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xisadorapurlowx · 3 days

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

#if I wasn't such a coward #i'd be exploring all of these #cave #cave pics #cave exploring

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xisadorapurlowx · 6 days

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#when marnie was there #this film is so sad #and is offensively underrated #that being said #my neighbour totoro is a huge comfort film #studio ghibli #polls #fandom polls

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xisadorapurlowx · 7 days

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#art reference #art resources #useful websites #writing #fiction #author #creative writing #writer #writerblr #writing community

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xisadorapurlowx · 7 days

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN JUNJI ITO HASN’T DONE A RETELLING OF FRANZ KAFKAS METAMORPHOSIS???

#it’s madness to me that he hasn’t done this yet #Ito is all about elderich body horror #he’s done No longer human and Frankenstein #you’d think that metamorphosis would be right up his alley #metamorphosis franz kafka #junji Ito #franz kafka

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xisadorapurlowx · 10 days

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"But I couldn't do it, because I didn't fancy him. My seven-year crush on him was entirely fabricated. A random choice from when I was eleven, and a girl held up a photo and told me to choose a boy. I didn't fancy Tommy. Apparently, I hadn't ever fancied anyone."

#loveless #loveless alice oseman #osemanverse #alice oseman #lgbtq+#aroace #aromantic #asexual #georgia warr #felt this

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xisadorapurlowx · 11 days

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

#i agree #Libre is great #better than office ngl #easier to use and you can convert documents to .docs if you need to #writing #writer #writerblr #writing community #writers of tumblr

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xisadorapurlowx · 12 days

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abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

#i actually hadn't thought about this before #after reading this post I am no longer considering myself an 'art snob'#art #artwork #modern art

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xisadorapurlowx · 15 days

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#actually me #osamu dazai #classic lit memes #japanese classics #not mine #found on pinterest #dazai osamu #author memes #i never felt so called out when reading a book #it's basically my experience as an nd person

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xisadorapurlowx · 15 days

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Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

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xisadorapurlowx · 20 days

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After I finished Loveless, I dived into Cannibalism genre (A Certain Hunger, Tender is the Flesh, Dead Plate, Hannibal) and I cannot express how horrifying the concept of eating another person is to me.

I love these books, because they rattle me so much.

It's strange. From Hannibal and Dorothy Daniel's perspective, they almost make cannibalism seem like high society cuisine. You just have to be a certain type of person to like the taste of human flesh. It's presented to us on a silver platter, dressed with sauces and looks enticing.

For Dead Plate, there are similarities, (mostly through the restaurant/food connection) but I feel like that's different because of Rody's missing girlfriend and Vincent's lack of taste.

In the ending where we see Vin kill Rody, he just wanted to be able to taste something, anything. Even if it meant killing someone. It's out of desperation, not out of love for the taste of human flesh, unlike with Hannibal and Dorothy, whose kills were calculated and precise.

Tender is the Flesh to me is like a blunt weapon. It's hard hitting and doesn't mince its words, like A Certain Hunger does. It's loud and in your face. It also calls into question just how far humanity would go if we were stripped of the ability to eat animals.

Another thing about Tender is that we see everything. How the 'heads' are killed and prepared for selling. We don't normally see this side of the meat industry IRL, and it adds to the horror of it all. I haven't finished the book yet, so I'm excited to see where it goes.

I don't know why cannibalism isn't written about more often, I think it could be a really good metaphor for more things than love.

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xisadorapurlowx · 21 days

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

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xisadorapurlowx · 21 days

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So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

#on writing #self-publishing #ai discourse #publishing #indie publishing #my freaking industry #it's scary how true this is

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xisadorapurlowx · 21 days

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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

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xisadorapurlowx · 25 days

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I also wanted to add this one in: OTP Prompt Generator

If you're a fanfic writer or just looking for scenarios for your MCs this is a pretty good way to come up with them. You just need to enter the names and it'll generate random prompts

USEFUL WEBSITES FOR WRITERS

Writing With Color: Helps with writing about culture, ethnicity, and religion. Overall, it gives advice on how to write about diversity.

Name Generator: As the name says, it helps you build names for your characters. Very useful if you cannot think of names for your characters!

KathySteinemann: The 'archive.pdf' section helps you with synonyms in case you struggle to find the right word for your sentences (also to avoid using redundant words).

Spwickstrom: Similar to the previous one, this one provides grammar tips. Extremely helpful when finding phrases, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, and so on.

Servicescape: The perfect website if you're experiencing writer's block. It provides writing prompts. It helps you spark creativity when it comes to writing.

reblog to help other writers !!

#creative writing #author #writer #writerblr #indie author #my writing #writing community #fiction #writing #writers of tumblr #writing help #writing tips #writing advice #writing tips and tricks #writing resources #how to write #fanfic #fanfiction

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xisadorapurlowx · 25 days

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OMG the backstory behind the whole boop thing is amazing.

#boop #boop o meter #wow who knew #istg #i fall for these every time #i hate it here #now you will suffer with me

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xisadorapurlowx · 26 days

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i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

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xisadorapurlowx · 26 days

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what studying literature feels like

#writer #creative writing #writerblr #writing community #writers of tumblr #indie author #fiction #writing #studying literature #literature #classic lit memes #classic literature

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