poguesgold:

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

1. brooklyn bail fund
2. minnesota freedom fund
3. atlanta action network
4. columbus freedom fund
5. louisville community bail fund
6. chicago bond
7. black visions collective
8. richmond community bail fund
9. the bail project inc
10. nw com bail fund
11. philadelphia bail fund
12. the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme
13. george floyd’s family gofundme
14. blacklivesmatter.com
15. reclaim the block
16. aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

Thank you, Seventeen. Thank you for making music that I’ve adored for years. Thank you for giving me one more reason to smile on days when things have been hard this year. Thank you for giving me the push I needed to finally travel to Seoul, when I’ve wanted to with all my heart for two and a half years. Thank you for three world-shaking days of phenomenal concerts here in your home. Thank you for your talent and your hard work, for your open minds and big hearts. Thank you.

And thank you, Kwon Soonyoung, for being the bright little star that you are.

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Got a couple of pieces done here in Seoul over the last week.

Tattoos done by artists/instagram handles haenytattoo and tayong.tattoo, respectively. 💖

moveslikekeithrichards:

worst part of driving is when ur going 15 over the limit & ur still getting passed by everyone like bastards You are the animals here not me

jeneelestrange:

finnglas:

agwitow:

elumish:

A couple notes on eye color descriptions:

First, eyes are small. If someone is more than a few feet away, there’s very little chance they will notice someone else’s eye color. Same is true if it’s dark or if they’re wearing glasses.

Second, people don’t pay that much attention to eye color. Most people don’t think of others (I don’t think) in terms of eye color. I’m not actually sure of the eye color of most of my relatives or friends

Third, this is in no way a useful descriptor unless it plays an important role in the story. Harry Potter’s eye color mattered because of his mother. Hermione’s eye color didn’t.

I know eye-color hair-color skin-color is a common descriptor for people when they’re first being introduced, but try something else, and stop relying on a thing that doesn’t matter. And, especially if the story is in first person or close third person, stop having people be able to tell eye colors from unrealistic distances or in unrealistic situations, or when they wouldn’t have any reason to pay attention to them.

Some other first-impression-descriptors you could use:

• Height (if it’s noteworthy–most people don’t really notice unless it’s unusual in some way)
  
• Posture/their “walk” (e.g., do they slouch? hunch? scurry? stride? etc.)
• Facial expression
• Clothes (again, if it’s unusual in some way)
• Hairstyle
• Hands (gestures and appearance)
• How they interact with other people and/or the environment

There are other ways, of course, to describe characters–see what other ways you can come up with that don’t rely on the standard eye/hair/skin colour descriptions

Eye color noticing is useful as an emotional Reveal moment in romances! It usually comes about because you’re staring at someone close-up, or paying more than average attention to their features.

So it probably won’t be the first thing anybody notices about a character, but if your character DOES notice someone’s eye color, there’s usually an emotionally significant reason for it and that’s great to explore.

Exactly. You always know someone is the other’s romantic interest if they mention eyes and a scent. 

But also, yeah, mention build as well. Your characters probably shouldn’t all be identical broad-chested Heroes™, else you’re not exactly making them very varied, are you?

alwaysabeautifullife:

I found this amazing list online and I demand that you all tag urself

atomicblonde:

americanphancakes:

deborahthejudge5777:

fountainfinity:

things people do in real world dialogue:

• laugh at their own jokes

• don’t finish/say complete sentences

• interrupt a line of thought with a sudden new one

• say ‘uh’ between words when unsure

• accidentally blend multiple words together, and may start the sentence over again

• repeat filler words such as ‘like’ ‘literally’ ‘really’ ‘anyways’ and ‘i think’

• begin and/or end sentences with phrases such as ‘eh’ and ‘you know’, and may make those phrases into question form to get another’s input

• repeat words/phrases when in an excited state

• words fizzle out upon realizing no one is listening

• repeat themselves when others don’t understand what they’re saying, as well as to get their point across

• reply nonverbally such as hand gestures, facial expressions, random noises, movement, and even silence

Excellent sticky note for dialogue writing in fiction. 

All of this. I get a lot of compliments on my dialogue and this list pretty much covers what I do (but some of it, I didn’t even realize I did, lol). I highly recommend reading your dialogue aloud (or imagining it in realtime like a movie scene) to see if it feels natural, which is what I do when editing.

I’m glad someone else made this list so I didn’t have to!