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Greetings, Tumblr! Something to report!

Sorry for the delay everyone but I'm hosting an art raffle to celebrate the anniversary of this blog being active! I started this blog up in January last year and it's been genuinely such a wonderful experience so here's my gift back to you all! As I've done before: You can get up to three 'tickets' by commenting (only one comment will be valid per person), reblogging, and liking this post! Whatever adds a note counts since I'll be using the note number to help me set up the raffle wheel. Following me won't count as another entry into the raffle but it's still very appreciated!!!

The prize for this raffle is a profile icon or chibi art, just like last time! I'll draw OCs or canon characters, Fire Emblem or not, and I'll contact the winner in the New Year. I will also post the finished prize art to my main blog and reblog it here unless the winner wants to keep their prize private. Also, it would be a huge help if you guys could fill out my feedback form here! I want to hear if there's anything I can improve on going into next year with how I handle my birthday posting O7 Thank you so much for this awesome year and happy holidays everyone!!!!!

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Just a piece of traditional art I was happy with, I really enjoy the Flinx in terraria, I find them just really adorable and they’re always a pick up for me during my summoner runs. I thought I might make a bit of artwork celebrating them (and the winter season)

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Eyes

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When the guy your mom is into marries the amnesic twink he found passed out in the fucking grass so you have to bag their daughter to make up for it

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Ignore me rebloging this to have it for later.

How to Nail your School Essays

                Not to brag, but I’m kind of a big deal when it comes to essays at my school. Since I started highschool I haven’t received a grade less than 90% on an essay—so I’m here to share my secret. This works for the classic essay, but you can also use the same advice and fit it to formal reports or other academic writing.

1. Your essay is about 2 things, demonstrated 3 or more times

This is how I’ve always thought about essays. They’re about two ideas, demonstrated as many times as you need to fill the wordcount. Shakespeare + Feminism, Media + Truth versus Misconception, etc. etc. If you’re lucky, your teacher or prof will give you one of your elements. You’ll get assignments like, “write an essay about Hamlet” or “write an essay about the American dream” lucky you, that’s your first thing—now you need to connect it with another.

This connecting idea is my favourite part because you just get to choose a concept or idea you’re interested in. Here’s a tip, if your first/given topic is something concrete, choose an abstract connecting idea. If your given topic is something abstract, choose a concrete.

So, Hamlet (concrete) could be paired with any abstract concept: Loyalty, Truth, Feminism, etc.

However, if your prof gives you something like, “truth” or “race theory”, you’ll find it much easier to connect that with a more concrete thing, like a book, movie, or other piece of media, or even a specific person.

If you are luckiest, your prof will give you both things, “write about the American Dream in The Great Gatsby” in this case, you’re onto the next stage.

2. Stick to the formula

Tried, tested, true. Nothing wrong with a formula, especially not when it gives you A+ grades. Typical essay structure is:

Intro with thesis

2. 1st Body

2a. Evidence that proves it 1

2i. Justify its relevance

2b. Evidence that proves it 2

2ii. Justify its relevance

Etc.

3. 2nd Body

3a. Evidence that proves it

3i.Justification

Etc.

4. 3rd Body

4a. Rise and repeat, you know where this is going.

5. Some may argue…

6. Conclusion

Let’s break it down.

Thesis:

                Thesis completely outlines all your points, or the three+ places you’re demonstrating your connection, and why it matters.

                Here is an intro + thesis I wrote a couple years ago:

“This literature review will explore the impacts influencer marketing has on the children that regularly consume social media content. Specifically, this review will focus on how influencers can impact children’s brand preferences, dietary choices, and lastly, the influx of children taking advantage of this system and becoming influencers themselves.”

Or

“Burned discusses the human aspect of sex work and reverses reader’s expectations on sex workers, while Not in My Neighbourhood discusses prostitutes as victims of a system created against them. Both challenge readers’ perceptions of sex workers, effectively drawing attention to the ethics of displacing sex workers from their cities.”

                So you have your connection (children and social media)/(Burned and Not in My Neighbourhood and sex work), and the different ways you plan on exploring or proving that idea (children’s brand preferences, dietary choices, children becoming influencers.) etc.

                You may also have a more specific stance in your thesis. Such as, “In Macbeth, ambition is shown to be Macbeth’s ultimate downfall in these three ways.”

The Body Paragraphs

                You start out every body paragraph with the point of the paragraph, or what it’s aiming to prove. Such as, “Influencers often include advertisements within their content, which can encourage children to feel more amiably to certain brands their favourite content creators endorse frequently more than others.”

                After this claim, you spend the rest of the paragraph further proving it through examples. This will look like citing a specific source (a book, academic journal, quote, etc.) such as, “The authors claim likeable influencers can associate their likeability with the products they use, influencing children’s perception of brands, referred to as ‘meaning transfer’ (De Veirman et al. 2019)” (super important to always cite these sources!)

                The last part is after each example/proof--you need to justify why this proves your point/is important. So, “This proves children are more influenced towards certain products depending on how close of a relationship they perceive to have with the influencer.”

                Typically, your evidence will all lead into each other so you can transition to the next piece of proof, then the justification, rinse and repeat until you’re finished your paragraph. You can have as many pieces of evidence as you want per paragraph, and the longer your word requirement, the more you’ll want to fit into each point (or the more bodies you want to have.)

                Piece of evidence + why it matters, rinse and repeat.

Some May Argue:

                This is a small paragraph just before your conclusion where you anticipate an argument your readers may have, and disprove it. So, for example, you’d start with, “Some may argue that with parent supervision, the impacts of influencers on children could be lessened or moot. However…” and then explain why they’re wrong. This strengthens your argument, and proves that you’ve really thought out your stance.

Conclusion:

                Lastly, you want to sum up all the conclusions you came to in a few sentences. Your last line is one of the most important (in my opinion). I call it the mic drop moment. Leaving a lasting impact on your reader can bring your essay from an A to an A+, so you really want to nail this final sentence.

                My final sentence was, “Ultimately, it is hard to know in advance how technology and social media will impact the development of children who have always grown up with some form of screen, but until they grow up, parents and caregivers need to take care in the content their children consume, and their very possible exploitation online.”

This sentence is backed by the entirety of the essay that came before it, and usually leaves a little something to chew on for the readers.

Any other tips I missed?

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Fuck it, I’m booping everyone I come across. Nothing can stop me as I scroll…

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Okay hear me out: we have a night inwhich we do the exact opposite of the purge, everyone has to be the most chivalrous, polite, responsible people you’ve ever seen. Constant strings of “after you” and people going so far out of their way. Until everything goes into chaos. The *insert governmental office* is overrun by overly polite and elegant handwritten complains about the state of the nation. People have truly peaceful protest to the point of pure horror.

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i can describe a character’s eye color for two paragraphs but can’t describe my own feelings in therapy

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List of Interesting Latin Phrases

A list I made just to satisfy my vain cravings for resonating mottos for a secret society I'm working on. Enjoy!

abi in malam crucem: to the devil with you!

ad astra per ardua: to the star by steep paths

ad augusta per angusta: to honors through difficulties

aegis fortissima virtus: virue is the strongest shield

amor vincit amnia: love conquers all things

animo et fide: by courage and faith

arbitrium est judicium: an award is a judgement

aut mors aut victoria: either death or victory

aut vincere aut mori: either victory or death

bello ac pace paratus: prepared in war and peace

bibamus, moriendum est: let us drink, death is certain (Seneca and Elder)

bonis omnia bona: all things are good to the good

cede nullis: yield to no one

cito maturum, cito putridum: soon ripe, soon rotten

consensus facit legem: consent makes law

data fata secutus: following what is decreed by fate (Virgil)

durum telum necessitas: necessity is a hrad weapson

dux vitae ratio: reason is the guide of life

e fungis nati homines: men born of mushrooms

ego sum, ergo omnia sunt: I am, therefore all things are

pulvis et umbra sumus: we are but dust and shadow

quae amissa salva: things lost are safe

timor mortis morte pejor: the fear of death is worse than death

triumpho morte tam vita: I triumph in death as in life

tu vincula frange: break your chains

vel prece vel pretio: for either love or for money

verbera, sed audi: whip me, but hear me

veritas temporis filia: truth is the daughter of time

vero nihil verius: nothing is truer than the truth

vestigia nulla restrorsum: foosteps do not go backward

victus vincimus: conquered, we conquer (Plautus)

sica inimicis: a gger to his enemies

sic vita humana: thus is human life

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Reference: <Latin for the Illiterati: a modern guide to an ancient language> by Jon R. Stone, second edition, 2009

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Hi, This is just something for those who follow me (the few that there are, I love you. Thank you for liking my stuff) I will be turning this account into more of a “main account” for two side blogs (that of Nyms-Corner/Nyms Pixel Cornerstore where I’ll post my artwork, and nyms-fanfic-corner where I’ll be posting my fanfic and stuff. I’m gonna try and be more active (I completely forgot to post the rest of pixeltimber, oops) and from now on will be taking suggestions for either of those two categories. This account will remain with slight rebranding to s different one of my pseudo-nyms (my main one in fact, that being of Nym, instead of Starfall)

Expect posts on this account to be me reposting stuff I found funny, cool, silly, or artwork of characters I like (sometimes all of the above) or posting my own things I found to be in one of those categories Cato (-artwork, go check out My Cornerstore for that) have a great rest of your night people and stay safe!

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So like that artwork I did and mentioned I could theoretically animate it…i animated it…and here it is! (Still in the 3ds FE style)

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I figured out the 3ds FE style of pixel art, Twas a fun project. Might design more. (Tagged as FE awakening as that’s the specific game I studied the battle sprites from), I also set up body parts for this drawing, meaning I could animate it. (theoretically)

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Day four of pixel timer, apologies for the delay, there was a fire in my town and all power went off yesterday. I’ll have day 5 here soon!

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Just my sketches for today. Being that of a

1. One of those star truck things that hate the Clintons

2. That one ship from that one Nintendo game about the weird pink slime. Gosh I forget what it was? Galaxy shooter? Idk

3. A…I think it’s called a gazer? Idk I’m not a nerd who plays…what was it? Dinosaurs attacking Dimples? Eh idk.

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Day 3 of pixiltember, “sweet”. So I made three different ones of 8x8, 16x16 and 32x32 sizes. Trying to learn how important singular pixels are during pixel artwork.