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Anyone who sends me an ask begging for money will be reported as spam, no exceptions.

#not that the bots pretending to be people will care #but it makes me feel better to make this warning #because if you're a REAL person you will respect this

actualamadeus

"adults should never be friends with children" im going to put you into a Box and shake you. Are we stupid.

actualamadeus

the only reason i have never been groomed online is because when i was 10 i befriended 17 year olds who taught me how to interact with older people online safely.

yall have got to stop being scared of children online and start actually teaching them the ropes. because if you are not up there with them then they're going to be completely alone with the creeps and have 0 metric for what is and is not an appropriate relationship. this also applies offline.

bowditch

when i was in my first internet community-- which was a well-moderated space-- my parents were concerned i was Talking to Adults. what they meant by this was that lifetime channel had recently done a couple movies in a row about internet grooming and murder, where isolated young girls were lured to meet much older men (who had lied about their own age) in person.

despite being a child of the 80s whose parents, understandably, had no experiential basis for teaching internet safety, i knew internet safety. no real name, no real location, don't share your age more than a rough range if at all, etc. why did i know those things? because adults in my first fandom communities taught me and other kids who showed up in those forum and chat spaces. they moderated or deleted messages that shared too much, laid ground rules, shepherded us. i knew those people in community, not in isolation (another tip the forum babies were given).

when my parents tried to ban me from all fandom internet-- a thing that was 80% of my social experience, as a rural, autistic, homeschooled teenager-- i posted a farewell in the forum (after a whole day of angry crying and arguing). one sweet member of the forum was a 20-something mom with two toddlers, and she wrote a lovely letter for me to print for my parents explaining how the community was moderated and what a benefit it could be and offered her own email and phone number if they wanted to chat.

they didn't reach out to her, but that letter is why i was allowed to stay online. just having the offer and the explanation was enough to reassure my parents. i wasn't besties with this woman, just a casual friend in the same space, but we stayed in touch. i respected her and the advice she and other adults in that community gave and it kept me safe in other interactions going forward

i'm friends with many of the people from that community on facebook now. they're still friends with each other. that kind woman? i watched via internet as her kids graduated. she watched me get married and have my own kids.

one of my older friends in another fandom was in her thirties when i got my driver's license as a teen. she celebrated with me. she sent my oldest kids a baby shower box that contained blankets that became their special blankies they still have saved somewhere as teens.

those relationships have been some of the most important ones of my teen years. they were people who enjoyed fandom chats with me, but also invested in me as a PERSON and not just as a kid they were tolerating. in the right context of healthy friendship, their advice and perspective kept me safe and helped me grow.

of course there are red flags kids should be taught for any relationship, but to stigmatize friendships across generational gaps harms kids more than it helps them. kids NEED friends that cross those spaces.

banesidhe

Another reason for the kiddos these days to stop trying to push us fandom olds out, or act as if we don’t exist. Ironic that the kids I used to teach about never giving real names or locations are now struggling to get kids to understand the why now.

sleepynegress

Okay... so this is right up my alley. More weird whimsy and quirk in the romance genre... and more jaded suffer-no-fools women, instead of the creepy age-gaps, please and thank you

umber-cinders

I WILL WATCH THE FUCK OUT OF THIS! Monster romance books prepared me for thiissss!

wizardarchetypes

never thought this day would come but i’m currently having a customer service experience so bad right now that i’m defecting from the employee regiment and joining the customers in their next battle. i don’t know who i am anymore.

wizardarchetypes

experience that makes me research local customer service supervisors for a global corporation and tag them in a LinkedIn post, to fall upon their mercy.

wizardarchetypes

long story short i have worked for a call center in customer service before and i knew something was not working out. i've had to call about this issue 5 times in 4 weeks because it's still not resolved, and each time the conversation has ended i've asked for an email confirmation of our conversation and a ticket number so i can call back and reference it with a new representative.

well every time i've called, the new representative has been like "i'm so sorry, but there's no ticket by that number. i have no record of you ever calling about this. i'll start a ticket for you."

finally, the fifth time i nearly burst into tears of frustration and i said "i don't want you to start a ticket for me, because it will be the sixth ticket created for this same issue. every week, one of your colleagues tells me they'll create a a new ticket for me, and then nothing happens."

they said, "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing." and i was like i KNOW. but they doooooo what is happening.

finally i got transferred to a supervisor's supervisor.

if you've ever worked in online customer service, you know that when a customer calls with a problem, you create a "ticket" that puts that issue into the system. if you can't resolve it, it goes into a ticket queue, where other people with the ability to resolve it select it, put it into their personal working queue, and resolve it.

well after 30 minutes of searching, this supervisor tells me, dumbfounded, that she's discovered a completely unique queue she's never seen before, where my tickets have been going somehow. a pocket universe queue that no one has access to or can edit or select from, not even her. she has no idea what's happening. she's like "yes, here are all your tickets, and no one can open them or comment on them or resolve them.....this is crazy......" and it's JUST my tickets in there. no one else's. of tens of thousands of customers.

all professionalism fell by the wayside. i told her i've worked with those queues before and also found that totally wild. she was like "what the hell is going on...." and talked me through everything she was seeing and how gobsmacked she was. we were both like "this is one for the books truly"

tells me she's going to have to bring this up above herself because this is a really big error on like, a coding level, that she has no idea how to resolve. tells me she will personally call me back tomorrow to update me.

four days pass with no word.

i call customer service again. random agent. explain the entire situation, including that last bit.

agent says "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing. i'll have to start a ticket for you. rest assured, it will be resolved."

i said, "no it won't be. it never will be. because they're in the special queue."

clearly not believing me, they said, "i've heard nothing about that. i'll start a new ticket for you."

agentofdeterioration

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

presidentdragon

"that time of the month" "monthly visitor" "feminine hygiene products" GRRAH!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! PERIOD!! MENSTRUATION!!!! TAMPONS!!! PADS!! MENOPAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

tyke-dyke

VAGINA!!!!

presidentdragon

lastoneout

gecko1011010

Here are my artfight revenges!!!! part 5!

The characters belong to:

Elanh: @thehushedcasket

Archi: @driedbreadstixx

Priam: @fetoscopy

Mr. Yesman: @o-josh

Organza: @tortaart

mamoru

sorry to be brave on the internet but I think food labels should list every single ingredient and that there should be harsher penalties for mislabeling and deceptive labeling

olloollo

addition from @turtlesandfrogs:

We have these:

nentuaby

Yeah, that's exactly what the complaint was about.

glassbirdfeather

I bought hand sanitizer and I am allergic to it because there are fucking "FRAGRANCES" in it. In Hand Sanitizer!!!!!

magpie-come-east

Escape from the cruel, soul-sucking excesses of modernity and join our fantasy society. We are one with nature. Here everyone is a warrior prepared for countless wars that happen in our otherwise completely peaceful utopia. Here everyone possesses in a homogenous faith in a demonstrable higher power. Here women are badass but also there are Gender Roles. But, like, the roles are beautiful and fulfilling and very very spiritual. Here, everyone is slim and fit because fatness is a moral sin. Here, there are no people with disabilities because autism and deafness and depression and Parkinson’s and falling out of a tree and fucking up your spine real bad are actually caused by evil decadences like air conditioning and eating meat you didn’t hunt with your own bare hands.

magpie-come-east

When I am shot off of my fantasy dragon in the 52nd territorial dispute of autumn (resources are scarce in this bountiful paradise this time of year) and I break my legs and my people have to leave me outside to get torn apart by fantasy wolves because the mother tree has no stairs let alone accessibility ramps and wheelchairs.

5weekdays

my doctor told me i have to do PT this fucking sucks

5weekdays

these exercises are sooo monotonous like i keep walking down the same hallway over and over 🙄

5weekdays

who was that.

5weekdays

the fucking fetus in the sink won't accept my insurance

tictacpbandai

magicmistral

My uncle is really into warhammer and would win every miniature painting competition he was in. I have not very steady hands and he saw me messing up my nail polish for prom. He sat with me and carefully painted my nails and that moment meant so much to me all these years later.

thebibliosphere

I am down with a migraine. Very dizzy. Expressed a desire for potato chips because I thought the salt might help.

Holly Mop who was beside me in bed got up and trotted into my office. Came back into the bedroom and very daintily spat out a single potato chip.

Which has revealed two things:

A) that she does understand more of what I’m saying, and in true Shih Tzu fashion,chooses not to listen and

B) there’s a stash of stale potato chips somewhere in my office I’ll need to find tomorrow.

Emphasis on tomorrow

I’ve got a Dogtor to cuddle today.

vidosvit

Lichdragon

nyaa

for awhile I’ve been collecting images contemplating a form of interior design that captures the feeling of playing on a gmod server without having the correct textures and meshes downloaded

dragon-in-a-fez

actual image I have just seen on an actual website attempting to sell travel packages. welcome to our plane where there's no aisle so you have to climb over seats if you're not in the first row. the pilot has no legs and is joined to one of the passengers at the wrist.

feyburner

I do think it’s funny when headcanons are presented as objective character facts bc I get “He would not fucking say/do that” as much as the next guy but I must also humbly acknowledge its powerful cousin named “A skilled enough writer could make me believe he would”