and other biases

Whoever is left running this godforsaken website clearly still thinks that It Must Be Made Into Twitter, regardless of the fact that The Website Formerly Known as Twitter is an absolute hellhole that now literally generates AI child sex abuse for Nazis, and still is failing to get the picture that Tumblr users do not want Visibility Engagement Maximization or whatever the fuck tech word slurry. Nobody uses their real names. Everyone absolutely hates when their posts go viral. Nobody wants to Get Their Precise Portion of Notes and nothing else. We do not want to Increase Our Profile Or Market Share. We want to be left the fuck alone to post our stupid memes and have our stupid little in-jokes and our stupid little gay fanfiction. Tumblr, as usual, has completely missed the boat.

Go to this link Help Center | Tumblr (if you must, scroll to the bottom and select 'contact support')

In this drop-down bar, select 'feedback'

3. You're welcome to use what I wrote:

The new chain reblog is a really terrible idea. Ownership of those notes belongs to the original poster, which takes away a huge opportunity for engagement and community when someone posts something original. Please change it back. That is what made Tumblr special.

4. Hit the CAPTCHA and then NEXT (It will ask if these other issues are the problem and you'll select 'Send My Thing' with your feedback)

But I have Things To Say!!

So; beginner wants for someone just getting into desires.

The trick is to start small. Even smaller. The smallest. It has to be something you can do, that no-one is asking you to do, even implicitly. It cannot be success, cannot be love or fame, and cannot rely on luck.

Try wanting to see a sunset. Try wanting to feel the wind on your face. Try wanting to listen to a bird chirping, or to taste something you haven't tasted before, or to walk down a different path than usual. Then, when you feel ready, do it. Savor the feeling of having wanted something and gotten it.

A small choice, that impacts nothing except that you chose to do it.

Desire is a skill;

My personal goal is to try and make fanfic binding as accessible to everyone as possible, so here are some resources on how to make a fanfic hardcover for under $25.

This is a barebones bind for the broke college students and such. Happy to field questions, too!

Here's a proposed budget breakdown:

Loosely organized thoughts:

Fanfic bookbinders often share typesets amongst each other. Never pay for a typeset for a fanfic.

You'll hear a lot about grain direction for your printer paper, but as a newbie on a budget without your own printer, settle for some nice 92 bright paper. If you like the hobby, splurge after but expect to pay at least 2-3x more for short grain paper.

Printing is a pain because some copy shops won't let you print intellectual property smut, and it's very expensive. You are better off bartering instead or looking for a free printer on Buy Nothing.

You know the thick paper wrapping that comes with online orders? It's a good weight for endpapers if you need to scrounge. Paper grocery bags or gift bags (birthday presents) might work, too.

Ask your local library to give you covers from books they are throwing out. Ask for outdated textbooks (those covers are built like tanks) or three-ring binders that are too busted to be binders anymore.

Obtain a used book that was mass produced (so your destruction of it does not impede anyone's access) and maybe even become a little vindictive with it.

If you can afford it, I recommend the Olfa SVR knife (~$10)

If you can afford it, upgrade your ruler to a t-square.

I really hope this resource is helpful! I want to stress how possible this is and encourage people to cherish what they love through art.

(Another intended purpose is to save beloved paperbacks, and it's how I intend to use it to begin with - I've started with a not-beloved one to see how I do - but as you can see in the video, he does it with printed out sheets.)

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

How can I explain this? Am I really cursed? Or has this ridiculous trip bewitched me? Or maybe… I knew all along… that this would happen from the very moment we met again.

Since the beginning, the feeling is mutual.