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“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

#YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I WILL DO TO ANYONE THAT WILL DRAW MY WUKONG UNPROMPTED

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Fare well

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describing commission ideas is so embarrassing. yea this is my guy. and i want you to draw him. jesus just shoot me already

#i love any idea anyone ever brought me for a comm #even of i am struggling to publicize them rn

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wip of my current project i am still alive i assure you

#lagt yells #jttw #lagt jttw #egg #jttw animation #the birth of the stone monkey #wip #this is an older wip #i will post the whole thing on youtube at some point

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you know I really wish I could be a jauntily-dressed little nonbinary fag wearing dark academia vamp-core outfits but the truth is ...I'm way too lazy. I'm pajama nonbinary. I wanna sleep instead

#my pronouns are honk/mimimi

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Unpopular opinion: All games should have the option to enable pausing.

And to save almost everywhere.

Yes even in soulslike games.

I am an adult who has a full time job and responsibilities. I get to play maybe an hour a week. I do not want to lose that hour of progress because devs decided 'pause' was not allowed in their game and I had sudden unexpected things come up that meant I had to quit the game without saving/leave it playing and hope enemies wouldn't respawn.

Also it would massively increase accessability. I have fully working non-injured hands and they still need a break after a tough boss fight. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for people with joint pain, arthritis, etc, etc.

#op is right on this one #like i am sorry dev #if you don't want me to be still in that place #that's a u problem

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Correct me if I am wrong, but years ago I collected a list of neopronouns by year of coining (only before 2000 otherwise things would get a bit out of hand very quickly). I wanted to share this list with you all!

History of English Neopronouns:

• Ou (1789)

• Ne/Nim/Nis/Nis/Nimself (1850)

• Ve/Vim/Vis/Vis/Vimself (1864)

• Ze (1864)

• Thon/Thon/Thons/Thons/Thonself (1884)

• E/Em/Es/Es/Emself (1890)

• He’er/Him’er/His’er/His’er/Him’erself (1912)

• Hir (1920)

• Ae/Aer/Aer/Aers/Aerself (1920)

• Tey/Tem/Ter/Ters/Temself (1971)

• Xe/Xem/Xyr/Xyrs/Xemself (1973)

• Te/Tir/Tes/Tes/Tirself (1974)

• Ey/Em/Eir/Eirs/Eirself (1975)

• Per/Per/Pers/Pers/Perself (1979)

• Ve/Ver/Vis/Vis/Verself (1980)

• Hu/Hum/Hus/Hus/Humself (1982)

• E/Em/Eir/Eirs/Emself (1983)

• Ze/Hir/Hir/Hirs/Hirself (1996)

• Ze/Mer/Zer/Zers/Zemself (1997)

• Zhe/Zhim/Zher/Zhers/Zhimself (2000)

#... okay but unironically #love e/em/es/es/emself

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🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.

🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.

🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.

🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.

🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.

🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.

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all your stuffed animals love you. they're not sad if they're in a box, or on the floor, or not held/played with as much. they understand. they know that you might need another stuffie more, or that you don't have enough space. they're just happy to be with you, and if you ever give them away, they'll be happy there too. stuffies are for comfort. they understand. they love you too. it's okay.

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do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

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Someone reminds me to post the animation I am working on

Like I am sorry but I am feeling so down lately and animating this is giving me some joy back

#lagt yells #animation

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This is old as hell but the treasure planet fandom on Instagram is dead and it seems pretty alive here

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fewer posts about “why do straight women date men who hate them” and more posts about “why do so many men hate women that it’s genuinely difficult for straight women to find romantic & sexual intimacy with a man who doesn’t hate them”

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the nuisance of our language is stunning

#Italian and bestemmie #english doesn't have basically ANY of the swearing nuance Italian has

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it feels like a lot of "progressive" online spaces have really latched onto this ooo boykisser pastel stockings kitty femboy image of GNC men and i have to admit i have concerns about how those spaces would respond to GNC men who either can't or simply don't want to look like that

#i am not expert and this is probably not related... #but it's just me or some online spaces #do to trans and nb people #what early 2016 did to gay people with yaoi uke and seme? #or is it just a me thing- #fully agree with op btw

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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.

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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.