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lmfao the way some of yall on this site want to defend unprompted concrit on fanfic so bad is funny. people would deck you irl for criticising something they worked on when they didn't ask for it at all and here yall are trying to argue that doing that to random ass strangers on the internet is okay actually

#q #fanfic #yeah i don't think i've ever seen some stranger give unprompted 'criticism' for a fanart drawing #without being called out for being an asshole #but oh damn people publicly criticize the writing in fanfics all the time tho... ://

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tumblr mobile won't let me upload a voice recording, so I guess you're all spared hearing about my thoughts that people (some of them at least) aren't actually desperate for comments. What they're actually missing is community.

#q #fandom #important #:'))))

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This morning as sunlight penetrated the woods.

#q #dreamplaces #vids

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Do you do “cuteness”/safety ratings?

I do not. I am not a fan of the concept of “ratings” blogs in general, honestly. There’s a couple of reasons for that.

Firstly, I am a Tumblr Old, and every ratings-type blog I’ve ever seen that existed to tell people if animal content was okay or not has imploded over time. Sometimes that has been related to their content/topic of choice, sometimes not. It happened when the first blogs like that showed up, and it’s still happening now. Either way, they seem to be a direct path to endless drama, and I want none of that, thanks.

Second, ratings blogs have to be really, really tightly curated to the expertise of the blogger in order to be trustworthy, accurate sources. And when you’re in a position of being seen as an expert on animal stuff by the internet, it’s incredibly tempting to step outside your area of expertise to pass judgement on things. People like your opinions and want to hear them! You’re respected for your knowledge! It is a seductive, seductive path to being far too comfortable speaking outside your wheelhouse.

This is actually part of why the blog slowed down a few years ago and eventually went on hiatus for a while: as it got more and more popular, people wanted me to cover more and more things, and I ended up kinda paralyzed by the need to do so much research in order to respond to those requests. I didn’t want to spread misinformation, but it was so hard to just say no and not try to answer questions. I’m much more comfortable now setting boundaries for myself about what I know enough to address and what I don’t have the appropriate credentials for.

Third, to do any successful science communication - which is what running a rating blog effectively is - you have to know what you don’t know! This is something that comes with time and professional experience in a field. You can’t speedrun it or skip it. And if you don’t know what you don’t know on a topic you want to write about, you’re at high risk of spreading misinformation. Guess what? I know this one from experience! There were times I overreached in the early days of WADTT, either because I didn’t know I was unaware of something, or because it just felt so good to have people want to know what I thought! (My goal is to find the time to go back and share those posts with updated, corrected content and commentary).

As mentioned above, I do a lot of work to be comfortable with not knowing things. I either do the research needed to find an answer when I run into an unknown, admit I don’t know and can’t answer, or simply don’t engage with the topic if I can’t contribute productively. This is where a lot of ratings blogs run into issues, as they generally reflect just the individual knowledge of the blogger(s) writing them. There’s a big difference between having an opinion that you discuss with your friends, and having an opinion that you share with thousands or tens of thousands of people. If you’ve shared an incorrect opinion about something in a way that’s amplified across tumblr, even if you fix your mistake publicly, there’s no way to stop the earlier misinformation from continuing to spread.

And fourth, there’s that word I keep using: authoritative. Content that provides a rating is very black-and-white. This is bad. This is good. Do support this, don’t support that. Unfortunately, there are so, so few situations involving animals are actually that clear cut. This is especially true when we’re talking about recorded animal media, like photos, videos, and even documentaries, because a lot of the context has been removed. So that authoritative perspective? It’s really just someone on the internet telling you what you should believe.

I’d rather teach people how to think about animal content and draw their own conclusion. People gain so much more knowledge from engaging with the concepts themselves. If you just give someone an answer about a video being ok or not, for instance, they don’t learn how to assess the next one themselves. But if you teach them what questions to ask, how to work through what they want to learn, how to assess context, and where to find the information they need, they’re able to do it themselves with content in the future. Teaching and encouraging independent analysis of animal media is a much better way to stop misinformation or unethical content from spreading compared to just telling people some stuff is bad and they should stop sharing it.

So nope, no ratings here. Sometimes I’ll comment on things that my professional background allows me to be comfortable having an authoritative opinion on (e.g. the danger of unmonitored interactions between dogs and babies) but most of the time, I’m going to tell you what I see, what I know, what I don’t know, and what my thoughts are and why. My goal in running this blog and teaching people is about the journey, not the destination.

#q #important

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SHU QI — Cosmopolitan China (Sept 2023), ph. Nick Yang

#q #art inspiration

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Inktober Day 25: Dangerous

#q #art inspiration

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not sexually attracted to this guy not aesthetically attracted to him but a secret third thing

#q #fandom #:3

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*sits down to write a smut fic* The plot of this smut fic is that Character A believes himself abandoned by God.

#q #writing #me writing explicit fics #i mean #what sex scene wouldn't be improved by the characters first enduring a long traumatizing journey of misery & death (possibly their own) #is the climax of a smutty story akin to a divine revelation or is that too cliche idk maybe #but anything's gonna feel like being touched by god if you crawled through hell on your knees to reach it #(also the more emotional baggage the bigger the load heheh :3)

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Egret Nurse

design from The Wildercourt (a graphic novel I am working on and hope to have finished in 2025)

#q #art inspiration

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OH you know what? let's do controversial mental health/psychiatry opinions.

• forcibly institutionalizing psychotic people in times of crisis can not only worsen the situation but create lifelong trauma and further distrust in medical professionals and medication. it should not be a go-to option. believe it or not we still have human feelings despite a disconnect from reality.

• children should not be identified as 'sociopaths' both because antisocial behavior in childhood can be treated and because it's often a sign the child is being abused or neglected.

• people should be able to admit they're suicidal and/or self harming without fear of being institutionalized. with threat of institutionalization they won't get better, they'll just hide it more.

• not wanting to take certain medication does not make you hopeless and 'anti recovery', there are valid reasons why someone may be apprehensive towards medication as treatment and it doesn't make you delusional.

• everyone deserves autonomy in treatment, including psychotic people

• can you tell this post is partially personal rage

• oh well i'm still right about everything

#q #mental health #yeah :'))) #point three is something that's been haunting me for years #unfortunately sometimes it's just better to lie to medical staff for your own sake...

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blanche davenport (1878)

#q #art inspiration

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Firefox (for Windows) folks: A Way To Get Back Tabs From A Previously Closed Session

Normally I don't have hundreds of tabs open in a given session, but sometimes I might have ten or twenty or thirty of them open. I use them as a casual to-do list, shutting them down when complete. (shrug)

Sometimes, though—and I bet some of you have been there—Firefox will close down incorrectly, or close down secondary to an update, and all those tabs will be GONE when it restarts. ARGH!! —because these closed sessions aren't easily recoverable by using control-shift-T or whatever the command is.

This happened to me just this last week-and-a-bit. I closed the desk machine down before going to FinnCon, and when I brought it up again... zero tabs. Much cursing ensued.

But then I went hunting for a way to get tabs back from a previously closed session... and WTF? I found one.

So here's what you do. (NB: This presupposes you're working in Windows. I have yet to see whether the file structure we get into below works in a Mac. More on this later.)

First of all, bring Firefox up and load this page. This is a lovely tool called Session History Scrounger. (And all praise to Jefferson Scher who created it.) Its job is to parse the files in which Firefox stores session info—including info about your open and recently closed tabs.

Now: use the search box in W10 or W11 and enter the following:

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

It'll take you to a directory where you'll see files with names like these.

Find the one that was most recently updated and doubleclick on it. You'll see a directory structure something like the following:

Doubleclick into the sessionstore-backups folder. (Save the contents of this whole directory to some other safe spot: maybe your documents folder or desktop.)

Inside that directory you'll find files that look like this:

You may also find files that look like "recovery.jsonlz4" or "recovery.baklz4", which would be the windows and tabs in your current session, or a backup copy of those windows/tabs, respectively.

What you may have most interest in, though, is previous sessions—and in my case, the one that was running on 21 June, which I knew (though it was an upgrade, as you can see by the name) would have the tabs I was concerned about having lost.

What you then do with that compressed .json file (the "lz4" signals the compression Firefox is using) is drag it onto the empty box on the Scrounger page: or else use the "browse" button in the page's right hand column to find and load it. Then hit the page's "Scrounge URLs" button and let the page process the file. (NB: this process stays "within the page" and does not go to the network.)

It'll then produce you a list of all the tabs you had open, as well as those you'd recently closed. (Here's a bit of mine so you know what it looks like...)

...And that's it! Click on the URLs to bring them up and save them as bookmarks, or just open them as tabs so they register as "new" in your history. Or whatever.

So. If you're a Firefox user and feel inclined, please reblog this so others can find it. (And also, if it helps you and you should feel moved to do so... oh, I don't know: buy me a coffee.)

Cheers, all!

#q #tech #firefox #reference

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Oh man, I can attest how accurate those last additions about China are! Last time I was in China my friend told me that Chinese tourists are often disappointed after travelling to the US, because they had expected American buildings to be much bigger & more impressive than in China and they were sorely let down (I’ve never been to the US, so I cannot comment on that lol).

And when I went to visit my friend’s hometown in Southern China, her parents, neighbours and teachers all repeatedly told me how embarrassed they were about their remote “little town”. Oh, it must seem so small & boring to a foreigner, nothing at all like Beijing or Shanghai! (since I had been to both of those) 

Meanwhile their “small little town” had well over 7 million people living in it, which is more than my home country's *entire* population.

So yeah, the concept of ‘big’ in China is definitely on a whole different level... :’)

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

#q #china #my additions

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Cat’s Kitchen, beef noodles【牛肉面】总被全国人民叫错名字的一碗面

#q #kitties #japan #<333

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No amount of pain made anybody stronger. Strength is built, not fuckin carved.

#q #important #writing #oh... 😢💔

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i wish i knew you when i was young

“wish i knew you” the revivalists // “the great believers” rebecca m // “it’s a miracle we ever met” hallie bateman // @poeticsuggestions // word of honor/山河令 , 天涯客/ faraway wanderers // hustlers (2019), lorene scafaria // “tim i wish you were born a girl” montreal // @dogmotifs // “come under the covers” walk the moon

#q #writing #oh this hurts... :'((

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you’re in his dms I’m in his silent hill nightmare psyche

#q #silent hill #writing #:3