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reblog and put in the tags a song that you know exactly what it is from the first millisecond of it being played

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What people don't understand about playing French horn is that it basically has two volumes. A wide range of quiet that no one can hear over the rest of the band, or blasting a note super loud for literally no reason that leaves everyone shocked. I honestly feel like messing up as a French horn in band is easier to get away with than as a flute because of this. People low key forget we exist.

What’s something about your instrument that a musician playing a different one would never understand?

I’ll go first - people will never understand that one percussionist will set up and play multiple parts of the section, not just their individual instrument the way a wind instrument does.

We do not play one individual percussion instrument, we play the whole section

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Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you’re currently wearing.

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So, just arrived at our little vacation rental after a very annoying drive over. First thing is my mouth hurts like crazy. It gets worse. I throw up at 3 am. And all I wonder is why the freak is this happening on my first day of vacation in actual years?

Anyways… hope everyone else is having a better summer than I am!

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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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This is going to sound stupid, but find the vibe. Whether the vibe is s’mores, desolation, or literal glitter, find that. Then metaphor. Then, idk scream? Seems to work for me. Hope this helps.

Side note: Having a mental breakdown is the most important step, if you don’t want to jump off a cliff while writing either something is wrong or you were temporarily possessed by one of the great writing ghosts of the past.

It really does open things up though

hey internet… how exactly do you go about writing magic in your manuscript? everything i write sounds AWFUL

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US Helplines:

Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696

Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453

UK Helplines:

Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail jo@samaritans.org

Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111

Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: info@mind.org.uk

Mind legal advice (for people who need mental-health related legal advice): 0300 466 6463 legal@mind.org.uk

b-eat eating disorder support: 0845 634 14 14 (only open Mon-Fri 10.30am-8.30pm and Saturday 1pm-4.30pm) e-mail: help@b-eat.co.uk

b-eat youthline (for under 25’s with eating disorders): 08456347650 (open Mon-Fri 4.30pm - 8.30pm, Saturday 1pm-4.30pm)

Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: helpline@cruse.org.uk

Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600

Drinkline: 0800 9178282

Rape Crisis England & Wales: 0808 802 9999 1(open 2 - 2.30pm 7 - 9.30pm) e-mail info@rapecrisis.org.uk

Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight

India Self Harm Hotline: 00 08001006614

India Suicide Helpline: 022-27546669

Kids Help Phone (Canada): 1-800-668-6868

FREE 24/7 suicide hotlines:

Argentina: 54-0223-493-0430

Australia: 13-11-14

Austria: 01-713-3374

Barbados: 429-9999

Belgium: 106

Botswana: 391-1270

Brazil: 21-233-9191

China: 852-2382-0000

(Hong Kong: 2389-2222)

Costa Rica: 606-253-5439

Croatia: 01-4833-888

Cyprus: 357-77-77-72-67

Czech Republic: 222-580-697, 476-701-908

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Egypt: 762-1602

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Finland: 040-5032199

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Germany: 0800-181-0721

Greece: 1018

Guatemala: 502-234-1239

Holland: 0900-0767

Honduras: 504-237-3623

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(Singapore: 1-800-221-4444)

Mexico: 525-510-2550

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Sweden: 031-711-2400

Switzerland: 143

Taiwan: 0800-788-995

Thailand: 02-249-9977

Trinidad and Tobago: 868-645-2800

Ukraine: 0487-327715

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Thanks for the tag!! (Also, still haven’t figured out how to do color, it’s crazy, sorry)

Favorite color: Red (like the rose red, but a bit brighter)

Last song I listened to: Chasing Shadows by Alex Warren

Currently Reading: Just finished ACOSF but will be starting Crescent City soon

Currently Watching: Obi-Wan (Star Wars series)

Currently Craving: Nilla Wafers with pudding

Coffee or Tea: Coffee, always. Tea is good, but coffee is a god

@reccoon-reincarnated

Because I have like two. mutuals, and the other one tagged me lol

Get to know your mutuals!

Coping with some shit rn and being tagged by @atlasspade honestly helps! Thank you very much!

Favorite Color: Yellow and periwinkle blue and do not make me choose between the two

Last Song You Listened To: I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) by The 1975

Currently Reading: The Odyssey. I know, I mentioned reading it like two months ago, it's going slow.

Currently Watching: Another comfort piece... Ugly Betty

Currently Craving: hugs and reassurance

Coffee or Tea: Black tea

Don't be a stranger <3 @lilsnatch @pinkberrytea @mercymaker @steel-valiant @not-those-kids and @song-writer-melo-wrath (even though I have a feeling I know answers lmao)

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Okay, just rewatched Episode VI of Star Wars, and I was thinking… when Han and Leia get married she wouldn’t have anyone to walk her down the isle, right?

WRONG

Imagine Anakin’s force ghost walking her down the isle and giving Han the death glare when she isn’t looking all ‘if you hurt her’ sort of thing.

Go one step further and Anakin makes Han ask for permission (not how force ghosts work I know, but still, it is so something Anakin would do).

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The amount of times I’ll see little tidbits for ‘how to write a traumatized character’ or ‘subtle signs of trauma for your character’ that describe me perfectly isn’t even funny

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Looked at this and saw steps of trying to open the container.

Normal

Trying to pull cap off, stretching container out

Popping back into normalish shape

Trying to compress and get it to pop

Stretched but to the extreme

Just solidifying my stupidity y’all

🐟🐟🐟

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I was just going through some of my writing for one of my stories and come across this…

(Soulmate at, voice inside your head is your soulmate sort of thing)

Tw: Mentions of SH

*I was still crying as I told the voice. "You know what? He would've liked me. As a child. Before I became... this. And I don't think you noticed but at some point along the line I **broke**. I lost whatever childhood anything I had. And while some parts were always meant to come like being an introvert and being shy, that does not in any way include what has changed me beyond repair. I have trauma responses, I have panic attacks, I have trust issues that may never be fixed, I have such a deep rooted fear of abandonment that even after being friends with someone for years I'm scared they won't show up to a simple meet up. I'm depressed and while that can be fixed it takes a hell a lot of time. I cut myself I hate me so much. Even once I fix my issues, there are someone things that can never be 'fixed' and that's just how I am. I am hard to love, I take effort, I will try to push anyone away because of what I've been through, and I need them to be able to stick by me through all of that, through the mess that I am. The clinginess, the fears, the panic attacks, the relapse thoughts, the trying to push you away. All. Of. It. Then, I might start to open up, but I am so broken that the best that can be done is a shattered heart that's been glued back together, but you can still see the cracks, there will always be a few pieces you can never find. And if somebody wants to care about me they have to be okay with that. I have changed enough so people will like me, or not feel bad, I have buried myself enough and I know I will lose myself if I get into a relationship because there is always something that they would want to change, and the thing is. I will FORCE myself to change. And when they leave me because they can't do it anymore everything I have worked to fix will shatter into a dust so fine there is no hope of fixing it. There are days when I wake up and don't even recognize myself. There are times when all I want to do is scream. Or cry. Or curse whoever made me because I would rather be dead than be here. But I pull myself together. I just don't think I could show someone that broken side of me. Letting someone see it, even for a second. Then the next time there's an argument, or they say that I'm too much in anyway. I lose the small piece of myself that I still have. I don't really know what it is at this point. But that one piece is all I have that is still me after the trauma and depression and the anxiety and the loss. And I **can't** lose my one hope of maybe finding myself again someday so I will leave any new relationships like that alone. I won't go entirely vulnerable with anybody except for my best friend, and even then I still get shocked full of fear every time I open up to her." I tell the voice as tears slide down my face. It was something that I had never truly voiced for fear of what might happen*

One question for myself… how??

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Seeing this now when eggs cost more than surgery

*incoherent screaming*

how many eggs do you have in your fridge

a couple million

obviously that’s the average number of eggs to have, right?

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