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♡Leah | 23 | she/her | ♉︎| enfj-t | bi | what do people put here again? Do people even look at blog pages anymore?✌🏻♡.
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The older you get the more you will realize that your friends are people who have made mistakes and bad decisions and even just fucked up and hurt people.

And obviously your boundaries with your friends are completely up to you but you do need to recognize that if you cut off everyone who has done something wrong, you’re going to end up with no friends (and you yourself will have also fucked up in your life, and not lived up to those impossible standards either).

I’ve found it’s much more constructive to learn how to say “hey dude, that was massively fucked up of you,” because most people are really willing to say “yeah, it was, I need to work on it/not do it again/apologize and make things right” ESPECIALLY if they are hearing it from you as their friend.

Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for another person is to tell them that they’ve done something wrong, help them fix it, and stay their friend because it’s what we would want from them if we did something wrong.

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subtle ways to include foreshadowing

  • one character knowing something offhandedly that they shouldn't, isn't addressed until later
  • the crow rhyme
  • colours!! esp if like, blue is evil in your world and the mc's best friend is always noted to wear blue...betrayal?
  • write with the ending in mind
  • use patterns from tragic past events to warn of the future
  • keep the characters distracted! run it in the background until the grand reveal
  • WEATHER.
  • do some research into Chekhov's gun
  • mention something that the mc dismisses over and over
  • KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU PUT. don't leave things hanging.
  • unreliable characters giving information that turn out to be true
  • flowers and names with meanings
  • anything with meanings actually
  • metaphors. if one character describes another as "a real demon" and the other turns out to be the bad guy, you're kind of like...ohhh yeahhh
  • anyways add anything else in the tags
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I'd also add:

  • something that your character thinks can't apply to them
  • information mentioned when they're talking about something else
  • doing something for thing x that then becomes relevant in situation y
  • a character avoiding avoid a topic
  • having characters who look alike but not drawing attention to it (e.g., two characters introduced five chapters apart who have red hair in a world where red hair is unusual)
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"don't post that, what if an employer sees?" personally i think employers need to stay the fuck off their employees' social media lmao

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stop normalizing employers invading employees' privacy ❤️❤️❤️

I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!

Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.

Firefox once again cleaning up after the whole corporate internet

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its true that romance amd friendship will not solve everything but. objectively speaking its very hard to get sad when you can say 'lets go get cake tomorrow okay' and someone will go get cake with you. like there is some good at least. you know