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[girlyliondragon]

doomscrolling is not activism

doomscrolling is not activism

doomscrolling is not activism

"don't look away" is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?

DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that's something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.

And then? don't feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don't make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don't read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can't change because they're happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.

I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.

doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.

[girlyliondragon]

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

[girlyliondragon]

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

[girlyliondragon]

lolz

101 hyenas –  day 25

#hyenas #comfort

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rarr

101 hyenas –  day 16

#Hyenas #Comfort

[girlyliondragon]

#Oh AbsoLUTELY Candy Mountain #Peanutbutter Jelly is like right behind that

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I left tumblr but I guess I might be coming back soon for real time since apparently Elon's bots ARE POSTING ACTUAL, REAL LIFE CP AND CSA NOW.

I'm not even fucking joking. There are dozens of people in the replies and QRTs saying the same thing: the "PUSSY IN BIO" bots pots posted actual CP on their tweets.

IF YOU USE TWITTER, DO NOT HAVE AUTO-RECORDING ON, DO NOT STREAM AND MAKE SURE YOUR CACHES ARE CLEAN, POSSESSION OF CP - EVEN ACCIDENTAL - IS ILLEGAL. IF YOU SEE A TWEET HIDDEN FOR SPAM, DO NOT OPEN IT. I'm lucky to not have run into any CP/CSA footage myself yet, but I'm going to be extremely careful and I recommend you all be too. And if you DO happen to run into it, you can use websites like https://tips.fbi.gov/home. report.cybertip.org or iwf.org.uk/en/uk-report/ to report it.

Don't bother reporting it to twitter. Elon's already been exposed for restoring the account of a man who posted real CP. He won't care. He's a demon and twitter has become exactly the way he wants it.

Stay safe and pray for Elon Musk's downfall.

#prev tags

[girlyliondragon]

Human beings as a race really do fucking suck and I hope we all perish sometime. It sounds misanthrope-y but that's bc it is.

#Em Speaks #Venty Vent Vent

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"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

#porn is literally fun to draw

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Please stop telling people, for any reason, to kill themself. Stop advocating for suicide in any form or capacity.

#The fact that tumblr can understand this but not twitter.... #we live in a society #suibait mention #sa mention

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Prompts about a couple with children?

Oooo I love this request! I hope my prompts will live up to your and my expectations XD Beware, the following contains some tooth-rotting fluff! (I'd love to add some dialogue prompts as well sometime)

20 OTP with children prompts

Feel free to use and reblog!

#1 - watching their baby/babies sleep while holding each other in their arms

#2 - sending the child with their request to the other parent because they don't want to be the strict one

#3 - noticing traits of their significant other in the child(ren)

#4 - having the child(ren) asking awkward questions after they saw their parents exchanging expressions of their love

#5 - bringing the child to bed and brushing their hair while telling them a good-night story which is a variation of how the OTP met

#6 - trying to explain to the child(ren) why they were arguing with the other parent but the child(ren) still doesn't see the point

#7 - coming home to the other one making a huge mess in the kitchen with the child(ren) because they were trying to make cookies

#8 - having the child accompanying them by every task and asking smart questions while the significant other is away

#9 - being annoyed by the child(ren)'s pickiness but still enjoying fulfilling their wishes

#10 - making up stories to take away the child's fear of something irrational

#11 - seeing the other bond with the child is making them so happy because the two most important people in their life are getting along perfectly

#12 - giving the child a present that meant a lot to them when they were small themselves

#13 - teaching the child and while one is doing it very academic the other one is trying to make a game out of it

#14 - they are trying to calm the child(ren) that is/are crying because the other parent is away

#15 - one is always using nicknames for the child(ren) while the other is saying the given name

Bonus: OTP with children but they're not the parents:

#16 - both not knowing how to handle a little human being

#17 - one is natural with children and the other is only in awe of their partner's parental streak

#18 - making fun together with another one's baby/toddler

#19 - one is forced to take of a child and handles it much better than expected. when their significant other finds them, they're absorbed in a game with the child.

#20 - one is thinking that children aren't very likeable and the other is trying to prove the opposite by making a very kind child being super sweet to their significant other

#reblogging for reference

[girlyliondragon]

Mightyena Breeds

I decided to jump on the Pokemon variations bandwagon (cause it’s AWESOME) and draw up some Mightyena breeds, based on the different types of real life hyenas.  

#I miss this trend so much I wish it came back #Pokemon

[girlyliondragon]

No other options bc no

#Demon #definitely demon energy

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#Me the moment I see a cat I can pet #Cats #Comfort

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I've done the unthinkable and gone back to Chrome.

I'm sorry, but I literally am unable to use Firefox if it's gonna keep bricking itself like this every few minutes after I restart it. Nothing has worked at all. I shouldn't have to keep closing my browser to be able to do something for a few damn minutes before it breaks again because that is very invasive and it's only a very flimsy bandaid fix.

I get the Chrome and shit is the devil nowadays but I literally have no good options while this is happening. If it gets fixed, I will return to Firefox, but until then, Chrome is by contrast actually working with me rn, so this is clearly a Firefox-exclusive problem, and it's what I used in the past, so I will force myself to use it again at least until further notice.

Firefox has essentially broke for me because after a while of having it open, tabs stop loading entirely and basically completely brick when I refresh them. I cannot go to different websites the moment it decides to stop working because they load constantly but never actually take me to said websites. If I open a site in a new tab, it bricks. Idk why it does this, but it makes it impossible to browse and do stuff on it in general without CONSTANTLY closing and reopening my browser.

Nothing I try to search for on the internet brings this up either, at least not regarding proper fixes that the devs of ff know. So idk what is causing this, it's not my own computer or internet bc those work completely fine, I've system restored and it did nothing. I went into the cache and it did nothing. I fucking REFRESHED FIREFOX and it did fucking nothing. This has never happened before.

I don't wanna go back to using chrome but considering there's literally no fix for this seemingly super unique issue I might unfortunately have to.

#personal things

[girlyliondragon]

Firefox has essentially broke for me because after a while of having it open, tabs stop loading entirely and basically completely brick when I refresh them. I cannot go to different websites the moment it decides to stop working because they load constantly but never actually take me to said websites. If I open a site in a new tab, it bricks. Idk why it does this, but it makes it impossible to browse and do stuff on it in general without CONSTANTLY closing and reopening my browser.

Nothing I try to search for on the internet brings this up either, at least not regarding proper fixes that the devs of ff know. So idk what is causing this, it's not my own computer or internet bc those work completely fine, I've system restored and it did nothing. I went into the cache and it did nothing. I fucking REFRESHED FIREFOX and it did fucking nothing. This has never happened before.

I don't wanna go back to using chrome but considering there's literally no fix for this seemingly super unique issue I might unfortunately have to.

#personal things

[girlyliondragon]

I love you characters that hold grudges I love you anger as a defence mechanism i love you being consumed by anger I love you being destroyed by anger I love you being healed by anger i love you obvious anger I love you anger buried so deep it’s intrinsic to who you are I love you revenge nurtured so long it feels like a loved one I love you rage I love you temper I love you characters that grieve by lashing out i love you anger on behalf of others I love you characters comforted by their anger I love you wrath I love you fury I love you indignation I love you anger