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I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

sunset-sunbun

@otiksimr

you and your beasts.

me and my beasts.

@cinemamind

Not to like be too enamoured with celebrities but Stellan Skarsgård really is some kind of nationall treasure

decepticonsensual

Not to be all "the children have forgotten the sacred texts!" but I just saw someone refer to a ship between two people who are good friends in canon as a crackship.

Hon. No. Crackship doesn't just mean "not canon". It's difficult to imagine two people who spend significant canon time together as a crackship. Crackship is when you write Galactus getting fucked by Tony the Tiger.

decepticonsensual

The notes are starting to be all, "Yeah, crackship means there's no chemistry! Even canon ships can be crackships!" and I must STRENUOUSLY disagree.

A crackship isn't just any ship that makes you go, "Eh, I don't see it." A crackship is absolutely WILD in concept. A crackship is the one that makes your friends look at you with the beginnings of existential horror. It's the one where they wave a circle round you thrice and close their eyes in holy dread, for you on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise.

anyway I said it as a joke but if anyone wants to join my Tony the Tiger/Galactus Discord -

decepticonsensual

@decepti-geek **chinhands** go onnnnnn...

beckyh2112

It's called a crackship because the joke was you'd have to be on crack to think of it.

daydreamerdoodles

Hey. I think I hate you.

daydreamerdoodles

Hey. I really hate you.

oifaaa

actual scum a reminder to all the real fanfic writers out there that you are appreciated and id rather read a fic that was written by a human being with passion behind it then ai generated slop any day of the week

scribbleboxfox

If someone plagiarizes your fic on AO3 using AI, you can report them using this form.

I'm pretty sure in this particular instance, this falls under the AO3's rules against plagiarism:

II.E. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the use of someone else's words, or their expressions of their ideas, without attribution. Minor alterations (such as replacing names, substituting synonyms, or rearranging a few words) are insufficient to make a work your own. Plagiarism is not allowed. Deliberately creating a work using the same general idea as another work is not plagiarism, but citation may be appropriate.

Something to keep in mind, because this isn't the first or last time something like this is going to happen.

my-gender-is

My gender is Homosexula

theprideful-deactivated20251201

windsing5

And they’re all Vlad

tzikeh

Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place

boyslit

I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭

eclipticasolaris

Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.

antisocialxconstruct

I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.

ennairea

As someone that also works in a grocery store. DO THIS.

That barcode/surveillance pricing nonsense is also going to make it more annoying and worse on the employees as well. Better to make it unprofitable now while it's in testing than trying to get them to roll it back after mass adoption and then having to get legislation involved.

bromberrybee

End of the line, pal.

stealingpotatoes

reason 1 million why i love zukka: how extra insane it makes hakoda's family tree

(links // tip jar!)

drarry

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

drarry

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

broken-horn-of-equius

baddywronglegs

Do you think Michael Crichton had a deep-seated hatred of theme parks because he was too tall for all the rides?

wanderer-chronicles

Yes.

[tumblr] is a flat circle.

baddywronglegs

Damn, it sure is huh

zetabrarian

We should do this more on this website.

Person 1: -posts-

Person 2: -pulls out the historical documents-

baddywronglegs

I have been brought before the scriptures and my heresies found canonical.

I accept the judgement "unoriginal" and "should have looked it up first" but, in my inadequate defence, Tumblr's search function does fucking suck.

zeemczed

Defense found perfectly cromulent. Let Baddywronglegs free, and let no mark be against said blog.

fozmeadows

"I have been brought before the scriptures and my heresies found canonical" is an all-time banger line.

maja-paja

i feel like i deserve more credit for getting up in the morning

haughtyraban

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

animentality

wizardshark

Why was there an all male BBQ competition?? Why did they fall for such a terrible disguise??

astercontrol

Because cooking is women's work and therefore being a woman in this competition is cheating by secretly having that natural feminine instinct

(/sarcasm obviously. From what I can tell skimming through the comments it's an entirely made-up story)

derinthescarletpescatarian

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

stavarosthearcane

Good Job.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#this post gets me every time

It’s from two days ago fam how many times could there have been

heroofthreefaces

do you think no one else has time travel

derinthescarletpescatarian

Happy one month anniversary to this post that has not allowed me a single day of fucking peace since I made it.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#surprise reblog!!

STOP IT’S BEEN MONTHS. MONTHS!

YOU CAN STOP.

roach-works

wow if only you had a time machine

transdaughterofthesun

Honestly having reached a billion notes I think it’s safe to say that in the Year of our lord 2041, this is the most popular tumblr post out there.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I’m killing your parents before you’re born

iforgotmyfandom

idiototheinternet

Still here, why’d you hesitate @derinthescarletpescatarian

derinthescarletpescatarian

Your mum’s ability to hold up under active gunfire was really hot. I’m your dad now.

lizyarikus

Isn’t that the plot of Terminator

anexperimentallife

Where do you think the plot for Terminator came from?

what-if-i-just-did

This is such a classic trainwreck post that has the vibes of a 2014 screenshot posted to Pinterest and then the last addition is just last Tuesday I can’t even

derinthescarletpescatarian

Imagine how I feel