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MISS CONGENIALITY | 2000 

bonus:

#tumblr calendar

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i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

#resembling an earl

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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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A 5200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh bearing what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation. It shows 5 images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree. Museum of Ancient Iran

#art #!!

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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.

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#video #art

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"He wouldn't say that" in a 'fic author trying to use terms of endearment in a language they clearly do not understand' kind of way

#BoyTM #german things #''mein rehlein'' oder sowas wäre ja noch halbwegs vertretbar gewesen (wenn auch cringe) #aber hirschkuh ghgjkfgklsf #see also: people trying to make Caleb use german pet names in fanfic. like first of all he probably WOULD NOT in the first place #second of all your entire German audience is cringing out of their seats reading the stuff you guys come up with deal lord

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I love these comics by Nathan W. Pyle.

#''thanks - we own things but have hidden them'' sjfjskdjhskj #it's giving ''get rid of the couches!! we can't let people know we SIT!!!'' #but more serene

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Hug your smol fierce girlfriend. 💖 (been having a bit of an emotional rollercoaster of a day. Drawing Kima and Allura being sweethearts helps) twitter/patreon/store

#EMON'S MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE #critical role #c1 #fanart

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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

#video #music #history #i love it. sends shivers down your spine

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incredible translation of sheeesh thank you google

#it...it works actually. yeah it works #german things

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Tumblr Code.

#oh we made it!! #tumblr vintage #i like your shoelaces #can you believe i was around on here when this post first started going around? man #good times actually

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i don't get the whole deadname thing. like i do empirically but it never applied to me. personally my birth name's like. idk, yugoslavia? it's not accurate to call me that now and if you do you're a bit dense, but sometimes you need to speak about history with the names it had at the time, and that's all good.

#no but i really agree on the point this post makes though #treating a ''deadname'' as something that Shall Never Ever Be Spoken Aloud Again Under Threat Of Hellfire like man come on. that's silly. #more that that it feel like this weird erasure of the past that i don't think is healthy #to like pretend this name never existed and you never lived under it and... #like for example in the library there was a case recently #where an author in our national databases has recently come out as nobinary and changed first name + pronouns #and now the question is what do we as the library responsible for logging in the data about this person do with that #of course the name gets changed accordingly -- people change their names for all kinds of reason and all of that is registered #BUT. what we did not do - and will not do -- #is /erase/ the previous name from that dataset! it will be searchable still as like a previous or alternate name i'm not quite sure #either way it will still be findable. and that's important! because there are books out there of that author with their previous name. #printed books! which cannot be changed; they exist; they're there #other authors have quoted this author under their previous name #all of that needs to be traceable still in an academic context! that matters! #and afaik the author in question didn't raise a fuss over this but some other people did and it was a bit of a ThingTM #when i'm like ... dude they wrote books under that name; it existed for DECADES; we all accept that they re-named themself but you can't #/erase/ that. #another example: when elliot page came out #and news sites were informing people accordingly with headlines like ''Ellen Page comes out as transgender and now goes by Elliot Page'' #and people were like ''omg don't deadname him that's transphobia!!! how dare you!!! crimes against humanity!!!'' #& honestly i don't understand that because like. it just happened. there's no malice there. the previous name's just /relevant information/ #what is it supposed to say - ''Elliot Page is now named Elliot Page!''? that's silly. the previous name has been known in the public eye f #for years. it's stupid to pretend it never existed or to say that's transphobic like come on! ofc don't call them that /from here on out/ #but it's not /wrong/ to refer to the past

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Consider: the entire Vox Machina campaign except everyone is wearing giant pink fur coats.

“Faux Pachina” (a beautifully selected name, thanks to @MIHistoryGuy on Twitter)

#scanlan and pike looking like tribbles i can't #critical role #c1 #fanart

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“I look like a Georgia O’Keeffe painting!!”

#this made me google georgia o'keeffe #learned something new today. very interesting drawings. #critical role #cr cast #video

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?