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Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.

Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.

And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"

But like.

If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.

So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.

There is no nuance to this.

A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.

That's it.

That's all.

"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.

"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.

"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.

"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.

"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.

But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.

"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.

#oh fandom #the illegal argument is so dumb #like my dude murder is illegal #so is stealing #but Murder Mysteries is an entire fucking genre #and who doesn't love a good heist story? #but its not about that #its about things that make them uncomfy #and i will die on the hill of Don't Like Don't Read

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On a more serious note, please do send those emails to your professors. Way back in college I caught the flu from a friend, and we both missed the same 8am class. I sent the professor an email letting him know I was sick and would bring him my project later when I felt less like I would vomit on the bus. It wasn't exactly the most coherent or polite email, but it got the point across. I dropped it off later that day and he graded it as if I had just given it to him in class.

My friend, however, didn't email him. He dropped her project an automatic letter grade since as far as he was concerned she had just not shown up to class, and delivered it late. Telling him after the fact just made him point to me and say 'You should have done me the courtesy of sending an email.'

Your professors don't want your diseased self in their classes anymore than you want to be in them sick, but it really is worth letting them know why you're not there. And if you give them a laugh in the process? All the better.

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

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Things I wish I had read in "beginner" sewing tutorials/people had told me before I started getting into sewing

You have to hem *everything* eventually. Hemming isn't optional. (If you don't hem your cloth, it will start to fray. There are exceptions to this, like felt, but most cloth will.)

The type of cloth you choose for your project matters very much. Your clothing won't "fall right" if it's not the kind of stretchy/heavy/stiff as the one the tutorial assumes you will use.

Some types of cloth are very chill about fraying, some are very much not. Linen doesn't really give a fuck as long as you don't, like, throw it into the washing machine unhemmed (see below), whereas brocade yearns for entropy so, so much.

On that note: if you get new cloth: 1. hem its borders (or use a ripple stitch) 2. throw it in the washing machine on the setting that you plan to wash it going forward 3. iron it. You'll regret it, if you don't do it. If you don't hem, it'll thread. If you don't wash beforehand, the finished piece might warp in the first wash. If you don't iron it, it won't be nice and flat and all of your measuring and sewing will be off.

Sewing's first virtue is diligence, followed closely by patience. Measure three times before cutting. Check the symmetry every once in a while. If you can't concentrate anymore, stop. Yes, even if you're almost done.

The order in which you sew your garment's parts matters very much. Stick to the plan, but think ahead.

You'll probably be fine if you sew something on wrong - you can undo it with a seam ripper (get a seam ripper, they're cheap!)

You can use chalk to draw and write on the cloth.

Pick something made out of rectangles for your first project.

I recommend making something out of linen as a beginner project. It's nearly indestructible, barely threads and folds very neatly.

Collars are going to suck.

The sewing machine can't hurt you (probably). There is a guard for a reason and while the needle is very scary at first, if you do it right, your hands will be away from it at least 5 cm at any given time. Also the spoils of learning machine sewing are not to be underestimated. You will be SO fast.

I believe that's all - feel free to add unto it.

#fiber arts #reference #hmmm #someday i should post some of my sewing stuff #i've been doing so much of it recently it

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when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”

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me, horny for the humble mango: elves in valinor should have mangoes because they are beautiful and decadent

niamh, wiser and more thoughtful than me: oh yeah, exiles pining for mangoes. Fingon Rupi Kaur!

#silmarillion #oh my valar this

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Bonus under cut

#i mean #they're not wrong #fma #dungeon meshi

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For the Madatobi Big Bang sing it again, that old love song by ellipsis_for_all

Be sure to go check it out, its a gorgeous fic and I was incredibly lucky to work with the talented @anndiscworld-phile

Also be sure to check out the rest of the work done for the @mdtb-bb!

Sorry its so late, i ran into technical difficulties between an absent scanner, crappy internet, and a photoshop bug that doesn't allow you to save ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (i'm so tired y'all)

#thank you! #<3 #reblogging my arts

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people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that’s not how this works

#oh fandom

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and here’s death again, the version from the show this time :)

#i love her #the sandman

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Every $1k we get towards our stretch goals, we’re sharing a Dracula meme read by our cast! To celebrate $20k, we have this post!

#dracula #cackles maniacally

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Thank you so much! I had so much fun doing the knit texture and I'm glad it communicates well <3

Also that reminds me, Tobirama's scarf was inspired in part by The Ways of Water Wrap pattern found here: https://thefibreco.com/product/ways-of-water-wrap-pattern/

Which is just an incredibly gorgeous pattern and i wanted to give it a shout out UvU

Madara's was less intentionally inspired, but I spent a great deal of time knitting the red 4th Doctor scarf for a friend 2 years ago and I think that bled into his a lot ^^;

For the Madatobi Big Bang sing it again, that old love song by ellipsis_for_all

Be sure to go check it out, its a gorgeous fic and I was incredibly lucky to work with the talented @anndiscworld-phile

Also be sure to check out the rest of the work done for the @mdtb-bb!

Sorry its so late, i ran into technical difficulties between an absent scanner, crappy internet, and a photoshop bug that doesn't allow you to save ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (i'm so tired y'all)

#reblogging my arts #fiber arts #watercolor

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For the Madatobi Big Bang sing it again, that old love song by ellipsis_for_all

Be sure to go check it out, its a gorgeous fic and I was incredibly lucky to work with the talented @anndiscworld-phile

Also be sure to check out the rest of the work done for the @mdtb-bb!

Sorry its so late, i ran into technical difficulties between an absent scanner, crappy internet, and a photoshop bug that doesn't allow you to save ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (i'm so tired y'all)

#madatobi big bang 2024 #madatobi #madara uchiha #tobirama senju #my art #watercolor #naruto #fic rec #once i get my hands on my scanner again i'm going to put the proper backgrounds in #but this will do for now #also seriously fuck photoshop #and my internet provider

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vanished for a bit to play games, so enjoy some good bugs

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@elenathehun

just had a realisation

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heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!

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Adobe are being assholes and their generative AI software is scraping artists who didn't consent to this despite Adobe's assurances that the model only used licensed stock images.

Because that is a DICK MOVE, I'm trying to find an alternative to Lightroom for my photo processing, so I tried two potential alternatives today: Capture One and ON1 Photo Raw. Here's a comparison.

This is the image I'm working with. It's overexposed but in focus, and needs adjustments to cropping and color.

Here's a quick pass at editing it in Adobe, just so I can compare software results

I've spent a lot of time developing my color presets in Adobe to achieve the results I want, and getting colors I like is probably the most important thing in photo editing for me

Here's my result in Capture One

The colors are a little muddier, but I actually think it handles recovering fine detail from blown-out areas better than Adobe. The software offers a ton of creative control and the option to make fine-tuned presets, so I think with work, I can probably get back to color presets I like (although I weep for the lack of a fine-tuned camera calibration option)

Here's what I got in ON1 Photo RAW

I actually like this a lot - the colors and fine detail are both nice, and it has a "purity" slider for shadows and highlights that's wonderful on weird color cast. That said, it doesn't offer nearly as much fine creative control as Capture One, so I think I may pass on it. That said, if you're looking for something with great out of the box results, this might be a good product for you.

Both programs have 30-day free trials, so if you're looking for an alternative to Adobe's evil, they might be worth a shot.

#reference #art stuff #ai bullshit