Free Palestine - ceasefire now!

There is currently a strike for Palestine taking place from February 18th, 2024, to February 25th, 2024. During this time, I will only be posting about Palestine on this account and doing what I can to spread awareness. If you are able, I highly recommend participating in the strike in whatever way you are able - something is always better than nothing. Staying home from work and/or school, not buying anything that isn't strictly necessary, using your social media platforms only to boost posts about Palestine, etc., are all ways to help the efforts!

Below are various links for ways you can help Palestine, including educational resources, petitions, fundraisers, etc. If you have any to add on, please do, these are just the ones I've found so far.

You can fight AI in indie publishing by leaving reviews.

Seriously.

Ai-generated garbage is flooding the self-publishing market. It works as a numbers game- put out ENOUGH fake crap and eventually someone’s aunt will buy them the ebook as an unwanted gift, and you’ll have made two dollars. This tactic works at SCALE, which means real independent titles are now a needle amongst a haystack of slop.

If you have read a book this year that has less than 5 reviews, your rating is an algorithmic spotlight on that needle.

A one sentence review helps. Really. A star rating helps if you really can’t think of anything to say, but if you can muster up even “I laughed at the part about the tabby cat” you are doing indie authors a favor like you cannot believe.

(Also if you left a review on one of my books this year I am kissing you so softly on your forehead and I adore you)

as a former indie author i cannot express how much even one single sentence review can mean to sales.

so if you care about supporting authors take a sec to leave one!

It is absolutely vital in any fandom to have a favourite character who you want to wrap up in a pile of blankets and give sweet treats to and a favourite character you want to beat on the head with hammers.

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

[comes out of my mutuals blog breathless and blood stained] didnt even fidn the . fucking post

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

when you're autistic and you learn how to smalltalk it literally feels like you started hacking real life

lifehack: if you exchange pleasantries with people and fake smile a lot people will think you're nice and be nicer to you usually. REBLOG FOR MORE FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE

A small preprepared remark about the weather or compliment on a choice they made is perfect for this. “Nice earrings! I hate rain!” Alternatively, if you feel this is too advanced, just echo back their same sentiment (“Doing fine, how are you?”). You are allowed to lie.

It was genuinely such a revelation at my first job out of college when I discovered that my boss was nicer to me if once a day I walked over to her cubicle and made small talk with her for five minutes.

I totally combined this with checking to see if she was gone for the day and I could fart around on the internet instead of working for the next hour or so.

I used to have this one coworker- I didn’t like her and she didn’t like me. The tension between us never resolved and I retain a lot of negative opinions about her.

But after we’d butt heads, within the next day or two she’d come around and start asking me about my very very cute baby who I never got tired of talking about and taking pictures of.

To be clear- I absolutely knew I was being handled. She was doing this to calm tensions between us so we could coexist. But baby was INCREDIBLY cute but also she was doing this because it was very socially acceptable small talk that reliably put me and her in a good mood.

I knew what she was doing and that in no way diminished its effectiveness. I appreciated her offering me an olive branch so very easy for me to grab hold of.

Small talk is a safety social signal for a lot of people. It offers a chance to reset interactions on positive to neutral ground and signal an absence of immediate hostilities. It offered a chance to feel on the same page, at least enough for pleasantries. Really useful social lubricant and worth learning the basics of.

golly, tumblr sure is loading with a speed and consistency that implies health and vigor

the shrine grows

Me while editing: *adds a sentence*

*finds nearly identical sentence in the next paragraph*

w e l p 😩

honestly I hate “can you pet the dog?!?” not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of “can you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loop” and that very quickly fell away to being “well now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or they’re going to get letters”

One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any “click button to see cute animation” would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

holy shit is that kate bush

saw this on bluesky

proficient in using ranged and deranged weapons

dna results came back negative. I've got no damn genetics.

String identified:

Closest match: Nope! Nothing in ther!

I see way too many posts about being really affectionate with your friends and if you aren't hugging and kissing your friends then you don't really have friends and you should be in love with your friends a little bit and it annoys me so here's a post that shouts out non-affectionate friends. shoutout to the people who don't like affection or hugging or being super gushy with each other but still love and appreciate their friends dearly. shoutout to the people who find it really hard to be emotionally vulnerable and sweet but are still always there for you in a crisis. shoutout to people who don't have to be hugging you constantly to prove that they care about you

proud dads

I simply thought too hard about them. I think they're neat.