TAG(S) REPLACER

for changing + replacing personal tags with new ones

GRADIENT TEXT MAKER

html involved (+ used in tumblr desktop)

TEXT REPLACER

use after retrieving html code for gradient text + remove semi colon, replace with blank

HOW TO CHANGE ALL LINKS AT ONCE

tut by user @/kazudon.

ISSUE: WORK NOT APPEARING IN TAG

a very helpful tutorial i dug from the depths of the internet (+ this site) because i was close to losing my shit. or in short, how to make your work appear in its designated tags again

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This is Doris Pollas, the cofounder of the organisation now known as lgbt+ Denmark which by being founded in 1948 is one of the oldest ongoing queer organisation in the world.

Doris lived in a farm in Jutland as a child. She was always butch and figured out she was a lesbian in her teens. When she heard about a club in copenhagen where boys kissed boys and girls kissed girls she went just some months after and it was through that club she started a paper connecting queer people all up to seventies and co founded lgbt+ Denmark.

She is now 97 years old and wishes for every queer person to have an as loving and accepting family as she did.

When you're in school, the cognitive tasks are there for the explicit purpose of being brain exercises. It's weightlifting. It is FOR building your mental muscles and making you a stronger thinker and planner. "Offloading the cognitive tasks", then, is just Not Doing The Weightlifting. What happens when you pay for your gym membership and just stand around messing around on your phone? Nothing. Nothing happens. Just money leaving your wallet. Nothing else.

Using AI is a short term pleasure that is going to fuck you over in the long term, and by the time you realize that you didn't build the necessary muscles you need for the cognitive tasks required of your ACTUAL JOB (or, like, adult life in general), it's going to be too late to do anything about it... except going back and doing the real work all over again to get you up to speed.

A "book" is (a slightly outdated beyond this specific topic) term for your union card, which states that you're a member in good standing of your local/union and ostensibly means that you have the coinciding skills that go with the title of journeyworker or apprentice or whatever. Typically, to become a journeyman, you serve an apprenticeship (usually 5 years) and then have to take a test of some sort to prove you've acquired all the necessary skills to earn the qualification. The card/book is the proof that you have a basic level of competency.

Sometimes though certain locals, usually in the South or other places where right-to-work or similar attitudes are stronger, will "sell books," which is to say they will allow people who either haven't served an apprenticeship or passed a skills test to buy their card so that they may work on union jobs.

There's a myriad of reasons and reasonings on why a local might do this, but on the ground, it means that if I'm on a big job, anyone from areas or locals that have a reputation for selling books is automatically assumed to be under-qualified. This sucks, because I've known plenty of badass hands from Southern Locals, but because they come from book-selling locals, they had to overcome that stigma. To an extent, this whole thing is self-regulating because if you bought a book and can't hack it, you only come to a travel job once before they will never invite you back, but it is a constant source of sand in the gears for the whole labour management process.

Work, friendships, relationships, etc. — all of them will be improved if you just show up and pay attention.

Show up: follow through on commitments, be present rather than distracted, keep your word

Pay attention: take notes, listen when people talk, do what you need to do to remember tasks you’ve been given, READ YOUR DAMN EMAILS

And before tumblr tumblrs, I also have undiagnosed ADHD and probably autism and “just” showing up and paying attention often takes a bit of extra effort for me. But I’m also the most recent addition to my team at work and also somehow the only one who is both on top of my shit and still only giving like 60%-70%.

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theme with custom font size, unnested captions and a lot of colour options. dashboard-inspired post styling with full npf support and sticky post icons. gradient background and responsive for desktop.

sidebar with status update, image (300x150) and icon (55x55), description and two extra links.

-hallucinate

-cry over what seems to be small things

-become furiously angry over what seems to be small things

-hit a self destruct button over and over again

-lose all sense of reality

-becoming straight up unable to communicate

-view every situation as life or death

-experience delusions/become vulnerable to irrational worldviews

-perceive hostility where none exists

-become extremely nauseous and/or throw up

-stop engaging in sleeping/eating/basic hygiene

-stop processing sensory input

-process way too much sensory input all at once

-lash out at others/themselves

-and more!

❛ i would let you rip me apart if it meant loving you. ❜

❛ this fear you feel? it won’t last. ❜

❛ you are my salvation. ❜

❛ i revolt you, don’t i? ❜

❛ get the hell away from me. ❜

❛ i want to sink my teeth into every inch of you. ❜

❛ i’ll be your dirty little secret, if that’s what you’re into. ❜

❛ worship me. until i tell you to stop. ❜

❛ don’t you know how sick with love i am for you? ❜

❛ fucking hit me already. ❜

❛ i would burn the world for you. ❜

❛ i don’t want to be good, no matter how hard you wish it. ❜

❛ i don’t know how you’ve bewitched me, but it needs to stop. ❜

❛ fix me. ❜

❛ they die for love, you kill for it. ❜

❛ you are mine, whether you agree or not. ❜

❛ do you like it when i bleed for you? ❜

❛ i will keep hurting. i will keep killing. anything to protect you. ❜

❛ i’m starved for you, morning and night. ❜

❛ now i get to ravish you. ❜

❛ i am your god and your executioner. ❜

❛ you are doing so well, my pet. ❜

❛ you’re my sweetest poison. ❜

❛ let’s do something about that mouth of yours. ❜

❛ your fascination with me will be your death. ❜

❛ you’re the monster that’s enticed me into your bed. ❜

❛ all you can say are pretty lies. ❜

❛ the fucked up thing is that it isn’t enough to just love you. ❜

❛ you’ve broken me. all i can think about is you. ❜

❛ you’ll beg for more. ❜

❛ an eternity with you would never satisfy me. ❜

❛ i would gladly let you drag me to hell. ❜

❛ everything i’ve done.. every horrible atrocity, it’s been for you. ❜

❛ you’re a fucking nightmare. kiss me. ❜

❛ feel grateful that i allow you to touch me. ❜

❛ every time your lips touch my skin, you burn me from the inside out. ❜

❛ there’s no black or white, only gray. ❜

❛ no one touches what’s mine. ❜

❛ make me indifferent, make me horrible. ❜

❛ i could never be the one to love you. i can only be the one that kills you. ❜

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

President Mahama has said he must scrutinise it before signing it, which would make it law. But the pressure that's been placed has already caused sentences to be reduced and exemptions to be made comparatively to previous versions. More pressure is important even if this latest update was made because of the way the President, facing much pressure, has assented. The last time a similar bill was passed it did not end up getting signed (by Ghana's last president President Nana Akufo-Addo), so this pressure is definitely not meaningless or without hope.

· · · 𝒋𝒖𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒔 .ᐟ

with the hot weather slowly creeping up, this month we would like to focus on summer, summer love and hot weather being the topic!

feel free to use the prompts however you seem fit. you do not need to be part of the valley to use them and credit isn't necessary either!!

⤷﹒ⵌ┆ 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒔

1. "You always disappear when summer ends. I've never asked where you go"

2. "Stay until the fire burns out. We can pretend morning isn't coming."

3. "I think this is the happiest I've ever seen you."

4. "You always look at sunsets like they're saying goodbye to you personally."

5. "I wasn't planning on missing you this much."

6. "If summer lasted forever, do you think we'd still find our way back to each other?"

7. "I don't know when you became my favorite part of the season."

8. "Every photograph from this summer has you in it somewhere. I won't forget you"

9. "The fireworks ended ten minutes ago, and you're still staring at the sky."

10. "Promise me this won't be the last summer."

11. "I've spent all season trying not to fall for you."

12. "I don't know if it's the heat or you, but I can't seem to think straight."

13. "You've been finding excuses to touch me all summer."

14. "I've spent weeks trying not to kiss you. I'm running out of willpower."

15. "You don't realize how unfair it is to wear that around me."

⤷﹒ⵌ┆ 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒔

16. A late-night swim turns into a conversation neither character was prepared to have.

17. Falling asleep together on a beach blanket after a day in the sun.

18. Sharing the last popsicle on the hottest day of the year.

19. Watching fireworks from the bed of a pickup truck.

20. A beach bonfire that lasts long after everyone else has gone home.

21. Applying sunscreen becomes far more distracting than either character expected.

22. Sharing a motel room during a summer road trip.

23. Watching shooting stars from the roof of a beach house.

24. A stolen kiss beneath a pier while sheltering from the rain.

25. Collecting seashells together, only to realize they’re both avoiding a much bigger conversation.

26. A swimming lesson that involves far more touching than either character can comfortably ignore.

27. Getting locked out of a beach house while wearing little more than swimsuits.

28. Skinny dipping seemed like a good idea until one character stole the other's clothes as a joke.

29. Sitting on a dock with their feet in the water while talking about where they'll be next summer.

30. Spending an entire summer trying to ignore the feelings for one another and fail miserably.

... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...

The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing style—no, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.

The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.

The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

"Aww, you don't have to be jealous."

"Do I detect some jealousy there?"

"You don't have anything to worry about."

"I'm yours, remember?"

"Don't be jealous. There is no reason for that."

"I kind of enjoy you being like this."

"Is it bad that I like your jealousy a tiny bit?"

"I feel really flattered."

"Why did you act like that?"

"This is not like you. What's going on?"

"Oh, jealousy looks good on you."

"You're not allowed to be jealous. Not after everything that happened."

"Promise me you will talk to me next time, ok?"

"Stop it. You have nothing to worry about."

"Jealousy is a normal feeling. Just don't let it consume you."

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rec request: "min 10k [20k/50k etc] words" "no wips" "longfic" "slow burn", general 'if you rec anything outside this it's lesser work' vibe

aside: [requester will not comment on any of the works recced to them]

your preferences are fine. but are your preferences limiting your enjoyment or engagement with creators?

some of the most impactful fanfiction stories i have read come in under 5k words. some WIPs stay with me and i'm glad to have read them even if they're unfinished and may never be. some of my best work is sitting around the 1-3k wordcount mark. i have told the beats of stories succinctly in under 1k word tumblr prompt fills.

you are denying yourself joy and pleasure and insight by being weird about demanding all fanfic is novella length or holding that only longfics are worthwhile fics.

suport for short fiction encourages creators - it encourages first time posters and writers. it encourages people who are trying to create for fandoms with limited time and spoons. it encourages variety in ways to tell stories. it creates more of the stuff you love.

healthy, active fandoms, no matter the size, have a variety. long epics, cracky aus, drabble collections, short pwp stories, high concept abandonned stories that will never be finished.

Prompts about fictional people sharing their clothes.

enveloped in their warm jacket, with a soft blush

always stealing their cap and putting it on their own head

wearing their jersey, proudly displaying their name

sharing gloves, so both of them don't freeze

wearing their worn shirt to have a better sleep

wrapping their scarf around their neck, breathing in their smell

no one knows who the piece of clothing belongs to, because they're both wearing it

drowning in the other's clothes, because they are way too big, but loving it

loving to see their partner drowning so cutely in their clothes

having the same size, so strangers couldn't tell that they are sharing clothes, but they know and feel warm thinking about it

finding their own clothes in the other person's appartment

using the other's clothes as a pillow

wrapping the other person in the hoodie or jacket they are still wearing, so both of them can stay warm