I'm bored

I'm teaching English to Japanese students and I need something to pass the time when I have nothing to do in the staff room. Also I need a place where no one knows me.

[saywhat-politics]

Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

[queerculus]

Trump removed bird safety regulations in his first term and now bird flu is killing so many laying hens that eggs are $5 a carton

Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks

Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more

Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and we now we have bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

[aneclipseatdusk]

[theharlotofferelden]

Genuinely loved the experience of being at camp for the first time and seeing all the companions with their tits out like they’re all gonna go clubbin or some shit

Then there’s Gale

Who’s just. So utterly swagless that his clothes smell like dusty old books. My man doesn’t give a fuck about the drip he’s getting his ass ready for bed

[doubleca5t]

[naariel]

I painted over my Halsin portrait with his hair down for science and

oh my fucking god

somebody call me an ambulance

[kirksfattitties]

gifs of scifi characters i’m collecting for when i get unsolicited nudes from people

[ari-isbored]

Here’s my contribution

[theverybestpencilsoftuscaloosa]

This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen

[ari-isbored]

[acerosedrop]

Netflix shared a new video on Twitter featuring Joey, this time of him creating his own DND monster!!

[deepspacepirate]

CD projekt red: Geralt dresses like a normal person

Netflix: fuck it he's goth now

[deepspacepirate]

In the games, Geralt mostly wears brown due to his leather armor, as well as a smattering of red and blue in some of the textiles, like gambeson, shirts, robes, scarves, etc. These are normal medieval colors and would be accessible to the common person.

But in Netflix adaptation, he wears black and ONLY black, which is crazy because, black was actually considered a luxury dye in the middle ages because of how complicated the dying process was. And even then, you wouldnt get a true black; it was going to be blue/black, red/black, or yellow/black. It wasn't until the 17th century that true jet black was possible with the introduction of logwood from Central America.

But Geralt's clothing and armor in the Netflix adaptation IS a true black. And these aren't even clothes for any special occasion?? It's just his normal day to day wear. Like can you even imagine??? This random guy walks into town wearing the most expensive textiles you've ever seen and then says he's going to go fight monsters in them?? What a damn flex.

[deepspacepirate]

Geralt who buys normal leather:

Geralt who only buys expensive Luxurious Black leather:

[the-winter-witcher]

Ay but he look damn fine 👀

[daily-joker]

Thanks for ruining the funnest thing I had going. Now I don’t even feel like torturing him.

Joker finding out the Batman’s true identity in HARLEY QUINN Season 1 finale “The Final Joke”

[iamnotthecatladynextdoor]

Y’all are missing the best part

[drharleyquinn-medicinewoman]

I can’t breathe

[ink7blot]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but don’t be racist during the COVID-19 scare.

My mom’s friend was out shopping when a (very not asian) woman came up and started berating her for not wearing a mask. Asian businesses in my area are suffering. Some people are refusing to interact with anyone who looks Asian.

Asian-Americans have been through racism already. We’re fucking sick of it. We’re not flea-infested rats; we are actual people who most likely have never been to China.

And if you’re not Asian and see someone being racist and giving a poor schmuck a hard time for having squinty eyes and dark hair, tell them to knock it off and they’re being a butt.

NON ASIANS PLEASE REBLOG

[gyoroandururun]

Racists can unfollow the fuck out of me coz I don’t tolerate that shit. To all my Asian followers: you’re fucking awesome and I hope you don’t have to put up with this shit. 

[witcherbigbang]

✧ WITCHER BIG BANG ✧

Welcome to the Witcher Big Bang! I’m so excited to announce that we are ready for business. Please refer to the schedule to learn when other sign ups open, view the requirements page to learn what participating in this big bang entails, and please view our faq page if you have any questions!

Writer sign ups are now open

Beta reader sign ups are now open

✧ SCHEDULE ✧

March 8 — Writer Sign Ups Open, Beta Sign Ups Open April 5 — Writer Sign Ups Close, Artist Sign Ups Open April 18 — Last Day for Writers to Drop April 19 — Writer Summaries Due May 3 — Artist Sign Ups Close, Beta Sign Ups Close May 5 — Claiming Starts May 10 — Claiming Close, Last Day for Artists to Drop May 13-16 — Assignments Sent Out June 14 — First Check In July 12 — Second Check In August 9 — Third Check In September 6 — Final Check In (Everything Done) September 8 — Posting Starts

Feel free to reach out by sending an ask or emailing us at [email protected].

[o-kurwa]

[teeelsie-posts]

I’m speechless

[stackedcrooked]

Is this… not BETTER?

[daryshkart]

fae Jaskier, heavily inspired by this amazing post by @punk-jaskier  personally, i love all things fae and couldn’t resist drawing him without glamour~

[ao3commentoftheday]

Some fics on ao3 are so brutal, why are they allowed to stay up???

Because AO3 is a hosting service. They don’t exist to police the content on their site as long as that content doesn’t breach the Terms of Service.

It’s an author’s responsibility to tag and rate and warn their fics appropriately. It’s a reader’s responsibility to read those tags and ratings and warnings and decide whether or not they want to read the fic. Anyone who isn’t willing to do their part probably shouldn’t be using the service.

[ao3commentoftheday]

In the wake of China apparently banning AO3 in the country, this post has been making the rounds on Weibo and now on Twitter. I thought I’d bring it back here, as well. 

AO3 has a robust tagging system so that users can either find or avoid content. The site doesn’t moderate the content because the users do. If authors fail to tag or readers fail to pay attention to tags, that moderation slips and people are exposed to content they don’t want to see. 

I love the fact that AO3 puts the power over what I see in my hands. I have control, not some faceless person and certainly not my government. I can see whatever I want to see and avoid whatever I want to avoid and every other user of the site can do the same thing. 

This is a group effort, and if there’s anything that fandom is good at it’s banding together to get shit done. Tag your fics. Read the tags. Don’t be an asshole.

[smalltall]

Quick question, you’re all about being a safe haven for every fic on your server, right? Yet multiple people have said that their work is being sold for money by plagiarist websites, and when they came to you guys for help it was apparently “out of your hands”. So…for what services are your base donating 200k a year that they couldn’t find elsewhere? And when are you going to ban child r*pe fics?

[ao3commentoftheday]

Quick answer: Ao3 doesn’t own the copyright to your works. You don’t give it up when you post to the site and this is a good thing. You post a picture on Facebook? Congrats. Facebook owns that picture now. You post a fic on AO3, guess what? You still own it. That means that you control it. It also means that you’re responsible for protecting it. 

People donate money to pay for web servers. AO3 hosts nearly a terabyte of data. It gets something in the neighbourhood of a billion hits per month. They also donate to pay any contractors who might need to work on the Archive to test security, improve the site infrastructure and other such tasks that volunteers might not have the time or the expertise to do. 

Not only that, but AO3 is only one of the projects who make use of that donation money. It also goes to Fanlore, to the Open Doors project, to Fanhackers, to the Transformative Works and Cultures journal, and to legal advocacy. Did you know that AO3 volunteers have testified before Congress? Is that worth $200K for you?

Any one of those things could cost $200K or more, and the OTW does all of them and more. If you don’t want to donate, you don’t have to. If you hate the site, stay off of it. If you want to avoid fics that have content you dislike then read the fucking tags and don’t click on those fics. 

I’m not AO3. I’m just some woman with a blog. But if you come onto my post and try to slag them off? Best believe I’m going to defend them. They’ve got my back. I’ve 1000% got theirs.

[podfixx]

Fuck, yeah! 🧡

[katyakoniks]