the day the night slept

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

(via @pangolin-404)

Hiii I'm eating your tags <333 also, have this from about 6 hours ago

Read T.A. Barron's Lost Years of Merlin instead!! The fourth book is my personal favorite take on White's ideas, though I have to at least mention Disney's attempt too.

To me, Barron's series is very much like A Wizard of Earthsea, but less human-centric. It's a fantasy world with a full sense of existing outside of the protagonist. He constantly faces consequences for his actions. He experiences loss while old enough to mourn it. He doesn't have a straight cinderella narrative. He is constantly processing his own disability. His magic system is more developed. Rhia is there. Historical accuracy attempt for the brief periods of Post-Roman Britain we see.

I strongly recommend we combat Rowling's market ubiquity by repopularizing other coming of age stories for young wizards.

Since a few people have asked me this in a couple of places, I thought i'd answer -

It's not available as a print right now but it will be later in the year, likely October! Sorry for the wait but due to the contract of the art book this is for, I'm not allowed to sell prints/merch etc of the piece until 6 months after the Kickstarter campaign.

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

After the incident, another video went viral showing what appeared to be that man getting a beating. The Maui Police Department said they had no record of any reports of disorderly conduct or assault related to the monk seal incident.

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.

so when we say feed your brain: we mean SUGAR.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/publications-archive/brain/sugar-brain