#to be clear to people in my inbox

[the-final-sif]

I feel like there's two parts to the no fly list leak that are getting overlooked right now

1) the person in question has the handle "maia arson crimew" meaning media outlets have to cite "crimew" as the person they're quoting, which is amazing.

2) From everything I've read, crimew didn't actually commit a crime (in this case at least). According to crimew, the no-fly list was discovered on a publicly accessible server, totally unsecured. crimew was using Shodan which is a totally legal tool regularly used by a lot of the security community for research. Schools use and provide access to Shodan, it's a normal tool. Nothing crimew was doing was out of the ordinary. Her access and use of the file was most likely legal (or at least next to impossible to prosecute), given that it was publicly accessible.

crimew even notified CommuteAir of the data vulnerability. Which prevented more sensitive data from leaking, and was absolutely a sign of acting in good faith. Her obligation to even do that is a pretty gray area, but she did it anyways.

Now, crimew has gotten charged by the US in the past for other things, however, Swiss citizens cannot be extradited against their will. So the proceedings were suspended. She could only be charged under Swiss law, and given that the data is/was publicly accessible and the exposure was for public good, that's very unlikely to happen.

The people actually getting investigated by congress/the FBI/the TSA are the idiots at CommuteAir that were hosting the no fly list on an unsecured publicly accessible server. They're the ones who actually get in trouble for failing to have followed basic security protocols. They're the ones who had a legal obligation to safe guard that data, and they're the ones who fucked up.

#sif speaks #maia arson crimew #no-fly list #politics #to be clear to people in my inbox #I already edited this post to fix the accidentally switch to them/they #The remaining uses of them/they aren't referring to crimew #they're referring to other people #I can't do anything to update reblog chains though

[nonomives]

Heeeey I think I got a better challenge or idea for you! Also I loved the filipense version of welcome home! 🤩 they all look stunning! How about a Circus AU for Welcome Home?

*DEEP FUCKING INHALES*

Oh my y. G O O D N E S S

hold on hold on hold on Omg ur so right hold on

Ok so excuse the fact that the picture looks like its been taken by a bank's security camera

Also some bits of a story i put together like last night while brainrotting over this concept

Smthn smthn, im gonna make Frank suffer angst hjgxwgsdjged

#aaaahahjvchvsjdv im gonna start answering asks now #so that i can clear up my inbox-- #welcome home fanart #welcome home #welcome home arg #welcome home wally #wally darling #welcome home frank #frank frankly #welcome home julie #julie joyful #welcome home sally #sally starlight #welcome home poppy #poppy partrige #do people type all the tags for this??? because because boy it gets kinda tiring sometimes-- #welcome home circus au #again this is so rushed jsbajbjdbknsf

[bonefall]

while i do agree with the sentiment that bloodclan should be more nuanced as an entity i still believe it is wrong to portray them as the necessary "response" to clan injustice (haven't read the books in years but i am pretty sure that bloodclan started with no connection to the clans) / an opposition to the clan's flaws. some of the thing scourge did was out of selfishness and bloodclan isn't the other colour of the black and white debacle with the clans. the clans are heavily flawed yes, but it isn't realistic to completely say that their structure had no redeeming qualities altogether and that all outsider groups is fundamentally better than the clans.

all clans and groups are flawed in their own way and i believe we shouldnt brush past the things that other groups (the sisters and what they do with their toms *cough cough*) did solely to be able to degrade the clans and their culture.

Buddy, you're setting up a strawman. I promise you that if you look into the reduxes I've made of BloodClan, Guardians, The Sisters, and the Tribe, you will see that I don't make any of them a "flawless" alternative to Clan life.

Nor do I say that the Clans have no redeeming qualities. In fact, you can browse the "Clan Culture" tag to see the various expansions I've made to show how these traditions, values, and technological advances make Clan life so alluring.

The overarching theme of BB is that the nature of culture is change. For better AND for worse.

With respect, I think there's something insidious in the wording of "the things the other groups did." We're talking about fan responses to a work that consistently demonizes and degrades foreigners to make the Clans look like the "best way to live," justifying xenophobia. These are not real groups, they are writing choices.

In the franchise with some pretty extreme examples of misogyny, the authors said "What if bizarro world where women rule and have no men... woag..." and only includes a single Clan-alligned member of this culture, with a BAD opinion of them, who can't even do his diplomatic job because he HATES them so much.

In the same franchise that shows Fireheart getting bullied, facing prejudice, and fighting a murderous tyrant who publically executes a mixed-race character, their endgame villain is an outsider, like him, but this one IS a godless heathen who HATES love and friendship and banned families.

In the VERY same franchise which made its first non-malicious group barely able to get through an arc without needing to be saved by Clan cats, totally unable to defend themselves, framed as "whiny" for not wanting their clearly 'inferior' culture to be forcefully changed.

And I'm re-stating all this because, again, no offense to you in particular Anon, but I've been seeing a few people with a sentiment like yours lately. Complaints into a vacuum that don't make targeted critique of anyone's fanworks, gesturing at this broad "woobification" which is apparently out there somewhere over the rainbow, saying things like "well Scourge is selfish" or "well Moonlight abandoned her 13 year old" as if we haven't BEEN knew.

As if we're not all directly responding to these choices. As if I haven't written ESSAYS on this topic.

Since this was about BloodClan in particular though, and you admit you haven't read the books in years, please go back and actually read Rise of Scourge before trying to make critique of the ways fanon rewrites its origin. It's EXPLICITLY a response to the Clans, in the text, that the Erins wrote, it is canon that fanon is working with.

And you want people to take that out and approach it a different way... why? Because it's so incredulous to you that a nation forms in response to a threatening neighbor? That a common enemy through invasions is a way that people might choose to unite, and encourage their new culture to value brutality? Because you don't like the idea of Clan Culture's XENOPHOBIC BATTLE CULTURE affecting surrounding communities??

Could YOU, maybe, be doing this "woobification" thing I keep hearing about? Can I play this stupid game too? What's our stupid prize? Can it be a lollipop? Do we get stickers

TL;DR, ok.

#bone babble #Warrior cats analysis #Warrior cats fanon #Bloodclan #''Ok yes scourge is practically cold war era xenophobic stereotypes and i understand that is a part of canon you dont like.'' #''But have you considered. Hes mean'' #Yes. Yes i have considered it. #If I get another take like this in my inbox im gojng to fucjing add a scene where he kisses babies and looks at the screen and says #'Mmm wowow thank u for the babygirl juice fire star :)' #JUST to annoy them #People gonna be funny to me? Im about to be Hilarious. #Also ANON just to be clear im annoyed because like. Ive been seeing this around. #Sadly today you are the Genocide Frisk to my Angry Sans u.u #I am taking ur ask and turning it blue and smashing it against walls #Man it would be cool to have bone themed powers... i am a bone guy... #But anon you're fine. Just like. Think about what I said ok?

[ghouljams]

Dear Ghoul, remember the ask I sent previously about Price being all condescending and using nicknames to mock our dear witch and how you asked about how it feels being right about it?

I think I'm pretty proud about being spot-on about it all lol.

I wish I could send you some more stuff but atm my brain is solely focused on this Gaz oneshot I'm writing :') but I'll probably gush about Fae Price and Fae Gaz later this weekend hopefully.

Anyway, the only thing I can think about is witch harvesting some strawberries from her little kitchen garden and making a lot of fruit jam, and leaving some for Fae Price outside on the wall/barrier that stands between her hut and Price's place. Along with a cute note telling him to take the jam and to use it while it's fresh and all....the domesticity of it all is just so....gentle.

This probably got Fae Price thinking about how pretty and glowing Witch would be as they go about their day in a shared space, him going out and bringing his sweet witch herbs and keepsakes to work with, testing her magic spells by trying to break it for her....just swoon.

(also can I be 🪷 anon, if it's not taken? I'd like to have some moniker so it's easy to identify my rambling on your blog lol)

AH! Imagine me pointing at my fic with Witch sitting on Price's lap: the cookies in that have home made rose jam. God the rose motif I am pushing is just not subtle, but I don't care. Witch absolutely makes jam with the fruit in her garden/the fruit given to her by clients.

I think that while Price was still waiting for the threshold to let him in he sometimes had tea with Witch. He's not a big fan of tea, but he is a fan of the scones and jam that Witch makes.

It's one of your favorite times of the day, a little past lunch when the sun in your garden is at its hottest and the Winter on the other side is the coldest. You pass Price a mug of warm mulled wine and pluck a scone from the plate precariously balanced on the garden wall. Price sips at his drink while you complain about a difficult customer, neatly slicing your preferred scone to slather jam on each half. You offer half to Price and he takes it with a small smile.

"You not drinkin' tea anymore?" He asks suddenly. You pause capping the jam.

"I'm drinking tea now," You tip your mug to show him the leaves at the bottom, "Why?"

"This is wine." He says it like you should know what he's not saying, and you do.

"Homemade," You tell him with a smile, before relenting to his stare with a sigh, "You don't drink tea." Price hums, like he wants to refute it, as if you didn't see him his a frown and furrowed brows the last time you served him tea. Granted it was pretty bitter, but there were only so many times you could pour out a half drunk mug before you figured the man didn't enjoy a cuppa like you did.

"It's good," He finally tells you. You hide your smile behind your mug, sipping your lukewarm tea.

"Good, I'll make it again." You leave off the 'for you' Price doesn't need to know he's the only other person enjoying your labors. Even if he can taste it under the spices, that you were thinking of him while you were cooking. If he didn't know any better he might think you were trying to make him fall for you. You give too much of yourself too freely, he'd be a fool not to want you for himself.

"Got something for ya," He digs a hand into his pocket, fishing out the tightly corked bottle. You're pretty when you frown, the little crease in your brows is endearing.

"You don't have to repay-" He hold out the bottle, little white stems in soft purple liquid. Your eyes light up just how he thought they would. "Ghost pipes," Your excitement is so pleasant to be on this side of. He shakes the bottle, churning the contents while he waits for you to take it. He knows you will, the way you set down your mug and hold your hands out.

"For the food," He knows you're itchy about debts, and it's easier to imply he's put a price on your kindness than try to convince you he's giving out of his own care. No strings attached, he means to say. Even though he knows you'd never buy that. Your hesitance around accepting his gifts is starting to fade. It makes him feel almost warm when you take the bottle from him. It's not a tether, it's something else. A warmth he hasn't felt before.

He'll decide what it means later. When he isn't watching your smile.

#1fae1 #fae!Price #oc: witch #john price x reader #john price x oc #captain john price #Ok I gotta get off the fae and back to the cowboys #captain price x reader #captain price x oc #I feel like I'm losing my cowboy credibility #also i have seen other people writing cowboys recently and that makes me happy #more cowboys for me to read about #I'm gonna clear a bunch of fae asks out of by inbox #and work on my beloved ranch hands #🪷 anon

[kikker-oma]

OK

so, I'm really really sorry to anyone who's sent me an ask that has gone unanswered.

I have like, 17 asks in my inbox and some of them were art requests (and good ones), some of them were comments about Snoots that I wanted to draw doodles for, and some of them were just messages, but I've been avoiding my inbox because of some unknown reason and now it's stressing me ouuuttt😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Some of these askes span back to OCTOBER. 2023. AAAHHH

SO. I'm going to keep some of the art requests on my own little to-do list, but for my sanity's sake, I need to clear out my inbox.

Idk why this is stressing me out so much, but I've had like, inbox paralysis for months and then I feel guilty for posting things when I have 17 unanswered asks and then I avoid it more and then as soon as I answer one I get another and AHHH.

now LISTEN. I LOVE ASKS. it's just my time of the month so I'm acting super extra and now I have to DELETE FOR MY SANITY.

Feel free to still send me asks, I just need a clean slate.

ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU ALL❤️❤️❤️ GOODBYE IM GOING TO DRAW LEGEND WHUMP FOR THE NEXT WEEK STRAIGHT HEHE

#ive been debating clearing my inbox for a while #but then I feel sooo guilty #because people cared enough to send me asks! #and its so sweet and I love them #but y'know how you'll see a text but then you don't respond right away #and then days pass #and you know you still haven't answered #so you try to think of an excuse to give #but then you forget to give your excuse in a timely manner #and then it becomes so late that you just can't answer anymore #like #even if you finally answer the text #its too late #so now it just sits in your text history #to mock you #its that #my Tumblr inbox is mocking me #and this is my ✨easy out✨ #acknowledging that I am trash at responding #and starting over #because I can #tell me this whole rant doesn't scream conflict avoidant lol #i dare you haha #AH #ive literally stared at this post for 10 minutes because I feel so guilty

[fuckyeah-bears]

you know 99% of the time i get nice, totally reasonable, polite, and frequently kind asks on bearotonin. but every now and then i get some asks that just make me wanna reply snarkily so badly lmao

#the weird shit people send me #like unsolicited 'helpful suggestions' about how to run my blog better #or 'concerns' about the way i run it or some of the photos i post #and it takes a significant amount of self control not to be snarky #because i am not allowed to break brand continuity #but like #people really gotta learn that it's not cute or helpful to come into a stranger's inbox and critique/suggest they run their blog differentl #and i get that most of these (admittedly not that many but still frequent enough) asks are probably not meant to be obnoxious #like i'm sure the person who sent them doesn't have bad intentions #and probably just doesn't realize what they're doing is irritating and a basic etiquette no no #but it's still annoying #sometimes people just gotta learn to keep their opinions to themselves #not every opinion should be shared #just being clear 99.9% of the many asks i get are totally fine and nice #but because i get a fuckload of asks the 0.1% of annoying asks i get is substantial enough to get annoying and tiresome #don't mind me im just vague post venting here as a stress relief so i don't reply snarkily on bearotonin #okay im done ranting now #please ignore me lmao #Posts about bearotonin

[cdreamscumrag]

BROOOO

CRACKER ISNT A SLUR 😭

YOURE JUST RACIST GIRL

You don’t get to decide what a slur is ❤️

#I’m liberal to make things clear #I just draw the line with racial slurs #and apparently #some people can’t handle that #if you want to put offensive terms in my inbox please censor them #amber answers

[bokatan]

"This anon is so entitled" ok clearly you never had an OC drawn so clearly not of what they look like. Like say you have a OC that has long white hair with eyebrows that are different color(like black) and you explicitly make that clear on their page and yet the artist completely ignores that and makes the OC with all black hair and a pixie cut and added dog ears to the OC even tho the oc is completely human. Completely unrecognizable. Like how's it entitled to be upset?

it's literally just a silly little meme for OCs to be drawn badly, being done for free because the artist wanted to do it. Don't sit here and complain about gifted art being done for you because you don't like how it turned out - just say thanks and move on, we're all adults here and it really isn't that serious. Sending anons whining about it to the original artist and other artists who agree with them just kills the positive vibe we're trying to create here.

something tells me you see the artists on here more as content machines and not. y'know. actual people taking the time out of their day to be nice and gift things to their mutuals.

#TL;DR: don't whine about the free labor you requested from someone because you don't like how they did it #want art of your oc that looks exactly how you want them to look? make it yourself or commission someone. it's that easy #also: having clear and easily accessible reference images and info will make things easier for everyone #can't say for sure if this counts for anon since they're. yknow. hiding on anon. but op even said a few people didn't have ref images #can we go back to behaving like normal adults in my inbox now? i have anon on for memes and silly shit. not whatever this is #bo.txt

[daincrediblegg]

Nothing wrong with me

#behold: the sowed seeds of my upped vitamin d dose #just would like to say that part of this is sponsored by a couple of very kind inboxers who reached out and said that they DID want to know #more about lady terror and which really helped reinvigor my motivations #and I WILL be answering those asks soon enough #(harder to do until I have my laptop back. like I’m sorry y’all I literally wish I knew what I was on in 2019 when I was writing all my #joker headcanon fics on my phone but I cannot replicate that and I dare not even try #)… but regardless it will happen #but also yeah so this is a 6 page chapter summary for the fic and I’ve just started on chapter 2 and this will help a lot when #I get my computer back I think I’ve cleared my head a lot about this fic while not having it #but anyway #yeah uh… #egg’s wip’s #moral of the story is telling people you wanna hear about their oc’s that they’ve been working on for a whole year works #also went down a classical music rabbit hole about it today if that’s of interest to anyone but… me #bc one of my students did a presentation on poe’s impact on music theory and danse macabre which incited me to get familliar with composers #and pieces that would have actively been known in the 1840’s and have wanted to do since that bit about schubert on crozier’s hand organ #got dropped in the scripts #I think they’re going to feud on classical music tastes #average beethoven and chopin stan vs schubert enjoyer FIGHT #(except the serenade. that song was actually written about lady terror I’ve decided) #also thinking about lady terror and poe bc he’s said himself music is the highest art. they are concert buddies for sure #I bet that mf liked beethoven. poe is a big bass guy if I’ve ever seen one #it’s the drama you see

[possamble]

Comment left on my Falin/Marcille fic that has no other ship tagged. I know that there was no malicious intent behind it, so I mean this in the kindest way possible--not only to this person but to everyone in general: Don't do this.

#ive already deleted the comment because this isn't about singling anyone out. i just needed to say something. #admittedly im reacting way worse than i would if asked 'kiki/namari when' but you also 100% know the reason why i would. #i don't want to be asked to include mlm pairs in my explicitly wlw fanwork that completely centers around a female character #when i have given no indication that i am interested in doing so. #i understand it's meant to be lighthearted and ironic but the tone reads as patronizing and entitled and is extremely aggravating. #to be clear: i do not mind people coming to my inbox to ask me if i am planning on including particular pairings in future chapters or work #but it costs you nothing to be at least marginally polite to a complete stranger and not make unprompted requests.

[ask-thearchivists]

Hi Charmer! :] I realize the main reason why you're probably showing off your fangs so much is because you're angry/irratated/upset but. Good lord. My goodness. (This is a compliment btw)

The Charmer: Oh, you like my fangs mortal? Lucky for you I am happy to indulge~

The Curator: Gag.

#ask blog #ask the archivists #asks are open #toh the archivists #the owl house #toh #toh oc #the archivists #id in alt text #flirty fridays #THAT'S RIGHT IT'S FUCKING BACK #I HAVE SO MANY FLIRTY MESSAGES TO CLEAR OUT OF MY INBOX #This time you get the unique angle of 'being flirted with when your siblings are in the room so you just bully each other the whole time' #also hello anon I'm glad you like his fangs #I gave him his two sets of fangs and forked tongue on purpose #specifically for people who would be (eyes emoji) towards her #unrelated I feel so bad when I answer a lot of these really quickly #because I worry since the tags for the Archivists aren't like #super popular that it looks like I'm spamming the tag *lies face down on the ground in the family guy death pose* #it's the trauma of growing up with adhd whispering at me that I'm annoying

[r-adio]

i started over with my inbox except for things that have been written specifically for me !! i hope this is alright with everyone !!

#𝐅𝐈𝐗𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂 / out of character. #do not worry if you sent me like a specified inbox thread / wrote something out specifically for me #i never delete those because i know people put effort into them #but anything that was just a normal you send a meme thing i cleared out for my sanity

[grimesgirll]

Have you not heard of capital letters. They look like this

R

I

C

K

Together they spell Rick

If you have literacy issues then I apologise and advise you work on them if you can. But if you're doing it for the aesthetic then no.

throwback to me getting this random anon hate at 20 followers. we’ve come so far!!

this actually has the opposite effect on me. like i’m a leo, i’m an asshole; the fact that someone took the time to send me anon hate bolstered my ego just a bit.

also i’m in my tumblr late bloomer revival era, trying to recapture the novelty and magic of 2014, a decade after the golden age of this site - i’m gonna write run on sentences and i’m gonna write in all lowercase. i’m just a silly goose girl like that.

i’m a reasonable person so if this is genuinely an accessibility issue, message me mano a mano, 1 on 1, and we’ll figure something out. i write professional documents everyday at work, papers at school, and i contributed to wsj at 16 - i know what capitals are. everyone deserves to enjoy fanfic but no need to be a dick in my inbox about it.

#grimesgirllnation #the people speak #anons in 4k📸 #sorry to be cunty i was just trying to clear my inbox #i was giggling so hard when i first saw this though #my 7th grade teacher who was in the navy ONLY wrote in capitals so it’s really subjective guys like what if we were in the navy #putting my lana del rey on and getting back to work🫡

[undead-potatoes]

Fixing Larian's mistakes by making a god's perfect spawn a fat little dwarf and then just deciding she's the hottest piece of ass to ever walk the surface of Faerûn

#Sunny Plays BG3 #and you can't fucking stop me #the great thing about having like 4 people read my posts is I can say something like this and not have a bunch of #nasty anons in my inbox arguing with me lmao #just so we're clear the mistake here is not having any fat people (that aren't grotesque villains)

[applestruda]

Ah man, so I'm going back to college today, meaning that I'll have a lot less time for personal art. So just as a heads up I won't be posting as much as usual, though I've already had to slow down a bit because I've been a little busy.

I'm definitely going to try and focus on sketch requests as well as answering/responding to people in my inbox finally, as those should be easy enough to manage.

#and i mean #going back to school doesnt mean ill immediately be swamped #just wont have as much time to do art ig #also #to the poor people ive kept waiting in my inbox #im soso sorry #im def gonna try to clear it out a bit #struda rambles

[superhell]

DROP THE NEIL GAIMAN INCIDENT LORE i have him blocked and i also have 3 of his books it's a complicated relationship

oh lord.... where do i start. ok so there was a poll a while back that was ineffable husbands v destiel and it w- ok wait nvm auggie made a post on this. here. in my defense. well

#suffice to say i a) didnt really expect him to see it under his metric ton of asks #b) didnt really expect him to do much more than the normal thing??? block me??? if he did see it??? #c) did NOT keep sending them. so we're all clear. #and d) honestly? im of the opinion that if he posted the damn things. he was probably not in need of 13247031289409 people coming to his #defense on anon in my inbox. its complicated #ALSO. the final and most crucial piece of logic here. especially on this site. it was funny #the gaiman incident #cimorene.txt #sorry i said all that do you still think im hot etc etc