NaNoWriMo, The Competition Whose Raison D'etre Is Making People Write Actual Words For A Month, Declaring

NaNoWriMo, the competition whose raison d'etre is making people write actual words for a month, declaring that you can do writing with AI is a predictably inane choice. But coaching their statement in social justice language about how banning AI is classist and ableist, now that elevates it to the sublimely dopey

Unnecessarily Purple Substitutes For The Phrase “Purple Prose”

Wordsmithery of a Tyrian hue

His pen’s ink was in half-mourning

A style so intensely violet as to have almost passed beyond the visible spectrum

Passages which ought to be carved in porphyry and declared the exclusive property of the Roman emperors

The pages stretched before her like the expanse of Lent, although without either the austerity or the variety: which is to say that they were lengthy, mortifying, and draped in violet

The poet’s style had mixed the red of strong emotion with the blue of deep contemplation in reckless quantities, creating a result so vividly colored as to be barely comprehensible

Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.

It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Well, that's double what I asked for! The people have clearly spoken.

If this gets two notes, I'll make one of those tacky pinned posts with too many GIFs and things of the like.