Marilyn Monroe

I really needed to see something like this today! Thank you @reasonsforhope for all that you do

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

The Conversation

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

In which, at some point between his brother’s death and the first book, kaz actually had somehow become a demon or something not-quite-human

Although they didn’t go into much detail about the crows’ past, this is something I really appreciated while watching the show. Instead of straight up telling you of Kaz’s touch aversion via flashbacks, they show you through close ups of Kaz’s face and the way he interacts with others. I wasn’t crazy about how they chose to introduce the crows, but I really liked this small detail. I think it was a lot more interesting for fans than simply skipping to a flashback (we had enough meadow scenes btw).

Shadow and Bone + subtly showing us Kaz’s touch aversion without actually mentioning it

Keeping this quote to my grave

Evening dress worn for concert

c. 1907

made of cream colored silk faille with chiffon inlets, pleated off shoulder style enhanced by large bunches of white velvet ribbon flowers.

was worn by Jessica de Wolf as the soloist at the opening of the St. Paul Auditorium, April 1907.

dress made by Mary Abigal O’Keefe

Minnesota Historical Society

house of the dragon & religious imagery 🤝

I feel personally victimized while writing this chapter. It is attempting to kill me. Send help.

if you haven’t at least tried sewing or crocheting or knitting your own clothes, you really should. even if it’s just one time and you never do it again, i really think everyone should do it at least once

learning how to crochet was what finally made me grasp the abject horror of the fast fashion industry and realize just how laborious and time consuming it is. i have to take a few days off a week so my back/wrists don’t get sore — and i get to do this as a leisure activity in the comfort of my own home, rather than in a sweatshop. it takes dozens of hours to produce a single item. there is just something about trying it yourself that makes you realize just how little the people making our clothes are being paid for retailers to be able to sell clothes at such obscenely low prices.

i understood in the abstract that people were earning literal slave wages to make my clothes, but that concept wasn’t real to me in a way i could understand until i spent 14 hours making something that i myself wouldn’t have even been willing to pay more than $10-20 for if i saw it in a store.

i have not bought any new clothes since learning how to crochet. every time i see clothes at a store (especially obviously handmade items like crochet), and i look at the price tag i feel genuinely sick to my stomach.

i’m not saying everyone needs to make their own clothes in order to be against fast fashion, but what i am saying is if hearing about the conditions and wages secondhand has not been enough to make you stop buying it, if you find yourself becoming desensitized to the suffering of the people who make your things, you should try making something yourself.

you need to see firsthand how physically and mentally demanding it can be and imagine how much worse it would be if you were forced to sit in a sweatshop for 16 hours a day doing it nonstop, earning pennies an hour to do so. you need to spend weeks laboring over something only for it to turn out looking like shit so you realize just how much wisdom and technical skill goes into these supposedly “unskilled” and undervalued jobs. if the abstract concept isn’t enough to get through to you, then you need to get hands on.

THE ULTIMATE MASTERLIST

I've been putting this off for some time because ughhhhhh so much work ahah! Anyway, I finally bring The Ultimate Masterlist to your dashboards! Hold on, it's going to be a long ride~

General Posts

Every single daily prompt ever... (Except Prompt #208 because apparently it doesn't exist... ???)

Excerpts

ACFWB Playlists

Character names

Character sheet

Relationships

Writing Advice

Finding inspiration

Overcoming writer's block

Continuing on with your story

Developing a plot

Starting your story!

Worldbuilding

Writing in third person

Tips for writing in first, second & third person

Emotive language

Tips for writing character features

Expanding vocabulary

Choosing the direction of your story

Hitting a block (Minor writer's block)

Improving your writing in a specific genre

A guide to bettering your writing (The tall one, the blonde one...)

Writing dialogue

Long Posts

#30 Q's to ask your OC's- Appearance

#50 Q's to ask your OC's

#50 This or That Q's for your OC's

NSFW Dialogue prompts

#100 NSFW/Smut dialogue prompts

Sexual tension prompts

Reasons for couples to break-up

#50 Dialogue prompts- compilation

#100 Dialogue prompts- Angst edition

#100 More angst/argument prompts

#100 Prompts to break a reader's heart

#100 Prompts to make a reader swoon

Short fluff/cozy prompts

OTP Christmas scenarios

#100 Song lyric prompts

First person prompts

Protagonist in a situation with...

Dystopian ideas

Shy fluff prompts

Character death prompts

And I think we're done for now! I'll try to keep it as updated as I can! All my love, Yasmine xox