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This high school drumline’s incredible performance included only drumstick

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Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers

As described by Selnick’s article:

Author and doctor of clinical psychology Carolyn Kaufman has released a one-page body language cheat sheet of psychological “tells” (PDF link) fiction writers can use to dress their characters.

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The curious dance moves of the Striped Cuckoo.

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real talk something i have to keep learning and i think a lot of you guys are like me: your friends shouldnt be intimidating. if you see all of your friends chillin in a discord vc, dont just sit there and think damn they are all hanging out without me theyre playing games without me they dont want to talk to me. just join the vc homie. if they didnt want you to talk to them they would privatly call. if u wanna play a gane and nobody has asked u to play a game that just means u can be the one to ask to play a game. a majority of the time ur friends are not sitting there thinking about how much they dont want to hang out with you

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chip while the werehog’s fighting enemies:

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The internet experience…..

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Imagine if the garbage celebs who made that “Imagine” song cover had put half as much effort into their singing as these pro stunt artists put into their own quarantine content: a fight scene performed by over a dozen stunt artists, remotely.

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Listen… Twitter is currently aflame with ace discourse the likes of which has only just finished burning its way through Tumblr, and I have absolutely no time for that reductive anti queer lib gatekeeping whatsoever, so to all my ace followers, firstly: you are cool and rad and you all have great hair, and secondly, here is are a few ace books that you can lob at the heads of acephobes (this is not an exhaustive list, just the best ones I know of):

Hearts Tolstoy - Kathryn Ormsbee. A YA novel about Tash, who, as the title suggests, loves Tolstoy. When her web series goes viral, one of her online heroes reaches out to her, but she’s not sure how he’ll deal with her asexuality. This book is hilarious and just great.

Ace and Proud: An Asexual Anthology - A.K. Andrews. This is an anthology of 17 essays by asexual people, covering various facets of the ace experience. It’s a pretty short book at just over 100 pages so a good primer for anyone who wants to understand or feel less alone. 

Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe. A graphic novel memoir about the author growing into eir nonbinary ace identity. It brilliantly explores the reductive nature of binary thinking and is one of those books that’s expansive, illuminating and necessary (all the big words.) 

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann. A YA novel about a girl whose gf dumps her when she comes out as ace, and how she tries to cope with her crush on a boy when she’s already been rejected for her sexuality. It illuminates so much of the ace experience and is just excellent. 

The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality - Julie Decker. Essentially a primer on asexuality, this covers so many bases - misconceptions about what asexuality is, how acephobia/aphobia manifests, how the ace spectrum works. A great resource for further understanding.

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so no one is going to talk about the time dostoyevsky said “and i seem to have such strength in me now, that i think i could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘i exist.’ in thousands of agonies- i exist. i’m tormented on the rack- but i exist! though i sit alone in a pillar- i exist! i see the sun, and if i don’t see the sun, i know it’s there. and there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.” because hOly fuckkkk

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Another young black woman dead. Drive by shooting. I fucking hate this world.

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24 LGBT+ Books by Black Authors

I’m seeing a lot of the same books on my dash, so I spent a few hours researching some lesser-known books. These books fall across a variety of genres and age group. 

Ways you can help

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I’ll never ignore how people slept on Janelle Monae’s entire career for Doja Cat. Clownery. That’s clownery luv.

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FLAWED DICE GIVEAWAY

Hey guys! So I’ve been trying to cast dice and have some very pretty results but nowhere near selling quality or anything. I have a pressure pot on the way, but lots of people have expressed interest in the sets I’ve made so far so I’m doing a little giveaway! 

This giveaway will go from WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10

I’m giving away one set here, and one set on Twitter! For seeing their shininess in action, you can view the vid I posted of the Tumblr set  d20 here, and the vid I posted of the Twitter set d20 here!

These dice are imperfect!  They have micro-bubbles on the surface of some, maybe not the best inking, maybe a chipped corner, but every die in the set is functional and rollable! 

THE RULES: -Likes are awesome, but only Reblogs will be counted. Multiple reblogs will count multiple times! Do NOT spam reblog, however. It is annoying to everyone involved. -You must be following this blog at the time of winner selection! -No giveaway blogs! I will be checking! -Please have messages or asks open so I can alert you if you’ve won! If I don’t hear back from you in 48 hours, I will generate a new winner! -One winner will be selected via Random.Org on June 10th 

If you have a twitter, be sure to check out my other giveaway for that dice set as well! :D 

Good luck and thank you guys for the OVERWHELMING Support and enthusiasm as I begin my dice-making journey!  

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