To anyone that are writers, have any of you looked into the platform that is @ellipsus-writes ? It sounds pretty good but I haven't used it

Currently love and live by using Ellipsus. It's easy to use, and frankly the export feature makes it easy to transfer stuff.

It's also got a ton of free themes (that are a lot easier on the eyes than blinding white) you can use and it pretty much works like a Google docs but without any of the invasive AI bullshit. You can also have folks comment/collaborate on drafts and create multiple drafts that shows all your edits and suggestions. Really useful if you wanna keep track of versions and changes.

They also have a blog here on Tumblr, letting folks know about changes and what they're up to and what they focus on. Highly recommend you check them out.

I used it to write my undergrad creative writing thesis, so obviously I highly recommend them lol

we've got a life to love living.

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

General useful stuff!

Guides

Tips and Tricks!

Resources

Useful the next 1,110 days

Tumblr really wants to let me know that my posting failed

No, Tumblr failed by not letting you post

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

Drawing, growing plants, long walks in the summer, sun catchers, rivers & ponds

You know what?

My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.

Modern medicine saves lives.

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

:0

Thank you!

I just watched a video about students getting their papers falsely flagged for using AI, even when they didn’t, and the advice was things like, “Leave in incorrect grammar,” “If you’re quoting something, don’t copy and paste it, type it out manually because it leaves a metadata trail that you used the copy/paste function and that's a flag,” “Write in the cloud so there’s a version history,” and the one that really got me, “if you find you write in a manner that can sounds too robotic or professional and it gets flagged, go to the writing center so a writing tutor can help you sound more humanly flawed,” and like what the actual fuck.

Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.

I spent so much of my life learning how to write, I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me.

this is ableism.

In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe 

Want some more? 

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

I’m back with some more! 

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

to find later

Here you can split circles into smaller and smaller pieces (I found this really satisfying)

Here you can have images of people point to where your pointer is

Here you can paint someone’s nails

Here you can grow a garden across your screen (Audio included)

Here you can try out all kinds of mind illusions (Trigger Warning: Flashing Lights)

Here you can see how many miles you have scrolled

Here you can watch a website load forever, although you might be getting enough of this on Tumblr mobile

Here’s a rickroll

Here you can remind yourself that you’re awesome.

Here you can throw trash into a dustbin only for it to bounce right back out (Audio included)

Here you can make sand dunes using sand (Audio included)

And here you can generate more cool websites like these

pinning thissss

And yet more!!!

Here you can listen to a gentle rainstorm

Here you can make snowflakes

Here is a Line Rider feature film with relaxing music

Here is the entire script to the Princess Bride (many don’t need it but it’s fun to read anyway)

Here is an abbreviated script for the entirety of Book 1 of A:TLA that I made out of anger at the film that definitely doesn’t exist

Here is a playlist of the top 10 most relaxing songs ranked according to science

Here’s a site where you can make a dude beatbox with fun animations

I’m fully aware I will need this at some point.

In case anyone is just in a mad mood.

because i am having a shitty night

1,121 days left

I love you

I add my own, why not:

I CAST SOMETHING!!!

*something has changed... but you don't know what...*

Stop making me hungry, Satan. I know I gotta eat, I'm getting food now. Stop it.

Dearest fellow writers,

I am genuinely curious how you are managing your time enough to post your works that literally contains an astronomical word count. Especially those who are in college and those with jobs. LIKE, ONE MOMENT YOU'RE GONE TO DO SOMETHING IRL AND THEN NEXT MOMENT, YOU HAVE POSTED ATLEAST THREE STORIES IN ONE DAY?!?#! Soo, please comment your secret technique for this busy writer who wants to be more active. Lovelots to all of your hardwork btw, absolute kudos to that. >.<

Work the in-between times.

Scrolling on your phone cause work is slow? Good time to get a lil chip in on the WIP. Worry about formatting later (or not at all).

30 minute wait in the dr's office? Lovely time to write what you see, what you feel, project onto Blorbos.

Ubering home? Ah yes, quiet time if you wanna write. You don't have to talk.

You don't even need to use your laptop, worry about formatting later, just get the shit down on a page first.

Working the in-between is being conscious of your time, and actively choosing to be aware of how much time you spend scrolling/browsing and turning it into writing time. That's how I managed to get my undergrad thesis done on top of everything else. Now I can use the time for new fics and new chapters.

Oh, it also helps to write now and post later after editing. It's OK to have time between big posting blocks, cause having a backlog just means you got more to share from if you so choose.

Hope this helps! Happy writing!

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

Writer confession/tip: Sometimes, if there’s something I really want to write but I’m lacking the motivation to actually complete it, I’ll send in that same thought/scenario/idea as a request to my own inbox, and it motivates me to write it as if I’m writing for somebody else.

Honestly that's a great idea though! I struggle with motivation from time to time myself, and haven't tried this, but maybe it'll help! Thank you for sharing this.

When you see it, REBLOG IT.

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THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POST. REBLOG IT IF YOU CAN.

Do it, no matter your ‘blog type’ because you never know who might need it

Wow. I wonder if there are numbers to call about anxiety and just chit chat.

the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years

@vividaway​ Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.

In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.

In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.

There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.

Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.

At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.

There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.

It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.

“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.

And now, at long last, Fifteen Years: