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the first day of my hand drafting class in my senior year of college, after the prof taught us how to frame up on the drafting table and went over how to use the tools we'd bought, he had us all take our pencils and make a mark on the top right corner of the vellum. then he walked us through the setup steps - the border, the title block, etc.

and he told us to erase the mark.

when someone - rosie, i think - asked what the mark was for he smiled.

"if you give a novice student an expensive, blank piece of paper, they panic. they think if i start using that i will ruin it. so the first thing i want all of you to do, any time you stare at a blank piece of paper, is to ruin it a little and take the pressure off yourself. pencil erases. anxiety has to be managed."

i hated that man for a myriad of reasons, but that was some of the best advice i've ever been given.

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UNTITLED CHEERLEADER STORY

Max has just moved from New York to Southern California, and he’s about to befriend the peppy cheerleader next door, who really really wants him for the squad...

Taylor practically skips out of Max’s house. Goodness, she’s almost high! For some reason, when Max spoke, it felt like every word he said was the most important thing in the world. And he’s so cool! He’s from New York, he plays guitar, and on this morning’s evidence he’s also the best gymnast she’s ever met. He just might be the answer to all her prayers. And he has the prettiest brown eyes… It took some doing, but she managed to persuade him to come over tomorrow morning to spot her while she runs through her routines. He was nice enough not to say it, or even show it, but she knows he thinks cheerleading isn’t as challenging as what he’s used to; she’s going to show him how wrong he is. And she confirmed that he’s her age—eighteen, actually, so older, but only by like a month—and he’s going to Vista Primavera High for his final year, same as her. So all she has to do, once she’s shown him how awesome cheerleading can be, is ask him to join the squad. Ugh, and then talk the other girls into accepting another guy on the squad. That might be the tricky part; it’s not that guys on the squad are a problem, but all the guys they have are, well, shaped like Gordo. Max, who is barely an inch taller than her—she checked when they said goodbye—doesn’t fit in there. Whatever! She’ll work it out. She’ll make the squad see what he can do, and they’ll have to accept him. And then they might finally have a shot at regionals!

Untitled Cheerleader Story is inspired by Bring It On, by shipping the hell out of Torrance and Missy, and by vaguely remembering the year 2003.

The first three chapters can be read for free right here, and all ten chapters of the first book can be found here, on my Patreon, for just $5 :)

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Hello! This is, yet again, a short story I'd written a couple years back from my Patreon and which is now free for everyone to read.

Introducing: Kid Sleuth, in which: a young boy returns home after a summer spent at his grandparents', and finds that his best friend has been replaced by a girl; what's more, everybody insists the girl is his best friend. What gives?!

Give it a read! I hope you'll enjoy it :)

And, if you like it, consider giving my Patreon and my other stuff a look ;)

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And another chapter of Bladethorn is now up for all! Bladethorn is a dark fantasy revenge story, heavily inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo. Shirrin, the witch-queen of the Trabakondai barbarians, is brought in chains back to the capitol of the empire by Peleus, the man who betrayed her years ago.

In this chapter, chapter 4, Shirrin's preparations are finally complete. Using her powers of shapeshifting, she can begin applying pressure directly to the members of Peleus's court. Starting with the Empress.

You can read Bladethorn on my wordpress as linked above, or you can read it on Scribblehub, here, if that is your preference. I also have early access chapters availabe on my Patreon, here, with three early chapters currently available for $3 a month.

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

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MARIA ALEKSEEVA Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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Square Enix let them be together pls

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Oh look, just as fast and dirty as any other April 1st gag bit. Matt, Staff, Automattic, etc, FIX YOUR HEARTS. And do some work on the real problem on here.

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Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

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Miss Jophiel

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MARIA ALEKSEEVA Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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This feels more than just dislike btw. I'm pretty sure it's to prevent him from being able to document anything that happens to the flotilla because the zionazi terrorist squads have announced they will be raiding it when it takes off. April 27th 2024.

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the "irreversible damage" book cover is still perhaps the most succinct demonstration of how the laserfocus the detranxiety movement has on muh poor little girls is fundamentally an outgrowth of the general terror about declining (white) birth rates and white woman fertility as a dwindling resource. like, what's actually wrong with the kitschy smiling little girl in that picture? she looks pretty content for someone "mutilated." is she missing her head, brain, heart, limbs or what? anything that would obstruct her in living out her 8 decades on this earth? hell no, it's much worse than that. it's something that actually matters. she's missing her ability to produce White Babies. you're telling me we've spent decades working to overturn roe or at least make it as difficult as possible and now that we succeeded they've found a way to weasel out of being a reproductive resource anyway? that just won't do.

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Hello! This is, yet again, a short story I'd written a couple years back from my Patreon and which is now free for everyone to read.

Introducing: Kid Sleuth, in which: a young boy returns home after a summer spent at his grandparents', and finds that his best friend has been replaced by a girl; what's more, everybody insists the girl is his best friend. What gives?!

Give it a read! I hope you'll enjoy it :)

And, if you like it, consider giving my Patreon and my other stuff a look ;)

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