Schwarzer Hase

European Magpie she/they OLD

[librarycomic]

Next week at ALA Annual in Chicago, Library Comic will be at Booth 1338 in the Graphic Novel Pavilion (back with all the comics publishers). Please drop by and say hello!

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

[background-character-341]

For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.

[prinnay]

Lisa process pics converted into a video!

[arpkmf2]

[unamccormack]

Hey una hope you're having a nice day! I've been wanting to get into startrek literature, do you have any recs for where to start? Thx :)

Gosh, that's a huge question! I might ask folks reading this to make recommendations as to the best place to start.

You won't go wrong with Diane Duane, Vonda McIntyre, and Barbara Hambly. Kirsten Beyer for Voyager. Andrew Robinson's A Stitch in Time for Garak.

Here's a flow chart that will guide you through the "relaunch" novels, i.e. the books published from the early 2000s onwards which are continuations of the main shows. It builds up to a massive interlinking set of stories. You don't have to read all of them, you can just pick a show and follow those stories through. (I think that chart is more or less up-to-date though I don't think it includes the books that end that whole run of Trek novels, the Coda trilogy.)

[moringmark]

[lollytea]

I think it is so funny that the blurb of Platform Decay has Murderbot making a point to imply that it doesn't like kids.

Meanwhile Murderbot's actual interactions with children throughout the books:

(Not pictured is Sofi spamming her best friend Secunit with heart emojis or it carrying Tula around because she feels safe with it or Amena calling it Mom)

You are good with kids!! You are a person who likes kids!!! Would it kill you to say it? There's no shame in saying it.

[olderthannetfic]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[zz9pzza]

Warming up a new database server….

[elfwreck]

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

[lierdumoa]

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

[australet789]

HAPPY PRIDE, LET'S GET MORE AROACE TOGETHER OR ELSE

[the-haiku-bot]

HAPPY PRIDE, LET’S GET

MORE AROACE

TOGETHER OR ELSE

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[audible-smiles]

the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other people’s bodies. they’re always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if you’re not capable of being normal about bodies you personally don’t find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if you’re not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we don’t wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.

[mylittleredgirl]

thank you all gif makers everywhere, yes i WOULD like to live inside that half a second when my otp looked at each other forever on repeat, lovingly color-adjusted to make them even hotter than ever

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

How quickly we forget the dangerous crow boy who’s job it is to destroy plastic

[lemonhinoo]

I dunno why i really like to draw Futaba as experiment for my drawing style. I still want to achieve a traditional painting-ish style that like.. there are 15 diff colors.. or like my fav artis Daeliuu. For anyone who can do painting ish style please teach me 😔😔

Also here are other Futaba art through the year, 2019 vs 2022 vs 2026 ( the one holding popsicle ). Lowkey i'm felling downgrade smhw, i'm lost my passion for drawing, i used to like to draw background & stuff

[hellenhighwater]

Eleanor update! You can't get her! No one can get her! She's ungettable!

[wontonsoupinthemorning-deactiva]

message to all bitches

please survive

[palezma]

Princess Garnet for the renaissance faire project