normal-horoscopes
charminglyantiquated
while i’m busy going through my street art pictures, here’s a moment of appreciation for this little guy who pops up to praise local plant life - he’s saying ‘long live the fig tree!’ and ‘long live the vine!’ respectively
historical-nonfiction
Brightly colored pottery is a hallmark of the Paracas culture (900 - 100 BCE) of southern Peru. They would mark unfired pieces with animals, supernatural figures, and patterns, then add color after the firing process to fill in the design.
A new study, recently published in Antiquity, analyzed the chemical composition of the Paracas paints and binding agents. The study found that an organic white pigment on pottery from the Cahuachi site was made from an unusual material: reptile urine! It is unknown – and a bit difficult to guess – how the substance was collected and then processed.
the-melissa-mckinnon
mangowriter
Working on pacing is literally the worst thing.
It’s so hard to find the will to fix something that has all the right content and all the right words, but somehow still reads wrong.
For anyone else who might struggle with pacing in some parts of their story, the solution that’s worked for me without fail is:
Usually, one round of this does it for me, but if you give it another as-if-it’s-written-by-your-favorite-author read-through and it still falls flat, rinse and repeat!
Excellent advice! I always rewrite at least once before I send to my editor. It might seem tedious, but it always works.
cosmictuesdays
heartsnbruises
Back in May, Mark wrote about a Kickstarter project to fund a mobile app that will help you locate the hidden entrances to Malibu’s public beaches, which the local rich and famous people have done everything they can to obscure (including putting up illegal fake signs that falsely declare passage to be trespassing).
The Kickstarter was fully funded and the app is out, and the public is finding its way to Malibu’s public beaches, which is great news – unless you’re one of those people who’s spent decades treating a public beach as your own private patch. Local residents are pissed:
https://boingboing.net/2013/06/24/app-shows-you-the-way-to-the-i.html
Some of them even hire private security guards who tell beachgoers that they’re on private property and could be prosecuted. Those security guards have called the local sheriff’s department (and let’s not forget that’s an elected position). They also have told beachgoers that they’re trespassing. But all California beaches are public up to the high tide line, as long as you can find the public access points. These apps help maintain equitable access, as well as a law passed in 2014, stating that perpetrators of access violations can be fined $11,250 per day lmfao
Eat the rich. Go to the beach.
labbbugs
hahaha not a coward here. I let plenty of bugs and spiders and various arthrpods live in my house. This guy actually came inside from something I brought from outside and washed it in my sink. So I was just putting it back where I found it.
windmillcrusader
eternalgirlscout
They went to the Ritz again, where a table was mysteriously vacant. And perhaps the recent exertions had had some fallout in the nature of reality because, while they were eating, for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.
fishyfishyfishtimes
mallsharks
coworker told me he “hates all mollusks” today. and to each their own obviously but like… theres 100k species of mollusk… you really hate all of them bro? nautiluses and oysters and snails and nudibranches and chitons and thousands of animals youve never even heard of???? what did ammonites even fucking do to you
he hates sea bunny?
AND leaf sheep??
good-omens-fanart
doctorwhobastank
ethereal-menace
