anywhere in the uk that’s NOT london
reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to
~360 votes at the time of writing, and this reblog is the 40th note. PLEASE press the reblog button I am begging everyone
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a tweet by Ivy (Atrophy Arc) (@/StuntedAphidcel) from 26 March 2024 that reads
loook, man, HRT isn't gonna turn you into your waifu or like those 1% top OF girls. youre gonna look like your mother. and that's fine, she's a very beautiful woman. it was a pleasure to make her acquaintance last night
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thinking about aus for ocs is so funny. like i already put this guy in a situation but what if i put them in another totally different one
I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you
Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK
if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light
I forgot that writing is very fun and that you're playing pretend. like all this shit and pressure about craftsmanship and art! NO!!!! you are a grown up playing with dolls! it is silly and you should have sooooo much fun pushing their heads together to make them smooch!!! or torturing them, which is what I did to my toys as a child, to the point where my mom thought I was going to grow up evil
me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off
basically in corporate you either have email job or you have excel job. sometimes you have meeting job. sometimes it could be all 3. but thats it
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
Fleurs dans un vase
Okay, so, looks like Google Docs might actually start implementing their rule about not sharing explicit content. (This includes writing.) How in the ever loving fuck am I supposed to back up 1,000+ stories that equate to 3 million+ words into fucking Microsoft Word????? And efficiently, for that matter?! HELP.
I figured out how to move all my stuff onto Microsoft Word!
See those three dots next to the folder name? Click on that.
Then it'll give you the download option.
Once downloaded, it'll save the folder as a compressed zip file! All the documents inside are changed to Word files, and you can view and edit them now.
Now I know how to move 3 million+ words onto my laptop. It'll still take a bit, but not nearly as long as I'd imagined.
I would like to add that I am not trying to fear-monger. However, it is part of Google Drive’s TOS to not share explicit material, be it sexual or violent. (So, basically what I write.)
This occurrence seems to be rare. Read about it here.
Besides, it is better to have everything on your own hard drive vs Google docs. You retain more ownership over your work that way.
Someone pointed out that I did not provide the ToS, which, my bad. Again, not trying to cause a panic or anything. Just saying that Google is not a safe place to keep your writing/art.
This is the specific part of the ToS that I was looking at:
And this is the part that says they can restrict access to your writing or remove it entirely for breaking the ToS:
So, yeah. An author lost access to their writing due to sharing it with beta and alpha readers. It seems like an isolated incident as far as I’m aware, but you can never be too careful. Back up your stuff if you can.
HUMANS | 2.04
FYI I just came across a thread on twitter which says that an author shared on google docs an explicit story with a friend for beta reading and google removed the file due to violation of TOS (apparently it has been updated where you are not allowed to share anything with sexual content). Not sure if it’s just this instance or if it’s going to become a widespread thing but if you guys write in google docs MAKE BACK UPS!!
Edit: also wanted to add that it seems that Microsoft word has the same language in their TOS so onedrive is not a safe alternative!