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2024 Reads in Review Asks

Faves of the year

Flops of the year

DNF With Prejudice: Book(s) you didn't finish on purpose

DNF With Regrets: Book(s) you didn't finish but want to get back to

Crowd Pleaser: Book you would recommend to almost anyone

Dead Dove Do Not Eat: Book you would recommend to a select audience with a mountain of caveats

Wasted Potential: Great premise and/or characters but fell down on execution

Blorbo Of The Year: Perhaps not your favorite of the year, but contains The Character

Compels Me Though: Okay, maybe not all of it made sense, but you had a great time anyway

Sleeper Hit: Not a book that you have to force into people's hands, but well-executed

Favorite non-fiction of the year

Favorite series of the year

Favorite standalone of the year

Most anticipated—did it live up to the hype?

Biggest disappointment?

Biggest surprise?

New author (either to you, or with a recent debut) you're hoping to read more of?

Favorite recent release you read this year

Favorite old(er) book you read this year

Did you re-read any books? Were they what you expected?

Best recommendation from a friend

Best book you found in the wild

Free space--talk about any book you read in 2024 not otherwise covered

Do you have any goals for your reading in 2025?

What's on the top of your list for 2025?

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Selective Mutism: an anxiety disorder. The inability to talk is caused by social anxiety due to the people and/or situation around the selectively mute individual. Often starts in childhood.

Speech Loss: a term for being unable to speak for a certain period of time, usually due to autism-related reasons (e.g. being overwhelmed or burnt out). Can overlap with Selective Mutism, the disorder, but it is not the same thing. (For one, SL is a trait; SM is a whole disorder.)

Nonverbal/Nonspeaking: a term for people who are always or almost always unable to talk. If you're unable to talk for an hour/day/week, you're not "going nonverbal"; you're "losing speech". If you've never been able to talk more than a few utterances, that's nonverbal.

Semiverbal/Semispeaking: a term for people who struggle greatly to speak to communicate. This might include taking awhile to form sentences, speaking with very few words, relying on echolalia, using gestures to communicate, and not always making sense to others.

Hyperverbal: people who speak more than what's typical, though we can still experience speech loss. This can include things like having a large vocabulary, using more words than necessary/usual to say something, talking to ourselves, talking for the sake of talking, using a lot of non-communicative echolalia, not realizing we're talking, or rambling often.

A Note: over time, your place on the verbalizing spectrum (nonverbal, semiverbal, average, hyperverbal) CAN change, but that's not, like, "oh i was hyperverbal this week and nonverbal last week"; it's about overarching patterns. Additionally, Selective Mutism does not inherently put someone at a certain spot on the verbalizing spectrum.

weirdly specific and unrelated asks to know someone well:

chipotle order?

thoughts on veganism?

a specific color that gives you the ick?

mythical creature you think/believe is real?

favorite form of potato?

do you use a watch?

what animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium?

do you change into specific clothes for the house when you get home?

do you have a skincare routine (and how many steps is it)?

on a plane, do you ask for apple or orange juice?

anything from your childhood you’ve held on to?

brand of haircare/bodycare/skincare that you trust 100%?

first thing you’re doing in the purge?

do you think you’re dehydrated?

rank the methods of death: freezing, burning, drowning

thoughts on mint chocolate chip?

an anxious compulsion you do everyday?

your boba/tea order?

the veggie you dislike the most?

favorite disney princess movie?

a number that weirds you out?

do you have an emotional support water bottle?

do you wear jewelry?

which do you find yourself using, american or british english?

would you say you have good taste in music?

how’s your spice tolerance?

what’s your favorite or go-to outfit?

last meal on earth?

preferred pasta noodle?

ask me anything !

leave an ask for the person you reblog it from!

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Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing

Anyway here’s some information from the National Center for Transgender Equality on how you can support trans people, and here’s a direct link to their donation webpage, and here’s their page for national/federal and state advocacy efforts and actions if you wanted something specific to get involved in.

Here’s the Human Rights Campaign’s resources page about transgender people and issues , and here’s their Get Involved page to help find ways to volunteer and lobby and advocate in your area.

Also, here’s the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s page about the Violence Against Woman Act , their Action Center, and their Donation page.

My animation process (in a GIF!)

So you've learned the 12 principles of animation but don't know where to actually apply them? Fear not!! For here is my step-by-step process, very very condensed, into one singular giant GIF.

Hope it helps!

(You may need to open it in a new tab to read the text)

*Insert your language* favourite songs ask

Native or chosen language songs! (anything but English basically)(because spyld :))

Song about love

Song about sex

Song about friendship

Song about a hobby/art

Song about sadness

Song about anger

Song of happiness

Song that helps with letting go/healing

Song that is/was a top hit

Song about history/a story

Song fit for a revolution

Song for drinking/party

Best sing-along

Meme-worthy song/jingle

Children's song/lullaby

Most poetic lyrics

Favourite duet

Song in multiple languages

Song that's a translation of a song from an other language

other song category of choice 🎵

Favourites and superlatives music ask!!!

[info in brackets is to be specified by the asker]

In your opinion, what is:

The best song of [band/ artist]

The best album of [band/ artist]

The best 'era' of [band/ artist]

The best song of [album]

The best song of [genre]

The best album of [genre]

The best band/ artist of [genre]

The best 'era/ generation' of [genre]

The best song of [year]

The best album of [year]

The best song of [decade]

The best album of [decade]

The best band/ artist of [decade]

The best genre of [decade]

The best song of [language]

The best album of [language]

The best band of [language]

The best genre of [language]

The song with the best vocals

The song with the best instrumental

The song with the best [instrument]

The song with the best melody

The song with the best intro

The song with the best outro

The song with the best bridge

The song with the best verse melody

The song with the best chorus

The song with the best pre-chrous

The song with the best structure

The song with the best rhythm

The song with the best sound effects

The song with the best lyrics

The song with the most poetic lyrics

The song with the best rhymes

The song with the most relatable lyrics

The song with the most inspirational lyrics

The song with the most meaningful lyrics

The song with the most blorbo/ AMV-able lyrics

The best song title

The best album title

The best band name

The most well-known song you know

The most well-known band/ artist you know

The most well-known genre you know

The most unknown song you know

The most unknown band/ artist you know

The most unknown genre you know

The saddest song you know

The most emotional song you know

The most nostalgic song you know

The most awe-inspiring song you know

The most energising song you know

The catchiest song you know

The most badass song you know

The funniest song you know

The happiest song you know

The most inspirational song you know

The most romantic song you know

The most chill song you know

The angriest song you know

The weirdest song you know

The creepiest song you know

The most unique song you know

The most shocking song you know

The most comforting song you know

The softest song you know

The softest song of [band/ artist]

The heaviest song you know

The heaviest song of [band/ artist]

The best cover of another song

The best live version

The best demo/ alternate version

The best acoustic version

The longest song you know

The shortest song you know

The most prolific band/ artist you know

The least prolific band/ artist you know

The best love song you know

The best break-up song you know

The best party/ dance song you know

The best song with a social message

The best narrative song

The best song about friendship

The best song about family

The best song about loneliness

The best song about childhood

The best song about inner conflict

The best song about interpersonal conflict

The best song about suffering

The best song about hope

The best song about forgiveness

The best song about the band's/ artist's experiences

The best song of a genre you dislike

The best song of a band/ artist you dislike

The best song of an album you dislike

The worst song of a band/ artist you like

The worst album of a band/ artist you like

The most overrrated song of a band/ artist you like

The most underrrated song of a band/ artist you like

The most underrated song of a genre you like

alright, super quick primer on torrenting:

depending on your country, you may need a vpn to access torrenting sites and avoid getting fined. a vpn can also allow you to stream on legal sites that are location-restricted. proton vpn is a strong free alternative for minor piracy, but this isn't a major deal in my region, so do your own research if fines are a concern.

you want a strong ad blocker before going into any piracy websites. don't use adblock. i recommend ublock origin.

you also want to have at least the system antivirus on. on top of my antivirus, i also use malwarebytes.

next, you need a torrent client to manage your downloads. don't use bittorrent. i recommend qbittorrent.

last, but not least, you need a reliable source for your torrents. rarbggo dot org (edit: rarbg shut down in 2023) and 1337x dot to are my go-to websites at the time being. downloading multimedia files is safe as long as you are going to a solid website like these ones, but you may want to do some extra reading before you try to pirate software.

for subtitles, i primarily use opensubtitles dot org.

bonus tip: vlc media player includes an integrated subtitle search engine. under the view menu, click vlsubs to find subtitles by name, episode and language.

ask game

1. whats your favorite thing in your room?

2. how tall do you wish you were?

3. what color is your hair?

4. whats a rare fear that you have?

5. are you single?

6. has your heart ever been broken?

7. what was your favorite thing as a kid?

8. favorite coping mechanism?

9. whats your favorite love language?

10. how often do you get nervous?

11. if you had three wishes, would you use them?

12. if you could be fluent in any language which one would it be?

13. where do you wish to live?

14. what’s something surprising about you?

15. when did you last shower?

16. when did you first join tumblr?

17. do you want any tattoos? if so, where, what, and why?

18. whats the most prominent dream youve had?

19. whats your dream job?

20. whats your ideal date?

21. what do you wish you could do better?

22. what country would you live in if you could?

23. whos the best person you know?

24. have you ever walked into something you shouldnt have?

25. whats your favorite holiday?

26. when have you been most embarrassed?

27. whats your favorite halloween costume?

28. what are you best at?

29. do you know how to tie your shoes?

30. do you have siblings?

31. if you could know one thing about the future what do you wanna know?

32. whats a dealbreaker for you?

33. whats your favorite current class?

34. how many people have you dated?

35. how often do you wash your hair?

36. do you daydream? what about?

37. where do you go to be alone?

38. which parent do you like more?

39. whats the one standard you hold yourself to?

40. whos voice do you enjoy?

41. if you could announce one thing to the world what would it be?

42. whats one thing you wanna do but havent yet?

43. what do you wish you never did?

44. do you believe in life after death?

45. do you prefer book over movie?

46. whats your favorite season?

47. whats your favorite time of day

48. do you have a beloved stuffed animal?

49. whens a time you wish you acted differently?

50. what’s something you wish that you never bought?

51. do you have your own room?

52. whats your favorite book?

53. who’s someone you hate?

54. whats your best hottake?

55. whats your favorite game?

56. whens a time you felt real genuine fear?

57. are you a morning person?

58. do you drink enough water?

59. how different are you from the little kid you used to be?

60. do you enjoy tumblr?

61. have you ever had a tumblr experience that made you wanna delete the app?

62. whats your least favorite game?

63. were you a markiplier fan?

64. how do you respond to compliments?

65. whats something that would make you fall in love?

66. do you believe in marriage?

67. do you have a crush on someone?

68. do you like tumblr?

69. were you a voltron stan?

70. whats your favorite ship?

71. whats your favorite song?

72. do you like loud crowds?

73. have you ever created conflict on purpose?

74. how do you sleep?

75. do you bite your lips?

76. do you use chapstick?

77. do you have any pets?

78. what color are your eyes?

79. what’s something you wish you could change about yourself?

80. have you ever had surgery?

81. whats your least favorite animal?

82. whats something that youre really bad at?

83. do you have an sqishmellows?

84. do you enjoy fast food?

85. do you like soda?

86. what grade are you in?

87. do you wear any jewelry?

88. what socials do you use?

89. whats your lowest grade in school right now?

90. whats the latest youve stayed up till?

91. did you ever have bangs?

92. what trends did you hate?

93. whats your favorite item of clothing?

94. do you like dinosaurs?

95. whats your opinion on body hair?

96. whats your least favorite time?

97. do you make a wish at 11:11?

98. do you have your phone on military or regular?

99. have you ever been to church?

100. are you lgbtq?

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