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- don’t edit, ask if you want to change something
- 150 x150 icons
- don’t claim as your own
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yesterday i was talking to a Guy and i asked what time it was and he git really excited and said “time for you to get aaaaa…. SUNDIAL!!” and then started talking about sundials and sounding like a fucking commercial and i pointed out that sundials have to be in one specific spot to work and he got all nervous and asked if i’ve tried a sextant. what the fuck
not to sound like Sundial Salesman Guy but … he’s lowkey right, if you’re in a place with a fair amount of sunlight. two weeks ago i was hanging out with a little kid when she wondered aloud what time it was. i looked at the sun, adjusted my body a bit, put my elbow on the ground with the arm up perpendicular, and told her “it’s about 12:45.”
then she had to get a watch to see if i was right (pretty much — it was 12:50), and then i found myself explaining cardinal directions and sundials to a preschooler
ANYWAY MY POINT IS that no, sundials don’t require a fixed place for efficiency, only enough sun to cast a shadow & awareness of your relative direction, and knowing this is great but going on about it makes you sound horny for ancient Rome
if you don’t know how to make a sundial but need a guesstimate on how much daylight is left, hold your hand out at arm’s length horizontally and count how many fingers fit between the sun and the horizon. it’s about 15 minutes a finger.
literally all you people sound insane to me
🔹 You are allowed to write fiction in whatever style you want.
🔹 Your fiction writing does not have to conform to academic writing standards.
🔹 You are allowed to repeat words.
🔹 You are allowed to use dialects, incomplete phrases, slang etc, in dialogue or in the body of your prose.
🔹 You are allowed to have idiosyncratic phrasing.
🔹 You are allowed to be verbose.
🔹 You are allowed to be concise.
🔹 You are damned well allowed to fucking swear, I shit you not.
🔹 You are allowed to use said tags liberally or to omit them as much as possible.
🔹 You are allowed to use adverbs liberally or to omit them as much as possible.
🔹 You are allowed to make mince-meat out of grammar rules for effect.
🔹 Your fiction is not bound or to be judged by academic writing standards.
🔹 You are allowed to write fiction any way you want, even if it is not ‘correct’ in terms of writing rules.
🔹 There are no absolute rules for writing fiction.
I am sharing this for my friends who are disheartened by unnecessary criticism. Fanfics are not school assignments to be graded by your teachers. Styles vary by region. What looks odd to an American may be perfectly fine for Australia.
Every style has an audience.
the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it’s like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys
this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye
