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With Autism Acceptance Week (28/03 to 04/04) here, and April being Autism Awareness Month, here's a reminder:

Source ~ Autistic Truth

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Use These Symbols for Autism:

-> Rainbow Infinity Symbol for Neurodiversity

-> Gold Infinity Symbol for Autism

Please don't use these:

🚫 (image of a ribbon made of primary coloured puzzle pieces)

🚫 (Image of four interlocking puzzle pieces in primary colours red, blue, yellow and green)

🚫 (Logo of Autism Speaks, with a puzzle piece of blue fading into pink)

- These Symbols are offensive to majority of autistic people

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hello! [commercial voiceover voice] from the maker of previous "intro to" ppts comes to you, dear tumblr blogger, a guide to PLAVE!

are you a little wary or confused on just who those virtual men are? do you hate aidols as much as i do? are you interested in idols who have complete anonymity? do you like fun little twitch streams? do you like vtubers maybe? or find the concept of motion capture fun? well lucky for you plave has all that and they can sing, dance, produce, and write!

-> includes: general group information, member information, discography + mv links, stream highlights + VODs, and more ♡

[ link to the guide on google slides ]

feel free to share + let me know if there's ever any errors or problems!

updated: 2023.04.06

run your fingers through my hair, i won’t get you out of my head.

Have some Gandalf memes my children

this post reminded me to pick a song holy shit

adhd culture is plugging in your headphones ready to bOp and then two hours later realising you haven’t actually pressed play

Spec biology: typology, seminal works, references

A taxonomy of the main types of speculative biology for the benefit (I hope) of beginners, with examples of the earliest/most influential works and references hopefully useful to make your own. Full list below the cut; will be expanded over time. (Please contact me if a link is down; I’ll try to keep them updated.)

0a. General references: useful for any kind of specbio project. The Speculative Evolution Forum, Laws of Evolution (Pavel Volkov, 2005), Furahan Biology and Allied Matters (Gert van Dijk, 2008, ongoing), Spec Evo Wiki Tutorials (yours truly, ca. 2014; include planets, ecology, physiology, naming, &c), Chase for a Blue Chimera (Volkov & Kilyachkov, ca. 2015; general treatise on SpecBio) Worldbuilding Resources, Alien Biosphere Evolution (Phrenotopia, 2018, ongoing), The Equations of Life (Charles Cockell, 2018), Alien Biospheres (Biblaridion, 2019, ongoing), Exocosm (Abbydon, 2020, ongoing)

0b. Naming: Forming classical scientific names (Grensted & Bradley, 1958); Dictionary of Greek/Latin Roots (Donald Borror, 1960); Guide to Naming (me, ca. 2014); Guide to (Vernacular) Names (Dr Nitwhite, 2021), Common taxonomic affixes (Wiki)

0c. Planets and climate: Geoff’s Climate Cookbook (2006), Worldbuilding Videos (Artifexian, 2014, ongoing), Worldbuilding (Winchell Cheung), Worldbuilding Pasta (2019, ongoing)

Online textbooks on Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Astronomy; list of Biological Strategies

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Here are some generators that may require a little legwork to use (you don't just click a button) but they'll give characteristics of plants and animals for you to include in your world, based on the attributes of the planet itself.

ngl yall i went through 5 mental breakdowns making this

here we are! the twst magic pens, with all the dorm colors

If you have CSP, you can also use em' to import to help you! Now you won't die drawing these little bad boys. I also got 3D printable STL files, if anyone was interested in printing them for cosplay or just for display :)

You can get the files here! It's free but I appreciate any tips if anyone does end up downloading and using it!

actual writing advice

1. Use the passive voice.

What? What are you talking about, “don’t use the passive voice”? Are you feeling okay? Who told you that? Come on, let’s you and me go to their house and beat them with golf clubs. It’s just grammar. English is full of grammar: you should go ahead and use all of it whenever you want, on account of English is the language you’re writing in.

2. Use adverbs.

Now hang on. What are you even saying to me? Don’t use adverbs? My guy, that is an entire part of speech. That’s, like—that’s gotta be at least 20% of the dictionary. I don’t know who told you not to use adverbs, but you should definitely throw them into the Columbia river.

3. There’s no such thing as “filler”.

Buddy, “filler” is what we called the episodes of Dragon Ball Z where Goku wasn’t blasting Frieza because the anime was in production before Akira Toriyama had written the part where Goku blasts Frieza. Outside of this extremely specific context, “filler” does not exist. Just because a scene wouldn’t make it into the Wikipedia synopsis of your story’s plot doesn’t mean it isn’t important to your story. This is why “plot” and “story” are different words!

4. okay, now that I’ve snared you in my trap—and I know you don’t want to hear this—but orthography actually does kind of matter

First of all, a lot of what you think of as “grammar” is actually orthography. Should I put a comma here? How do I spell this word in this context? These are questions of orthography (which is a fancy Greek word meaning “correct-writing”). In fact, most of the “grammar questions” you’ll see posted online pertain to orthography; this number probably doubles in spaces for writers specifically.

If you’re a native speaker of English, your grammar is probably flawless and unremarkable for the purposes of writing prose. Instead, orthography refers to the set rules governing spelling, punctuation, and whitespace. There are a few things you should know about orthography:

English has no single orthography. You already know spelling and punctuation differ from country to country, but did you know it can even differ from publisher to publisher? Some newspapers will set parenthetical statements apart with em dashes—like this, with no spaces—while others will use slightly shorter dashes – like this, with spaces – to name just one example.

Orthography is boring, and nobody cares about it or knows what it is. For most readers, orthography is “invisible”. Readers pay attention to the words on a page, not the paper itself; in much the same way, readers pay attention to the meaning of a text and not the orthography, which exists only to convey that meaning.

That doesn’t mean it’s not important. Actually, that means it’s of the utmost importance. Because orthography can only be invisible if it meets the reader’s expectations.

You need to learn how to format dialogue into paragraphs. You need to learn when to end a quote with a comma versus a period. You need to learn how to use apostrophes, colons and semicolons. You need to learn these things not so you can win meaningless brownie points from your English teacher for having “Good Grammar”, but so that your prose looks like other prose the reader has consumed.

If you printed a novel on purple paper, you’d have the reader wondering: why purple? Then they’d be focusing on the paper and not the words on it. And you probably don’t want that! So it goes with orthography: whenever you deviate from standard practices, you force the reader to work out in their head whether that deviation was intentional or a mistake. Too much of that can destroy the flow of reading and prevent the reader from getting immersed.

You may chafe at this idea. You may think these “rules” are confusing and arbitrary. You’re correct to think that. They’re made the fuck up! What matters is that they were made the fuck up collaboratively, by thousands of writers over hundreds of years. Whether you like it or not, you are part of that collaboration: you’re not the first person to write prose, and you can’t expect yours to be the first prose your readers have ever read.

That doesn’t mean “never break the rules”, mind you. Once you’ve gotten comfortable with English orthography, then you are free to break it as you please. Knowing what’s expected gives you the power to do unexpected things on purpose. And that’s the really cool shit.

5. You’re allowed to say the boobs were big if the story is about how big the boobs were

Nobody is saying this. Only I am brave enough to say it.

Well, bye!

Never considered this point of view

Exactly. You.

OP THIS IS BRILLIANT.

Little micro expressions everywhere! How are you so good ugh

Dream revealed his identity to Hob at the New Inn, as well as where he had been for the last 100+ years. Still he felt he needed to say something to Hob, but eventually Hob has to work it out himself.

10 pages under the cut:

Notes:

I rushed this thing in a week so I apologize if there are some mistakes…. The first pages have a weird layout because I thought I'd figure it out later and then I didn't. OTL

TV Dream spent over a century naked an humiliated in a snow globe so I imagine maybe now he's like "clothes? Very nice, so comfy. I love clothes. I shall be wrapped in the darkness of the soft 100% dream cotton for the unforseeable future."

Don't be an ass face and repost this elsewhere. If you do you have a literal ass where your face should be. Ew.

If you would like, feel free to translate this comic in the replies/reblog. It's a lot, sorry.

I probably forgot something… it's 4 am.

On twitter!

I hope you guys like…eventually live the life you want to live and I hope nothing haunts you for too long and I hope you’re all kind to yourselves

headcanons about that period between season 2 and 3, like after the breakup and they navigating the rest of the school year in a unfamiliar distance? How their routine would change. I think about that a lot

After the events of season 2, Nancy hyper focused on journalism and becoming part of the school paper. Her passion for investigation and seeking truth came from her journey of uncovering the secrets of HNL, but also needing to keep herself busy to keep her mind off of Steve and the Steve shaped hole in her life.

Steve, on the other hand... He hung out with Dustin some weekends, but the rest of the school year was a blur. He continued with basketball and the swim team, but only because he was going through the motions. He wasn't sure exactly who he was ever since he lost Nancy and he didn't want to go back to the old crowd of "friends" he ditched, and at that point wasn't ready to find out yet. Hell, he was so aloof and in his own head that he didn't even notice that he was getting bagel crumbs all over the floor in class or care that prom queen Tammy Thompson practically asked him to ask her on a date nearly every Friday for three months before she eventually gave up.

Both Steve and Nancy have important relationships and lives beyond their romantic relationship with one another, but I think that losing each other shook both their worlds far more than they wanted to admit to themselves, which was shown a bit in season 3. They didn't know how to process not being a part of each other's life anymore and neither one handled it well.

kristen schaal will see an autistic little girl go "is anyone gonna voice that" and not wait for an answer

This actually shook me out of a days-long panic attack when I was twelve

It's his special day today

idk. i got lazy and stopped shading it but yeah man whatevar. colored sketches for you all

some of you just don't know how to say 'OK I didn't know that, sorry and thank you' to save your souls like I can somewhat understand the defensiveness but u gotta internalized the fact that u also sound painfully callous and dismissive and if that's the hill u want to die on be my guest and die on it quickly but if u care about ur impact on others you should learn to be considerate and self aware. being right is not as important as being decent... I'm not saying anything groundbreaking like how is that not the bare minimum. I know it's 2am and nobody cares but I am Annoyed™️

For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality