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I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

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Halsin would let you stack donuts on it

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Good afternoon sluts and those of us who wanted to be sluts but never got around to it

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type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

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The best way to get a writer writing faster is not to leave a comment begging, asking, or passive aggressively demanding an update. Whether the comment is silly, playful, earnest, or downright rude, whether or not the author is flattered by the comment, it is unlikely to spur your writer to action.

The best way to get a writer writing faster is to comment on the actual story you want written-its plot, its characters, its themes, its anything--for the very simple reason that thinking about the story is the first step to actually writing the story.

If I have five WIPs going and someone leaves me a comment on one saying, "update when?", they have not gotten me thinking about my story at all. The answer remains "whenever the winds of fate drive me to open up that document." If someone leaves a comment talking about the story, their understanding of it, what they are enjoying or confused by or hope to see, now I am thinking about the story and what I wanted to accomplish with it. That fresh perspective on my work has the gears turning in my head. And now I am ten times more likely to open up that doc and set my fingers to typing.

Will this always work? No. People have busy lives and inspiration can be a fickle beast. But it is a far better approach (and dare I say less annoying and entitled approach) to getting your favorite author writing the fic you want them to be writing.

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Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

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Just me?

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Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

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its so so important to follow blogs that will put a bit of softcore porn on ur dash. it is not only tasteful but also a key part of the microbiome

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Laios and Senshi, protectors of the sapphic girls

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girl help I'm having fic ideas incompatible with the amount of free time I currently have

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you can think someone's an idiot and not hate them. anyone who doesn't understand this has never had a coworker

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