[REQUEST] [SONG TRANSLATION] Paralyzed Ash by Sennzai
a very overdue request for a friend.
Source: Spotify
Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:
This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.
useful
blownfromthesunintothesurf
Alison Green’s advice works.
socialworkgradstudents
Alison Green got me all my interviews from 2012 onward, I am reasonably sure.
vanitycats
Alison Green is basically my life guide.
Mine too - she was my most visited website for the first few years of my working career, and I cannot emphasise enough how much her advice helped me navigate how to behave in a work environment. You name it, she has an answer for it. Definitely a life hack.
I don’t know what’s better: Blair asking a guy she just met who is possessed by a psychotic alien force about her love life, or that Sartorious is actually offended by such a wasted request. 😅😂
I say the offended part.
Commenting fanfiction is the easiest thing in the world once you start doing it.
I leave a comment on every single fic I read. Sometimes when I read published books I go and leave a comment somewhere the author can find it. Granted, I literally majored in ‘leaving comments on fics’ (English Education), but once you start doing it it just becomes second nature. Now you’re gonna go to the Ozymandias school of leaving comments:
Problem: I can’t leave kudos again.
Beginner: This is a second/third/fourth Kudos
Advanced: This is my second/third/fortieth time reading this, I still love it so much. Here are a few new things I noticed. I like the way you personally do x, y, z compared to other authors I’ve read (in this ship/genre/fandom).
Problem: I don’t know what to say :(
Beginner: Just list what you did to read this fic. “I stayed up late reading this”, “I read this on a crowded train”, “this kept me company while sick”.
Advanced: X,Y,Z parts made me get butterflies, and I had a physical reaction to this part of the story, I squealed outloud when characters did x,y,z. I blushed at this part. I laughed out loud here. Whatever.
Problem: I’m embarrassed to leave a comment (what if I annoy the author?)
Beginner: Short answer: you won’t EVER annoy the author (unless you’re needlessly mean) But to start, be generic, you don’t have to spill your soul in the comments section. “I liked this” “I enjoyed reading this” “nice fic”.
Advanced: This really meant a lot to me that you wrote this. This is something I feel like I’ve always wanted to read. This fic hit me in all the right places. Etc.
Problem: I don’t know how to express myself/my experience
Beginner: My beginners go to is to highlight a line, put that in your comment and say “i liked this” or to identify basic emotions you had while reading and comment those “this made me happy” “this part made me sad” “i almost cried” “you made me laugh” Advanced: “Highlighted line” This line made me smile because it has to do with character development/it’s really romantic/it’s so unique/it’s moving. Sometimes I don’t highlight a line at all, I just talk about the stuff I’ve noticed were unique to the fic. “I love the way you did this particular thing with this character”.
This? This is an amazing post. This is the Captain Awkward of commenting posts—it addresses all your fears directly and gives you actionable scripts for each one.
Hey! Some of this can apply to responding to works on writeblr, too! Wonderful advice for if you’re stuck on a comment but you really want to leave one (and you should, if you can!).
What people think why i became a bookbinder: Oh she wants to explore her artistic horizon with those pretty leather bound books of hers. She even gives them out as gifts to her friends. It most likely helps her with anxiety or maybe she just wanted a more special costume made notebook.
Why I actually became a bookbinder: I just illegally downloaded and printed out several of my favourite fanfics and books and started binding them into books cuz I love reading them but looking at screens for too long gives me headaches.
op youre fucking big brained oh my god
If you want to i can send you a link to some of the Tutorial videos i started binding my fanfic books.
PLEASE SEND ME THE LINK I WANT TO DO THIS SO BAD
PLEASE SEND LINKS OP PLEASE I BEG YOU
@laughuntilourribsgettough @starduststyx upon request: A tutorial playlist for my personal favourite bookbinding methods
- Longstitch binding
2)Japanese Binding
3) Belgian Binding
4) Coptic stitch binding
5) Case Bookbinding
Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??
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Reblog if your part of the Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s fandom
:)
Reblog this and tag the loot someone would get from you if they murdered you like right now.
1. No one said I would make it look like a normal murder
2. I laughed really hard at this
3. All anyone would loot from me is a nice silk robe and a TON of body jewelry. 11 pieces of titanium or gold I guess.
How I Wrote A Novel.
This, in a nutshell, is what I did to get a book with my name on it.
NOTE: This is just my personal way of making the words go. Other people have different ways to make their words go. In the world of words, there are no right answers. There’s just lots and lots of tea/coffee/tear stains.
1). The Idea
When I get an idea for a story, I open up a document, label it “Brainstorming,” and start making a bullet list of events that consist of the plot.
It has to be an idea with tangible weight. A stray bit of dialogue or something vague like Halloween, that doesn’t give me much to work off of. Halloween creatures living on the same street where it’s Autumn every day- now that’s something I can build from.
What kinds of creatures are they? What do they do? What do their houses look like? The best ideas are the ones that spark more.
2). First Draft
This is the easy part- and the most challenging. Easy, because there’s literally no bar. I just sat there and typed. But it’s a huge mental challenge.
When I was in first draft mode, I wanted that story out. I thought that by making it such a rough, far-away version from the concept in my head, I was only delaying the day where I’d hold it in my hands. Turns out, that’s what got it to take on physical form in the first place. So I quieted down, grabbed my laptop and some hot tea, and typed.
3). Dissecting the First Draft
After I finished draft one, I printed it all off and highlighted the scant amounts that were passable for the next phase. Dialogue, descriptions, setting- anything that didn’t look like it was up to par was scratched out and omitted.
I call the above pictures A Slow Descent Into Madness.
4). The Second Draft
On a fresh document, I rewrote the story altogether- and it make a difference. I was coming up with things I hadn’t even thought of previously. And it was surprising how much better the plot was than the first time around. But it was still rough.
5). Draft Three
My method was to start with the bigger, more obvious issues and work my way down. Any plot holes I found were noted, and my outline was constantly under revision. I cut out entire scenes and made mental notes on ways they could be fixed/replaced.
This is where I started cutting chapters in half to make the story flow better- but I didn’t bother writing in usable chapter titles. Instead, I improvised:
6). Drafts Four and Five
These were dedicated to correcting the smaller, less obvious plot holes. This was the point where the story finally started to look close to what would become the final version.
7). Drafts Seven Onward
With the story line looking how I wanted, I then moved on to sentence structure. That one song that looked terrible? Rewritten. Over-the-top descriptions and excessive prose? Gone.
8). Editing and Proofing
This is where I had outside help. Besides this useful tool, I had two people check for spelling issues and the overall story. Once it was in decent shape to be made public, I asked for some additional help.
9). Betas
My betas were in the age range that my novel was geared toward, along with a couple of teachers and parents (as it was middle grade). I gave them the full manuscript, along with seven basic questions like “Which characters were your favorite/least favorite and why?” and “Was there a part of the story that didn’t make sense?”
I gave my betas three months to read a 42,590 word story, and by the end they gave me back the review sheets.
10). Final Adjustments
After I read over the reviews, I let the comments sit for three days so that I could proceed with a clear head. I smoothed out any flaws, scanned over the MS twice to make sure everything was right, and that is how I got to the end of writing my first novel.
Next comes publishing- which is a different beast entirely.
I hope you all know that I read the comments and tags I get for this post and they make me so happy. I’m glad that I could help even one person get the idea out of their head and onto paper. Which brings me to the news that a part 2 is in the works where I tell how I wrote my second manuscript (with a little more info on how to publish traditionally). Until then, happy writing!
Galar Corsola or:
How to talk about the impact of climate change + the trash in our ocean: Nintendo style
To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.
USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!
Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:
/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless
I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE
This post has been circulating a bit and I’ve even gotten it messaged and submitted to me several times after I needed help, and I feel like it needs to be addressed. Almost none of these are of any use to people who need emergency funds. Here’s a rundown of all of the subs listed, just so people know:
- r/legaladvice - Advice sub, moderated by cops.
- r/RandomKindness - Strict rules against monetary requests.
- r/Charity - Seems okay but doesn’t allow the use of paypal or cashapp.
- r/care - Doesn’t have clear rules. Not very active.
- r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza - Very cool and helpful, but only for pizza. No requests for anything else. Must be 18+.
- r/Food_Pantry - Great for anyone who needs groceries. No monetary requests.
- r/RandomActsOfChristmas - Only requests allowed are for gifts to children under 17. Sub also will not generally accept users who are active in other charity subs.
- r/RandomActsOfPetFood - No monetary requests.
- r/almosthomeless - An advice sub, strict rules against monetary requests. Good for finding general resources.
- r/homeless - Absolutely no crowdfunding or monetary requests. Mostly a place for homeless folks or the previously homeless to talk.
- r/freelance - A place to TALK about doing freelance work. Absolutely no self promotion, advertising your skills, or requests of any kind.
- r/povertyfinance - Full of useful advice. Does not allow requests or offers for donations.
- r/thrifty - Not very active. Mostly “how to make extra money” type blog posts from other sites.
- r/borrow - For borrowing money, as in you need to pay it back. Requires you to have a 1000 karma score and share photo ID etc for lender’s security.
- r/gofundme - Only for Gofundme and other crowdfunding site links (not for paypal, cashapp, etc)
- r/depression - Some advice about dealing with depression, mostly used as a place to vent. Could potentially be very very triggering for some.
- r/familysupport - A locked, invite only sub.
- r/transitions - For temporary housing. Pretty much completely inactive with only one post in the past year.
Almost all of these subs have requirements on how long your account needs to be active (anywhere from a couple of weeks to several months, usually 90 days) and many of them also have karma requirements (you need to have made comments on Reddit that gained a certain number of upvotes) - meaning most of them are 100% useless for emergency funds.
I don’t mean any offense but - “I’ve never seen anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance” - OP must live under a rock. I’ve seen people able to pay their rent, feed their families for the month, cover emergency medical/vet bills and more because of the kindness of strangers on tumblr. I’ve seen people raise literal thousands of dollars. Is it easy? No. Does it happen to everyone? No. But I have a miniscule number of followers (I mean tiny) and when I made a post about needing help I got a surprising amount of random kindness in a very short span of time. I’m sure OP’s heart was in the right place while making this post, but they’re literally just wrong. Go to these subs if you need advice or resources, but you won’t find magic money flying around Reddit any more than you will on tumblr. I’d argue you’ll probably find less.
Anyways, I run a blog specifically for charity posts over at @boostsignal if any of you need help getting traction on your donation posts, and I’m also still in a bad rut myself, if anyone wants to spare a dollar to paypal.me/ohwolves :-) Please educate yourselves before sending things like this to people who are desperate for help.
What Nestle also did was file a lawsuit against activists and researchers who saw what it was doing, and said it can’t be held responsible for the deaths of millions because this was caused only by contaminated water. Recently enough, Nestle milk powder had larvae found in it and it’s instant noodles had lead in it
My grandmother told me that when she was having her children baby powder companies would tell Women that breastfeeding was unhealthy and made your baby sick and baby powder was superior to breast milk. In the early days of baby powder babies would die from malnutrition because the baby powder did not have all the necessary nutrients in it.
If you can’t produce enough milk it is perfectly alright to supplement with baby formula, but research different brands available to you, and I would not purchase from either of these brands.
I’m reblogging this for any Women following me with babies.
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
I’ll reblog this for those of you that hope to have children in the future, already have them on the way, and/or they’re already born.
I believe this is also good for the fathers to keep in mind since they may also need to feed the baby while the mother can’t, so they also may need to be aware of the various different brands, which ones are safe, and that the mother breastfeeding is perfectly valid (If any of them had any issues with that to begin with).
As someone that hopes to raise a family of my own someday, this is very valid to read about and makes me want to be far more careful in the future.
zackpyo-deactivated20230420
An Au where Yusaku became a cyborg after the Lost Incident, because he was cut off the legs to prevent runaway, and the electric shocks cause serious damage to his body. After years of treatment, Yusaku had been lost his connection to the world, he can’t live a normal life as a cyborg with trauma from the past. Now, revenge is his only goal. Daytime, he’s an ordinary trainee in SOL Technologies, but when night comes, he’s Playmaker, a D-wheeler who hunt every one of Knights of Hanoi down. Basically it’s still Vrains but with Yusaku now is a cyborg because I like it, and D-wheel is just too cool.
The Big Three decided to welcome Yuga into the family with a little ritual, sort of. Yup, really expect the list to get longer. I might have missed some in here.
Anonymous asked:
I write my fics out in Google Docs and then paste the text into Ao3 when I'm ready to post it. Does anyone else have the problem of pasting with italics? If there's a word in italics next to punctuation, Ao3 will add in a space for some reason and it's kind of infuriating.
One of the AO3 translation volunteers (Min) created a Google Docs script to handle issues when copying from a doc into AO3. It’s really easy to use
- create a copy of this google doc. It contains the script that will do all of the HTML formatting for you.
- Delete all of the text from the document.
- Write or paste your fic/chapter into the document.
- Go up to the top menu and click the new menu option Post to AO3, then choose Prepare for posting into the HTML editor
Note: because this is an apps script, you’ll need to give it permission to run the first time.
The script will automatically mark up your document with the required HTML that you can then paste into the AO3 composition window. \o/
To revert your text back to normal, just go back up to that menu and choose Remove HTML. It will look like regular text again.
Once you have the doc, you can make a new copy of it for each new fic you write and that way you’ll always have that script available when you need it :)
Reblogging the shorter form of this because I’ve recently switched to using this gdoc to copy pasta for AO3 and it really is life changing (and I’m saying that as someone who has been posting fic online for like 17+ years now lol)
Thank you, kind soul (Min) who created this doc for the rest of us.
olay i’m actually curious
reblog with your zodiac sign and if you’re scared of horses
not ponies. or horse-looking dogs. horses.
Fic authors deserve more credit.
Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.
The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.
So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.
Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:
30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell
50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville
250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin
350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW
I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.
Holy shit.
This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.
So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.
Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe = 38k fic
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic
Of Mice and Men = 30k fic
Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic
For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.
(honestly shout out to all fuckin fic writers. You didn’t have to give us shit and still y'all out here living ya best life and doin something you love. Bravo.)
Damn…. that’s…. eye opening.
panicked-scientists
oh my lord
I wrote something longer than Gone With the Wind, in 14 months. For free.
Please stop acting as if fic writers are your servants, and actually show us you like what we do. We’re helping keep the fandom alive a little bit at a time. A simple “I like it.” can do wonders in return for free content.