#are AT THE VERY LEAST decent lmao

[marblerose-rue]

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requests from twitter ^_^

adderfang, goosefeather, dawnpelt

crowfeather, heathertail, frostpaw, sandynose

#my art #adderfang #goosefeather #crowfeather #frostpaw #sandynose #heathertail #dawnpelt #warriors #warrior cats #waca #wc art #STRUGGLED TO POST THIS ON TWITTER LMFAO said id only do six and then i realized i accidentally skipped over someones request and i did two #cats per one person which i didnt want to do but then i didnt want to not post one of the cats . whole thing but everyone got at least one #request BAHAHA #and then i kept posting and deleting to mess with the line up and bleghhhhhhhh #been almost a month since ive drawn non lps warrior cats and it feels like its been so long since ive done casual art #which is what this was AHBKSDHFBD . college is going fine for anyone curious. doing very well in one of my classes which makes me really #happy and the professor and i joke about how hard i am on myself and how im my own worst critic and at the end of the day the things i do #are AT THE VERY LEAST decent lmao #anyway i turn 20 this weekend which is very weird . but im just glad i have a weekend birthday HAHA #ANYWAY hope you guys are doing well <:-D #I ALSO WANNA POINT OUT HOW EXCITED I GOT WHEN I REALIZED THAT ADDER AND DAWN ARE RELATED #adderfang > leopardfoot > tigerstar > tawnypelt > dawnpelt #LIKE THATS HER GREAT GREAT GRANDPA #anyway im going to bed its almost midnight [but thank god i dont have class til the afternoon]

[autisticwizardwritings]

HI HI HI HI HI :D

Can i get a total drama request about the contestants meeting Chris’ niece/nephew(gender neutral tho) preferably for world tour but any are good :)

Thamk you!!! :3

(Wasn't sure if you wanted younger, same age, or older, so I'm doing all three. If you want ALL of them, tell me! I just did these 3 for now since they're the only new appearances in World Tour, but I'd be happy to write more of the cast! I say it at the end too, but if you want this written in a proper paragraph style too I'd be more than happy to try to do so, just let me know!!)

Probably OOC 💔

Alejandro, Sierra, and Blaineley meeting Chris’s niece/nephew (no pronouns mentioned) (gn)

Younger (8-12)

Alejandro:

Extremely confused

Also fairly concerned

Why would Chris bring his own niece/nephew on this show at such a young age?

Even if they aren't competing. Should they really be seeing this sort of thing?

After finding out you're not part of the competition, he relaxes a little bit.

Apparently you're here because your mom/dad had to go on some big work trip, and since you were so young, you couldn't be left alone for that long.

Convinced that your parents don't watch the show, because no responsible parent would allow their child in that

Probably tries to talk to you, to get to know you.

Maybe even ends up seeing you as some sort of sibling after a while.

Will defend you if anyone else (*cough* Duncan *cough*) decides to be an asshole

Genuinely cares about you.

How can someone so sweet be related to *that?*

If you're a trouble child however

Makes sense how you're related to Chris

Still makes an effort to be nice to you considering you're only a child

Little minds are influenced by family, they can't help it.

Does tend to keep his distance more though

Probably pulled his hair at some point and that was it for him

Always ponytails it if you're there now.

Either way, if you get hurt somehow, he'd help.

Again, you're only little.

Even if you're 12. 

A little less worried in that case, since you're old enough to kinda look out for yourself

But still makes sure you're alright.

Sierra:

She already knew of your existence. 

Found your mom's Facebook page for info on Chris

Found you there too

Doesn't question the fact that you're here

Immediately wants to become friends with you

Probably smothers you with hugs

Suuuuper friendly

Constantly saying stuff like "Chris your niece/nephew is so sweet" even if you're basically the devil himself

"They could do no wrong ♡"

She's doing it because she genuinely thinks this, but also partially because she wants some "brownie points" or whatever the fuck they're called

Also trying to prove to Cody that she can "be a good mom."

He apologizes for her

If she wins a reward challenge, she'll 100% share whatever it is with you if it's child friendly

Even if you're getting the same good food as your uncle

Will make you dolls out of anything she can

And will want to play with them with you

Blaineley:

A child? Really?

What was Chris thinking?

No one wants to see a child on a show like this

Not to mention the grubby little hands

Doesn't want anything to do with you

Or she makes it seem like that, anyways.

If you get time where it's just the two of you, she's actually surprisingly nice.

Genuinely good with kids

Treats you like her own child

As soon as someone walks in she's back on the other side of the room glaring at you

Will deny this until she dies

If she finds out the fans like you 

Then she starts acting all nice and buddy-buddy on camera too

Not very genuine though

It's just like that when she knows she won't get poked fun of for it

Same age as (still younger than Blaineley)

Alejandro:

Couldn't really care less tbh

Another contestant

Another obstacle

For now

Still makes the effort to talk to you, to make you like him

Like he does with everyone there

The more allies the better right?

May possible try to woo you

With the idea in mind to get you eliminated

There's a possibility he does come to genuinely like you over time

But he'd never admit that

(Platonically or romantically depends on how you wanna read this)

Keeps you around for a little while after

Really not a fan of you at first though

Mainly because you're related to Chris

Who wouldn't?

With the reputation that man has, he's got every right to assume you're like he is

Hopefully that's wrong

If it is? Like I said, definitely starts to genuinely care for you

Actually tries to befriend you

Not just an alliance 

Not just for a scheme

Maybe a little schemey 

But not only for that.

If you ARE like Chris?

Not a fan of you then.

The whole robot thing hasn't happened yet since this is World Tour

But even then

He knows what an ass Chris is

That's an understatement

Really doesn't like you that much

But he still makes the effort to "befriend" you

Just to get rid of you, of course.

(Cannot write for this man to save my life, sorry if this is absolute dogshit)

Sierra:

Again, already knew about you.

Very excited to meet you, too!

She's the self proclaimed Total Drama Superfan, she HAS to know everything about you!!

Talks your ears off

All with good intention of course

She is absolutely ECSTATIC

You know in those cartoons where they shake someone's hand extremely excited and they just. It's almost violent

Yeah

Like that

That's how she shakes your hand when you're first brought on the show

I'd imagine you weren't brought immediately

Because like

Idk

I have no proper reason

Just for funsies

Before any proper eliminations 

(But after Zeeke's)

But yeah!!

Her Cody obsession is… off-putting to say the least

You stay away from her, or at least keep your distance at first

She keeps talking to you, being all friendly

And if you're not too scared of her

Then you guys could become friends!

If you keep talking to her on your own without keeping any distance?

Makes every day so much better for her

Probably used to people being weirded out by her

So you actually talking to her because you GENUINELY LIKE her? 

Bouncing off the WALLS

A friend! Yay!

Obviously Cody is still her #1 priority

But if you prove yourself, she miiiight let you in on a couple group hugs

Maybe

Blaineley:

Doesn't give a shit

Just like the younger version

But without the sweet bonding time

Doesn't like you very much

Might put on her fake little buddy-buddy act to stay on the good side of the media

Since you're probably "great for the ratings" 

Being related to Chris and all

Idk what else to put for her sorry

Older than them (17-19) (STILL younger than Blaineley)

Alejandro:

..why are you here?

Probably assumes you're an intern at first

Or here to help run challenges/watch them

If you're in the challenges, he finds it to be unfair

You're older, probably taller and smarter, and he's CONVINCED Chris is giving you some sort of advantage

Still does his whole thing

But like. Not romantically.

If you're not in the competition?

VERY confused as to why you're here

You're not competing, but you're still back in the plane with them?

It just doesn't make sense to him

You're probably there to help out with challenges

If you're 17, and I'd assume still in high school, you might be there for volunteer hours or something

Since you're probably not getting paid either way /hj

Might attempt a flirting thing once or twice (if you're not older than 17)

Probably doesn't do shit though

Sierra:

Genuinely have no idea what to put here I'm just repeating myself

Again, already knows who you are

Basically just like the second one but more "respectful" (not really) 

Blaineley would've probably been suuuuper boring (even worse than her "same age" (technically still younger) one) so I didn't include it.

I'm sorry this is so shit lmao I'll probably try redoing it as a proper paragraph written fic/one-shot instead of this. That'll probably make it better. If you want that, please tell me so I can start it soon!! xx

#ahhhI I don't know how I feel about thissss #sorryyyy #I'm not very good at writing for Alejandro #and I can mainly write Blaineley in SUPER specific situations I've gone over in my head 100 times lmao #I hope Sierra was decent at least #Sorry again lol #I had fun writing this though so I hope that counts for something #total drama #total drama world tour #total drama x reader #total drama x gn reader #x reader platonic #gn reader #total drama alejandro #total drama sierra #total drama blaineley #total drama chris mclean #tdwt #tdwt x reader #td alejandro x reader #td sierra x reader #td blaineley x reader #sierra and cody are implied ig #but idk the name so Im not gonna tag it #and it isn't the main focus #so #yeah #hope this will suffice and sorry again <33 #Autisticwizardwritings

[izzy-b-hands]

There's a man vomiting loudly outside (potentially in our parking lot, but I'm deeply in an overstimulated autism thing rn and i simply cannot be arsed to get up and check)

I would normally, but there's already a man out there interrogating him and like. I'm sure he's well-intentioned, but I lost my shit at his opener of 'Hey buddy, you having a good day?'

He's being violently sick in public; i think you can assume he's not enjoying this day.

#text post #im hitting the shower in a few minutes then after letting myself have an edible (held off all day for various reasons) #then i wanna get as close to wizard high as possible and disappear into Minecraft with Housemate for the night lmao #don't get me wrong today was actually very productive for me #resumes sent out decent amt of prolific done a new fic started and some drafts worked on #plus dishes done #but like. idk. my brain is very fast and angry and tired and i don't wanna be in this headspace #and i think i just overwhelmed myself with stuff a tiny bit today bc like. i know when im at the edge of it sometimes #but it's too easy to force myself past it in the name of productivity then deal with the fallout after #as i type this i realise i also need to clean the downstairs bathroom fan and forgor #but!! i forgot to mention i was able to get a belated bday gift out to my mum! got it ordered to b shipped to her at least lol #v glad I got that done #tw emetophobia #anyway i feel terrible for this guy and hope by the time i leave the shower he's doing better

[godslittlesadge]

started Inquisition again and this has pretty much been the whole experience

#and solas too honestly but. i dont like him sorry #BUT WHY IS EVERYONE ELSE SO HARD TO PLEASE LIKE DAMN #< i say as play an openly vocal mage supporter elven gods believer in a very andrastian religious and also conservative setting #i cry i want to befriend vivienne and also maybe romance cassandra but hushed whispers quest hurt my prospects at the very least LMAO #meanwhile me and blackwall?? like at 40 approval easily and didnt even reach skyhold yet #literally all it takes is being a decent person and he's happy lol #dai #dai liveblogging

[correct-bangtannies]

I don't even like men and I'm somehow already a military wife, what goes on

PS. Don't open the tags unless you want a big ass wall of text of me rambling on your screen

#hit #im just honestly so glad that I've become a lot more chill with the whole being an army thing #in the sense that i used to be a lot more attached and hyped over everything #i do still get very hyped and i do still have an attachment to them n their work but y'know just more toned down #(i mean i remember the days of staying up all night to watch award shows knowing damn well they'd always perform last) #(mma 2018 was an emotional rollercoaster like i legit cried a little from the tiredness and being overwhelmed with the performance) #so im glad im a lot more calm about the enlistment news than what i would've been say three years ago before they started to #take longer breaks and eventually announce the hiatus this year #it's like they did it in purpose so that the fandom would grow a bit more used to it n im glad to see that a huge majority are very calm #many are sad ofc but its not being treated as some kind of horrific news #if anything ppl are coping with humor including me lmao #so idk im mostly just happy for them that they're taking their VERY well deserved break before doing their service #i just hope everything goes well and is decently peaceful (as peaceful as enlistment can be at least lol) for them once they're there #now why am i rambling in the tags? bc i need to put my thoughts in order but i don't wanna clog my blog with a long ass wall of text 💀 #I'm at least relieved to know that they already have a set plan of when they're going to go and return + BH is sure af gonna keep putting #out a lot of content that they've filmed over all these years #i mean run bts; documentaries; probably even music and ofc not all of them are gonna go at the exact same time #and ofc stuff related to the HYYH and Chakho #them being absent won't as hard for most hopefully #and hey 2 years aint nothing ive waited far longer for stuff to come out than that we'll be fine! #*cries in silksong and the YOI movie

[roaringheat]

I'm fr that "my comfort character is a murderer" ass bitch. Lemon has a fuckin death grip on my brain

#vark posts #bullet train #at least i think he's just a comfort character #i love him SMMM #i love when my brain gets this latched on to a character #ill just see a pic of him and get so fuckin happy #it even got me to pick up a bit of art again #i like to think im a decent artist but ever since i started working ive had a pretty low motivation to do any sort of drawing #it was only a couple doodles of him but i felt very accomplished lmao #i need Lemon to be happy fr

[holyshit]

anons from earlier today ⬇️ (sorry for doing so much tag answering but it’s a heavy topic to me so i don’t want to get too... out there with it lol)

#'not ready' anon #oh yeah i completely agree with you 100% #it's a whole different beast and i really wish she was advised to put her socials on private bc it's gonna get brutal quickly :/ #so many aspects i don't like about this rip #'dare i say it' anon #yup exactly- it is a very uncomfortable choice in general from whoever was deciding this #and it doesn't surprise me that probably a bunch of men who are likely involved in this decision would not see how gross it is to actively #choose someone so much younger for him #like i fully expect they didn't recognize that it would be an issue because so many older men don't see an issue with dating women in their #early twenties #so it's very much a disappointed but not surprised moment for me lol #if they really thought this would be a good way to market to his younger fans- there are other! ways! you fuckers! #'answer in tags' anon #don't worry- you are very much entitled to feel that way and i totally understand where you're coming from #different topics are gonna hit different people harder and this is also a big Ick Factor conversation to me because of personal experience #so i 100% understand the feeling of needing to back off. even if this is not a breaking point for you i do always recommend taking steps #back occasionally to cool off and with that distance you can see whether you are still deriving joy from this fandom #or if the stress/things that upset you overrides it #also remember you are always free to dm me off anon if you ever want to have more of a one-on-one conversation about it! #i feel like i can at least give a decent ear since i have experience leaving fandom AND coming back lmao #asks #anonymous

[radlegowaffle]

i think a lot about when someone told me the kanji for rain looks like youre looking out a window at rain (雨）

#rad.txt #its 4:40am ive been up since 1am cause someones coming by at noon to replace our oven #and i dont trust myself to get up at a decent time #this post has nothing to do with anything #i watch resin crafting stuff on youtube as something to be on my other monitor while i draw #and someone has earrings of 雨 and it looks like rain drops #and every time i see the thumbnail it just tickles me #it makes me stupid happy that it just works out. its so cute #i havent picked up my japanese notes in like. a year? two years? three years? #i forgot like. everything. can barely read hirigana. cant read katakana #duolingo didnt spend as much time on katakana as they should have imo #but with the added 'see your favorite anime characters say phrases!' idk if i want to go back lmao #i really want to learn but i can not take a class. that is way too much stress for me #at least learning online i can move at my own pace #anyway im very tired and hungry

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

I came back to knitting after so long and have been going hog wild Featured is: a particularly evil but finally finished baby blanket (free handed pattern, main body is premier Bloom DK in babys breath, border is some white baby dk acrylic yarn) a swatch of lion brand Scarfie Lite in Seaglass Progress of the obnoxious striped sweater (a long list of different worsted/aran weight acrylic yarns)

#knitting #knitblr #knitted baby blanket #i have been struggling with this blanket for literally months now. i've had the border at least half done for that long and just couldn't #bring myself to finish it. sadly i fell out of love with the scallop pattern VERY quickly #i still really like the colourway of the primary yarn but the white looks really yellowed against the white of the border and i just ugh #but it's done now and i can give it to my cousin when her baby is born #i'm also VERY excited for the scarfie lite yarn i want to knit a sweater in it so bad #i still can't decide if i want to make it drop shoulder or set in shoulder but also it knit up REALLY small compared #to the gauge given on the ball band and like. that's super normal for me lmao i'm a tight ass knitter. #but when the ball band says 16 stitches per 4 inches on a 5mm and i'm getting 20 st per 4 inch on 5.5 mm #i REALLY gotta block that out and see if it's a block issue or i just gotta majorly size up my needles. even if it makes me sad. #i suck so bad at swatching and even worse at blocking <3 but for this sweater i'll do both #tbh i might knit it like it's a dk weight instead of worsted because like. something about it makes my stitches look super wacky. #my tension is decent to good most of the time but polyester based yarns always give me problems for some reason #acrylic is fine. wool is fine. cotton is fine. polyester blends? tension is wack.

[ellcrys]

me settling on an 8k word oneshot as my quick bedtime fic: you can read 8k words in 10 minutes (i did not read 8k words in 10 min)

#in fact i read 8k words in like 35 min i think so #operation go to bed at a decent hour: failed :') #at least this wasn't as egregious as that one time i came across a like 45k word oneshot and decided to start it at like 1am lol #(i don't think i finished iirc and to my credit i didn't think i would; but i did get... very far and slept very late lmao)

[magpigment]

ok why are job applications literally the worst thing ever to fill out. this is why i’m getting back on medication good lord

#dandy talks #my brain cannot comprehend #i’m p sure the only job of the three applications i have that i’ve got even a shot at getting #is only because the lady i talked to seemed pretty desperate to get someone willing to work the 5am-1pm shift 😂 #and i’d be willing to at least for a while if the pay is decent because i would very much like to have at least some money to save up #i wouldn’t be able to work that shift every day because good lord first off second i have school #but like damn lmao

[rubys-domain]

i'm going through a phase of "i just want x character out all the time and i just wanna run around with them and bask in their glory" with kokomi. so much so that i'm almost scared that she'll surpass chong as my fave of all time. but i went through a similar phase with cyno so logically i know that that won't actually happen.

still kind of annoying that i can never have this much interest in a meta dps tho. like why are all the characters i have any interest in maining either 4 stars, supports, or just not meta units (cyno, yoimiya)???

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #if i could go back in time and give my newbie self advice #it would be to pick ONE meta (or universally strong) dps. just one. even if i have no interest in them #solely to make my life easier #as long as i don't dislike them，i can be arsed to use them #currently the only 5 star dps's considered strong that i also wouldn't mind using are tighnari and xiao #and they're probably not meta either lmao #childe maybe. i just find childe international boring to play #yeah nilou's strong and i really like her but she's not REALLY a dps. at least not in the traditional sense #xiao needs high investment and better weapons than i currently have #at least cyno can make good use of a white tassel #i mean i guess i already have blackcliff pole but eh... #tighnari i have the event bow. but i also don't know when i'm gonna lose my damn 50/50 to him #nari PLEASE come home i BEG 😭😭😭😭😭 #don't get me wrong cyno and yoimiya serve me well. but i didn't use cyno at all until i got baizhu #and by that point i was already capable of giving him the stuff to make him decent #yoimiya's great (she does more damage than alt chong whom i invested way more into which is good but also kinda depressing as a chong main) #i just hate how easily she gets staggered. especially since i haven't been able to build layla very well yet so i still have to dodge #(totm is a pain. geovishaps are a pain. i might have to co-op to farm totm. but being ar 54 ppl might expect me to carry. which i can't) #(and i'm scared of bringing chong to co-op cuz nobody might let me use him. if i bring yoi i might get dunked on for her rn not-great build #(and i literally have no other characters i have that are actually built so i'd just be screwed) #(luckily it's getting added to the strongbox in 4.0. it's not the most efficient but it's definitely the less painful way to farm totm)

[snowdeong]

I am a very mature adult

#snowdd.txt #just went and proof read 'where we are' for the first time since I posted it #actually didn't completely hate rereading it which is very rare for me lmao #might need to re-edit it a few more times tbh just to get it at a decent level #but I'm a bit encouraged at least all my writing isn't ass #now I just need to heal from this fucking cold omg it won't leave I hope it's not covid

[cherubfae]

I'm the anon who asked if you write for mammon and adam. I just sent the ask in, but regardless of your reply i was wondering of you could write the hazbin cast +helluva boss cast (the ones you write obviously) with a super sleepy slot like s/o? Like they sleep all the dam time and are still tired as hell, so tired they literally fall to the ground while walking in silence for too much, they sit down for a second and go out cold. They move so slow it's incredible, theyre always super clingy and always hanging on by their shoulder, It's very concerning.

lmao this made me cackle. Here ya go, sweets! Apologies if you wanted something serious, I literally couldn't 😭😭 just had lunch with my mama to celebrate her belated bday and I'm very full

sloth!like partner || hazbin/helluva boss x reader

tags: fluff, comedy, this is probably mostly crack lmao, established relationships

Alastor

Okay but remember him with the Egg Bois? That's essentially him waiting for you to get ready for your date. What feels like an eternity was only roughly thirty seconds. He hopes you haven't fallen asleep in the bathroom.

"Dearest... I could just teleport you to places with my shadow provided I'm somewhere near." He suggests. It takes him a while to get used to any sort of physical contact so he's not crazy about the clinginess and does what he can to establish boundaries if and when he feels comfortable doing so.

Lucifer

Haha! You're so adorable! He actually quite likes having you on his arm, though sometimes not literally. It's comical watching you climb him and then slowly lose your energy halfway to his shoulders and slow-motion crash land towards the ground. Rinse and repeat.

Husk

By now he's quite used to you falling asleep, especially on him. You tucker yourself out so easily, he wonders what tricks Belphegor has up their sleeves lately. Husk loves you for who you are, but he is rather curious if there's anything that can cure or at least lessen your narcoleptic behaviors.

Angel Dust

Constantly cracking jokes and puns. Some of them can come off as a little mean though it's never intended to hurt your feelings. Though, he does know not to make the 'slow-burn romance' jokes every time you guys have a date night.

Vox

He's gotten used to you being constantly sleepy and rather sluggish. He does wonder if you are, in fact, a Hellborn from Sloth instead of a Sinner sometimes or if you drew the short straw. Vox is typically okay if you're constantly sleepy and a bit sluggish, but he is a fast-paced guy and likes all aspects of his life to progress at a decent speed; romance included.

Blitzø

Deadass he's watching you slowly drag yourself face-down along the ground with a soft skrrrr skrrrr along the cement. Honestly he's surprised you made it on Earth as long as you did. This was amusing but the more you, literally, drag on Blitz isn't sure what he should do. He's probably gonna start driving everywhere. Gotta keep pollutin' bb.

Loona

With how often you sleep, Loona isn't sure how you still manage to be so tired all the time. It honestly perplexes her but she's learned to roll with it. If you're moving too slowly for her liking, she'll pick you up and carry you off like royalty-- or if you're small like Millie, Loona is gonna commit you to her backpack transit indefinitely.

Striker

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"Ya'llright, darlin'?" He asked with a raised brow. You just ate shit and aren't currently really doing anything about getting back into the upright position. Striker's tail swishes curiously and he gently prods you with his boot, heaving a sigh when you move.

#hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel imagines #hazbin imagines #hazbin hotel x you #helluva boss x you #helluva boss imagines #helluva boss x reader #alastor x reader #hazbin lucifer x reader #lucifer morningstar x reader #angel dust x reader #husk x reader #vox x reader #blitz x reader #loona x reader #cherubfae 2024

[canmom]

"don't post links to pirate sites" as a security through obscurity strategy seems... weak. if a pirate site is so obscure that almost nobody can find it, it's also essentially pointless.

but yes, if a pirate site is common knowledge, the feds will be working on destroying it. so the idea is i assume to achieve an intermediate level of obscurity, where you have to have a certain amount of talent for asking the right people or searching the right things to find it. but... whatever capacity for research you are asking people to have on that front, the feds are equally capable of it, and they have a whole lot more time on their hands for tracking down pirate sites! security through obscurity is a losing game for piracy. the perfect sweet spot where people can find your pirate resource but the feds cannot is something of a mirage.

if not that, than what?

the current piracy system involves a few different tiers of accessibility, and various components that are more or less decentralised.

torrents are the most resilient tech because to stamp out a torrent (with DHT enabled) you have to suppress every seed. so, you have big public torrent trackers like TPB; these are well known and rely on hopping domains and redundancy for security. the ratio of seeds to leeches tends to be low, but the number of users is large enough that there will be at least a few seeds out there for most stuff. torrent clients have gotten a lot better at seeding strategies that take into account your seed ratio and what's currently available in the swarm, so if you just leave everything on seed and open your torrent client fairly often (use a VPN though lol), you don't really need to think about it.

then you have private trackers; these operate on an invite basis. the problem with this is that when the pool of users is so small, the odds of a given seed being online are also small. to prevent torrents dying, they gamify it: you get points for seeding and if you don't have enough points you can't download anything until you seed more. to help people get back in the game there will be 'freeleech' events. being active on a private tracker takes a bit of work.

and of course you have to get in in the first place, which tends to require a proven track record of seeding on other private trackers, and some kind of interview with the operators. getting involved in private trackers is a much bigger ask, you have to figure out where to get your foot in the door, and work your way up to the more insular trackers. it's like a mini subculture. it's valuable, but not scalable.

at the top level of inaccessibility is the warez scene. this is a whole subject that i'm not even gonna get into, go read wikipedia. historically this is where the files actually come from, before getting distributed on public trackers, usenet etc. but good luck getting in there lmao, they are understandably quite paranoid.

of course, for stuff to get on pirate sites you need somebody to go the effort of ripping and encoding it. this is where a major point of failure exists. when RarBG went down recently, the biggest loss was not the existing archive of torrent links, which can be backed up - it was that they were very active at converting scene releases into torrents with a decent balance of file size and quality, which then filter out into the various public trackers. that is much harder to replace! but what killed RarBG wasn't even suppression by authorities - according to their statement, it was a bunch of the admins getting covid or dying or fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war, which made the whole operation impossible to continue. so despite the thousands of people who download RarBG torrents, this single point of failure was overstressed and broke.

as far as the ethics of spreading links to pirate sites go... if it's something like a mega drive, yeah, the chances of a takedown are pretty high if it gets noticed! no question. but those things are by nature short-lived; if you want to use that for archival you're building on sand. there's also databases like emuparadise, but there was no saving that through obscurity, it just took Nintendo a minute to bring the case.

in this kind of centralised case, the clock is ticking from day 1. what we want is to maximise the number of people who are able to save copies while it's up, and then some of those people can put it up again somewhere else and keep the authorities playing whack-a-mole. (for a small collection of files, a sensible measure would be to make a torrent and a mega drive side by side, so that people can download the mega drive and then add the torrent to their client to seed if it gets nuked.)

as for torrent sites, the thing is that torrents rely for effectiveness on a swarm that is either very large or very responsible about seeding. if it's a public tracker, it has to be well known or it's pointless. instead of security through obscurity, the form of security for these sites is try to make the resource itself hard to take down - operating the tracker/archive in countries that don't have copyright treaties, maintaining mirrors, and of course distributing as many seeds as possible so the torrent can stay alive even if the site goes down.

the major problem with a dead torrent site is discoverability. if it's harder to find the torrent, fewer people will download it, the existing seeds will gradually go offline, and of course you can't download a torrent that you don't know exists. and while you could imagine a system of broadcasting metadata about a torrent (title, encoding etc.) in a DHT-like way but that would be so vulnerable to fakes and spam. maybe some kind of cryptographically signed 'this torrent is good' declaration is possible? I know certain torrent clients tout discovery features, but honestly I don't know how well they work. I'm sure there are projects that are way ahead of the game than me on this question.

but yeah anyway trying to browbeat people into not sharing links to pirate media is 1. futile, by the time you see it the cat is out of the bag 2. not a sustainable strategy for security. if you wanna lecture people, 'use a VPN and seed your torrents' is evergreen ;p

#torrenting #piracy

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I still need to save a good deal more but I am getting really close to being able to afford my first tattoo + have a parlor picked out. stick figure violence.

#to be clear i might have enough to just do it right away? but I want to make sure I way overshoot what I think it will cost just to be safe #because I am guessing its going to be 150 to 225 ish range? im thinking i will do a small ravens skull on my forearm but obvi im up to #like artist opinion and interpretation of that #the parlor is grand though the artists there include two different hot queer women AND then theres a native american queer artist and then #just some dude who doesnt have personal info on his page but considering he works with them and is in the Local Gay Cozy Tat Shop #i assume hes decent lmao #all of their art is lovely too. I've been looking at their art online for a while and its grand #but yeah thats a feat because my town is small and homophobic generally speaking. and people who have pierced me before have all been #kind of asshole men #in a way that i want to avoid going forward? so i am hoping that i can get tatted before next year really. is the goal. #because i have been. wanting a tattoo forever i am just indecisive #but i think a raven skull is meaningful enough and personal enough that it feels like it deserves being a first tattoo #but its also vague enough that i think I will always love it (as opposed to like a fandom tattoo) #and it can be done small enough and in a way where it looks good on it own but its also easily expanded on or incorporated into a sleeve #if i ever decide to go that way with my body ofc #and also its small enough that even if i decide tattooing hurts very badly and i chicken out of any further tattoos i dont have to like #sit through a multi session huge expensive experience yanno #its a good Dipping My Toes In kinda tatt #so anyways thats that on me overthinking #but yeah i want to save away another hundred at least before i get it done? but I think I can ask about pricing soon which. #that alone is EXCITING #my post