I am a goddamn delight

I'm Emerald. Call me Emmy. Any pronouns. Over 18. Ask to tag stuff and I'll try my best.

[pmamtraveller]

sleeve tattoo

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[crossedblade]

Knights with body modifications, please.

Knight with a house crest carved into their backs. An order where all members have their tongues pierced with a jewel that burns should they lie. Body modifications that are not even possible outside of fantasy.

[wizardysseus]

the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

[wizardysseus]

what really incenses me about cassandra clare — and forgive me for bringing this up again, but i don't think i've articulated this point yet — is not that i believe she is currently plagiarizing. any accusations i've seen about recent work seem to me to be superficial. but even if one could prove that she never plagiarized again once she started publishing, it wouldn't matter to me, because she chose to capitalize on her fandom history. while trying to distance herself from what she did, she made a brand out of the fanfic pen name "cassandra clare" and continues to profit off the reputation and fanbase that she amassed while she was, provably, a plagiarist.

you don't get to do that and bury the things that made you famous. as an individual, as a human being, she is capable of change and any other good qualities you may want to ascribe. but she built her career on lies. professionally, i don't understand why she gets to move on.

[toppingilyarozanov]

the worst part for me--worse than building her career on plagiarism--is that her career was also built on a truly reprehensible level of harassment. she told her followers to help get her unbanned from FFN (as if that would ever happen) and they spent months harassing the site owner and several abuse team members. one of them, after enduring extensive abuse, ended up in the hospital.

this was just the beginning of the harassment, though. CC additionally used her friend heidi, a lawyer, to send cease & desist letters and other forms of legal harassment against ppl. none of it would hold up in court and these sort of things weren't even heidi's area of expertise as a lawyer, but it still happened.

CC was such a terrible serial harasser that people started to leave her alone about the plagiarism stuff after a while because it was just not worth her blowing up your entire spot. not just with her lawyer, but with her minions who harassed targets on her behalf. getting a deluge of harassment is a horrible experience that hurts people, so of course people tried to avoid it.

i hate CC because she hurt lots of people. she did it intentionally, repeatedly, and with singular focus on covering her own ass no matter who she hurt.

she has the career she has now because of her harassment of fandom as much as the plagiarism.

[alessandriana]

receipts

fanlore article

[boundwithpurple]

part of the “constructive criticism of fanfic” convo is this assumption that everyone wants to improve at their writing and should want to improve and i feel protective of the fact that actually you don’t have to. leaving aside the imo undecided question of if “concrit” from a random crosssection of strangers is likely to achieve this, you do not have to continually maximize in all areas of existence. people who feel really strongly they should have the right to critique fanfic to help writers “get better” are projecting an assumption about the inherent purpose of fanfiction (or any fiction writing) that is actually just that. like you probably will improve, if you do it enough, whether you get “criticism” or not, but you can maintain the same skill level forever and that’s fine. who cares! you don’t have to get better at singing to earn the right to have people not heckle you while having fun at karaoke with friends. you can paint 273646474 ugly paintings if you find painting soothing or relaxing. these are both examples of human creative expression that serve social and emotional needs just as posting fanfic does and which are not tied like this to a logic of improvement. there is no function that one can presume here. trying to improve on a craft level is a part of MY practice but that does not have to be universal and i do not believe it is.

[kaity--did]

yes yes blah blah blah Kait is cringe and forcing her interests on her child WHATEVER but I need you all to pause and just imagine the tiniest voice you can possibly imagine trying to make her voice as deep as possible and singing

🎶tell rock and roll I'm alone again, I wanna put the midwest home again 🎶

do that and try not to fucking lose it I DARE you

[emeraldincandescent]

I feel like it's normal for kids to be into the stuff that their parents are into? and then branch out more when they're older?

like I can still sing most of the classic rock my parents used to play in the car even though I don't listen to it much anymore, that doesn't mean they were forcing their interests on me

some people see a mom with a kid and just get the irresistible urge to fire the misogyny lasers

[ironwoman359]

My problem is that I want to write, except when I'm writing I'm not reading, but when I'm reading I'm not painting, but when I'm painting I'm not crafting, but if I'm crafting I'm not meal prepping, but if I'm meal prepping I'm not exercising, but if I'm exercising I'm not cleaning the house, but if I'm cleaning then I'm not writing, and then the day ends and it was just ten hours of youtube while I tried to Decide.

[luckyladylily]

I've known a number of non binary people in my life and I think single biggest conclusion I can draw from that is that non binary people are not the same. Like if Men fit in box A and women fit in box B, people really, really want nonbinary people to fit in a theoretical box C, and it just doesn't work like that. They are outside the boxes. They defy any simple categorization because they are not a third way of being, but every other possible way of being.

Being supportive of binary people is relatively simple, they have decided to sort themselves into one of the boxes that we have lots of experience interacting with. Being supportive of nonbinary people can be comparatively tricky, because you have to resist the urge to create box C and drop them all there. That's how we end up with various prejudices like "woman lite". Humans really, really like to categorize things. It helps us think. Unfortunately, sometimes it helps us think wrong.

If you have a non binary person in your life, I think it is important to take the extra effort to learn about them specifically.

[emeraldincandescent]

this becomes a lot easier when you realize that the Man Box and the Women Box are fake. like. I really believe that we, as a society, will never be able to truly accept non-binary people until we abolish the idea that All Men Are Like This and All Women Are Like That. a person's pronouns don't tell you anything except what pronouns to use for them.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

What is "walking distance" to you? (provided that the weather is okay)

Less than 5 minutes.

Less than 15 minutes.

Less than 30 minutes.

Less than 1 hour.

Depends on... add a tag.

other/I'm not canadian and don't measure distance in time.

Voting ended onJul 15

[nudityandnerdery]

Just a casual reminder that posting on the internet about how you would want to do physical harm to members of the US government is something that they can (and will) detain you over, so just be careful what you say in public spaces like, uh, on Tumblr.

[nudityandnerdery]

I have got bad news for you about how connecting to the internet works and how corporations will respond to requests from the government.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

this is your semi-regular reminder that tumblr has cooperated with the fbi to hand over user information in a very public way at least once. and that's not the only way the feds can collect information on you either

[emeraldincandescent]

Apparently this is weirdly common. Let's figure out how common.

Are you congenitally missing your adult lateral incisors?

Yes, both

Yes, one of them

No, I have/had all my teeth

No, but I'm congenitally missing different teeth

Voting ended onJul 14

Congenitally means from birth, ie you were born without them and they didn't get knocked out or anything. Your lateral incisors are the teeth between your front teeth and your canines.

[yesornopolls]

is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

[adhdwannabewriter]

Writers, which software do you use?

Google docs

Microsoft word

Ellipsus

Libre office - writer

Notepad (the fuck is wrong with you lol)

Pages

Other (comment, please, esp if you recommend it)

Checking results

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I used to use Google docs, but the white mode only was really annoying me (tires my eyes), so I swapped to Ellipsus (which I genuinely love and recommend), but it was bothering me a bit that I need wifi in order to use it, so now I switched to LibreOffice Writer, which I do like.

It very much has a Microsoft Word feel, but is open source and you need no accounts to use it. It's local on your device, so no AI can scan it, and no wifi is needed.

I still wish it had the Google Docs cards, because, bitch, that thing is so good for easy organizing.

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[feralboo-the-weirdo]

I think one of the wildest parts about discovering you're asexual is realizing almost everyone else isn't.

[disgustinggf]

[redoftheturks]

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish audiobook series is NOW COMPLETE! 🎧

Enjoy all four novels in audiobook form, along with TGCF, MDZS, and Thousand Autumns:

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Please share this around with anyone and everyone who may be interested!! ♥️ These audiobooks are completely free to listen to or download on your own devices.

I do not have much social media presence, so the words of friends and fellow listeners really make a huge difference for this project!

[emeraldincandescent]

I've been meaning to read this one and having an audiobook to listen to while crafting might be the push I need! This is super cool!