welp, i went and got hooked on critical role

20 // she-it-they // c1 is my favorite campaign // also interested in dsmp, fire emblem and others.

[daisysmartheart]

realized i don't have a pinned so

🌿 femme/masc terms

🌿 i have a few sideblogs, urls won't be given out

🌿 i don't tag, and don't plan on it, but will tag for triggers if asked

🌿 ask box is always open, just don't rely on a response

🌿 current fixations: tma, the mechanisms, hozier

[daisysmartheart]

get prided, idiots.

[daisysmartheart]

new month, same pride!

[athousandgateaux]

Policing the use of sanist language has got to be the most useless and counterproductive way to be anti-psych.

[athousandgateaux]

Tbh, I'm significantly less concerned with people casually using the word crazy to mean busy or overwhelming or something than I am with people adopting clinical psychiatric language in an attempt to appropriate the pathologizing function of psychiatry for themselves (as in the case of people using "narcissist" to essentially mean "evil person" and diagnosing everyone in their life as a narcissist).

[athousandgateaux]

Everybody is anti-DSM until they want to diagnose someone they dislike with ontologically evil disorder (aka rancid bitch disease).

[thediscossessed]

Everyone say thank you black women

[noireservoir]

THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN

[creatingblackcharacters]

LOUDER!!

[beanswithbones]

[thedreammweaver]

We need an alternative to doesthedogdie cause they’ve started fucking paywalling warnings that include timestamps for triggering moments.

[thedreammweaver]

Like what the fuck

[autisticharrywells]

I just checked and

Need to read about trigger warnings? Please click the whimsical dog icon for more information!

I recommend Unconsenting Media. Not as comprehensive as DoesTheDogDie, but if sexual assault is a trigger for you, it’s a good resource

[troglobite]

rbing again real quick--i and other(s?) have noted in other rbs that this is almost never done. it's for very few properties, and it's only for timestamped warnings that are done in-house, not by users.

there are still timestamps available for warnings on those same triggers for those same properties. just bc there's a paywall on something doesn't mean other comments and timestamps can't be posted or read for free on that property or that trigger.

see here:

i don't have an account and haven't paid for anything on the site, so all of those comments are what i'm seeing for free.

i had to search and search to find anything that had paywalls, and had to resort to looking at The Substance, as referenced here. i've been using the site regularly since the op posted and have never organically encountered a paywall on anything, including on very popular properties.

i don't see any reason to stop using the site--everything is still available for free. they just have added another way for some ppl to choose to pay some $ (in addition to ads), since this is a completely free service, and no website is free to maintain.

as an example, someone with the money could pay to see the timestamps, and then leave a free comment with the same timestamps for others if they wanted to.

[sarith-kzekarit]

I've seen this post on my dash a few times now and I want to boost this specific addition. I've emailed the owner of the site to get clarification on this, and I was told the motivation behind this. He wanted to start paying some people to memorize all 200+ triggers on the site, sit down and watch popular movies/shows to thoroughly analyze whenever any trigger pops up, and note down timestamps and details of them. Ads unfortunately do not cover this (they probably only cover the site's base upkeep), so the subscription service is specifically to pay these people. Community comments have never been paywalled and are still accessible.

He thanked me for my feedback when I expressed confusion and concern about the paywalled comments being mixed in with the free comments, and has since updated the site to make them clearly distinct, along with a preview of what the paid comments look like:

He was very transparent about it all and very kind. He also said this was his mistake and is trying to clear it up. Please continue to use DoesTheDogDie.com, it is an excellent resource and there is nothing else like it!

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[tennas-t-v-time]

Happy pride month casual bigotry towards polyamory isn’t cool or okay and yes this includes joking about how you “dont like poly ships” like genuinely before you say something about polyamory just replace the word poly with gay and youll find out if its weird and bigoted very easily. Please just be nice

[system-coded-skirmish]

System-Coded Skirmish

(unsure why this is on your dash? if you followed lovecore-swag-showdown, freaky-fish-fshowdown, doomed-bythe-narrative, or just-some-guy-joust that’s us, we’ve just rebranded for the new tourney)

Does a writer's decisions ever make you tilt your head and go "did they know that that's really DID of them...?" or do you have system headcanons? Great news: we're going to make all those characters fight to the death. Submissions for system-coded characters are CURRENTLY OPEN and you can find the submission form at the bottom of this post!

Rules:

Characters that are CANONICALLY systems are NOT ALLOWED. This tournament is about characters that make you wonder if the writers did that on purpose, or for characters you headcanon as a system.

Mod is generally anti-endo (and anti-tulpa, anti-willo, etc), and submissions that focus on characters that INTENTIONALLY created alters, or who you claim to be a non DID/OSDD system, will be deleted. I don't care if you're endo and you participate, that's fine, just keep in mind this is aimed towards DID/OSDD systems and I intend to keep it that way. (For the sake of clarity, if the character you are submitting claims to have tulpas, as I know that's a fairly popular trope at present, they will not be automatically deleted. Research will be done to make a judgement call on if that will be allowed.)

Real people are not allowed. Fictional characters only. Characters that are based on real people are generally allowed but some may not be at mod discretion (e.g., the characters that Minecraft youtubers may play as would be allowed, or Leonardo DaVinci from Assassin's Creed)

You may make multiple submissions, but please do so in SEPARATE FORMS.

Do NOT submit "all characters from [x]". I need the names of the characters or your submission will be deleted. You can individually send in every single character, or mention them in your explanation for one, but I NEED their names.

The main submission should be the HOST of the system if possible, there is a seperate question for who you consider the alters to be.

While jokey responses are funny, do try to keep them at a minimum

Make your submissions here!!!!

Blog F.A.Q, not necessarily related to the new tourney, under the cut

Q: Aren't you going to finish the just some guy joust?

No

Q: Are you going to do an OC poll for this too?

No

Q: Why are you, a singlet, running a poll about systems?

If you're here from back when I claimed to be a singlet, I have great news. I was wrong

Q: Where are your other mods?

Killed them. Mx Narrative is now the sole owner of the blog again. Posts will no longer be mod tagged because it's just me

Q: [Anything about endos, tulpas, or willos]

I don't want to do syscourse on this blog. Yes I am anti-all of that. No I'm not going to block anyone for it unless they make it my problem. No I won't be explaining my stances. I'm just a DID system trying to see myself in some characters alright we can leave it at that, I'm not gonna kill your ass if you're an endo just don't bring me into it

Q: Can we meet your alters?

No

Q: Who's your favorite canonical system?

Thank you for asking!! The cast of Pocket Mirror: GoldenerTraum

[mxnrique]

HAPPY PRIDE

[arowitharrows]

Shout-out to aromantic people whose lives are so fucking busy that they periodically forget what day of the week it is. today is Wednesday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

[arowitharrows]

Today is Thursday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

[arowitharrows]

It's June 5th again!

[creature-wizard]

Reminder that:

The Christianization of Europe and the witch hunts are two completely separate things.

The witch hunts took place in the early modern period, well after Europe was Christianized.

The witch hunts were driven by conspiracy theories. It's literally a predecessor of QAnon.

Many conspiracy theories of the witch hunts were repurposed antisemitic conspiracy theories. (For example, blood libel and Satan worship.)

Lots of Christians practiced folk magic. They didn't usually call themselves witches.

Witchcraft was associated with polytheistic religions by Christians. Polytheists didn't call themselves witches. Whatever they were doing, they had their own words for it.

Modern witchcraft is a modern construct. It is not a revival of a genuine pre-Christian tradition of any kind.

Modern witchcraft cannot be "colonized" because it's literally a modern creation made by white people. However, modern witches are capable of doing colonialism, such as when they promote pseudohistory about other cultures.

[beardedmrbean]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[nihilamb]

dolly parton, 1987

[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 bitorrent or utorrent.

[asexual-amanita]

As summer is approaching, I’d like to remind everyone that you are not entitled to ask someone to cover up their scars, self inflicted or not. I don’t care if they’re big, I don’t care if they’re noticeable, or purple, or all over their body, or what. You can’t police people’s bodies.

[asexual-amanita]

This also goes for my friends with feeding tubes, ostomy bags, central lines and urinary catheters. People are allowed exist in bodies that stray from the expected norm.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here