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Fun fact: by just using imaginary numbers, some Evil Math, and 101 rotating vectors You Can Create a shitty approximation of a fish.

February 20 2005 3/20/05

I tracked down a budist temple only a couple hours from here.

Maybey reincarnation is what i'm looking for.

I know I would have to wait until I die and I can't choose what I become but, it could give me some goals.

Good deeds and meditation right?

February 19 2005 3/19/05

It is my 17nth birthday and I have decided I no longer want to be human.

I do not want to die, so don't get all houghy with me.

I'm just tired of being human.

I want to be somthing else. Something that has never been before.

I'm not even sure what this would be yet, nor am I sure that I care.

I just don't want to be HUMAN.

You are so brave for sharing this with us. We see you.

it's not easy for me to say this but...she sells sea shells by the sea shore

I did the math and it would only take 11,793,402 house flies to carry me away.

It has been exactly thirty minutes since it was half an hour ago.

We need to run.

For president

Of Candyland.

Hey man, are you ok? The post your gf made about sending positive vibes sounds like you’re not doing too well. I hope you’re ok, and if you’re not I hope you are soon 💛

I went to do a procedure at the doctors today, before that I fasted for 2 days straight, no foods, no soups, no nothin. and I am SCARED of medical things. but now I am back and I am weak. You have 20 hours before I regain my power.

bling

It was a command.

I wanna fuck my best friend

My askbox, to many, is a bottomless pit that one might cast their deepest, most fucked up confessions into.

What is a herring?

You talking to your little Character Ai friend is not entertainment to me. I see you as a hampter, running in your little running wheel, going nowhere. 

Good

Reuters

UPS strike in US could be costliest in at least a century, report says

A threatened U.S. strike at United Parcel Service could be "one of the costliest in at least a century," a think tank specializing in the ec

13 Jul 23

The single most important piece of writing advice I would give to a lot of amateur writers is to write less beautifully - or at least to write beautifully less.

I rarely find a piece of writing I can't read because it's too simple, or too concise and to-the-point - not memorable, perhaps, but also not a headache on a page. On the other hand, I see loads of pieces which are effectively unreadable because they're far too rich to swallow, and badly in need of watering down a bit.

The absolute worst culprit is the dialogue tags and stage directions. I'm a big fan of letting people write in their own style, but I would love it if a lot of writers could please cool it with letting me know every time a character blinks or licks their lips. I don't need to know that, especially if it happens every time they speak.

So many dialogue excerpts look like this:

"So this is how we talk?" he queried quietly, his eyebrows furrowed into knots. "Apparently," she replied with a puzzled grin, bouncing on the balls of her feet with restless energy. "Isn't that... exhausting?" he questioned, a lop-sided smile snaking its way across his lips. "The bouncing?" she asked shyly, her eyelids fluttering in shame. "No, of course not," he told her, his lean arms reached out to pull her closer. He buried his face into the mess of her hair, taking a deep breath of her perfume. "I just feel a little nauseated by all of these actions." "I don't know what you mean," she giggled, brushing the hair back out of her eyes as her cheeks flushed red. "Don't worry," he sighed, rolling his eyes up towards the ceiling.

I'm assuming this is a convention that comes from somewhere, given its ubiquity - perhaps somewhere in the world of fanfiction, where there will be short, intimate pieces entirely focused on the ways in which characters interact with each other. But to me, in an original work, it's so exhausting that I can't make it down the rest of the page.

Dialogue may be the worst, or most obvious offender, but the same principle extends pretty much everywhere else. Each line doesn't have to be some great quote you can hang on your wall, and it's hard to read a whole story written like that.

There's been some recent backlash on here against modern films where every line of dialogue is a quip, at the expense of building an authentic conversation, but that's how a lot of people start out writing - thinking that each sentence should be made as flowery as possible, when too many flowers in the same pot will crowd each other out.

You need to leave some gaps to let the sunlight in, and illuminate the beauty of the occasional flourish you do include. Think of it like vanilla extract, to make a reference that was topical when I started writing this post: you need to add a little for flavour, without which the writing will be too dull, but tip the bottle and I will actually be sick. Write beautifully less. Learn to embrace the prosaic.

friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot

this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)

you can set your likes and follows to private

checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing

follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric

drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally

DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!

tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7

be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3

All hail Star Scream

This is the best thing that could have come out of that.

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

Imagine a game like spore but you start out in a truly completely empty universe. Nothing but stars and planets. So instead of starting out with panspermia, on your first planet, in your first playthrough you have to play this "chemical stage" to decide the kind of stuff your planet's life will be made of. Then on other planets after that you can choose to do it again to make a completely different life or populate this planet via panspermia using life forms from your first world to see how you can get different things from the same ingredients.

So as you play and replay you can slowly fill up the universe. And maybe you can also have a simulation mode to just let things progress a little ways without you messing with it to see how things progress.

And as you keep playing it can get progressively harder to start life from scratch because now panspermia events happen so often (a toggle able feature) that every planet becomes increasingly competitive as time goes on.

Just an idea.

Life is cyclical.

Phone upgrade came in 👁

This is so satisfying

Was she wrong though?

Omg the inside says "shattle"

gonna call in a shitter like it's a medevac helicopter and I'm a wounded GI in the jungles of Vietnam

Saving this for later.

Ngl I'm 20 years old and I still do this.

I read this to the tune of "rocking around the Christmas tree"

Take that however you will.

Slutting around the library, pretending to read books so everyone thinks I’m smart (I’m not)

I would like to paraphrase a quote said by me when I was 10. It was originally about English grammar but I think it can apply to a lot of things.

"This is only the way it is because enough people say so. So if we got enough people to agree to do something else then that is what would happen."

I don't have a specific point in this atm. I just feel frustrated right now and I like to remind myself that most of the problems in my life rn only exist because not enough people have decided to put a stop to it.

Bad

"salad dressing" don't be so pretentious it's sauce. it's salad sauce

Nice. You wear it well.

Hi~

I'm not sure who decided that this was a good idea but I would have to agree.

RESIDENT EVIL 4 REMAKE (2023) dev. Capcom Leon Croft - Osiris

Hi dads. How was your vacation?

You were happy with getting an A+ on your “vampire myths” essay, with a comment about how you did excellent research, but you thought that was the end of it. A few days later, though, you open your door to find a vampire and a vampire hunter on your porch.

Not gonna lie. I kinda want this.

Do you think DnD gave Elves trance state to use instead of sleeping cause the creators got into a fight about how they sleep with them pointy ears?

I needed this.

I've seen this before, but it's been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn't need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.