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Super helpful, the different systems of counting can be soo tricky sometimes!

https://openstaxcollege.org

FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things.

college students, Bigwords.com is a conventient sort of search site that rifles through all sorts of online stores and ads looking for the text books you need, newest edition, you can look specifically for used books or ones with a buyback program, and stuff. and can be a lot cheaper, saved me $400 one semester

Can we amplify this a little please? I’m sure some of my followers could use this resource. Spread it around friends.

Attention anyone who needs hairstyle references

I want to introduce all of you to this amazing place called the ukhairdressers style gallery.

It’s basically a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles. I mean, look at all the options in that sidebar (and part of it’s cut off):

In total they have 976 pages of hairstyles with about 17 styles each, that’s about 16592 hairstyles to look at. 

Look at all the stuff they’ve got! Long hair:

Short hair:

Straight hair:

Curly hair:

Afro hair:

Men’s hair:

Hair on older models:

Extra-fancy hair:

Even crazy avant-garde hair:

So if you need help with designing a character or you just want to practice drawing hair, this is a fantastic resource.

What to eat before a workout!

What to eat after a workout!

Recipes for Pies and Tarts! (recipes)

Need some pie baking ideas for this Thanksgiving?! Wait no more!

Tips and Tricks so your pie comes out PERFECT HERE!

ARE YOU A WIZARD 

this is the best list ever

We have more Gods and Goddesses than you can shake a stick at. Our Mythology Encyclopedia features over 3,700 weird and wonderful Supreme Beings, Demons, Spirits and Fabulous Beasts from all over the world. Explore ancient legends and folklore, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with Godchecker…

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why is it that all the most popular posts on tumblr

are written like this

with no capitals

and no punctuation

i just really want there to be a popular and grammatically correct post on tumblr

I think the majority of Tumblr’s dialect (is there a word for a written dialect? Hardly anyone speaks Tumblr.) comes from influence within the tag system.

My theory is that the lack of capitalization is stylized, ironic laziness (same reason as the increasingly popular use of abbreviations such as idek and ikr, and particles like desu), whereas the punctuation stems from the tag system, where commas split up tags. So, “this is like, so totally cool” would be tagged “this is like” “so totally cool.”

With commas struck from the tumblr blogger’s arsenal, they rely on run-on sentences and other means to show emphasis. One such means, spacing, is another quirk influenced by the tags. If you repeat a tag, it will only show once, which is why you get “really r e a l l y weird things like this.”

Also common on Tumblr are people who show their enthusiasm through their text by pretending their haNDS ARE FRKEAKIGN OUT AN D THEY CANT TPYE OMFGGGG. This adaptation is actually pretty cool, I think, as it serves to communicate tone across a very toneless medium.

Did you hear that noise? That was the sound of my desk breaking. My linguistics boner just snapped it in half.

 #we’ve created our own language with its own set of rules and guidelines #based on the environment #that is cool #if you don’t think that’s cool you’re wrong

I was literally talking to someone about internet dialects just the other day, and how someone “from” 4chan will speak in a different dialect to someone “from” Tumblr, even if physically they live right next door to each other. The internet’s become like some kind of shadow world with its own languages and regional dialects, depending on what website someone might have “originated” from. 

Fucking fascinating. 

I’ve noticed that, too.  Each website seems to have not only its own culture with it’s own taboos and things to be praised and do’s and don’ts, but it’s own subtle variation of language(s) that can be confusing to newcomers who are unfamiliar with the new variation of grammar that’s accepted and/or the re-purposing of existing words to have context-specific meanings that will only be understood to members of that community.

And then each website even has subcultures with subdialects.

It’s honestly absolutely fascinating.  I’d love to just study this and write about my observations.  I could just go on and on about this, really.

Using Real Psychology in Your Writing

USING ARCHETYPES IN YOUR STORIES

Writing Better Romantic Relationships

This series looks at the Anima/Animus archetype, which is most often seen in romantic relationships, and how to use it to create more compelling romantic relationships, regardless of genre. Looks at what the anima and animus are, how they’re formed, and why fiction writers need to understand them. There’s also some and what makes love grow - and how happily ever afters really work.

Creating Better Antagonists

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

archetypewriting.com

I’ve recieved a lot of requests for a masterpost. 

So…I made one. 

Yeah. 

Like always, contact me with any changes. 

Like always, if you’re going to complain that demisexuality isn’t real, polysexuals are just confused, trans* people are liars, or asexuals need to get laid…. Just, I dunno, stop. 

This is important shit, people.

Get some terminology up ya.

100 Words for Facial Expressions

1. Absent: preoccupied 2. Agonized: as if in pain or tormented 3. Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire 4. Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest 5. Beatific: see blissful 6. Bilious: ill-natured 7. Black: angry or sad, or see hostile 8. Bleak: see grim and hopeless 9. Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern 10. Blissful: showing a state of happiness or divine contentment 11. Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent 12. Brooding: see anxious and gloomy 13. Bug eyed: frightened or surprised 14. Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed 15. Cheeky: cocky, insolent 16. Cheerless: sad 17. Choleric: hot-tempered, irate 18. Coy: flirtily playful, or evasive 19. Crestfallen: see despondent 20. Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings 21. Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor 22. Dejected: see despondent 23. Derisive: see sardonic 24. Despondent: depressed or discouraged 25. Doleful: sad or afflicted 26. Dour: stern or obstinate; see also despondent 27. Downcast: see despondent 28. Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing 29. Ecstatic: delighted or entranced 30. Etched: see fixed 31. Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible 32. Fixed: concentrated or immobile 33. Furtive: stealthy 34. Gazing: staring intently 35. Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive 36. Glaring: see hostile 37. Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion 38. Gloomy: see despondent and sullen 39. Glowering: annoyed or angry 40. Glowing: see radiant 41. Grim: see despondent; also, fatalistic or pessimistic 42. Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness 43. Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty 44. Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism 45. Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant 46. Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit 47. Impassive: see deadpan 48. Inscrutable: mysterious, unreadable 49. Jeering: insulting or mocking 50. Languid: lazy or weak 51. Leering: see meaningful; also, sexually suggestive 52. Meaningful: to convey an implicit connotation or shared secret 53. Mild: easygoing 54. Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful 55. Moody: see sullen 56. Pained: affected with discomfort or pain 57. Pallid: see wan 58. Peering: with curiosity or suspicion 59. Peeved: annoyed 60. Petulant: see cheeky and peeved 61. Pitying: sympathetic 62. Pleading: seeking apology or assistance 63. Pouting: see sullen 64. Quizzical: questioning or confused 65. Radiant: bright, happy 66. Roguish: see mischievous 67. Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident 68. Sardonic: mocking 69. Scornful: contemptuous or mocking 70. Scowling: displeased or threatening 71. Searching: curious or suspicious 72. Set: see fixed 73. Shamefaced: ashamed or bashful 74. Slack-jawed: dumbfounded or surprised 75. Sly: cunning; see also furtive and mischievous 76. Snarling: surly 77. Sneering: see scornful 78. Somber: see grave 79. Sour: unpleasant 80. Stolid: inexpressive 81. Straight-faced: see deadpan 82. Sulky: see sullen 83. Sullen: resentful 84. Taunting: see jeering 85. Taut: high-strung 86. Tense: see taut 87. Tight: see pained and taut 88. Unblinking: see fixed 89. Vacant: blank or stupid looking 90. Veiled: see inscrutable 91. Wan: pale, sickly; see also faint 92. Wary: cautious or cunning 93. Wide eyed: frightened or surprised 94. Wild eyed: excited, frightened, or stressful 95. Wistful: yearning or sadly thoughtful 96. Withering: devastating; see also wrathful 97. Woeful: full of grief or lamentation 98. Wolfish: see leering and mischievous 99. Wrathful: indignant or vengeful 100. Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

HOW TO RIP HIGH QUALITY AUDIO FILES WITH AUDACITY

Struggling to download something that you just can’t find? Have you found the file on YouTube, but you’re in need of a reliable converter? Well, guess what? You don’t even need a converter! All you need is the ability to play the audio you need, the program Audacity, and a few minutes of your spare time.

If you don’t have Audacity, a simple google search will change that. Get the program first, ya dingus! It’s what we’re using to record.

By default, the program might pick up audio from your microphone. Well, we can change that! We can change it so that instead of your mic, the program records the audio of whatever sound is coming from your computer. For me, the option I need looks like this:

Stereo Mix. This way it won’t pick up my voice, it won’t pick up any extra noise. ONLY what your computer plays. You should do a little practice recording if you’re not sure if you got the right one.

If you leave something extra on such as Skype’s little blips or MSN’s ‘hey you got a message bub!’ noise, IT WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE QUALITY OF YOUR RECORDING. Namely, most of the bass. I don’t know why it does this, but all you have to do is mute the sound from those programs until you’re done.

Get that shit muted, yo!

And don’t forget to ADD THE HIGH QUALITY AUDIO CODE TO THE END OF YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO: &fmt=18

Max out your volume as much as you can. This includes all of your sound options AND YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO!!

Start recording in Audacity. There will be a little block of silence but you can trim that off. Anyway. All you have to do now is play whatever you want to record! If it’s an entire song, just wait the entire song, and stop the recording when it’s done. If you did everything right, you should have a stereo-sound, high quality rip of whatever you wanted! Now you can trim it and export it as an .mp3, .wav, whatever you want. Keep in mind though, the quality of your file will depend on the quality of the video itself!! I’d look for official video links if I were you.

That’s all ya gotta do. Just remember to mute what needs to be muted, not to have the loud sound directly on your years, and don’t stop recording/don’t stop the video till it’s done!

This doesn’t just work for YouTube though- it works for ANY sound your computer makes. So you could play an epsidoe of something and record some dialogue, you could record audio from a game you’re playing, anything you want!!

Included as an audio file in this post is an example of what a clean rip would sound like straight from an official video!

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Gotta check this out.