if i look back, i am lost
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The Stonewall Inn
cherry valley forever
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Xuebing Du
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@geesenoises
call me geese (or goose is ok too), she/her.Â
currently stuck in a drarry sinkhole, but fuck jkr and fuck terfs.
writing tag. ao3. archive of gallaplacidiaâs work.
also hanging out on my star trek sideblog, @ashanyan. (but like, way less. soz. i genuinely know almost nothing about st. but one time i made a really good spirk/john mulaney joke.)
Bear with the long post, teahearts. This is important.
It's summer slow season and June did not save us this year (we had no Pride rush this year, it's usually the only thing that gets us through the season), not to mention a few major invoices haven't been paid to us on deadline.
We would really love to keep our doors open and we have some big ol bills (now late) to pay that usually the last weekend of June handles.
Note: horrifyingly, this is what "successful" actually looks like for indies right now: simply staying in business at all. Between operating expenses getting spendier and Pride being pretty much nonexistent this year, we're about $10k shy of where we need to be this week (and ASAP to avoid accruing late fees).
Some great options if you want to help your fave tea shop survive the summer:
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đ” Gift cards are a great way to give indies a cash infusion while spreading out the actual fulfillment workload! Always a lovely choice.
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every few months I get reminded of a stupid argument I got into on a discord server years ago and about how IâM USUALLY CORRECT AND I LOVE BEING RIGHT
In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.
Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?
Yeah itâs one of the options on the Contact Support form:
for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.
Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink theyâll fix the fucking system.
This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.
It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.
the bravest human
taylor swift would release a 30th special edition of the tortured poets department to block the vampire lestats spot on the billboard chart and within 24 hrs travis kelce would go missing
âLiar.â
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) - 2.07 âą âLie to Meâ
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg đ
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this đ„č
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day đđ) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html
Have a paywall free link to the source!
for @drarrymicrofic prompt wound - red string of fate silliness, 700 words.
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The first time Harry felt his string was in the dusty aftermath of the Battle. Most of him hurt, and the rest felt numb, and so it was a few days before he registered the tugging, or discovered the length of scarlet thread wound around his little finger. A soulmate, he thought, with no small degree of bitterness. Something new to worry about.
There was no time for worrying that summer, though. That summer was already spoken for: first Scotland for the rebuild, then back home for the trials, and by the time the wind turned autumn-sharp, Harryâs string had disappeared.
It came back at Christmas.
âItâs nothing,â Harry insisted, as Ginny scrambled off the bed, pale-faced. âWhoever she is, sheâs probably in Australia or something. Who cares?â
Ginny did, as it turned out.
She wasnât the only one, either. Most people pretended it didnât matter at first, but amid the dying gasps of each failed relationship, there it was again: something sour, something rotten. âIâm not your soulmate, anyway,â theyâd mutter, as though theyâd been tricked. As though Harry had tricked them.
He began to hide it: wearing gloves over the holidays, tucking his hand beneath long sleeves for those same two weeks every June. Heâd feel the pull starting and make his excuses, Apparating home or disappearing upstairs. Alone, though, strangely, he found he didnât mind it. He rarely saw the red of the string, which disappeared off into nothing; usually the only sign was a bloodless indent, just below the nail bed. Heâd run his finger over and over the notch and picture a formless someone doing the same at the other end.
But who? And where?
âI mean, itâs got to be worth checking out, right?â he said to Ron, tugging on his rucksack outside the Portkey station. âMaybe itâs why I have such shit luck in love.â
But she â or he, as Harry increasingly suspected â wasnât in Australia, after all. No matter; surely, with this, there was no rush. His instincts took him to the great gardens of Japan, the white sands of Bali, the bazaars of Jaipur. Then, frustrated, he continued west: northern Africa, southern Europe, where he paused in Rome for a brief, unsatisfying affair, then up through Germany; still, there was no sign of the thread.
âYouâve got to come back,â Hermione told him, voice staticky over the international Floo. Harry was in Dinard by then, heart-sick, belly heavy with beer and Breton crĂȘpes. France had been the closest yet, he was sure of it. That first night, in Bordeaux, heâd been pulled abruptly from a dream, could have sworn heâd felt â
âItâs his tenth birthday,â Hermione reminded him. âHeâll be so disappointed if you miss it.â
âYeah, mate,â Ron chimed in, from somewhere in the background. âItâs been months. Face it, you have shit luck in love because you only date arrogant pricks.â
He was still bitter about Ginny, Harry reckoned.
Reluctantly, Harry Apparated in to the party, though it had been so long that he mistimed his jump, and ended up in Andyâs kitchen. He staggered forward, dropping both his suitcase and Teddyâs badly-wrapped present on the tiles.
âExcuse me,â came an affronted voice from somewhere near the fridge.
âSorry, Iââ
Then the man straightened, adjusted his collar and â oh god, it was Malfoy. And oh god, Harry was staring. It was just â he hadnât expected this, hadnât expected Malfoy at all, and certainly hadnât expected him to look like this. Malfoy was broader now, tanned, freckled, and he was wearing a linen shirt, open halfway down his chest. He looked like every one of the arrogant pricks Harry had dated. Harryâs mouth watered, and his heart pounded, and his little finger throbbed. Distracted, he flexed it, then when that didn't work he shook his whole hand in annoyance.
Malfoy inhaled sharply as the motion caught his eye. He stilled, almost dazed, then extended his own hand towards Harry.
Harry knew, of course, before he looked down.
âIt doesnât meanââ Malfoy began, cautious, at the same time as Harry said âwe donât have toââ
They both paused, laughing. Looped between the two of them, their red string shook.
Time slowed down. Around them, everything grew bright. Harry stepped forward, wound the thread loosely around his hand, and reeled Malfoy in.
âHi,â he said.
Reasons Why Fans of Color Leave/Donât Interact with Fandom
Casual racism that is brushed off as âan innocent mistakeâ or âthey didnât mean itâ and then everyone pretending like it didnât happen and moving on with their day (repeat)
Speaking over fans of color about issues that pertain to them specifically
When fans of color speak out about something that makes them uncomfortable or why that donât interact with it (usually because of the racial/ethnic bias) they are accused of being antiâs or pro-censorship
Characters of color being used as scapegoats/bashed/plot devicesÂ
Characters of color never getting happy endings/real development
Backlash against characters of color if they do anything other than be a white characterâs side kick/best friend
Actors of characters of color being harassed for something their character did or didnât do
White characters/actors getting all the attention/credit despite the fact that they are a side character to a POC or on the same level as the POC
Fanfic authors patting themselves on the back for writing a ârealisticâ character of color and itâs just a bunch of stereotypes
Being told that they should be happy they were even included when they call out the above people
White fans crying about persecution/exclusion because their fav character/trope/kink/ship isnât loved by allÂ
Fan artists re-imaging characters of color as white/lightening skin tone
Everyone rushing to a white fans defense after a well deserved call out while the fan of color receives hate
Never having a safe fandom space and always having to be on guard with new people/fandoms/chats etc because theyâve been burned before
Feel free to add
- fetishization and depersonalization of characters of color (to serve the white characterâs narrative)
- (re)writing characters of color as abusive and/or violent to infantilize white characters
- being asked to explain why ___ is racist when itâs been spoken about at length or could be googled
Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:
1. Do not do age verification.
2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.
The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.
Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!
And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity
A reminder that we still dont support Age Verification bullshit.
Paywall removed here
Aaand here's the link to the project's Github.
A verified tool that works on any potato computer that will let you bypass discord verification - promptpirate-x/discord-id-bypass-tool
I want to highly recommend two tools for helping you with this very sad situation, which you must use before it happens.
The first is this wonderful script that will automatically add key information (that you choose) like author, title, summary, etc to your bookmark notes so you at least know what got deleted.
The second is this incredible bulk downloader for AO3. Input any AO3 page (such as your bookmarks page) and tell it what format you want to download in and it will just.... DOWNLOAD IT ALL!! I run it every few months so that I have all my bookmarks downloaded in my preferred EPUB format. That way I know I always have my favorites downloaded in case they ever get deleted.
With the combination of these two, I can look in my bookmarks, see what was deleted, and easily find it in my downloads. It's such a relief to have my own fic library is all my favs!
Let me add my life saver, an absolute wonderful add-on, ao3 saver:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ao3-saver/
It automatically saves evey fic you visit so you have a backup if the fic is ever erased. No more mysterious bookmarks lost forever.
Also if you go to the page of an erased fic, it not only gives you the option to check on ao3 saver in case you have it saved, but also in archive.org in case someone ever did a backup there.
