technicallyblakebelladonna

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#my friend's band 'selfish bodies' #highly recommend #like especially if you REALLY want 'gaylor' to be real #i'm not going to stop you from what you think #BUT. maybe. also listen to ACTUAL queer artists too. so that you don't have to Hope Constantly #go listen to Selfish Bodies

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If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

Several people got the design as a tattoo.

A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.

Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me

#reblog for the love of god

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

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.

#ao3 #i believe i have a few invites if anyone sees this and wants to DM me

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

"School districts that don’t respect transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."

Read the full piece here

#please for the love of god US don't screw it up #vote biden

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

#20 #that's alright

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Im curious.

#drop t100 like a hot potato after THAT moment

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

Guest account, but username attached

Said username exists but person is unlikely to be reading Tolkien fic (according to their Tumblr and AO3, they are in other fandoms)

Two grammatically correct sentences

Super generic text that could apply to any fic:

"I've seen better fanfiction written by a toddler. Get it together!"

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

#i havent gotten any of these and i think that's largely due to the fact that i've locked my account #and honestly i'm happy with that #my ao3 is for me and for people who care and have their own accounts #i know it limits access to people who cant/dont want to get an ao3 email but like #im sorry i dont care XP #if it prevents shit like this on my fics? yeah i'll take that gladly

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

okay the newest RWBY Beyond is incredibly sad when you think about it as a metaphor for roosterteeth ending. like. what the fuck.

#rwby #rwby beyond #jaune's entire speech and oscars question of 'when you were around that campfire. did it matter?' #LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

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god I fucking love strawberries

#oh #let's go tumblr #10k post #i want to check back on this at the end of april #i just need to know

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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

#ao3 #everytime the complaints come out during the time of the annual ao3 fundraiser #i just wanna fucking shake people #'oh no there's incest and noncon and underage!' like yes brenda that's the point #dead dove. get over yourself

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

Saskatoon freezing deaths — is this fucking real? Bc I never heard of it and my Australian friend sent me a wikipedia page, is this seriously real

Yes, it’s real.

Saskatoon cops are racist towards Indigenous people, and this racism kills.

#fucking disgraceful of my country #i learned about the starlight tours pretty recently and it's fucking awful that i went most of my life not aware #and that's how they fucking get away with this shit #cause they dont teach it and try to erase it #absolutely fucking disgraceful

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

WITCHCRAFT!!!!!!!!

#on god #the only reason i want to get into makeup #is to have that more masc look and thicker brows. ref

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#multiple #badger badger specifcally #but reading the other ones im like #oh yeah #candy mountain #peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat #fuzzy llama llama llama duck #yes i remember most of the ancient texts

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#im sorry but what the fuck #what a joke

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say what you will about rooster teeth and its business practices, but it is genuinely heinous that warner bros can just wipe something of such significance to youtube, the entertainment industry, and the internet as a whole completely off the map because they didnt "make enough of a profit"

#rooster teeth #yeah.... jesus

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shout out to pixelated animals. gotta be one of my favourite serotonins

nobody does it better than the stardew valley chicken

lets goooooo little dude you know exactly whats going on

#core keeper #stardew

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

Illia: “level headed mediator” is your role in this organization, mine is dick punching anarchist

ghira is constantly exasperated but kali secretly approves -- and even will bandage up any scrapes or bloody knuckles while giving her a motherly "disapproving" lecture

yes good i love this

#rwby #rwby v10 #ilia amitola #ray replies #anon