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Not today Justin
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i know my art makes people happy despite other people saying horrible stuff Abt it or saying what I draw isn't good enough. it does get to me and it adds stress onto everything else but I appreciate the others who are kind to me about it. my heart just hurts a lot. I'm crying right now.
there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.
short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.
meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.
don't fucking draw her with a strapon. give her an honest flesh-and-blood penis like real women have
"here's my art of samus aran with a big purple strapon" first of all samus doesn't top. second of all she has a small Real penis
"I want to support a streamer but I don't have money how can I help"
Good question and I love you!
Be active in chat. It helps keep the energy up
Invite friends to the stream. Regular viewer numbers help significantly
Bump stream announcements if you can
BE ACTIVE IN CHAT. Seriously. Active chatters is a measured metric.
"I don't have anything funny or clever to say in chat though"
Doesn't matter! we like to see engagement and so does the twitch overlord. Simple agreements, "love this" and other stuff like that are totally great! And feedback is AWESOME
5. Make clips! Funny bits that happen on stream are much more shareable in short form videos than in the 2-6 hours vod archives that most small channels are working with
sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom
The Qanon people absolutely won the culture war, by the way, and all of you deeply impressionable yankees helped them win.
Just as how Satanic Panic of the late 20th century was actually about women entering the workplace and the evils of the Daycare that allow the women to be able to work hidden behind the rhetoric of Protecting the Children, the "Kill a Pedophile" branch of Qanon (by far the most popular) has been about rallying against sexual minorities in public spaces hideen behind the rhetoric of Protecting the Children.
It is a deeply reactionary current of yankee culture and every single one of you that participated in demeaning LGBT+ ppl being visible in public spaces or Protecting the Children from Travis Scott/Balenciaga/Wayfaire helped it penetrate the mainstream. This is true for unquestioningly pushing around whisper campaigns targeting LGBT+ people, especially trans women who are targeted disproportionately by these people. Every time you participate in pedojacketing a trans woman, you're essentially just your reactionary parents banning D&D from public library that you've sworn you'll never become, but with pride flag patch on your denim jacket this time.
So this one time I was in a hospital recovering from an emergency surgery on my leg, and had to be there long enough that they had to change my bedding, so, doped up on three kinds of pain meds and antibiotics my dad wheels me into the hallway while the nurses work.
"dad" I say, my eyes barely open "it's Colonel Sanders" while pointing down the hallway. He looks, and at the end of the hallway, there's a portrait of an old man, the donor who paid for the wing of the hospital I'm recovering in.
My dad explains as much to me, and goes "I mean the guy *kinda* looks like him, but why would Colonel Sanders pay for a hospital wing Mississauga Ontario? I think those drugs might me messing with you"
Then the nurse comes out of the room. I go "hey, who is that picture of?"
She looks at the portrait. She looks at me. She looks at my dad. She looks at the painting. She looks at me again.
"you don't recognize the Colonel??"
it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.
Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.
More than two-thirds of young people would cancel plans in order to spend time online, according to UK survey
This study was conducted by Marmalade Trust, a UK charity with the vague mission of "bringing awareness of loneliness."
I can't speak to how the survey was conducted, so maybe it was done well, but I am always suspicious of survey data collected by small niche charities.
@garbage-empress
I haven’t found the polling data for this one yet, but I found the stuff from one last year that they did through Ipsos. It doesn’t look like a push poll, but it’s definitely from a small charity with a specific aim.
This article has a few more numbers from the 2026 survey. And, the headline in the article from the independent seems misleading.
Yet despite this, many young people are using technology itself to ease their social isolation. One in four (25%) say that talking to an AI chatbot feels easier than talking to a real person, and 14% confess they would turn to an AI or a virtual assistant when feeling lonely. Around one in five (18%) say these AI conversations actually make them feel less lonely, with the top reasons being that AI is always available, never judges, and feels easier to open up to.
65% admit they have, at times, cancelled in-person plans to spend time online instead.
Feels easier is not the same as would rather. Have cancelled is not the same as would cancel.
And in any case, that’s very ambiguous and I want to know if the question specified what “spend time online” meant. Discord? Twitch? MMORPG? Watching shows? Or did it specify social media
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Tumblr actively hunts down and deletes legit trans womens blogs as a policy but encourages and cultivates porn bots that use stolen trans sex worker's content. This is propaganda and affects how we're viewed by other users, makes our own tags unusable for us, is unfathomably transmisogynistic, and reveals a lot about how staff views us. Our bodies are a commodity that they want on their website, but our words are not welcome.
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you all don’t even try to hide your transmisogyny
This is an ancient tactic to handwave feminism in all forms since the beginning of time. "I wont take this feminism stuff seriously until a man tells me how it is." What makes this exceptionally transmysoginistic is that trans women are expected to engage with this criticism like its actually about inclusivity, and not just boring ass regular laughed-out-of-the-room misogyny.
Look if the Klingons didnt want us to kill commanders they shouldn’t have glorified martial powers with authority. Same shit with the krogens in mass effect
doriana's "3am energy drink run" fit
doriana's favorite activities are composing music and listening to audio dramas and anime. stories are predetermined and safe. she has trouble with the visual aspects, though, because even depictions of faces can cause her problems.
