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Changes, next exit. If you want to stay the same, better stay here.
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It’s a modern day paradox: “Always open. Closed.”
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Absolutely nothing next 22 miles? What about the road, dirt/sand, telephone poles, scrub, mountains, etc.?
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No dogs skateboarding with a wine glass while smoking. So, does that mean just one of these activities is fine for your dog?
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Not to mention, they might spoil their appetite and not eat all their dinner.
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Parking for drive-through service only.
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I guess Cinderella wasn’t that memorable. Either that, or the prince was VERY drunk, and knew he had major beer goggles the night before.
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Do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself. …If it didn’t suck, they wouldn’t have had to make it prestigious.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
– Gustave Flaubert (via homosexualheartthrob)(via comfortablymyself)
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Social skills for autonomous people: Social skill: Faking eye contact →
People make a really big deal about eye contact, and if they think you’re not looking at them, they take it as either as you insulting them by intentionally not bothering to look, or take it as evidence that you’re not really a full person and don’t need consideration.
This is tiresome and a bad…
Excellent advice! I’ve heard looking at people’s noses or their forehead between their eyes can work well, too.
You make a good point when you say most people don’t value eye contact as much as they think they do. In my experience most people barely glance into my eyes for brief periods. When they really look with attention, or hold their gaze for longer than a split second, I can definitely feel the difference (point being that really looking into someone’s eyes isn’t necessary for social interaction). I tend to look more attentively than the average person because it helps me hear what they’re saying better. This has helped many friends feel they can trust me and talk about personal matters with me even if they don’t know me that well, and it may have helped me in some classes and interviews, but it can also turn people off (I was always told to stop staring at people when I was little). Really looking into someone’s eyes can also be misinterpreted as sexual attraction.
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Some Writing Prompt Generators
Serendipity (names, places, mapbuilding, etc.)
Quick Story Idea
Full Story Idea
Writing Challenges
General Character
Quick Character
really just all of Seventh Sanctum
RPGesque generators
Writing Prompts
Inspiration Finder
Story Arc
Fantasy Story Situaton
Adventure
Chaotic Shiny is just really good in general
Random Plotreblog for my own reference
/high pitched screeching
I don’t currently need these because I have more projects at the moment than I know what to do with, fiction and non. Perhaps you can make better use of these?
(via bibliophile-at-baggend)
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The Linguistics Ninja: Social skills: noticing when repetition is communication →
So there’s this dynamic:
Autistic person: The door is open!
Other person: I *know* that. It’s hot in here.
Autistic person: The door is open!
Other person: I already explained to you that it’s hot in here!
Autistic person: The door is open!
Other…
How to communicate with an autistic person 101.
Ever wondered how much of “rigid and stereotyped behaviors” really is about sameness and how much is about a limited ability to use language, or gestures that others can understand?
(via icantwords)
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Fuck Yeah, Solitude.: other-wordly: Check out how depressing these thesaurus.com entries for... →
Check out how depressing these thesaurus.com entries for solitary are! This is why I don’t use thesauruses, especially when I do Otherwordly things. I refuse to believe that the only words for solitary are negative. I don’t believe that someone who likes their space…
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The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.
– Lois Lowry, from her Newberry Award acceptance speech. (via amandaonwriting)t (via seriouslyamerica)(via seriouslyamerica)
