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I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.
Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".
Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"
I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"
Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"
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The thing with the writers strike and actors strike is that. You ALL have to start realizing that the cool creative jobs they paint as "glamorous" in the media are actually ALL struggling in a big way, and basically everyone below "Huge Household Name" is actually often having to spend THEIR OWN DAY JOB MONEY to keep trying and trying to "break into" that household name status.
Like, im a cartoonist. Just starting out, but already fairly successful! My comics are sold in a handful of states, i sell out of my works, and i even have been featured as a finalist in a couple awards shows AND have pieces bought by a cartooning museum. I still barely make a couple hundred per month off it IF IM LUCKY, and spend almost as much trying to print more. Oh yes, i have to print my own comics! And working for a big comic company, they generally require you to bring some level of your own equipment. Heck, even if you make it "big" as a cartoonist...you wanna know how much you get paid if your comic that you spent months of back-breaking labor on is adapted into a marvel movie? A one-time check for $5000. Out of the BILLIONS those movies make, in perpetuity for eternity, you are given $5k. Pre-tax. Pre-agent. Pre-lawyer. (Yes we have agents and lawyers too, quite often). There's hardly any cartoonists who can afford to quit their day jobs, and even those who do are never living above the lower middle class range.
Now obviously cartooning is not the same as acting or writing, but my point is that we NEED yall to stop thinking just because you see our work as cool that we are living some dream life!!! Basically the only people who are living these dream lives you think of are CEOs of major companies and the occasional celebrity. The rest of us are just out here, struggling to survive just like you, we just happen to have a side hustle which is Kinda Cool.
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🎉 Write characters that you find interesting and compelling.
🎉 Don't worry about making characters too over the top, or 'too much'.
🎉 Write characters who want big things.
🎉 Write characters with conflict between what they want and what they need.
🎉 Write characters who don't realize they are doing harm.
🎉 Write characters who don't know how to communicate well.
🎉 Write characters with people they love in the way of what they want.
🎉 Write characters with amazing abilities who use them in ways that unintentionally fuck them over.
🎉 Write messy characters!
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#Ownership&Copyright
I know that most Artists work very hard to make a perfect creative work to their own eyes and than when ready, willing to let it go public because they're proud of their accomplishment. And when those creative works are not respected, it is simply like being stabed for Owners.
It's important to respect Copyright Law by obtaining permission or a license when using someone else's creative work, giving the proper attribution.
So that is why sometimes I'm not reacting to some publications and in worst case scenario, I must unfollow or even block some accounts.
I cannot afford to jeopardize my account. It is particularly important to encourage innovation and protect the rights of Creators of any kind of works.
To me Ownership and Copyright Law = respect for everyone; anywhere around the World.
#Ownership & Copyright#Creative Work#Copyright Law#Content Creators#Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere#Canada#The RavenKeeper
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i know im a bit late for the plagiarism video, but i thought id toss my thoughts to sea of what other people have said already.
while a lot of the essay had me angered and frustrated about the creators discussed, i lost it at the section titled ‘the cost.’
creative work is some of the most valuable things humankind has to offer. it is genuine, moving, and comes from the soul. it takes time - hours, days, months, years of work. all that effort and yet, most of the time, its not even recognized.
because even if creative work is valuable, people don’t treat it as such. instead, they treat it as if its replaceable. as if it never mattered in the first place. people steal work all the time. it perpetuates this idea that it doesn’t matter if you steal creative art, that the time, effort, and heart put into those projects don’t matter. that all that work is just a public commodity. but it isn’t. and yet no one seems to understand that but creatives - whose voices are constantly drowned out and silenced.
people who put their soul into those works won’t ever make the money that james did. they won’t ever get the amount of fame he did - the amount of credit. no, they might just stay in the pool of people who have been stolen from. and that’s what’s so incredibly frustrating. we need to think about the lives involved in the work - the people. we need to think about the people’s whose work has been stolen and profited from. we need to think about queer & minorities creators who have their work used by others as a stepping stone, erasing queer and minority presence in the creative world.
creative work is human. it is special. it can never be replaced. and yet there’s a concerning rise in the amount of people fighting against these facts.
in the end of the day, there are millions, if not billions, of people who have been stepped on, abused, stolen from, and left to rot throughout the course of history - and their stories are never told. their names aren’t remembered. but we remember the thieves - the abusers.
the cost of what james did & plagiarism as a whole is people. people who some will forget. but you shouldn’t forget. you should remember them - the people who are beautiful, talented, and deserve to been seen. uplift them and support them. remember them.
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"Stay Another Day"
Sample taken from my grief journal "Good Mourning, mate"
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Omar Al Fil in our WORK issue.
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Food and kitchen related fantasy writing ideas from someone who works in food service:
If you have a supernatural creature that is supposed to defy the laws of physics, give it fucked up fat lines if you have a character butcher it. Animals have lines of fat between muscles that are often used as a guideline when butchering them, especially if they are unfamiliar to the butcher. Cutting open an animal that has weird fat lines signifies that it is no normal animal. Give it fat lines that criss cross in ways that would make it nearly impossible for any muscles to function. Give it no fat lines. Give it fat lines that shift and move around even as the animal lays dead on the table. Give it fat lines that are so wide it's a wonder how the animal could even move around properly.
On a similar note, animals have muscles that line their intestines that are very thin and weblike. Put that shit in places it is not supposed to go. Put it so close to the skin that if the animal gets too hot the fat will start melting. If the animal has it on the inside of its mouth, that could indicate that it doesn't chew. The muscles lining the digestive system are used to move food along. Wouldn't it be extra fucked up if the creature in question had massive fangs as well? Why would it need both?
Have a made up animal that everything tastes like. You know how alligator and rattlesnake are often described as tasting like chicken? Have an animal that tastes like that. Strange meat? Don't worry, it tastes like galgalongingaf.
Depending on what kind of food is readily available, have a side like French fries. Something that people eat a lot of and is something that always has to be cooking. I drop so many fries a day because it's a popular side and people get nearly a whole potato in an order of fries. It doesn't even have to be made up! Characters live in a place where fruit is more popular than vegetables? Maybe they have prized fruit trees that make up a major part of the diet? Have sliced apples as a side! Have a restaurant that prides itself on its hand cut apples that gives you nearly two apples worth of slices in your side order. Have cooks that are always slicing apples, they need so much sliced apples. They will go home and start dreaming about slicing apples tonight.
Wearing slip resistant work shoes is important if you work in a kitchen, and it's important to reserve them for only kitchen use so they stay decently clean and the special soles don't wear down. Make a cobbler that specializes in work shoes and anti-slip shoes.
In fact, if a character is a cook and gets isekai'd or transported to another world, have them show up in their kitchEN SHOES GODDAMNIT THESE ARE MY KITCHEN SHOES (and their apron)
Think of what materials are plentiful in your world and what kind of cooking methods are popular. What is a standard apron made out of? Is it leather? Canvas? Linen? Cotton? Goatskin? Dragonskin?
Ok I'm tired now but I have more ideas let me know if you wanna hear them.
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Wait. . . Are we married now?
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Сделала спайро из термомозайки
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Some earrings I made for best friend for Yule. Pretty happy with how they came out.
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neurodivergent-friendly advice on forming habits for creatives (& anyone, really) - with photos
Habits marked with ⭐ are the most important ones, imo.
A good way to build habits that you don't read in books is to make the habit desirable. You can look up the other methods (Atomic Habits and other similar books are great).
But for this one, if you're anything like my neurodivergent mentally ill butt you need things to be desirable in some way to get you to do them.
So what does desirability mean?
It means that it makes you want to do it, with energy and enthusiasm! Or at least not hate the task and yourself and everyone and everything!
Something desirable for a habit may include:
Organized
Goblin tools link - https://goblin.tools
The best way to ensure you can perform a habit is to make it EASY. The best way to make it easy is to be organized. Yes this is difficult but you'll get better over time and it'll pay off with dividends of you being very likely to Do The Thing (tm) if you combine this with a few other things on this list (plus the normal habit formation stuff, but honestly loving what you do will make you way more likely to do it than tying it to another habit!).
⭐Put it somewhere easy to access that you can get to EASILY every day, preferably something you already have a habit of going to, e.g. your desk or your lounge room.
⭐Organize your digital files! Here's an example:
^ art (main folder)
^^ (subfolder, 1 folder deep) anatomy
^^^ (subfolder, 2 folders deep) female anatomy
^^^^ (subfolder, 3 folders deep) female torso...
^^^ (subfolder, 2 folders deep) male anatomy
^^^^ (subfolder, 3 folders deep) male torso...
Etc, etc.
Tl;dr (non technical speak): make a folder within a folder for each aspect of your project/task.
📂Every once in a while (can be weekly, monthly, 6 monthly, etc.) sort out your digital files. If you're no longer using that folder, put it in either a "not currently in use" folder to use again later, or if you're done with it, put it in an archive, on either your computer or (preferably) on a hard drive for safe keeping.
📂I have a "quick access" folder with all the folders I'm currently using in it. This is so all I need to do is find the quick access folder and this way I don't have to sort through a sea of dozens of random folders to find the useful ones. This is also good because there are some windows folders you can't relocate and they sit there taking up space and making it visually more cluttered. Note: Be sure to back up your important folders once every week to 3 months.
📂If you want to go super advanced, there are desktop folder kits on Etsy (and perhaps some free ones? though be careful with downloading random things, you may get a virus). They make the folders look aesthetic.
📂Personally, I use either Obsidian or Notion, depending on what I'm doing (usually Obsidian). I recently installed Askify, which can connect to both. Cool thing about it is that you can add notes from any site on the net including YouTube, it takes screenshots for you, and grabs a timestamp as well as being able to summarise the past 15 seconds of the video for you (though it usually just types what the person said, but this can be helpful). It's $3.50 AUD a month, but Obsidian and Notion are free so you can just use those if you can't afford it.
📂⭐Keep the space you're working in as tidy as you can manage. Try to make a habit of every night taking all dishes and empty drinks into the kitchen before you go to sleep.
📂⭐If you have your own space, don't be afraid to rearrange it! I recently rearranged my entire apartment and using my own cleaning advice - if you haven't used it in the past 6 months, consider chucking it out (if it's not expensive), if it doesn't make you happy, earn you money, and isn't useful regularly in some way, chuck it out - and now I'm 100x more physically comfortable, especially because I have an air conditioner next to me now near where I both work and sleep. If you have trouble visualising, try using a website to do so or draw it on paper until it feels right. Pro tip: you don't have to throw away everything, you can also donate it to an op shop/charity/homeless shelter that accepts donations if it's still usable, or you can sell it if it's high-ish quality and worth something.
📂⭐*If you can't do it today, then put it on your to-do list for tomorrow. Keep transferring unfinished tasks to tomorrow until your list is free from tasks.
📂⭐Generally good advice, especially for neurodivergents (but everyone needs to know!): take a dang break every once in a while! If you find yourself getting frustrated with something, take a break, possibly until tomorrow.
... If you have to do it today, do something to break it up, e.g. a nap or a shower. After this, give it a little while to keep cooling off if you still feel bad, then go back to the task.
... If it's something you have more time to do, stop doing it when it stops being fun/enjoyable. If you don't get fun/enjoyment out of it to begin with, stop when it's no longer interesting. Stop BEFORE you get to the point where you're pushing yourself. That is how you make yourself hate whatever you're doing and get a massive block from doing the task. Trust me, I didn't write a story for over 3 years after writing every single day because I pushed myself to the point it was frustrating to do and forced myself to keep going. Not worth it, wish I hadn't.
Sight
⭐Especially good for creative and visual types, like people who like art, design, front-end web devs, game devs, animators, writers etc.⭐
🎨Aesthetically pleasing - e.g. plugins that can change the aesthetic of programs. A good example is the extremely extensive library of plugins and themes available for Obsidian, all free to install. You can also get aesthetic Notion templates, too, but they often cost money (though you can find free ones on the official Notion template website!).
🎨Some aesthetic program add-ons include: the extensive free plugin/theme library for Obsidian (you can even connect it to back up to GitHub for free, though it's very technical) and aesthetic Notion templates - here's a link to where you can find free ones (there are other categories, too, not just for productivity) - https://www.notion.so/templates/category/personal-productivity?paid=free -------- If you want a link to my Etsy store to buy a nice looking aesthetic Notion template for university students (or a different special one just for design students!) for cheap that has better features than the free ones, go here: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/PointyBirdDesigns?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=47390214
🎨Nice colours that you like.
🎨Nice shapes - e.g. your office has a circular painting that you love the shape of (and it makes you happy to look at it).
🎨Nice visual texture - e.g. you're writing a book - consider doing it in a program that has unlimited pages and has a paper texture in the background with no ads or distractions (and can go full screen).
Smell
👃If you're not sensitive to perfumes, spraying a nice scent whenever you do the habit could make you feel happier. You may even start to associate the task with that nice smell.
👃Make sure the area you're working in smells nice. Bad smells can be major subconscious distractions.
Sound
🙉The object associated with your habit makes a satisfying sound, e.g. for writing you might want a certain type of keyboard, like a mechanical keyboard that makes a satisfying "thunk" with each key press and makes you feel like a professional writer. Some browsers like Opera GX (not sponsored) also allow you to add typing sounds directly to the browser, so if you can't afford a nice keyboard but still want a satisfying sound you might want to try that if you're doing a lot in your browser. Otherwise, iirc, there are also writing programs that might do something similar (you'll have to look for them yourself, I can't remember sorry).
🙉⭐You can use things for background noise while you're doing the task if you either have it down really low or you don't need to hear your recordings for it. E.g. for editing a video you can play very soft instrumental music (I don't recommend anything with words, it'll confuse you when they mix with your audio), or if you're doing something like sorting through paperwork you can put on whatever type of music you like or even a twitch or youtube vod/stream on while you're doing it. It sacrifices a tiny bit of optimal brainpower, but you'll likely be less bored and be able to do the task for longer so it'll likely even out, and if you're concerned, you can often do polishing touches at the end to make sure your work is good.
🙉Headphones can go a long way for focus in busy places. Noise cancelling ones can help a lot if you have the cash.
Tactile
🤗*Generally you want to be physically comfortable when performing your habit. If you can afford it/can save up and it's causing you discomfort, try to replace it. A good place to find quality furniture for cheap is your local tender centre. Sometimes op shops are good options, but they're usually more expensive. I found an amazing ergonomic chair for $100 that was worth about $500 - $600. Good things come along sometimes, just keep looking.
🤗If it's something that requires you to go outside and you can afford it, try investing in a few nice outfits to make yourself feel more confident for days when you're feeling less motivated.
🤗⭐If you're neurodivergent or sensitive to textures, make sure before you buy something that you can run your hand along it many times and not feel awful. Honestly, everyone should do this. We all have preferences.
🤗⭐Don't ignore things that make you feel uncomfortable! Why? Because in my experience it's a bit like in video games - these things stack up like debuffs. What I'm saying is, it may not be a big thing to have bright lights hurting your eyes, but if you have bright lights, an uncomfortable chair, and your environment isn't clean, this can be sensory hell, especially for neurodivergents. Write down the things that make you uncomfortable and fix as many as possible, one by one. Don't end up like your neglected sims who are very talented but are completely and utterly miserable because you don't fix the things that are bothering them and don't fulfil their basic needs!
🤗⭐If it bothers you, fix it as soon as you can. It's easy to let little annoyances pass, but just like when a sim does something they dislike, your tolerance for it will be grated until you feel absolutely awful and/or snap. This goes for things as little as your room being too cold (get a blanket or if you can afford it and have one, put the heater on!) or too hot. Do NOT screw around with things you can fix in under 2-30 minutes. If you can fix it in under 2 minutes, do it right now. If you can fix it in under 10 minutes, write it down and do it today. For the rest, add it to either a weekly, monthly, or some day to-do list. Scheduling it for a certain period of time makes it more likely to get done, though. If you're like me and can't do something when you force yourself to or are told you have to, just schedule it to be done within a certain week or month. No pressure.
Feeling
💜⭐A good rule of thumb is that you've achieved desirability when you feel excited to do the habit. If this excitement ever wears off, try mixing and matching other ways of building desirability or changing something about the habit, e.g. the prompt (see habit building books or summaries for more info). Keep it fresh! Whenever you get bored, change things around.
💜⭐Listen to your emotions. Emotions are the body's way of communicating things with you, whether it be about your environment or about your body or mental state. Sure, some are irrational, but every emotion has a story to tell. Try listening. Don't push your emotions down, learn to process them. If you don't know how, a therapist can help.
Bonus note:
Don't spend beyond your means! If you can't afford it, don't buy it! I am not telling you to go out and spend as much as you can on these things. Mid-range is usually the best bang for your buck, and can often be found for cheap in op shops and tender centres, as I said.
Good luck! If you have any bonus tips feel free to reblog this post or comment and add them!
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🔹 You are allowed to write fiction in whatever style you want.
🔹 Your fiction writing does not have to conform to academic writing standards.
🔹 You are allowed to repeat words.
🔹 You are allowed to use dialects, incomplete phrases, slang etc, in dialogue or in the body of your prose.
🔹 You are allowed to have idiosyncratic phrasing.
🔹 You are allowed to be verbose.
🔹 You are allowed to be concise.
🔹 You are damned well allowed to fucking swear, I shit you not.
🔹 You are allowed to use said tags liberally or to omit them as much as possible.
🔹 You are allowed to use adverbs liberally or to omit them as much as possible.
🔹 You are allowed to make mince-meat out of grammar rules for effect.
🔹 Your fiction is not bound or to be judged by academic writing standards.
🔹 You are allowed to write fiction any way you want, even if it is not ‘correct’ in terms of writing rules.
🔹 There are no absolute rules for writing fiction.
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Soul-grinding bureaucracy
A great many jobs & tasks in the various creative industries are quite significantly not very creative, and more intensely clerical, bureaucratic and administrative.
These support works and tasks are most significantly unsatisfying, but if these tasks are not carried out the truly artistic and creative become impossible to make materially manifested in the living, breathing world.
These tasks tend to grind souls to dust, and yet these tasks must be carried out or true artistic works can never be executed in the real.
Tasks such as invoicing, proofreading, categorizing, contact tracing, coordinating, contract writing and contract signing, labor negotiations and hiring, and so many other social legal formal works.
They hurt, I feel, and yet very unavoidable and very necessary.
(In need of further meditating upon. Perhaps.)
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