#determination-effort

[thepersonalwords]

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.

Germany Kent

[canisalbus]

Hello, I'm not sure if you're aware, but tumblr is going to start helping midjourney gather data for their AI. You're one of the artists I follow here pretty actively and I wanted to warn you to maybe start nighshading your art before posting it here so it doesn't get swept up!

I've seen a couple of posts about it. Feeling disappointed but not that surprised. Also not excited about having to start nightshading/glazing my pieces but if there isn't going to be any serious regulations regarding data scraping and ai "art", there aren't a lot of choices.

Thank you for taking the time to warn me just in case, it was very thoughtful of you!

[funnierasafictive]

Palestinian Campaigns Compilation

Hello everyone, we've gotten a lot of asks over the past week, and since there's been a lot of them, I decided to put them all in one post, which will include previous campaigns. I've done my best to pay attention to the ones that have been vetted.

All numbers are as of August 5, 2024

The Alanqar Family - €44,710 / €49,000

Mohammed Hijazi - €5,947 / €20,000

Jad Al-Haq's Family - $6,295 / $40,000

Doaa Jadalhaq's Family - kr68,784 / kr300,000

Safaa's Family - $5,120 / $75,000 goal

Mahmoud Alkhaldi's Family - $5,680 / $50,000 goal

Wafaa's Family - €13,340 / €100,000 goal

Youssef Al-Habeel's Family - £7,527 / £20,000 goal

Ghazi Younis's Family - $1,880 / $50,000 goal

Sohaip and Mohammed's Family - £202 / £6,000 goal

Abdul's Family / Paypal - $23,975 / $78,000

Please read their stories, all of which are written in their campaign pages as well as images and some videos. I will be linking this post to our pinned in case anyone wants to use this as a reference.

[stellar-collective]

here at Zoraxis we only talk about the most normal of things on our smoke breaks

everyone say hello to Matchstick AU Ollie!! someone PLEASE get this man some help he is going thru the horrors

tag list: @wyvchard @pandagobrr @phoenix-and-found-family @warden-draws-sometimes @ghostlystarwanderer

[epicfirestormer]

I'm so incredibly Normal about these two games.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Presenting this panel without context (UXM 103). Wrestling AU when?? Hope you feel better soon, bestie! 💚

lookit my professor dude he aint EVER grading my midterm 😭

[gardenofwordss]

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

[thepersonalwords]

Embrace the love of your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

[sealochs]

autumn is coming, & i want to respect myself again. i want to start making - & keeping - promises to myself again. this year has been so draining; i've been so strung out, living two lives, doing endless bereavement bureaucracy. but the sale on mum's house completes - please god - so soon, & then it is done. & i can attend to myself again. i want to rearrange the furniture in my bedroom. when i wake in the mornings, i want to stretch & do skincare & eat breakfast before i even think about looking at my phone. i want to swim three times a week. before i go to bed, i want to decide what i'm wearing tomorrow so my mornings are not wasted on paralyses of self-hatred, self-consciousness, self-absorption. i want to eat well. i want to drink less. i want to go outside every morning & remember the world. i want to play. i want to work. i want to feel good & solid & entire in myself.

[synnthamonsugar]

Don't cry, recipe for knockoff kraft cheesy alfredo mac & cheese (discontinued 2018)

[random-autie-fangirl]

I drew another Chara- living with the Dreemurrs edition

"The King and Queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was filled with hope."

I don't like this as much as the last one but oh well... I ended up rambling a huge amount in the tag, so if you want details and headcanons about the actual drawing again, you'll have to look pretty far down this time, sorry (Also, I ran out of tags after a while. Tumblr is tired of me, lol. I might reblog this more tags later if I remember what I was going to say.)

[retiredteabag]

just out of curiosity, but ur smaus are soooooooo good and ugh!! why's my man, pookie, wookie, cherry Blossom princess bbgrl Geto never thereeeeuh!😞😞

My pookies. I had a sudden revelation and there will be a very special guest in tomorrows smau….

[melonlthawne]

Snacking on the fondue. Fancy living her flint comes!

[cursedfortune]

"What do you want, Mortem?"

"I want to destroy the world. I want to mend it. I want to watch it burn. I want to watch as life flourishes and grows. I want to rend nations and watch the economy crumble. I want to watch how mortals adapt and come back smarter. I want to challenge people and see who overcomes it and who doesn't. I want to be challenged, a hurdle you must get past on your path to success. I want to strike down the weak husks that exist without ambition. I want to reward those that know that life is beyond merely persisting. I want life; be it beings or nature, to utilize their potential."

"I want you to be happy. I want you to be sad. I want you to be furious. I want you to be scared. I want you to be brave. I want you to feel every spectrum of emotion you're capable of experiencing. I want you to know the value of suffering so you can be wise about it later. I want my time existing, fulfilling my purpose, to not be saturated in profound questions that others could answer for themselves if they just decided to be a little more competent."

[unadulteratedkr]

shoutout to the combo of frozen peas and carrots out here making sure I get vegetables in my day, we love to see it

[morganmnemonic]

I'm watching The Magnus Archives for the first time (i think im going to start tagging posts relevant to this with "tma liveblog" so I don't have to keep specifying). I just started season 2, and I've got to say I'm with Jon's paranoia on this one. Martin IS more competent than he's letting on. His soft, sweet, british voice is just so disarming that even hearing him talk about surviving the worm siege, I stilll mentally categorized him as "likely to die first". Sure he survived, but thats because Prentis let him go. If he actually got wormed, he'd probably just perish. Turns out, his initial idea for what would happen if he got wormed was performing emergency worm removal surgery on himself with a pocket knife. He sounded serious too, like he was mentally prepared to go through with it without hesitation if that's what it took. And if we look at what each of the characters did during the worm invasion,

Jon made no judgement calls that significantly impacted group survival one way or the other (+0) and got very wormed at the end (-1) for a grand total of -1 survival points.

Tim didn't notice that Prentis was in the archive and nearly got got (-1), sent Sasha ahead to get help, which resulted in the fire suppression system going off and saving himself and Jon from certain death (+2), got surrounded by worms in Jon's office (-1), and got very wormed at the end (-1), for a grand total of -1 survival points.

Sasha saved Tim from Prentis (+1), successfully got help, saving Tim and Jon from certain death (+2) and died (-1). For a total of 2 survival points.

Martin directed an injured Jon and Sasha to a safe place to hide from the worms and provided an effective tool for worm removal (+2), hid the stash of fire extinguishers that saved Tim from certain death (+1), and kept himself out of mortal peril for the entire duration of the invasion (+1). 4 survival points. He didn't even get injured. He's the only one who survived without intervention by forces beyond his control. Martin didn't play the part of first to die. No, this man was born for the roll of Final Girl.

And I don't think he's evil, and I don't think he killed Gertrude. But I do think that he's entirely capable of murder, if that's what it takes to survive. And I do think he will continue to exert his agency in the story in ways that the other characters and audience forget to expect from him. Not me, though. I learned my lesson. As entirely disarming as his demeanor is, I'm not going to underestimate him a second time.