#website links

[troythecatfish]

Here’s my personal recommendation of a website to check out:

[ettawritesnstudies]

Another EXCELLENT release by writeblr's own @ashen-crest, I cannot say enough how much I absolutely loved this book. If you haven't checked out the Lutesong Trilogy yet, I highly recommend you go check it out. The characters are absolutely delightful, this is one of the few (only?) romances I've ever read that had me actually literally crying at the end, and the worldbuilding is really reminiscent of the spirit world in ATLA (especially the episodes with Hei Bai and the Painted Lady). If you like anxious bard bois, nerdy determined politician girls, and friendly overprotective feral shapeshifter spirit children, this is the book for you

[magicalwarriordiamondheart]

Alex's voice preview is also on the website as well now!

You can hear his role-call phrase here!

[spookcataloger]

Great horror webcomic series.

[in-sufficientdata]

I first saw this site in like 1996, and it still looks pretty much the same, and it's still being updated, and it's hilarious

go read anecdotes until 4am

(the rest of the site also has a lot of fun stuff on it! but this is the funny anecdote page)

[eavioli]

Welcome Home all answer links!! (Except for 14-14)

https://www.clownillustration.com/1-14-ph Poppy Howdy

https://www.clownillustration.com/2-14-sp Sally Poppy

https://www.clownillustration.com/3-14-hs Howdy Sally

https://www.clownillustration.com/4-14-bf Barnaby Frank

https://www.clownillustration.com/5-14-be Barnaby Eddie

https://www.clownillustration.com/6-14-jf Julie Frank

https://www.clownillustration.com/7-14-ej Eddie Julie

https://www.clownillustration.com/8-14-ef Eddie Frank

https://www.clownillustration.com/9-14-fp Frank Poppy

https://www.clownillustration.com/10-14-js Julie Sally

https://www.clownillustration.com/11-14-jb Julie Barnaby

https://www.clownillustration.com/12-14-hb Howdy Barnaby

https://www.clownillustration.com/13-14-he Howdy Eddie

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[theriverbeyond]

companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️

[ibtisams]

We are very close to a temporary 5 day ceasefire in order to exchange women and children hostages and allow aid into Gaza.

I hope everyone continues to put pressure on their local representatives and urge them to call for a ceasefire to ensure the Israeli government allows this to happen. If you’re from the UK, US, Canada or Australia here is a linktree with resources on how you can call/email your local reps

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

[zarla-s]

Dooo it, doooo it

(Links - neocities, sadgrl.online, w3schools, word to html editor, github, lissa explains it all, beginner's guide to html and css)

bleh I think i caught a cold on my trip, I've got a headache. plz allow for any delays, haha

[patreon]

[remusjohnslupin]

based on this hilarious post by @homosexual-having-tea.

[troythecatfish]

Here’s a way to support the ongoing actors strike:

[ettawritesnstudies]

Sharing old blog posts while I'm on hiatus: There's an overflowing amount of writing advice on how to write the first draft of a book and barely anything for the process of turning that into a book, so here's me trying to fill that gap!

If you want to support my work, leave a tip or buy stickers on my Kofi!

[lesbianredpanda]

Since I saw that "straight women vs lesbians hanging out" post again I made this lmao

[fakestage]

★ I adore these vintage buttons so much

[nakajimeow]

USEFUL WEBSITES FOR WRITERS

Writing With Color: Helps with writing about culture, ethnicity, and religion. Overall, it gives advice on how to write about diversity.

Name Generator: As the name says, it helps you build names for your characters. Very useful if you cannot think of names for your characters!

KathySteinemann: The 'archive.pdf' section helps you with synonyms in case you struggle to find the right word for your sentences (also to avoid using redundant words).

Spwickstrom: Similar to the previous one, this one provides grammar tips. Extremely helpful when finding phrases, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, and so on.

Servicescape: The perfect website if you're experiencing writer's block. It provides writing prompts. It helps you spark creativity when it comes to writing.

reblog to help other writers !!