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I think that for every episode of bake off that has a foreign country as a theme there should be a special third judge that is just a grandma of that nationality and they should be equipped with an air horn they can toot in paul hollywood’s smug face whenever he confidently says something completely incorrect about a bake’s construction, flavour, texture, etc etc
its so shiddy when u have to convince yourself to do your hobbies. like, its fun, you like it, why cant you just do it. do it. do it. but what if.... mindless media consumption instead....
I don't think many people realise how important self-expression is. Whether it is by doing art, writing, singing, etc. And I'm aiming this particularly at people who want to do those hobbies but are embarrassed that they won't be good enough (this was me).
I started writing around a year ago. I wouldn't say it's award-wining, but I would say it tremendously helped with pinpointing an exact perception of myself. As an aroace person (who most likely has OCD), I constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY, second-guessed my identity. We all know the phrases, "but what if I'm straight and just need to try it.", "but what if I just have attachment issues.", "but what if I'm gay and in denial because of societal pressure.", "but I think that person is beautiful. Does that make me not aspect?", Etc. Etc. Etc.
This was pretty much a daily occurrence for me. That is before I started projecting my feelings onto the characters I write. I'm not kidding when I say that for the past few months, since I started writing about my personal experiences in fanfiction, I've had those self-doubts approximately ten times. Writing has helped me understand myself in a way no therapist or online page or aroace questionnaire ever could.
So, if you're feeling stuck, suffocated, and want to try your hand at an art to release those bottled up thoughts and emotions, please, PLEASE, do. It doesn't matter if you think it's not good enough. There's no such thing as bad art because art is subjective. There's no law that dictates what's good and what's not because fundamentally, the art you create is YOU.
Reminder: Bi Visibility Day is September 23. Remember to leave cookies out for Freddie.
Romanticizing your own loneliness and turning it into a cool girl thing only works for like a few months and then it just becomes a throbbing black hole i think. Not that ive ever experienced anything like that
IMPORTANT: TUMBLR HAS MADE A DEAL WITH MIDJOURNEY/OPENAI.
YOUR ART AND IMAGES ON TUMBLR ARE BEING USED TO TRAIN AI MODELS.
The opt-in is automatic, but you can turn it off in settings.
Go to "Blog Settings" -> "Visibility" -> "Third-Party Sharing" and turn on "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog]". (This post shows how to do it on browser and on mobile.) You need to do this with every sideblog. (Note: The option in settings might not appear if your app hasn't updated yet. You can still opt out via browser.)
Spread the word. Everyone on Tumblr needs to know about this.
So... apparently the NaNoWriMo organization has been gutted and the people at the top now are fully focused on Getting That AI Money.
I have no reason to say this other than Vibes™️ and the way that every other org who has pivoted to AI has behaved but I wouldn't trust anything shared with or stored on their servers not to be scraped for training LLMs. That includes pasting stuff into the site to verify your word count, if that's still a thing. (I haven't done Nano since 2015).
Also of note:
Age gating has been implemented. If you haven't added your date of birth to your profile or if you're under 18, it's supposed to lock you out of local region pages and the forums. ... It's worth noting that the privacy policy on the webpage doesn't specify how that data is stored and may not be GDPR compliant.
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Camp events are being run solely by sponsors. Events for LGBTQIA+, disabled writers, and writers of color no longer appear to be a thing at NaNo.
Just... go read the whole thing. It's not that long. Ugh.
So it looks like NaNoWriMo are happy to have AI as part of their community. Miss me with that bullshit. Generative artificial intelligence is an active threat to creativity and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in creative fields.
Please signal boost this so writers can make an informed choice about whether to continue to take part in such a community.
Yeah, I am, actually, thanks.
having fun scrolling arent u .. freak
You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended
theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment
The worst trick a childhood anxiety disorder pulls is, you spend your early years being applauded for being so much more mature than your peers, because you aren’t disruptive, you don’t want any kind of attention, you don’t express yourself, you keep yourself to yourself - this makes you a pleasure to have in class, etc etc - and you start to believe it’s virtue. But you’re actually way behind your peers in normal social development, and who knows if you can ever catch up.
Data! This data was collected on 8/6. When it came to the numbers for the Danny Phantom and the Batman - All Media types data, crossovers were excluded. That way DPxDC fics would not effect the data.
🟢 You are still a writer even when you haven't written in a while.
🟢 You are still a writer even when you feel like you aren't writing enough.
🟢 You are still a writer when you feel like your work isn't good.
🟢 You are still a writer when other people don't like your work.
🟢 You are still a writer when you aren't published.
🟢 You are still a writer when you only have works in progress.
🟢 You are still a writer if all you write is fanfiction.
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
I hated these assignments back in high school.
i hate when the teacher’s like “write about a bad time in your life” like i ain’t tryna get a social worker up my ass, thanks tho fam