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[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[noelle-ism]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

[noelle-ism]

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

[emberphoenixisgoingtolivee]

phrases of international online friends

"what do YOU guys call it"

"isn't it [insert time here] over there????"

"GO THE FUCK TO BED"

"good morning" (it's 6pm in your timezone)

"do you have/say [thing] over there"

"how's the weather over there?" (probably better than yours)

[brehaaorgana]

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

[brehaaorgana]

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

[brehaaorgana]

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!

Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?

So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

[penrosesun]

While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dol

7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (Published 2023)

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared

Cambodia scams: Lured and trapped into slavery in South East Asia

Traffickers are forcing thousands of people from across Asia to work in online scam centres.

Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam mills

Myanmar youth recount life inside a cyber-scam mill before a city’s fall brought the scheme crashing down.

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

[spicyshimmy-blog]

no one fights like jim kirk

from great heights like jim kirk

no one’s style of weird combat delights like jim kirk’s

for there’s no one as defiant of gravity

he’s perfect. a pure paragon

[sherbet-powder]

two flavours of bingbing

[tygerbug]

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

[cholerascum]

money marge

save me

save me money marge

give me one thousand dollars

[lorelune]

i'll defend fanfic for my whole life. like the joy it brings is genuinely transformative and indulgent in a way unique to the genre. it isn't meant for a market, it isn't meant to be sold or marketed. it is born out of such care and passion for a media that one must write and must share it, so other folks can enjoy it to. for no other reason than love and joy. do you know how special that is? especially in our current social and political climate.

[valtsv]

sorry for romanticizing the mundane but the fact that laughter is infectious is so incredible to me. like yeah it's just a reaction to stimuli but the way it feels to hear someone laugh and feel yourself compelled to share that joy is really something. and it's so simple and requires no skill but it's so special and important to me.

[penny-anna]

anyway been writing omegaverse this week for the first time in uhh *checks notes* 11 years and have to say something i find interesting about it is that it's this like. frankly very normal fetish thing that's just breached containtment to a bizarre degree?

[penny-anna]

on 2 separate occasions i've had conversations with people where they've mentioned something they don't Get about omegaverse and I've been like 'well it's like that bcos it's a fetish thing' and they've been like 'it's a what??'

it gets treated as this like stock fandom AU and i'll see people like 'i don't understand why anyone wants to read this' and i'm like yes that's bcos it's pretty intense* fetish content & you don't have the right assortment of fetishes for it? there's a bunch of other similar Stock Settings that just haven't breached containment.

*intense as in like, Density of fetish content involved rather than intensity of fetish if that makes sense?

[beesechurger1909]

im alright with fetish ideas 'breaching containment' because then its less stigmatized but like its still fetish content and its a little perplexing how people could read omegaverse stuff and not realize its fetish content?

[penny-anna]

SO i think i've observed 2 separate but related things going on:

firstly the aforementioned demographic of people who have somehow genuinely failed to clock that it's a kink thing

but also a second demographic of people who seem to have taken its like. prominence in fandom spaces as a sign that they're somehow 'expected' to like it? i've not really seen this attitude with any other kink.

ppl will talk about it the way they might talk about say high school/college AUs or coffee shop AUs which are very common and i guess are sometimes presented as things that everyone finds fluffy & relatable? when in reality it's more like idk. piss kink. it'd be pretty weird to read a piss kink fic and go 'ewww why does the author expect me to find piss sexy??' well they don't. they expect people who already think piss is sexy to read the fic.

[penny-anna]

In the name of historical accuracy here is the actual origin point on omegaverse:

Obviously there was a process of development leading up to it but this kink meme prompt led to whats generally accepted as the OG. Ultimately the brain child of this anonymous poster. Have they ever identified themselves??

[penny-anna]

An important thing to remember here is that while I appreciate why some people find world building heavy omegaverse puzzling or irritating, the fact that someone is writing primarily or exclusively SFW social commentary w world building omegaverse does NOT mean it's not a kink thing for them. Maybe world building is their kink. You don't know.

[hotgirlmeg]

imagine you have a movie with oscar isaac and john boyega and people fixate on adam driver instead. this actually happened

[hollypunkers]

kind of obsessed with the idea of the rest of the gaang leaving Toph and Zuko to watch over some cooking food and when they come back its burned and Katara starts fuming but Toph and Zuko are like “we’ve never stepped inside a kitchen in our lives and only have one eye between us, if anything it’s your fault”

[cypresstheworld]

[theloserarmy]

Top: If it bakes for 15 minutes at 350 degrees than it should only take 1 minute at 5,250 degrees

Zuko: I can do that

[paddy-nic]

Zuko: makes the "one eye, your fault" comment

Toph: YOU ONLY HAVE ONE EYE?!

[atlaheritageposts]

atla heritage post

[redstonedust]

its a cliche but im a slut for when a character is introduced as super chill and goofy and then you later find out theyre chill and goofy because theyre too powerful to be touched. the level 100 wizard whos already figured out everything and is just vibing now. big fan.

[sweetchilibeans-deactivated2020]

baby, you can have it all

🍬🐲☄️💥🔥🌈🔥💥☄️🐲🍬

emoji spell to attract good things towards those you wish (very quick, sudden change)

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[willowwispflame]

You know, I think people forget sometimes that just because abuse or "physical punishment" was "normal" in ye olden days, doesn't make it right. Luo Binghe was mistreated by Shen Jiu. He was singled out among his peers, made a target, whipped and strung up, given subpar housing, given a fake cultivation manual that Shen Jiu himself expected to kill him.

When we read other novels like MDZS, we read our protagonists facing physical punishment. WWX is whipped bloody by Madam Yu, has been for years. LWJ is whipped until he can't move for his crime of fighting against his elders to protect WWX. Both of them were physically punished as disciples, and hurt so badly they had to go to a special cultivation spot with cold water to numb their injuries.

Was that physical punishment right? Did it change anything for the better? Did WWX become any less of a troublemaker, or did it make him more likely to hurt himself in favor of others? Did LWJ become a better person for taking on physical punishment, or was he already a better person than those punishing him?

Shen Jiu was a villain, not just for abusing Luo Binghe, but for how he treated everyone around him. He was the reason for his students being bullies, for Ning Yingying not progressing like her peers. You think that pidw!NYY would have stood up to LBH for her Shizun like svsss!NYY did? Never.

And plenty of people disregard this as "SY's/LBH's bias," but we know that Shen Jiu drove away plenty of other promising disciples just like Luo Binghe. Luo Binghe was only there for so long because he had the (mis)fortune of being stubborn, not having anywhere else to go, and having a constitution that let him survive.

If Shen Jiu didn't habitually mistreat his disciples, how else was Ming Fan gleefully ready with a plan to dump Luo Binghe in the woodshed instead of being shocked at the sight of his Shizun throwing tea on his new shidi's head? Is throwing tea on someone's head normal Shizun behavior? Maybe for Shen Jiu it is! Like, even Yue Qingyuan, who doesn't do shit to stop Shen Jiu, tells him that he shouldn't keep mistreating Luo Binghe when SY!SQQ first wakes up. Even someone who lives in the system doesn't think it's right.

And for anyone who still thinks that Shen Jiu had the "right" to treat Luo Binghe like he did, did Qiu Jianluo have a "right" to mistreat his slave? Young, rich, powerful - in "ye olden days," of course he did. In fact, Shen Jiu killing him, even in self defense, wouldn't be forgivable. That's what landed him in prison. And while Shen Jiu's crime of killing all of the men in the Qiu household might seem more justified because of his mistreatment to our eyes, remember that it was just as much of an overreaction as Luo Binghe burning CQMS to the ground.

You can't apply modern sensibilities to svsss canon selectively, if LBH was in the wrong for considering his treatment unjustified abuse, then SJ was also in the wrong for considering HIS treatment unjustified abuse. But, they were both rightfully pissed and overdid their revenge. Let Shen Jiu and Bingge be parallels gosh darn it!!!

[littlesparklight]

It frankly drives me insane, because yes, just because it was normal doesn't make it right, but on top of that... If Yue Qingyuan, Shen Qingqiu apologist extraordinare and passive enabler, is telling what he thinks is still the original Shen Qingqiu that he should calm down and not treat Binghe quite that terribly? Clearly what's happening is actually beyond the pale and not "normal" or "fine" at all.

And if the old palace master is bringing up the "rumours" of Shen Qingqiu abusing his disciples/Binghe in particular as a point of attack, he clearly expects this to be effective and mean something when anything at all of this would be brought to light. Which means the abuse isn't normal or acceptable.