(DA) writing stash (and some rightful ire)

dash header by @raymurata | avatar by @meribotti | AngstOfDestiny on AO3 | 33 | he/him | white | Poland | Dragon Age | Mass Effect | writing | always happy to talk

[angstofdestiny]

Got a mention from a scambot advertising followers sale. On Tumblr.

That's one very confused scambot. I almost feel sorry for it.

[doberbutts]

Stop being a transphobe. We trans men don't experience misogyny.

Me when I live in a different universe

[angstofdestiny]

That kinda sounds like something a terf pretending to be a trans guy would say. I am not saying that the anon is a terf pretending to be a trans guy, but they absolutely sound like a terf pretending to be a trans guy. Or I might be wrong and it could be just a regular transphobe from the attack helicopter variety stirring shit for no reason. Not that I'm saying that they are.

[ristay]

Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew

Follow me on Webtoons

[ruby-white-rabbit]

The window visual did me in I’m wheezing

[floralpopie]

NO

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

WELP

[doctor-seamonster]

I haven’t seen this in years and yet it is burned into my memory forever.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

This is on the short list of Eternal Reblog because it’s fucking legendary.

[magrowette]

An honourable candidate for the @hellsite-hall-of-fame

[plaguedocboi]

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

[theboboshow]

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

[plaguedocboi]

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

[plaguedocboi]

Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves

[legsloveless]

[sabertoothwalrus]

while I don’t agree with that referring to men in their 30s-early 40s as “old man yaoi”, I UNDERSTAND why many people who primarily consume honest-to-goodness BL manga are quicker to call it that, because there is just such poor representation for men that aren’t hairless dehydrated 20-something twunks. They’re wrong, but I get why it happens.

I also understand that “middle-aged yaoi” isn’t as fun to say as “old man yaoi”, even when it’s more technically accurate.

So I would like to propose new vocabulary: Grown Ass Yaoi. yaoi that’s grown ass men. they’re not old but they’re not young adults either. you get me? Grown Ass Yaoi

[sabertoothwalrus]

WAIT—

[angstofdestiny]

I just wanted to say that this post and the passing of time have caused me deep distress. I can accept I am not exactly "young" anymore. But middle aged? I am not ready. I refuse. I am the amorphous age that doesn't subscribe to either. Delayed onset of adulthood. Holy fuck, I haven't yet fully figured out that whole "tax" thing.

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

On my dash!??!

Please hold

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[serozvero]

[cryotrash]

Did you know that most plot holes can be fixed by making your characters canonically stupid

"This doesn't make any sense, why would he ever-" my man hasn't stumbled onto a thought in years

[rhysintherain]

Fun and easy ways to temporarily make your smart characters stupid:

Sleep deprivation

Drugs

Pretty girl

Pretty not girl

Hungry

Stressed out

Got bored and stopped listening

[quietwingsinthesky]

did i tell you guys i failed at being sexually harassed at work today?

[quietwingsinthesky]

okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”

and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!

his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.

So I Answered It.

and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-

i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.

anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.

[sophie-frm-mars]

Hey! You there! Go resolve that conflict! Get some conflict resolution skills NOW!

The fascists have money, they don't need to exercise conflict resolution skills in order to get along! They're all getting paid to get along!

YOU yes YOU have to actually go and make good with people!

[sophie-frm-mars]

In leftist and queer communities we don't acknowledge that people are acting in ways that we want in exchange for something most of the time. Broadly it's only when people are declared untouchable that we acknowledge "the deal" - we're taking away their access to communities, to spaces, to resources, to attention, to solidarity because they've behaved NOT how we want. We only describe it in the negative essentially.

When people who didn't have leftist principles in the first place and were just pretending to get along go through this, they insist that everybody else is just pretending to get along. The classic "why I left the left" arc. What number of people there are who are just playing along with leftist ideas is kind of immaterial though because the real problem is in the model we have for internal conflict on the left, which is one that escalates to a "fuck you, specifically, forever" very fast without deploying any de-escalation, mediation or conflict resolution skills

I think if we acknowledged that human beings are social animals and us offering inclusion and solidarity to each other actually is a big deal, we would all be acting a little healthier as a starting point. Rather than saying "this person should never be allowed in our spaces or to be friends with our friends every again" imagine saying "this person probably really wants to be in community and have friends, so they're probably going to be quite keen to get through a conflict resolution and come out the other side happy to take part"

I'm saying all this because I've been watching a content creator whose work I quite enjoy spectacularly crash out recently, and it's very obvious to me that they're deeply, deeply unwell. They're doing a bit of a "why I left the left" arc, and it's boring, and it's gross, and I keep looking because I want to understand what is going so deeply wrong here.

I have talked to hundreds of trans women who've been ejected from queer communities, sometimes for harmful behaviour, sometimes for "giving someone a weird vibe", sometimes for essentially nothing. Transfem disposability is a well known phenomenon. But so is "cancelling" broadly in the left. I think "transfem disposability" often tries to make a "perfect victim" based on identity characteristics to distinguish good and innocent trans women from bad people who deserve to be exiled forever, and I think that a bigger and deeper analysis than that is needed here.

We need conflict resolution skills because the right wing revolution is just using capital to shape existing societal institutions into a more reactionary and oppressive forms but the leftist revolution is building the revolutionary society by enacting our principles in our own lives. Literally all we have is each other and we have to have a robust model for the kind of society that we want to live in that will scale and can bring more people in easily and doesn't drop people for behaving badly once, or being mentally ill, or too loud or uninformed or this or that.

The version of this we have right now is a bubble that maintains a really nice space inside it that lots of people are very defensive of, but that same defensiveness (and a big dose of trauma) leads people to reach for ostracism as their only tool in conflict because they have no other tools. We desperately need other tools.

[ftld42]

Can't believe we're here, but especially important for fandom accounts: DO NOT link your IRL, government ID to your fandom accounts! Not ever. Not for anything.

You will feel tempted by FOMO, you will feel bullied by Discord. You will be peer pressured to the ends of the earth. Do not do it. Do not allow them full access to you, and do not let them normalize this utter horseshit. We deserve anon spaces. We deserve the internet, it's ours.

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and

Like this shit is TERRIFYING.

Cancel Nitro and tell them this is why. Shit talk these assholes in public. Ridicule them. And do not budge an inch, do not let them have you.

[butterfly-sapphic]

[angstofdestiny]

So, after 5 years of subscribing i'm done.

[mogwaipoet]

This game, about listing as many animals as you can, is shockingly well-considered and polished for such an apparent shitpost of a game idea

hot new brain workout

[vintagewildlife]

At the end it gives you an emoji summary of your species! I got 383 before blanking: 🐎🐮🐐🐕‍🦺🙀🐡🐬🐳🐳𓅦🦆🪿🐓🐁🐦🐦𓃜🦂🐸🐛🐑𓆉🫍🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐆🦤🕊️🕊🪲𓆣🪲🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏🦌🦌🦌🦌🦬🦬🫎🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🐦🐦🦒🦝𓃵𓃸🐒🐒𓃸𓃜𓃜🪱🐻‍❄️🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐺🐺🦊🦊🦊🦊🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🐵🦍🦍🐀🐀🦘🦌🐙🐙🦇🦇🦇🦇🦔𓅨🐦‍⬛𓅪🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🦚🐗🐃𓃜🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍𓆏𓆏𓆏𓆏🦈🦈🦈🐟🦈🦈🦈🦈🐟🐅🐯🐯🐯🐪🐫🦙🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🦣🦖🦎🪲🐞🦋🦋🦋🐜🐜🐜🦐🦞𓅃🐦🦅🦅🦅🦉🦉🦉🦉🕷🕸️🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🐻🦥🦥🐦🐦🐦🪱🐽𓆏🦀🐼🐦𓅣𓃬🦁𓃜🪸🦈🕷🕷🕷🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🐍🐍🦃🦃🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦𓃜𓃜

There's also a bunch of easter eggs in the game! Here are the ones I found:

And when I listed a bunch of spiders, a little spider emoji dropped into view :D

Also, this was my game over screen

Overall a really fun exercise! I hope they make one that includes domestic breeds. I'd win so hard at horse and cattle breeds.

[kaijutegu]

https://rose.systems/animalist

54 animals listed

🦎🦎🦎🐊𓆊🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🐊🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🦎🦎🐊🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🐸🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎

This would have been so much longer but I knew way more geckos than the game did. Gonna have to try it again when I'm at the computer and I can properly type.

[angstofdestiny]

It is ridiculously fun

57 animals listed 🐩🐱🐹🐀🐑🦃🐄🐷🐗🐺🦌🐰🐙🦐🐻🐨🕷🐛🪰🐵🦍🐿🦬🦘🐦🦜🐋🐬🫍🦈🦊🐎🐯𓃬𓃰🦒🐦‍⬛𓅨𓅪🐦

[geezerwench]

In Prince's funky name, amen.

[greywrenn]

Millennial here. All the above and:

Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don't want a video tutorial. I don't want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.

Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Skimmable, SEARCHABLE instructions. If they're long, there should be a hyperlinked table of contents.

[debetesse]

Elder Millennial here cosigning HARD

If you really need to show a movement, embed a gif or 15-scond-or-less video in the text, like Jod intended.

[cinemaocd]

I work in science communications and I am constantly hearing about how we need to try to do video to appeal to the newest generation of scientists and it's like do you think physicists who can't read are a good idea?

[stargazingdustbunny]

Gen z and please just give me text!

[dduane]

This. All of this. AH PLEASE GOD NO MORE INTERMINABLE TUTORIALS THAT TURN OUT TO BE NOT NEARLY ENOUGH ABOUT THE SUBJECT BUT ALL ABOUT THE TUBER IN LOVE WITH THE SOUND OF THEIR OWN VOICE.

Just write a damn article and stick in a few screenshots or whatever where necessary.

...FFS.

[taraljc]

Also for the love of God, if you make a podcast have a transcript. transcripts are good. people who cannot handle audio can read a transcript.

[yuumei-art]

Space Cat Take a Chill Pill

If only giving meds to pets irl was as easy as poking it into the void dimension lol

This is a continuation of my Space Cat Series~

The hours long full painting videos, HD images and PSD files will be DMed on my Patreon.com/Yuumei on March 5th

[cheshire-cat-lenalee2]

[unclefather]

can’t risk it

[bentejam]

THIS PIECE OF PICTURE WORKS. 

[fakesurgery]

Gotta take all the chances…..

[fit-beach-tea]

Never risk it

[bbylilithian]

Too close to final’s week

[maggierobots]

I could use it.

[derpylittlenico]

why tf not. let’s do this