I do whatever I want on this blog: mostly reblogging or posting the occasional drawing. 22, She/Her DNI if you're racist, homophobic, transphobic, the usual stuff people put on DNI lists.
I dont know what the rp scene on Tumblr is like, but here goes nothing.
I am looking for a Genshin Impact Roleplay. Specifically Im looking for someone to roleplay as Scaramouche or Wanderer across my oc.
Disclaimer: My oc is a minor(kinda, its complicated(anime bullshit)) and related to Scaramouche. I do not ship her with him. Only platonic stuff.
Really, all I want to do is either angst or fluff. I love doomed siblings. Anyway, if you're interested, dm me. However I have a few requirements.
Requirements:
- Preferably have knowledge on Genshin, specifically Scaramouche. At least know his story and if you play/have played the game, finished the Sumeru Archon Quest.
- No one liners. Im semi literate in my rp style, so I dont expect much, but please put in some effort.
Thats it I think. I will add things in the future if I feel like it.
random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
Im actually low key high key proud of this drawing of my Twst Oc. She isnt the only Twst Oc I have, and she was made for a discord rp server. Anyway, now she's out of the Discord trenches and in the Tumblr trenches.
The first drawing is the most recent drawing that Im proud of and the second is kind of a finalized concept drawing of her. Anyways, meet Vanessa Marsh: twisted from the bogs from Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey.
Some info about her:
- Former bully (How she was a bully with that bowl cut and beanie combo, I could never know)
- Follower, never a leader
- Really ambitious and a sort of Jack of all Trades
Cecelia Santos my beloved. This is my old Ace Attorney oc from when I was in freshman year of highschool. That's 8 years ago!
Did I improve in my art (the first pic is the new one, the second is the old one)? Maybe. I can draw shoes now. Still hate drawing feet tbh. I also think the outfit in the new drawing is more stylish. I think I did a good job, but despite drawing for over 10 years, I still have a long way to go in my art journey.
Also, about Cecelia:
- Her name is not intentionally misspelled. It just happened to stick after all these years
- She is a prosecutor
- She is an oc for the Apollo Justice games and is the same age as Phoenix and Edgeworth
- I basically have ideas for an alternate Apollo Justice game with Cecelia as the prosecutor instead of Klavier. In it, Cecelia would be Kristoph 's wife/girlfriend and she has to deal with the public pressure and also prosecuting against the person who got Kristoph in jail (If anyone wants to read that, I would probably post it on Ao3)
- I ship her with Kristoph Gavin. I know he's evil, but I like the ray of sunshine(Cecelia) x jaded(Kristoph) dynamic
- She has a complicated past(I used to have her backstory on Amino, but she has since developed more in my mind and I want to change a few things about her.), but some ideas I have about her is that she was a part of a girl gang when she was younger(inspired by sukeban girls) and that she rides a motorcycle
Thanks for reading my post. I know I haven't draw a lot and I usually just reblog or shitpost, but I hope I can use this blog to be more creative.
Look. Guys. I am currently obsessed with these two franchises. Please don't judge me
As in how is either of them worse, you decide! Which of them is a worse medical doctor? Which of them is the worst person? Which of them left you on read and won't answer your texts, so now you are making a poll about them on tumblr dot com, so you can get reassurance that they are a piece of shit? However, you interpret the question, you answer. Answer with your heart, or even your-
Steam, Itch.io and the banning of explicit and LGBT+ Content. What can we do?
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With no warning, Itch.io, a site where many host their indie games, comics, books and more, has started purging and shadowbanning explicit and LGBT+ works. Creators got no warning. And if they were still owed payouts from these works, Itch.io is saying they won't give them their money as they 'broke the rules'. Rules that were only just set in place, with no warning, and therefore no way for creators to try and draw out their money or delete these 'offending' works before they got banned under the new rules.
So Itch.io has been the most recent to fall to the demands of a group that's been contacting Visa and Mastercard and convincing them to threaten sites/businesses with 'stop selling what we consider to be explicit content on your sites of we'll stop allowing your site to have transactions with Visa and Mastercard'. Steam folded, and now Itchio has too. And a reminder earlier this year Gumroad also stopped allowing explicit content, further back than that Patreon banned some kinks and fetishes even if it's depicted in fiction not real life, and I don't have to explain to you guys the great Tumblr explicit content ban of 2018.
And as always remember this doesn't stop with sexually explicit work as LGBT+ stories and people are often labelled as explicit and already we're seeing works being taken off Itch.io that are about LGBT+ and especially trans stories. Other non-sexually explicit works I've seen already getting shadowbanned, delisted or deleted are SFW games featuring furries/anthros, SFW dress up games (because when you take the clothes the model is nude), and the aforementioned SFW games that include LGBT+ characters and stories.
I'm compiling here information I've seen around various social medias, mostly Bluesky, because I haven't seen all these things shared over here.
I don't personally have explicit content on itch, but I had been considering one day selling things on there and I do currently have explicit content on my Patreon, my main source of income, and am terrified that Patreon is going to fold next (if anyone knows alterative for hosting audio content behind a paid subscription service please let me know so I can start maybe making a back-up in case the worst happens). Because for me personally if Patreon goes next, it's not like I can go out and easily get another job. Not only because in general finding and getting a job is difficult enough, but I'm autistic and have chronic pain and have been constantly getting sick or new pains over the last few years and don't feel safe being trans in the UK right now and all of that combined rules me out of a lot of jobs and makes me feel unsafe to apply to any. I'm so grateful I've been able to make a community around my work, but if Patreon caves next and I just leave my SFW posts on Patreon... 10% of my Patreons are signed up to the SFW tier, 90% are signed up to the explicit tier... I know if Patreon caves I will go from someone living comfortably who's searching to move out of my parents so I can live in a safer environment to someone who can no longer even afford the rent I pay to my parents. I'll try and get an alterative found and set up in case that happens and I can only hope you guys will follow me to whatever other site I have to set up... but it feels unlikely that people will get a whole new account on a whole new payment provider just to support me on a website they might never have heard of...
But what can we do right now?
A petition you can sign (international but you do have to give your name, email, and postal/zip code):
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Get calling:
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
MasterCard (UK): 0800 964 767
Mastercard (International.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 / 1-800-VISA-911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
Visa (UK) : 0800 891 725 or use their international call collect +1 303 967 1096
Visa (International): (call collect - it costs them $): +1-303-967-1096
PayPal (US): 1-888-221-1161
PayPal (UK): 0800 358 7911 from landline, +44 203 901 7000 mobile
PayPal (International): 1-402-935-2050
(numbers gathered from these posts X X X )
Don't know what to say on the phone? Here's a script written by timidtanuki:
Creators have had their work removed off Itch.io with no warning and since it's been removed for 'breaking the rules' (rules that were suddenly in place with no warning) they aren't entitled to get their payouts. Just like other sites such as Youtube and Twitch and Etsy, Itch.io hold onto money from their users in a wallet and then give them payouts. So there is money creators have made, are owed, that Itch.io is not giving to them.
People are recommending that if you still have works on Itch.io to turn down the revenue sharing to 0% so that Itch.io no longer takes a cut or your money if you no longer want to support Itchi.io finically but don't want to remove your works from their platform. X
Other Bluesky posts and calls to action I've seen:
radiantg.bsky.social is asking for anyone on Itch.io who got their game deindexed, removed , or payouts turned off to reach out to them (espeically if you make explicit and/or LGBT+ games) for a piece of journalism about what is happening.
sleepyhart.bsky.social is making a thread of all the games that Itch.io has censored/removed from their site search function. Obviously be aware this will include 18+ only games, games with sexual content and other dark or heavy themes.
thetransfemininereview.com wants you to reach out to them if you're a trans creator on Itch.io who is being affected by this so they can make an accurate report. they say 'authors' in their post and I'm unsure if they also want game devs to reach out.
dropdownbear.bsky.com wants you to reach out if you have purchased things on Itch.io that you can now no longer access because of this ban. they can include them in a report being filed with the Australian Consumer Commission as this may be a violation of Australian Consumer rights. If you are Australian you can no longer access things you purchased of Itch.io you can report directly with this guide.
It's a scary time for adult creators and sex workers. It's a scary time to be trans. Support creators. And if anyone knows of any alternate payment providers that allow explicit work, and/or alternate websites to Itch (and in case things get worse, also give me Patreon alternates please) where people can host, sell and/or offer paid subscriptions to writing, images, videos, audios, games and more please leave them in the replies. And please help share this post, the posts I'm linking too, and any other resources you can find.
I actually drew something for once?! It's more likely than you think.
The oc to the left is called Gigi and she is based on a Gameboy (or a Gamegirl in this case). Yes I made an oc to ship with Tenna. Why? I've lost control of my life, that's why.
A fairly good general reference video about historical/traditional fashion of various cultures and peoples (including hanfu, but not just hanfu) that have been part of Chinese history:
The video is arranged in chronological order, below are the timestamps:
0:24 - Warring States period/战国 hanfu (for those who don't know: hanfu/汉服 is the historical and traditional outfits of Han people/汉族)
1:16 - Western Han dynasty/西汉 hanfu
2:11 - Jingjue Kingdom/精绝 and Loulan Kingdom/楼兰 historical outfits
2:45 - Eastern Han dynasty/东汉 to Three Kingdoms period/三国 hanfu
7:38 - Huihu/回鹘 historical outfits (Qocho Huihu Kingdom/高昌回鹘 and Ganzhou Huihu Kingdom/甘州回鹘; note: Huihu people are the ancestors of the modern Uyghur people/维吾尔族)
8:21 - Nanzhao Kingdom/南诏 historical outfits (of the ancestors of the modern Yi people/彝族 and Bai people/白族)
16:24 - Qing dynasty/清 Manchu/满族 traditional outfits
16:59 - Qing dynasty Han women's outfit
**Note: as mentioned by the OP, due to the lack of suriviving physical artifacts for some time periods/cultures/kingdoms/dynasties, there is a certain amount of speculation in this video based on other artifacts/records like wall murals, paintings, figurines, and historical records.
as a non-native english speaker this is more than valuable to me - i struggle a lot with finding synonyms and similar words (thesauru.com is my best friend) but seeing it like this really helps.
The thing about the Scarabia manga that's giving me mixed feelings is that I already created a fan comic of the Scarabia chapter with my oc. Time wasn't supposed to move so quickly that the manga is already going to here. Like fuck the passage of time, I dont want to accept that I'm getting older and Twst as a game is almost done.
Speaking of the Scarabia manga, I am excited about the potential new Yuu that we're going to get.
Well, that's just my thoughts. I'm probably never sharing the original full comic I made for Scarabia because I drew it in a notebook that got messed up with water or food or something. But if anyone's interested in reading the comic I wrote, I'll redraw it (This time not in a notebook)
Here are some drawings from the original comic I made that weren't dirty/messed up
Btw if you were interested the Yuu oc I used is named Yuri. I've posted a drawing of her a looong time ago, so you'd have to scroll through my page a while to find it
I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public
Hello ensemble stars fandom! I am interested in getting into your series because one of your blorbos is very pretty, but it seems like there's a LOT of ground to cover and i'm feeling a little overwhelmed on where to start. Does anybody have some suggestions on where one should begin if they mainly just have an interest in Eichi? i saw "multimedia project" and got scared ;;
