do you ever form close relationships with people in your dreams and then feel a little sad when you wake up
i had a son in one of my dreams, he was 3 or 4, i loved him so much, i don’t remember his name but i remember loving him so much, and then i woke up and he was gone
Hey um what the FUCk
Just putting this out there to let people know to watch what they post because you can be found and if you think that the government can't do this ...
Well, you better think again!!
Reminder that in 2017 4chan played capture the flag with Shia LaBeouf. Without any kind of a retail store to use for landmarks they got a rough estimate of the flags location from a livestream. They used the position of the sun to narrow it down to a specific time zone, they tracked the flight paths of planes seen flying overhead to further narrow it down. Then someone in the area drove around honking his horn while viewers on the livestream told him if he was getting closer until he found and stole the flag.
A good example of what one person who knows coding can do, and what a mobile group can do.
I can't remember the finer details anymore but there have definitely been cases of famous people's homes being found by fans because of what was seen out the windows in pictures. (I'm specifically remembering an incident with the kpop band DBSK way back in the latest 00s, maybe early 2010s, but I'm sure it will have happened with more recent bands like bts.) Also finding people's homes through comparing the layout and looking at blueprints. Yes most of us will never be famous enough for that, but don't post pictures and videos with lots of content of what's around you if you're at home!
I'm absolutely not an expert but:
- Don't share your view / sightlines out your windows
- Don't give enough information to figure out your house layout.
- Don't share your suburb, your workplace, your uni, etc.
and never share pictures of your keys either, there's only a small set of options for the bumps and it's easy to reproduce keys from a picture.
I see way too many people posting pictures of house keys to celebrate a move and it's never a good idea
supposedly a female streamer was standing facing her street in selfie mode and a stalker found her through the reflection in her eyes. wth
Anyway, don't be the teenager who posted pics of her walk home from school with her little sister and later posted a pic of a letter a friend sent her with the address right there. She was more afraid of people finding her sideblog (which she forgot she had also advertised) than finding her family irl
and definitely do not post vids of secret places you and your friends visit nearby. they will stop being secret and start being a threat
And don't tell people you're home alone! Or your family is going on vacation and the house will be empty! Real life crimes have occurred due to these very mistakes!
Unpopular Opinion: Characters aren’t supposed to be relatable and shouldn’t have to be. Relatability is subjective, not universal.
What they should be is understandable to the audience in the context of their stories!.
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
Might I add:
The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed
The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child
The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship
The adventures of a space roomba
Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)
I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head
hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):
I am in love with you /p
adding the Doctors Without Borders one
I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!
24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children
25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard
26. Haunted house
27. Shark hero was about to go rogue
28. Grandma lives in the woods comic
29. A Different Aftermath comic
30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)
32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay
33. Narrative Town
34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic
35. Robot Apocalypse
36. The Statues That Do Not Weather
37. Kushiel
38. Tooth Fairy
39. Alien abduction
41. When humans met actual space orcs
42. Space cousins
WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD
The Supervillain Wrangler definitely needs to be on this list.
Anonymous asked:
How do you ... break the rules? Except for knowing them first I mean.
heywriters answered:
I generally think of the artist Piet Mondrian as an example of “knowing” before “breaking” the rules.
In order to eventually paint an abstract tree, he first had to practice drawing real trees. As the years progressed and he painted more trees, he got better at showing other people why he enjoyed painting these trees. It wasn’t the color, the detail, or the natural beauty of the tree that he was trying to replicate. It was the negative spaces and the angles that he loved most. It’s not even that he knew where this road was heading when he started down it, it just took a while to refine what he was trying to “say.”
It’s the same with anything. As a baby you know how to cry. As you get older you learn to say “no” and throw a tantrum. Eventually you learn to say “I’m unhappy” or “I don’t like that.” You get older and you learn to say “I don’t like this because…” and figure out how to fix/avoid the problem on your own.
As a writer, you are learning how to speak through fiction and the written word. But just as a baby had to learn how to speak to think on its own, you have to learn how to express what you want before you can hone what you’re thinking and feeling down to that perfectly expressive “painting” that communicates exactly what you mean. By then you are no longer following the “rules” of communication having mastered them until where you know how to b e n d them to say exactly what you want to say.
It’s all about developing your own style. Once you Know the rules, your drive and creativity will play with them to their limits. It just takes a lot of TIME and PRACTICE. Seriously, the answer is just to get really good at it, and also when you’re seasoned people are less likely to tell you you’re doing it wrong because then you can just be all
That’s it. That’s the goal. Become Ron Swanson Level of whatever you’re up to and you will finally be able to “break the rules.”
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So the anxious, overprotective parent in me feels the need to drop a dime.
I cannot say this strongly enough: PROTECT YOUR WORK. Don’t rely on anyone else, or common decency, to do this for you. There is an entire branch of legal practice devoted to arguing about intellectual property (frequently short-handed as IP) rights. If there’s an entire branch of legal practice devoted to arguing about a thing, it means that it’s important (and often, that there’s big money at stake).
A few good strategies to protect your work/IP:
1) KNOW YOUR PLATFORM. Every platform has different rules. Some have more robust IP protection than others. Here are Tumblr’s:
HOWEVER (AND THIS IS IMPORTANT!!): other platforms do not necessarily have the same protections. I regret to say that I have personal experience with this as far as Discord and other DM services go; DM services have almost no protection, even with date/time stamps, while most blogs have protections akin to Tumblr.
2) Put all of your OC–art, writing, whatever–under a Read More tag. This ensures that if you ever choose to delete it, it really disappears from Tumblr, because even people’s reblogs won’t have the text–only a link to an abandoned page.
3) Limit how much OC you share. I know, this is Writeblr, sharing is kind of the point. What I mean is, don’t share long, continuous chunks of text. I’ve learned over time to keep it to 1-2 pages (~300-800 words).
4) This one is a kick in the head, and I’m sorry: there are people who have no qualms or scruples about stealing the hard work of others. The law of averages dictates that some of them are on Writeblr. My life experience outside of Writeblr tells me that wolves wear sheep’s clothing, and I see no reason to expect that would be any different here.
Be safe, my darling creators.
This is really so very important and so good of you to share, @typewriter-jade
Unfortunately all of the above is very true and the advice shared is probably the best advice you’ll get for keeping your stuff as safe as possible.
Please do take the time to ensure that you work out a plan for how you want to share your writing. It took me a while to find a process / plan that works for me and makes me feel comfortable about sharing my writing.
That readmore tip is excellent!
I’m serious. It doesn’t. Go ahead. Your characters can find true love in just a second. They can knock down a thousand henchmen before reaching the Big Boss. They can wield unlimited powers. They can turn out the be The One.
Is it unrealistic? Probably. Is it fun? Yes.
It’s fiction. It doesn’t need to be realistic.
But.
I don’t mean “You’re not supposed to do X in this society.” I mean rules that describe reality, not prescribe it. Rules that are as inescapably tied to your story’s reality as gravity is tied to ours.
That may very well be. I enjoy reading the The One trope just as much as the next person. But just know that if you break your own rules, your reader may feel cheated.
So you need to do it well.
If you have established certain rules and you create an exception, you have to make it believable that the rule has an exception.
Well, take The Matrix for example. (Spoilers ahead, obviously.)
Neo is the exception. What is the rule? The rule isn’t that the Matrix exists. All the rebels know that. The rule is that no-one can manipulate reality. Jesus. Obviously no-one can manipulate reality. Do you take us for idiots? And then one guy shows up who can.
Why do we accept the existence of this one individual? Along with Neo, we are gradually led to realize it. Trinity believes he is the One. But what does she know anyway? Morpheus believes it too. Morpheus, as a mentor figure, has more authority, so we start to believe it. Neo doesn’t, not entirely, not yet. And then we start to see it, slowly, with ups and downs. There is a training session, a breakthrough moment, a failure, people around him start to doubt, but some keep faith. The Oracle says Neo may become the One, but isn’t the One yet. It’s only during the finale of the movie that Neo truly becomes the One.
The character arc from Thomas Andersen to Neo to the One is the whole story arc of the movie. It’s done slowly and well-executed.
I’m gonna make one up, because I’m a kind person, I don’t want to drag other people down. But we’ve all read books with heroes like the one I’m going to describe.
The hero is a teen or just a regular guy. Nothing special. They come into their powers, or start training, or… Within a few months/years/chapters they surpass the level of their mentor/teacher/champion/authority figure, who’s been doing this for at least 112 years. No need to think this is weird, reader. This character is the One, remember? I showed you the Legend that foretells his arrival in chapter 2.
While the character arc in the Matrix is done slowly, this fictitious bad example is done within the scope of a few chapters. Quickly level-up the character, so that we can get to “the real story”. And that’s the mistake.
So, next time a reader tells you something is unrealistic, they mean it’s unbelievable within the reality of your story. You don’t necessarily need to cut it. Go back and fix it.
I hope this was helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions, and happy writing!
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{video description: a man standing in front of an abstract painting in-progress.
"One time I told a friend that I enjoy painting, and his response was, 'Oh yeah? Are you any good?' "
And I was stymied in the moment, and I just today realized why.
Pretend instead of painting, I had said, 'I really enjoy going on walks.'
And then he had responded, 'Oh, are you a pretty skilled walker?'
What?! That doesn't follow. People go on walks to feel good not to be good. Not everything is about improvement or skill.
If i wanted to be good at painting I'd have to worry about composition, color theory, texture...taking care of my tools instead of just dumping them into a milk jug of water that I never rinse out.
I'm bored just listing that sh*t, let alone doing it.
If I had to be good, I would quit.
I paint because it takes me out of myself. The end result doesn't even really matter.
I'm sure some of you relate. That's why we get along. Thanks for listening, see you tomorrow!"
via @ abrahampiper on Tiktok}
You guys know how to travel in a car with your canes, right? You know where to put them so they don’t kill you in an accident? You’re not just holding them on your lap?
For the record they go under your feet or under the seat. That’s the safest place for them except the trunk. Pls don’t let your mobility aid kill you in a freak accident
I’ve been driving with my cane wrong the entire time 😃
If this post saves even just one (1) person from ending up with a broken jaw/face/windshield I will be happy tbh
Nobody deserves to have to deal with maxillofacial surgeons or worse…. auto glass repair shops
I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for
ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:
