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[calledforhelp]

I have to speak my truth here this blog is super dead and if I followed you it was probably for Kingdom Hearts. I have a handy side blog for that! @lockandkeyblade

[cansofbees]

tongue in cheek art about weird bodies and waiting for a diagnosis

[saros-system]

[ID: A piece of digital art. It depicts six vials of blood of various shades for lab testing with following labels: “negative”, “negative”, “Wait a minute.”, “No wonder I’m so fucking tired!”, “negative” and “Well. It’s not lupus!”. The background is black and blank and there is a white caption in the bottom left corner reading: “8.28.25 - “Labs””.

[lockandkeyblade]

that awkward moment when people keep messaging me excited because “OMG ARE YOU PLAYING FFXIV???” Naw sorry I’m playing the expansion; Leave Your Laptop Running For Twenty Hours In The Hopes The Game Downloads Without Hitting An Error.

[lockandkeyblade]

I defeated Download Savage but I forgot about Character Hud, Unreal.

[thatsprettylane]

Listen to me. Listen. I need you to dig up your old LJ fan fiction and move it to ao3 or Squidge. I need you to do this. I know, I know! It’s old fic! But please, for the love of those who will come after you, do it. Nobody can get into those communities. The doors are locked and the mods are gone. You must bring the treasures out for the next generation 🙏

[hils79]

I moved all my old LJ fic over to AO3 a few years ago but ALSO if, like me, you are Fandom Old and ever ran an old fiction archive AO3 will help you migrate all the works hosted on it over to AO3

I did this with the Buffy archive I used to run in the early 2000s and while I did some of it myself AO3 also assigned someone to help me

Check out Open Doors

My Buffy archive was no longer live but we were able to salvage the works using Wayback Machine which means a lot of old fic has been saved and preserved

[calledforhelp]

I was today years old when researching BDSM helped me realise precisely why working in the emergency field for a decade left me feeling like I was a broken, shattered figment of myself.

There is something profoundly beautiful about that.

[calledforhelp]

I beg and I plead and I grovel for people to learn not to be defensive when someone says you hurt them.

[waxsuyaaa]

hey click that keep reading button ↙️

here is a list with everything australia is banning for minors under the age of 16.

Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Roblox and even dating apps

Lego Play and Steam among the unexpected additions to the list that includes Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X

some kids won’t be able to contact their parents with the loss of whatsapp. they are banning basically all socials for kids. strict parents? you will only be able to stay at home and do nothing because there’s no way you’ll go outside. there’s no way you’ll talk to your friends /dir

they are banning LEGO PLAY. that is unnecessary.

if you are an australian citizen PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION

e-petitions

e-petitions

social media apps are rolling out ai age detection. do you think they want to go through the hassle of getting everyone to sign in with their correct ages? NO. they want you to upload photos of your face, and photos of your passport.

you know social media apps have the ability to send your data to third party companies, why would they not do it for this?

a world where kids’ information is easily accessible on the internet, even just the statement that they are under a certain age DOES NOT PROTECT THEM AT ALL.

they will have filtered access to recent news only. they will have no variety in their opinions. whatever the australian government provides them will be their only information to rely on.

if you are NOT an australian citizen, reblogs will help. thank you.

[waxsuyaaa]

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THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR REBLOGGING! if you are an australian citizen then please sign it.

[waxsuyaaa]

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34 MORE SIGNATURES!!!!!! HELL YEAHH

i hope this post remains more reblogs than likes! please keep going!

[ahato-m1zuta]

SIGN IT IF YOU ARE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN

[joeyclaire]

evil chara believers found dead in a ditch covered in hot tar

[joeyclaire]

someone check on nochocolate

[chimaerakitten]

One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.

Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”

Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.

[ocean-again]

person who knows how logistical things works has picked up the cannon, hefted it thoughtfully, and put a single chalk mark precisely on the problem.

[etjwrites]

Sometimes you spend hours figuring out the small details and realise you just solved the massive plot issue you were having just by worldbuilding 😊

[finitevoid]

I think if Vanitas’ method to wake ven up in kh3 he would’ve just started wailing on his unconscious body with his fists

[calledforhelp]

not to be political or anything but when you do things that make it transparently clear that you do not see other people as human there will eventually be a point where they cease to treat you as one in turn.

[calledforhelp]

so I’ve been diagnosed with severe anemia and I wish my parents were more like my manager. The second I told her she came of to bat for me like “when do you need treatment perfect you can leave early, tell me if you need time off I will cover you, this will not affect your job you love being here and I want you here let’s get you well enough to enjoy it again”

meanwhile my parents are like “your doctor didn’t send you to hospital so don’t take any leave”

she didn’t send me to hospital because she doesn’t like the hospitals around here lmfao. She’s going to do the transfusion herself because she doesn’t want them fucking me over. And I still have a shopping list of symptoms to look out for that are immediate emergency room visits

Anyway tldr:

me: I am producing less than half the blood I should be

my parents: yeah but you’re breathing so like, skill issue.

[just-french-me-up]

"mmh did you know that creator you like also posts 🔞 content? did you know that? don't you think that's weird? don't you think we should keep this space-"

no. i don't.

i booked a front row seat to the devil's sacrament and you're blocking the view

just go back to the 1660 new england hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever

[marithlizard]

" "I booked a front row seat to the devil's sacrament and you're blocking the view" is one banger of a thematic statement. Shirt material.

[calledforhelp]

Anyone else staring at America right now and just having vivid flashbacks to what happened when it became commonplace to assassinate politicians in Rome

[drawloverlala]

Stayed up last night listening to Undertale music and this is the result lol

[universalfanfic]

Something I think is neat and really cute about fanfic is that there’s a personal version of each character in it? Like, each writer focuses on different traits and qualities and even though there can be a hundred fics with the same character, they’re really not exactly the same.

So even if you and I are writing a fic with the same characters, they can still be uniquely different despite having the same core and they’re each dear to us personally as our take on the person.

I don’t know, I just think it’s cute that each writer cherishes these characters in personal and unique ways.

[thelittleblackfox]

This is the heart of the Two Cakes rule

[kyraneko]

It really is.

What’s more, every reader who’s read more than one version of a character has their internal perception of that character enriched by the versions of that character written by those authors.

And those are the result of every version of the character in every fic the authors have read.

It’s a massive progression towards complexity and realism for the character in the minds of the storytellers.

In a way, it’s Infinite Cakes.

[calledforhelp]

I saw your post about dreamwidth rp and I was wondering if you still play there?

I don't and I'm gonna say I probably wouldn't again, which is not me saying "oh it's a bad experience". I did have some bad experiences there, but those were very few and far between. In addition to being more brought on by like, conflicts with individual people rather than the dwrp sphere.

It's a no for me more in terms of... the characters I'm interested in are still the same characters I was interested in ten odd years ago and from having checked out the cast lists of games available a few months ago, and having kept up with the "characters wanted" on the monthly enablemeplz posts, it's just a different landscape than it used to be. I wouldn't feel confident in being able to garner much CR, not in the way I used to.

Which is to say, I don't think I could get away with playing an 8-12 year old who starts glitter fights and drawing competitions anymore LMFAO also KH is a bastard of a canon and I wouldn't, necessarily want to play the canon characters anymore either.