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what if god said yes

what if you got quiet. what if you got so quiet and you curled up in a little ball in your bed with a stuffed animal or a blanket or a pillow and you said, “god, can we talk?” and because god is you and you are god you didn’t have to wait and you didn’t have to go anywhere at all and—“yes,” god said. and you said, “god, i want an apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city.” “god, i want the boy with the kind eyes and tattoo-covered arms and exquisite taste in music.” “god, i want to feel alive again.” “god, i want to travel first-class to switzerland.” “god, i want a hound dog named finn.” and god said, “yes.” and you said, “but how can you make this happen?” and god said, “i can make anything happen.” and you said, “quickly?” and god said, “i love you. why would i not make this rapid?” and you said, “i can trust you?” and god said, “like your life depends on it.” and you said, “my life does depend on it.” and god said, “i know. i’ve got it now. you’re safe. let me take care of it.” and you hugged god. and god hugged you. and you hugged yourself. and you drifted off to sleep saying, “i have it. i’m safe. i have it. i’m safe. i have it. i’m—” and you woke in the morning and the world was new. because you knew it was done. because god said yes. and god never goes back on a yes unless you tell god “no.” and any time throughout the day you thought, “is anything happening?” god said, “it’s all happening.” and you said, “but i can’t see a thing.” and god said, “i am your eyes.” and you said, “but i don’t have to do anything?” and god said, “you did the only thing needed.” and you said, “but what about my thoughts and my state and acting as if?” and god said, “i love you.” and you knew what that meant. so instead of worrying or wondering or obsessing another second, you went to the bakery and bought a slice of chocolate cake and drove home and sat on your back deck and ate and ate and watched the sunset and celebrated.

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don't leave me!

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LIES ABOUT SEA CREATURES from ‘Bright Dead Things’ by Ada Limón

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dbsjsbsj it's not my fault he's tall!

joon for dazed korea ♡

#why is he so cute #my mans with his slenderman legs #namjoon

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He understands

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I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.

Heather Davis

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ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.

there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.

there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.

doing nothing is good for my soul.

i am not defined by what i produce.

my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.

i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.

i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.

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wait- how do you make money on yt when ppl use adblockers ? i was always advised to turn my adblockers off when visiting a smaller creator's yt page bc, if the ads don't load, the person i'm watching "doesn't get paid." do you know if that's true ?

like, when i watch twitch, i'm forced to watch ads bc the ads help the streamers (i have 3 adblockers on at all times lmao). is it not the same w/ yt?

Well, I mean, basically for me it's like this:

I hate ads, they are a horrible part of the YouTube user experience, they are intrusive and annoying, and I block them all the time myself. It would be hypocritical in the extreme to demand that other people sit through them.

If someone wants to support my work, I would much rather they donate a single dollar directly and ad-block all my videos forever, rather than have them sit through the literal thousands of ads they would have to watch to generate equivalent revenue for me.

Ad revenue only works at the scale of thousands and tens of thousands; any one person blocking my ads literally does not make any kind of difference. I earn a fraction of a fraction of a cent off of your view, at the cost of entire minutes of your finite time on Earth. I think that's a shitty bargain, I don't want my work to waste people's time just to make money for fucking Google, that idea makes me feel pretty bad.

I don't think I've ever spoken to a YouTuber who would not much, much rather make their money off direct support from the audience than from ads, we only rely on ad revenue because we're stuck in the same capitalist hellhole everyone else is and we've got bills to pay.

So: If there's a YouTuber whose work you enjoy, donate a single dollar to them directly through Patreon or ko-fi, or buy a single t-shirt or mug from their merch store, and then ad-block on literally a thousand of their videos with the clear conscience that you've done more to support them than ad revenue ever will.

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the more i think about it the more on the nose the writers were about trying their hardest to only humanize rhaenyra. 

i’ve talked about and received some great anon messages about the lack of weddings and births for both alicent and helaena, but i think there’s one more thing to add: the blood trail. 

sure, you can be mad at alicent for requesting to see the baby so early but my main point is… rhaenyra gets two birth scenes, she loses her child, the audience watch her be happy through the first birth and sad about the second, they see blood, physical pain, exhaustion, mourning, happiness…. and they see that blood trail too. how rhaenyra walked up all those stairs and then back bleeding through it all. a strong woman, a fighter, etc. someone to feel positive about.

and the problem here is… the writers never allow alicent or helaena that position. we are shown their children, but even helaena doesn’t get to touch her children and have this type of scenes rhaenyra got with her own children. always touching, hugging, being this “positive best mom” unlike that “evil bitch”. 

and i think we have to ask ourselves why this was a choice. why were they both denied these scenes while rhaenyra got to play all of them. 

obviously this shouldn’t be needed to garner sympathy for alicent or helaena but in a fandom of people who make memes of alicent’s SA and call her “alicunt” and have shown the worst of vitriol for her even in her circumstances, i think it was very much needed 

other posts: 1, 2, 3

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this was the most adorable interaction 🥺😭

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no kith

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List of Vocal Sounds for Smut

I present to you a - probably quite incomplete, I’m sure I’m missing a lot of speech sounds - reference list and a bit of a guideline for the different ways one can describe the sounds your characters make whilst writing smut. I’ll definitely be referring to it, because I sometimes get stuck on exactly how to describe a particular noise. (aka, “he can’t groan again, he just groaned last paragraph”)

Sounds (noun, both independently and describing speech): breath/breathe, gasp, moan, groan, pant, whimper, whine, shout, yelp, hiss, grunt, cry, scream, shriek, sob, growl, curse, sound, sigh, hum, noise, squeak, snarl, howl, roar, mewl, wail, choke, keen, purr

Sounds (noun, describing speech): rasp, husk, drawl, plea, murmur, whisper, beg

Descriptors (adjective): loud, hushed, quiet, low, high, high-pitched, little, tiny, soft, deep, unrestrained, restrained, strained, breathy, rough, sudden, short, drawn-out, sharp, harsh, hard, thick, smooth, thin, heavy, impassioned, insistent, hungry, passionate, repeated, filthy, debauched, sweet, slow, deliberate, guttural, languid, surprised, husky, distracted, happy, pleased, satisfied, wordless, cut-off, bitten-off, contented, hoarse, extended, long, depraved, aching, choked, strangled, broken, helpless, shuddering, shaky, trembling, urgent, needy, desperate, wanton, shattered, pained, eager

Combine a descriptor and a sound for best effect - for example, “needy moan,” “pleased hum,” or “sudden scream.” You can even use two: “low, rough grunt,” “sweet little cry,” “desperate, filthy noise,” as long as you don’t repeat a word that means the same thing, unless you really want to emphasize it. Avoiding repetition is pretty key here. You don’t usually want to say “hushed, quiet gasp” except on rare occasions when it’s very important how soft the sound was.

Use your own common sense, as well; some sounds and descriptors don’t generally work well together. “Deliberate shriek” probably wouldn’t work well, and neither would “languid grunt,” but again, this is all very situational - play around! Have fun.

Feel free to add to my lists, use for your reference or pass them around. It would be fun to see a randomized generator made, too, I’m just too lazy to do it myself. ;)

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Faith, as I imagine it, is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words. Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer.

-Mary Oliver

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The reason none of my wips get finished