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Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man

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a scene can start wherever you want it to

writing isn't real life. You don't need to set up a character walking into a room or two characters greeting each other and talking about the weather or what-have-you in order to lead into the conversation you actually want them to have. just start at the conversation.

hell, start in the middle of the conversation. you could even start at the end and then have one of them leave and the other one left behind to reflect back on what just happened.

writing gets easier when you open yourself up to writing the parts that are interesting, to starting where it's easy instead of where you think you should start.

if it ends up not working? that's okay. you tried it, and sometimes just getting something out of your head is a necessary first step to getting the words right

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The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you

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The cowards of twitter are afraid to admit that Batman represents love

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your “loyal and virtuous” knight is doubting the cause he pledged his very soul to 🫵😂

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Writing Notes: Foraging

Foraging - the process of searching for and obtaining food sources or medicinal plants in the wilderness.

People on long camping or wilderness expeditions may depend on foraging for extra food or survival when they are adventuring out in the natural world.

In this case, identifying edible plants is a potentially life-saving skill.

How to Identify Edible Plants

Freshly foraged food can help you when you’ve run out of food supplies, but you should know exactly what is safe to consume. For that, you can perform an edibility test. Here is a quick breakdown of the edibility test for plants you find in the wild.

Look for the most common poisonous traits. Rule out mushrooms and plants with milky sap, fine hairs, spines, umbrella-shaped flower clusters, or waxy leaves.

Do a skin test. Take the piece of the plant you want to eat and rub it on your inner forearm or outer lip. Wait 15 minutes.

Do a taste test. If there’s no reaction during the previous step, taste that same part of the plant and wait another five minutes.

Do a bigger taste test. If you don’t taste any bitterness, soapy flavor, or feel any numbness, take a teaspoon of that same part of the plant and chew for five minutes, spitting out extra saliva regularly. Swallow, then wait eight hours.

Eat a small amount. If you’re still not experiencing any digestive issues, eat one tablespoon of that same part of the plant and wait another eight hours. If you still have no symptoms, you can consider that part of the plant edible in the manner in which it was prepared.

Take precautions. Whether you’re practicing sustainable foraging or trying to rough it in nature, use common sense and your best judgment when searching for edible wild plants. Some edible species of plants have toxic look-alikes, or may have edible berries but poisonous stems and bark (such as elderberries). Additionally, not all parts of the plant are edible simply because one part is. Test parts separately before consuming the whole plant, and whenever possible, always do plenty of thorough research when taking a chance out in the wild.

How to Forage Off the Land

Humans can only go 3 days without water, but about 30 days without food. So while foraging shouldn’t be your first priority in a survival situation, it can help you find some extra calories if things become dire. Here are a few tips for beginners on what to look for when foraging for food in the wild.

Look for the right berries. Berries are a good source of carbohydrates, fiber, and vitamins. Aggregate berries (those with tightly packed clusters, like raspberries and mulberries), are 99% edible worldwide. Blue, black, and purple berries are around 90% edible (though you should consider an edibility test). Orange and red berries are about 50% edible, so definitely use an edibility test. Green, white, and yellow berries are about 10% edible and should be avoided.

Catch some insects. Insects contain seven times more protein than ground beef, and they’re much easier to catch than small game. Some safe-to-consume insects include earthworms, mealworms, ants (boil first; avoid fire ants), crickets, and grasshoppers (remove the legs and wings first).

Find edible greens. There are many wild plants that are safe for consumption. Aside from the obvious fruits and vegetables, there are plenty of edible weeds such as chickweed, dandelion, clover, chicory, cattail, and wild mustard. Wild onions are also sometimes available, though they can be tricky to identify. However, if it looks like an onion and tastes like an onion, it’s an onion.

Stay away from busy roads or treated land. Some vegetation can be tainted by car exhaust, oil, lead, or other substances that make their way into the surrounding brush. As a forager, you should stay far away from areas that have been exposed to too many man-made elements, or have been coated in herbicides or pesticides.

Get familiar with common poisonous plants. While distinguishing between edible mushrooms and toxic mushrooms or berries can be tricky, there are some basic, toxic plants that everyone should be able to recognize such as holly berries and poison hemlock. You should also be able to recognize other toxic plants, such as poison oak, poison ivy, and poison sumac. These plants all contain a chemical called urushiol, which is an oil that can cause contact dermatitis and be hard to remove from your skin (hence the prolonged rashes when exposed to these plants).

Poisonous Plant Characteristics

There are many different characteristics of dangerous plants that can make them easily identifiable, even without a field guide. Here are a few traits:

Milky sap: Milky or latex sap is a substance that oozes out of a plant’s branches or stems if cracked or broken. It can cause skin irritation or other strong allergic reactions.

Fine hairs and spines: Fine hairs and spines are usually an indicator that a plant has a defense mechanism to ward off predators. Most of these hairs will cause some sort of stinging or burning sensation when you touch them with bare skin.

Umbrella-shaped flower clusters: Most plants with umbrella-clumping flowers have high toxicity and should be avoided.

Waxy leaves: Also known as the cuticle, “wax” on leaves is a protective layer that helps plants retain water, but can sometimes indicate that a certain type of greenery is a toxic plant and not safe to eat.

Mushrooms: Certain mushrooms may be edible—like morel mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, or chanterelle mushrooms—but you should exercise caution when you find these fungi growing on trees or the ground. Don’t eat any mushrooms that you cannot identify with complete certainty, because they can be toxic.

Some common food sources you can forage for are cattails, acorns and stinging nettles (if boiled), tubers, rosehips, weeds, yarrow, and plantain. Before you forage, you want to make sure that you know how to properly do so, because eating the wrong kinds of plants can be toxic.

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Update: I've posted the first fic the wheel chose and am planning on queueing the rest when I've finished writing a post!

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I should make a wheel, spin it, and then make an entire post about the fic it lands on because I need to share more sonadow recs in a very unprofessional way

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Fanfic Chosen: Peeping by supafroot

Rating: E | Words: 10,230 | Chapters: 1/1 Summary: Sonic catches an eyeful. The first time? An accident. The second time? Not so much.

I have 140 fics I've read regarding Sonadow, and the first one the wheel chooses for me to talk about is Peeping? If I was a lesser man I would feel ashamed to speak about my thoughts on an entire fic centered around Sonic being a Peeping Tom™, but honestly? Why should I?

Supafroot is one of many reoccurring authors on this wheel! While I haven't read all their content, I do have 8 of their fics on the wheel, counting this one! I enjoy their characterization regarding Sonic and Shadow during their intimate moments, like in this fic, Peeping.

Details I liked:

Battlestar: Destroyers & Need for Speed 3 ── Theres something about just reading a silly lil smut one-shot and getting tiny lil details about what the characters are doing before things get steamy. Their interests and references to real or fake games.

Shadow Body Headcanons ── I absolutely adore reading fics where an author describes little details regarding the Ultimate Lifeform that aren't canon! In this fic specifically, Shadow's tail is a bit longer than a normal hedgehogs and his ring finger claws are white! That's like, so fucking cute, and I adore the image of it! And on the steamier side of things, Shadow's dick is green???? GOD I love the kind of interpretations people have about Shadow's body and how it works and looks!

Foreshadowing ── Even in smut fics when foreshadowing pops up I get giddy and crazy! Like what do you mean Shadow saw Sonic and KNEW the whole time? HELLO? And also, Sonic are you a fucking dumbass for thinking Shadow couldn't see you with his lil hybrid eyes? YOU FOOL OF TOOK/ref

Alien Acceptance and Adoration ── I haven't encountered a fic yet where Sonic hasn't loved, enjoyed, or accepted an aspect of Shadow's Alien traits. But it doesn't change the fact it makes me happy every time it comes up in any form within a fic. Like, there's nothing hotter than adoring someone in full, even if they're different from you

Character Guilt ── No matter the kind I'm a whore for characters feeling guilt. Sometimes the guilt doesn't even have to affect the story much, but as long as it's there and it's present, I get excited

Jacket ── If I had a nickle for everytime a smut fic involved Shadow using Sonic's jacket for unholy purposes I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's silly it's happened twice??? I don't know I just think it's a delight

Scents ── Sue me, but when fics show animalistic behaviors, no matter the context, it has be clapping my hands and grinning. Like! Look at the hedgehogs being hedgehogs! They can smell things and so it affects them!! Like! Hell yeah!!

Rouge Cock Block Extraordinaire ── This is the FUNNIEST thing ever. Usually Rouge is the one to push for the cock sword fight, not to intentionally or unintentionally bring it to a pause and DELAY IT. God the frustration from Shadow and Sonic is so fucking funny to me I love it

Tails The Knowing ── I love when, in fics, Tails just KNOWS that Sonic and Shadow may or may not be a thing, or doing something together that isn't so innocent. Perceptive, Smart lil guy, I adore him! Gotta find a way to treat him to some free devices and lil treats for his war with knowing what the hell his brother gets up to

Verbal Communication ── There is nothing hotter than ensuring there's no assumptions about what a partner wants despite being in the heat of the moment! Like, come on, it's so good! Bonus points if it would be "easier" to just let things fly with the bare minimum, but nah, gotta get explicit verbal confirmation, like GAH HELL YEAH BROSKI

Aftercare ── It's cute, it's intimate, it's emotionally able to make my heart burst, and it's literally the same regarding everything I said with Verbal Communication. It's like RAH

Rouge And Shadow Dynamic ── Rouge feeling safe with Shadow is so heartwarming and I adore fics that have such a dynamic in them, even if it's small

Smut ── If you read smut, you're gonna get smut, and there's nothing like some good, simple smut to enjoy reading just because you can!

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Making this a post series now and NO ONE CAN STOP ME

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I should make a wheel, spin it, and then make an entire post about the fic it lands on because I need to share more sonadow recs in a very unprofessional way

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This is the most insane shit I've ever done, let's go folks

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I should make a wheel, spin it, and then make an entire post about the fic it lands on because I need to share more sonadow recs in a very unprofessional way

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I should make a wheel, spin it, and then make an entire post about the fic it lands on because I need to share more sonadow recs in a very unprofessional way

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Me as an art critic: this piece really explores the… Misogyny of the artist 🤔

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to be fucking honest. i'm starting to view it as a big red flag when queer people don't have the media literacy to tell when a character is making fun of trans women. i'm sorry that man in a dress crossdresser joke is not queer rep it in fact thinks trans women are laughing stocks

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esoteric form of roleplay where instead of actually roleplaying you just make up characters together and discuss in abstract how they'd interact and how their story would go