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#yes and I love it #a marvellous light #books #favorite books #polls

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it’s been said before and it will be said again but i’m begging you all nicely to restrain yourselves from being so casually aggressive and rude and obnoxious in the tags & reblogs of a complete stranger’s posts. no one wants to know that you hate [tv show that op giffed]. no one wants to know that you hate [character that op drew]. no one wants to hear you being ugly and negative for no reason. say what you want to say in your own post. don’t hit the reblog button. blacklist relevant tags. unfollow or block relevant accounts. log out. shut down. get help.

#psa

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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.

These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:

Here's an ongoing fundraiser:

I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.

I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:

But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).

You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.

#current events

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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.

#ao3 #psa

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Flower in Holes are Bad

#ghosts

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i’m curious to see how many people use their likes as an organizational tool like i do, or maybe in a way i’m never heard of before.

do you have strong feelings about how likes should be used?

reblog for a bigger sample size etc etc

#polls #i like posts that i want to add to my queue later

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Why is everyone so fucking embarrassed to have a tumblr account? I fucking love it here. I tell all the people I like to come here and follow me, if for no other reason than it makes communication so much easier because I think exclusively in tumblr memes now. I'm sending out invitations to the Devil's Sacrament with my return address on them. Heck yeah, this is where you'll find me. Tumble isn't cringe. I'd be much more ashamed to admit I frequent facebook. Fuck that place. If someone thinks less of me for having tumblr, that's a them problem. I'm fuckin awesome. All my mutuals are fuckin awesome. Condolences that you can't appreciate absurdity or posts longer than a few hundred characters, my dude. Hope you get better soon. I'll be on my hellsite vibing in the meantime.

#tumblr

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who fucking litters. why do i ever see litter. who thinks that’s okay. who. who NEEDS to throw their fast food bag out the fucking window instead of waiting until they get somewhere with a trashcan. what kinda clown behavior. get fucked.

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#politics

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actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually.

#supernatural #otp: a more profound bond

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incredibly self-indulgent fanart of We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian. Nick and Andy I love you.

#we could be so good #fanart #books #favorite books

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I will always remember that scene where Brian sees Justin admitted to the hospital after Justin was bashed. I once read a quote from a director that said to always keep the camera rolling for 30 seconds after you call cut. That’s what they did. There’s a close-up of Gale and he was so in his own sorrow that his nose and eyes began to pour. I don’t think he was even aware they called cut.

#queer as folk #brian kinney

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I love you shows with 50+ episodes, I love you shows with filler episodes, I love you shows that aired over 5 years+, I love you shows that weren't unexpectedly cancelled after one season because they didn't reach an unattainable goal, I love you prestreaming shows

#television

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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

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(by my_tiny_jungalow)

#love this #add in some overstuffed bookshelves and you've got my ideal habitat

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The internet is flooded with AI-generated photos and they're getting harder to spot.

Most of the time AI is used for click-farming, but lately images have been used in fake news stories and product scams.

Most important: THINK CRITICALLY. AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes. Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy.

If you're not sure, don't share! You might be spreading misinformation.

#psa

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There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

Donella Meadows

#quotes