to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!
i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies
Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.
just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.
i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape
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I collected my art tips on hands over the years. It ended up being 54 pages of notes I took and some guides I tried to create for myself. Maybe some of these can be useful to others as well.
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It's funny how the same people who complain about not finding enough fanfiction content are the ones publicly ranting about authors and mocking their kinks or their way of writing.
You wanna know why there's not enough content? Because creators are terrified of putting their free labor out there, only to have people like you critiquing their - entirely free and optional, mind you! - pieces when you could be scrolling instead.
"When the author writes y/n as-" grab a pen and do it yourself.
"It's just my opinion because I find it weird-" then think it, don't post it. Why are you so possessed by the need to publicly insult someone doing hobby work?
I swear, I just stumbled upon a post that had tens of thousands of reblogs and hundreds of comments where everyone just kept piling on fanfic writers. Whether it's a trope, or the use of some words, it doesn't matter: y'all really out there dining for free and then spitting in the chef's face.
If you can vent in several paragraphs, you can also just scroll and mind your business. I can't believe it has to be said that you're an asshole if you nitpick someone's literal fun.
The lovely thing about having a huge pile of WIPS is that when you're artblocked you can rummage around in there and pull out something you've already put the foundation on but didn't have the energy/time to finish it then.
Despite not being a female character, blue (among us show) is actually a fairly good representation of someone who experiences misogyny, specifically the fetishization of women, peoples tendency to ignore women's achievements, and the common result of the patriarchy making women inclined to try extremely hard (often to their own detriment) to help others.
I dont want to cut it off mid-explination but parts of this explination include spoilers, so the entire explination is below.
The crewmates are genderless, so it doesnt really apply in the exact same way, but consider:
Blue is considered exceptionally attractive. Almost every time they are on screen, someone mentions that they find them hot.
2. The only characteristic that people actually appreciate about blue is their ability to do well working with others, which is ALWAYS mentioned alongside their attractiveness.
3. Whether or not blue is alright with the consistant fixation on them being attractive is not considered by a single character. Nobody asks how they feel about this. Even the few interactions that have someone treating them like a person, nobody is shown considering blue's perspective.
4. Blue doesnt react a single BIT to the way they are treated. Not once to they say a word. It's clear theyd have definitely heard people many times, yet they do not react. Ever. They dont say a word. Very clearly ignoring it and focusing on their efforts to help.
5. They work a job thats specifically assisting others. Their skills at their job are pretty much never acknowledged. Theyre the "hot doctor", not the "skilled doctor". Their care for others that extends to the career that they chose is even brushed off with humor in a scene: "wouldnt it technically be easier since youre only lifting half of them?". No one else says a word.
6. After they died, people STILL focused on their attractiveness. It was much less of a concious descision due to the lack of oxygen, but their attractiveness was mentioned BEFORE the fact they were DEAD. The crew focused on the fact they were HOT before the fact they were DEAD.
All of these things seeming like direct parallels to how women (especially women with jobs like theirs) are treated in society:
Women who are considered attractive have said attractiveness be heavily focused on
Women's skills are practically never focused on by people, only their attractiveness
Women's oppinions on how often others express finding them attractive is always brushed off
With how often women's feelings are disregarded, a lot of them take to just not acknowledging it when it happens.
When women work in fields like the medical field, its often found that patients dont consider them skilled, yet some of them dont care because of how they find that woman attractive.
Women's attractiveness always comes before their humanity. People will look at a corpse and claim "we lost a baddie".
So basically blue experiences the crewmate equivelant of misogyny even tho their species is plantae and doesnt have individual genders
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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
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