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pronouns are whatever | fic writer | Icy | adult | don't call me an inspiration

[cure-icy-writes]

girl who somehow convinced me to break out the art software after months of nothing

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[quietwingsinthesky]

friend is trying to convince me this is a common experience and I do not believe her, so

Do you expect to be paid back if you pay for something for your friend while you’re hanging out? (I.E. a ride, a meal, a trinket.)

Yes, always

Yes, but only if it’s above a limit of money

No, never

I don’t buy things for my friends.

bald button

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

For a more illustrative example, say you go to the movies with a friend and you buy them popcorn, do you expect them at some point to send you money back via cash or through an app of some kind? Will you be upset if they don’t?

[blindbeta]

Hello. I made a curious post about blindness and art a few days ago, and a commenter referred me to your blog, which I found very educational and insightful.

I hope you find my questions respectful, I am very curious as I have never met a blind person before. I understand that blindness is a sort of spectrum, and many blind people still have some level of visual input.

How is your relationship to visual art? If someone describes a painting to you, do you perceive it in a way that's hard to explain to someone with sight? The commenter I mentioned told me that blind people prefer clear, concise descriptions of images/art. When you hear these descriptions, what are you thinking about?

Sorry if this was weird. My whole impetus for this was that it's an innate human feature to seek out and creare beauty, and that everyone's perspective is valuable. I want to understand how all sorts of people witness art, which led me to your blog.

Interesting. I personally think that when it comes to image descriptions done by the artist themself, they can describe e their using whatever language they think is suitable. Other people creating descriptions might describe color or mood, but their image description is going to focus on clarity. They might not know the artist’s full intent, so level of detail might change.

I, like most blind people, can see visual art. Image descriptions are still helpful to me as sometimes I might miss details. Descriptions help fill in the gaps. If I’m unable to look at an image because, for example, I’m listening to my screen-reader read fanfic and an image pops up, the image description can tell me the basic idea of the art. I can picture it in my head. Even totally blind people can sometimes have mental imagery although it depends on the person. There are even fully sighted people who don’t have the ability to picture images in their minds.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind is one of the few movies that understands Superman.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn't always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn't receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.

All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.

[cure-icy-writes]

i have a really good system for sorting my art but unfortunately i haven't updated it since. uhhhhh. it's been a while so i need to get back to that. right now i have it sorted by most recent but usually i keep it alphebetized and it looks tremendously niceys

[cure-icy-writes]

idk if some people are ready for this hot take but i think we should stop normalizing and romanticizing con crunch. that shit is not sustainable, especially for those of us who aren't able bodied teenagers. how about we start normalizing wearing weather appropriate cosplays that we made well in advance.

[chucktaylorupset]

“Irritated fans produce fanfic like irritated oysters produce pearls.”

— Anne Jamison (via pen-in-hand)

[dragon-hoard]

if you are going to need some kind of sedative for 4th of july fireworks for your pets NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHEDULE THOSE APPOINTMENTS TO ASK FOR THEM

NOT WHEN ITS 2 DAYS AWAY

[alex51324]

I feel like to really get this circulating as it should, we need it superimposed over the picture of the turkey going in the fridge. (I can't do it I'm on my phone.)

[amaditalks]

[forgthetheaterkid]

Hey! Anybody who does cosplay/buys fabric- WHERE DO YOU BUY IT FROM??? I’m getting into cosplay but Joann’s is closed and I can’t find many other places that sell fabric!!

[fabrickind]

Hello there!

Here's a couple of posts with links to fabric stores:

Fabric sources

So with Joann going under and as a Fashion/Costume Designer and a cosplayer I need a place to get fabric and notions, and I know many others

I wanted to make a post I could copy and paste and or link when I see folks asking where to buy fabrics when Joann is gone. I sew a lot, gen

My personal favorites are Fabric Wholesale Direct (general fabrics for mega cheap), Dharma Trading Company (natural fibers and cheap silks, most of which you have to dye yourself), and Blue Moon Fabrics (best stretch supplier I've found).

I have more suggestions (fabrics-store for linen, Renaissance Fabrics for historical fabrics, Spandex House and Spandex World for even more stretch), but those are my top three.

Good luck! :]

[illusion-of-death]

Revolutionary idea: imagine [character I like] with [disability I have]. More people should get on this!

[violetsandshrikes]

Fun fact: Falling Fruit has a worldwide map where you can look to see if anyone has noted any fruit trees you can harvest near your location for free 🍎

[violetsandshrikes]

Just wanted to add a little update because I’ve seen some comments and tags: this map is very much user generated, and it’s been running for a fairly long time!

Sometimes areas get developed or trees get removed or circumstances change which is super disappointing, but please don’t hesitate the map to reflect that so other people know that it’s no longer a viable site! Additionally, if you know of sites that aren’t on the map, adding them is a great way help out other people in your region who come across it.

As well as foragable materials, there’s also the option to add other resources as well such a seed libraries, community gardens, bike pumps, free stores/pantries, food banks, compost sites, guerilla gardens, water fountains, and other community resources.

Projects like this are amazing, but don’t forget that they work best when everyone collaborates!

[latenightbotanist]

Love fallingfruit, but for any Germans out there may I recommend Mundraub. Same concept but a German site and therefore potentially used by more people in Germany. Doesn’t hurt to check both but I’ve usually found more results in my area on Mundraub is what I’m saying

[jfkisonthemoon]

witch hat atelier is great because in the first few chapters it looks like its really just going to be a cute magical girl story about hope and friendship but then you keep reading and its about how fascist societies fabricate a social structure to divide how power and information is disseminated and what life is like as a disabled person in that society. and then its also still about hope and friendship, but if hope and friendship could kill you.

[cure-icy-writes]

the metaphor should always include a really fucked up creature and awful things happening to your body or whats the point

[transxfiles]

i consider it my civic duty to go onto ratemyprofessors.com at the end of every term and fallingfruit.org whenever i find a consistent free food source.

[howlsnteeth]

[insidestory1]

When you tell someone about being mistreated because of your disability, there is a common response that goes something along the lines of, "But did you explain to them properly why you can't do x thing?" "Did you make sure they understood why you need x accomodation?" "Maybe they just didn't understand?"

For example: "Did you properly explain that the reason you don't do hugs is because of your autism?" or "Maybe they don't really understand how bad fibro fatigue is and that's why they got upset at you for concelling plans."

I hate these kind of responses. They give me the same vibe as being asked, "Yeah, but what were you wearing when you got catcalled?" They put the responsability for the problem onto the person who was discriminated against, instead of the one doing the discriminating. Disabled people should not be expected to go through grueling explanations or justify their needs before those needs are respected.