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Creative & DIY

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there is no discourse between gen z and millenials. we are siblings. come on lil bro, ill take you to amc. yeah we can go there early and play the arcade games before the movie starts.

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Oh my god so true bestie

#Other cultures are so beautiful and strange

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favorite comedies that ended too soon ≡ Better Off Ted

“God, you people are paranoid. No wonder the company has to secretly manipulate you.”

#This was such a great show

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He makes a valid point

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Broke: Using other alphabets to cobble together words that look like English but can’t be read with screen readers.

Woke: Using other alphabets to cobble together words that look like gibberish but turn into English words only when read aloud by screen readers.

I explained to some absolute idiot on discord that as a blind person I hate when people make their blog titles or their usernames a bunch of letters compiled from different languages. If you use the letter that looks like an A but in Greek is actually an s, the screen reader is going to read it with an s sound. So a blind person cannot tell what you have typed because it reads as garbled nonsense.

And they thought it was just the funniest joke to intentionally type like that to poke fun. Please reblog and spread awareness that typing like this is inaccessible

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I recall you making the comparison (at least once) that Twitter is to blogging like crack cocaine is to a nice glass of wine (or something to that effect). I was wondering what comparison your Tumblr experience would elicit, or would Tumblr kind of fall under the generic "blogging" umbrella?

Tumblr is junk food. It’s mostly really nice junk food, though. Like the kind of chocolate that comes packaged in wrapping that points out that nobody was enslaved or murdered to bring you this chocolate, and that trees were planted and anyway, cocoa is an antioxidant. So you can absolutely almost forget that, at the end of the day, you’re still scoffing chocolate.

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So I did a thing or two…

BIG thank you to @owletry for making the fantastic art that made these boys in the first place!! And thank you again for letting me use your art in a different medium!

#They're beautiful!

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people are like "if you put crabs in a bucket they can't escape because they keep pulling each other back in, this is called crab bucket mentality and describes why people don't help each other" and never acknowledge that crabs do not naturally occur in buckets, a human with more power had to put them there

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Just woke up from a dream about a tv show called Eve Angelical, which was about a devout right wing evangelical who one day finds that when she prays legit actual God talks to her and he’s both pissed and amused and either way she begins to suspect he’s fucking with her.

In the pilot, for example, she hears about a family of five kids whose single mother was a victim of gun violence and she thinks “I’d better pray for them to find a safe and loving home” and God is like “Cool. Their plane lands at 2:30. Go pick them up.”

And she’s like What and God tells her he’s super over her praying about shit and AT BEST doing nothing and at worst actively harming people by her behavior, so now she gets five kids to raise as a lesson in compassion. God assures her she’ll be fine. And it’s not like she can say no because it’s GOD.

(Don’t worry about the kids, I’m pretty sure they’re in on the whole thing and might actually be angels in an end-of-season reveal.)

#i would watch it

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Trying to figure out if you’re ace or aro can be so goddamn hard because it’s like, trying to find the absence of something. Imagine you’re at a pond and you want to know if there are any turtles, or fish. Say you find a turtle and you’re like “great! Now I know there are turtles.” Or a fish, now you know for sure there are fish. Or you find both, and now you know for a fact there are both turtles and fish in the pond.

But like, if you don’t find any turtles it might be that there are no turtles or maybe you’re just really shitty at looking for turtles and maybe you THINK you saw a turtle over there or maybe it was just a stick. Maybe there are only a few turtles. Maybe you need to do something special to find the turtles. Maybe a bunch of these rocks are actually turtles but you couldn’t tell them apart. Maybe there are no turtles. You have no idea. Meanwhile some people are saying “Oh there have to be turtles! You’ll find them eventually ;)” or “How many turtles have you found in your pond?” or “Try planting some vegetables at the shore to attract the turtles.” Or “Oh no! What disaster happened to your pond that there are no turtles?” And you’re just standing there wet with an empty net and a tired expression.

But whatever because whether there are turtles or fish or not your pond’s ecology works just fine without them because that’s what eco-communities do they form a system around what they have. You aren’t missing anything if you don’t have turtles you just have a pond system without turtles. If someone tried to change you by pouring a bunch of turtles into your pond it would probably fuck something up.

So you don’t have to be entirely sure. You don’t have to search every inch of the damn pond before you can decide there are probably no turtles. If you want to take the aro or ace label because you think it fits go for it. And if you do find your turtles you can rename the pond. That’s fine.

#It might be turtles all the way down #but how do you tell?

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The lesbian community even has a name for it! Stone is a way to identify a person only interested in giving and not receiving, IE: stone butch, stone femme.

I guess you could ID as a stone ace? It even has the added benefit of sounding badass!

Hi! Thank you for doing what you’re doing, it’s a lifesaver and highly educational!

I have a non-fic related question triggered by an ask you answered earlier (the one about the demi/ace character who doesn’t like to receive sexual stimulation and how to convey that in fiction).

Is that a thing? Liking to give pleasure but being entirely uninterested in receiving it (regardless of the emotional connection formed with a partner)?

I am like that and I never met anyone who understood what I meant when I tried to explain it. I always assumed I wasn’t ace because I like giving pleasure, and I enjoy sex under that aspect. I excluded being demisexual because I feel like this regardless of the depth of the emotional bond with my partner. I never found a name or a label for it, and I was wondering if there’s one. I’d love to feel part of a community if it exists.

it’s absolutely a thing! I personally know at least three people for whom that applies to various degrees. 

I did a bit of poking around, and it looks like the term for that is “placiosexual”. It’s 100% under the asexual umbrella, and there are lots of people who share that experience!

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Also a lot of artists make art for love and the validation of seeing people’s reactions to it. If you repost their artwork in a post/platform the artist isn’t tracking, even if tons of people love it, the artist has no idea their work is being appreciated. Maybe the repost exploded but the artist’s original post only got 10 notes for whatever reason. It feels awful to have your work consumed but not acknowledged. 

Why do you say "do not repost" your art? Unless it's paysite material I mostly ignore that line. I mean, reblogs & re-tweets technically count as a art repost so that makes "do not repost" invalid. If you don't want your art out there don't post it to the internet. Not trying to come off as mean, that's just the mindset I have. Once you posts something to the internet... it's out there.

…… hm.

when i say “do not repost” i mean, do not: 

save my art to your computer

reupload it to your own social media site, especially without credit

exploit my my art so you can become more popular/get more attention/etc

reblogging/retweeting is not the same as reposting. those actually allow the artist to keep ownership of their own art as it gets spread around. they are different things.

it’s not that i don’t want my art to be on the internet. that’s why i post it. but i don’t want OTHER people taking credit for MY art and the hard work i put into it. i have a store where i sell my art. having people repost my art to their own sites literally takes money away from me. because people don’t know that I’M the artist who drew it, then they don’t know about my store, and instead consume my art mainly through websites that repost my art for their own amusement or profit.

do you know how many japanese artists have deleted their pixiv/twitter accounts because people kept reposting their art without permission, OR credit, and have even profited from stealing their work? so much art is floating out there without an owner because the japanese artists were harassed so much due to their art constantly being reposted without any credit to them, that they had to disappear from the internet just so they could keep ownership of the rest of their art. 

do you know how many people found my art through pinterest? i’ve gotten so many messages from people saying they found my art there, and it took them anywhere from days to WEEKS to find me and my blog, because most, if not all of it was posted 1. without credit, or 2, without a link back to the original, because the pinterest user reuploaded it from their own computer. 

do you know how many people try to apply for jobs with their art, but can’t seem to claim ownership of their own portfolio because it’s been so spread out and reposted everywhere on the internet, that companies can’t be sure that the person they’re interviewing is the actual artist themself?

i don’t think you understand just how detrimental reposting is to artists. and i don’t think you understand how important it is for people to respect artists’ wishes. my art is not yours to use for your own amusement. there is a reason why most websites have a dmca report option, to take down unauthorized use of their art. even the law recognizes it as a personal right.

i do want my art to be shown to the world, but under my own terms. i want my wishes in regards to my art to be respected. you are not doing me any favors by reposting my art onto other sites without permission or credit. just the opposite, in fact–your hurting me personally, financially, and possibly hurting my chances of earning a job with my art. 

so in conclusion, here are the dangers of reposting:

the artists loses ownership of their art

no one knows who made it anymore, and don’t care

the artists stop making art because all that happens is their art gets reposted without a source, and so they prefer to disappear off the internet entirely. the world has now just lost an amazing artist.

people make a profit off their art, literally stealing money and potential customers from them, because no one knows where the art originated from

they lose job opportunities because the reposting and art theft is so ubiquitous, that even if they are the original artist, no one can be sure of that.

etc.

reposting is detrimental. it’s not the same thing as reblogging/retweeting, it’s something that literally harms artists in the long run. 

at the end of the day, the biggest way to prevent this from happening is by respecting the artist’s wishes with some basic human decency. that’s literally it.

i hope i’ve cleared some things up for you.