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Home away from home - Deltarune fancomic.

Despite hiding it well, Susie's anxieties catch up to her.

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"Overconsumption is bad because we have limited resources on earth and the production of your comforts is done by practically enslaved global southerners" - yes real. Fucking real and true.

"Overconsumption is bad because you will get fat and lazy and stupid and fat and your brain will rot and youll be a feeble whiny disabled" - okay you are a eugenecist. Can you fucking hear yourself

mexicast

same thing for ai usage. Are you complaining about companies investing in ai over people, or are you just an inch of self preservation away from openly calling its users the R slur? Be fucking honest i see how you talk.

#anti ai #anti genai #anti gen ai

coolfireguy73

Summoning the 2016 UNDERTALE community

Do you like Undertale ? Do you like Gaster ? Are you cringe ? Do you maybe have a bit of the 'tism ?

Well I have just the thing for you !

I present to you:

HANDRITTEN WINDINGS !

I remember trying to learn windings when I was little because I thought it was "cool" to be able to write in a "mysterious language" nobody could read.

I never really managed tho... Writing windings by hand is really annoying since, you know, it's not made for it.

This in why (and also because why not) I spend a few hours simplifying the symboles, keeping them recognizable while still making them distinguishable from each other when quickly written with a pen and paper.

And here are some help for the letters (was too lazy to do the rest but I still can if you really wan to)

I really wanted to make it as simple as possible so anyone could use the font if they wanted to ! The hands were the hardest part to figure out but I think I nailed it ;)

Some of the letters could still be simplified I guess but I didn't want to spend too much time on this stupid thing.

Also, some of the letters are quite different from the original, this is either because I wanted to make it simpler to write/draw or because they were too similar to another letter and I was afraid, when written quickly, you could mistake one for the other.

Like, for exemple, the lowercase S and W that looked too much like lowercase T and U.

The point was also to make them smaller so writing a single word doesn't take half the page :/

I'd be happy to answer any questions and, of course, this is just a suggestion ! Especially the two help images. Do whatever you want, I'm just having fun ^^

ENJOY !

#omfg this is so cool and right as I'm having the deepest utmv hyperfixation ever #gaster #wd gaster #windings gaster #font #fonts

sawed-on-shotgun

i am of the sincere belief that if ur on ur computer a lot you should visually customize it to high hell and back not just for funsies but also because it has literally made me less depressed before. its kind of like how rearranging your bedroom is good for your brain, yknow. i do stuff like this every few months

sawed-on-shotgun

and if anyone wants to follow suit

LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho

CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)

CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start

DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background

EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):

tabliss for the new tab theme

stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout

enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors

the browser theme is just one i found on the firefox theme 'store'

coredumpproject

I agree. A computer should feel like a place you go. Your home computer should be different from your work computer. It should feel different.

#fun

desk-drawerr

since i got a few comments about bowling alley graphics, have this whatever. ducky goes bowling.

#more duckyyyy!!!!!#animation

miraculous-metamorphosis

Damn it, we never posted these pictures on tumblr. Uhhh everyone got a redesign!

Mini answers to possibly inquiries below:

#miraculous metamorphosis au #miraculous au #mlb #long post

inhonoredglory

🎉 Congratulations Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.

You're the most iconic asexual character on Tumblr dot com!!

We've done it!! We've given Jon a crown that isn't the Watcher's. 🙌 Thanks to @drax-the-vampire-king for the poll and to the entire TMA fandom for supporting our ace king!

#oh yay I remember voting for that guy #TMA #ace #asexual

sespursongles-deactivated201906

And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing.

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry. And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated

the most depressing quote from her diaries:

“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.”

#Sophia Tolstoy

hell-on-sticks

there's been a couple posts on other platforms lately trying to compare the disability rights movement to the disability justice movement, and they're all really ahistorical, revisionist, and for some reason seem to think that disability justice can only look good if it's fixing giant flaws of the disability rights movement.

TL:DR: the disability justice movement doesn't need to diminish disability rights movement. Disability rights activists built the world where we can fight for justice. We aren't more radical than them just because our photos are in colour. Main struggle disability justice faces that disability rights didn't is not having the same ways people communicate and organise, we're all physically and practically distant from each other and can’t form practical activist leadership structures as well. But we also communicate more widely and can use that to elevate marginalised members of the community much more. Most struggles we otherwise share across time and it's important to recognise that.

🖤❤️💛🤍💙💚🖤

! in case you see one of those posts, some corrections:

- disability rights movement addressing law and policy was/is fighting institutionalised ableism and social ableism. disability justice currently focusing more on social ableism with a more modern understanding but a less applied approach/less direct actionable goals right now

- disability rights movement focuses on disability as an equalising master status across intersections, disability justice focuses on intersectionality and overlapping experiences. merits and gaps to both, just different approaches, honestly a bit of both is good

- disability rights movement famously built strong partnerships across intersections with African-American, veterans, some lgbtqia+, etc. organisations. disability justice focuses on these intersections from within. Benefits to disability rights partnerships approach meant existing experienced activist allies could help build across capacity gaps of other organisations, benefits to disability justice from-within approach elevates lived experience within communities. Both good, and frankly should be combined rather than replaced for full spectrum of practical activism benefit and uplifting multiply marginalised disabled people.

- disability rights movement did not "centre physically disabled people only". wash your mouth out. that claim is ahistorical and pretty rude to disability rights activists. People with sensory disability were very much present and frankly I see more ASL interpreters in archival protest footage than I see Auslan interpreters at protests today in Australia, so they were doing better than we are now. Famously, ASL was used to outwit authorities during the 504 sit-ins - which could only happen with Deaf people and their interpreters present at the action. Activism included fighting on behalf of people institutionalised with cognitive and developmental disabilities; there's a conversation to be had about how to co-design and collaborate with a group who you may be physically stopped from communicating with/being in the same room as, and whether advocating on their behalf then is equal to or worse than how we would try to do it today. The psychosocial disability movement was not fully integrated but it wasn't ignored either. If proponents of disability justice want to talk about cross-disability inclusion it doesn't need to pretend that nobody had that radical idea before. That's actually what was so radical about disability rights - bringing together people with disabilities that historically were not associating with each other. We're supposed to build on the hard work of our forebears, not insult their work and achievement.

- saw one argument that disability rights focused on people with acquired disabilities and aimed to restore their privileged access to society while disability justice focuses on people with congenital disabilities. One moment of emotional response: what the hell? Untrue, rude, treats any privilege like a stain on the soul that makes someone unworthy of the glorious rapture revolution, and cruelly divisive. The disabled community has done a decent job of allyship between people with congenital and acquired disabilities because pretty much everyone recognises that both experiences are pretty shit in different ways but there are far more similarities than differences. No movement should prioritise one over the other if only for diversity of lived experience in leadership, and disability rights movement did not. Even if someone's only exposure to the actual activists of the disability rights movement was watching Crip Camp, did they ignore the activists with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and frankly I'd argue people who had polio in infancy like Judy Heumann would share the same experiences too. This is not a line to divide along even if it was true, but it isn't. Truthfulness is very important if you're going to criticise the past.

- disability rights movement did platform largely white faces front and centre, but very famously included Black activists like Brad Lomax and allied with the Panthers. I'm not American so I won't speak to racial history and attitudes through disability movements then and now in detail, but it's not exactly polite to pretend Black disabled activists didn't exist in the 70s or were not part of the movement solely to support an argument 50 years later. Call out the disproportionate number of white activists platformed, but don't erase the non-white activists in the same breath. They earned respect then and now. Disability justice does do a better job putting POC at the forefront, but with how decentralised everything is, their voices still often go unheard or heard only through social media posts, so we need to do better.

- disability justice is more modern-day critical-radical in principles and focuses a lot on construction of the body and intra-community equity. Disability rights was more organised and had concrete goals and the ability to collectively plan to achieve them. This made civil disobedience and outright protest actions a lot more feasible, but communications infrastructure did mean contact between branches was hard and culture was less centralised - so some branches were more radical than others. disability justice has plenty of time to become organised, but right now is pretty decentralised. The revolution may be from bed, but we do have to find a way to make motion happen and communicate back and forth, not just unidirectional from authoritative voices to consumers of information. And movements without achievable goals struggle. We won't "end ableism" in our lifetime, and activists burn out reaching for distant stars all the time. Part of that is also the decentralised nature of disability justice, which has spread more online than via direct person-to-person contact.

It's also so, so important to recognise that disability justice would not exist without disability rights movement. Not in a "it's building on prior works" way, but a "many of the founding thinkers and ongoing activists of disability justice have accessed education that the activists of the disability rights era fought tooth and nail to access and make accessible". I have, too. Many of us have - still not all, and in many places separated education still exists - but many of us have learned in places we once wouldn't physically or policy-wise make it through the door of. That includes primary school, not just higher education.

They were literally out smashing curbs with hammers because curb cuts weren't being made. Something as small as crossing the street was not a given. We are in a position to fight for disability justice only because that position was set up by those before us. Disability justice does not replace disability rights. Disability justice is not so much more progressive than disability rights, and disability rights movement was extremely radical activism. We don't necessarily owe anyone hero-worship, but we do owe the whole community truthfulness and understanding of where we are in our fight for equitable society and how we got to where we are.

These movements dove-tail, and are not at odds with each other. We can make new goals with the disability justice movement to build on what was fought and what was won in the disability rights movement. Every time we cross a road, go to school, enter a building, we are living their victories and pushing the activism even further than they had the chance to reach. And notice how the living members of the disability rights movement often have blended seamlessly into the disability justice movement even if they are not dropping the principles by name.

It's the same fight across more than 50 years, and it's objectively wrong to think people of the past were inherently less radical and progressive than we are today just because we think the most progressive times are always our own. If we can't respect and protect what we've already won, we'll keep losing it and start from scratch every time some government or organisation worms its way out of access obligations. Respecting and protecting our history is how we make sure we can fight for more. And more, and more. Activism is constantly building grounds for those who follow us, and I hope that in 50 years those who come after us can respect what we've achieved too. We owe it to them to make disability justice count, and we owe it to our forebears to recognise that what they did counted, too.

#important #disability #disability rights #disability justice

bebewrites

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

#wtf?!?!?;#anti ai #anti genai #anti gen ai

shubbabang

its not funny but i do think about it a lot

cranberrybogmummy

Yeah I don’t get this.. glad I don’t have kids. I mean what are you supposed to say?

chrismerle

it’s about the context. if a kid feels bad about doing something, they are unlikely to do it again unless they feel like they have to or if they don’t know another way to get it done. children are just small humans; they don’t like feeling bad/guilty/etc. any more than anyone else does. so if a kid comes forward and says ‘I did this bad thing and I feel bad about it’ and you scold them for doing that thing that they already feel bad about, then you are effectively just scolding them for coming forward. if the kid already feels bad, they don’t need an adult to tell them they should feel bad. in reality, the kid was probably coming forward about it because they wanted the adult to explain how to make it right, or how to do it properly.

cranberrybogmummy

Thank you, this helps. I like kids but being autistic sometimes it’s confusing because here in don’t know what the script is.

queeranarchism

An appropriate script could be:

Telling the kid that it is very brave of them to come forward and admit that they did something wrong.

Having a conversation to find out why they did the bad thing. Sometimes there’s an underlying reason that needs to be addressed like ‘I’m worried the other kids think I’m not cool enough so I broke a rule’ or ‘I was mad at my sister because she called me fat so I broke her toy’, etc. These conversations might be more important than the bad thing.

Telling the kid that we all make bad decisions sometimes and while we should try not to do that again, making a bad decision doesn’t mean we’re bad forever.

Telling the kid that the best way to feel less bad about it is to try to make things right. Did they secretly take mom’s piece of cake? Maybe we can go bake a new piece of cake together and give it to mom. (The point here is not to make the kid really produce something of equal value to what they stole/broke/etc. A child often can not do that. The point is to practice what fixing the damage you have done looks like).

Finishing the conversation with supportive words and maybe a hug, depending on the child and your relationship to that child. Above all the goal is making sure the child leaves the conversation feeling happy that they chose to come forward and committed to doing so again if they mess up in the future.

quasi-normalcy

half-a-life-left

in which i take the idea of pirate gaster and run with it

(bonus slightly unhinged analysis of the flying dutchman crew designs under cut)

#damn flying dutchman gaster is so friggin cool #gaster #pirate gaster #flying dutchman gaster #deltarune

gnarlyghost

Opening up some YCH slots for this piece, get in touch if you’re interested

150 for 1 char or 250 for 2

1spooky2me

Let me draw your gays. This is a threat.

mollyjames

There are a lot of people who start creative projects with no business or financial plan, because "who cares, it isn't important, we'll figure that out later". And you can't let yourself become that person. Not because I'm a sneering finance bro who thinks your woke animated youtube series wont make money, but because if you don't you'll wind up financially exploiting your friends for years

mollyjames

Look, it's none of my business if you wanna work yourself to the bone for no money so you can make your dream project a reality. I think you shouldn't, but also let's be real that's basically a rite of passage for young creatives. But as soon as you start involving other people? You need a plan. You need to be able to compensate them for their time, and you need to have it in writing

song-of-the-spheres

head in my hands, as someone who does extensive freelance TTRPG work - an industry in which the vast majority of those involved are doing it as a passion project/side hustle, and in which many people are friends with those they work for and with:

if you are doing any creative project with someone else in which money will be involved, make a contract. Doesn't need to be super formal. Get something laid out in writing that very clearly indicates what the person you are asking to do something is responsible for, the timeline in which they're expected to complete it, and the compensation they'll get for doing so.

"oh but we've been best friends since eighth grade" make a fucking contract.

"oh but this probably won't make much money anyway" make a fucking contract.

"oh but I don't know all that legalese" there are tons of pretty accessible templates available online if you research, just make sure it's one that suits your needs and you understand what's in it (it can be written in normal language without legalese, as long as it's clear), and make a fucking contract.

I've heard horror stories about this shit destroying projects, friendships, livelihoods, and in most cases the fallout could have been avoided (or at least mitigated) by having a clear legally binding document about everyone's responsibilities and compensation from the get-go. Do not assign someone work without a contract or some form of written agreement; do not work without a contract or some form of written agreement. please for the love of god.

#literally what I said to my gf after she suggested getting some help for drawing my comic.#like immediately “I'd have to pay them” not even thinking about it. labor deserves compensation.#uuuuh what else to tag this so I can find it later #important #financial

ratbastarddotfuck

Reblog if you’re part of a hostile nation that’s declared war on Australia

mycroftrh

Oh my god though guys you don’t know the best thing! The best thing is: he’s right.

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation near Australia. This is their flag:

The Gay Kingdom (as it is colloquially known) was founded in 2004 in protest against Australia’s legal stance against same-sex marriage.

Here are some of their stamps:

They are currently ruled by Emperor Dale I, and their currency is the Pink Dollar.

And, indeed - they declared war on Australia for not recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside the country. (Second link.)

sailurmars

You’re telling me there has been a Gay Island this ENTIRE TIME and I’m only just finding out about it????

feitanswife

WHAT

gondorsfinest

okay, but not enough people know the details on this. people at pride were upset about gay rights in australia. so they decided to sail 200 miles into the coral sea just ‘cause and put a rainbow flag on a fucking empty island out of spite. and i’m talking empty. no inhabitants. zero. it was a flat piece of land with a bit of dry grass. now it has a camp site and a post office.

they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.

everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.

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ileolai

Not one of you mentioned that the anthem for this nation is I Am What I Am by Gloria Gaynor. Not. One. Of. You.

ebonykain

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read

faejilly

Highlights from the timeline via wikipedia as this thread is from 2017:

As previously mentioned, the idea originated at Pride (Brisbane 2003) in reaction to punitive anti-marriage legislation

“On the 14th day of June 2004, at this highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea in his name as homeland for the gay and lesbian peoples of the world. God Save our King!”

The campsite/capital Heaven was named after the London nightclub

War was declared on Australia in September 2004

The aforementioned stamps were issued in July 2006 “with the aim of creating a high and distinctive reputation amongst the philatelic fraternity”

They were never recognized legally/internationally as a micronation (and in fact Anderson refused to attend a conference in 2010 because they weren’t actually trying to be a sovereign nation)

In Feb 2017, Abetz was objecting to the flag of a “hostile nation” being flown

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands was dissolved in November 2017 (when same-sex marriage was legalized)

cyborgclone17

We must revive the Gay Kingdom

@itsuwari-no-kibo-offical @tf2anddeltarunefan @1nkyraven @chaos-triangle @i-am-trashyy @im-garbage-trust @hawkeyedoodles

Tag people for your kingdom

bacteriumphage

You guys are so close to getting it

whydoiidk

Okay but what about mosquitoes that kill more humans than humans do somehow

oceanglass9000

I don't think there's a single case of a mosquito killing someone to kill them, I think there's many cases of them carrying diseases through blood that no mosquito could understand while they're just trying to eat tho

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