an interstellar game where humans describe various real and mythical animals and the alien has to guess which is real
human: one is a mammal that lays eggs, has a bill like a duck, is semi-aquatic, and the males have venom in their feet. the other is a horse that can fly.
alien: obviously the first one is fake
human: nope
alien: WHAT
find some time rn to hydrate yourself 👍👍👍
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Very late but…..Happy 80th Anniverary, Robin!
i hope some student out there somewhere, for some reason, has at some point plagiarized my blog for an assignment
Worse. I cited you.
I would like to hear the story
I was writing an essay on internet culture and began discussing internet humor. I wrote this.
that’s not absurdism that’s ART
They called you Gaud in an ESSAY
I called them Gaud in a formal essay and still got an 83%.
reblog to get a 83%
Hopefully I can add more day to day, but even the small stuff makes you smile sometimes. Yesterday at my coffee shop, a woman tipped me five dollars because, and I quote, "Just because there's a virus doesn't mean I can't tip you for my coffee."
The small shit matters as much as the big shit. Good luck, try to look at the good and also try and DO some good, and wash your hands.
take a break and look up from your screen 🌟
When writing a story, your prose can often feel jumbled.
Muddled.
Disconnected.
Like it just doesn’t flow.
And for a long time, I never knew a clear, tangible tactic for fixing that problem, except by feel or by trial and error. Then I learned a simple, but effective trick for improving flow:
Use the last few words of one sentence to set up the information that’s about to appear at the beginning of the next one.
Think of it like crossing a stream, hopping from rock to rock — each rock acts as both a landing spot and a launching point. Writing and revising your sentences to serve a similar purpose can go a long way in improving the flow of your prose.
Let’s start by taking a look at a paragraph (prepared by yours truly) that doesn’t do this, resulting in a somewhat bumpy flow:
Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” had always inexplicably drawn Henry in. The painting was framed as a poster on his wall, and he often stared into its dizzying swirls of blue and yellow, and its fiery cypress tree — marveling at the chaos that entrenched the village scene. Henry had always hoped that Vincent was able to find some peace in expelling this vision from his mind and onto the canvas.
Feels a bit disconnected, doesn’t it? It’s still readable, but there isn’t much of a continuity of ideas bridging the sentences — no connective tissue to smooth out your journey through the prose.
Now let’s look at the same paragraph again, but with some simple rearranging done to ensure that the information that ends each sentence also kicks off the next one (I put these hand-offs in bold):
Henry had always felt inexplicably drawn to Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.” The painting was framed as a poster on his wall, and he often stared into its dizzying swirls of blue and yellow, and its fiery cypress tree — marveling at the chaos that entrenched the village scene. With such a vision expelled from the mind and onto the canvas, Henry had always hoped that Vincent was able to find some peace.
Now that reads a little better, doesn’t it? You’ll notice I didn’t even change up my word choice. Sometimes you’ll have to swap out words or change the order of your sentences, but even just rearranging information can often add a lot connectivity.
This obviously won’t be possible in every sentence and paragraph, but it’s a great rule of thumb when you want to smooth out your prose. I hope this proves as helpful to you all as it has been for me!
Good luck, and good writing, everybody.
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As a professional editor I fully endorse this!
shit it would be so fucking surreal if trump dies from coronavirus
“hey trans men, trans mascs, enbies: be careful wearing your binder during this pandemic. one of the first symptoms of covid 19 is shortness of breath, respiratory issues etc. and binding can make any of these significantly worse. take care and breaks
if u feel worried about symptoms (and especially if u have asthma too) then be rly careful!! try and wear ur binder as little as possible
u are still handsome w/o it”
- korviday
“Also it can make people underestimate their symptoms as they’re explainable bc of binding when they might actually be something else.”
- Mars
Hey can you guys make this post go viral? I want my bf to see this as screenshot on a bunch of different sites so he sees me saying MICHAEL I LOVE YOU AND PLEASE DRINK WATER
If you are on prescription medication, check to make sure it doesn't interact with your cold medicine - dextromethorphan, a common med, is not supposed to be taken with many mental health medications.
REBLOG TO SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE!
Clogging the ER when you're able to breathe and not actually dying could kill someone. For the love of god just stay home unless you're 100% for real dying.
important!! save!
in light of recent events as well as a new rise in creating nazi ocs I think this post is an important one to have on your blog if you stand behind your jewish followers or are jewish yourself.
If you can’t reblog this unfollow me.
Fucc nazis-
OK BUT the episode “And So Kyouya met Him” where everything is the same but Tamaki and Kyouya duet “The Other Side” from The Greatest Showman when Tamaki invites Kyouya to start the Host Club
