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The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
HA, this reminds me of a Reddit post I saw a while back (since deleted, so apol for the lack of screenshots) where someone was panicking because they'd used ChatGPT to organise their hard drive, by which I mean they opened up an LLM and said 'can you move X file to Y folder and streamline the metadata?', and of course the LLM said 'sure, no problem! I've done that for you!' and then the user asked it to make backups of all their data onto ChatGPT's server, by which I mean they literally just typed 'can you back up all of my data on your server?' and the AI replied 'sure thing, that's all saved for you!' and then the user was like 'and can you create a spreadsheet detailing all of the locations of the files and their contents?' and the LLM was like 'absolutely no problem, I've created that for you!' and then the user deleted everything at their end and asked the AI where they could retrieve the files saved on the AI's server, and the AI was like 'right here! I'm just downloading it for you now!' and then the user waited, and waited, and waited, and then they asked again, 'where do I download my files?' and the AI was like 'right here! It's coming up!' and the user waited, and waited, and waited, and then posted on Reddit like 'where do I download files on ChatGPT?' and all the commenters were like... oh, friend. Oh no.
For the last goddamn time...
"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."
That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.
It does NOT mean
That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to
The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.
The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.
Good grief....
Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.
yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth
compost your darlings
recycle your darlings
Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

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The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone
âď¸đ¤ itâs because the further you move toward the earthâs poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sunâs radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.
Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesnât get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.
Itâs not the heat. It very literally is the sun.
Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.
And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.
And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.
This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!
adulthood notes:
The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.
The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.
The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.
The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.
The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.
The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.
The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because theyâre hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.
Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?
I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.
And often, they are assholes, too.
It's actually so ideologically important to me that solarpunk aesthetics don't fall into the trap of just being "cottagecore with a bit of technology"
that's true, but we also can't forget that traditional methods of building homes/planning towns do a lot of the right things, even if our ancestors didn't care about solarpunk principles. They use local materials and built houses with the local climate and longevity/ease of maintenance in mind, rather than just caring about how much profit building the house will make them.
I cant help but think of that one video where an African woman (I'm so sorry I don't remember which country she was from, I want to say ghana?) said she was tired of getting online discrimination for living in a "mud hut". She explained that her home was actually very well suited for the local climate and far more comfortable than a "modern" house, and when it needed repairs she didn't have to buy expensive foreign materials to fix it. To me, that's as solarpunk as anything I've seen.
I think where people get confused is that for most of the english speaking internet, the only traditional methods of homebuilding they've ever been exposed to are Northern European stone cottages. It's the usual problem of the modern US/English perspective being incredibly overrepresented in conjunction with the compound effects of hundreds of years of biases around what it means to be 'advanced'.
Modern north american houses suck and people living in them know this deep down, they've just been starved of alternatives in multiple senses -- economically, logistically, culturally, and educationally.

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Scream this is iconicâŚ.
i really love how you can tell how much happier she is
Something to keep in mindâŚ. building muscle is so hard people compete to see who can do it best. If youâre a woman worried about âgetting bulkyâ, i promise you that you cannot achieve that physique by accident. Now go lift weights to increase your bone density & protect yourself from osteoporosis and improve your insulin resistence and eat a fiber + protein dense meal with some carbs to refuel and fat for satiety + energy đŤľ
trans women this goes double for you especially the part about eating 𫵠you are not immune to your bones becoming tapioca in your old age pick up the weights and the fork sister weâre all gonna build our new bodies if i have anything to say about it
Gracie the giraffe is described as having rounded ears. She went missing from a ranch in Real County.
im crying dude
Yeehaw yall. Gracie is on the run.
To answer some common questions in the tags:
1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)
2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.
3. Why does a random guy in Texas have a herd of giraffes? Because it's Texas and we have basically no exotic animal regulations. No really. If you have enough land out in the hill country, you can just own stuff. It's fuckin nuts.
What's sending me is the "described as having rounded ears", as if to distinguish her from other stray giraffes that concerned neighbours might encounter.
I mean given Texas apparently has no exotic animal regulation the fact you might encounter another stray giraffe is low, but not zero.
This year at camp Iâve had to climb high up TWICE to rescue campers from Certain Peril (as perceived by children)
Iâm a little prideful that all the young campers watched me, a 5â woman, be the first and most capable person to volunteer for a physical task in a mixed-gender group of adults. My mom always told me that girls and boys were equally capable, but I wasnât in an environment where I had a lot of models, so now I have to be one.
It happened a third time and I fucking fell
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

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As both a science and English nerd, I love the idea that since Eridians are cosexual (am I using that term right? Let me know), they donât have pronouns indicative of sex or gender but rather state of relation. Like how Rocky says, âfriend Graceâ, he is stating the relation of the subject to him. And taking it further, pronouns of possession, like Rocky talking to another Eridian would refer to Adrian as, âmy Adrianâ, and the other Eridian would refer to Adrian as âyour Adrianâ throughout the conversation. Because the state of relation is that Adrian and Rocky are mates. And that shifts based on whoâs in the conversation when the state of relation to who is present changes. Say Rocky isnât there. Same Eridian, who works with Adrian, talking to another Eridian who works with Adrian. Now itâs, âcoworker Adrianâ or â<job> Adrianâ. Same Eridian talking to another Eridian who doesnât know Adrian at all, and now itâs dependent on the context of the conversation. It could be, âRockyâs Adrianâ or âcoworker Adrianâ. If two states share the individual equally, you get âour Rockyâ for Adrian speaking to Grace.
Now that we have discussed this: I would like you to imagine the first time after Rocky left for Tau Ceti that somebody has the gall to speak of Adrian and Not refer to them as âRockyâs Adrianâ when the context would make that the appropriate way to refer to them. Implying theyâre available now.
I would now like you to imagine Adrien crushing them into a smoldering gritty smear on the ground.
my mutual will post âi just blocked one of my mutualsâ and iâll be reading it on my own dash with my own eyes directly from their blog thinking âit was probably meâŚâŚâŚâŚ.đâ