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I do not even remember writing this but omg it’s so funny

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Me n my peeps 🙏👆🏻😤

Stay silly against the dying of the light :3

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So i just learned easy bake oven is basically real oven???? I just learned that from trixie and katya. And just like katya, i wasn't aware about easy bake oven is like real oven to bake. I thought it was like toy and you pretend to put the cake inside it.

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Me

peridot wouldnt take her to hot topic

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Peach Tie 🍑

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hi! i saw your post about hopeful news you see through scientific magazines and was wondering if there were any you particularly recommend? i dont have institutional access, but i would certainly be willing to subscribe to an reasonably priced one if only so i dont go crazy from all the doom and gloom news out there :)

Trying to catch up on my asks today. ❤️

The one I'm the biggest fan of is Chemical & Engineering Newsletter, which is put out by The American Chemical Society. I'm really glad you all are asking me these things because it's prompting me to realize that there are cheaper subscriptions to a lot of these that just have more limited access.

You have to join ACS to get access, but it looks like for a $0 membership, you can sign up and get access to six articles per month. And I *think* if you sign up to get the email newsletter, you'll be able to see all the titles, but you'll only be able to click six of them and actually read them: https://cen.acs.org/join-us.html

$80 a year gets you access to 10 articles a month, and $160 gets you unlimited access with special pricing for students (undergrad $25, grad: $55).

P.S. I know for a fact you don't have to be working in a STEM industry to join ACS.

I love this science newsletter subscription particularly because it covers multiple fields and does just casually drop major scientific advances in my inbox like they're nothing. It also publishes stories on efforts to make science more inclusive because diversity is a major ACS priority. They published articles on accommodating non-binary folk's bathroom preferences at conferences and updates to the Nemeth Braille code that standardized how chemical bonds are notated for blind chemists (which I also find uplifting to read because I didn't know anyone had ever bothered to translate chemistry into Braille for blind people).

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Hey, random writing tip: Instead of having something be a ridiculously unlikely coincidence, you can make the thing happen due to who this particular character is as a person. Instead of getting stuck on "there's no logical reason to why that would happen", try to bend it into a case of "something like this would never happen to anybody but this specific fucker." Something that makes your reader chuckle and roll their eyes, going "well of course you would."

Why would the timid shy nerd be at a huge sketchy downtown black market bazaar? Well, she's got this beetle colony she's raising that needs a very specific kind of leaf for nest material, and there only place to get it is this one guy at the bazaar that sells that stuff. Why would the most femininely flamboyant guy ever known just happen to have downright encyclopedic knowledge about professional boxing? Well, there was this one time when he was down bad for this guy who was an aspiring professional boxer...

I know it sounds stupidly obvious when written out like this, but when you're up close to your writing, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Some time ago I finished reading a book, where the whole plot hinges on character A, who is 100% certain that character B is dead, personally getting up and coming down from the top rooms of a castle, to the gates, at 3 am, to come look at some drunk who claims to be this guy who died 17 years ago. Why would A do that, if he's sure that B is dead?

Because he's a Warrior Guy from a culture of Loyalty And Honour, and hearing that someone's got the audacity to go about claiming to be his long-lost brother in battle, there is no other option than to immediately personally go down there to beat the ever-loving shit out of this guy. Who then turns out to actually be character B, after all.

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“you are still learning. you are still changing. you are still growing. breathe. you will find your way.”

— Unknown

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I could hear this

Current mood: Bob Belcher saying ‘oh my god’

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1hr ago me was wrong btw

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Me 24/7