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This is an absolute must. Securing cargo and ensuring delivery is 100% on the person making the drive. If the target doesn't make it back to base unmolested, what even is the point of all the frivolity we went through during the night?

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gilgamesh is the bigger man than me because if a snake ate my flower that grants immortality that i wanted to use for myself i wouldn't touchingly come to peace with my own mortality and the mortal legacy i leave behind. i would be like if there was a flower that could make me immortal maybe there are other ways

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wait i'm curious

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via @swatercolor [insta]

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I'm not totally sure how historians will explain that America ruined its own economy for no good reason by electing the "let me ruin the economy" man

I hope to live long enough to find out.

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New Eldritch Horror dropped. A forever game show host who is always just out of sight, but always present, that begins new games at unexpected moments.

Playing Sam Says might be fun, but imagine the theme song starting up as you are taking a shower and a voice starts talking about learning and beginning. You stumble out of the shower to find the room outside of the bathroom transformed into the Game Changer sound stage with its host who's always been there.

new meme format just dropped

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This is such an interesting idea for data to collect. Removing itself from DragonAge directly, this behavior might be trackable across many different genres. What does the presence of a "hero" do to the socio-economics of their local environs? For superheros, this could possibly be used to track them for someone smart enough to find enough data points. Do villains have a similar vibe? Could you locate a super villain based on a change in the housing or local crime reports? Do villains inspire more local crime or less?

concept: over the course of the hawkes’ first year in kirkwall, the stretch of lowtown between the hanged man and gamlen’s house gets busier every day and at all hours - vendors, beggars, scam artists, performers, laborers drinking after work, people who can’t find work, people sleeping rough and streetwalking and cruising and etc - bc hawke has fucked up so many would-be muggers on her way to and from the bar that the various violent gangs and desperate individuals of kirkwall learn it’s wiser to just leave those streets alone. and every day hawke sees how crowded her hex is getting and is like. get off my lawn

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Video: https://youtu.be/TR6NnjgeIIY?si=K4llNdfTdfQmNK8a

So Nanowrimo is actually dead.

After 25 years of operation, Nanowrimo is shutting down.

An email came out in the hours approaching April Fools

A video was attached to the email, which can be viewed here:

The video is on Kilby’s channel and not the long dead Nanowrimo channel. The video is full of…

Kilby logic, but there is some relevant information contained within.

If have anything on Nanowrimo you need to get off the site, take it now. The site will likely not be around for too much longer.

Despite everything that the organisation has been through, the closure of a 25 year old nonprofit is still a tragedy, and my heart goes out to everyone that’s grieving from this. Nano has hurt a lot of people, but it meant a lot to so many, and I will be sorry to see that go.

Even if I don’t agree with many things in the recent video, I can agree with the sentiment of one slide.

I will update you all if and when relevant information comes out. Despite everything, I now doubt that this will be my last post.

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people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

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Tumblr, I need help.

Here's the sixty-second version of my real-life woes, much of which I haven't discussed here.

In November, I made plans with a friend to come visit from out of state and travel to northern Arizona for several days. (We'll come back to that.)

My mother died in 2021, leaving my dad and I to care for her older brother, my Uncle Dave. Uncle Dave is mentally disabled due to high fever as a child that literally cooked his brain inside his skull. We've always known he was at higher risk for dementia because of his injury, but this November and December it became clear his mental problems had progressed far past what we could handle. Several times I had to leave or skip work because he'd gone missing or needed medical attention. He entered assisted living the last week in February.

In January I had two separate car repairs, one of which needs to be redone. (LED headlights are great because they're the last ones you'll ever need...bullshit.)

I was sick throughout December and February, missing more work....oh, and that trip I mentioned before? Yeah, that was scheduled for the first week in March. Hotel, plane, and time off for both of us were already locked in by the time I got sick, and so after depleting my trip savings for car repair I also had to cover my half of food and gas out of what was functionally half a paycheck. (And yes, admittedly, like $40 of tourist stuff.) I've also spent the month driving up to my dad's every other day to take care of the animals since Uncle Dave is in care now, while also trying to get them rehomed and rehabbing my stepsister's cat. Anybody remember the crack addict stepsister who stole my mother's jewelry? Yeah, she also abandoned her cat. (The cat is doing well. If anyone in Arizona wants a female cat about a year old she still needs to be spayed but her name is Lovebug and she lives up to it.) So that's a decent extra chunk of gas.

It was going to be okay and my bills were going to be paid. I was going to squeak by and get back to refilling my savings in April.

And then I found out I hadn't put enough money on my pay-as-you-go car insurance for the trip.

After that beautiful surprise charge, refilling my psych meds and gas tank twice due to the traveling for my dad's animals, and food....

.....my rent is $975, due on the first, and my company stopped offering early pay.

I realize this is a big ask. But if you're able to throw me five or ten bucks so I can make rent, or to throw this in front of some more eyeballs, I'd really appreciate it. And if you want to put in extra but get something in exchange I make my own salsa and I can send you a jar once the next paycheck comes in.

I'm so sorry, guys. I thought I was past needing this kind of help. (Someone introduce more adequate sick pay to the United States, please.)

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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earlier this week Twitter user ppuccin0 tweeted about a fashion article that advised against tops with large floral patterns, saying the wearer was in danger of looking like a "ロマンティックおばさん," or a "romantic auntie." the tweet went viral with many agreeing that a "romantic auntie" sounded like a very nice thing to aspire to be, and some even posted illustrations or photos tagged with the trend

illustration by Toyota Yuu (author of Cherry Magic)

illustration by 141shkw/Sora Midori (author of Beautiful Curse)

photos by Takinami Yukari (author of Motokare Mania and Watashi-tachi wa Mutsuu Ren'ai ga Shitai or "We Want A Painless Romance")

illustration by m:m (mangaka of Matataki no End Roll)

illustration by ooinuai (mangaka of Onikui Kitan)

illustration by ma2 (mangaka of The Reason We Fall In Love)

BONUS:

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just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

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Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

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Writing with Colors

A list of resources to help you describe different colors in your writing.

The Color Thesaurus A collection of infographics that show various shades of different colors, each shade/color labeled by name.

Color Reference Chart Another collection of infographics that show various shades of different colors, each shade/color labeled by name.

Hair Color Reference Chart A collection of infographics that show various shades of different hair colors, each shade/color labeled by name.

Eye Color Reference Chart A collection of infographics that show various shades of blue, brown, and green eye colors, each shade/color labeled by name.

Different Ways to Describe Hazel Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing hazel eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.

Different Ways to Describe Green Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing green eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.

Different Ways to Describe Blue Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing blue eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.

Different Ways to Describe Brown Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing brown eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.

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Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”