

[fwoosh-prompts]

Oh this looks like a nice list of writing sources! Gotta remember to check out the listed stories too at some point

The Author Speaks:  All My Original Writing Content

For your convenience, a masterpost of all (or most) of my original posts so far.  It will obviously be updated as I create and add more!

Enjoy, and thank you for reading!  <3

The Basics:  Plotting, Descriptions, and More

The Dos and Don’ts of Beginning a Novel (9/27/2017)

How to Write Good Dialogue (7/27/2017)

Notes on Chapters (7/5/2020)

My Top Tips for Sticking to That Damn WIP (8/13/2020)

How to Avoid Purple Prose (7/14/2017)

The Objective Correlative (4/10/2019)

Tips for Visual Thinkers (6/29/2017)

5 Ways to Name Your Novel (8/11/2018)

Romance

How to Write a Kiss Scene (9/17/2017)

How to Write a (Healthy) Romance (6/17/2017)

Mythology 

Irish Mythology Resources (4/4/2019)

Academia

Masterpost for Writing Academic Essays (9/25/2020)

Horror

My #1 Tip For Writing Horror (5/17/2019)

Monster of the Week

Werewolves (10/19/2020)

Vampires (10/7/2020)

The Undead (10/23/2020)

Characterization

How to Get to Know Your Characters (6/17/2017)

Male Protagonists to Avoid in Your Writing (5/28/2017)

Female Protagonists to Avoid in Your Writing (6/7/2017)

More Female Protagonists to Avoid in Your Writing (6/5/2019)

The Importance of Antiheroes (6/22/2020)

How to Write Strong Female Characters (3/24/2018)

The Many Faces of the Strong Female Character (7/10/2019)

The Traits of a Likable Hero (7/19/2017)

The Secret to a Relatable Villain (3/11/2018)

Types of Unreliable Narrators (7/1/2019)

How to Write (or Avoid) Abusive Parents (8/2/2017)

The Dos and Don’ts of Writing Smart Characters (1/20/2020)

Reference Masterposts

Depicting Deaf, Blind, or Mute Characters (4/21/18 but often updated with new resources that my followers recommend)

Depicting Amputees (10/21/18)

Depicting Wheelchair Users (8/7/2020)

Depicting Jewish Characters (9/17/2018)

Depicting Black Characters (9/22/2018)

Depicting ADHD (5/11/2019)

Depicting Autism (1/1/2020)

Depicting Trans Women (9/15/2020)

Depicting Trans Men (9/29/2020)

Depicting Nonbinary and Genderfluid Characters (10/16/2019)

Depicting Asexual Characters (10/11/2019) 

Depicting Drug Addiction (10/23/2018)

Depicting Eating Disorders (1/19/2020)

Depicting Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (7/5/2019)

Depicting Schizophrenia (7/13/2020)

Worldbuilding Masterpost (7/3/2018)

Publishing Resources:

Places to Post Original Fiction (10/29/2019)

Marketing Masterpost (8/12/2018)

My Published Fiction:

Gentlefolk - A timid woman faces her deepest fears in order to try and reclaim her stolen child from charismatic local Nature Gods. Only to discover that everything she’s been taught about them might be wrong. Published August 10, 2020.

The New Gods - Society is populated by gods, new and old. Some are more frightening than others. Published February 11, 2020.

Gunpowder Sigil - In a windblown Western town, a young girl conducts a summoning ritual for a spectral gunslinger. Magical realism meets the Western. Published August 4, 2019.

The Undertaker’s Apprentice - A lovesick undertaker in training goes on a disastrous first date, with a corpse as a third wheel. Published December 6, 2018.

The Young Immortal - A relatively youthful member of the immortal community reflects on his first century of life and his relationship with his oft-reincarnated soulmate. Published December 21, 2018.

The Bear - An anxiety-ridden young man with a talent for avoiding his problems decides not to acknowledge the grizzly bear trapped in his bedroom during a busy a day. Published October 1, 2018.

Stitches - Featured in Volume Blue of the anthology series Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging. A son comes finds purpose outside of his father’s legacy.  Published December 28, 2021.

Nemesis - The third story featured in the anthology, Things Improbable.  A lovesick supervillain is confronted by what they will do for their beloved superhero. Publishing February 28, 2023.

Strange New Worlds Anthology - A compilation of my short fiction, including previously published and previously unseen works.  Release date to be determined.

Happy writing, everybody!

[sarahmackattack]

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[undercovercannibal]

The Daily Show | Nov. 6 2024

[morningsaidthemoon]

might continue work on this one,, ✨✨

[widogest]

fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here

we used to have real television

[buzzrds]

here's my wonderful isopod child, handcrafted in leather

[alanaisalive]

Now that Eurovision is over, I want you all, especially the Americans, to take a good hard look at how the voting results turned out when people boycotted the event.

In the UK, the viewing figures were down about 2 million people compared to last year. Up to 2 million people made the conscious decision to not watch and not vote because of Israel's inclusion.

The final results of the public vote, Israel came in first place in the UK and got 12 points. Because the only people watching and voting were people who backed Israel or at least didn’t care one way or another.

This doesn't matter. It's a music contest. The boycott was still the right thing to do because it is just a show at the end of the day, and the viewing figures have more impact than the results.

But it is also a good object lesson to show you what happens if you boycott a vote over something that does matter. Choosing not to vote in, let's say, a presidential election will have similar results.

[edwardbonnets]

how to ask the demon you've been smitten over for 6000 years to dance: an angel's guide

bonus:

[xgoldenlatiasx]

I’m really glad that Aaron’s self-immolation for Palestine is getting attention, but on November 8th there was also a Congolese man who did the same thing for the genocide happening in the DRC. From what I read in the article above, his fate and identity are unknown but I think his story should be getting equal amount of traction and I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it on Tumblr specifically yet.