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Wth??? When I was 11 years old I was more worried about my fake ass Barbie plot lines I had going on in my head then if my face was clean. I’m literally four days away from turning 22 and some days I’m so tired that I’m lucky if I wash my face with one product let alone worry about eye cream. 😭

Ridiculous, now everyone get in line.

So I’ve been teaching 6th grade since January, and one thing about my female students which made me upset to realize is how many of them are obsessed with skincare. I've heard the girls in my class discussing the EYE CREAM they use. Like tf you mean eye cream? You're ELEVEN!!! I'm a decade older than you and have never even touched eye cream!! The most skincare a middle schooler needs is cleanser and moisturizer, maybe some acne cream. Who tf is selling you all this other stuff? Who tf told you you needed all this?

It hurts me to see. Their brains are too young for these types of insecurities 😭 no 11 year old girl should be obsessed with wrinkles, I wanna beat tf out of whatever tiktoker made them believe they needed skin that perfect

#apparently children have better skincare routines than I do??? #and their skin literally doesn’t need it #one acne product is good enough #you just have to find what works for you #another reason why I don’t have TikTok #kids need to stay kids #gif created by #fondanonymous

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Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?

#STOPPPPP #atla #toph #toph beifong #fortnite #this is so on brand #jokes being cracked about her blindness #🤦🏻‍♀️

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why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

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When you're posting a work on AO3, one of the options you have is to add relationship tags to your work. Sometimes you'll see tags that look almost exactly the same and you might wonder what the difference is.

A/B indicates that person A and person B have a romantic or sexual relationship in this fic.

A&B indicates that person A and person B have a non-romantic and non-sexual relationship in this fic - they are friends, colleagues, family members etc. who have a platonic relationship.

If you want to add more specific information about what kind of relationship the characters have in your story, you can use the additional tags or the summary to let readers know more about what they're in for.

Editing to add: Oh yes! And it doesn't matter which character you list first in your tag. They both filter the same way in the site's database.

#this is important #especially when trying to get a certain audience #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 writer #fanfics #fanfiction #writers #writer

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just a heads up

if you’re an active follower of mine, i do recognize your username and/or icon. i smile when i see it in my activity. i get excited when you add funny tags to things. i get really happy when you reblog my op posts. so thank you, i appreciate you massively.

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I love the fact that every SpongeBob episode I click on Paramount, I get asked if I’d like to set up child restrictions because it assumes a kid is watching. 🫠

#😭 #it almost makes me feel old #like yeah I was watching these as a kid #but I’m not anymore #spongebob #spongebob squarepants #paramount+ #i’m dead #☠️ #my birthday being a week away doesn’t help either lmao

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The merit of your writing.

So, you’ve read something that has resonated with you. It’s everything you’ve wanted in terms of characters, prose, plot and pace. It’s the best you’ve read in years. You reread your favourite lines. You have to take a break just to absorb every meticulously crafted line. You are in awe of how something so small can seem to take up so much space.

And in a perfect world, it would inspire you to go out and create. To work on that story that is languishing in your save files, to pick up that WIP you abandoned, to make you want to write something different and new and better. 

Instead, it makes you feel inferior. The words are too good. You could never write like that. The characters are too perfect. You don’t have that insight. The story is too captivating. Your ideas are boring, cliche, plain. The insight is remarkable. You can barely string a thought together coherently. 

Why even bother, you think.

Don’t fall into that trap. I have been there so many times. I have abandoned writing for years because of “why even bother”. I have let it destroy my confidence, only to patch it back up in a cheap imitation of what it once was, just to let it invade my thoughts again. I have questioned every thing I’ve written, every choice, every line, because why even bother if someone is so much better. 

YOUR WRITING HAS MERIT. What you don’t realize is that it’s not in terms of better, but different. Different style, different story, different interpretation, different mind.

Someone out there will love the way you describe the night sky in poetry. Someone out there will love the way you describe the look on someone’s face when their heart breaks. Someone out there will love your idea, that strange one that seems impossible or already done, because it’s new and exciting or they love endless amounts of that same story. Someone out there will love your interpretation of that character, whether more gentle or bitter or broken or healed. Someone out there will love the words you write, the grandiose use of adverbs (my guilt) or the minimal scattering of dialogue. Someone out there will love your abundance or lack of something you saw in that story you so loved, the one that rendered you speechless and snuffed out your fire. 

Someone out there will love your words. And you need to share them. 

Speaking as a writer, no one sets out to create something to discourage others. No one wants to dominate their corner and be the only one there. No one wants to be alone in their craft. If they do, they are doing it for the wrong reasons. Speaking as a writer, I would never want you to read my writing and think, why bother. 

I want you to think, why bother waiting?

Your story matters. Your writing matters. It’s beautiful and defined and gorgeous and a work in progress and growing and already there and insightful and mysterious: it all has merit. 

Never stop. Never stop writing and practicing and doing and creating and learning and loving the words you weave.

You may think someone has done it more beautifully or better or too many times or never because who wants to read it? 

They maybe have done all those things, but they lack one thing: they haven’t done it like you have.

#writing #writers #fanfics #fanfiction #ao3 #fanfiction.net

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Not gonna specifically tag anyone…but reblog if you feel like it and put yours in the tags.

#G.H. Birch #The Red Radio #interesting

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thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

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It’s crazy how I can get a literal C or lower in math class, but when it comes time to write a fanfic and I have to know how much a character makes in a year (something completely irrelevant to the plot), I become freakin’ Albert Einstein…doing research, crunching the numbers.

#seriously tho #I’m in the middle of writing a fic where a character needs bail #and based on bail I did a dive into another character’s salary #just to see if they had enough money saved up #and the bail gets mentions ONCE #and yes they did make enough #fanfics #fanfiction #writing #writers life

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I don’t know which author needs to hear this right now but even if you never update your wip i would never regret reading it a time of joy is never wasted

#fanfics #ao3 #fanfiction.net #writing #literally #it sucks that there’s no update #but I’ve enjoyed the time I’ve spent reading it #so thank you

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Sir I think I’ve seen this movie before…Final Destination???

anyone here ever got their tie caught in the sawmill conveyor belt & been dragged towards giant blade? need advice. time is a factor

#that is some final destination stuff #hope you’re doing alrigh buddy #🫡

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chenford breaking up the week of my birthday and then leaving me for 3 weeks has gotta be the biggest blow of all time.

#frrrrr #it’s my birthday month #how could y’all!!! #😭 #the rookie #tim bradford #lucy chen #tim x lucy #chenford #how can I comfortably enjoy turning 22 knowing Tim and Lucy are broken up???

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#this is the most wholesome thing I swear #😭 #eclipse #solar eclipse #I love stories like this #wholesome

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#I just watched #the sound of music #for the first time last month #and i’m obsessed #this is so gooooddddd #captain von trapp #georg von trapp #maria von trapp #georg x maria #art #artists on tumblr #your so talented!

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Boop Breakdown

Well, you did it. You booped. You booped all over your dashboard with reckless abandon, your finger gnashing away at the boop button, much like a lovely raccoon discovering a glorious half-eaten baked potato. A treasure was presented, and you knew you deserved it. You deserved to boop. Collectively, you booped 142,566,897 times. To repeat: one hundred forty-two million five hundred sixty-six thousand eight hundred ninety-seven boops were had on tumblr dot com the website and the app.

Specifically: 

Normal boops: 119,204,929

Self boops: 12,645,652

Cat boops: 7,925,241

Super boops: 2,095,231

Mischievous, aka evil boops: 695,844

One particularly boopable Tumblr was booped a total of 874,212 times. To be so rich in boops is a blessing. The Tumblr that gave the most boops found it in their heart to bestow 127,073 boops upon those they found worthy. 

Over 500,000 Tumblrs were booped and booped back in return. And for what? What would drive so many to boop? Does Tumblr yearn for the boop mines? Well, yes. And also the guts, the glory, the prestige, and, of course, the badges. Oh, how you worked for those badges:

Booper participants: 229,881

Booper enthusiasts:  85,548

Booper supers:  67,571

Hold your heads high, Tumblr. You booped until you couldn’t boop anymore. You created incredible fanart, invented a whole new genre of -sonas, and even created your own premium, high-end awards. It was noble, it was boop. We hope you boop yourself, and boop for boop. Boop, boop boop? Boop, boop. Boop boop boop, boop boop; Boop! Boop! 

Boop,

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#boop #i miss booping #love that’s a tag