whenever my program freezes
Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post
i love these two characters. i need to trap them in a collapsed building so they can talk about their feelings as one of them slowly bleeds out.
I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again
To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.
They are literally cutting off library access to minors.
If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:
BOOOOOST
The best advice really is to just write. Write badly - purple prose, stilted conversations, rambling descriptions. Don’t delete it, pass go, take your $200, save all your garbage in a big folder. Look at how much you’ve made - it doesn’t matter if it isn’t perfect, isn’t polished, it was practice. Every time you write you learn a little more, and find another piece of your voice.
“If you’re only going to write when you’re inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you will never be a novelist — because you’re going to have to make your word count today, and those words aren’t going to wait for you, whether you’re inspired or not. So you have to write when you’re not “inspired.” … And the weird thing is that six months later, or a year later, you’re going to look back and you’re not going to remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you wrote because they had to be written.”
- Neil Gaiman
this made me realize i was literally just using inspiration as an excuse to procrastinate
me sitting here today thinking how much i don’t want to finish off the kidfic sequel bc wehhhhhhhh getting slapped in the face with this post
‘WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.’
— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (quoted in this tumblr post here)
‘Writing tip of the day: it is perfectly acceptable, when working on a scene that vexes you, to write “DUMBEST VERSION” along the top of the page and start from there.
As I, a human who has been writing professionally for 25 years, just did.
Give yourself permission to suck.‘
— John Rogers (on his twitter here)
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
I can’t believe the Voltron crisis lasted only two years. Seven seasons in two years. Deranged. Awful time to be online. PEAK shipping discourse. And the evil is defeated.
I understand the confusion in the notes yes the nightmare was incredibly short lived and yet it felt eternal
Fellow ADHDers, how do you stay adequately hydrated?
Fellow ADHDers, how do you remember to drink enough water to stay hydrated?
I have no problems remembering to drink enough water to stay hydrated.
I don't.
I have a trick that works for me (please tell me, I'm begging you)
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okay, so plain water makes my mouth feel dry.
And because of the diabeetus, I'm on a very very low carb diet, but because I have a history of blood clots, I'm not comfortable using erythritol until more science gets done about it.
And I recently had kidney stones (if your diet is like 50% almond based and you are trying to up your salt levels for POTS you may need to change some part of that equation to avoid making calcium oxalate stones) so I *need* fluids.
When I get up, I get a quart jar and put the following things in it:
1 oz lemon juice (i buy pure lemon juice, not from concentrate, no preservatives because allergies, by the quart)
1/4 teaspoon powdered stevia extract. This is very very concentrated, it's the sweetness of like 32 grams of sugar.
1/8 teaspoon of "lite salt" which is a blend of sodium and potassium chloride.
And I fill the jar with filtered water.
This makes a light, moderately sweet, moderately tart lemonade which drinks easy. I might have a nectarine with breakfast and drop the pit in to give it a nectarine-y flavor, or a couple berries, or whatever. I usually drink half of it with my morning meds and the other half with my first meal of the day.
Sometime about 6 hours later, I make another one. And I drink half of that when I make it and half of that with my nighttime meds. I might have something else to drink in there, and I do eat fresh fruit, and sometimes I get a third one in if I'm hot that day.
The lite salt helps keep my potassium up and makes it taste wetter.
So we've got a combination of lumping the process into other things and making sure that this is easy to make (I have a dedicated pair of shot glasses and also measuring spoons that stick to the fridge that only get used for my lemonade) and making sure it is easy to drink. I keep straws around. Life is too short to avoid drinking because I don't want to spill on my chin.