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Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
A guide to all The Pitt fanfiction writers on how Med School and Residency works
I love you all, you are doing amazing things, but here is some extra helpful information to help you write more accurate fanfics
Medical School is 4 years long. Typically, the first 2 years are in the classroom, and year 3 and year 4 are clinical years.
Year 3 is when your medical school sends you on rotations (usually lasting 4 weeks) and you end up basically rotating at different specialties.
Javadi is a 3rd year on a 4 week rotation. If your fic is set a month after the events of season 1, she is not working there. If you want to include her in your fanfic, put her on a surgery rotation with Dr. Garcia so she is back in the ED doing surgical things! Or put her on inpatient medicine (aka the doctor that does the medicine at the hospital) and have her come down to the ED to admit a patient.
4th year medical students typically have more say in where they are rotating. they still are only doing 4 week (and sometimes 2 week!) rotations. A lot of the time, 4th year's are "auditioning" or working "sub-i's" which means they are acting like an intern at a residency program in hopes that the residency program will want to hire/match that student
Whitaker is a 4th year student and likely auditioning to be an emergency medicine doctor at The Pitt. If your fic is set sometime in July of the next year, he is now a doctor!
Med students don't place orders, but it's fine if you get this wrong, the TV show did too.
Match day!!! They day where all 4th year medical students find out where they will end up working. On a Monday in March, students find out if they matched at a residency program, and on a Friday, they find out where. (If you want to learn about the SOAP process, you can ask me, but we don't need to get into that for fic writing)
The beginning of residency starts July 1st, which is why Season 2 of The Pitt being on July 4th will be really interesting! The intern class will be doctors for 3 whole days at that point!
Most emergency medicine residencies are only 3 years long, but The Pitt is four years long. (There is actually a lot of hot debate about extending all EM residencies to 4 years)
Santos is an intern/PGY-1 (post grad year 1) she is a baby doctor. We never ACTUALLY learn what Santos matched in to. Part of me thinks she is in a "transitional year" which is sometimes a 1 year program for people to be a doctor but still want to apply to another program (hence why she wanted a letter of rec from Javadi's mom). She ALSO is doing 4 week rotations and will probably spend time at other rotations (like surgery 👀, ob, icu)
Year 2 residents and year 3 residents will rotate at different hospitals (Hence why Mel just came from the VA.) Year 2 is when a lot of emergency medicine residents REALLY start working in the ER, as your first year you are off doing other rotations.
Year 4 is when you can be elected as a chief resident. Not all PGY-4's are chiefs. You typically get elected for the role by your fellow residents and faculty (that would be Robby and Abbot). The amount of chief residents is dependent on the size of the residency program
After your 4th year, you graduate and can become an attending (again Robby, Abbot and Shen -> who is a new attending) or you can do a fellowship! Which is what Langdon was applying for and why he needed Robby's letter of rec.
Residents are working 60-80 hour weeks and making maybe 65k a year
Hours are NOT SET for residents. Those residents working the night shift, probably are only working the night shift that week and then are switching to days. Attendings, however, do choose if they work days or nights.
Obviously there is a lot more to this, but here are some basics!
Eating while on shift is not permitted, staff are told. “If the system detects no keyboard stroke and mouse click, it will show you as idle for that particular duration, and it will be reported to your supervisor. So please avoid hampering your productivity.”
A training video about the webcam system, seen by the Guardian, says it “monitors and tracks real-time employee behaviour and detects any violations to pre-set business rules, and sends real-time alerts to managers to take corrective actions immediately”.
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About
This is a project to translate the Yatagarasu series from the original japanese to english. The current plan is to first translate 空棺の烏 (The Raven of the Empty Coffin), the 4th book in the series that follows the events adapted in the anime. Some scenes from previous books will be also translated ahead of time to fill in the missing lore from the adaptations.
You can also stay up to date with the project though Twitter and Bluesky. If there is any other social media where you would want me to update, please do share it with me.
I'm always seeking proofreaders/editors to help me maintain a certain quality.
Isolated Scene Translations
The Saga:
The First Arc
①烏に単は似合わない ー Clothes Don't Suit Ravens / A Raven for All Seasons
②烏は主を選ばない ー The Raven Doesn't Choose its Master
③黄金の烏 ー The Golden Raven
④空棺の烏 ー The Raven of the Empty Coffin
⑥弥栄の烏 ー The Ravens of Prosperity
⑤玉依姫 ー Princess Tamayori
The Second Arc
⑦楽園の烏 ー The Ravens of Paradise
⑧追憶の烏 ー A Raven to Remember
⑨烏の緑羽 ー The Raven's Emerald Wings
①⓪望月の烏 ー The Raven of the Full Moon
①① To Be Announced
Short Stories:
①烏百花 蛍の章 ー The Ravens' Hundred Flowers: Chapter of the Fireflies
②烏百花 白百合の章 ー The Ravens' Hundred Flowers: Chapter of the White Lilies
③小説なし ー Uncompiled
PLEASE do yourself a favour and check out this wikipedia-styled template for google drive, made by @ Rukidut on twitter
I decided to try to sort my ideas and whats canon regarding my ocs with this and ITS PERFECT. IT ALL FEELS SO CONRETE. and i sure as hell AM Going to continue to use this with every single OC I have until google drives is set ablaze- Just!!!!!!!!
Also; link directly to the doc, just copy the file and you have your own lil template!!!!
Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D
Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
DN Fanfiction Recs Masterpost
I will not be answering fanfiction Asks for an indefinite amount of time, which is why I prepared one post containing most (if not all) of the Death Note fanfiction recommendations on this blog.
A link to this post will be included in the blog’s bio/description so that it is always accessible. It’s worthy to mention that many fanfictions on these lists are repeated; however, they are separated into different categories so that readers can easily navigate through the works depending on what sorts of plot/genre they’re looking for. Fanfic recommendations on this blog were never properly organized, so instead of manually directing the readers to old posts with specific content, the latter can use this post to find fics, as it contains most of the common and popular plots/pairings. That being said, please do not send me any more fanfiction requests.
Regarding the popular ships Mello x Matt and Mello x Near, I have already apologized many times for my inability to recommend fanfictions of these pairings on this blog. You can find fics like this and more on deathnotefics blog (inactive). Still, a few fanfictions with these pairings are included in some of the posts mentioned below; those are exceptions.
This post isn’t final. It will be updated if I take any more requests in the future. For now, my fanfic request Ask box will be closed, and that doesn’t mean it will stay closed forever. Meanwhile, the blog will resume its normal activity (i.e: I will still be online); the only difference is that I will not be taking any more fanfic requests. Since most of which are redundant, this post shall combine them all.
As for fanfiction submissions, my inbox is still open. That is to say, you are free to submit your fanfictions here at any time. Submissions necessitate that the fanfiction submitted is your own work, not a recommendation. Recommendations are separated from submissions, and you are free to send in your fanfiction recommendations through an Ask/Message at any time. To clear things up for those who are confused: Recommendations are works you have read and liked, and you wish for others to read them. Submissions are your use of this blog as a platform to publish your work, so that more people can read it. Of course, your work has to be already published somewhere else (AO3, ff.net..) so all you have to do is submit the link to it.
My Ask box is still open to anything other than fanfiction requests, if anyone’s interested. Also, I might still recommend fanfictions by quotes/text posts from time to time.
If you have any questions regarding this particular post, please feel free to send me an Ask.
Important: If you click on the link to a specific fanfiction and it does not work, please right-click and Open Link in New Tab instead.
Fanfiction recommendations:
(Triggers/warnings are included in the posts)
By genre:
Common Lawlight fanfictions Fluffy Lawlight fanfictions Alternate Universe Lawlight fanfictions (1) (2) Horror Death Note fanfictions Humour Death Note fanfictions Fantasy Death Note fanfictions Smutty Lawlight fanfictions Extremely canonic Death Note fanfictions
By pairing:
Top Light / Uke L fanfictions Top L / Uke Light fanfictions: Smut, Angst Beyond Birthday (x Light) fanfictions Beyond Birthday x L fanfictions Naomi Misora fanfictions Misa (x Light) fanfictions Light x Mikami fanfictions (1) (2) L x Misa fanfictions (L x) Matsuda fanfictions L x OC fanfictions
Fanfictions of specific plots:
Shinigami Light fanfictions Time-travel fanfictions Afterlife fanfictions Soulmate AU fanfictions Anti soulmate AU fanfictions Cross-gender fanfictions (1) (2) Transgender fanfictions High school/college fanfictions Lawlight sickfics (1) (2) Fics that focus on Light Yagami’s pain Fics diverging post Yotsuba arc Jealous L and/or jealous Light fanfictions Blind Light AU (1) (2) (3) (4)
Other:
Most lengthy Lawlight fanfictions Death Note Drama fanfictions Abusive Lawlight fanfictions
For more Death Note fanfiction recs: (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
GREAT NEWS GUYS
my little sister our goat and savior @gabbsxoxo just spent 30 minutes of her time digging for us and she found a 1080P VERSION WITH SUBTITLES and downloaded it and here's the drive. it will never disappear again <3
The Sims 4 Challenge List
Here’s an updated [10.16.19] Challenge List pulled from the Official Sims Forum.
ORIGINAL LEGACY CHALLENGE The Legacy Challenge - the very first, original legacy challenge by @Pinstar1161 VARIATIONS ON THE LEGACY CHALLENGE Uglacy (try to breed uglier Sims over time) Prettacy (start with an ugly Sims and try to make prettier) -OR- Breed Out the Ugly Perfect Genetics (maintain a unique hair and eye color combination through the generations) Alphabetacy each generation of children have names starting with a certain letter of the alphabet (children of the founders start with A, their children start with B ) Legendary Legacy play to 100 generations The Alphabet Legacy Challenge CHANGING THINGS UP CAS Stories Legacy Challenge The Everything Legacy Challenge New Lives, Big Dreams Legacy Challenge DISNEY LEGACY CHALLENGES 7 Dwarves Legacy Alice in Wonderland 7 Generation Legacy Challenge Disney Princess Challenge Disney Neighborhood Challenge Disney Sidekick Legacy Disney Villains Legacy Challenge Into Woods Legacy Challenge Pixar Legacy (Sims 4 Edition) GET FAMOUS EP LEGACY CHALLENGES Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge - 80’s Movies Silver Screen Sims Legacy Challenge - Classic Films GOAL SPECIFIC BASED LEGACY CHALLENGES Achievement Challenge Bad to Good Legacy Challenge Collection Legacy Challenge (Contact HERE) Colour Legacy Challenge Lifestyle Legacy Challenge My Sims Legacy Challenge Rainbowsin Challenge SUPERNATURAL LEGACY CHALLENGES 10 Generations/10 Ghosts Challenge Ancient Bloodline Legacy Challenge (Realm of Magic) Bewitched Legacy Cursed Vampire’s Legacy Challenge Dark Victorian Legacy Challenge GREEK GOD LEGACY CHALLENGE Season of the Witch Sh0wtig3r’s Vampire Takeover Challenge Vampire Legacy Adoption SURVIVAL LEGACY CHALLENGES Accidental Time Traveler Legacy (5 generations) Apocalypse Challenge Apocalypse Challenge Version 2 Rules by @ImaginingMystic Bunker Legacy Challenge WORLD/CITY BUILDING Build NewCrest Legacy Challenge The Pioneers Challenge UNSORTED LEGACY CHALLENGES 10acy challenge whim controlled challenge ABC Achievement Challenge (CONSOLE ONLY) Forum Link HERE Alternative Music Legacy Alternate Realities The Apartment Switch Challenge (forums) Around the World Bloodline Challenge Born to be Poor Box of Chocolates Random Legacy Challenge (original) Box of Chocolates Random Legacy Challenge ***UPDATED*** Challenge Mash-Up Change Legacy Challenge Chinese Zodiac Legacy Challenge Combo Challenge Complete the Family Tree Challenge Completion Challenge-Plus for The Sims 4 Cult or Commune Challenge Decades Challenge Differences in the Family Tree Differences in the Family Tree Challenge (updated for expansions) Differences in the Family Tree (another one) Double Life Legacy (blog) (google doc) Dramacy End My Suffering Extreme Legacy Challenge Fairytale Legacy Challenge Flower Legacy Furry Challenge Gem Stone Legacy Generation Challenge Generation Challenge by RoggieBear Genesis Challenge Going Solo Challenge (includes TS4 rules under the TS 3 rules) Happily Ever Never Challenge (Updated for City Living) Harry Potter Legacy Challenge Highlander Crest History Challenge Hurry up Legacy I’m a Lover Challenge ISBI (I’m Surrounded by Id_iots) updated by lynnwood for ts4 Immortal Dynasty Challenge Into The Woods Just the way I am Legacy Renovation Challenge Life & Death Legacy The Lord of the Rings Legacy Challenge Making it Big Challenge MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE Marvel Superhero Legacy Master Simmer Challenge (Forum Discussion Post) Medieval Legacy Challenge Months of the Year Legacy Challenge (TUMBLR LINK) My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Netflix Legacy Challenge Not So Berry Challenge (website) The Notebook Legacy Challenge Packs Legacy Challenge Parentcy Challenge Parenthood Challenge Perfect Genetics Challenge Persephones Underworld Challenge The Pillars of Character Legacy Challenge Pointers: An Easy Legacy Challenge Rainbow Legacy Challenge Random Legacy Challenge (random numbers are used to create goals per generation) Random Legacy Challenge #2 Rebuilding Worlds Rival Dynasties Royal Challenge Royal Kingdom Challenge Royal Kingdom Challenge (version 2 - rules more closely based to the original Sims 2 challenge by enbliththefair) Settler’s Challenge Seven Wizards Sim Bloodline / Eco Challenge Sim Crossing Legacy Challenge The Sims 4 Legacy Challenge Vampire Lineage - [Modification to Pinstar’s Rules] Sims 4 Marvel Challenge Speed Legacy Spring into Summer & Fall into Winter SUPERHEROES OF SIMSVILLE LEGACY CHALLENGE Ten Gen Townie Dynasty Challenge THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY LEGACY CHALLENGE UpGrowth Challenge Victorian Living Challenge Vongola Legacy Challenge Walk of Life Legacy Challenge The Wayward Wasteland Challenge Who Wants to be a Superhero 10 Gen Challenge Witches Legacy Challenge Work Hard Play Harder Legacy Challenge Z Legacy Challenge The Ziminstead Legacy Challenge Zodiac Legacy Zodiac Legacy Challenge TODDLER CHALLENGES 100 Baby Challenge (updated for toddlers) 7ToddlersChallenge Snow White & Seven Dwarves Toddler Mania Challenge Who’s Your Daddy Challenge (updated for toddlers)
STORY / GAMEPLAY BASED CHALLENGES Aspiration Based 7 Sins: A Redemption Challenge Free-Will or ISBI Challenges A Free Will Experience Get Famous EP Challenges Limelight a TS4GetFamous Gameplay Challenge by EQCreations Goal Oriented Challenges Dreamhouse Challenge Land Rich, Cash Poor (Sims 4 version) Life Coach Challenge Long Challenges 100 Baby Challenge (original) 100 Baby Challenge #2 100 Death Challenge (TUMBLR LINK) Quick Challenges Odd Job Challenge Relationship Based 24 Day Fiance Challenge (forum link) Sleep Your Way To Fame Challenge Suleiman(harem) challenge (WARNING: Contains darker content) Survival/Off-the-Grid Hipsters Off-the Grid Challenge Island Living The Resistance Challenge-The Doomsday Preppers Vampire Vampire Trio (updated link) World/City Building Building Up Newcrest Challenge
Other Story/Gameplay Challenges (not yet sorted) Abandoned Kids Challenge Absolute Master Challenge Alien Challenge Alien Takeover Challenge Amazon Challenge American Dream Challenge Ambrosia Challenge Asylum Challenge Asylum Challenge version by Nick Asylum Challenge version 3 (with 4 levels of difficulty) Astronaut Legend Challenge At Witt’s End Challenge Back to Nature Challenge a shop & lifestyle challenge Bank of Mum & Dad Challenge Big Brother Challenge Big Family, Little House Big Sister Challenge Big Sister Romance Challenge Black Widow Challenge Blending Friends (twitter) (forums) Blood’s Thicker Than Water Bluebeard Legacy or website here Bring Me to Life Challenge Build a City Challenge Bunker Challenge (non-legacy) Business Mogul Challenge Camelot Challenge Caretaker Challenge Castaway Challenge Castle of Cards Child Center Challenge Colour Challenge Come Party With Me in Pre-History Community Spirit Challenge Conception Clinic Challenge Conflicting Siblings Challenge Countdown to Doomsday Cowplant Farm Challenge CowplantSports Obstacle Course Challenge Death of a Bachelor Challenge “Do it as you go” Challenge Dominion Challenge Drifter Challenge Dynasty Challenge - The Stonehearts Eco Existence Challenge Elemental Challenge Entrepreneur Challenge (requires Get to Work EP) Fathe Challenge - From Fat to Fit Finishing School Challenge Forgetting the Past Challenge Foster Child Challenge Foster Child Challenge (modified to more complex rules) Found your Town Challenge Four Immortal Sisters THE FOUR IMMORTAL SISTERS (UPDATED RULES) Going Broke Challenge Gold Digger Challenge The Halfway House Heir to Ruins Challenge Herbal Essence Lifestyle Challenge Hidden Princess Challenge Hired Help Challenge Homeless Challenge (with 4 levels of difficulty) Homeless Challenge with mini-challenges Homescapes Challenge Hotel Challenge How Many Life States in Your World? Ike Rightmire’s Story~The Beginning Immigrant Challenge (by Pinstar) (requires Get to Work EP) Immortal Challenge Immortal Vampire Challenge Imperial Concubine Challenge Impregnator Challenge The Independence Challenge Inner Peace Challenge The Island Challenge Just One Sim Justa Gigolo Challenge Kleptomaniac Challenge The Life Challenge Living Life to the Max Living off the Grid Living off the Land Lonely Child Challenge Lonely Hearts Challenge Love Thy Neighbor The Martian - A Gameplay Challenge The Martian - A Gameplay Challenge (Seasons Version) Mooch Off Your Neighbour Challenge Movin’ On Up Challenge Murkland Challenge (see below under Post-Apocalyptic Murkland) Murkland Vampire Side Challenge Neighborhood Wishes Challenge New Beginnings Nomad Challenge (Requires Outdoor Retreat) Orphan Challenge The Orphan Challenge Orphan Passed Around Challenge Orphanage Challenge Over Achiever Challenge Perfect Sim Challenge Philanthropist Challenge Post-Apocalyptic Murkland: The Starter Challenge —->Murkland Challenge 2: Paid The Bills —->Murkland Challenge 2: Did NOT Pay The Bills —->Murkland Zombie Challenge Oh These Kids! A Parenthood Challenge (Revised with permission from the Perfect Children challenge by @Nicarra60 Pretty Woman Challenge Princess Challenge Princess Challenge Updated Prison Challenge Puny to Powerful TS4Fitness Mini Challenge Queen Bee Challenge Rags to World Famous Musician Challenge Random Challenge Renaissance Challenge The R.I.P. Challenge – Rest In Pufferfish Roleplay Challenge Room challenge Roomies Challenge Rosebud Challenge Can you become a Sim millionaire Rosebud 500k Solitaire Rosebud challenge for a single sim Rosebud in the City Challenge Runaway Siblings Challenge Runaway Teen Challenge Runaway Teen Challenge (with 4 levels of difficulty) Save the World Challenge Self-ish Challenge Shadow Over Newcrest Shipwrecked Sim of the Month Challenge Sims 4 Colony Challenge The Sims 4 Experiences Challenge Sims 4 Stardew Valley Challenge The SimTech Dynasty: A Challenge in 5 Eras Single Father Challenge Single Mother Challenge Socialism Challenge Squeamish Nature Lover, Shack-to-Swag Challenge Stages Starting Over Starving Artist to Superstar Challenge Temple Beneath the Falls Ten Dead Sims Challenge Thirteen Ghost Challenge Three Little Sims Tiny Living Challenge Tips for Tunes Trade Off Trailer Park Challenge Trailer Park Teens Traveling Babysitter Challenge Truman Show Challenge Ultimate Survival Challenge (Requires Outdoor Retreat) Ultimate University Challenge University Challenge University Challenge #2 Utopia Challenge The Vampire, The Alien & The Human Vampire Challenge Vampire Coven Challenge (blog link HERE) The Vampire Family Challenge Vampire Impregnator Challenge Vampire Nest Challenge Vampire’s Slaves Challenge Vampire Trio Vault Challenge Vault Challenge - Vampire Edition (website) The Victorian Challenge Viking Challenge Warehouse on Black St Challenge Warriors Challenge Weight Loss Challenge Well Rounded Family Whims and Sims Whim Challenge Who’s Your Daddy Challenge (updated for toddlers) Will You Survive? Wizards in the Muggle World Women’s Shelter Challenge Wonder Child Challenge Xenophilia Challenge Youth on Their Own Zodiac Population Challenge
BUILDING CHALLENGES Block party challenge Build a city challenge Build a Village Build n Share Creation Nation Dream Home Challenge Fit My Needs Challenge Flipping House Challenge Halloween Challenge - Spooky Simmer Challenge Homescapes Challenge *INTERIOR DESIGN CHALLENGE* SPOOKY TO SPECTACULAR Love it or List it Challenge Mini Micro Build Challenge: All Sims Games Mystery Mansion Challenge One Room, One Week, One Theme Original Swatch Challenge Red.neck Arkateck (Architect) challenge Solid Color Challenge SPRUCER-UPPER CHALLENGE: A PLAY TO BUILD CHALLENGE Starting Over Welcome to Newcrest SIM CREATION/CAS CHALLENGES 25 Day Male Create-A-Sim Challenge Documenting the Genetic Lottery Female Create-A-Sim Challenge Build n Share Hawthorne Project Sims Halloween Challenge - Spooky Simmer Challenge Sim Music Challenge SimmerJay’s CAS Challenge
ROTATION / MULTI-HOUSEHOLD PLAY CHALLENGES Build a City Challenge New Beginnings SELECTION / CONTESTANT BASED CHALLENGES Bachelor/Bachelorette Challenge Disney Princess Bachelor/Bachelorette Challenge Finding Her Prince Charming The MasterChef Oasis Springs Cooking Challenge Selection Challenge
PETS/ANIMALS CHALLENGES Cats Rule & Dogs Drool Vet Challenge (website) Crazy Cat Lady Family Vets Challenge Pethood Legacy Challenge Spirit Animal Legacy Spirit Animal Legacy 2.0 Vet & Home Challenge w/ Side Challenges Wolf Pack Challenge HOLIDAY/SPECIAL EVENT CHALLENGES Thanksgiving Challenge EXPLORATION / SCAVENGER HUNT CHALLENGES Collectors Museum Challenge Rules Poetry / Song Lyrics Illustration Challenge Willow Creek Scavenger Hunt TV/MOVIE/BOOK/GAME FAN BASED CHALLENGES 19 Sims & Counting Flowers in the Attic Challenge Fuller House Challenge Game of Thrones Legacy Challenge GoT: Nobody to Nobility Harry Potter / Hogwarts Legacy Into the Woods Little Orphan Annie The Lord of the Rings Legacy Challenge Marvel Thanos Challenge Miss Claudette (OITNB) Challenge Sims 4 Marvel Challenge Simtation Island Challenge Starship Challenge Time Lord Challenge Twilight Saga Challenge Wizards in the Muggle World Z Legacy Challenge
ARCHIVED CHALLENGES Animal Crossing Challenge Clone Challenge Christmas Challenge The Empty Mansion Challenge Mental No Buy Mode Challenge Perfect Children Prosperity Challenge Traditional Living Challenge Vampy Legacy
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Help AbuShamala Family Survive: Urgent Call from Gaza
I am Mahmoud AbuShammala, 30 years old, residing in Belgium. I am writing to you today to urgently seek your help to save the remaining members of my family in Gaza.
We are a large family consisting of 11 siblings, along with our parents Ahmed and Saada. We lived in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and had a decent and happy life. Each of us has our own family living in Rafah, Khan Younis, and Gaza. Our lives were stable until the war came at the end of 2023, turning everything upside down
On 13/02/2024, we lost our dear father due to shelling, and my mother could not bear the shock, passing away a few weeks later on 02/03/2024. The tragedy did not stop there; we also lost my sister Huda’s husband, Abdulrahim, due to random shelling. In total, we have lost nearly 50 family members and relatives
Our homes were destroyed completely or partially, and our lives turned into homelessness. We live in tents and overcrowded shelters that are unfit for human life. My family members moved between Khan Younis and Rafah seeking safety, suffering from food shortages, disease outbreaks, and lack of medical care. Children’s lives became at risk, losing their right to education and suffering from lack of care and affection
Any amount can make a significant difference in our family’s life. Help us share our story and raise awareness of our plight. Your words and prayers give us strength and hope to face these harsh conditions. Our hope is great in your compassionate hearts. We invite you to stand with us in this difficult ordeal. Every donation, every share, and every prayer brings us a step closer to a better life. Thank you for your support and generosity Mahmoud Abushammala The Abushammala Family in Distress
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Writing Tips
Punctuating Dialogue
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➸ “This is a sentence.”
➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.
➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”
➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”
➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”
➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”
➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.
“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.
“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”
➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”
➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”
However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!
➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.
If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)
➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“
“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.
➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.
➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”
➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.
“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”
➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.
“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”
Blog Introduction
Hello! Welcome to the No More Zero Comments Project! This is a blog dedicated to reducing the amount of fics on ao3 that have no comments at all.
The goal is simple: find fics with no comments, read them, and leave a comment for the author. However, I (this blogs creator) am not in every fandom to ever exist on ao3 so this is not a task I can do alone. That's where you come in!
There are two ways you can do this. One is to go out and find fics with zero comments in your fandoms, and leave a comment. The other is to take a look at the spreadsheet i made with a list of fics i found with no comments and see if there's any fandoms you know. If I did my job right, you should be able to filter it? Who knows, I suck at technology. This spreadsheet will be updated regularly by adding new fics (and removing ones that have now received comments) so there will always be new stuff to see!
So far, the spreadsheet contains mostly fics from @febuwhump collections, as their commentfest is where i got this idea. If you want to submit one of your own zero comment fics for the spreadsheet, you can do so here.
If you read a fic from the spreadsheet and leave a comment on it (or have received a comment on your own fic that is on the spreadsheet), you can let me know here so I can remove it from the spreadsheet (you do not have to do this, I will try to check regularly to see if fics have received comments, but doing it this way will be a HUGE help to me)!
Some preemptive answers to potential FAQs under the cut!
Who runs this blog?
That'd be me, Izak, also known as @lightningzombie! Hi!
Wait, I see one of your fics on the spreadsheet!
Look. I'm not doing this for no reason. Around 14% of my own fics have no comments. In the interest of fairness, I'll only be adding one of my own fics to the spreadsheet at a time. This limit only applies to me as the owner of this blog. Everyone else can have as many as they like on there lol
Do I have to read fics from the spreadsheet?
Nope! It's just a handy tool for if you're looking for something to read, and want to help out an author in need of their first comment. You can go find zero comment fics wherever you usually get fics from
Is there some sort of prize/competition?
Nope! This is just an effort to increase fandom engagement since it fell off post-COVID. You don't have to report to me about it, you just gotta do it!
Why did you decide to do this?
Frustration with the lack of comments on my fics and the death of comment culture in general. Bewilderment when I saw a fic that had 1200 kudos and no comments. The joy that leaving 100 comments and receiving 20+ during the Febuwhump commentfest brought me. Boredom. Many reasons!
Will you do events?
Maybe! If there's enough interest we could do events similar to justleaveacommentfest.
Can I submit other peoples fics for the spreadsheet?
I mean, yeah, of course. But like, if you're going to the trouble of submitting someone else's fic, why not just leave a comment on it?
(edit: if you want to add a bunch of stuff from your fandoms that you don't have time to read/have tags you can't read then go for it!)
I don't know how to comment!
Yes, you do. "I like this" is a comment. "How dare you do that to [insert blorbo here]" is a comment. "<3" is a comment. "KAJSDAKSDHJ WHYYYYY????" is a comment. "I am rapidly approaching your location" is a comment. Just be kind!
Will you be doing this for platforms other than ao3?
For now, no. Ao3 is the platform I've used for a decade and the one I understand. However if you comment on fics that aren't on ao3, that's great! The spirit of the project is so give love to authors so do that on whatever platform you see fit
Happy commenting!
You are a centuries-old dragon, respected by many and feared by all. You've seen many things in your life. Never has a child wandered into your den. Never has a child gazed up at you in awe and deemed you a 'giant scaly puppy.' You are unsure of how to handle this.
Do you have any advice or tips with drawing? Any will help me I hope you have a good day
I think it would help to analyze references in the beginning, to build up a visual library
I was taught at university to first see the general masses, the silhouette. This method is called “general to particular”. And due to this stage, it is much easier for you to perceive the image, the composition as a whole, rather than running straight away to draw eyes, hands or other details
Starting with a silhouette also helps to create character designs in the future ✍️
Then you can already outline the construction, the middle forms. Again without small details, but you can leave a hint of them with the help of auxiliary lines.
I don't really work with tone so much at this stage, I just showed you how you can even use it to outline light shading (also common masses)
It also helps to do chopped, rough construction with a couple lines. I would generally advise practicing confidence in hand movements and understanding of general shapes. How clean your sketches are will help you navigate more easily in the future. And general shapes affect mostly how you can stylize body parts, how you understand their construction based on simple geometric shapes. It's a mistake to think that working with a reference is a one-to-one repetition of the original image. Artists use some kind of distortion of proportions, changing details or a little pose based on experience to make a character or work more dynamic
And then you can go into detail 💅
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I mean, already as in my experience I say that repeating or re-learning the base, which is lines, shapes, improves your drawing skill.
Because the faster you get through sketches, the faster you can move on to other stages of drawing, and still make fewer fundamental mistakes
And if you want to study anatomy, plastic anatomy would be the way to go for artists. I worked up my anatomy by looking at books and tutorials from the authors belowotome ↓
The authors of this book post tutorials using 3D models on Pinterest and ArtStation
I realized for myself that I am not a classical artist, that learning from the works and books of old academic masters is boring and not interesting to me. My approach is to analyze not only nature, but also 3d models. Analysis of 3d models helps with understanding of shapes in space, light shading and “what are occlusions” for game rendering ↓
Like this :D. But this is already relatively my old work and now I can do better, but I'm lazy
I hope my tips were helpful 🗣️
I made text dividers from some paintings I liked. I think it's good?
Like and reblog if you're going to use it!
Don't mind me rebloging this for future reference...
Bit of a headcanon chart for what bugs in Hallownest might eat, based on what we see in-game anyway. There might be aphid livestock floating around somewhere, but we didn't see it so
Bit of rambling below the cut
edit: I thought the follies/mistakes lost their sapience, but I think I was mistaken! they should be in No (Sapient)
Edible:
Self explanatory. Non-sentient insects that look tasty and aren't horribly infected/weird. Garpede is here because we've actually seen a dead Garpede, whereas we've only seen a fossilized Goam
Questionable:
These guys are either heavily infected, covered with crystals, or very weird. Aspids are hypothetically edible when not infected, maybe? But I'm not sure what that'd look like. As for the crystals, I'm not sure if the effort needed to remove all of the rocks is worth the time. Also despite Uomas and Oomas being here, I like to think Tiso eats Uomas on occasion, until he gets sick
No (Sentient):
Self explanatory.
No (Taste Bad):
Also pretty obvious.
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)