#IS NOT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HERE

[featureenvyproductions]

"Why does everything need to be Gay now it's so shallow to make men attracted to each other when they could be Pure Platonic Friends -"

oops sorry I can't hear you over the sound of me Doing What I Want Forever because I have been watching movies, TV, and animation since the 80s and have watched enough shallow heterosexual romances that would have been stronger as mlm-wlw solidarity friendships to fill the space between stars in a galaxy

#also 1) friends can fuck each other so you're not safe especially since gay guys do this a lot #2) why can't there be a cast with MANY mlm characters where some are strictly friends and some are partners #(bc this is a real thing that happens in the real world shocker I know but sometimes friend groups have several mlm folks) #3) as an aromantic vaguely ace spec person I get the need for good platonic relationships #but uh queer people reading mlm romance into something (often based on their own experiences or representation needs) #that creators refuse to delve into #or god forbid writing it into their own work #IS NOT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HERE #i can't believe it's the year of our lord 2024 and i am still seeing this thinly veiled homophobic take everywhere #2006 called and it wants its 'I don't wish evil on gays but i dont condone their gay stuff' attitude back #Also when I think about all the shows and movies that came from source material with wlw or mlm characters who were all but TOTALLY erased #Or I think about media about queer historical figures who were utterly straightwashed or had their queerness demonized #or reduced to a footnote or Non Controversial background noise #My rage about this increases like 10000 fold #Anyway TLDR ultimately I fall under the mlm umbrella and that's part of the reason I write the shit I do and I'm not the only one #And I write cheeky posts about it but I actually am genuinely disturbed sometimes at this sentiment #Because no one says it outright but there's this massive undercurrent of an assumption that we don't exist #And we don't create #And we don't create things FOR OURSELVES not even bc precisely because of all the times we were told #'Well that's not really marketable so if you want to see it maybe you should create it yourself' #I feel like I'm talking to a wall here DOES NO ONE ELSE GET ANGRY ABOUT THIS #LIKE HOMOPHOBIA ISN'T OVER YET #ESPECIALLY NOT FOR MLM PEOPLE WHO AREN'T CIS AND WHITE #Like stop calling sex and/or romance shallow when it's gay and SUSPICIOUSLY 0 OTHER TIMES oh my fucking god

[charles-edwin]

love for love’s sake really said, “get in loser, we’re gonna make the unloved side character HAPPY” and they have all my respect for that

#love for love's sake #love supremacy zone #that’s literally one of my biggest problems with kbls #the third party of a love triangle. usually a side character just used for the mains’ happiness ALWAYS ENDS UP SAD AND ALONE #i haaaate that #i’m glad they’re doing justice to side characters here!!! #the fbi agent in my phone did not disappoint! #mj talks

[ickypuppi3]

be mine.

billy sighs. rests his forehead against the cool metal of his locker. tries to ignore the hum of people talking around him. holding hands. cuddling. it’s a shitty day. it’s a shitty day and billy knew it was going to be a shitty day before it even started.

he knew because he had been the one to say it. yesterday. to tell steve that they’re not- that billy doesn’t need to be treated like a fucking girl. that they’re just screwing around. that he doesn’t give a shit if steve wants to fuck someone else today.

that steve might as well go crawling back to wheeler because billy sure as shit can’t hold his hand or call him sweetheart in the hallways. that he gets enough heat at home without the whole of hawkins high knowing how much of a queer billy hargrove is.

and then billy had walked off. slammed the door behind him and gone home. had picked a fight with neil just to top it off.

all because he was scared.

is scared. scared of steve harrington with his preppy fuckin’ polos and dumb hair. his pretty eyes and pretty smile and ability to tilt billy’s world on its axis just by looking at him. scared that steve will get bored of him. that he’ll realise billy isn’t worth the effort.

scared.

billy sighs again. shuffles back slightly and glares down as he twists the lock. the door swings open and billy is halfway to grabbing the book he needs when something falls out. a scrap of paper. no bigger than the palm of his hand. a note.

it lands on billy’s boot.

he looks around. wonders who had felt brave enough- dumb enough to shove a note through billy’s locker on a day like today. he bends down. picks it up. reads the words in front of him.

quarry, 9.

there’s a little heart scribbled on the top right hand corner. billy traces the familiar writing with a thumb. feels that all too familiar feeling in his chest. he clenches his fist. hears the crinkle of paper as he does.

then he looks up again. into his locker. really looks, this time.

a pack of marlboro reds lay on top of his books. unopened. new.

next to those, something smaller. candy, billy realises. a sweetheart, specifically. the words kiss me etched in pink.

billy smiles. can’t help it, really. it’s restrained. barely there. just a small twitch of his lips but a smile nonetheless. his first smile of the day. credit to steve fuckin’ harrington and his inability to leave well alone.

billy smooths the note out. places it next to the reds. next to the heart. tries to tamp down on the butterflies swarming in his chest. he takes a deep breath before stuffing the cigarettes and note into his pocket.

his hand hovers over the sweetheart.

“hey.”

billy pulls his hand back. fast. as if he’d been burned. he looks to his left. locks eyes with the boy now standing next to him. feels his heart stutter. “hey.”

steve gives him a knowing smile. “good day?”

“no.” billy frowns. you already knew that. “pretty shitty actually.”

steve leans. folds his arms. “that bad, huh?”

better now that you’re here. billy swallows. turns away from steve. back to his locker. “did you want something, harrington?”

“nah, just..” steve smirks. reaches out. billy feels his breath hitch. steve’s smile gets wider. he flicks billy’s earring. once. before turning on his heel with a see you around thrown billy’s way.

a promise. something deeper to them but. casual. friendly to anyone watching.

billy watches him leave. wonders if steve might be okay with them having to do things differently. wonders if this might be enough for steve. for them. wonders if he could be enough for steve. hopes-

billy jumps when the bell rings.

-

they meet up later. at the quarry like steve had said. neil under the assumption that billy’s seeing some girl. steve’s parents likely thinking the same.

billy feels as though a weight has been lifted as soon him and steve tumble into the back of the beemer. all cold hands and fumbling with belts. awkward limbs and steamed up windows. and billy lets it happen. lets himself be held. lets steve be sweet to him.

billy lets it happen. finds himself thinking that today might not be all bad. and that he might be more than a little bit in love with steve harrington. he pushes the second thought down. focuses on winding a hand into steve’s hair and sucking a mark into the soft skin just below his jaw, instead.

not all bad.

-

later finds them huddled under a blanket in the back of steve's beemer. sharing a cigarette. marlboro. red. steve nudges billy after a few minutes. doesn't say anything just. nudges him. billy tilts his head to the side. gives steve a look. steve just looks down as his hand finds billy's under the blanket.

then he presses something small into the palm of billy’s hand.

billy raises an eyebrow in question but steve’s already looking away. staring out into the night. cigarette glowing in the dark. billy rolls his eyes. wiggles his arm free and holds the object up to the window to get a better look.

be mine.

he laughs. loudly. tries to hide the racing of his heart. calls steve a fuckin' cheese. and a sweetheart. waits until steve turns to face him again before pressing the candy to steve's lips and pulling him in to exchange kisses that are almost too soft. too sweet for whatever this is. whatever they agreed for this to be.

steve pulls back first. whispers against billy’s lips “hey, baby?”

“yeah?”

“happy valentine’s day.”

“…yeah.”

almost.

steve grins and reaches out to play with one of billy’s curls. billy laces their fingers together under the blanket.

or maybe it’s just right.

#billy ‘i’m too hard to love’ hargrove and steve ‘i’m literally so in love with you’ harrington #the queers are queering #billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove #my words #i was thinking of those love heart sweets we have here and found out sweethearts are a thing so here we are #i haven’t done my research so idk if they were a thing then but i assume they were #so #suspend your disbelief if you must #anyway #i think it’s fun to imagine steve’s biggest gripe being his sexuality crisis at the begging of them hooking up #but once that’s out of the way he’s just got billy on the brain #but billy’s problems come later when he has to be like #vunerable with his emotions #and he immediately tries to build the walls he knocked down back up #because it’s safer that way #but steve just won’t have any of it #yeah that #also he feels bad because steve can’t be all steve with him in public and it’s like #a thing #but steve finds ways to work around it

[brother-emperors]

you're SO right, how is it that the best portrayal of many italian renaissance figures comes from a bad videogame from the 2010s

wheezing I’m torn between going truly this is the best portrayal of Leonardo da Vinci we may ever get, and defending AC2 even though I’m a full time Ezio Saga Hater

#I’m a Desmond Era + Origins fan in a ride or die kind of way but the Ezio games suck ass compared to 1 and 3 #however AC2 is miles above the European Era games and Odyssey butchers the use of Ezio’s theme so bad I will never forgive them #also Odyssey is legitimately bad. AC2’s biggest problem is that the story is narratively weak and holds it’s punches #I mostly hate the Ezio saga because the fandom was really fucking racist (still is!) and it could’ve been good!!! #but I have a deep seated fondness for the parts of it that were good. the game after all is still asking you to live even when it’s hard #the opening and the music are unparalleled and legendary. I just wish it kept that up throughout the story instead of #trying for a wider appeal but the story fucks up it’s own themes and bc the simplicity of it’s assassin/templar line up is baffling #there is also an AC2 that exists in my head that takes place in Venice lmao but that’s much more spy thriller #also did anyone here read the novelizations. Ezio and Machiavelli are so fucking married. 10/10 no notes #Ascanio is also mentioned in the brotherhood novelization iirc so. we stay winning!!

[tinyfantasminha]

Hi I’m not sure if you’re aware put people are going around screenshotting your tumblr and sharing it on callout and adult yume hate tweets. I felt so weird messaging that’s why anon but I wanted to let you know about it, with the harassment and doxxing that has happened recently! I’m a fellow Jack yume and adore your art so this is sad to see.

This is one of the occurrences.

x(DOT)com/riddlehoe_/status/1729650574541406714?s=46&t=kTkdN9P14joudjwCx7-lhQ

So called ''normal people'' when they got nothing to do

Yeah I'm aware of the rabid anti-yume swarm in twitter..... I've seen plenty of moots getting hate campaigns and being doxxed to the point where I'm almost desensitized to it. What's the point of persecuting yumeshippers?? Especially the adult ones who quite literally keep the game alive and running for consuming and making content and buying merch? So they can feel entitled to the non-existent anime boy and feel morally superior for not having ''disGusTInG THOUGHTS'' about an imaginary little guy despite literally commiting a cybercrime and thinking they've just did a favor society?? Truly a priviledged chronically online teenager moment™

I was already expecting to get hate at some point but thankfully I've been focusing on my academic and social life lately so discourses online just seem more and more insignificant and irrelevant (as they always should be) going outside and touching grass is really healing and important to make you realize that there are greater irl problems to worry about than protecting fictional characters and harassing strangers on the internet, everybody should do that methinks 🧡

I might be a target of doxxing one day and honestly??:? I don't care. It's gonna be funny as hell. Cause it's probably some american teenager who thinks that doxxing an user in another country is gonna make the FBI arrest me for kissing my fictional blorbo in my head and that I'll be beaten up on the streets lol. Mini Karen, I assure you no one in south america cares about fictional character discourses to the point of making threats as much as people in the US do (and u guys somehow think that's normal behaviour) much LESS in my city, it's gonna do nothing 😭

Anyway, thanks for the heads up!!! I hope you thrive with your yume with Jack, he needs more love, don't let gatekeeper losers ruin your vibe 💗💗💗💗

#answered ask #if you find yourself getting worked up over petty online discourse ask yourself: #''will that problem still persist once I log off social media and step outside?'' and reflect on it #then you will realize that there are greater issues here #theres anti-lgbtq laws being approved and genocides going on rn and your biggest priority is doxxing someone for selfshipping?? #be fucking serious.......

[moeblob]

A succubus and a demon! (The succubi don't have names but the demon is Kronos and the succubus is one of his bosses in Hell and he's not /fond/ of the succubi for many reasons but they all adore picking on him)

Also because I love them and like to point it out, the succubi act more as pleasure dealers in the sense of they offer up whatever a human wants most in exchange for their soul. It's rarely of a sexual nature since it's what they want MOST in life. And most people's ambitions are outside of a bedroom. (happy pride, asexuals are able to get affected by a succubus now without discrimination)

#my characters #did i make succubi in a plot that i could fall victim to as an asexual personally? yeah #kronos is just a petty lil baby with a younger brother who is very nice for a demon #kronos is responsible for being a dick to everyone in the plot and yet has the weirdest morals and its not fine #but hes gonna make that everyone elses problem not his #for instance he originally goes to earth bc a human has somehow just stolen all of the Devils attention and its annoying #why fixate on one human doomed to Hell just let the guy live and die then fixate #so he goes to kill the human but ends up saving the guy and then agonizes because even as a demon #its REALLY tacky to save someone and then kill them #so he doesnt kill him and instead demands to be a roommate until he returns to hell #and then they team up to kill demons and other creatures that seem obsessed with the human #and so they just kinda kill and banish demons back to hell and its fiiiine kronos is just causing problems for Hell #thats not even a new issue hes always doing that ! #and then they meet a siren who refuses to talk and kronos is like oh time to be the biggest dick ever #and is like well if she wont talk and she needs a name i vote halibut #as a mean joke bc why would she want to be named after a fish #and she lights up and is SUPER happy and nods and beams and is so happy with her new name #and then the human is like well she needs more clothes than one outfit right #also shes barefoot and its cold i need to buy her shoes idk what tho #and kronos is like here buy her these rainboots and so the guy buys them and is like just wear these #until you can show me what you want bought ok and halibut is in love with her cute lil yellow rainboots #so basically everything kronos does out of spite to the weird mute siren (by choice) backfires #and she adores him and doesnt know hes trying to be mean to her #anyway the succubi collectively like to pick on the really silly and childish demons they outrank #like kronos! so he is constantly a target for them to mock which is why he isnt fond of them which fuels them more #the succubi are just really chill most of the time though ? #and its just. i love my succubi ok theyre wonderful #and that has been another story time in the tags bye

[dennisboobs]

my favourite thing about the always sunny podcast is listening to rcg all say something extremely neurodivergent and then agree amongst themselves and convince themselves its completely normal

#and to be clear im not diagnosing them charlie said he wasn't neurotypical #like deadass i think. the reason some of their writers just completely botch the gang's motivations/dialogue sometimes is bc at their core #these characters are all. SO autistic. which inevitably leads to them being misunderstood by others outside their group #whether rcg realizes it or not they inject this very specific vibe of neurodivergence into the gang #and its why they will just. argue over inconsequential details bc they Need to be understood completely #they can't just drop it unless they are crystal fucking clear #imo the biggest mistake other writers make is thinking that the gang is completely desensitized when its more like #they just don't react the way you would expect #which is often... adjacent to that but still distinct. and its trauma that influences this as well #the gang does not believe they themselves are 'bad people'. theyre most often oblivious to the fact that the things they do are insane #rob saying he doesnt pick up on social cues and then going on to argue in circles with glenn #i dont think last week was anything crazy but i think. rob doesn't know when to let up. which is a problem that *i* have #and while it comes across as being confrontational in an 'im right youre wrong' way i dont think its driven by ego here #just like with how as they said mac and dennis are making up while chucking bread rolls at each other #on both sides its frustration at being misunderstood #but they are all similar enough that even if they disagree over small details theyre usually on the same page. and this can be beneficial!! #thats the conclusion of the ep!!!! whether its suggesting smoking to cancel out the toxic apple skin or suggesting words u cant think of #glenn said he was upset about feeling misrepresented and picked on #dennis gets angry for those exact reasons in.... ALL of his big rage scenes #its frustration that leads to anger because youre speaking to (another) brick wall and you can't adequately explain yourself #which. glenn is clearly more competent than dennis & i think a lot of the time in sunny the gang is WAY more obtuse for the sake of comedy #but its interesting to watch the dynamic because as charlie said last week #they are mac and dennis (especially when theyre fighting) #i just think.. they are in a semi-unique position to understand this because this is how they are. while several other writers do not get i #ada speaks #untagged

[canonically47]

my fandom might be crazy btw. it's easter. very unromantic holiday. but every single major holiday they pull out the ship art. they just have to. please....... why........ i hate being aro in fandom

the world will only be healed when during unromantic holidays we will get art of characters just fucking hanging out

#dude i get you so much i hate it here #tdi is all about ships SHUT THE FUCK UPPP #amatonormativity my biggest enemy #amatonormativity #aro #aromantic #aromanticism #aromance #arospec #aro problems

[ilovelawrencee]

i officially don't know how to draw sammy lawrence. and it makes me very sad.

because he is my favorite character. and it always looks horrible when i try to draw it.

i don't know how to draw men.

#bendy #bendy and the ink machine #sammy lawrence #i just wanted to draw sammy and feel proud of the drawing #i'm not good with anatomy. and that's the biggest problem here #sammy has such a simple appearance. but drawing him is so difficult and stressful. i just wanted to draw as well as the people i know #i hate it

[writer-room]

“Where’s Cole and Jay?” “Where’s Wu?” “Where’s Pixal?” Where’s literally everyone else. Where is the entirety of Ninjago. Where are all of their enemies.

Where’s Harumi? Is she off making another gang? What about Skylor and the other Elemental Masters?  Where’s Dareth? Don’t tell me Dareth isn’t trying to continue on the Ninja’s legacy out there. The Upply and Vania? Are they out there doing good, hoping the Ninja will come back? Vinny? Is he good?

What about Garmadon? Or Misako? Lou? Ed and Edna? Ray and Maya? Cyrus Borg? Where are they. Are they not worried about their kids.

What about Clouse? He was sent to the Underworld, he’s possibly with a Skulkin army! And Vex? Vex is there too! He’s roaming freely across the lands! Pythor is still around, probably getting beaten with brooms from old ladies. Aspheera probably broke out of prison the literal day of the Merge, so god knows where she is now.

Were they all just...laying low for a year? Not causing problems? I realize the new Merged land is huge but surely they aren’t just chilling peacefully in a cottage somewhere, right? Like, compared to these guys, Imperium is such a non-problem that I kinda want them to come back just to watch Beatrix get so outrageously offended that shes barely worth the effort while the Ninja kill the Overlord for the 8th time. I think it should be utilized more often that the Ninja aren’t stepping onto Imperium’s turf, Imperium is stepping onto the Ninja’s turf, and they’ll find this out the hard way. By the never ending SEA of allies and villains that keep popping up out of the woodwork

#ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago #lego dragons rising #lego ninjago dragons rising #theories #headcanons #text post #talk #im not tagging everyone lmao #imperium #the ninja #ninjago villains #the merge #realms #ninjago realms #17 realms #imperiums biggest thing is stealing dragons & tech for power. vex mind-controlled a guy for mass genocide. the bar is in outer space #the bar is like a pingpong ball cause youve got garmadon 'caused every single problem' and the mechanic 'lamest guy here' #the tiger guy hints at some bigger villain but yknow. 10$ says its just the fckin overlord again. i bet its just the overlord #we have a VAST list of villains to choose from that could be the secret bigger bad. and even if its a new guy #what can they do huh. have a homoerotic rivalry with a former dark lord while they help a guy steal elemental powers #become a vengeful emo ghost that half the fandom would kill for with complicated daddy issues #be an eldritch being intent on destroying the world in evil before getting singlehandedly fistfought by a nindroid #WHAT HAVE YOU GOT HUH. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT. CMON WHATS NEW AND FRESH ON THE TABLE. #whatve you got that can compete with 15 whole seasons worth of villains HUH. WHATRE YOU WAITING FOR #this is me saying that if the secret bigger bad is anything less than mid-level ninjago villains i say we lean into the ninja being tired #theyre just staring into the camera like 'really? really. weve fought giant evil snakes. 20 guys who have beef with wu. & sad maniacs' #'and this is it? this is the best youve got? seriously? dude i coulda had a nice nap instead of doing this at least make it worth my time'

[fisheito]

Dude i don't know

#journey to a nu world #but why didn't we see dante uh. elaborate #cuz all we know about the demon king is that he's the biggest hoe in the world and that's causing world distress #so if dante just PURCHASES eiden is that like.... establishing world peace bc eiden is no longer on the prowl or.... #does he just want demon king as a personal assistant or...... #dante's throwing money at problems and i would like to fully understand his thought process here 👁‍🗨👀 #also blade if dante trusted u to secure the briefcase full of money #WHERE IS THE MONEY? DID U TAKE IT OUT AND LEAVE IT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD SO U COULD FILL THE BRIEFCASE WITH FLUFFBALLS #or was dante in on it from the beginning #knowing the demon king wouldnt even care about money as currency he would just . um. i don't know #dante gonna seduce the demon king out of world domination #by breaking the ice with a case of money? yeah i guess that's a pretty good convo starter #nu carnival blade #nu carnival dante #nu carnival eiden

[dndads-winter-gift-exchange]

Assignments Update!

Hey Doodlers! Exciting news- we're nearly finished with assignments!

After a lot of hard work on our end and patience from you, we're finally nearing the end of assignments. Which is so exciting!! We'll 100% be finished by the end of the day today, and will be sending them out tomorrow, January 5th, since it's getting pretty late for us and we want to be alert to make sure sending goes smoothly.

Thank you all for your kindness in dealing with the delays, we deeply appreciate it. We'll post when assignments start sending, and then post again when they're all sent out. We hope you're all as stoked as we are- go Doodlers!

#updates #info #important #i know we keep saying it over and over but we really and truly are excited for this to start. we know it's taking a bit longer #but hope that it turns out to be worth it to you all!! #(sammy here) my exhibit is bleeding a little more into things than i thought it would and it's 100% on me for not making more wiggle room #but at the same time there's not much that could have been done anyway. so yeah! #the current biggest problem is people maybe getting anxious over having less time and this event becoming stressful for them. which #is the last thing we want because this event is ALWAYS meant to be just. fun. #so we'll probably be making a poll soon asking if people would like us to push back our gifting week dates and by how much #so yeah! just to keep you all in the loop. i know not everyone reads tags but i figure a small heads up is probably nice #since i don't have the time to make a big post rn. basically things are coming and i swear we're doing all we can for this event #even if there have been delays. we're still very passionate. thank you and bye bye

[heraldofcrow]

Oh, you think YOU owned me????? LOOK AT THIS SHIT:

Oh. My. FUCKING. Kos.

@izunias-meme-hole

How DARE you imply that….that…..

SEPHIROTH?

IS??

NOT A FUCKING NERD?

HELLO???

*throws materia at you and nyooms off*

#ajshdhsshshs #i hate everything #i am dying rn someone call the police #SEPH IS A HUGE NERD MAN #HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE MULTIVERSE THAN EVERYONE AND CAN’T SHUT UP ABOUT IT #he is the biggest dork in ff7 besides cloud #katy: uhhhh?? this is not the problem here??? #asks #mutuals #dash wars

[glouris]

steal some more of my stuff from twitter and I will come for your kneecaps <3

#god of war #god of war ragnarok #heimdall #alright y/n girlies listen up this is your entire economy speaking #if you see a screenshot you like - ASK to repost first is that so hard #and leave credit please and thank you #let's put it like this i'm not the biggest fan of seeing my content being reposted by hateful ppl #not pointing any fingers here but yall should really learn what the word 'timeskip' means #or 'fiction' for that matter #OR not judging the majority for weird ass shit the minority pulls #you’re so entrenched in online discourse that it’s starting to dilute your perception of what an actual problem is #someone very wise said it once #fckin just live laugh love in your own corners everyone aren’t you tired of this kindergarten type shit #BLOCK PPL OR UNWANTED TAGS YOU CAN LEAVE #if it sucks hit da bricks literally just leave

[exeggcute]

forgive me for sharing a wapo link (in my defense I only wound up here because I was reading a wired article about twitter bots that linked to this one) but this is a good and recent-ish (~2019) article about how major social media sites outsource the thankless, soul-killing work of content moderation to contractors in the philippines. 

gonna slap a fairly broad content warning on this one for “several semi-detailed descriptions of the violent and fucked up things people post online,” which of course includes Basically Everything, so read at your own risk.

a highlight (emphasis mine):

The technology hardware industry has long operated by amassing armies of outsourced factory workers, who make the world’s smartphones and laptops under stressful working conditions, with sometimes fatal consequences. The software industry also increasingly leans on cheap and expendable labor, the unseen human toil that helps ensure that artificial intelligence voice assistants respond accurately, that self-driving systems can spot pedestrians and other objects, and that violent sex acts don’t appear in social media feeds.

The vulnerability of content moderators is most acute in the Philippines, one of the biggest and fastest-growing hubs of such work and an outgrowth of the country’s decades-old call center industry. Unlike States, who mostly screen content that is shared by people in those countries, workers in offices around Manila evaluate images, videos and posts from all over the world. The work places enormous burdens on them to understand foreign cultures and to moderate content in up to 10 languages that they don’t speak, while making several hundred decisions a day about what can remain online.

#the biggest takeaway here is that moderation is a massive labor problem #but I also hadn't thought about how much moderation falls on people who may not have the cultural context for things like hate speech #someone who lives outside the US and speaks english as a second language is being asked to determine whether a tweet is e.g. homophobic #(also I have many thoughts about the wired article about bots but that gets too much into Sensitive Work Info territory...) #content moderation #digital labor

[keeps-ache]

wink blink look !!

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #sona #ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhgghhhh #am i RIGHT guys hfhvs #:33 #//not many thoughts recently #not many thoughts for a while actually lol #must've talked myself weary! huh! #/let me try at this though - i feel like i have some little part of my brain that's all stopped up #it's been like that for a minute ! #/ah but a question - do you ever stand by a bit of forest and hear what are distinctly Whispers ? #i know it's definitely the wind but it's fun to think it's anything else lol :>> #ghosts or fairies or the road down the hill for whatever reason #/oh and speaking of hearing i got a weird + shrill + loud tone in my ear the other day and it just didn't happen again #a sudden EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and then it stopped lmao #funky stuff man. wonder what's up with that hfhs #//anyway i'm working on my artfight references rn lol :) #i've finished one! what a miracle!! hfsh- #it looks a lot better than the one last year like Wow. don't think the same person made these you know what i mean hfh #//ah i've also started using padlet for realsies this time :> #it's a neat spot - it's gonna be great to just have the palettes i need on another device loll #that's the biggest problem i have on this planet! having to scroll my blog for palettes is not the most fun thing hfsh #/anyway gonna get back to it!! #i'm sort of tired but i Really wanna make kira and hid's this yearrr #they are very ~+~+~ <3 ~+~+~ to me lol :>> #so toodles ! here i go again hfhsv