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The end dance is impressive enough, but to see the actual body movements is AMAZING. What athletes! What trust! Gorgeous.

Girls practice chinese lion dance

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fantasizing every day about quitting my job and doing absolutely nothing

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Write Characters with Deep Emotional Wounds

(Without Making Them Walking Tragedies)

╰ Start with the scar, not the stabbing. Everyone talks about what happened to your character (The Big Trauma) but honestly? It’s the aftermath that matters. Show me the limp, not the bullet wound. Show me the way they flinch at kindness or double-check locks three times. The wound shapes them more than the event ever did.

╰ Don't make them "Sad All The Time" People with deep hurts aren’t just dramatic sob machines. They make bad jokes. They find weird hobbies. They have good days and then get wrecked by a song in a grocery store. Layers, my friend. Pain is complex and it sure as hell isn’t aesthetic.

╰ Let them almost heal and then backslide. Real healing isn’t linear. One good conversation doesn’t erase ten years of bottled-up grief. Your character might think they’re over it, and then one tiny thing, a smell, a phrase, a look, knocks them right back into the hole. Make them earn their healing. Make us ache for them.

╰ Give them armor and show the cracks. Maybe it’s sarcasm. Maybe it’s perfectionism. Maybe it’s taking care of everyone else so no one notices they're broken. Whatever mask they wear, show us the hairline fractures. Let us catch the moments where they almost drop the act.

╰ Don’t turn their trauma into their only personality trait. Yes, they’ve been through hell. But they also love spicy chips and bad reality TV. They have dumb crushes and secret dreams. A tragic backstory isn’t a substitute for a full human being. Let them be more than the worst thing that ever happened to them.

╰ Let their wound warp their decisions. People protect their wounds. Even badly. Especially badly. They might sabotage good relationships. Or push away help. Or cling too tightly. Make their past live in their choices, not just their flashbacks.

╰ Don’t make the world validate them for existing. Not everyone is going to understand your wounded character. Some people will misunderstand them. Blame them. Get frustrated. And honestly? That’s real. Let your character find their people, after facing the ones who don’t get it. It’s so much sweeter that way.

╰ Wounds can make them kinder—or crueler. Pain changes people. Some become protectors. Some become destroyers. Some do both, depending on the day. Let your character’s hurt make them complicated. Unpredictable. Human.

╰ Don’t heal them just to tie a neat bow on your story Sometimes the best ending is messy. Sometimes the healing is just starting. Sometimes it’s just hope, not a full recovery montage. That’s okay. Healing is a lifelong, terrifying, brave process—and readers feel it when you respect that.

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I just almost got caught in the 'oh well this fic was posted in 2021, what if I'm being annoying commenting so late maybe I should just kudos and go...' and then luckily I was like WAIT A SECOND.

Anyway. I commented on the fic, and you should too...not on *that* fic specifically lol, but whatever one you come across that you want to, regardless of the year it was posted! It's just so funny, obviously I'm happy to get comments even on stuff from 2018, but there was that little bit of anxiety being on the other side. Like 'clearly, I am the exception and I am being uniquely annoying by commenting late' FALSE

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Terfs say they are the daughters of the witches you couldn't burn.

Bitch you're the daughters of plantation owners.

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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Horse Donkey breed of the day: American Mammoth Jackstock

Height: 16 -17hh

Common coat colors: Grey, grullo and various duns

Place of origin: US

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Turning this into its own post because it's a really insidious trend I've seen across fandoms with canon wlw ships, the most recent example of course being "JayVik and/or TimeBomb is more queer than CaitVi"

The "This wlw ship isn't as queer as X mlm or f/m ship" talking point is the most common one I see thrown against wlw ships and is just an extension of real world same sex relationships between women not being taken seriously.

Usually, this gets dressed up in new age queer theory bullshit regarding character dynamics, like the evergreen classic "Korrasami is heteronormative because Asami is the handmaiden and Korra is the feudal lord" or "This male character cried once therefore this ship is more queer". No matter what the specific argument is, at their core, these claims all have the same underlying message - "This ship between two women doesn't love each other as much as my f/m or mlm ship."

That's it. That's what it boils down to. It's a "progressive", new age "queer" way to argue that a wlw ship isn't as romantic or authentic as this other mlm or m/f ship. It is denying the depth of the feelings that these wlw characters have for each other and, thus, the validity of the ship. They're not really in love, they're this other superficial thing, and thus their "queerness", their radical act of loving each other in a world that despises them for it, is not really there.

That's why I say that this argument is just an extension of society at large not taking same sex relationships between women seriously. They're not really in love, those silly women, they just really like each other in a gal pal way, not that earth shattering romance that my mlm or m/f ship experiences. All of which, of course, goes back to being sparkling ✨️misogyny✨️.

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First of all, it's really crazy how some idiots think Caitlyn wanted to kill Isha on purpose.

and It's funny how people in comments or how made post about this, like they focus so much on Caitlyn and her unintentional attempt to risk a child, she was in a state of hysteria with fear and anger that Jinx would escape again and hurt her like it was literally written in the script that Caitlyn ( crazed).

They forget that there are characters who did worse things and intentionally hurt children, like Silco made children work in dangerous factories and Jinx who released gas on a civilian in Piltover and injuring innocent people, including children. But no, let's focus on Caitlyn bc she is the only villain on the show🤡

What a bunch of hypocrites!

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One sad side effect of big box stores is that you just don’t get lifelong hyper fixation guy access like you used to.

Like yeah I can go to Menards and buy a door.

But it used to be I could go to the door store, and speak to a man whose sole passion in life was doors and who would talk about the history of door insulation patterns over the last 50 years without stopping to breathe.

That man is gonna find me the BEST door option for me.

Seriously my neighborhood had one of these. They were across the street from the lighting shop owned by the guy who could tell you the exact date, off the top of his head, that your property got electrical wiring based on your address.

Now these guys rarely get to own a shop, make a good living, and sell the very finest doors for decades. They’re relegated to Reddit posts which are informative but ultimately do not replace door guy having a door shop.

I don’t want to talk to some miserable, underpaid 20 year old who was in plumbing last week and in doors this week and doesn’t know a hammer from a hanger.

I want my door guy back.

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Let's transport passengers with mama

official mama post

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Now THIS is environmental storytelling!

yesterday in economic botany we were learning about plant based oil compounds and stuff and my botany professor was talking about lynn seed oil, which in woodworking is rubbed on over furniture as a varnish. this oil has an exothermic chemical reaction with oxygen, meaning that the reaction creates heat. what often happens, apparently, is that woodworkers will finish rubbing on the oil with a rag and then will ball up the rag and throw it away, but because the reaction is taking place and the heat can’t escape (like it would on a piece of furniture where it can be cooled) it gets trapped in the rag, which gets hotter and hotter until it reaches the temperature where it bursts into flame. apparently many woodworking shops have been burned down by this. the proper way to dispose of rags with this oil is to hang them up on a clothesline, so again the reaction never gets enough heat to start a fire. im telling you this because im a writer and ive never heard of substance that will just…spontaneously combust conveniently like that so long as it’s in a confined space. my botany professor tried it in a trash can in his driveway and it did indeed burst into flame after 45 minutes, which is an exceptionally convenient time delay. im sorry im tying this so fast my laptop is on 2% battery and theres no outlet an

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Ollie loves to have the bases of his ears massaged with my thumbs and whenever I do it for him his eyes close and pushes so hard into it that he has to brace with his legs to avoid falling over and he purrs, and every time I do it I think about how he can’t do that for himself on his own, and how wonderful and strange it is that our two species happened to evolve in a way that allowed a bread loaf-sized obligate carnivore capable of receiving the most satisfying ear rub imaginable, but only from a giant omnivorous ape

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You know what I’d really like to see?

Okay, so imagine a typical wacky villain with henchmen. The hero fights them, but it’s never super serious, just run of the numbers villain schemes. The villain knows his henchmen’s names, he won’t attack on Sunday’s, like just a villain who is like “I ove what I do, but I want this to not be an inconvenience for everyone involved”

Maybe sometimes the hero will even say “Hey, can you do this another time? This really isn’t the best right now. Could you take a rain check?” And the villain, a bit disappointed, sighs and calls it off. And the hero thanks them over it.

But then, a vile villain shows up, no respect, just destruction and cruelty. And who shows up to help the hero? The villain and his henchmen. And you along with the audience thinks

“Oh, this guy is a joke. No way he’ll be of help.”

But the hero looks so relieved. And then you see the henchmen that seemed a bit clumsy reveal insane competence. They are crushing this new guys forces, using the same weapons they fought the hero with. The villain also shows up and he just starts crushing the commanders of the new villain, because here’s the thing. The supposed goofy villain and his henchmen know that there fights with the hero is more of a game. But this is not, this is life or death, and now this villain is not showing the game the respect it deserves.

So the supposed goofy villain shows what happens when you ruin his fun

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Excellent doggo for removing an invasive species

important life update: my dog came out of the woods with half of an artisanal baguette

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Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

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Add realism to your fantasy stories by having characters from different backgrounds struggle to pronounce each others' names.

"My name is [low guttural sound] but I don't want to hear you butcher it. So you may call me She Who Arises With The Cold Mountain Sun."

"...Is that what your name really means? All that in just one word?"

"Yes. If you stress the wrong syllable it comes out as 'She Who Coldly Wakes Up The Mountain Sun', or 'The Cold Woman Who Wakes The Mountain Sun', and you will not call me that."

"Oh, huh. Could we just call you Mountain Sun, for short?"

"Hmh. It's boastful, almost bordering on blasphemy, but it is flattering. I accept it."