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NEVER GIVE UP

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✨soft asks✨

What song makes you feel better?

What is your go to comfort show?

Reading or writing? Why?

Whats your favorite feeling?

How do you like to take care of yourself?

What’s your favorite candle scent?

Who do you feel most like yourself around?

Whats a fabric/texture that’s nostalgic for you?

Best childhood moment?

When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried? (or just felt really good afterwards)

Do you have a comfort item? Tell us about it!

What calms you down?

Bath or shower to relax?

Whats something upcoming that you’re excited for?

Comfort food?

What’s something you want to create soon?

How do you feel best loved?

What age in life do you think you’ll feel most yourself at?

Have you ever written or received a love letter?

Tell us about a memory you hold close to your heart.

Tea, Coffee, or hot cocoa?

Name of your favorite playlist?

Have you ever received flowers?

Who is your bestfriend?

If your soul was a color, what would it be?

If you could live anywhere with anyone you want, where would it be and who would you bring?

Do you like to garden? Have you ever grown something?

What are you proudest of?

Are you a kind person?

What do your hobbies look like?

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Let your moots judge your type ♡

Post your top 5 hotties and let your moots judge you xo

I think my type is just.... Daddies.

No pressure tags: @moonshapedbox (ty for cooking up this idea w me girly hehe) @pinescent-and-gingerbread @arthurmorganist @thoughts-of-bear @jedelx @dilf-luvr-4evr @kimikatmo @emerald-ranch @maebelmelee

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Do you think it's a good idea to try and get away from Google Docs when it comes to writing? I really can't afford any other fancy program to write my drafts in, and it honestly seems like the easiest - not to mention, most convenient - program to use to share my manuscript with beta readers. I could use advice on this matter because I keep seeing things across the net about it being a bad place to work on writing, but I have no idea what to turn to to make things easy for me and my future beta readers.

This is such a good question. Thank you.

So, a little backstory. Ever since Google removed their motto "do no evil" they have gone down the rather predictable path of all big players of the rot economy: putting profits over user experience.

A little while back, there was rumor that Google trains AI with the content of google docs, then they said they don't really, they only scan the content and do nothing with it, and then they started blocking access to documents with sexy images. Do we believe that Google has our own best interest at heart? That's something everyone has to decide for themselves.

Back then, I made a post with alternatives for Google Docs, you can find it here, also check the reblogs for more options:

Now, is it a good idea to switch from google docs? I think it is, but I'm also not consistent with it. As you mentioned, it seems to be the easiest to share writing with beta readers, and I also still often use it for fanfiction.

But there are alternatives, and they require very little adjustment in the process. Let me give you two free options.

Ellipsus is webbased, meaning you can write in it in the browser on any device. They have sharing, specifically for beta reading, and an export function for AO3.

Reedsy (marketplace around everything self-publishing) has an editor. It is webbased, and they also have an option for sharing with beta readers. This software is aimed at book type-setting and exporting but it works just fine for copying to web.

Personally, I'm currently switching everything to LibreOffice (also free!) files in some cloud connected folder. I used to do a lot of mobile writing on my phone with a bluetooth keyboard but currently, I'm taking my laptop everywhere so LibreOffice works great for me. If I have to use my phone or tablet for some lightweight mobile writing, on vacation for instance, I can still use something webbased.

So, I hope I gave you some interesting options. Do I think it's a good idea to make us less dependent on Google? Yes, I do. I don't trust them.

We have alternatives, and they cost us nothing more than a little adjustment.

~ barbex

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Currently feeling like I’m being tenuously held together by cardboard and old duct tape.

The last few weeks have been such a mess. And, as progress always seems to be, I went one step forward to slide ten steps back.

Genuinely don’t know what the hell is wrong with me.

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don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?

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i just wanna be someone's number one, their first priority

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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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My D&D Oneshot

Alright folks, you asked for it, so I'll answer it!

For the few of you that this post will spoil the experience for, just... don't engage, please, I'll be really sad if you read this and discover my deep dark secrets. For the rest of you, feel free to let me know your thoughts, as the session is a few weeks out and I am... not a very experienced DM.

Before I talk about my specific session, some background knowledge:

The player characters in the group were created on a Discord server my friends and I started in high school. A fifth character, centered around Rythm (because that was why we started the server in the first place), was adopted by the group once they got together.

When Rythm was taken down, we were all starting to get into D&D and decided it would be fun if we did in-person sessions focused on the goal of finding and rescuing the missing/kidnapped character. Each session, the role of DM shifts to a different person in the group, making each session both a one-shot and a step closer to finding Rythm again.

Now that Rythm has been brought back (but changed) the session after mine is gonna be the recovery of our beloved character.

My session takes place in two different cities -- Vervallen, which is on the surface and built on magical illusions that make every creature in town look like humans, and Antevortaria (I am open to changing that name, ngl), an underground steampunk city built totally out of machinery and clockwork.

The group starts out finding Vervallen, exploring the town to look for leads as to what a certain token (shaped like the Chrome symbol) means and where the headquarters is. Two of the residents in the town, the only two that can see through the illusion, have a message from the kidnapped character pointing them to the underground city, which seems to be a sort of sister-base for the Chrome gang.

I've only DMed once before, so I still don't really know how to balance roleplaying and combat and all that, but I really enjoyed the freedom of creating NPCs and random things the players can interact with and look at. A lot of the session will likely have little hints at classic pulp fiction characters (Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, etc) as well as a mad scientist pretty much based on Doc Brown (with a bit of the Wizard of Oz mixed in too, as he's basically just a figurehead/distraction). I have opportunities for players to mix together drinks to make potions that will affect them in different ways (something that the players liked from my first session) and also probably have fliers and newspapers they can look at for random unrelated stories and history about the two cities.

When they reach Antevortaria, it's a whole different vibe (and they're greeted by a huge guard). There are two paths they can take -- either they defeat the guard and are now considered fugitives from the law or they get captured by the guard and brought onto a train to be brought to the palace, where the mad scientist "runs the city." That train scene can also see them either comply and wait out the journey, or they can initiate a chase sequence (which the mechanics I devised are... prolly shaky and half-baked at best, but I'm kind of excited to see how they handle it).

The castle is basically gonna be modeled on the Clue mansion (from the 1985 movie). The stairs to the basement will lead down to the scientist's workshop, where the final boss battle will take place. A key in the scientist's pocket glows at their touch, pointing the way toward the Chrome castle, which it unlocks (sort of like the Shadow of the Colossus sword/direction mechanic).

And that's how I'm planning on leading the group to their final destination, where they'll battle to get their boy back. It won't be the end of our sessions altogether, but it definitely marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next.

I know this feels kind of like a rushed/vague rant -- I can definitely add more detail or talk about various NPCs at greater length if people want, but I'm definitely looking for pointers, tips, and thoughts overall of the plot. I haven't quite determined how the two cities are linked yet, but I plan on writing up a backstory/history that even if I don't give it to the players directly/at all, it will at least help me make the environment more vivid and fleshed-out.

I do also have a ton of maps and props I have to make -- I bought clay and fusebeads to make character tokens, and I have some fliers, newspapers, and notes I want to make for the players to examine. And potions! Last time I hosted, I had a bunch of small bottles and stuff from Target that I labeled and everyone was hell-bent on drinking (and completely mixing together.)

I'm hoping their investigative and experimental nature will lead them to mix all of the elements together to see what they taste like combined -- my plan is that the potion created by that action will be a Jekyll and Hyde potion that makes a character act completely opposite to their normal personality until the potion wears off or they're cured.

I'm definitely nervous about running the session, since it's only my second time DMing, and my first time was very rushed and shoddy, but since it's all with good friends, I'm sure we'll have fun anyway. I just desperately want to tell a story that everyone gets really invested in.

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HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY, BACK TO THE FUTURE! July 3, 1985

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Weekly Check-In #7

We’ve officially entered July, the month this entire event revolves around, and which also means that this will be the penultimate weekly check-in. ☀️

So please, tell how it’s going. A there a particular prompt that have been more fun than the others for you? Have the characters behaved, or have you had to wrangle them?

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We've been doing this for five years??? Back to the Future was released forty years ago on July 3rd 1985, and every July for the past five years we've gotten together this way to celebrate!

There’s a prompt each day - try one, some, or all. Poetry, fanfic, songs, friendship bracelets, cosplay, aesthetics, anything BTTF is welcome!

Just tag your creations #mcflyjuly so we can find and share them!

This year: 🎉 Because it's Back to the Future's 40th birthday, there are 40 prompts! The last 9 are secret, and will be revealed randomly throughout the month. Each one will post at 12 noon EST on this blog, so keep an eye out--you never know what day a surprise prompt will drop. 👀

and Because it's McFly July's 5th birthday, we're gonna party like Doc & Marty! 🍔👑 No one should know too much about their future, so I can't say much here, but if I reblog/reply to a McFly July post of yours with a burger emoji, that's a sign you'll be getting a little something in your inbox!

Have fun and please don't drive 88!

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hiya! tl;dr i made a job newsletter for my sisters and made it accessible to everyone!

never blazed anything before, but wanted to let people know that i created a free job newsletter that has bi-weekly 100% entry-level, no experience necessary US-based jobs & internships in the humanities.

my siblings all have learning differences and after applying (to 180!!) jobs I learned I kinda have a knack for it—so i put this together as an older sister hoping to help as many people out as possible (and avoid all the scammy crap i see all the time too!)

(it looks like this! ⬆️)

for now its hosted on substack. please check it out and share the word! i really hope my weird job hunting skills can help as many people as possible in a tough time for jobs in the creative field! 🥰