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I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

[brian murphy voice] I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING WEIRD!!!

okay i did. but also! if it ain’t broke…

here’s how this crumbles cookie-wise. sometimes (as is currently the case) i feel like i am trying to hold onto a whole novel in my brain at once. this does not feel particularly good because the novel doesn’t belong in my brain it belongs Out There. so i make a very detailed outline and then i start at chapter 1, and i write to 100 words (give or take a few). then i move on to chapter 2 and write to 100 words. then to chapter 3 and so on until i have at least 100 words in each chapter. then once i’ve run through the whole book, i go back to the beginning and make sure each chapter is up to 200. then i’m usually in the Meat of each scene so i’ll get everything up to 500, then 1000, then 1500 and then usually i clock out of chapters around or just under the 2k mark.

this appeases the hyperactive part of my brain by making sure i’m never bored, and helps the project manager in my brain so i can keep track of many moving parts in the novel and also ensures that scenes at the end speak to scenes at the beginning since i’m (sort of) writing the whole book at once.

NOTE: sometimes i get lost in the sauce and write way past 100 or wherever im at, and that’s fine. it just means i probably skip that chapter during my next pass since it’ll be past my goal wc for each chapter of the run.

There is no right way to write a book, and by golly this method sure proves it.

Intense yearning 🥰🫣

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

Well actually YES but also:

Restricting food Does Stuff To Your Brain. "Restricting" doesn't mean stopping when you're full. I feel like this is what gets misunderstood a lot. It means placing rules and limits on food that supercede what your body is signalling that it wants. Let's use cookies as an example. Restricting would be:

- I can only have cookies when I deserve them.

- I can only have cookies when I'm alone.

- I can only have two cookies.

- I can only have low-calorie cookies.

- I can only have cookies on set days, or so-called cheat days.

- I can't have cookies.

- I can't have cookies in the house.

- I'm bad when I eat cookies.

- Cookies are a bad food and I must compensate for having eaten them.

Whether or not you stick to the restrictions you set, your brain is learning to be an anxious mess around cookies. It might want to avoid anywhere that has cookies. It might feel shame for wanting or eating cookies. It might get exhausted from suppressing the craving and decide to binge. It might go into binge mode every time you eat cookies because you've taught your body that This Will Not Be Available Whenever. It might feel ridiculously important to eat all the cookies while you can.

I know we're all so used to constantly talking about food, diets, weight and bodies, and it's completely normalised to look at absolutely everything you eat and assign it the level of guilt you're gonna feel for eating it, and to brag about not eating this and that, and to announce that you know it's a Naughty Indulgence when you eat anything sweet.

But oh my god, it's such a huge weight off your shoulders to just let yourself eat cookies because you wanted cookies and stop when you feel satiated and know that the cookies will be available next time you want cookies because you don't need to earn them in any way. Because a brain that knows it can have cookies whenever it wants cookies, doesn't crave cookies all the time. Nor does it feel any self-loathing when it does crave cookies.

Pre-orders are back open for A Coven of Batgirls: A Batgirls of the Multiverse Zine! You can visit our shop HERE and know that all profits will be donated to Girls Education International.

After a lot of back and forth and troubleshooting attempts, we're here to announce that pre-orders will be open again until JUNE 30TH. If anybody has any further issues trying to place an order, please DM one of our accounts or DM a mod directly. Just in case, we do have a backup plan, but we're praying this attempt works!

Our bundle information is shown below, here's what we're offering (all prices in USD):

Digital Bundle, $10

1 PDF copy of the zine book

4 downloadable profile pictures/avatars

1 downloadable wallpaper

2 emoji sets, 6 each

2 printable coloring pages

Book Bundle, $20

1 physical copy of the zine book

1 PDF copy of the zine book

All digital bundle items

Flats Bundle, $30

1 physical copy of the zine book

1 PDF copy of the zine book

All digital merchandise

1 sticker sheet

2 die cut stickers

1 double sided bookmark

2 prints

Full Bundle, $55

1 physical copy of the zine book

1 PDF copy of the zine book

All digital merchandise

1 sticker sheet

2 die cut stickers

2 prints

1 double sided bookmark

2 button pins

2 acrylic keychains

1 acrylic standee

Even through all the issues we've been having, we did manage to hit our first stretch goal, and all physical orders will now come with a mystery Batgirl photocard! We also still have a few places for our incentive Cass sticker, so be sure to get your physical orders in soon!

Everyone has until JUNE 30TH to place your orders so production can begin!