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Edit Wikipedia! Even if you're not good at writing, there's a lot of little things you can do such as fixing formatting issues, reversing vandalism, using webarchive to preserve or fix dead links, or helping a wiki project to categorize and assess articles. If you're bilingual, you can also help translate articles between languages.

Read Wikipedia outloud! If you have a decent quality microphone on your phone/computer and a clear voice, you can volunteer for the Spoken Wikipedia Wikiproject. Screen readers are far from perfect, and often mispronounce scientific terms, place names, or people names. This Wikiproject relies on volunteers to record themselves reading wikipedia articles so people who can't read (or can't read English) can still access the information.

Hunt for exoplanets! I'm not kidding, this is actually something you can do. It's called Zooniverse Planet Hunters, and it's a citizen science project where you can look at data from the Kepler Space telescope and help find exoplanets. Zooniverse has a lot of other space related projects as well, and it's a really fun thing that pretty much anybody can do. Also, they have projects related to art, history, and the natural world.

Fix furniture. Okay, so I haven't done this one myself, but when my dad was a kid this was basically how he spent all his summers in the 60s and 70s. He'd get furniture his neighbors had thrown out, fix it with second hand tools, maybe buy paint or stainer from the sale aisle or borrow it from neighbors(paint being one of the things many people save but rarely use) and then give or sell it back to them. This one can be expensive, but there's a lot you can do without any form of power tools. Just be careful with older furniture, because some of that might have lead in the paint.

Upcycling/ hand tailoring clothes. One of my current projects that I've been working on for a few years is embroidering on a pair of thrift store jeans-but you could hot glue rhinestones to bags, draw on caps with fabric markers, or add ribbons and sew darts or add gussets to a cute top. Go to your thrift store or raid your own closet and let your creativity run wild!

Beading! Thrift store beads, sale thread and some beading needles. Beading is an art form found in basically every culture, so you're almost guaranteed to find a style that suits your fancy.

Patchwork! My sister thinks you have to be rich to quilt. You do not. Quilting the way we think of it is a very American art form which was basically born from people trying to save every last scrap of fabric, while also being artistic. You can hand quilt old pieces of tshirts together to make a bag, for example, or doll/teddy clothes for the children you know.

Learn a Kpop dance! I know, I know, but it's fun and there's so many free tutorials for easy dances on Youtube.

Playing with plasticine or polymer clay is another really fun idea. You can get the supplies on sale or even find youtube tutorials to make your own clay, but this stuff is so fun. You dont even need any fancy tools-just clay, or many an oven if you want to make your polymer clay creation permanent.

Learn math! Its fun and society tries to tell us, specially us women, that's it's too difficult to ever be fun. However, that is a devious lie. Math is just puzzle solving and you can do it at whatever pace you need. There's so many free resources out there on youtube and the internet for learning all branches of math.

Geneology. It doesnt even have to be your own family history. This one is a bit variable from what country you're from, unfortunately. However, many old records and newspapers are free, so you can literally spend years on this one.

Learn to program! You find find tutorials on YouTube (FreeCodeAcadamy is my favourite) and learn how to build something on your own computer or tablet. Python is a great one to start off with.

Listen to audiobooks or audio dramas! This one goes hand in band with the very first suggestion to read books, but sometimes physically reading something isn't happening for you. Instead, you can get free audiobooks from your library, or check r/audiodrama for recommendations for free audio dramas or podcasts to listen to.

Every fun post on here that encourages people to have hobbies/be creative always gets an avalanche of "Some people are poor Karen" type reactions and respectfully, you're all super annoying. I've never lived above the poverty line and this is a list of hobbies I have that were cheap or entirely free:

Read books: Go to the library, lend a book from a friend

knitting, crochet, embroidery: Get some needles from the bargan store and ask around, people have leftovers from projects they'll happily give you. Thrift stores also often carry leftover fabric and other supplies. And talk about your hobby loud enough and an old lady will show up and gift you their whole collection, because there are way more old ladies with a closet full of wool than there are grandchildren who want to take up the hobby.

Origami/paper crafts: get some scrap paper and scissors, watch a youtube tutorial

walking: put on shoes open door

pilates/yoga/etc: get a mat or just use your carpet, watch a youtube tutorial

Houseplants: look online for people that swap plant cuttings. There are always people giving out stuff for free to get you started. If you're nice enough you'll probably get extra

gardening: You're gonna need some space for this one of course but you can just play around with seeds and cuttings from your grocery vegetables.

aquarium keeping is a bit of an obscure one but I got most of my stuff second hand for cheap or free and now I have a few thousand euro worth of material and plants.

drawing/art: You get very far just playing with bargan store materials. I did my entire art degree with mostly those.

writing: Rotate a cow in your head for free

cooking: again one you can make very expensive, but there are many budget recipes online for free. Look for African or Asian shops to get good rice and cheap spices.

Join a non-profit: Cities will have creative organisations who let you use woodworking machines or screen presses or laser cutters or 3D printers etc etc etc for a small fee. Some libraries also lend out materials.

candle making: You need some molds (cheap), wick, two old cooking pots for au bain marie melting and a ton of scrap candles, ask people to keep them aside for you.

a herbarium, flower pressing: Leaves are free, wildflowers too, ask if you can take from peoples gardens.

puzzles: thrift stores, your grandma probably

Citizen science: look for projects in your area or get the iNaturalist app

And lastly and most importantly: Share! Share your supllies, share your knowledge. Surround yourself with other creative people and before you know it someone will give you a pot of homemade jam and when you want to paint your kabinet someone will have leftover paint in just the right color and you can give them a homemade candle in return and everyone is having fun and building skills and friendships and not a cent is exchanged. We have always lived like this, it's what humans are build to do.

And all of it sure beats sitting behind a computer going "No stranger, I refuse to let myself have a good time."

Anyway I'm logging off bc I'm making some badges for a friend who cooked for me and then I'm going to fix some holes in everyones clothes.

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My 11th graders can’t do either.

Reblog with your age and location in the tags if you want.

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Tradwife weirdos or whatever don’t touch this post made by my very transgender hands.

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Hello! Uh, I have a character who's kind of co-dependent on their partner but, I'm not sure how to show it in my writing. Do you have any suggestions for signs of co-dependency?

Hi :)

Signs of Co-dependency

always waiting for the other person before doing anything

not recognizing each other's boundaries and not enforcing boundaries

having low self-esteem

feeling the need to be of service to the other person

struggling with their self-image and self-worth

making excuses for their partner

being self-sacrificing

needing their partner's approval

avoiding conflict, taking on blame

failing at proper communication

minimizing or ignoring their own wants

doing things to make their partner happy

asking for permission

fear of rejection or abandonment

guilt over doing something "selfish" (for themself)

making themself uncomfortable for other's comfort

Hope this helps!

- Jana

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good things to pay attention to more often

the color of trees

clouds and how they look different throughout the day

the different colors the mornings can have. sometimes it's an orange hue and sometimes pink and sometimes it's too misty to tell

pretty color schemes in random places (the trees and your neighbors wooden patio and the color of their car)

the states of the vehicles passing you by, dents and scratches and the different trinkets suspended from their rearview mirrors

the sound of silence

the shadows the lights cast in your home, like how sunset looks different than sunrise, and the shadows the sun casts look different than those of your lamps and candles

pretty details in buildings and houses like certain types of windows or doorknobs or archways

the movement of things in the wind. flags, leaves, flowers, people's hair and coats

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Accident

Accident

After waking up from a coma due to suffering injuries from a car accident a woman asks for her brother. But not even her parents seem to remember him ever existing.

"It was an accident." "It definitely wasn't."

The pregnancy had been an accident, but it was the most beautiful accident they could have asked for.

Write about a car accident with a twist.

The moments after hearing about the accident were lost in sheer panic.

"No one will be mad at you. It was just an accident."

"You can call it an accident, but we all know what it really was."

"Please, don't freak out, but I may have been in a tiny little accident."

Kissing someone accidentally once can maybe happen. If it happens twice, it's definitely a funny story. If it happens three times - it's not an accident anymore.

One Word Prompt Lists

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Good afternoon from a cozy Peachy baby

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As a certain math major, yes this is true! Unfortunately, most of the proofs here are not true. (But they are intentionally deceptive, so nobody not in an upper level math course should feel bad for falling for them!)

The last two proofs aren’t true to their reliance on facts we’d need calculus to show (how do we know that multiplying .1111..by 9 is .9999...? Or that multiplying 10 by .99999... is 9.999999...? We’d need an understanding of limits to show this), and that first proof isn’t striking me as true either (you might want to check your definition of a recurring decimal because you’ve accidentally made it a whole lot more specific than it needs to be, and also you can write any number you choose as a fraction with a nine in the denominator, by use of some careful multiplication. Using that, even if you knew that .99999 was rational, how do you prove that it’s equal to 9/9? You can’t; you don’t have enough information. Listing a few examples and assuming they apply to everything does not make a valid proof, unfortunately. But it’s a nice demonstration of the fact!)

but yes this fact is 100% true! The fact that between every two distinct rational numbers there is an irrational number is exactly how I’d go about proving this was true!  Let’s dive in a little deeper though.

To think about this in an alternate way, let’s take the sequence (0.9,0.99,0.999,0.9999,.....) where each term a_(n) (you can think about a(n) as the nth term of the sequence. Like, for n=1, a_(1) is the first term, or .9) in our sequence is just a number 0.something with n 9′s after the decimal point. The limit of that sequence is .999999 obviously, since that’s what we’ve constructed our sequence to head towards.

(quick definition -  you can think about a(n) as the nth term of the sequence. Like, for n=1, a_(1) is the first term, or .9)

Now, to show that’s equal to 1. For any number, say b, in real numbers(where b is not zero), we’re always going to be able to find an N  such that for all n>=N, |a_(n)-1| <b. (I’ll write the proof of that down below, so you non-mathy people can gloss over it if you’d like). This makes our limit 1, so the sequence has a limit of both .999.... and 1. A sequence can’t have two limits, so therefore, .9999.... = 1 . :)

(Better proof that the limit of our sequence is 1. 

Our sequence is (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, .....) where each term a_(n) is simply the sum of all numbers 9*10^(-i), 1<i<n.   From the definition of a limit (from real Analysis, if this doesn’t look familiar), we know the limit of a sequence is L if for every value b>0, there exists an N such that for n>N, |a_(n) - L| < b. 

Let’s look at that applied to this sequence. 

For every n,

|.99999... (where that’s n 9′s) - 1| =  0.00000.... (n-1 0′s in total )1= 1/(10^n) = 10^-n 

(where, just to be clear, 0.000....1 is n-1 0′s after the decimal point, followed by a 1, NOT 0.00000....1, because that’s not actually a number. For example, for n=3, it would be 0.001. For n =10, it’s 0.0000000001 and so on.)

Courtesy of the Archimedian Property, we know that there exists some n in natural numbers so that when n>1/b, 1/n < b.  10^-n is less than 1/n, so  for every n, and hence every a_(n),

|.99999...(for n 9′s in total) - 1| = 10^-n < 1/n < b

So the limit of that sequence is 1.  )

My favourite math fact is that 0.9999999.. is equal to 1. Exactly. Not approximately. Not as a rounded number. 0.9999 (recurring) is exactly 1.

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If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

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Studying latin with my dear friend Mr. Frodo.

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Clearly Elsa wants to join in my discussion with Tav about how noise pollution affects whale populations

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putting books on hold at the library is a lot of fun becuase it is the exact same feeling as online shopping but absolutely free which makes it more powerful because there is no limit and no monetary reason to stop. you can put as many books on hold as you want.

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ah yes. the classic “I can’t sleep because it will be tomorrow in an instant and tomorrow requires things of me and I Simply Do Not Vibe With That”. so I’ll go through said tomorrow on 2 hours of sleep. very smart and once again no lessons will be learned

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BOOK RECS ASK GAME

a book that is close to your heart

a book with a blue cover

a stand-alone that you wish was part of a series

a poetry book that reads like a story

something in fiction that reads like poetry

a book with a pink cover

a book you did not finish

a book you finished in one sitting

your favourite book of 2020

a book that got you through something

a book with a green cover

a book that mentions food in the title

your favorite romance novel

a book that made you trip on literary acid

a book rec you really enjoyed

a book you'd recommend to your younger self

a book with a yellow cover

your least favorite book ever

a book that put you in a reading slump

a book that got you out of a reading slump

a book with a red cover

your favourite thriller

a book that is currently on your TBR

a book on your nightstand

a book by your favourite author

your favourite memoir

a book with a purple cover

a book you wish you could read as a beginner again

your favourite YA novel

your favourite middle grade book

a book that mentions a name in the title

your favourite nonfiction novel

a book with a white cover

a book featuring the enemies to lovers trope

a book featuring the found family trope

a book that mentions time in the title

your favourite heist book

your favourite series

a book featuring your favourite character

a book with a black cover

a book about nature

a book that made you want to scream by the time you got to the end

a book that you have read more than three times

your favourite fantasy novel

a book featuring the friends to lovers trope

a book with a brown cover

a book that mentions a place in the title

your favourite sci-fi novel

a book featuring the bed-sharing trope

a book that made you cry a LOT

a book that you found underwhelming

a popular book/series that you love

a popular book/series that you hate

a book with the best opening line

a book with a satisfying ending

a book that features an animal in the title

a book you want to hit bonk your head with

a book with an orange cover

a book about city life

a book that you think about at 3am

your favourite horror novel

a book with a forgettable plot but amazing characters

a book that actually made you laugh out loud

a book with a grey cover

a book that scared the crap out of you

a book that fucked you up

your favourite historical fiction novel

your favourite piece of classic literature

your favourite mythological retelling

your favourite poetry collection

your favourite LGBTQ+ fiction

a book with a gorgeous cover

a good book with an awful cover

your favourite love triangle

a book featuring the I'm not like other girls trope

a book with a golden/silver cover

a book so useless that you could use it as a coaster

your favourite royal read

a book that reminds you of your favorite song

a book that reminds you of a loved one

a book that mentions flowers in the title

a book featuring the chosen one trope

a book featuring the fake dating trope

your favourite dystopian read

your favourite book about magical realism

a book with an insane plot twist

a book with a predictable ending

a book that made you angry

a book that disappointed you

the longest book you've read

the shortest book you've read

a book about a redeemable villain

a book featuring an unreliable narrator

a book about grieving

your favourite coming of age novel

a book with a restaurant/food setting

a book with a hospital setting

a book set in a fictional kingdom

a book with a strong female protagonist

your favourite gothic novel

a book set in a school

your favourite dark academia read

a book that deals with heavy topics

a fluffy, sweet read

your favourite crime novel

a book that made you squeamish

your favourite book in a different language

a book with a small town setting

a book featuring a teacher/professor

your favourite psychological thriller

a book writing a book

a book about war

a book about the great depression

your favourite chick lit novel

a book that talks about mental health

a book with multiple povs

your favourite anthology

your favourite short story collection

your favourite summer read

a book about childhood friends

a book that makes you nostalgic

your favourite winter read

a book recommended by a celebrity

the book you're currently reading

your favourite autumn read

your favourite spring read

a book you'd read when you're missing somebody

a book that made you hungry

a book with beautiful prose

a book featuring flashbacks and/or intersecting storylines

tag somebody with whom you would want to buddy read a book

who is your favorite person to go to for book recs?

a book that you came across randomly and fell in love with

unreccomend any book you like!

recommend any book you like!