There is no joy like the joy of a writer who has just figured out that a throwaway line they put into the first few paragraphs of a story is actually the key to a major plot point and possibly even the theme underlying the entire thing.
Just…yesssssss.
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Writing fanfiction is this except it was someone else’s throwaway line
quick hide the cringe we can't let people know we enjoy things unironically
Quick fun fact I learned in ASL class:
Babies can begin signing as early as a few months old. You don’t have to wait until they’re 9-12 months to start communicating verbally; the parts of the brain that process and use language develop before a baby is able to speak intelligibly with their mouth. Teaching your kid sign language early means that they can communicate effectively months ahead of schedule, when compared to peers that only speak a spoken language.
Additional fun fact: this jumpstart in language is thought to be a possible way to avoid the “Terrible Twos”; that phase of a toddler’s life is thought to be largely due to a toddler being unable to effectively communicate their needs. If a two year old has already been speaking for a year and a half, they’re far more able to communicate to you what’s wrong. Heck, they might also start reading earlier; languages with a fingerspelling component, like ASL, mean that any speaker needs to be able to spell unfamiliar words and ask about them. This can jumpstart a toddler’s ability to recognize letters as components of a word, and teach them to spell, read, and eventually write these letters to communicate.
Which, of course, lends absolutely zero credence to the theory that ASL will inherently stunt someone’s spoken language skills. If anything, sign language fluency makes acquiring any language, spoken or not, easier rather than harder.
I once babysat a baby around a year old who knew sign language, the other older kids knew it as well and the whole family was hearing. I asked, and they said nobody they knew was deaf, but it was better for the children to communicate earlier. They gave me a little babysitter translation guide with the different signs I should know and this absolutely tiny nonverbal one year old spent the night telling me exactly what he wanted to eat, when he had to go to the bathroom, what shows he wanted to watch. He even seemed kind of amused at how slow I was to understand his signing. I left feeling absolutely amazed. If I ever had a kid (unlikely) there’s no way I wouldn’t so this with them.
i literally think of that "polynesians first to discover antarctica, not news to maori" headline so much it's so fucking funny
highly skilled ocean voyagers living close to antarctica who have oral history of heading south and discovering a land full of ice sheets and mountains of ice and snow were first to discover antarctica, not news to said group of people
Hey, PSA:
On your phone, go to Settings> Security and Privacy> Privacy> Other Privacy Settings> Ads> Delete Advertising ID
Then go back to Other Privacy Settings> Google location history> Turn off Location History &/or Turn-on Auto-Delete (you can set a time period of how long to keep it)
Then, staying on Other Privacy Settings, go to ’+ See all activity controls’> Web & App activity> Turn off (you can also turn-on Auto-Delete for here too)
Then Scroll down to Personalized ads> My Ad Center> Turn Off Personalized Ads.
Google has no business knowing/storing everything you do online, and knowing/storing where you go everyday. Turn it off.
These instructions are for an Android phone, IOS might be different. If you have IOS or another operating system feel free to add on with your own map to where they’ve buried these settings in your phone to help others.
iOS:
Settings -> privacy -> apple advertising -> turn off.
Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iCloud analytics -> turn off.
Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iPhone analytics -> turn off.
Settings -> privacy -> tracking -> ‘allow apps to request to track’ -> turn off.
Settings -> privacy -> location services -> customise per app. Most you can set to ‘never’. Some will need ‘while using’.
And even for those apps, you can turn off ‘precise location’.
shoutout to anthropomorphic snakes in animated movies doing poses that would normally require arms by creatively using their coils as arms instead. gotta be one of my favorite genders
this is what it's all about
I gotta add my girl Summer to this post.
Summer is a master of using coils like arms and hands
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hoard-sweet-hoard asked:
Hey Neil,
it's that same person who's mother would not let them watch good omens. I have a different, worse problem now
I'm trying to write a book. it's only at 28,000 words right now, but I have the entire plot planned out and everything. but I'm now banned from writing it. It's apparently too violent, too sacrilegious, too inflammatory for my mother. i've poured my heart and soul into this, and i've shared it with teachers and peers and I have had an immensly positive reaction thus far.
She says im not allowed to write my novel out of concern for my soul. she says it is only temporary, but every time she says that, it ends up being permanent. I don't want to give up on it. I love the character,s the ideas, everything, and I just can't leave it to rot.
do you have any advice? i need it.
How old are you? She won’t be in control for ever.
She can’t actually stop you writing, especially when she’s not there. She can’t police your thoughts or stop you plotting.
Don’t leave your book around. Normally I recommend paper and pens but you are much better off writing directly on the web in places she’s not looking and won’t be able to find.
There are places you can anonymously post things you write, and also make them private. Other people can give you more specific advice.
(And be a little bit paranoid. Remember that there are things like key-logger programs which will record everything you ever type.)
Remember, whichever God or Gods your mother follows are good with you writing. This is all on her.
