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I have had the pleasure to work alongside @anomalyobservers for their most recent Markiplier ego video essay as an artist. Below are the pieces for the segments I worked on.
Please consider giving the project your support. We all worked months in research, scripting, and of course a lot on the art pieces
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
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
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 bitorrent or utorrent.
Quick tips for Writing Villains!!
â A villain who thinks they're the hero is scarier than one who knows they're evil.
â Give them something they love. It makes everything worse.
â Their logic should make sense, even if their actions don't.
â The best villains don't monologue. They ask questions.
â Not every villain needs a tragic backstory. Some people are just hungry for power.
â Let them win sometimes. Repeatedly, it raises the stakes.
â A villain who is polite is more unsettling than one who screams.
â They should change the hero just as much as the hero changes them.
â Give them a genuine friendship or loyalty somewhere. It humanizes without excusing.
â The scariest thing a villain can do is be right about something.
â Not every villain needs to die. Some walk away. Some become allies. Some just... disappear.
â A villain with a sense of humor is dangerous because you almost like them.
I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like âhere are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!â And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each personâs role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.
#IM SORRY THEY DO HOME FUCKING WORK IN ANIMORPHS??????
Yeah they're students. If they don't keep their grades up or if they miss too many classes (or miss classes at suspicious times) then they risk drawing the attention of the faculty and/or their parents, some of whom are the enemy and some of whom can just make future espionage a whole lot harder. There are multiple missions where they're like "okay, this is incredibly time sensitive but it'll take a full day or longer so it has to wait for the weekend and we'll have to all lie to our parents about sleeping over at each others' houses. It's gonna have to be done at the last minute because we've gotta go to class. Also, remember to get that English paper finished, we can NOT afford to have you grounded right now."
They also get disembowelled and/or eaten a lot
#animorphs#its actually devastating i bever got into these#they wouldve been a million times more up my alley wtf was i reading harry potter for
It's not too late. You can still read them.
These have been out of print for an age, and the authors have given their blessings to share the PDFs. Here's everything, including companion/side books and the non-canon Alternamorphs books, in reading order:
All of the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate, as well as the other books set in that universe. I got them here. I am not the one who collec
#Im sorry can we circle back to the disembowelment for a second im not over that
Oh they get disembowelled so so often. Especially Marco. Marco gets diesembowelled, Jake dies in alternate timelines, and Rachel blacks out for ten minutes or so only to come back to herself surrounded by the torn-apart corpses of her enemies with her teammates screaming at her to retreat before the building explodes or collapses or whatever. They have their niches. They all get eaten alive often enough that you can't really pin that one to a specific animorph.
Jake did get crushed as a fly that one time and his organs got smeared everywhere and all his friends (also flies) had to carry him somewhere safe to demorph before his brain died but it was hard because the legs they were holding kept getting torn off his mangled body, making him very difficult to carry, which personally I think is Marco injury territory. But like. They've all gotta take occasional actions to avoid tight typecasting so Jake can have a little Fly Dismemberment as a treat.
#hi yes what the FUCK#no wonder her and the author of the gone series are together
The author of the Gone series cowrote Animorphs. The couple wrote it together.
that makes a lot of sense, I've just seen K A Applegate on all the covers
Yeah they published under her name. If you ever see people talking about Animorphs refer to "Applegrant", this is why.
sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.
they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.
10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too
Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme
https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642
Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!
sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.
they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.
10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too
Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme
https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642
Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!
becoming an adult cheat sheet!
learn to coupon
what to do when you canât afford therapy
cleaning your bathroom
what to do when you canât pay your bills
stress management
quick fix meals
find out if youâre paying too much for your cell phone bill
resume workshop
organize your closet
how to take care of yourself when youâre sick
what you should bring to a doctorâs appointment
whatâs a mortgage?
how to pick a health insurance plan
hotlines list
your first gynecology appointment
what to do if the cops pull you over
things to have in your car in case of emergency
my moving out masterpost
how to make friends as an adult (video)
how to do taxes (video)
recommended reads for surviving adulthood (video)
change a flat tire (video)
how to do laundry (video)
opening a bank account (video)
laundry cheat sheet
recipes masterpost
tricks to help you sleep more
what the fuck should you make for dinner?
where should you go for drinks?
alcohol: know your limits
easy makeup tips
find seat maps for your flight
self-defense tips
prevent hangovers
workout masterpost
how to write a check
career builder
browse careers
birth control information
financial management software & app (free)
my mental health masterpost
my college applications masterpost
how to jumpstart a car
sex ed masterpost
reblogging for whomever needs it
Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely
tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !
You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored
So if you lived in a society where you had to secure your communication in order to be yourself around others, here are the apps that could help you do that.
Signal letâs you securely text and make phone calls.
Onion Browser allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail.
Duck Duck Go isnât super secure but it wonât record your searches like Google.
ProtonMail is a email client that lets you email other secure email accounts.
Periscope allows you to stream live video.
Semaphor is there so you can securely make group chat rooms.
American privacy laws allow you to use these all. So thatâs pretty cool.
Because weâre currently living in the prologue of a cyberpunk dystopian novel, imma reblog this.
Because weâre currently living in the prologue of a cyberpunk dystopian novel
See, @teasugarsalt, this is exactly what Iâve been saying!
Opening my author email these days really is just some variation of "hello influencer, we have noticed your [product] and that you are very good at it. We would like to talk to you about a way you can expand your audience using our unique subscription service training people how to self publish there book," and that's great and all, but I'm doing that shit for free.
Anyway, in light of Draft2Digital implementing fees for new authors or authors who do not make the yearly threshold of sales (I get why they're doing it, and it's still less expensive than Ingram by a country mile. But it still sucks for the people affected by it and it will drive more people to Amazon :/), you can publish your digital media directly through Kobo.
They do not offer paperbacks or hardbacks at this time.
But their digital market has the same e-book and audio market reach as D2D/Ingram and allows for library lending. So if you are an indie author who was mostly using D2D for that library access, and for whom the maintenance fees would be prohibitive against your earnings, you can use Kobo for free.
I haven't used it, because I'm not affected by the D2D fees and I didn't want to mess up my market listings by having duplicates, but when I heard about the D2D fees, I started researching so I could hopefully find a free alternative with comparable market reach. And good old Kobo was there.
Anyway. Hope that helps someone.
I am having a moment of "Wait what do you mean there are people charging fees if an author doesn't hit a threshold of sales?" I am looking at Ingram right now and wondering if I need to pull my book or not. :-/
Ingram isn't currently charging you to host if you don't meet a certain royalty threshold.
D2D has implemented it to try and combat the fact that their free access model means they've been getting hammered by AI slop uploads. (Barnes and Noble are also getting hammered, and they've chosen instead to restrict author accounts to 100 books per account.) They're hoping having a small fee will discourage those people.
The $12 yearly maintenance fee through D2D is still substantially lower than what Ingram charges to distribute through them every time you make an upload (the last time I looked it worked out at $75 per physical book + $25 every time you wanted to make a change to the files) but it's still enough of a barrier that some authors who don't make the $100+ a year threshold are looking for a different platform.
It's disheartening. I understand by D2D are doing what they are doing, but yeah. Not great.
I will just add that Ingram spark abolished upload and reupload fees completely in Feb this year (2026). There's some rules about how many reuploads you can do in a certain amount of time but it does make the D2D annual fee a little more sour when holding them side by side.
Oh! I knew they were making changes, but I wasn't aware they'd completely abolished it. Sounds like they were losing too many people to D2D and adopted their model. I wonder if they're about to get hit my the AI slop uploads then as well :/
Do we know if they're still charging $25 per half hour to talk to a customer support?
I had to deal with that earlier in the year when they "accidentally" enabled a book for distribution that wasn't meant to be available and I couldn't pull it off the market without phoning them because the person on the other end of the email gave zero shits -_-
apparently this is not common knowledge among punk diy sewists but if youâre sewing patches / doing any sewing that requires pushing a needle through multiple layers of fabric, use a needle grip. theyâre little rubber things that have excellent grip on the metal needle so you donât have to pinch the needle as hard. you will save your fingers soooo much unnecessary pain.
thereâs two main types. the basic type is just a little circle of rubber that you fold around your needle, and the fancier type is a little rubber cap for your fingertips. theyâre very cheap, under five bucks for the fancier kind and less for the basic, and they last forever. you can buy nice ones from your local craft store or steal them from the quilting section walmart idc. if youâre in a pinch (pun intended) and canât go out, if you have a non-slip mat under a rug, cut off a little corner and that will work decently. please treat your fingers kindly <3
ooh rubber thimbles are back
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capitalâŠ
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, itâs literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while weâre talking about books, if youâve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely donât go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately theyâre completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline itâs very likely that same paper is on a âpreprintâ server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old âsend a email nicely asking for the paper to the authorâ is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
Donât mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid
Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they donât just post a copy to download. If theyâre associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.
Always reblog.
I need to keep this in mind
Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artistâs work and sell it back to you.
âOh, but itâs free!â There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.
Donât use it. Report it at every opportunity.
To summarize it overall:
App acts like a browser but paywalls offline reading while reviews state itâs full of intrusive ads and lacks basic functionality such as commenting. Do not use this app. Use the ao3 website. The app uses Gen-AI content for imagery on categories and is essentially forcing people to pay if they want to read your fics offline.
By the way you donât have to pay anything to read fics offline. You can do it for free using easily accessible resources that donât cost anything.
You do not need to pay $1 every week, $2 every month, or even $18 a year. It can be done free! By anyone!
You can also turn ao3 into an app itself by adding it to your Home Screen. You donât need to download shady apps.
The way to read fics offline is by downloading them onto your device. AO3 lets you do this, in multiple file formats, right at the top of the page:
If you don't have a PDF reader on your phone, there are any free ones (I personally like ReadEra). Or you download it as HTML.
AO3 doesn't have an app, and doesn't need an app. Don't fall for this. There's no telling what they'll do with your login data.
Things in the Markiplier Cinematic Universe that people often forget -
Actor!Mark has multiple children (that he avoids)
Wilford has been married (if what he says can be trusted)
George, the grounds keeper, knew that something supernatural was in the manor, and that the WKM events where bound to happen at sometime (obviously didn't know the exact events, just something awful would happen)
Abe is shown to vape and smoke. If I remember correctly this was originally an accident but it worked out well to show how inconsistent time is for both Abe and Wilford
The masks in WMW were not actually masks, Abe could not see the masks
come on, lets give the robot a hand! you can get it as a sticker here!
Gonna want the sound on for this one boys
One of the all-time great videos.
A Heart Of Iron Reached 2K Downloads!?!?
Plus âThe Ideal Iplierâ now has a page on Itchio :)))
Well⊠Iâm shocked to say the least⊠And the downloads keep growing higher so all I can say is just thank you again for the support đ„č I also noticed 80% of the downloads happen on Itchio so I made a page for The Ideal Iplier on there too for those that want to follow hehehe :)))
So the question is⊠Who is your ideal iplier?
