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My Arcana side blog. Full of whatever the hell I feel like putting here. Mostly incorrect quotes.

[itsybatsy-deactivated20190907]

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Saw this shared on Twitter, and I have to say I wasn’t aware of all of this- but it shows the absolute justification the RMT have for a strike. Any one of these issues would be enough for a strike.

It would be good to share this as widely as possible.

[chrisflemingslegs]

hey kids who read fic, listen up

it’s annoying to me as a Fanfic Elder that y’all don’t understand how consent works in regards to reading fanfic

last night I saw a fic that had EIGHT of my favorite tags included and a great summary BUT it also contained a tag for a topic that bothers me. I weighed the pros/cons and decided NOT to read the fic because the ONE tag I disliked was something that could trigger a panic attack if the scene went into any sort of detail - it wasn’t worth risking the eight good tags.

from the first moment I noticed the fic to the moment I decided not to read it, the entire experience was MY RESPONSIBILITY. the author tagged the fic correctly, I knew what my limits were, and I respected them.

if you find a fic with tags you don’t like, JUST DON’T READ IT 

don’t harass the author, don’t post a big whiny rant about it on Tumblr, just keep scrolling

that is your job as a reader. 

[winterisakiller]

louder for the people in the back

[spacecasehobbit]

I feel like it would also be worth bringing back the term, “squick,” as a non-judgmental way to describe something that’s just not your taste in fiction. It’s not a trigger, just something that you really don’t want to read about. Even if that’s just because you find it really icky, it is still perfectly legitimate to choose not to read any story because it has tags that squick you for literally whatever reason.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

in retrospect, video rental stores *would* probably still exist today in some capacity had it not been for blockbuster. the nostalgia for the blockbuster browsing experience undermines the reality of how aggressively the chain snuffed out smaller video rental stores and would eventually become notorious for its abusive late fee collection policy once there were no significant competitors standing. the rise of streaming is often attributed to blockbusters demise, but what’s not often recognized is how netflix’ earliest (and most successful) marketing tactics were in fact advertising the absence of the aforementioned terrible late fees as opposed to the convenience of not having to go to the store. I was actually surprised to find out how much of blockbuster’s demise can be attributed to spiraling out of control as it attempted to manage viacom’s ever increasing debts than to the fact that people just naturally gravitated towards streaming (which is not to say that it wouldn’t have happened eventually, but).

[quoms]

see also: borders / barnes & noble with bookstores. amazon’s original pitch was probably more “look how convenient!” than it was “look, you can avoid the awful sterility of the inside of a barnes & noble!” but it’s interesting that with its aggressive tracking and tailoring of recommendations amazon is having machines do (in an impersonal and invasive way) what the staff at a local, non-chain bookstore would do, which is match their selection to your preferences

[lew-basnight]

Barnes & nobles and Borders raced against each other, across the country, to oversaturate the bookstore market. This isn’t paranoia or conspiracy — it’s the same fucking model Starbucks used. Oh, your community supports three bookstores? We’re going to open five, until the little indies go under. Then we’ll close four of our own (sorry not sorry staff, enjoy competing with each other for a handful of positions!) and now you have no other choice. Movie rental chains did the same thing.

And then all these huge chain retailers have the fucking gall to weep and whine as amazon proceeds to wipe them out, and now I live in a small city where you just… can’t get stuff. If you don’t want to use amazon, if you don’t have a car to drive out to the big box on the highway, you literally can’t buy a pair of socks or an ice pack. No more pharmacies, no more bookstores, no more video or music stores… if this was plants and not retailers you’d call it monoculture, and you’d raise an alarm about how prone to catastrophic collapse monocultures are.

[lynati]

Ohhh that last line.

[rongzhi]

Terfs stay away from me challenge

[pandemoniclucio]

MC: This is just another reminder that all psychiatric and therapy services are completely covered by Vesuvia’s health insurance plan.

Julian: Why do you always look at me when you say that?

[masaotheheckindog]

the idea that it’s ‘creepy’ to interact with things posted a long time ago is so terrible for artists and contributes to the pressure to be constantly creating new work, at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate. I hate it so much.

[puffedwheatsquare]

The idea that it’s “creepy” to interact with an artist’s old work from a while back is especially stupid since we have entire buildings filled with the old works of various artists for the explicit purpose of creating public interaction with them, and they’re called museums.

[alexseanchai]

and libraries

and archives

[slowspinningredemption]

me: oh wow, this is such an impressive work–

the ghost of michaelangelo, appearing at my side: avert your fucking eyes, creep

[demonitized-cultivation]

this is your reminder to unclench your jaw

[ceekari]

new proposition: instead of going back to using 'lemon' again, let's use a different fruit this time

I'm thinking... Apple

please remember to tag all your naughty posts with 'Apple' from now on

[goldenstripes001]

How dare you leave this in the tags

[edgebug]

genius. im in

[scrabbleknight]

I will tag all my shipping posts with Apple.

[sandraugiga]

It is the forbidden fruit after all…

[etheringtonbrothers]

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[quietsphere]

[humanmostlikely]

Arcana characters’ Mickey/Minnie ears-

Asra:

Nadia:

Julian:

Muriel:

Portia:

Lucio:

Bonus-

Apprentice Arleth:

[perenial]

chag chanukah sameach let’s get lit 🕎

[duskydestra]

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

[senshimeshi]

Get this shit out of my fucking face LIKE WHAT IS THIS?????

[beecheekz]

RIP groupchats this was a once in a lifetime experience </3

[not-indiana-jones]

Was anybody gonna tell me tumblr got rid of groupchats, or was I just supposed find out from a post about narutos ass

[alphacrone]

i feel like everyone’s forgotten some Covid basics so please let me remind you:

Your mask protects others more than it protects you

You can still spread covid even if you’re vaccinated or not showing any symptoms

The more this spreads around, the more mutated variants of the virus will appear and they WILL be stronger than the original

so like maybe stop being a little bitch and endangering others because you really, really needed to go out to dinner or get fucked up at a bar instead of in your home like a respectable person

[alphacrone]

[vitariesocks]

Comic on having long-COVID as a young person. Sending love to others who may be similarly suffering.

Ko-Fi

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