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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!)
uuu thank u anon!! i hope this can explain it :^o
i use overlay all the time to make colours more vibrant and to make areas warmer or cooler. good for colourful ambient light (like glowy magic stuff).
multiply is really good for establishing a light source very quickly!! play around with the hue to get shadows with cool colours. for more detailed work you can use two or three tones on a multiply layer for more dimension.
screen is something i only recently started using regularly! it’s really great if you have a very bright light source. you can also use screen and paint on the edges of a backlit character to make the lighting more intense. a good thing to know about screen layers is that the darker the colour you use, the less it lightens; using black on a screen layer leaves no effect on the colours underneath (the opposite is true for multiply layers!).
and you can also use these layers for an entire painting instead of just on a character! i don’t have a visual example on hand, but stuff like making the area around a warm light source warmer, making a light source brighter and more vibrant, or using gradients set on multiply or screen are just some of the ways you can apply these to a full painting :)
Astrophysics/Astronomy Recs
Academic Earth: Astronomy (multiple courses)
Class Central: Relativity and Astrophysics (course)
NASA Astrophysics (govt. website)
MIT Astrophysics II (lecture notes)
Astrophysics and Cosmology by Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj (lectures)
Matrix Operations by Richard Bronson (maths textbook)
Linear Algebra by Seymour Lipschutz & Marc Lars Lipson (maths textbook)
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack (book)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson (book)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (book)
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (book)
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (book)
YouTube channels
i've been asked to bring back my SEVENTEEN gifs from my previous gif blog quadrats.
by clicking on the source link, you will be redirected to a page with medium gifs of ALL MEMBERS of the korean group SEVENTEEN. please cast accordingly! all of these gifs were made by me from scratch so please do not edit, redistribute or claim as your own & read our rules before using! please like/reblog this post if you save the gifs.
by clicking on the source link, you will be redirected to 100 medium gifs of HWANG YEJI. she is korean and was born in 2000, please cast accordingly! all of these gifs were made by me from scratch so please do not edit, redistribute or claim as your own & read our rules before using! please like/reblog this post if you save the gifs.
Dust/particles pack ‘dust/particles’ style gifs for you to use in your overlays, graphics or backgrounds - or just as they are! i did not make the original graphics, i’ve only made the gifs from Youtube resources. please like or reblog if you intend to use - many thanks…
Octomoosey <3
The Palestine Reader
The following is a collection of articles, essays, and books on Palestine. These are not introduction texts to the question of Palestine or the Palestinain-Israeli “conflict”. If you need one read The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Gregory Harms and Todd Fery. Further, this is not an “unbiased” or “neutral” readng list. Everything listed below is counter-hegemonic. I feel absolutely no need to provide anything from the Zionist or Israeli point-of-view when that is the dominant narrative. With that said, I believe this provides a diverse, but in no means comprehensive, overview of the discourse on Palestine. A continuously updated page of this list can be found here.
On Theory
Orientalism by Edward Said
Orientalism Reconsidered by Edward Said
The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
Reading Said in Hebrew by Ella Shohat
Notes on the “Post-Colonial” by Ella Shohat
On History
History of Palestine by Dr. Mohsen Mohammed Saleh
Sabra and Shatila: September 1982 by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
Peace and its Discontents by Edward Said
On Being Palestinian
What It Means to be Palestinian by Dina Matar
A Narrative of Palestinian Dispossession by Samia Costandi
The Palestinian Exile as Writer by Jabra I. Jabra
My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled
Memoirs, 1948 Part I by Fauzi Al-Qawuqji
Memoirs, 1948 Part II
Palestinian Identity and the Performance of Catastrophe by Ihab Saloul
On Zionism
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims by Edward Said
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims by Ella Shohat
Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler
The Invention of the Mizrahim by Ella Shohat
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky
Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak
The Ends of Zionism by Joseph Massad
The Persistence of the Palestinian Question by Joseph Massad
On Imperialism and Settler Colonialism in West Asia by Jamil Hilal
The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman
How the Zionists Took Over Palestine by Adel Safty
Imperial Israel and the Palestinians by Nur Masalha
After Zionism by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor
On the Holocaust
Respecting the Holocaust by Howard Zinn
The Holocaust: Learning the Wrong Lessons by Boaz Evron
The Victimhood of the Powerful by Jennifer Peto
On Media
Propaganda, Perception, and Reality by William A. Cook
Israeli Cinema an interview with Ella Shohat
Israeli Cinema by Ella Shohat
Palestinian Cinema by Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi
On Al Nakba
The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
The Saga of Deir Yassin
The Fall of Lydda by Spiro Munayyer
Returning to Kafr Bir'im
How Palestine became Israel by Stephen Hallbrook
The Palestinian Exodus of 1948 by Simha Flapan
Why Did the Palestinians Leave by Walid Khalidi
Selected Documents on 1948
The Limits of the New Israeli History by Joel Beinin
On Genocide
Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians by Kathleen and Bill Christison
Israel’s Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine by Steve Lendman
Ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Gideon Polya
The Lessons of Violence by Chris Hedges
The Brutal Siege of Gaza Can Only Breed Violence by Karen Koning AbuZayd
The Olive Trees of Palestine Weep by Sonja Karkar
Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust by Richard Falk
Gaza is Dying by Patrick Cockburn
Israeli Immunity for Genocide by Andrea Howard
Palestinian Misery in Perspective by Paul De Rooij
A Slow, Steady Genocide an interview with Tanya Reinhart
Gaza’s Holocaust by Dr. Elias Akleh
Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion by Adi Ophir
The British in Palestine, A Conveniently Forgotten Holocaust by Robert Fisk
European Collusion in Israel’s Slow Genocide by Omar Barghouti
Genocide in Gaza by Ilan Pappe
Genocide Among Us by Curtis F. J. Doebbler
Bleaching the Attrocities of Genocide by Kim Petersen
The Rape of Palestine by William A. Cook
Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus by Jonathan Cook
Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing by Uri Avnery
Disappearing Palestine by Jonathan Cook
The Problem With Israel by Jeff Halper
Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
Drying Out the Palestinians
Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza by Norman Finkelstein
To Gaza I Did Not Go by Gideon Levy
Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison by Noam Chomsky
The Most Humane Little Checkpoint by Amira Hass
On BDS
BDS: Winning Justice for the Palestinian People
Why Boycott Israeli Universities?
The Necessity of Cultural Boycott by Ilan Pappe
Companies Supporting Israeli Occupation
On Solutions
Two-State Illusion by Ian S. Lustick
Relative Humanity: The Essential Obstacle to a One-State Solution by Omar Barghouti
Where Now For Palestine? by Jamil Hilal
Just a bunch of useful websites
12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.
My Fridge Food – No idea what to make? Tell this site what ingredients you have on hand and it will give you recipes to cook.
Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.
Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.
Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.
Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.
LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.
Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.
Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.
CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.
Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.
Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.
Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.
Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.
My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.
Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.
Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.
Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.
Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.
Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.
Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.
Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.
This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.
Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.
BitWarden – Free open source password manager.
Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.
ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.
Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.
Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.
Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.
myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.
DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.
Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.
I noticed something on this that really stood out and relates to human society “si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war” and it made me think about something I read ages ago which was a post on tumbler with the humans are aliens stuff, it said in it that some terrestrial would try to make war with humans on purpose because as it figured out, humans evolve with war. We create new medicine we create new machines that are faster, better quality and more efficient, and once we gain peace for even a little bit we take into account the environment and try to make our items sustainable for it. But all in all we fight for peace but also we fight for evolution in our ways of thinking and lifestyle. Look at everything we have accomplished now. More than 80% wouldn’t be here today without fighting, without war…think about that for a bit.
i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?
"The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed" - Mahatma Gandhi 🌱 This last year, we've seen how beautiful as well as brutal nature can be when it has to be. It has shown us how we've exploited her and how she has respected and loved us. At least now, let's learn our lesson. Let's live up to our name as the "Most Intelligent Species on the Planet" but with a little change to it. Let's live and work to be the "Most Intelligent and Compassionate Species on the Planet". 🌱🪴🌳🍃🍂 #miracleswords #miraclereads _______________________________________ #worldenvironmentday #environment #ecosystem #environment #nature #naturelover #humanity #human #world #tree #plants #naturegram #environmentalist #savenature #earth #writing #writersofinstagram #photography #naturephotography #environmentallyfriendly #trending #happy #revolution #resolution #writer #quotes #resources (at Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPviGjrlE_N/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Whumptober 2021
Welcome to Whumptober 2021! May the Whump be with you :)
To all of you who participated last year - we have changed a few of the rules, but overall things have stayed the same. To everyone new: WELCOME!
Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.
This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.
With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. We wish you all the fun!
(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information, and FAQs are posted below the cut!)
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Whumptober 2022
Welcome to Whumptober 2022, in its fifth year of running!
To those of you who participated last year, welcome back! To everyone new, WELCOME!
Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, as most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else, you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.
This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.
With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators, see what juicy whump they’ve created too! We wish you all the fun!
(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information and FAQs are posted below the cut!)
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Types of AO3 Summary
Option 1 - The Excerpt:
The quickest, the easiest! Find a section of your fic that contains the main premise of said fic and also showcases your writing. Copy paste that into the summary box. BOOM! Done.
Best used for any fic, unless it's so short the excerpt would be the whole fic.
Option 2 - The No Frills:
Just a description of the fic. No need for drama. No need to complicate matters. Keep it simple, keep it safe.
Example: "A short character exploration of Blorbo's thoughts after Daisy leaves."
Best used for short fics, poems and fics where the style/format is more important than the plot. Or fics that tie directly into a scene/episode from canon or another fanfic.
Option 3 - The Hook:
Draw the reader's interest by giving them a set up with no conclusion. Introduce the main character(s), introduce the status quo, describe an inciting incident, leave a question in the reader's mind.
Example: "Blorbo is a barista at a coffee shop, struggling to pay their bills, but after handsome rockstar Obrolb walks into their coffee shop they find that they have to decide whether a chance at love is worth the cost of fame."
Best used for mid to long fic where there's a strong premise and follow through. Especially good for AUs. Can be expanded for more complex plots or used multiple times in one summary for multiple characters or subplots.
Option 4 - The Sitcom One-Liner:
"The one in which [over simplified description of one of the main plotlines]" This is essentially 'boil your plot down to the very simplest statement you can, oversimplify if possible. The more bizarre or unhelpful the better.
Example: "The one in which Blorbo learns to like cake".
Best used for fics with at least a little humour in them.
Option 5 - The Rule of Three:
Three is a magic number. Find three key moments in your fic and just list them. That's it. Often ends with 'not necessarily in that order' if used for comic effect. If it's an AU, establish that quickly (i.e. 'Star NHL player Blorbo…').
Example: "Blorbo makes a friend, falls in love, and almost burns to death, not necessarily in that order."
Best used for anything, really. Three is a magic number. The human brain loves things that come in threes.
Option 6 - The Trope Lure:
Why bother describing the plot? We all know AO3 readers are here for the tropes. Similar to The Sitcom One-Liner just using tropes instead of plot. Often followed by the phrase 'that nobody asked for'.
Example: "The Space western / A/B/O / Mail Order Bride fic that nobody asked for."
Often tacked on to the end of The Hook or The Excerpt as a tl;dr.
Best used for fic that plays its tropes straight with no shame or second guessing.
Option 7 - The Pre-emptive Strike:
(Not recommended) You just wrote this fic, the self doubt is consuming you. You feel the need to apologise profusely for your existence for no apparently reason. You feel cringe, you think the fic is cringe, you want everyone to know that you think the fic is cringe in case they don't like it and judge you for it.
Example: "So I fell in love with this pairing and had to write this. It's weird and terrible. Lol! I suck at summaries! Sorry!"
Best used for no fics ever. I cannot stress this enough.
(Seriously, I am begging you, don't do this. If you're planning to use this option, rethink it and do one of the others. I guarantee you more people will want to read your fic.)
Sometimes added on to any other summary as a strange disclaimer. (srsly. don't.)
Option 8 - The Unapology:
Embrace the mayhem, embrace the deep dark depths of your soul. The opposite of The Pre-emptive Strike. A combination of The No Frills and The Trope Lure that truly gives no fucks.
You have committed crimes and you are proud of them. You know what your USP is and you're going to make sure your target market finds you. Look upon my works, ye readers, and despair!
Example: "There aren't enough tentacle fics in this pairing, so I had to write one myself!"
Best used for fics with controversial/polarising tropes with all relevant details already clearly stated in the tags.
Option 9 - The Interrogation:
What if you wrote a summary entirely in questions? What if your readers had to read the fic to discover the answers? Who knows what will happen if you do this?
Example: "What happens when Blorbo McBlorbo gets his wish and Daisy doesn't make it to the plane on time? What happens when Obrolb finds out? How will this change Daisy and Blorbo's friendship?"
Best used for... I honestly don't know. This style of summary does not vibe with me. Mystery fic maybe? Sorry guys.
Option 10 - The Multipack:
Got a bunch of shorter fics in one work? No way of summarising them all without a wall of text larger than the Great Wall of China? This one is similar to The No Frills in that you're not describing the plots themselves and similar to The Trope Lure in that often broader genres and tropes are mentioned. What links those fics? Are they all in the same fandom? The same pairing? The same challenge? Just slap that right in the summary. A chapter list with 1-2 word trope/pairing summaries can be included or not.
Example: "A collection of Blorbo/Daisy/Obrolb fics based on Tumblr prompts. Chapter 1: Regency AU Chapter 2: Werewolves vs vampires Chapter 3: Ghost!Daisy Chapter 4: Space pirates!"
Best used for (obviously) works that are compilations of fic.
Option ? - The Void:
I said The Excerpt was the quickest and easiest summary to do. I lied, well... I didn't exactly lie. What is quicker and easier than not having a summary at all? After all, that's what the tags are for.
Example:
Best used for... nothing? Write a summary, guys. Please?
Writing Tips
Punctuating Dialogue
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➸ “This is a sentence.”
➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.
➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”
➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”
➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”
➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”
➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.
“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.
“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”
➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”
➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”
However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!
➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.
If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)
➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“
“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.
➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.
➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”
➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.
“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”
➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.
“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”