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feel free to print these as stickers

#art #artists on tumblr #artwork #free palestine #palestine #digital art #illustration

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#sheep #drawing #art #animals #pretty

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my personal character design opinion

#memes #possum #opossum #peak character design #gloves #hand bandages #funny #lovely #strongly agree

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Vermiglione

#omg the tail!!!!!!!!! #i love machete so much #artists on tumblr #anthro

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The 2nd Arc of KNYKTHN has started to be posted on Ao3!

Since the 1st chapter is just a prologue, the next chapter will be published on the 30th, but the others will be released monthly, hopefully!

If you haven't read the 1st Arc yet, you can find it below:

If you already have read all the 1st Arc, here's the link for the 2nd Arc:

Hope to see y'all in this new Arc! 💛✨

#demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer kimetsu no yaiba #knykthn updates #mod talks #text #ao3 writer #ao3 author #kny fanfic #canon divergent #knykthn 2nd arc #knykthn news

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things to do when your day's been bad

lie down on the floor beside your bed

take a shower, use the good soap

listen to a song you liked ages ago

write your thoughts out in all caps

draw a head and then 'decorate' that head however you're feeling (I drew a man with a hole for a face. It worked)

listen to a song and try to focus on one (1) instrument at a time, baseline, drums, guitar, another guitar, repeating sound effect

wash your face

take a nap or go to bed early

call someone. tell them about your horrible day or let them talk about theirs or both

go through your camera roll (specifically the screenshots folder)

go through your saved instagram posts / tumblr likes

watch That One Really Great Live Performance of That Artist You Love, then read the comments of everyone having great taste like you do

cry a little about it

remember that this day will end and another will begin. it'll be all new, never experienced before, no bad things will have happened, and you'll be okay.

#selfcare #surviving bad days #text

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#this tbh #fuck ai art #relevant #anti ai art #anti ai writing #ai #artificial intelligence

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friends

#legit tho #lost contact with so many of my pre-chaos tumblr era (2015~2018) #but i also have adhd and forget a lot of ppls names #though i never forget the funny moments and memes we had thats for sure #if you're reading this post pls know youre free to come and talk #i might not be as frequent on tumblr as back then but i would enjoy knowing more about what happened in ur life (& tell about mine too)

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young lady with a hearing aid 🍊🦻🏾 [ko-fi / prints]

[ID: a digital drawing of a black girl in profile from the neck up. Her hair is in many small braids, each ending in round yellow beads with green stems that resemble oranges. She has an orange-coloured over the ear hearing aid and a large earring shaped like an orange. end ID]

#illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr #hearing aids #hearing disability #disabled artist #disability art #poc

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i keep seeing jokes about Imagine Dragons showing their support by performing for WGA strikers, like about how bad their music/singing is and jokes about how it’ll hurt the movement and normally i’m neutral to the hatred of popular/used to be popular things, but GOD. as a queer ex-mormon i so badly wish more people knew what this group and what specifically Dan Reynolds has done to support queer kids

(article from screenshots)

also while im here Enemy (the arcane song) is also about queer mormon kids <3

#truly the only musical group i support nowadays #never heard anything bad from them and all they do is help to bring awareness to minorities and oppressed groups of ppl #seriously a mystery why theyre labeled as cringe uh /s #imagine dragons #text #long post #queerness #lgbtqia+ #minorities #oppressed groups

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I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

#scam alert #important #fanfic writers #ao3 writers #ao3 #text #long post #explicative

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girl help i’m starting over again for the 1000th time & i’m beginning to think that life is a never-ending cycle of starting over & i actually have to make peace with that in order to move forward

#text #relatable #sos #life struggles

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Tumblr is known and also spoken of by its user base for its high proportion of lgbt+ users, but I'm curious as to if the lgbt+ user base is actually as large as though or if its just confirmation bias, so...

For fun if you want put how you identify in the tags and the part of tumblr you'd say you're here for

#text #polls #demisexual / panromantic / genderfluid / polyamorous #resuming... im queer

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What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

#incredible #poetry #interesting #text #the lesson of the moth

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Process of Usva ✍️ Artwork done in collaboration with Kuretake with their Gansai Tambi Graphite Colors ✨ Really just loving how smooth and nice these colors are, the colors allowed me to make multiple passes of wet on wet technique without the already dry bottom layer shifting. Really happy with this piece!

Music composed by Ryan Camus http://www.ryancamus.com/

#relaxing #painting process #watercolors #traditional art #art video

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PSA about reblogs and reposts.

Reblogs are when you see a post you really like and you use the reblog button to show it to your followers on your own blog. This keeps the post in circulation and it's helpful and appreciated by the post creator (if it's not stated otherwise). This goes especially for creative posts. It also offers the chance to write something nice in the tags or in the reblog.

Reposts are when you see a post you really like and you just copy it and then make your own post, either on Tumblr or any other site on the internet. This erases the creator's credit (yes, even if you keep their name in screenshots, that's not enough) and they lose control over their own creative work. This is most likely not appreciated.

#important #online community rules #avoid reposting at all costs #text

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One of my favorite tumblr ads so far

#toucan #sad that theres no toucan emoji on my keyboard #plushie #meme #tumblr ads