hellsitelurker

[calware]

gender affirming pointy teeth

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

[zk-j]

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.

[teefiesworld]

forever my lineage would use his wrong pronouns but not me

[winepresswrath]

The rise of AI slop & the endless waves of books that feel written to spec by people who are terrified of their own audiences has given me a new appreciation for Anne Rice. It's not even that she didn't give a fuck; she cared passionately and was famously, publicly hurt by the reception of at least one of her novels, but she never let that distract her from her mission of writing whatever the fuck she wanted. No one could write Anne Rice's books except Anne Rice. They are singularly, entirely hers and while I won't pretend she was a perfect person or it's wrong for readers to be offended or uninterested in spending their one and only life on earth reading something that offends them, I also think her work is valuable and humane and also often hilarious and it's not a crime to have a muse you adore.

[zurin]

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[halondrus]

Grabbing an elf by the ears like handlebars and riding them but not like in a sexual way i just crash into a wall killing us both

[boobachu]

[hitmewithcute]

Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

[scixerboa]

Best picture in the world

[pangur-and-grim]

two “cats” interacting

[fausphorus]

Got possessed in the middle of my work shift.

[tompodowski]

wow

[mortimermcmirestinks]

I've discerned the fundamental problem of being an extrovert with introvert friends

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[jackviator]

[dinosaurana]

Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you

[spaceboytoy]

Hello bisexual community

[spaceboytoy]

Begin killing

[tartrazeen]

[eleilinnrallin]

This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Translating this into tumblr's preferred public service announcement format for this kind of alert:

[bk-poetry]

I still don't understand how fanfiction.lol differs from AO3. The only two key things I could find in your article were volunteer burnout and the fact that AO3 has a signup queue.

How do you plan on preventing burnout on fanfiction.lol? And if the site gets too big too fast, how will you avoid implementing a signup queue?

(Fwiw I don't think the queue is a problem at all. I joined AO3 mid last year and was not waiting longer than a week)

the key difference is that it is different, it is by me instead of OTW.

anybody can fork the otwarchive source code and make their own version of AO3.

I have many different projects on the Internet, I just think it's fun to do things and see what happens.

[hubris] I don't see me getting burnout from this, since it's mostly just bug fixing which I deeply enjoy, and I have multiple helpful amazing mods/wranglers already.

[hubris x2] I also really don't see the site getting big enough that I would have to worry about queueing. There are more people getting into the weeds of the discourse than have actually signed-up (and the whole reason I made it was because I really don't care about discourse).

[olderthannetfic]

I'm really getting the sense that a lot of people around here have never encountered any activists for a human-centered internet.

People paying out of their own pocket to make a neat thing exist because the internet was better when we had wacky personal webshrines is such a normal part of my online experience. I suppose I do see those discussions today in more of a tech guy blogosphere kind of context though and not as much in fanfic spaces.

To me, this all instantly passes the sniff test. I get it. Whether it's for me and whether your hubris will bite you in the ass is another story, but I get it. For people who find all of this culturally alien, it seems to be raising illusory red flags due to a lack of context.

(Reblogging so people can go follow fanfictiondotlol if they want more updates.)

[mousidy]

I swear 10 years ago people had far better takes about porn and feminism and were all about listening to sex workers and there was genuine progress and understanding about state violence what the hell happened the past couple years, why are we not listening to sex workers anymore why is the church and conservatives The Voice Of Women now apparently we have regressed feminism like 60 years entirely for the sake of marginalizing trans women, sacrificing them in the altar of face-eating leopards where the fuck is free the nipple, gender desegregation, anything???

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[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you