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Nothing I’ve read has changed me more than “you do people a favor by accepting their help” like I repeat this constantly to so many people because it’s true!!! People like to feel useful, they like to feel kind, they like to feel like they have an ability to impact people’s lives so just let them!! Not everything is a thing to be owed back — accept people’s kindness without making a competition out of it

#helping others #accepting help #okay this just changed everything #because logically i knew this #but i never put it together #self compassion

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i spent $32 on this fucking bowl at the moma and at first i felt bad buying it bc it was so expensive but ive had a terrible day today and every time i look at my lil bowl im like :o) you know what. i can get through anything with this bowl by my side

#moma bowl #bowl flash fiction #art #this is beautiful

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#video #sesame street #elmo #zoe #elmo vs rocco #my favourite rivalry of all time

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There's a tumblr post floating around somewhere that says "We think that if we get better at writing, it will someday stop sounding like we wrote it" or something along those lines.

Does anyone happen to have a link handy? I want to reference it in an advice post.

#twitter stuff #creative life #you will always be in your art #and that's what makes it special

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obsessed with body neutrality… like people are just the weirdest animal we’re just walking around earth with individual deep inner worlds and maybe I do have dark spots and acne and scars but why should that bother me? they’re literally just things that happen to people

#body neutrality #i like this!

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#word clouds #humans being human #making word clouds in public can be dangerous #but always fun

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any and all word bans will ultimately fail because the core power of human language is its infinite creativity. even aside from the tiktok letter replacement strategy, people will simply make up a new word for the thing. they're playing infinite unwinnable whackamole

#leetspeak #language #word bans #filters #online life #words uh find a way

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my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

#put your headphones in #i hate this so much #stop being rude in public #no one else has to listen to what you want to listen to and that is the end of the story #you don't have the right to intrude on other people's ears

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"so tired of the childrens hospital jokes" "stop running horse plinko into the ground" you're entering the circus hut and complaining when there are clowns there

#tumblr life #horse plinko #children's hospital #we are all clowns #stop complaining about the clownery

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Image prompt

#pictures #greg and the dress code #who is greg #you decide

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There’s a serial killer in your town. Unfortunately for them you are a necromancer and you have fun driving that maniac insane.

#story time #writing prompts #serial killer #necromancer #i love this

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one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

#bard is a combat class #phantom of the opera #love this #someone make this a musical immediately #the orchestra who phantoms together hates together #story time

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i hope everyone with acne, eczema, vitiligo, psoriasis, dermatitis, and skin conditions have a good day today

#skin conditions #psoriasis #acne #vitiligo #eczema #dermatitis #as someone with psoriasis this made my entire day

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look i get that sometimes characters dying is like good for the story or whatever but consider. i want them all to be alive and have family dinners together. check and mate

#ME #characters #stories #my entire fanfiction writing career in a nutshell

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Expository dialogue techniques that don’t rely on characters randomly explaining things to each other that they should already know, but do rely on your characters being obnoxious gits:

1. Character A fucks something up hilariously; character B upbraids them at great length about exactly what they did wrong.

2. Character A wildly misreads a situation; character B corrects their misconceptions.

3. Character A tells a complicated and implausible lie; character B points out the obvious holes in their story.

4. Character A can’t find their destination; character B provides rambling and discursive directions.

5. Character A has a straightforward question; character B requests a series of extremely pedantic clarifications.

#writing is hard #dialogue #exposition #these are really handy #i think i've used all of these?

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When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a complete and logically sound defense including citations, you can save a lot of time by not doing that.

Bro, I’ve known you for twelve seconds and enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.

#online life #disagreeing #this is so important #you don't have to debate #learn how to by all means #but you don't owe anyone your time and skills #especially jerks

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Can’t think of an ending…

#bard is a combat class #fade outs in music #yes good