super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:
copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook
if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things
state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy
ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?
make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]
just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”
just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”
just stick a meme in there
honestly who cares
just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden
Ghibli Gardens - The Bathouse Gardens in Spirited Away (2001)
PONYO (2008) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
How to draw a Black person
How to colour Black people skin tones
How to draw dreadlocks
How to draw African hair
How to draw curly hair
How to draw braids
How to draw braids part 2
How to draw cornrows
How to draw Bantu knots
How to draw two strand twists
How to draw an Asian person
How to colour darker skin tones with alcohol markers
How to draw hijabs/traditional Muslim hair coverings
How to draw a hijabi girl
All links and art provided by @ itsajart on TikTok
Before you go “mY aRt sTyLe iS dIfFrEnT tHoUgH” you can moderate it and play around with your style to get it to fit.
STUDIO GHIBLI + BEDROOMS
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Whisper of the Heart (1995) When Marnie Was There (2014) The Cat Returns (2002) Spirited Away (2001) Only Yesterday (1991) The Secret world of Arrietty (2010)
easy breezy god of calamity (& co)
TOKYO GODFATHERS ‘東京ゴッドファーザーズ’ dir. Satoshi Kon
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/world/americas/mexico-city-train-derailment.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/04/mexico-city-overpass-collapse-metro-train-carriages?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1620104517
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-city-mexico-faee07a9250174f58365db6c915476d7?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
So, on the night of May 3, a subway fell on top of a highway in Mexico. This was not a terrorist attack, I want to make this very clear since misinformation is being spread online by supporters of our current president. People in the neighborhood had been complaining about the horrible conditions of the infrastructure FOR YEARS. As per usual, our government did nothing. Once again, the Mexican government is complicit in causing the death of several working class people. The imaged being shown on the news are all of working class people still wearing their uniforms, carrying their bags ad they were on their way home after work
As of right now, reports say there are over 70 injured people and 15 deaths. It’s about 1 am at the moment, and several people are still trapped under the rubble and inside the train cars.
I am very well aware of the fact that this is an American centric website, but it is still useful to spread this information in case people have relatives living in Mexico City, as well as to combat the misinformation being spread by the supporters of our current government.
Below, you will be able to find the phone numbers of the hospitals that are receiving the victims of this preventable accident.
And please do not believe everything you read! MORENA, our current ruling political party has blood on their hands and ever since AMLO became president, they’ve done nothing but harm our country while they fill their pockets.
If you want to donate, please be very careful given that people are known to take advantages of tragedies like this to scam people. Proper organizations you can donate to are:
TOPOS: https://www.topos.mx/en/donate
MEXICAN RED CROSS: https://www.cruzrojamexicana.org.mx/
For more information, check the #METRO CDMX and #Linea12 tags on Twitter. Those are the two hashtags people are using to spread information and look for their relatives.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.
Everybody, try laughing. Then whatever scares you will go away!
STUDIO GHIBLI + RAINBOW COLOURS
[ disney version ]
I hear a lot of people bitching that they can’t leave kudos multiple times per story, or can’t leave kudos on every chapter, or whatever.
Well, take a page out of this marvelous book, because I swear I’ve never been so happy to receive kudos as waking up to multiple people having done this on multiple chapters on a story I just posted.
The bar just got raised, folks.