Dread & Breakfast

If you wouldn't go to someone for advice, don't take their criticism either.

Wait whoa

op woke up and chose logic today and idk how i feel about that

A different perspective on procrastination.

Just like anyone, I used to get really frustrated with myself for procrastinating before writing/arting/doing anything, really. (In full honesty, I'm writing this post while procrastinating writing my novel.) Until recently, I used to beat myself up for procrastinating. Everything changed, however, when I decided to accept that procrastination is part of my process.

I started thinking of procrastination as part of my process, rather than a detour from it, or a hinderance to it.

Now, when I sit down to write, I expect myself to procrastinate. More than that, I choose to let myself do it on purpose. My form of procrastination is usually when I sit down to write, I immediately feel the need to scroll YouTube, Tumblr, Google random stuff, clean up my desk area a little bit, search through Spotify---whatever it may be that day. Often the guilt of procrastinating made me do it even longer. Now, I tell myself, "Time to write! But first - a half an hour of procrastinating." And I let myself run to do whatever I want to, like a kid at recess.

And the weird thing is that I used to procrastinate about an hour or two before working on my projects, feeling badly the whole time.

Now that I gave myself permission to procrastinate, and treated it as a true part of my process?

I procrastinate maybe 20-30 minutes, if that. It almost feels like I'm a kid who liked sneaking out of the house, but was suddenly given permission to do so by my parents.

Sneaking out doesn't have the same charm anymore.

I'm procrastinating less, I'm starting to work at earlier times, and I'm finally not feeling bad about procrastinating.

Because it's not procrastinating.

It's just part of my process.

he’s… not wrong

But it does.

AO3 does ‘and’ filters.

You don’t filter for M&E. You filter for not the other stuff.

I have never seen so many users clearly baffled by and too skittish to push buttons/toggles that are very clearly meant to be used.

If a trusted website has a button and you don’t immediately know or understand what it does, push it. Check out every drop down, every link, every configuration imaginable. Be adventurous. Fuck around and find out. If it breaks the website, they shouldn’t have had that button in the first place. Not on you. Indulge your curiosity instead of complaining it doesn’t do something it absolutely does if you poke around a little.

You’re not going to get a bad grade in filtering by using interface features from AO3, I promise.

Look, there are library systems that don’t have filters as good as AO3. You have to learn how to use Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) and construct a proper query to exclude in several academic databases, and AO3 just performs “NOT” for you by clicking a button.

Do you know how many grad students would love to have the kind of power you have with AO3 in filters?

Ao3 filters are amazing. You can filter out ratings, you can filter out characters or pairings, you can filter out specific tags (as long as it’s an official tag)! (Type it in under “other tags to exclude”)

This is why the antis complaining about seeing content they don’t like on Ao3 is so frustrating. If something squicks you out, filter it, and you never have to see it again! Voila! Or even if it is just something you don’t like. I have High School AUs filtered out because I just don’t like them! It’s an amazing system and makes it so easy to curate your experience.

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*sidles up to you at the bar* would you like to hear my wise aphorism

only if it's actually wise. the last guy who asked me this had a pretty foolish aphorism tbh

oh… uhuh… *really should have prepared this ahead of time* never ignore… the melody of time… when your shoe’s untied?

*considers this aphorism sagely, sipping my horrible and bitter potion*

yes. there is wisdom in this. he whose shoes are untied must carefully mind the rhythm of his steps. bartender, another Wretched Potion, for my comrade here

*to self* holy shit… my aphorism… it’s wise!

I were inspired

women in STEM (shenanigans, tomfoolery, eccentricism, mischief)

you ever take a uquiz and realize halfway through that you don’t respect the author and their opinion is useless to you

everyone shut up except this person

im watching glamourous on netflix while drawing and noticed this in episode two:

LMFAO? My fucking impact is so insane jwefalgrubesrg the meme is truly transcendent

if u didn’t know: the reference they’re making is to the meme i photoshopped

*echoing disembodied Zelda voice*

Link. Link. That was a sick shred on your board but please focus. Link… I’m literally holding back the devil with sheer willpower. Link. Please kill this guy I want my body back. Link. I just want a pizza. Link. Why are you riding a moose? He can’t hear me can he?

Link. This is why we’re stuck in this reincarnation cycle. You need to focus. And he’s drowned in the lake again. Okay.

Link. I always knew. No, I always believed. That you would make it. Now give me one of the five hundred mushroom skewers in your pocket I haven’t eaten anything for over 100 years. I know you’ve got them. I watched you spend six hours throwing things into a wok over and over again.

i’ve only ever seen this picture cropped to orlando holding the lizard… which is cute don’t get me wrong but i like this even more. Examining a little lizard is a group activity

#lizard contemplation

Posting hole

Lol

yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.

(おじゃま攻撃かと思いきや | キュルZ＠5巻7/27 さんのマンガ | ツイコミ(仮)から)

Translation:

You aren’t going to get in my way today?

Ah, it was just a new type of attack.

my son crump who has every disease

the word “queer” being used by someone who uses that word to describe their own experience of love and their cherished community should not ever sound the same to you as it does coming out of the mouth of a homophobe. acting like these two types of people are the same is unbelievably cruel

^^^

Adding on once again: there is no word for our experiences that has not been used as a slur and isn’t *still* used as a slur.

My mother never said fag but she sure could say “gay” in a way that made it clear that was what she meant 🙃

“Homosexual” in the mouth of a Southern Republican US Senator is more vile than “faggot” in the mouth of a 50-year-old gay man from Seattle, where they made an attempt at one point to reclaim the word. (Unlike queer, it didn’t really work.)

Hell. “Those people” in the mouth of a homophobic mom to a closeted gay teen is probably fouler than either of those.

Just chiming in here from over on the disability side of things, where we can testify that it doesn’t matter what you call yourself, your terminology will get used as a slur by people who don’t want you to exist because you fuck up their ideas of how the world should be. So, call yourself whatever you want, and don’t yield to the people who don’t care what you’re called, because your greatest crime is existing in the first place.  They’re never going to have a polite word for you anyway.

Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.