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nickname's Alex | they/them | ao3 | manga and anime sideblog: @sleeping-gon-chan | can disappear from this site for a few days at a time with no warning | NOT SPOILER FREE (i do try to tag for ongoing stories)

[azorell]

i didn't plan to take a month-long break from this blog, but, well. i'm now on @az-is-back :)

[trufflesmushroom]

wait isnt gender over today

[trufflesmushroom]

buh-bye now

[azorell]

i didn't plan to take a month-long break from this blog, but, well. i'm now on @az-is-back :)

[azorell]

if you interact with this blog i'll only see it a day to a week later. no way am i turning my puter on everyday just to look if i've got new notifications ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[returnofahsoka]

hi! maybe you've seen i've received this comment on one of my fics this morning

[ID: "akdeimn left the following comment on warmth: Work scanned, HoloAi use detected."]

i reported them and this is what ao3 said, thought i'd pass it along for you guys so you know what to do if you get a similar comment:

"Hi, 

Thank you for contacting the AO3 Policy & Abuse committee. We're sorry to hear that you are receiving hostile spam comments. 

Similar comments have recently been widely spammed across the site. It is likely that your work was targeted at random. We recommend using the 'Spam' button to mark any other such comments as spam. Doing so will remove the comment and help train our automated spam-checker to reject similar spambot comments."

[eventually--darling]

If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

[moadej]

🏳️‍⚧️ Aussie peeps, please sign! 🇦🇺

This is an official petition directly on the Parliament of Australia's website.

Petition EN4863 - Allowing asylum for individuals with non-conforming in traditional gender identities

If sucessful, this could potentially begin the process to make Australia a place for transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming and other individuals to legally seek asylum, protecting them from anti-trans laws and legislation in their home country.

Petition link here

The petition is currently open for the next 5 days! Time is critical!

You must be a citizen or resident of Australia. You do not need to be over 18.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Pouring molten metal into water beads to make a sculpture

[19b-archive-deactivated20250525]

Every week I see a new art form on Tumblr. It’s amazing how creative humans are.

[cleansingreflections-deactivate]

i just had to go get my blood taken again because the test results for the previous one were inconclusive and the woman taking my blood again told me that it was because the electrolysis machine exploded with my blood inside it. blood too strong

[cleansingreflections-deactivate]

lab technican: don't tell anyone though

me in my head: this is going to be a hit on tumblr

[transmasc-wizard]

i'm AWARE this is a stupid hill to die on, but like. trope vs theme vs cliché vs motif vs archetype MATTERS. it matters to Me and i will die on this hill no matter how much others decide it's pointless. words mean things

[transmasc-wizard]

trope: 1) the use of figurative language for artistic effect; includes allegories, analogies, hyperbole, & metaphors, among others. 2) commonly reoccurring literary devices, motifs, or clichés. Includes things like the medieval fantasy setting, the Dark Lord, enemies-to-lovers, and the Chosen One.

theme: the reoccurring idea or subject in a work of art. Death, life, rebirth, change, love, what it means to be human, the definition of family, the effects of war, etc.

cliché: an element of an artistic work that has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even becoming annoying or irritating. (Most clichés are tropes but not all tropes are clichés.)

motif: a distinctive repeating feature or idea, such as the green light in The Great Gatsby. May overlap with tropes and is often used to further explore the theme.

archetype: a constantly-recurring symbol or motif; it refers to the recurrence of characters or ideas sharing similar traits throughout various, seemingly unrelated cases in classic storytelling. E.g. rags to riches, the wise old mentor. Again may overlap with tropes, clichés, and motifs, but they're not the exact same thing.

[rozentias-deactivated20240103]

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

[charaznablescanontoyota]

cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.

[valtsv]

microdosing on catharsis by watching a fictional character or persona i relate to have an emotional breakdown until my chest starts to ache from the amount i've repressed

[valtsv]

[lizzibennet]

sometimes i forget how reading is just. marvelous. just an absolutely fucking endlessly joyful activity. i’ll go about my life and not read one single book for months and be like why am i morose! why am i so apathetic! what is missing here!!!! and try to look for whatever it is that is lacking and never find it anywhere and i get so tired and sad and angry, and then i’m finally like i’m gonna stop everything for a couple days and read a really good book bc i don’t care about anything else. and suddenly i get motivated to work bc i know i’ll read when i’m on break. i get more creative. i want to watercolor again and bust out the shameful fabric stash with all my unfinished sewing projects. god even my dreams get more vivid!! what the fuck! and i’m like here is the magic i was looking for, why did i ever think i was going to find it anywhere else. it was always here!!!

[leolaroot]

list of mammals that are bugs

1. jerboa.

[unhelpfulalienwholovesyou]

2.

[sivsii]

I love it when my creativity spurs other creativity. literally no better feeling as an artist than when someone looks at something you’ve made and goes “I saw this and liked it so much I could do nothing more with myself than turn it into drive for my own creativity” like that’s really what creativity is huh!! an instrument to further human expression and community and connection 

[azorell]

gotta love living in a country where the minister of the interior says that left-leaning politicians are terrorists and shamelessly uses fascist concepts <3

[azorell]

"are you okay?" people ask, and then i have to go through an extensive process of separating my personal current experience from the news all around me to have any hope of finding an answer to that question. but then i don't find an answer.

[azorell]

We Live In A Society (and that includes me)