Cactus di Fuoco

I Cactus di Fuoco sono un gruppo di sbarazzini scrittori (e artisti) con la bizzarra idea di voler rivoluzionare il mondo della letteratura young adult e fantasy. Benvenuti sul nostro Tumblr!

[fishdontcry]

Today's drawing, by Honey.Bee (in three versions!), depicts her, the one, the only, powerful Seras Alkahest! CEO of a huge company, Alkahest SAS, whose famous laboratories produce incredible (and sometimes mysterious) technological marvels. But how many people know that, in addition to being a great businesswoman, Seras is also… a sea witch? With her typical octopus-like appearance, with her long, pearlescent tentacles (ahem, they're actually arms, not tentacles: you can imagine us looking like bespectacled wise guys saying that), this elegant lady certainly isn't ordinary.

Today we see her in this semi-chibi style, displaying her power in a rather innocuous way: by flashing a green spark of light.

And also, in two slightly different (and very appreciated!) versions:

[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

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[cactusdifuoco]

Swapped Rivalry - Fuori di testa, Gregor Boston!

Read Fuori di testa, Gregor Boston! from the story Swapped Rivalry by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 1 reads. hoc...

Sembra tutto perfetto per la nostra Ginger, da quando si è scambiata di corpo con il famoso giocatore di hockey Gregor Boston e fa la vita da campionessa.

Ma adesso sta per succedere qualcosa... scoprite cosa, e molto altro ancora, nel nuovo capitolo di Swapped Rivalry! Non perdetevelo ;)

[fishdontcry]

Today's fanart was created for us by @cjcraziness, and it's absolutely fantastic!

It was drawn traditionally, and we can't help but appreciate the attention to detail. The artist has managed to demonstrate the fundamental fact that Sangreal, despite looking like a person, is actually a fish… a fish whose species, through a long period of adaptation, has managed to mimic the anthropomorphic form, to instill a little pity in the hearts of intelligent predators, or fear in other creatures, not to mention the advantage of having opposable thumbs! (Although, unfortunately for them, pistrix's dexterity isn't as refined as humans'.)

Look at his sparkling eyes! Wouldn't you like to throw some flake food to this adorable little fish (who, oh well… is several meters long, more of a big fish)?

Sangreal loves flake food. Or dried shrimp. Do you have any dried shrimp?

Oh, and there's a different version too:

[cactusdifuoco]

Swapped Rivalry - L'arte che ci rende vivi

Read L'arte che ci rende vivi from the story Swapped Rivalry by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 1 reads. queer, ho...

Ginger/Greg l'ha fatto: ha passato la notte con la sua crush, il bellissimo giocatore di hockey Shane O'Puck. Non è andata molto bene.

È tempo per lei di parlarne con un amico, nel nuovo capitolo di "Swapped Rivalry". Non perdetevelo!

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[cactusdifuoco]

Swapped Rivalry - A letto

Read A letto from the story Swapped Rivalry by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 2 reads. amore, romance, gay. L'alb...

Finalmente è il momento! Greg (o meglio, Ginger con l'aspetto di Greg) e Shane sono insieme in una stanza d'albergo! Due giocatori di hockey bellissimi e interessati l'uno all'altro.

Succederà quello che tutti pensano che succederà? Oppure la situazione andrà nella situazione opposta?

Scoprite questo, e molto altro ancora, nel nuovo capitolo di Swapped Rivalry! Non perdetevelo ;) 

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[cactusdifuoco]

Swapped Rivalry - Zen Fruits e gonadi di riccio

Read Zen Fruits e gonadi di riccio from the story Swapped Rivalry by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 1 reads. gay...

Finalmente Ginger (nel corpo del famoso giocatore Gregor Boston) ha ottenuto un appuntamente con Shane O'Puck. Il locale è strano, il cibo è strano e persino le persone che incontrano sono strane. Andrà tutto bene? Scoprite questo, e molto altro ancora, nel nuovo capitolo di Swapped Rivalry! Non perdetevelo ;)

[evilwriter37]

Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

this is the best way i’ve seen this put!!

[lynati]

And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man’s trigger is another man’s catharsis.

[randomslasher]

AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eating things that could potentially harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.

[nikoford]

I’d like to add that within AO3, “Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings” is, in this food analogy, like the food labels that read “This product was manufactured in a facility where [potential food allergens] are used in the production of some products”. It’s not telling you they’re in there, but even more importantly, it’s not telling you they’re not. This is not the same as “No Archive Warnings Apply” which would be the certified [food allergen] free food. One guarantees a certain experience, the other has given you no promises as to what may or may not be included and is very much a consume-at-your-own-risk product.

[sevdrag]

perfection

[hiramslodge]

so truly genuinely we need to get more funding towards freaks and perverts to make weird horny movies and tv and art i would rather watch someone’s barely disguised fetish with an interesting point of view than another soulless corporate shell with boring beautiful actors and nothing to say

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[cactusdifuoco]

Swapped Rivalry - La chiamata al cellulare

Read La chiamata al cellulare from the story Swapped Rivalry by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 1 reads. gay, quee...

Hm. Sembra che Ginger non abbia pensato che, scambiandosi di corpo con un famoso giocatore di hockey, suddetto giocatore di hockey è finito invece nel SUO corpo. Con la sua famiglia. E che ovviamente rivoglia indietro la sua vita... è tempo di rispondere ad una strana chiamata telefonica.

Questo e altro ancora nel nuovo capitolo di Swapped Rivalry! Non perdetevelo! 

[cactusdifuoco]

Swapped Rivalry - Sul campo

Read Sul campo from the story Swapped Rivalry by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 1 reads. bodyswap, lgbt, queer...

Hey, è una storia di amore, body-swap e hockey! Il body-swap c'è già stato, l'amore deve arrivare… tocca all'hockey qui!

[systlin]

Every time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you.

It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.

And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.

I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.

Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports.

[alanfromrochester]

While a counterexample does disprove an absolute rule I think the fact of sex/gender physical differences does still apply in general

I udnerstand that in fight sports a smaller person might be able to get their opponent to shift their bulk disadvantageously and that bodybuilders might have great muscle definition but not as much practical strength, that a trained women might beat an inexpert man even though the expert man would still win against the expert woman

[systlin]

Nope.

I've been to the competitions. The sparring is coed. Do you wanna see my trophies? Like I'm at work rn but when I get home I will go photograph the trophies.

Other women in martial arts, I'm encouraging you rn to post your trophies about this.

The world champion in HEMA longsword combat for years running was a woman. She won that against equally trained men.

Examine your biases.

[ardentmystacina]

A story I read once discussed three pillars of power - strength, speed, and skill, and if one combatant is significantly more skilled than the other they are generally going to win even if the person is stronger and faster.

In coed combat sports, even when the gender balance is equal, all the women are getting a lot more practice than the men in how to fight a stronger opponent with longer reach. The biggest guy there is never going to learn how to fight someone bigger than him and a small woman is basically going to excel in it just from experience.

[systlin]

It's true. Strength is just one part. Every dude in class is bigger and in raw terms physically stronger than me.

I've learned very well how to fight bigger men and win.

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

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[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you’re anti censorship and against harassing real people over fictional characters