ATTENTION EVERYBODY
Today (January 20th) is Penguin Awareness Day.
Please be aware of these penguins.
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thank you Canada 🇨🇦
I was going to say "If you want your characters to stand out make them from Argentina" and I meant it half as a joke but honestly?
Giving your character a place they come from and really, really focusing on that and doing it well is extremely useful as character writing advice. The place where they came from, the culture and language, the life they had before the story began, the particular food they like (and not just a generic liking for food, but having opinions on it), the politics and society of the place they're from, the particular region on a country (real life or fictional) they are from, all those massively inform the way we are in real life and also for your characters, it can make a character be memorable and interesting and give you threads to follow and write more about them.
For real, if you want a character to stand out, even if it's supposed to be an "everyman", make them from a particular place and write about their relationship with it. Don't make them generic videogame character creator products, DON'T make them be a blank slate any (first world) reader can insert themselves into, make them have a backstory, not only about romance and family, but also about the place they came from, what they feel about it and what gets inside them. So yes, do your research and do write an Argentine character, a Moroccan character, a Hungarian character, an Ethiopian character, a Pakistani character, any character from a place you feel interesting, and if you show your interest properly, they will be interesting too.
Just don't make them from a US state because every single US state is boring.
There is something key here and it's not exactly identity, but PLACE, it's a similar concept but not really.
You can have characters with many identities, yes, even nationalities, and they can be important parts of them. But if they don't come from a place in particular, they feel generic and interchangeable. Like they just spawned into a videogame, like a "player" character that has no background so that the player can insert themselves in the game. This does not lead to memorable or complex characters.
When you make a character from a particular place, for example, Rosario, Argentina, or Novosibirsk, Russia, they stop being generic. Because they are no longer an "everyman" anyone can put into their shoes, they're not interchangeable anymore. They come from a specific place, they lived and were raised in a specific culture, they have experiences and thoughts about that place, they more than probably have family and friends from there, even if your story is set somewhere else. They WOULD be different if they came from somewhere else, because coming from a place isn't just an identity, it's what shaped and shapes them.
Just by saying "this character comes from here in particular" and researching throughly what "here" means you have given them almost half of what makes them as a person. You have to figure out the other half, but everything I mentioned gives you the threads to do it.
France and Ukraine provided the Trump regime with false classified intelligence just to see if it would be provided to Putin.
Trump sent it Putin straight away.
No further intelligence will be provided to the US for the foreseeable future by any European nation.
Tariffs are a tax on US consumers.
They have no effect on economic investment. No company builds a factory.
The fundamental nature of Trump is market manipulation and retribution.
Trump's threat is: I want Greenland or I tax US consumers.
i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:
1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online
2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links
3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)
4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)
In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)
you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)
if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:
- Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)
- Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).
personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.
^^^^what they said. I'm surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google's flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your
2026 UPDATE:
just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it's easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!
Anonymous asked:
Aroace culture is placing more importance on your aro identity than your ace one because although you find sex more uncomfortable than romance, you also find that it's the experience that more drastically alters your life and how people view you. Like I ultimately connect more with the aro community (including aroallo people) personally because I'm more likely to get odd looks and people telling me not to make decisions about that so early, combined with the fact that there's a certain level of focus in the ace community on the difficulties of finding romantic partners as aces and the unique struggles which come with that. I understand that but I feel the narrative is often "you might be ace but you can still find love" (or that aces really enjoy things typical of romantic relationship just without the sex).
aro-culture-is answered:
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