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I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.

I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face

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if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

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Black Characters and Blushing

entropyalarm said: When describing embarrassment, blushing is typically used as an indicator. I’m white, but I recognize that darker skin tones shouldn’t show blush the same way as lighter tones. My friend, with medium skin, told me it only shows in her nose and ears, felt more as intense heat radiating from her cheeks than a visible color change. What is your insight on handling blushing? I feel this is especially important for proper portrayal of PoCs in romantic situations.

Anonymous said: You’ve written some great advice for describing black characters, but I was wondering whether you have any advice for describing a black character blushing? I have face blindness, so I’m having a lot of trouble with this. (otherwise I could just look up pictures and describe those) So sorry to bother you!

I’m glad you’ve asked. It bothers me how often I’ve heard “Black people don’t blush” which only seems to be another way to dehumanize Black people (and defeminize Black women) for not possessing this base human reaction, even if it’s not always notably visible.

Everybody blushes. Or rather, can blush. It’s the physical act of blood rushing to the face, ears, and other areas of the body; how visible the output doesn’t dictate whether one blushes or not.

While fairness has its part, I think blushing and how visible it is has a lot to do with the individual (some folks have better blood flow) + the undertones within their skin.

I’m going to steal my undertones chart from the Skin Tone Guide here:

As shown above cool skin colors have undertones that mostly fall under red/pink shades.

I’ve seen dark cool-skinned people with naturally rosy cheeks. I can only imagine when they blush, those reddish undertones are emphasized or brightened.

On the other hand, warm skin is usually in the golden, orange spectrum. Not so much reds. Still that doesn’t mean red coloring doesn’t appear on dark warm skin tones.

I have warm medium skin with golden orange undertones, and I definitely get flushed from extrinsic factors, such as if I exercise hard (I turn a berry-red coloring), plus the winter cold pinkens my nose like Rudolph.

I’ve also had friends call me out on blushing, but I can’t tell you exactly how that looks for I’ve never checked a mirror at the time, though I imagine it’s like a slight tinting or an enrichment of the undertones in the skin, brightening them, paired with a “coral to dark red” reddening.

In general, though, it can be redundant to constantly refer to blushing to show shyness or embarrassment with characters of any skin tone. It seems blushing is one of those things that happen more often in stories than daily life. Kinda like green eyes.

For variety, also consider these indicators: 

~Pages from the Emotion Thesaurus, seriously every writer should buy this book 10/10 would recommend.~

To reiterate; dark (cool) skin with red/pink undertones might show blushing more notably than warm skin, as an enhancement of those reddish undertones. 

Dark (warm) skin without red undertones, more “richening” of the undertones with pink to dark reddish coloring as an influence, likely depending on how harshly they’re blushing.

In any case; if you’re describing the blushing from the character’s perspective, it makes more sense to focus on heat and sensation.

Followers, any personal experiences or thoughts?

~Mod Colette

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Fellow incoming college students or parents of college students

I present to you thriftbooks.com

Online renting 4 texts books from my university bookstore came to

I looked the titles up at thriftbooks and lo and behold

One of them was 50$, but considering from the bookstore it was 118$, I'll take it. The other 3 were around 6-10$ each.

When you're done with them, you can sell them back to thriftbooks or even sell them directly back to your college if they do that. Or donate them. Idc

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"How do u know ur ldr isn't cheating on u" his best friend flew him to her country for her birthday (I don't have a passport yet n couldn't go) and this man texts me at 2am their time like "baby I can't sleep can we call but like be mute" and he fell asleep in minutes. That's how.

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extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.

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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

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I love that genre of tumblr post where someone comes up with a fuckass scenario like hey what if there was a root vegetable that dyes your cum purple and stains your skin if someone nuts on you, and it becomes a popular thing and then someone comes up with a lipstick colour that perfectly imitates the same look and for like three weeks it would be the trendiest possible look to wear it because it looks like you just sucked off some slut with novelty colour cum, and everyone who isn't wearing it fucking hates it.

And then someone replies to it with "this is actually pretty much the plot of [one of those old classic animes that you've been meaning to watch at some point but never have] except the guy who invented the lipstick is also doing all of that in order to take over the world because he wants to fuck alien plants" and there's like five replies to that reply going "oh fuck you're right but why did you say it like that."

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I'd never been drunk before. But over the weekend I stayed with my best friend and her gf after we went to pride and a drag show (my first pride, the gfs first drag and pride) we got home and drank. We drank a twelve pack of vodka seltzers and two bottles of wine, no glasses, lips to the bottle. No furniture in the apartment other than a folding table and a futon, we sat in the floor and yapped and laughed until we couldn't breathe and my stomach still hurts. We talked about everything and nothing and cried over our shit home lives and stickers and ice cream and I sent videos and voice notes to my fiance every two seconds about how much I love him and miss him and wish he was there. Thats what life is about. Getting drunk with your friends and laughing until your stomach hurts.

Getting drunk at home with your friends is important for your mental health

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Getting drunk at home with your friends is important for your mental health

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When the illness you have causes symptoms

This isn’t the gif i was looking for but I’m kind of enamored by it. Die white boy

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romance is a type of friendship and im sick of people pretending like they're two seperate categories. your romantic partner is Supposed to also be your friend like at the very least why are we pitting romance AGAINST friendship when they r intertwined???? romantic partners are also friends and u can have romance with ur friends stop acting like these bitches are seperate forces

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Me, age 10, doing an essay on the pharoah’s curse for school: huh. So this archeologist that died and everyone thought it was because he disturbed the pharoah’s tomb actually died because he used a rusty razor to shave and it infected a mosquito bite. I can see how people could come to that conclusion, but it is a bit silly

Me, today, shaving my mosquito bite-ridden legs: I must tread carefully lest I incur the pharoah’s wrath

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We used to dunk on people asking random users on here questions they could’ve googled but now that every single google search gives you an AI generated response it’s actually better for the environment to just ask a random tumblr user and see what they have to say.

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i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

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Two stunning winners ✨️