messy

updated jan 22

Note: Ship Wars is just the name of our server. We do not condone any wars over ships. Please don’t fight, friends.

We’re a server open to just about all (legal, consenting) Star Wars ships! We want people to be able to share their ships in a supportive space.

Featuring ships from the original trilogy, the prequels, and the sequels!

All ship channels are role-locked. Roles permissions are required in order to access ship channels, meaning you can easily opt-out of seeing the ships you don’t want to see!

Transphobia, homophobia, and racism aren’t allowed, of course.

Server is for ages eighteen and older!

We are not a roleplay server, but we offer channels to help roleplayers find one another!

Spoiler-free zones to help shield people from the spoilers of the newer films and series.

Channels for general Star Wars conversations outside of ships. Even if you don’t ship anyone, you can have a great time!

We’re also looking for partners. If you’d like us to promote your server, let us know!

Current ship categories include:

Reylo - Rey + Kylo Ren / Ben Solo

Kylux - Kylo Ren / Ben Solo + Armitage Hux

Stormpilot - Finn + Poe Dameron

HanLeia - Han Solo + Leia Organa

HanLuke - Han Solo + Luke Skywalker

Hello, everyone! I’ve had a lot of people tell me that they really like the idea of journaling but they don’t know how to get started. With that in mind, I’ve come up with a list of 11 questions you can use to write an entry about each day. I based these question off of the things I generally write about in my own entries. You can answer any of them you like in any order you like, they’re just meant to get you started writing. Where it goes from there is up to you. 

What did you do today? Where did you go? Who did you meet?

What things or people or events made you happy? Why?

What kind of happy? Can you repeat it in the future?

What made you not so happy? Why?

What kind of unhappy? Can you avoid it in the future?

What else happened in the world today? How do you feel about it?

What’s weighing on your mind at the moment?

Did you accomplish anything today, big or small?

What did today teach you about yourself?

Did you have a good day overall? Why?

What do you want to do and feel tomorrow?

For an explanation (personal and scientific) of how daily journaling helps me to deal with depression and why these questions are important, keep reading under the break. 

While language learning apps and websites such as are plentiful online, places to practice are less easy to find! Here’s a few you can try out, none of which are limited to just one or two languages:

Chat

HelloTalk (iOS/Android): an app with 100+ languages that lets you chat with native speakers of your target language from around the world with voice + text. It’s the one most geared towards just conversation!

WeSpeke (iOS/Android): an app and website with probably the largest variety of languages at 130, with text, audio, and video chat.

Conversation Exchange: this one’s a little different, as it not only allows you to get a pen pal and has text, video, and voice, but it also lets you meet up with native speakers in your area to practice!

Speaky (iOS/Android): a web and mobile app which is pretty much social media for language learners! It has 110+ languages and you can make video/audio calls and message from your browser.

HiNative (iOS/Android): not exactly for chatting with people, but instead you can ask native speakers about their culture/language in your target language!

Read

Duolingo Immersion: lets you translate articles from your target language into your native language, or vice versa.

Readlang: read articles, books, and other texts online, with vocab support, and it will create vocab lists and flashcards based on the words you needed help with.

All You Can Read: a selection of magazines and news websites from 200 countries, offered in a wide variety of languages.

Worldpress: a directory of worldwide newspapers and magazines, sorted by country, region, and also political affiliation.

Listen

Live-Radio: a collection of thousands of worldwide radio stations in a multitude of languages.

Every Tongue: 7,000+ recordings of all different languages, readily available online.

Omniglot: a massive listing of online radio stations in languages from A-Z!

make up an origin and meaning of a name

write a family history going back centuries

pick a character and make them ramble about their favorite thing

make up a fable, pretend it’s as famous as the Grimm fairytales. how does this fable affect the world and what would people reference from it? (i love this one because it can be as crazy and silly as you want)

make a commercial for something that really shouldn’t be sold at all. try to convince people to buy it.

ACRONYMS. but, like, try to have it make sense

make a poem about your story/something in your story

rewrite a classic but put your own twist on it

make up a detailed recipe

make a monologue with a plot twist or punchline in the end

create a ridiculously detailed timeline for a character

childhood memory (real one or make it up!)

improv rap lyrics

the story behind an inside joke

make up a mythical creature

pretend to be a commentary youtuber and pick a topic

the what if? pick a story and create an alternate ending to it

Rafiki, American Poster

It’s ok to start if your world building still consists of vagueness like “fantasy realm based of ancient Slavic mythology”.

it’s ok to start if you don’t know what brand of marmelade your ocs like the most.

If you’ve been in the Writeblr community for a while, you may have seen some posts advertising a Discord server, The Write of Way, floating around. (If not, that’s all right!) The Write of Way was created as a place for creators of color to come together and share their works in a welcoming and encouraging atmosphere. Though TWoW started off as a specifically writing-centric server, over time, the space grew to encompass all kinds of art forms! In these past few months, however, TWoW has been completely dismantled and reconstructed into two entirely new servers, and we’d like to invite you to both of them! (Though these servers have been around for a few months now, this is one of the first public advertisements we’ve made announcing them! Reblogs would be greatly appreciated!) Important! These servers are only for creators eighteen and older, and those who consider joining us MUST be POC identifying. Beyond this, anyone and everyone is welcome!

The Tea Parlor is a space that encourages friendship, discussions, and creativity without too much a focus on one thing over another. (And memes. We share lots of memes.) The Tea Parlor is laid-back counterpart to our sister server, The Inkwell, where casual conversations can take place and silly conversations can be shared without interfering with any creative discussions. This server has a greater emphasis on friendship and community. Created by Chronick.

If you’ve been in the Writeblr community for a while, you may have seen some posts advertising a Discord server, The Write of Way, floating around. (If not, that’s all right!) The Write of Way was created as a place for creators of color to come together and share their works in a welcoming and encouraging atmosphere. Though TWoW started off as a specifically writing-centric server, over time, the space grew to encompass all kinds of art forms! In these past few months, however, TWoW has been completley dismantled and reconstructed into two entirely new servers, and we’d like to invite you to both of them! (Though these servers have been around for a few months now, this is one of the first public advertisments we’ve made announcing them! Reblogs would be greatly appreciated!) Important! These servers are only for creators eighteen and older, and those who consider joining us MUST be POC identyfiyng. Beyond this, anyone and everyone is welcome!

The Tea Parlor is a space that encourages friendship, discussions, and creativity without too much a focus on one thing over another. (And memes. We share lots of memes.) The Tea Parlor is laid-back counterpart to our sister server, The Inkwell, where casual conversations can take place and silly conversations can be shared without interfering with any creative discussions. This server has a greater emphasis on friendship and community. Created by Chronick.

bittersprings; a novel wip page theme preview | code

as a writeblr myself, i was pretty disheartened by the lack of pages for sharing and organizing WIPs, so I made my own! this was my first ever crack at CSS and it was definitely a ton of fun. i’d appreciate likes/reblogs if you use!

feel free to use, just please don’t remove or alter the credit.

features:

fully customizable; you can remove whatever features you don’t want

5 custom links + support for unlimited links

3 built-in icon hoverlinks

280 x 360 book cover (will resize if too large)

630 x 290 header (will resize if too large)

header is also a customizable link

editable progress bar

2 pre-built fully customizable main character bios with pop-up windows and a 150x150 icon

3 pre-built separated sections for minor characters with a 50x50 icon

unlimited support for the addition of extra main and minor character bios 

610 pixel-wide map; can be of any height

basic information section to show genre, status, etc.

worldbuilding / f.a.q. / general use section for extra info about your wip

all text sections can be as long as you wish

credits:

If you’ve been in the Writeblr community for a while, you may have seen some posts advertising a Discord server, The Write of Way, floating around. (If not, that’s all right!) The Write of Way was created as a place for creators of color to come together and share their works in a welcoming and encouraging atmosphere. Though TWoW started off as a specifically writing-centric server, over time, the space grew to encompass all kinds of art forms! In these past few months, however, TWoW has been completley dismantled and reconstructed into two entirely new servers, and we’d like to invite you to both of them! (Though these servers have been around for a few months now, this is one of the first public advertisments we’ve made announcing them! Reblogs would be greatly appreciated!) Important! These servers are only for creators eighteen and older, and those who consider joining us MUST be POC identyfiyng. Beyond this, anyone and everyone is welcome!

The Tea Parlor is a space that encourages friendship, discussions, and creativity without too much a focus on one thing over another. (And memes. We share lots of memes.) The Tea Parlor is laid-back counterpart to our sister server, The Inkwell, where casual conversations can take place and silly conversations can be shared without interfering with any creative discussions. This server has a greater emphasis on friendship and community. Created by Chronick.

1. Call themselves out

2. Call that character out

3. Call THEIR FRIENDS OUT

Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

We real cool: black men and masculinity - bell hooks

Wind up bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander and Cornel West

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present - Harriet Washington

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The autobiography of Malcolm X

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz

I Will Teach You to be Rich - Ramit Sethi

The $100 Start Up: Reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love and create a new future - Chris Guillebeau

Beloved - Toni Morrison

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women & Self-recovery - bell hooks

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling MenT

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Further reading has both of us recommending take this book with a grain of salt) 

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type

 Positive Discipline

How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved

Why Is He So Mean To Me? (2nd Edition

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love

The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory, & Type Development

. The Highly Sensitive Person

 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

 Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Assata: An Autobiography

Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

 Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Fully Revised and Updated Fourth Edition)

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

 Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality By Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá

Learning All The Time

 The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

Some other recent books…

41. Malignant Self Love

42. Non-violent communication 

43. The Power of Now

44. Men Who Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them

45. The Complete Book Of Home Organization

Have never finished a project

Don’t have publishing as their big goal

Write purely for enjoyment

Can’t/don’t stick to an idea

Don’t put their work out for people to read

Write purely as a hobby

You are just as valid and talented as writers who have been published, or have finished projects. You are still a writer, even if you don’t have other people read your work. You don’t have to pursue the same goals and have similar accomplishments to other people to be valid as a writer.