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Hello everyone. I am going to be very, very busy during this and the next two weeks due to work. I won't have time or energy to reply.

So don't be too worried about me. I'll be okay just turning my energy into something else. But don't stop sending me things. I would appreciate seeing all the fun stuff when I'm free.

With love,

Ghosty's mod.

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BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD!❣️ Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people you adore! Absolutely no pressure but. It's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out <3

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*Thank you, Pinky*

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ABACUSYNTH by ELIAS JARZOMBEK [2022]

Abacusynth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.

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Reblog if it's OK for other artists to draw your OCs

Sometimes I get too timid to send asks to ask. I want to see how many people are ok with artists drawing their OCs!

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on ao3's current fundraiser

apparently it’s time for ao3’s biannual donation drive, which means it’s time for me to remind you all, that regardless of how much you love ao3, you shouldn’t donate to them because they HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY AND NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

we’ve known for years that ao3 – or, more specifically, the organization for transformative works (@transformativeworks on tumblr), or otw, who runs ao3 and other fandom projects – has a lot of money in their “reserves” that they had no plans for. but in 2023, @manogirl and i did some research on this, and now, after looking at their more recent financial statements, i’ve determined that at the beginning of 2024, they had almost $2.8 MILLION US DOLLARS IN SURPLUS.

our full post last year goes over the principles of how we determined this, even though the numbers are for 2023, but the key points still stand (with the updated numbers):

when we say “surplus”, we are not including money that they estimate they need to spend in 2024 for their regular expenses. just the extra that they have no plan for

yes, nonprofits do need to keep some money in reserves for emergencies; typically, nonprofits registered in the u.s. tend to keep enough to cover between six months and two years of their regular operating expenses (meaning, the rough amount they need each month to keep their services going). $2.8 million USD is enough to keep otw running for almost FIVE YEARS WITHOUT NEW DONATIONS

they always overshoot their fundraisers: as i’m posting this, they’ve already raised $104,751.62 USD from their current donation drive, which is over double what they’ve asked for! on day two of the fundraiser!!

no, we are not trying to claim they are embezzling this money or that it is a scam. we believe they are just super incompetent with their money. case in point: that surplus that they have? only earned them $146 USD in interest in 2022, because only about $10,000 USD of their money invested in an interest-bearing account. that’s the interest they earn off of MILLIONS. at the very least they should be using this extra money to generate new revenue – which would also help with their long-term financial security – but they can’t even do that

no, they do not need this money to use if they are sued. you can read more about this in the full post, but essentially, they get most of their legal services donated, and they have not, themselves, said this money is for that purpose

i'm not going to go through my process for determining the updated 2024 numbers because i want to get this post out quickly, and otw actually had not updated the sources i needed to get these numbers until the last couple days (seriously, i've been checking), but you can easily recreate the process that @manogirl and i outlined last year with these documents:

otw’s 2022 audited financial statement, to determine how much money they had at the end of 2022

otw’s 2024 budget spreadsheet, to determine their net income in 2023 and how much they transferred to and from reserves at the beginning of 2024

otw’s 2022 form 990 (also available on propublica), which is a tax document, and shows how much interest they earned in 2022 (search “interest” and you’ll find it in several places)  

also, otw has not been accountable to answering questions about their surplus. typically, they hold a public meeting with their finance committee every year in september or october so people can ask questions directly to their treasurer and other committee members; as you can imagine, after doing this deep dive last summer, i was looking forward to getting some answers at that meeting!

but they cancelled that meeting in 2023, and instead asked people to write to the finance committee through their contact us form online. fun fact: i wrote a one-line message to the finance committee on may 11, 2023 through that form, when @manogirl and i were doing this research, asking them for clarification on how much they have in their reserves. i have still not received a response.

so yeah. please spend your money on people who actually need it, like on mutual aid requests! anyone who wants to share their mutual aid requests, please do so in the replies and i’ll share them out – i didn’t want to link directly to individual requests without permission in case this leads to anyone getting harassed, but i would love to share your requests. to start with, here's operation olive branch and their ongoing spreadsheet sharing palestinian folks who need money to escape genocide.

oh, and if you want to write to otw and tell them why you are not donating, i'm not sure it’ll get any results, but it can’t hurt lol. here's their contact us form – just don’t expect a response! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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"I need a HUMANS touch, but you don't need me...

I need a humans touch but.. im obsolete...

We were still going strong, I never did you wrong...

Until the new me came along..

it was just you and me.. we were such a good team.. Now I'm alone on the boulevard of broken screens..

Just a thing to play and then throw away? "

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Something simple, just nice line work and smidge of yellow.

#The Pillar (Fedelis)

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Headcanon about bond titles:

Conjunx endurae is marriage.

Amica endurae is like ultimate best friends.

There isn’t any term for lover or inbetween those two things and after a little musing with @noblestdecepticon and some swift googling on my part I found a latin word which means lover (there are many but this is my fav).

Amanti endurae.

Lovers (or more than friends) but not spark bonded, or not quite conjunx but more than amica and it even begins with the first few letters of Amica as though it has elements of friendship and romantical interest as megs suggested. 

“Hey who is that over there?” “Oh them? They’re my amanti.”

It just fits so much better than boyfriend or girlfriend if people don’t use pet names for their significant other.

#Geist's Truth (headcanons)

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I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.

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Armani Prive Fall 2012 Couture

#misty show (aesthetic)

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I got some pretty choice Nadja pictures the other day.

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@bladedalchemistreplica

Look

God. Specimen.

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#misty show (aesthetic) #The Pillar (Fedelis)

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Cute canon IDW Transformers things: 

Platonic life partners 

Robot marriages

Baby Cybertronian’s are born as souls and grown in fields like literal cabbage patch babies

Cybertronians give their sick friends/loved ones tiny vials of the only fluid in their body that’s unique and irreplaceable 

Each of them have a unique transformation sound 

They have a festival to recognise and remember the dead which involves them sitting with friends/loved ones around small glowing orbs

They have a whole language that is just robot handsies 

#Geist's Truth (headcanons)

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Cybertronian Time Measurements

For reference as the Multiverse has many different measurements for time. These are the ones used by the medical staff here.

Astro-Sec : .498 seconds

Breem : 8.3 Minutes

Cycle : 1.25 Hours

Sol-Cycle/Sol: 1 solar rotation/day/24 hours

Half-Sol : half a solar rotation/half day/12 hours

Deca-cycle : 3 weeks about

Deca-phase : 8 hours about

Klik : 1.2 minutes

Mega-cycle : 93 hours/3.875 days

Meta-cycle : 13 months

Nano-klik : 1 second about

Orbital Cycle : 1 month

Stellar cycle: 1 year

Vorn : 83 years

Decivorn : 8.3 years

#Misty Show (aesthetic)