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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

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Unpopular (?) opinion:

When I was young and wondering why I hadn't experienced a crush yet, the internet said I was probably just a late bloomer. They urged me not to identify as aroace because I could change my mind later on.

And looking back, like… so?

If I had been a late bloomer, who cares?

I was 13. I felt comfort in the aroace community. I didn’t feel like a weirdo for once in my life, surrounded by people who were like me. But I was urged to not join these communities until I became an adult in case I changed my mind about being ace. So I didn’t. And I paid for that.

Who cares? If you’re young and feel like you’re aroace, then you’re aroace. If you “change your mind” later, it’s okay. No one is going to be born and know themselves 100%. I genuinely thought I was alloromantic once, but now know I’m not.

Speaking from experience, I would rather have kids be “wrong” about their sexuality than feel like they have no place of belonging.

We shouldn’t gatekeep aroace folk because of their age. It hurts. It makes kids feel like they are the freaks society tells them they are.

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(Thank you, Karan, for being both my smile and energy.)

CHERRY MAGIC 30 ยังซิง (2023) dir. X Nuttapong Mongkolsawas for @katemagic 🤍

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mission impawsible

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So apparently some people new to Tumblr think a repost and a reblog are the same thing, so when they see creators asking for people to not repost, they're thinking the creators are saying to not reblog 😭

Y'all, a repost is when you copy/download the work and create a new post using the work making it seem as if it's yours. A reblog is you using a site provided feature to share the creator's post directly from the creator so that it's still credited to them and they still get all of the traction/notes from the work.

Please, reblog fics/art/etc. that you enjoy! Reblogging is not reposting! Creatives need support too, and reblogging is a way to do that!

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I remember a few years ago that an indie author I sometimes read contacted the Amazon that her book had been categorized as erotica instead of romance. Amazon removed the listing because whoever was contacted assumed the complaint was in part because the book contained _erotic_ content. The book eventually got relisted correctly but that's just silly.

"I've read much spicier things on Ao3" is a common thing I hear about my work, and my polite response is usually, "That's because Ao3 is non-profit and heavily anti-censorship, and authors won't lose their source of income for writing about fucked up gay tentacle porn in the Algorithm finds them." (or if someone reports them. Because yeah, that's a thing people do too. The snitches.)

The annoying thing is you'll find heterosexual erotica in abundance on Amazon. Hell, you'll find it in the Romance genre.

But if you're writing sweet queer media? Fuck you, better hope the person doing approvals that day isn't a cunting homophobe.

And it's not just the Zon doing this. It's all of them.

We're in the bad place.

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You know what I'm a slut for? When a character visibly drops a ruse. Like, the way their face changes the moment they give up a facade and reveal themselves.

This applies to revealing love, apathy, anger, evil intent. I mcfuckin love it.

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sky umbrella

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OK so this is the whole AI situation summarized

• AIs have already been scraping data from sites for free for years

• Companies got pissed at this a little too late and are now trying to put it behind a paywall by offering things like data packs in paid partnerships

• Your data wasn't safe before or now

• Capitalism babey

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suggestion: stop saying that a creation is bad when what you mean is that you, personally, do not like it (for whatever reason)

additional suggestion: even do it when you're the creator

you having a personal dislike for or dissatisfaction with something does not mean that everyone else feels the same way, and everyone benefits when you leave open that possibility

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Learning Crochet day... 8? I think it's 8

I have 9 done! Some of them are slightly different because I keep experimenting with tension and stuff.

Counting is less of the enemy now! Also I have figured out ways to work over the ends instead of weaving them in (which I know is the better method) but yay! Less ends to weave in. I also figured out my preferred way to handle the corners.

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the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

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People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.