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My Blog is strictly Anti Generative AI
I use no Generative AI to write for me.
I use no Generative AI to create images for me.
I do not wish to write with people who actively use Generative AI.
If you write with me, you won't ever have to fear any AI being used to doing my replies for you. I will not feed your writing to ChatGPT and the like, and I would appreciate it if you don't feed my writing to any kind of Generative AI either. You do not have my consent to do so.
If I reblog AI images/text or use images for aesthetics/graphics that were originally generated without realizing, please let me know. Generative AI images have infiltrated Pinterest and other sites so much, it can be hard to tell sometimes.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share.
Anne Rice, from the forward to a collection of Franz Kafka's Short Stories
I'm tired of everything I love being repackaged, dumbed down, watered down and sold back to me this time with advertisements all while everyone says LOOK ITS THE SAME THING DONT YOU LIKE IT? THESE PEOPLE, WHO WERE NOT THERE FOR THE ORIGINAL THING ALL LIKE IT! ITS THE SAME! IN FACT ITS BETTER! ISNT THIS WHAT YOU LIKE? EVERYONE ELSE LIKES IT!!
no. I do not WANT your pet semetary version of The Thing. I want the Original Thing, with the people who loved the Original Thing , and engaged with it in a genuinely subculture way. I do not want the sharp edges of Thing filed off for mass consumption and then MERCHED AT ME.
She was many things but most of all, she was a mother.
She can be good.
Agatha All Along (2024)

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Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness
"The No Kings rallies don't REALLY do anything" Cool. Do you know what message it sends to the people in power if less and less people are showing up to protest their actions? Cause let me tell you, it's not "More people are going to do other things instead". It's "the American public is slowly getting used to our regime and we should keep it up until they wear out".
Because if you can't stand next to people for a couple of hours chanting and waving signs, you aren't gonna be doing anything that would actually disrupt the regime. Protests aren't "permitted dissent". They're that ankle bar that you have to step over where it's not impressive if you do it, but it's really indicative if you can't even manage that much.
Consider: print up materials about other issues and actions, and information about how and where to get involved (community fridge, bail support fund, custody release watch, etc etc) and hand it out at the No Kings protests. These are people who are UPSET and they are ANGRY at the things the regime is doing. They are energized enough to mobilize to a protest, often with a group, often getting together for sign making beforehand. Give them a hand with the next step: sustained and sustaining ways to resist, reverse, and repeal the harms/actions of the regime.
#also as someone who is actively part of doing activism outside of this stuff and community work#I donât ever see the âno kings rallies are just paradesâ folks at the food distros#or at the detention centers helping families waiting to see their loved ones#giving to fundraisers#do you know your neighbors?#these protests are great ways to get to know your communities#AND to meet the orgs doing work in your communities#I joined the groups Iâm in cause I met them AT NO KINGS
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The purpose of demonstrations is To Demonstrate.
Demonstrations are just one tool in a greater resistance movement.
If one is activated beyond the level of demonstrating only, that is good.
But not everyone is, and demonstrations are a way to further activate and onboard newcomers to a resistance movement.
There's a place for people who are a little more activated (not necessarily the most activated in a resistance movement who may be traveling or tending to higher level state or national organizing) to attend a local demonstration to pass the word to others about further local resistance efforts.
For example, I've found information online easily about national level organizing or resistance in other states and counties, but I actually don't know who is safe or actively involved in resistance or mutual aid in my immediate local area, so events that have local events within a larger movement can help us find our people.
Maybe I'm that person for someone? I have no idea if I don't go.
Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.
wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees
Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.
Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com
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u know the ship is good when one of them is dead
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"thought crimes aren't real, it's your actions that matter" and "your mindset informs how you treat others, so you should try not to have a shitty one" are another pair of things that are both true btw
Might be moving this character to a multi muse account.
âHA!!!! Jokeâs on you, bitch, Iâm La Muerta herself.â The tar-haired witch cackles truly with abandon, shrieks of cold merciless laughter. It somehow suits her skintight, forlorn and mossy smelling gown, green accented in frostbite black. The color cracks and webs black widow style from her clawed fingers and up her slender arms.
âDeath, buddy boy! Arenât you fortunate to always be near me but just outside my reach?â
âLa what?â Zukoâs brow scrunches, eyes fixing a scrutinizing stare on the spirit calling herself death. âLook, Iâm just here to drag an idiot from the fog of lost souls,â he started to walk again, focused on the task at hand, on avenging Yue.
âThe spirit world is big. Iâm sure youâll find someone else to help you with⌠whatever.â
The Green Witchâs hands rest akimbo in her hips. She gnaws contemplativelt, a heckler at an open-air market, at Zukoâs brush-off.
âYeah?â
âWhich idiot? I might be omnipotent and bored.â

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"Fine. I'll avenge you or whatever."
âHA!!!! Jokeâs on you, bitch, Iâm La Muerta herself.â The tar-haired witch cackles truly with abandon, shrieks of cold merciless laughter. It somehow suits her skintight, forlorn and mossy smelling gown, green accented in frostbite black. The color cracks and webs black widow style from her clawed fingers and up her slender arms.
âDeath, buddy boy! Arenât you fortunate to always be near me but just outside my reach?â
The Neurodivergent Writerâs Guide to Fun and Productivity
(Even when life beats you down)
Look, Iâm a mom, I have ADHD, Iâm a spoonie. To say that I donât have heaps of energy to spare and I struggle with consistency is an understatement. For years, I tried to write consistently, but I couldnât manage to keep up with habits I built and deadlines I set.
So fuck neurodivergent guides on building habits, fuck âeat the frog firstâ, fuck âitâs all in the grindâ, and fuck âyou just need time managementââhere is how I manage to write often and a lot.
Focus on having fun, not on the outcome
This was the groundwork I had to lay before I could even start my streak. At an online writing conference, someone said: âIf you push yourself and meet your goals, and you publish your book, but you havenât enjoyed the process⌠Whatâs the point?â and hoo boy, that question hit me like a truck.
I was so caught up in the narrative of âYouâve got to show up for whatâs importantâ and âPush through if you really want to get it doneâ. For a few years, I used to read all these productivity books about grinding your way to success, and along the way I started using the same language as they did. And I notice a lot of you do so, too.
But your brain doesnât like to grind. No-oneâs brain does, and especially no neurodivergent brain. If having to write gives you stress or if you put pressure on yourself for not writing (enough), your brainâs going to say: âHuh. Writing gives us stress, weâre going to try to avoid it in the future.â
So before I could even try to write regularly, I needed to teach my brain once again that writing is fun. I switched from countable goals like words or time to non-countable goals like âfunâ and âflowâ.
Rewire my brain: writing is fun and Iâm good at it
I used everything I knew about neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences. These are some of the things I did before and during a writing session. Usually not all at once, and after a while I didnât need these strategies anymore, although I sometimes go back to them when necessary.
I journalled all the negative thoughts I had around writing and try to reason them away, using arguments I knew in my heart were true. (The last part is the crux.) Imagine being supportive to a writer friend with crippling insecurities, only the friend is you.
Not setting any goals didnât work for meâI still nurtured unwanted expectations. So I did set goals, but made them non-countable, like âhave funâ, âget in the flowâ, or âwriteâ. Did I write? Yes. Success! Your brain doesnât actually care about how high the goal is, it cares about meeting whatever goal you set.
I didnât even track how many words I wrote. Not relevant.
I set an alarm for a short time (like 10 minutes) and forbade myself to exceed that time. The idea was that if I write until I run out of mojo, my brain learns that writing drains the mojo. If I write for 10 minutes and have fun, my brain learns that writing is fun and wants to do it again.
Reinforce the fact that writing makes you happy by rewarding your brain immediately afterwards. You know what works best for you: a walk, a golden sticker, chocolate, cuddle your dog, whatever makes you happy.
I conditioned myself to associate writing with specific stimuli: that album, that smell, that tea, that place. Any stimulus can work, so pick one you like. I consciously chose several stimuli so I could switch them up, and the conditioning stays active as long as I donât muddle it with other associations.
Use a ritual to signal to your brain that Writing Time is about to begin to get into the zone easier and faster. I guess this is a kind of conditioning as well? Meditation, music, lighting a candle⌠Pick your stimulus and stick with it.
Specifically for rewiring my brain, I started a new WIP that had no emotional connotations attached to it, nor any pressure to get finished or, heaven forbid, meet quality norms. I donât think these techniques above would have worked as well if I had applied them on writing my novel.
It wasnât until I could confidently say I enjoyed writing again, that I could start building up a consistent habit. No more pushing myself.
I lowered my definition for success
When I say that nowadays I write every day, thatâs literally it. I donât set out to write 1,000 or 500 or 10 words every day (tried it, failed to keep up with it every time)âthe only marker for success when it comes to my streak is to write at least one word, even on the days when my brain goes ânaaahhhâ. On those days, it suffices to send myself a text with a few keywords or a snippet. Itâs not âsuccess on a technicality (derogatory)â, because most of those snippets and ideas get used in actual stories later. And if they donât, they donât. Itâs still writing. No writing is ever wasted.
A side note on high expectations, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism
Obviously, âSetting a ridiculously low goalâ isnât something I invented. I actually got it from those productivity books, only I never got it to work. I used to tell myself: âItâs okay if I donât write for an hour, because my goal is to write for 20 minutes and if I happen to keep going for, say, an hour, thatâs a bonus.â Right? So I set the goal for 20 minutes, wrote for 35 minutes, and instead of feeling like I exceeded my goal, I felt disappointed because apparently I was still hoping for the bonus scenario to happen. I didnât know how to set a goal so low and believe it.
I think the trick to making it work this time lies more in the groundwork of training my brain to enjoy writing again than in the fact that my daily goal is ridiculously low. I believe Iâm a writer, because I prove it to myself every day. Every success I hit reinforces the idea that Iâm a writer. Itâs an extra ward against imposter syndrome.
Knowing that I can still come up with a few lines of dialogue on the Really Bad Daysâdays when I struggle to brush my teeth, the day when I had a panic attack in the supermarket, or the day my kid got hit by a carâteaches me that I can write on the mere Bad-ish Days.
The more I do it, the more I do it
The irony is that setting a ridiculously low goal almost immediately led to writing more and more often. The most difficult step is to start a new habit. After just a few weeks, I noticed that I needed less time and energy to get into the zone. I no longer needed all the strategies I listed above.
Another perk I noticed, was an increased writing speed. After just a few months of writing every day, my average speed went from 600 words per hour to 1,500 wph, regularly exceeding 2,000 wph without any loss of quality.
Talking about quality: I could see myself becoming a better writer with every passing month. Writing better dialogue, interiority, chemistry, humour, descriptions, whatever: they all improved noticeably, and I wasnât a bad writer to begin with.
The increased speed means I get more done with the same amount of energy spent. I used to write around 2,000-5,000 words per month, some months none at all. Nowadays I effortlessly write 30,000 words per month. I didnât set out to write more, itâs just a nice perk.
Look, Iâm not saying you should write every day if it doesnât work for you. My point is: the more often you write, the easier it will be.
No pressure
Yes, Iâm still working on my novel, but Iâm not racing through it. I produce two or three chapters per month, and the rest of my time goes to short stories my brain keeps projecting on the inside of my eyelids when Iâm trying to sleep. I might as well write them down, right?
These short stories started out as self-indulgence, and even now that I take them more seriously, they are still just for me. I donât intend to ever publish them, no-one will ever read them, they can suck if they suck. The unintended consequence was that my short stories are some of my best writing, because thereâs no pressure, itâs pure fun.
Does it make sense to spend, say, 90% of my output on stories no-one else will ever read? Wouldnât it be better to spend all that creative energy and time on my novel? Well, yes. If you find the magic trick, let me know, because I havenât found it yet. The short stories donât cannibalize on the novel, because they require different mindsets. If I stopped writing the short stories, I wouldnât produce more chapters. (I tried. Maybe in the future? Fingers crossed.)
Donât wait for inspiration to hit
Thereâs a quote by Picasso: âInspiration hits, but it has to find you working.â I strongly agree. Writing is not some mystical, muse-y gift, itâs a skill and inspiration does exist, but usually itâs brought on by doing the work. So just get started and inspiration will come to you.
Accountability and community
Having social factors in your toolbox is invaluable. I have an offline writing friend I take long walks with, I host a monthly writing club on Discord, and I have another group on Discord that holds me accountable every day. They all motivate me in different ways and itâs such a nice thing to share my successes with people who truly understand how hard it can be.
The productivity books taught me that if you want to make a big change in your life or attitude, surrounding yourself with people who already embody your ideal or your goal huuuugely helps. The fact that I have these productive people around me who also prioritize writing, makes it easier for me to stick to my own priorities.
Your toolbox
The idea is to have several techniques at your disposal to help you stay consistent. Donât put all your eggs in one basket by focussing on just one technique. Keep all of them close, and if one stops working or doesnât inspire you today, pivot and pick another one.
After a while, most âtoolsâ run in the background once they are established. Things like surrounding myself with my writing friends, keeping up with my daily streak, and listening to the album I conditioned myself with donât require any energy, and they still remain hugely beneficial.
Do you have any other techniques? Iâd love to hear about them!
I hope this was useful. Happy writing!