Change the background colour of the pages to a mint green shade.
It is said that green is a calming colour, however, the main reason why I like this, is because I can write for a much longer period of time now, as a white background I used before made my eyes dry and exhausted after just a few hours of working.
It is basically much more soft and careful to the eyes. I can’t precisely explain why that is. I think it’s that by making a pinch softer contrast of the text and the background, your eyes does not get exposed to as much light.
Just make sure to not make the background too dark, or else your eyes will get exhausted do to over-fixating the lack of contrast between text and background.
And maybe you find a nice pastel/light background shade that fits you; give it a try.
Different things work out and fits for different people. And I just felt like sharing this.
Here’s the shade numbers I used to get my preferred colour:
Thanks for reading.
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You just solved a very real problem for me! Thanks!
For those who might not know where to find this: It’s in the Page Layout tab.
I had no idea this was possible before today!
Open Office Writer has a similar function under Format – Page – Background.
WHAT
Is this why I can write on yellow paper longer too?
I’m guessing it’s like using a coloured overlay?
You can also do this in Google Docs by going to File > Page Setup… > Page Color!
Holy flying mother of jesus… this actually changed my life. How have I never heard of this? My eyes immediately felt less strained when I changed the color. I didn’t even know they were strained.
Changing the background from glaring white can also be very helpful for just about anything else you’re looking at for extended periods of time.
A light greenish blue is much easier on my eyes than the stock brownish “paper” options on a lot of e-readers, for example. (Which is already better than white.) But, what colors might work best is a very individual thing.
everyone is deleting the caption to this but this work is called “perfect lovers” by the gay artist felix gonzalez-torres. the piece is about the illness and death of his HIV-positive partner ross laycock:
For Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991), he synchronized two industrial clocks placed side by side. Inevitably, because batteries fail and things tend toward entropy, the clocks would slowly begin to advance at differing rates, out of sync, having moved, however briefly, perfectly together. (x)
Honestly, this guy is one of my favourite gay artists. His installation “Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)” is literally a pile of candy people are allowed to eat, but whichever gallery is hosting it has to keep it at the same total weight by replacing the pieces. Why? Cos it’s Ross’s ideal body weight and eating the candy parallels his deterioration and weight loss due to an AIDs-related illness, whilst the replacement of the candy grants him perpetual life.
That’s not at ALL something you need to repent for. If people use others exploring their identities as ‘proof’ that certain identities are ‘fake’ then that’s on them, never on you. You should never feel like you have to be 100% sure and committed to explore an identity – how are you supposed to know what feels right if you don’t get to try things? How are you supposed to predict what new identities and ways of being you may discover fit you better?
Sometimes people think they might be trans but then discover that they’re cis. Sometimes people think they might be trans but then discover that they’re a different type of trans than they thought. Sometimes people’s identities evolve and change over time, and while they may identify as previously having been one thing they feel that they changed into another. Investigating your feelings and going with what seems to fit is never ever something to feel bad about.
Come to think of it, maybe my favorite slur combo was one I got to hear when I was probably 17 or 18. And this random middle-aged businessman type started frothing at the mouth about a friend and me being (expletives deleted) “Lesbo Dyke Bitches”. With that exact phrase repeated multiple times, presumably so nobody would get confused about the type of dyke bitches he meant? Maybe to designate us as next level dyke bitches? Who knows.
I’d had all of that thrown at me separately more than enough, but never before or again as a Special Compound Slur.
That was random enough that it was even darkly funny at the time. He didn’t much like my response, but oh well. My friend was scared until she had basically dragged me several blocks away from the dude, but then she eventually busted out laughing too.
Bit of a shame we never did start a band. But, of course that got to be a running joke for several years, with other people we knew welcome as fellow Lesbo Dyke Bitches.
At any rate, I have gotten to hear just about every even vaguely relevant slur possible over the past 30 years or so–including a number misapplied badly enough that you had to wonder if they knew what that term was even supposed to mean. If usually not as part of such crap amusing combo deals. And I love being told what is supposed to be blanket offensive enough for everyone to stop reclaiming now. Maybe especially by people with sufficiently different experiences there.
Reminded of this one again, with still more on this topic coming across my dash today.
(Relevant: When I first started figuring out that I’m not straight, in 2004, I was MUCH more comfortable calling myself queer and calling myself a dyke than with any other terms. If someone had dared to call me a homosexual to my face I would have decked them.
That Lesbo Dyke Bitches episode happened ca. 1992. At that point, I was personally much more OK with queer and dyke than pretty much anything else that had been leveled at me/the other options on offer. I did end up decking a couple of people over persistent aggressive lesboing back then. As that person was also stressing, people’s experiences and associations can vary so much.
And I did become more politically aware–and started coming to terms with the fact that I was definitely not straight, whatever the details might be–precisely during the late ‘80s-early ’90s. Which I know influenced how I approach some things.)
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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