Humans like to believe that we only use 20% of our brains because it makes us feel better about realizing how truly dumb some of our species can be.
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What to do if you suddenly find yourself homeless
FOOD
- Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food
- grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread
- different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.
- some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit
SHELTER
- Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment
- sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it
- Some churches offer short term residence
- Find your nearest homeless shelter
- Look for places that are open to the public
- A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry
HYGIENE
- A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.
- Public libraries have bathrooms you can use
- Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.
- Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver
- Local beaches, go for a quick swim
- Some truck stops have showers you can pay for
- Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet
- Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket
OTHER
- first aid kit
- sunscreen
- a travel alarm clock or watch
- mylar emergency blanket
- a backpack is a must
- downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards
- sleeping bag
- travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror
- swiss army knife
- can opener
Reblog to literally save a life
if there is a Dollar Tree near you, they have entire food aisles
Planet Fitness also has $10 memberships. you can shower and they have free food days! pizza night 1st monday every month, bagel tuesday the 2nd tuesday every month.
himynameisrollin
Save a life reblog
i am so glad that i renblogged this however so long ago. i saw this post and shared it with others in mind, but now i am the one who really needs this. id like to think of this as good karma i guess
also a good list if anyone ever needs to run away from home for whatever reason.
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I’d also like to add that some YMCA’s will let you like,,, live in there (my dad lived in a ymca for a bit while he was in grad school till some guy who turned out to be a murder later on invited him to live on his couch BUT THATS A DIFFERENT STORY)
thegardenerofvoltron
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Thought it might be useful: a list of some novels with an average number of chapters & word count per chapter. source
RULE #1: Use them sparingly.
Comparisons draw attention to themselves, like a single red tulip in a sea of yellow ones. They take the reader out of the scene for a moment, while you describe something that isn’t in it, like you’re pushing them out of the story. They require more thought than normal descriptions, as they ask the reader to think about the comparison, like an essay question in the middle of a multiple choice test. They make the image stand out, give it importance, a badge of honor of sorts.
Use too many comparisons and they become tedious.
Elevating every single description is like ending each sentence with an exclamation point. Eventually, the reader decides no one could possibly shout this much, and starts ignoring them.
For these reasons, you should only use metaphorical language when you really want to make an image stand out. Save them for important moments.
RULE #2: Use comparisons that fit into the world of your story.
If you’re writing from the point of view of a character who’s only ever lived in a desert, having that character say, “her look was as cold as snow” doesn’t make much sense. That character isn’t likely to have experienced snow, so it wouldn’t be a reference point to them. They’d be more likely to compare the look to a “moonless desert night” or something along those lines.
Using a comparison that ties to the character’s history or the setting of the story also do work to build the world of the story. It gives you a chance to show the reader exactly what your character’s reference points are, and builds the story’s world. If your reader doesn’t know that desert nights can get cold, this comparison informs both the things its describing: the other character’s look and the desert at night.
Here’s a metaphor from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn’t exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.
He was tall and he was gangled.
This is a bizarre comparison, but it’s also a bizarre story. What’s more, David Bowie is known for his persona “Ziggy Stardust” and songs like “Space Oddity.” Bringing him up in a book about a man from Earth traversing the galaxy makes sense. What’s more it increases both of those aspects of the story: its ties to space and its bizarre-ness. The comparison unifies the story and the language being used to tell the story.
Using comparisons that fit into the world ensures that everything is working to help tell the story you want to tell.
RULE #3: Match the tone to the thing being described.
Or, match it to the way you want the thing being described to come across. It has to match what you want the reader to feel about the thing being described.
Here’s an example from Mental Floss’s “18 Metaphors & Analogies Found in Actual Student Papers” (although I think it’s actually from a bad metaphor writing contest):
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
You’re not imagining a laugh right now, are you? You’re imagining a dog throwing up. Whoever this girl is, you’re going to make sure never to tell a joke in front of her.
This is not getting the right point across.
Remember the David Bowies? Remember how the comparison was fun and bizarre, just like the tone of the book is fun and bizarre?
This is not David Bowies stacked on top of one another.
It’s not enough for a comparison to be accurate. It has to bring about the same emotions as the thing it’s describing.
If this is being told from the point of view of a character who hates the laughing character and we’re supposed to hate her and her laugh. It actually does work, but from the use of the word “genuine,” I don’t think this is the case.
Make sure you always pay attention to the tone of the comparison.
RULE #4: Keep them simple.
Don’t use a comparison that requires too much thought on the reader’s part. You never want anyone sparing even a moment on the question: “but how is x like y?”
Here’s another example from that Mental Floss list:
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
Again, this is a humorous example. It’s supposed to be bad, but many writers have made mistakes like it. They choose two images that don’t have enough in common for the reader to make an easy and obvious comparison between the two. Sometimes, the writer subconsciously acknowledges this, and expands the comparison to a paragraph, detailing the ways the two things are alike.
If you find yourself doing this, take a step back and ask yourself if this is really the best comparison to be using. The best comparisons are the simple ones. All the world’s a stage. Conscience is a man’s compass. Books are the mirrors of the soul.
What about that David Bowie quote, you ask? Douglas Adams broke this rule, but he broke it purposefully to get that bizarre quality to the language. He still avoids reader confusion, the reason for this rule, by bringing the comparison back to its point at the end: “he was tall and he was gangled.”
RULE #5: Avoid cliches.
The best comparisons are fresh ones. No one wants to hear that she had “skin as white as snow” and lips “as red as roses” anymore. The slight understanding it brings to the description isn’t worth the reader’s groans when they realize you just made them read that again.
A cliche is a waste of space on the page. It’s not going to be the memorable line you want it to be. It’s not going to awe the reader.
Good similes in metaphors require some creative thinking.
In the vein of rosy lips and snow-colored skin, here’s a fun example from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It’s the poem that Ginny wrote for Harry on Valentine’s Day:
His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
These aren’t comparisons you’re like to have come across before and their originality comes from rules #2 and #3. Rowling needed comparisons that fit in Ginny’s frame of reference. She also needed comparisons that were humorously bad, as they’re being recited by a grumpy creature dressed in a diaper, who is sitting on Harry’s ankles, forcing him to listen.
As a witch at school, blackboards and fresh pickled toads fit Ginny’s frame of reference. Neither are particularly known for being nice to look at, so they fit the tone, too.
Using her character, setting, and tone, using, in other words, her story, Rowling was able to create similes that are unique and memorable.
It’s the same thing Adams did with his Bowie analogy.
If you, too, use your story to inform your language, writing new and wonderful similes and metaphors should be just as simple.
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Webcomic tips
In the conclusion for now, some things I’d really recommend doing if you’re seriously considering making a webcomic (or really a comic in general). Some of these don’t really apply to strips or gag-a-day type of comics, but I’m not talking about those here.
1. Write down ideas\sketch stuff, LEGIBLY. “I’m gonna remember it later” NEVER works. And if you scribble it somewhere on a piece of paper, you’d better scan it or retype in one doc later, because tiny notes always get lost among other doodles in my skethbooks.
(i know it’s hard to keep everything clean and organized, but this mess is just not productive)
If your project is a collaboration, save your conversations. If you’re working alone, make a blog for your ramblings. You have no clue what tears of relief I cry when I open that blog and rememeber I don’t have to painstakingly look through my heaps of sketchbooks and folders for a tiny idea I’m not even sure I wrote down a few months ago.
2. Inspiration folders, or even better, inspo blog with tags also help with collecting and remembering ideas. Color schemes, landscapes, style inspirations, atmospheric stuff, maybe some photo references, all those neat things.
3. Basic tier: character design sheets. Top tier: common poses, expressions. God tier: outfits they wear throughout the comic. Holy cow tier: turnaround sheets for all those outfits.
(I’d die trying to find good pages for references without these)
4. If you haven’t finished detailing the plot, don’t even think about moving on to drawing the comic. You’re gonna regret it when you come up with a really cool plot element that can’t be incorporated anymore because you’ve already drawn all the parts you could’ve tweaked.
5. Don’t just define the plot, make a script. Writing down the lines and the brief description of the actions serves me fine:
(notice that I approximately divided the pages & the text that’d go to each panel on a page)
6. Hard mode: make thumbnails for all the pages, if possible. At least whenever a new chapter starts.
7. If your story involves some convoluted chronology shenanigans, you’d better write down the events of your timeline in the chronological order.
8. Backgrounds. You can’t avoid them, bro. Like half of the comics are backgrounds, especially if your story involves a lot of adventuring and looking around. I know it hurts, but you’ll have to become friends with them. Read some tutorials, practice on photos, go out and sketch some streets, use 3d programs (like Google Sketch) to understand the perspective, use sites like houseplans to visualize your buildings better, I don’t know. Just be prepared for their imminent evil.
9. If you’re drawing digitally, pick a brush size for the lines and stick with it. You don’t want your lines and detail levels to look all wonky and inconsistent in different panels. And I don’t mean the cool stylistic varying lines, I mean this:
Also, things on the background should have thinner and/or lighter lines to avoid distraction. Usually less details too, unless you’re making a busy background with a simple foreground to help it pop out. Or wanna draw the attention to an object on the bg.
10. Readable fonts. Even if you chose to ignore people with poor sight or dyslexia, the majority of your readers aren’t gonna be excited about struggling to decypher this:
Also, as much as I love my black speech bubbles, colorful text on black still kinda hurts the eyes. I wouldn’t recommend doing that for all the characters. Black speech bubbles are usually used for creepy, inhuman voices. And yes, having a colorful outline in this case helps.
11. Probably newsflash, but did you know that panels have their place, order and functions? They do! My favourite thing ever is how I used panels when I was like 12:
(comics ain’t rocket science, but this one is)
The composition of the panels and word balloons always serve for a better reading experience. They guide your eyes over the page, so that you never feel lost or confused. The images in the comic equal frames in a movie, so it’s pretty damn important in what order you look at things and how quickly you can understand what’s going on!
(Eric Shanower & Scottie Young’s Wizard of Oz)
12. One update a week is fine for testing waters. Don’t overestimate yourself, especially if you have a pretty busy life outside it. A stable comic that updates slowly, but regularly is better than an unpredictable erratic one. You can always pick up the pace later, if you feel confident enough.
13. Try to always have a buffer - a couple of pages in reserve. If you’re making the pages much faster than you’re updating, this shouldn’t be a problem. But if those paces are equally the same, it’s goddamn HARD. But on the other hand, if something happens and you skip an update, those come in handy.
If you’re looking at this list and thinking “wow that’s a LOT of work”, you’re totally right. And it’s okay to be intimidated at first! But that’s why it’s important to start with something small. Once you get the formula down, these things will be natural to you.
drunkgeralt
Really great collection of tips for my webcomic creators! Many of these are relevant to every artist as well!
SEND ☼ plus a song title from CREEP-P songs for me to write a starter that includes one of this lines! 30 starters | TW: violence, abuse, death
ANIMALISTIC
- « they can’t hurt you again »
- « i don’t know why I do this for you »
- « you’ll just hurt me again »
- « it’s hard to believe that you’re a fucking liar »
- « don’t get too close or i’ll try to bite »
- « i’m the reason that you lied »
- « i had to try, and stay strong… »
- « don’t come back with your bullshit »
- « i’m not fucking leaving »
- « just shoot me dead »
CREATIVE
- « take a chance »
- « now, try and listen to me »
- « why be jealous? »
- « why doesn’t anyone kill me?! »
- « stop with all your thinking »
- « start listening to me »
- « you’ll be set free »
- « you time has run out »
- « do you now finally agree? »
- « it’s really messing up my brain! »
EXORCISM
- « i forgave you »
- « i forgot you »
- « i’m a worthless humam being »
- « keep your voice down »
- « i swear to you that I’m fine »
- « let me die »
- « it won’t happen again »
- « i won’t play nice »
- « everything you told me were lies »
- « you left me here to fucking die »
Easy and better results in 123
Quick tip for anyone looking up nutrition statistics:
Google returns a lot of bunk if you search anything in this topic, and it’s frustrating to try and sift through research papers and know which ones are relevant when you just want a quick answer. But did you know that there’s an institution that has reviewed, compiled, and judged these findings and then written up an easy and free report on almost all of them? It is the US government. (disclaimer: the government is not perfect but it’s pretty damn good at compiling basic nutritional data)
-How do we access this? Easy. Type the term “gov” after your main search term and viola!
Example: I want to know if eating a lot of coconut oil is a good idea.
-Based on these results, I should be eating lots of this, just,,, shoveling it in without a care in the world
-ok now let’s add the term ‘gov’:
Heeey now I have information that is cited, credible, and up to date, and also not paid by someone sponsored to sell coconut oil.
So should I avoid eating coconut oil?? Hey the debate around cholesterol and fat and regulation is a different and complicated debate, but now at least I have actual data.
2018
To mark the end of the year 2018, I’ve decided to make a master post of all the the Monthly Prompt Sets. Just because the months and the year is over, doesn’t mean they can’t still be put to good use! I personally like to use a date generator, to give me a random month and day, and then whatever the prompt for that day is, I go for it. It’s my personal makeshift prompt generator, So I thought I’d share it with you all, and hopefully you can still get use out of these!
Happy New Years! See you all in 2019 with a whole new set of prompts!
Friendly reminder that if you like my prompt sets, you can commission me on Ko-Fi and get a custom set with any theme of your choice!
Welcome to 2019! Start off your year productively and get creative with the January prompt set! I’m really looking forward to this new year, and I hope you all are too! My ‘New Years Resolution’ is to be more productive with my writing, and I have a feeling a lot you will probably have similar resolutions, so I hope to help with that! Here’s to a whole new year of creating! As always, feel free to tag me in anything you create using these, I love seeing what you all come up with! :)
Text Version:
January 2019 Prompt Set
1. Reset
2. Ancient
3. Dead as a door-nail
4. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard
5. Light switch
6. ‘Who are you to judge me?’
7. Overwhelming
8. Dawn
9. Last call
10. Preserve
11. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”- John Keats
12. ‘I want… No… I need a fresh start. One far away from here.’
13. Familiar
14. Live and learn
15. Direction
16. Impartial
17. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”- Jean de La Fontaine
18. ‘Of course, there’s a catch! There’s always a catch!’
19. Development
20. Convince
21. The ball is in your court
22. “Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”- Hugh Prather
23. Accepted
24. Distance
25. ‘I won’t go through that again.’
26. On thin ice
27. Crash
28. Go, going, gone
29. Stop
30. “It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.”- George Washington
31. Rain check
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February 2019 prompt set as promised! Yes, I do know that there are not 31 days in February, I add extras in the case that you miss a few days, if you’re uncomfortable with certain prompts, prefer a different prompt or are just feeling ambitious.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the set, have fun with it, feel free to tag me in anything you create, and happy February!
Text Version:
February 2019 Prompt Set
1. Nonchalant
2. Faithful
3. ‘You really thought I would just forget about you? It’s not that easy.’
4. Sabotaged
5. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” - Oscar Wilde
6. Marked
7. Hand-made
8. ‘Kissing you is a death wish’
9. Left high and dry
10. Eager
11. Convincing
12. ‘I know…I know I shouldn’t ask you this but…please don’t leave me right now?’
13. The eyes are the window to the soul
14. “There is no instinct like that of the heart.”- Lord Byron
15. Wanted
16. Possessive
17. ‘Are you sure you won’t dance with me? This is your last chance?’
18. Handsome is as handsome does
19. Taboo
20. Addicted
21. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”- John Keats
22. Willpower
23. Old flame
24. Scandalous
25. ‘When I said: “Try Me” this is not what I meant!?’
26. Innocence
27. Elegant
28. Love begets love
29. Bashful
30. “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
31. Ring