thank you to @lous-sewerrat for letting me draw your caterators! they are so cute
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thank you to @lous-sewerrat for letting me draw your caterators! they are so cute

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Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! đ¤đŠśđ¤đ
Overheard in the office hallway between two older businessmen:
âDonât you dare pull my shirt up, I have a meeting.â
You know what happy pride to those two guys
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area theyâve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record Iâm fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
heâs learned that he can see into my neighbourâs window
you cannot escape the gaze of Belphegor

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God Iâm so hungry I could eat a h- *looks around nervously to make sure my friend Devin, the Talking Horse isnât nearby* phew. Well Iâm so hungry I could kill and eat my friend Devin
I don't think dust needs to exist personally
I really love this website and the people on it a lot
After 46 years alone in space, finding a noisy human must honestly be so reassuring for Rocky. Like, Grace is constantly moving and making all sorts of sounds, like his breathing and heartbeat, that let Rocky know he is alive. Rocky's crew went to sleep and he couldn't be sure if they would wake up, but with a human? Rocky can just make noise and Grace wakes up immediately.
Reading the tags like this btw (I love them)
Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air
First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success
I feel like the Arizona license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck weâre looking at here
Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71483251/mazda-driver-seattle-pulls-into-elevated-train-station-on-tracks/

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drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw
I booted my old laptop to find a file and was once again dealt immediate psychic damage by my desktop wallpaper
I open this thing just infrequently enough that it catches me woefully off guard every single fucking time
OP do you still have the original image. Would you be willing to share it.
but of course.
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It makes the dream work
Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!
Actually that's an extremely good point all around
Writing advice #?: Have your characters wash the dishes while they talk.
This is one of my favorite tricks, picked up from E.M. Forester and filtered through my own domestic-homebody lens.  Forester says that you should never ever tell us how a character feels; instead, show us what those emotions are doing to a characterâs posture and tone and expression. This makes âI felt sadnessâ into âmy shoulders hunched and I sighed heavily, staring at the ground as my eyes filled with tears.â Those emotions-as-motions are called objective correlatives. Honestly, fic writers have gotten the memo on objective correlatives, but sometimes struggle with how to use them.
Objective correlatives can quickly become a) repetitive or b) melodramatic. On the repetitive end, long scenes of dialogue can quickly turn into âhe sighedâ and âshe noddedâ so many times that he starts to feel like a window fan and she like a bobblehead. On the melodramatic end, a debate about where to eat dinner can start to feel like an episode of Jerry Springer because âhe shriekedâ while âshe clenched her fistsâ and they both âground their teeth.â If you leave the objective correlatives out entirely, then you have whatâs known as âfloatingâ dialogue â we get the words themselves but no idea how theyâre being said, and feel completely disconnected from the scene. If you try to get meaning across by telling us the charactersâ thoughts instead, this quickly drifts into purple prose.
Instead, have them wash the dishes while they talk.
To be clear: it doesnât have to be dishes. They could be folding laundry or sweeping the floor or cooking a meal or making a bed or changing a lightbulb. The point is to engage your characters in some meaningless, everyday household task that does not directly relate to the subject of the conversation.
This trick gives you a whole wealth of objective correlatives. If your character is angry, then the way they scrub a bowl will be very different from how theyâll be scrubbing while happy. If your character is taking a moment to think, then they might splash suds around for a few seconds. A character who is not that invested in the conversation will be looking at the sink not paying much attention. A character moderately invested will be looking at the speaker while continuing to scrub a pot. If the character is suddenly very invested in the conversation, you can convey this by having them set the pot down entirely and give their full attention to the speaker.
A demonstration:
1
âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
âWhat?â Drizella continued dropping forks into the dishwasher.
2
âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
Drizella paused midway through slotting a fork into the dishwasher.  âWhat?â
3
âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
Drizella laughed, not looking up from where she was arranging forks in the dishwasher.  âWhat?â
4
âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
The forks slipped out of Drizellaâs hand and clattered onto the floor of the dishwasher.  âWhat?â
5
âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
âWhat?â Drizella shoved several forks into the dishwasher with unnecessary force, not seeming to notice when several bounced back out of the silverware rack.
See how cheaply and easily we can get across Drizellaâs five different emotions about Anastasia leaving, all by telling the reader how sheâs doing the dishes? And all the while no heads were nodded, no teeth were clenched.
The reason I recommend having it be one of these boring domestic chores instead of, say, scaling a building or picking a lock, is that chores add a sense of realism and are low-stakes enough not to be distracting. If you add a concurrent task thatâs high-stakes, then potentially your readers are going to be so focused on the question of whether your characters will pick the lock in time that they donât catch the dialogue. But no oneâs going to be on the edge of their seat wondering whether Drizellaâs going to have enough clean forks for tomorrow.
And chores are a cheap-n-easy way to add a lot of realism to your story. So much of the appeal of contemporary superhero stories comes from Spider-Man having to wash his costume in a Queens laundromat or Green Arrow cheating at darts, because those details are fun and interesting and make a story feel âreal.â  Actually ask the question of what dishes or clothing or furniture your character owns and how often that stuff gets washed. Thatâs how you avoid reality-breaking continuity errors like stating in Chapter 3 that all of your characterâs worldly possessions fit in a single backpack and in Chapter 7 having your character find a pair of pants he forgot he owns. You donât have to tell the reader what dishes your character owns (please donât; itâs already bad enough when Tolkien does it) but you should ideally know for yourself.
Anyway: objective correlatives are your friends. They get emotion across, but for low-energy scenes can become repetitive and for high-energy scenes can become melodramatic. The solution is to give your characters something relatively mundane to do while the conversation is going on, and domestic chores are not a bad starting place.
I actually first learned this lesson when doing improv. Always have your character doing something, but donât make the scene about what your character is doing. Come in and start putting groceries away and confront your roommate about sleeping with your boyfriend while youâre putting the groceries away. Be working in a clothes store folding shirts and be reunited with your long-lost cousin while working. Etc etc.
And then much later (partially bc I started writing regularly years after I started doing improv but even then it took me way too long to figure it out) I realized this can be applied to writing, and itâs great. Anytime thereâs a long dialogue scene and it feels flat, rewriting it so theyâre doing something else - something that on the surface is totally unrelated to the conversation - is a sure-fire way to make it more dynamic and open up whole new avenues for conveying thoughts and feelings to the reader.
We learned this in my comic mfa program as well. Comics are a showing over telling medium but sometimes you have to do a âtalking headsâ section where it is just characters talking at length and having your characters doing an activity makes the panels you draw more engaging. It gives you more options for framing things as well.

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what if memories can endure different lifetimes? (a "what if" abt Zombie Island that i've always wanted to draw) happy pride! :)
Americans invented tbe worlds burgled and burglars to apply to robberies because the concept of losing their burger is the scariest thing to them
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This is shockingly close to the truth.
Both come from the Latin "burgus", meaning castle or fortified town. A burglar being someone who bypassed the security of fortifications.
Meanwhile burger comes via Hamburg, the burg of Hamma.
So burgers are named after fortifications, and burglars are the ones who bypass them.
The Hamburglar is a reunion of terms
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