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i’ll say it a hundred times because some of you need to hear it a hundred times but the trick to liking yourself again is learning new skills and hobbies or returning to ones you had. it makes you so confident learning new shit all the time.

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Speaking as a survivor of child sex abuse: the world would be a lot better if yall spent less time talking about the ways in which pedophiles should be punished and more time supporting survivors and preventing abuse

I get it, punishment can feel cathartic. I’ve certainly spent time imagining all the ways in which my own abuser might be punished. But ultimately, him dying, or being jailed, or publicly shamed, isn’t actually going to help me nor will it stop more kids from getting hurt in the future.

I don’t want more prisoners. I want free therapy with trauma informed counselors. I want better sex education for young children that teaches them about consent and body autonomy. And I want a society in which I can openly discuss my trauma, or at least as openly as yall discuss the evils of pedophiles

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Im kinda trying to make my own reference sheet for how I want to draw maomao's various outfits and I'm looking at this Shino Touko design for the garden party outfit

I think it's really cute that the pendant on her necklace is a leaf since the 葉 in gyokuyou means leaf

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i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

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And so they came, at a friend's behest. To Ishgard, shining city on the mount, overlooking the dominion of Coerthas... A land that after a thousand years of war had forgotten what it meant to be at peace. 

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Heavensward.

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Iceheart - Jun.2025

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hi hi! do you have any editing tips/anything from your own editing process you could share? for either original work or fanfics. if you don't mind of course haha

hello hello! i certainly do! caveat that my process is always always changing, sometimes from work to work, so i might not always Do all of these, but they're all in my Editing Toolbox forever and ever. and regardless of the plotter/pantser debate (which...i Hate) i think a lot of these processes are adaptable to any workflow!

first, some craft books that i've read and really helped me understand What Editing Is, especially for longer works. Seven Drafts by Allison K Williams was SUPER helpful for me when i first started out and i didn't really understand what a draft was, or what its purpose was. people always talked about draft one vs draft three and i was like ?? what does that mean?? but the ideas she breaks down in this book, along with a ton of good advice, are primarily to break each draft down to address one issue (i.e. the Character draft, the Technical draft, etc). a good way to see each picture instead of getting overwhelmed by the full thing!

Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin is probably the BEST editing book i've ever read. if you only read one of these books, i would recommend this one. or if not, she's actually got a self-editing checklist (link here) that is a really helpful reference.

Another one, which you might argue is more process than editing, is Writing into the Dark by Dean Wesley Smith. I've spoken a bit about him before, but I do think this process is worth trying out, especially if the idea of editing as you go or having one clean draft appeals to you (i am a lazy writer, so this appeals to me LOL).

and now, my one single most important editing tip. this sounds so clickbaity, but it genuinely changed my writing and my mindset. and i know you're probably gonna be like ew what the fuck but HEAR ME OUT:

rewrite the entire thing.

i'm completely serious btw. sometimes, if i keep fiddling with the same piece, eventually i end up losing sight of the whole thing and not knowing where i'm going. so (i use scrivener, but this is possible anywhere!) i open a new doc side by side with my old one, start from the beginning, and retype every single word. it is SO helpful in a way that i think rereading a draft doesn't really replicate. so many lil wordings or repetitions that i am able to catch and then fix.

it's also helpful for me mentally bc if there's something that i (lazy) don't like anymore in the first draft, i just don't type it! less work!

i've actually been switching over to handwriting my first drafts more, and the same process applies to typing it up! 10/10 would recommend.

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was behind a truck today with a bumper sticker that said "JESUS CAN HELP YOU" and in my head i was like 🙄 ok but then i saw a second, handmade sign on the side of the truck that said "taskrabbit: call jesus torres" and his phone number

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Sometimes the devil speaks to me (tells me to make a comic rewriting ff14 story but with amh)

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what’s your favorite thing about the gx manga

SO MUCH.

I love the use of framing in many of the panels

I love the expressions

THIS.

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illegal immigration is swag and epic and i salute everyone who does it. personally i think if you can afford to move somewhere you should be allowed to live there no questions asked. actually even if you cant afford it, it's not like i can afford to live here either. who give a shit.

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i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

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I get that this is mostly a me thing but seeing so many posts making fun of "holy blood cannibalism pomegranate deer" style writing just makes me sad ;-; . guys that's a lot of people's first stab at poetry that's hobby art that's a vulnerable thing to post those are passion projects...

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The real reason why you need to be social is the best chinese place within 10 miles is an unknown hole in the wall with a yearly marketing budget of $15 dollars and you will never, ever find it unless someone tells you about it.

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i cannot stress enough that most of ffxiv is pretty good. like im way more vocally critical of it than most but i do love it and it's maybe the only subscription mmo i feel confident recommending unironically. it just has so much absurd 2010s jank and said jank is as charming as it is infuriating