#about us

[genderqueerdykes]

hello we've been tired as hell but i finally got the energy to shave so i feel marginally better. thanks to everyone for the help in getting us rehoused successfully, it's been good to be able to sleep somewhere safe while I'm dealing with chronic fatigue & arthritis flares. take care of yourselves, always 🌸

#nonbinary #trans #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq #butch lesbian #ftm #genderfluid #genderqueer #gay #gay ftm #intersex #bigender #lesbian #dyke #non binary #enby #butch dyke #transmasculine #transmasc #trans man #trans men #our pics #about us

[divinebunnii]

love is stored in the mouth, you should use more tongue

#hehehe #love #thoughts #bunni speaks #about us

[therealvinelle]

Has your opinion of twilight changed since starting this blog?

Not that I can think of.

As it is, @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin and I were more or less normal about Twilight, but we fell back into the fandom after a Near To You reread in 2020 and began talking about it, one thing led to another.

Midnight Sun confirmed every headcanon and we've been dug in since. We will never change.

#about us #about me

[duckprintspress]

AHHHH BOOKS OF OURS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY ( @queerliblib ) I AM SO EXCITED.

If you don't know what the QLL is this is a great chance to find out!! They're an online library of hand-curated queer e-books with really awesome range (non-fiction! fiction! many genres and disciplines!), and they keep growing! Anyone in the US can become a member FOR FREE. From their webpage: Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.

They're also a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, and completely funded by donations (we donate a pittance monthly, I wish we could do more).

I HIGHLY recommend you go to their webpage here to find out more, and you can follow their tumblr (tagged above) too!

And if you didn't know - all our published anthologies to-date are available through multiple library apps, including Libby (if selected by the library) and Hoopla (should be available to all libraries with Hoopla subscriptions). So even if you aren't a member of QLL, you might want to check your local library e-book system to see if you can read our books. Titles potentially available at your library include our anthologies Add Magic to Taste, She Wears the Midnight Crown, He Bears the Cape of Stars, Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" and And Seek (Not) to Alter Me: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," and our stand-alone titles To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh and Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley. There's more on the way, too, so be on the lookout.

#queer liberation library #qll #duck prints press #about us

[crippledpunks]

let me be tired in peace. i have chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. my energy levels are markedly lower than the average able bodied person's. i do not regain much energy from sleep- the only times i have energy are when i am manic, from my bipolar disorder.

i am tired of having to push through being tired to do things that strain my body hand hurt me. i am tired of being forced to drink caffeine and take supplements and pills to "give me more energy" when all they do is make me feel like i'm running on fumes... while still tired. i am tired of having to force myself to do things i physically and mentally cannot because i literally do not have the energy necessary to do them

let me be tired in peace. let me be tired. let me express when i am tired and when i am too tired to do things. let me experience tiredness and let me choose what i do with that. let me choose whether or not i want to sleep, exercise, use medication, or stay awake, but tired, and doing low impact things.

#cfs/me #cfsme #cfs #chronic fatigue syndrome #fibromyalgia #cripple punk #crip punk #cripplepunk #cpunk #disability culture #actually disabled #chronic pain #disability rights #disability advocacy #our writing #about us

[rottenraccoons]

Help meeee, keir is killing me.... And is it possible for our MC to have shy replies?? Not just flirty ones? Just a question, I swear... I would never want to pressure you amazing hoomans! But it'll be so cute to see MC shyyyy

Nope, there's no plans to add shy choices. Here's why:

When we made Vesper we knew up front that we wanted a protagonist with a personality that would be apparent to players from the start. That meant making decisions about what is "in character" for Vesper and sticking to it. And we take Vesper's personality seriously; Tobi and I edit each other's writing and we've both suggested changes to keep Vesper more in-character. We want players to be able to play Vesper in ways that they like and we have purposefully kept their backstory open for players to imagine, but dialogue options to play Vesper as more shy wouldn't fit the character we've made.

This isn't a criticism of you, nonny! I personally love playing shy/timid MCs (they're adorable and reactions from LIs are also pretty rad), it just wasn't what we wanted for this game. Hopefully that answer explains our perspective.

#obscura vn #rotten raccoons #asks #about us #(by which i mean our process)

[end-otw-racism]

The OTW Board Elections are over, and with that wraps up our second End OTW Racism action! Thank you to everyone who has participated over the last few months, whether by voting, attending the July 2 OTW Board Meeting, submitting questions for the candidates, sharing our posts, writing to the OTW Board, providing us critique and feedback, and more. 

Now that we’ve completed two End OTW Racism actions, we wanted to take a breath and tell you a little about how we started. We began as a team of five people in May who felt spurred by renewed conversations we’d seen on twitter about racism within the OTW and wanted to do something about it. As we’ve shared in our FAQ, the core organizers are all fans and users of AO3, including both people of color and white folks, who have been in fandom for decades. We’ve added new core organizers since May, but also some organizers have rolled off, so we remain a small and diverse team.

Since the beginning, we’ve had four specific demands for the OTW:

Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Committee to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims

A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes

Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months

Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings

This may be surprising, but we only began planning our first action in May five days before we announced it! And we’ve been working really hard since then on top of our other individual life obligations. We also rolled straight from our first action into our second because of the timing of the OTW Board Elections, which made things even busier.

We’re very proud of all we’ve accomplished and everything that has happened since then - not only the work we’ve done and the progress we’ve made on our specific goals, but also the way that a larger conversation has opened up publicly about many other forms of racism and dysfunction within the organization. These conversations have, of course, been going on for years, both inside and outside the OTW, and more recent efforts have built on the work of fans of color calling out racism in fandom for decades, particularly Black fans. The discussions that have happened since May included thousands of people in fandom and have become wide-ranging, and we’re thankful to everyone who has been part of them. Organizing and running this campaign has also been a learning process, and we've grown so much from the feedback we've received. We look forward to being even better as we continue on with our specific anti-racist lens.

We couldn’t have done any of this without all of you, the community that has fostered and spurred these conversations and put them into action. We’re also really excited to see that other campaigns are coming up to address aspects of racism in fandom that are outside our narrow scope. We hope our example of what you can do as a small team can be an inspiration to anyone else who wants to start their own parallel antiracist efforts too.

Since it’s been an exhausting (but thrilling!) few months, our core team is going to be taking a pause for a few months to reflect and regroup before planning another action focused on our specific goals. We also want to figure out how to engage more of the community in our planning for future actions, since we know there are lots of people who are excited about this work, and we weren’t able to do that in the quick turnaround between the first and second actions.

In the meantime, we’re excited to announce that two partner projects will be launching next month! These will not be led by our core organizers, but by other fans who have volunteered to take them on. 

Anti-Racist Fanlore Project: An effort to update Fanlore, the fandom history wiki run by the OTW, with articles that flesh out the history of racism and anti-racism in fandom. This will be a collaborative project run through a new Discord server, and we welcome people of all levels of experience with Fanlore editing, including people who have never done it before! We’ll need people for a wide range of tasks: project management, research, drafting, reviewing, and posting to Fanlore.

Anti-Harassment Street Team: A group aimed at supporting people who are harassed for talking about racism in fandom, including developing de-escalation practices, creating resources on curating your own space, correcting misinformation, and more. This project will also be collaborative and run through a new Discord server.

You can sign up for these projects on our Volunteer Sign-Up Form. If you already signed up for either of these projects at any time in the last few months, you will receive an email with more information when each project kicks off. 

Apart from those projects, we’ll see you again for our next action in a few months. If you need to get hold of us in the meantime, you can email us at endotwracism [at] gmail [dot] com, though we may take a little while to get back to you. Thank you again for your passion and support in fighting racism in the OTW!

- The Fandom Against Racism Team

#end otw racism #vote to end otw racim #eotwr #ao3 #archive of our own #organization for transformative works #about us

[divinebunni]

thinking about the way i cum just for you

#mmhhmmmm #about us #my love #thoughts #bunni speaks

[disciples-of-the-old-faith]

Disciples of The Old Faith is a collaborative comic and ask blog that focuses on an alternate universe story of the events told about in Cult of The Lamb. In this story, it follows the faithful members of The Old Faith and how the betrayal of the Bishops by their own and imprisonment of Narinder affects the mortals who worship them. It also has a special lens on 5 high regarded members, chosen from each section of The Old Faith, where they are tested against the bonds of their god vs the strength of their found family.

Mentamori - Death's Eternity

Thriae - War's Future

Alaunus - Pestilence's Curse

Payak - Famine's Strength

Euthalia - Chaos's Poison

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IMPORTANT: The characters above belong to their respective creators and had permission given to be used for this blog's use only. Please do not use these characters for extended work(s) unless there is explicit permission given by their creator(s). These cards are meant to be used for reference use only and will be updated with more characters.

If you would like to see more information about this au, please check out the pinned message of the blog or click here.

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cult of the lamb au #cotl au #about page #about us #about the characters #characters #character references #character reference #cult of the lamb disciples au #disciples of the old faith au #dotof au #cotl dotof au #important post #non story post #mentamori #thriae #alaunus #payak #euthalia #kore #charta #cult of the lamb oc #cotl oc

[ailesswhumptober]

All About Us! -->asks are currently open<--

-->Our Discord<--

~Who are the Tumblr Mods?~ Mod Missy: She/They, Writer --will sign >Mod Missy when answering questions Mod Radio: They/It, Artist --will sign >Mod Radio when answering questions ~Some Frequently Asked Questions~ Q:Why did you make a separate Whumptober? A: We noticed the usual Whumptober has taken a strange stance in regards to AI, particularly a non-stance that doesn't seem to discourage AI usage in the way we and some others were hoping. This included saying AI had a place in writing as well as art, and saying defending against it was going down on an already burning hill. We disagree with this wholeheartedly. Q:What is AI-less Whumptober? A: Well, it's basically Whumptober...But with a firm stance against AI content. AI-less Whumptober will essentially function the same, with a list f prompts every day for the month of October, with the difference being that we actively disavow AI content and discourage it strongly

Q: What's so bad about AI?

A: AI in itself is a theft. It works off of cannibalizing other people's works, often without permission, and it CANNOT be used without this theft. The argument that you can just train it on your own work is entirely false, as even then with the AI apps used it compares, contrasts, and includes work that is plagiarized and stolen from artists and writers alike. AI IS NOT AN ACCESSIBILITY TOOL! Q: Okay, but is AI really that bad though? A: Yes, yes it is. here are some links. > the negative impacts of AI art on Artists >The Intellectual Property Problem

>AI in the publishing world: Are AI novels theft? >ChatGPT: The fight against AI Q: Do you have to post every single day? A: Nope! You can post any of the days you'd like. You can bounce around and do 10 different ones, or just 1, or all 31! If you're posting content you made under the hashtag #AIlesswhumptober2023, congratulations, you've participated in AI-less Whumptober! Q: Can I post NSFW? A: Absolutely! Just please keep everything under the read more, otherwise known as the cut. NSFW content will not be allowed in the Discord server. Q: Can I post OC content? A: Yes! AI-less Whumptober is a multi-fandom event that can include different fandoms or original content Q: Will your list of prompts be different from the regular Whumptober? A: Yes. The mods of AI-less Whumptober have come up with the 31 different prompts, as well as a few extras in case the theme of the day just isn't vibing with you! 3. How do I protect my work from AI?

Glaze is a great tool for protecting the art that you post, made by the awesome people at University of Chicago. As for writing, we're looking at finding solutions for this. We're open to suggestion! -->Our Discord<--

#whumptober #About us #whump #ailesswhumptober2023

[huskersbar]

About Us:

We are a traumagenic system with the majority of our alters being from Hazbin Hotel, along with some who are from nothing.

Alter Tags:

🦆 - Lucifer

📻 - Alastor

📺 - Vox

🎸 - Adam

💖 - Xazria (Caregiver)

🌈 - Hazel (Little)

How Did We Become A System?

This question doesn’t bother me, solely because... I have no idea. I barely remember my childhood, so I can't say for sure.

What is Our System Tag?

We are the Royal Flush system, but we use ♠️♥️ for the tag.

Who is the Host?

Huskie! I am the host. But if someone else fronts, that's why I added in the tags so everyone knows!

Any Other Questions?

Drop them in our asks! But please say which one of us the question is for!

Where Did The Tags Go?

Some alters removed them because they don’t get on here, or we haven’t seen them in a while so we removed their tag.

#did system #hazbin hotel #about us #main

[genderqueerdykes]

the reason intersex people need to be visible and at the forefront of every queer's activism is because we are completely devoid of autonomy when it comes to identifying ourselves. no matter how hard we try to speak up on how we are treated, how we are dehumanized, how we are refused our right to say who we are, it falls through the cracks because of how many people continue to diminish our issues, and espouse intersexist beliefs.

when i speak up about being transfemme, and a trans girl, it's not because i'm trying to step on people's toes or speak about something i don't understand. i speak up about it because this is the life i've lived. it doesn't matter if strangers see me this way or not, this is how i've been my entire life. whether or not someone knows i was technically born AMAB and then had my gender "corrected" shouldn't matter.

trans people do not only come in binary sexes- just like gender, physical sex is also not a binary. i am an intersex trans girl , even if my agab didn't stay AMAB forever. I would be an intersex trans girl regardless of whether or not they assigned me male at birth, because my experience with womanhood and femininity is that they've always been held away from me, way farther than it would ever be possible for me to reach.

i've had to take estrogen & progesterone HRT in the past in order to "correct" my masculine features in order to look like and be a girl "correctly". the subject of my body and my gender has never been something i've been able to control. my whole live i've just been told that i'm a girl wrong, and that i need to "Fix" it.

boyhood or manhood weren't options either, that was held away from me with a 10 foot pole as well. i've had to transition into gender, itself, because i was forbidden to be a boy or a girl. i was always too sensitive or soft to be a real boy. gender as a concept has been a source of control and degredation for me. i had to transition into both manhood and womanhood in order to have control over how i identify. even now when i talk about manhood and being a man, people tell me that i'm not a trans man because of how i look. i'm routinely denied manhood, I "have" to be a trans woman only to some.

due to my intersex condition, i'm a trans man and a trans woman, transfemme and transmasc, but people struggle to accept this. there's no reason for people to give me hell about these parts of myself, and yet people still do. intersex awareness matters because we fight to be seen as the people we are. we struggle to have our identities be addressed correctly. we are in the same fight as trans individuals, and we owe it to intersex trans men, women, and people to help people understand that trans folks come in all different types of bodies, and that biological sex is not a binary, either.

we have to fight for each other's autonomy. for all of us. together we are stronger, louder, and braver.

#intersex #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #transfemme #transfeminine #transfem #trans girl #trans woman #trans lady #nonbinary #trans #transgender #enby #genderqueer #about us #transmasculine #ftm #trans man #our writing

[duckprintspress]

Become an Advance Reader for Duck Prints Press!

Reviews are essential for showing prospective readers that we’re publishing awesome books that they want to buy and read. We’re looking to recruit an active group of people who post reviews of our work, and to do that we need your help! For the first time, we’re offering Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) of one of our projects: Aether Beyond the Binary, our most recent anthology, featuring 17 stories of characters outside the gender binary exploring modern-esque aetherpunk worlds.

How it works: You see this post. You think, oh, I love reading! I love leaving reviews! I want to join the Duck Prints Press Reviewer Program! Then, you go and read the rules for our Reviewer Program. And, if everything there sounds like something you can do, you fill out the form, and – we’ll be in touch! Even better: this program isn’t only for Aether Beyond the Binary, and isn’t only for “advance” titles. Our reviewers are encouraged to claim titles that are currently released, too, to help build up a robust collection of reviews of Duck Prints Press titles!

Requirements:

You must be over 18 years old.

You must be prepared to post reviews on Goodreads and/or Storygraph.

You must also post the review on the appropriate listing on the Duck Prints Press webstore (for advance titles, you’ll have to wait ’til we list them there).

Upon acceptance to the program, you must join the Duck Prints Press Book Lover’s Server.

Reviews must be at least 100 words long must and engage with the actual content of the work being reviewed.

Reviews must be left within 6 months of claiming a title, or you will be removed from the program.

What isn’t Required:

That the reviews be positive. Reviews are for readers. We require that reviews be honest to your own experience of the work, not that they be glowing.

That you post the reviews to social media. Doing so is definitely a bonus, but you don’t have to.

That you associate yourself publicly with the review-leaving (beyond using a valid Goodreads and/or Storygraph account). As in, you don’t have to say, “I, (your name here), reviewed this book” or link your book website accounts with your existing social media presence or anything like that, nor do we request any demographic information beyond confirmation of your age.

That you purchase anything. Absolutely no purchase necessary!

What You Get:

A e-book copy (ePub and/or PDF) of the work you’re reviewing. We do not provide physical ARCs.

After you post your first review, you’ll get a coupon for 10% off a purchase from the Duck Prints Press webstore!

For every ten reviews you post, you can claim a freebie sticker from among our sticker offerings, if you want. (You’ll have to provide a snail mail address to get this, of course.)

A community of fun book-lovers to hang out with! (You can get that even without joining the ARC program, though – our Book Lover’s Discord is open to everyone.)

We’re accepting applicants for claiming Aether Beyond the Binary ARCs through April 10th, 2024. On the 11th, we’ll randomly select 25 of applicants to receive ARC copies of Aether Beyond the Binary. Everyone else will still be entirely welcome in the program and invited to start with a different, back-catalog book or story to review. We’ll make another pool of Aether Beyond the Binary ARCs available in May.

So… those are the basics. Interested? Go read the full rules, then apply to be a Duck Prints Press ARC reader TODAY!

#duck prints press #about us #aether beyond the binary #advanced reader program #arc #advance reader copy #reviewer program #queer book reviews

[equinoxians]

🌈 hello! this is equinox's blog for our shop & jewelry/art/creations! ✨

🌈 we aren't going to be doing much else here other than archiving the art we've made! we realized people don't get to see everything we've made on our store, as items disappear as they sell out. we hope you like seeing what we've created!

we are the owners of @gateway-2000, @genderqueerdykes, @crippledpunks and @madpunks !

✨ if you're interested in following, we create gothic, alternative, scene, emo, etc. jewelry, accessories and clothes, as well as queer art about lesbianism, being butch, being ftm/transmasculine, genderqueerness, intersexuality, transsexuality and more!

🌈 we are a disabled intersex transfem/masc genderqueer butch/stud lesbian & gay bear. we are also aromantic & on the asexual spectrum.

✨ thanks for reading & stopping by!

pay pal: glittergraphicnightmare @ gmail . com cash app: $glitterGraphix venmo: equinoxian zelle: ask chime: $Equinoxian

#about us

[rottenraccoons]

Hi!! First of all, I wanted to say how much I LOVE Obscura, I’ve played through chapter one enough to get nearly all the endings now!! You guys are doing amazing work, I’m so excited for chapter two!

My question is sort of a writing/planning one! You’ve created such an interesting and complex story that can branch out in so many ways; so what is it like to plan and write something this complex, and what was your process like while developing it? Any tips?

Thank you!! <3

Aw, thank you!

I think our story can look deceptively complex from the outside, but from the inside it's actually pretty manageable (and this would be true for any story you make, too!). I'll show a bit of my process and hopefully that'll help you.

So this is a peek at what my workspace looks like (cropped to avoid showing too much). On the right are all the variables I'm working with, on the left is the script, and that little red square poking in is the preseason testing for Formula 1, because I need background noise to work (and I like F1).

With the variable list visible like this, it's actually very easy to keep track of all the different possible choices the player has made, and so it's pretty easy to either accommodate them or write in ways that suit all possible versions. So that's cheat #1: just keep your variables on hand and you eventually get used to thinking about them as you go.

Another thing that helps is our plot structure. Sam Kabo Ashwell wrote a very helpful blog post that helps visualise the different way choice-games like interactive fiction, CYOA stories, and visual novels can structure their branches. Obscura might look like a "sorting hat" at first, but it's better to think of each route as its own "branch and bottleneck" narrative. No matter what happens in the branches, things always bottleneck to the same place. No matter how your party goes in Oleander's route, either you get a bad end or you end up dancing together. So cheat #2 is to just think about places where your narrative can converge and ensure that your branches will come together to that bottleneck again.

Which isn't to say that this doesn't take work! If you're used to writing totally linear stuff then it can take a little time to get used to thinking in terms of branches and variables. But the good news is that when you start at the beginning of the story, there's not too much to think about. As long as you don't dump a huge number of variables on yourself right away, you can build them up as you get more used to thinking about them as you write.

I hope that helps!

#obscura vn #rotten raccoons #asks #about us #(by which i mean our process)

[ihopesocomic]

Hey guys! I some how stumbled on IHS comic, and I have been a silent lurker lol. (Comics about lions are a insta win in my book)

Silly question, but did either one of you have any fondness for The Lion King growing up? I have to say it was one of my first fandoms I was in, even if I was like, 20 years too late 🤣 goes to show how active and popular it was (or is?)

The Lion King fandom is still going pretty strong imho. I think it's because there's just so many concepts for fan works that can be done in many different ways and it's actually pretty cool how I never get tired of seeing Zira's backstory done over and over and over again. lol I only wish there was more Vitani content outside of her being Kopa's gf. That's pretty stale now oof But yeah, we both enjoyed the movie growing up. I'm one of those heathens who actually gravitated towards the sequel more and I'm convinced that if the deleted scenes were restored and that weird af blue filter that messed up all the colours was removed, people would also deem it a pretty strong sequel. I actually recall not really liking 1½ too much but Cat really likes it and I guess I have to rewatch it at some point because it's been a while and I think I've villianised it in my head way too much. c: - RJ

#ask #ask us stuff #rj answers #the lion king #about us