Lore55

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[only-tiktoks]

[xeansicemane]

Ya'll ever think that except for stuff like ren fairs are the only time adults get to play when the human animal never stops needing play behavior?

[death-limes]

the cultural perception that play is an inherently childish thing is one of the worst ideas to come out of modern civilization (in my very not-humble and objectively correct opinion)

[lo-55]

I just discovered your fanfic-" Glory to the Vindictive" and it was so good! But i realized it had stopped updating last year, is it discontinued or just on hiatus? There is no pressure to answer ofcourse and im having an awesome time reading your fic though im just at chapter 12. Lots of love from all the way in Nepal!

Hi there!

It's not officially discontinued, but I'm having trouble properly writing where it's going from here.

All for One being dead throws a lot of canon out the window, of course, and while I know where I'm going from here the execution is where I'm struggling.

I've been trying to find some old fics that I read in 2020 which initially inspired what I'm planning, but unfortunately the main collection is gone now.

Spoiler alert below

The next step is going to be the building of the League of Villains powers still, because despite everything there's no way Tomura is just going to be a civilian lol. The shift from 'Destroy the world' to 'change it to a place for my friends to live happy' is very much in play. Plus his new grief that his father-figure is dead, somehow recovering his memories still, the doctor still being on the lose with nomu's, etc.

But there's also rebuilding the Yakuza's power structure and the heroes fight against that as public opinion turns from them and to criminals of all people.

And the actual end point antagonists for the series will be the Hero Commission, because fuck them.

So there's a lot to do and actually enacting all of that is giving me a lot of trouble, unfortunately.

[boccher]

i think every british journalist should just be gunned down

[maidthings]

On the small soggy wet archipelago that makes up the modern day united kingdom, sunny days are a rare phenomenon. As such, the peoples of england cherish each and every one, even going so far as to write songs about them in their local music. With sunlight in such high demand, to block it deliberately is nigh unthinkable, hence their cultural confusion at the invention of the parasol.

[cuunos]

the article was written by a japanese person about the culture and history of parasols in japan. by the way. if anyone was wondering

[penny-anna]

[moonshinemagpie]

okay so I finished Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, and here are my takeaways, because it was AMAZING and I can't believe all US students aren't required to read it in school:

shows how slavery actually worked in nuanced ways i'd never thought much about

example: Jacobs's grandmother would work making goods like crackers and preserves after she was done with her work day (so imagine boiling jars at like 3 a.m.) so that she could sell them in the local market

through this her grandmother actually earned enough money, over many years, to buy herself and earn her freedom

BUT her "mistress" needed to borrow money from her. :)))) Yeah. Seriously. And never paid her back, and there was obviously no legal recourse for your "owner" stealing your life's savings, so all those years of laboring to buy her freedom were just ****ing wasted. like.

But also! Her grandmother met a lot of white women by selling them her homemade goods, and she cultivated so much good will in the community that she was able to essentially peer pressure the family that "owned" her into freeing her when she was elderly (because otherwise her so-called owners' white neighbors would have judged them for being total assholes, which they were)

She was free and lived in her own home, but she had to watch her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren all continue to be enslaved. She tried to buy her family but their "owners" wouldn't allow it.

Enslaved people celebrated Christmas. they feasted, and men went around caroling as a way to ask white people in the community for money.

But Christmas made enslaved people incredibly anxious because New Years was a common time for them to be sold, so mothers giving their children homemade dolls on Christmas might, in just a few days' time, be separated from their children forever

over and over again, families were deliberately ripped apart in just the one community that Harriet Jacobs lived in. so many parents kept from their children. just insane to think of that happening everywhere across the slave states for almost 200 years

Harriet Jacobs was kept from marrying a free Black man she loved because her "owner" wouldn't let her

Jacobs also shows numerous ways slavery made white people powerless

for example: a white politician had some kind of relationship with her outside of marriage, obviously very questionably consensual (she didn't hate him but couldn't have safely said no), and she had 2 children by him--but he wasn't her "master," so her "master" was allowed to legally "own" his children, even though he was an influential and wealthy man and tried for years to buy his children's freedom

she also gives examples of white men raping Black women and, when the Black women gave birth to children who resembled their "masters," the wives of those "masters" would be devastated--like, their husbands were (from their POV) cheating on them, committing violent sexual acts in their own house, and the wives couldn't do anything about it (except take out their anger on the enslaved women who were already rape victims)

just to emphasize: rape was LEGALLY INCENTIVIZED BY US LAW LESS THAN 200 YEARS AGO. It was a legal decision that made children slaves like their mothers were, meaning that a slaveowner who was a serial rapist would "own" more "property" and be better off financially than a man who would not commit rape.

also so many examples of white people promising to free the enslaved but then dying too soon, or marrying a spouse who wouldn't allow it, or going bankrupt and deciding to sell the enslaved person as a last resort instead

A lot of white people who seemed to feel that they would make morally better decisions if not for the fact that they were suffering financially and needed the enslaved to give them some kind of net worth; reminds me of people who buy Shein and other slave-made products because they just "can"t" afford fairly traded stuff

but also there were white people who helped Harriet Jacobs, including a ship captain whose brother was a slavetrader, but he himself felt slavery was wrong, so he agreed to sail Harriet to a free state; later, her white employer did everything she could to help Harriet when Harriet was being hunted by her "owner"

^so clearly the excuse that "people were just racist back then" doesn't hold any water; there were plenty of folks who found it just as insane and wrongminded as we do now

Harriet Jacobs making it to the "free" north and being surprised that she wasn't legally entitled to sit first-class on the train. Again: segregation wasn't this natural thing that seemed normal to people in the 1800s. it was weird and fucked up and it felt weird and fucked up!

Also how valued literacy skills were for the enslaved! Just one example: Harriet Jacobs at one point needed to trick the "slaveowner" who was hunting her into thinking she was in New York, and she used an NYC newspaper to research the names of streets and avenues so that she could send him a letter from a fake New York address

I don't wanna give away the book, because even though it's an autobiography, it has a strangely thrilling plot. But these were some of the points that made a big impression on me.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl also inspired the first novel written by a Black American woman, Frances Harper, who penned Iola Leroy. And Iola Leroy, in turn, helped inspire books by writers like Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston. Harriet Jacob is also credited in Colson Whitehead's acknowledgments page for informing the plot of The Underground Railroad. so this book is a pivotal work in the US literary canon and, again, it's weird that we don't all read it as a matter of course.

(also P.S. it's free on project gutenberg and i personally read it [also free] on the app Serial Reader)

[moonshinemagpie]

update!!!!

So Harriet Jacobs's brother was named John Swanson Jacobs, and in her memoir she's like "btw my brother ran away too." But we don't learn a lot about him.

Well, guess what? John Swanson Jacobs wrote a memoir, too. And it was rediscovered. Recently. It was published in full for the first time since 1850 last year, in 2024.

Harriet and John Jacobs both ran away, but they lived very different lives. Harriet Jacobs took a more "typical" path for a Black abolitionist of her era: She asked a white abolitionist to take the credit for her book, since otherwise it wasn't going to get published/read (it was only proven in the 21st century that Harriet herself wrote it).

But John Swanson Jacobs?

He gave all of America the middle finger, became a sailor, traveled the world (the Caribbean, England, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, India, all over), then ended up in Australia and got his memoir published in a newspaper in Sydney, where he didn't need white people's "permission" to publish it, didn't have to accept the indignity of having a white editor, and didn't need to pretend that he wasn't really the author of his own book.

He called it The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, referring to the 600,000 slaveowners living in the US.

Like, whoa.

The historian who discovered his memoir,,and wrote a biography on him, describes him as a man with "apocalyptic intelligence."

It is so cool that this book exists. And it kinda sucks because I just know if it'd come out in 2020 people would have been all over it, but I haven't seen it in any bookstores. I got my library to stock it; maybe you can request it at your library, too.

The new edition is annotated by Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, the historian who found Jacobs's memoir in an 1850 Australian newspaper. He recommends--and I do too--reading Harriet and John Swanson Jacobs's memoirs back-to-back, and the annotations in Six Hundred Thousand Despots highlight parts where the siblings' books corroborate or differ from each other's accounts, something I'm personally enjoying a lot.

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition incl

So yeah. Our only extant fugitive slave narrative written by a world-traveling sailor who told all of America to fuck off and went to live his life. Very very cool book. 10/10 recommend.

[chaossmith2]

"... You're what??"

[innerchildabortionclinic]

"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

[lo-55]

A while ago I decided I was going to write a cook book (two, actually) which is all well and good but I write and cook better than I can take picture or draw...

so I'm gonna have to find someone to pay to do illustrations. Or take better picture lol

[ignitelimelight]

This is usually how cookbooks are done! If you're looking to, like, publish publish, the publisher will pay for it as a part of making the book happen. If you're looking to self publish, you'd be looking at hiring an artist or photographer way down the line when you're raising funds. And if you're just trying to make a little something for yourself, why not host dinner parties with the theme being "draw your meal"

TLDR don't even worry just work on making yummy food and writing about it

[lo-55]

That's good to know! I didn't even consider a real publisher would be interested lol I figured I'd just do it myself. If for no one else than for myself.

I thought about asking the people who did my business cards, but they're a very artistic, almost water color drawings with these really soft, lovely colors and a swirl of gold around the borders. But I don't know how artistic I'd like the illustrations to be vs. realistic for anyone who actually tries to make these things.

[lo-55]

A while ago I decided I was going to write a cook book (two, actually) which is all well and good but I write and cook better than I can take picture or draw...

so I'm gonna have to find someone to pay to do illustrations. Or take better picture lol

[lo-55]

I'm having Thoughts about Mash and Mordred being narrative foils again.

Mordred the sword, made by Morgan le Fay for one purpose only.

Mash the shield, made by Chaldea for one purpose only.

Both were supposed to be weapons for their makers, but who grew into such different people.

Mordred was raised alone under the belief that he was destined to take Artoria's throne no matter what it took, but was jealous of regular humans, and eventually fell into betraying everyone who put their faith in the once chivalrous knight.

Mash was expected to hate and resent her creator and his daughter (Olga Marie was terrified of her!) but learned to love what life she had with Romani and Fujimaru basically taught her to be human and despite everything she stayed faithful until the end.

Even their personalities are opposites. Mordred is brash, prideful, and self assured. Mash is shyer, humble, and doubts herself and her place at Fujimaru's side.

They're also both oddly innocent when you interact with them outside of the battlefield too lol. Neither one has much experience with the world outside of their armor, but both of them become extremely attached to their masters when they're decent to them.

ignore my unpolished ramblings

[voxofthevoid]

Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.

Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.

Just. Why.

What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.

[xemylixa]

There's a theory already that this makes it easier for copyright infringers to steal fanfics because you can't prove the authorship of a deleted work.

This is pure evil

Spread the word

p.s. The comments look something like this:

p.p.s. There's no "new" policy that bans original works, either. Everything that was allowed, is still allowed. This is a "please read our TOS ffs" awareness campaign - not a surprise rugpull. Don't delete anything, please. It's an archive.

[cricketcat9]

Just so you know...Don't delete! Evil bastards 🤬

[allsortsoflicorice]

Everybody who uses AO3 should make sure they are familiar with the terms of service. Knowing the TOS will help protect you against this bizarre scammers, whose only motive seems to be to hurt you. Knowledge is power!

[tyramir]

Actually, as someone who has read A03's TOS, original content is technically against their terms of service, but they allow it anyway. It's weird.

[osterby]

I'm guessing you missed this part of the ToS.

https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#original_fiction

They allow fannish original fiction because AO3 is meant for fanworks, and fannish original fiction counts as fanwork.

They don't allow non-fannish original fiction or fiction that is published for pay elsewhere, because that it not fannish. There is no contradiction, nor there are strange ToS enforcement shenanigans as you suggest.

[tyramir]

I think your confusion is based entirely on a difference opinion on what "Original works" constitutes. By adding the "fannish" adjective, you're immediately implying it's not an original work, it's a derivative work, based or inspired by something else. Which is fine. But it's not really "original" anymore, is it?

At the end of the day, A03 has an Original Works category that's not actually meant for Original Works. It's openly hostile to Original Works authors, because at the end of the day, the end goal of an Original Works writer is to: 1) Eventually get paid for their work. 2) Level up their skill to fulfill the above objective. 3) And most nefariously of all (in A03's eyes), build an audience to eventually sell their product to. And because A03 is a fanwork archive that must remain a non-profit at all costs for legal and ethical reasons. Ones I do not disagree with. I understand the necessity for their stance on Original Works. Because at the end of the day, A03 is the *largest* community of writers and readers on the internet, and people will inevitably try to use that as a way to advertise themselves or their works for profit.

I know this, *because I nearly did it myself* before reading the TOS. A03 allows Original Works while simultaneously not allowing it because they know an original works author can and will use their reach on A03 to violate the most important rules of the TOS.

While A03 states that it allows Original Works, it also simultaneously states that it can police what Original Work can be allowed.

*Which is fine.* I understand where they are coming from. They are protecting themselves. But the TOS does explicitly state, "Original Works is allowed" and then provides legal language to say that they can also deem it unallowable and remove it at their leisure. A03 is very hands off where this is concerned, rarely to never enforcing it (to my knowledge), but they have included the framework to protect themselves in the event they feel the need to do a purge.

[olderthannetfic]

AO3 isn't going to purge original works.

Some of us spent years trying to explain the nature of original-but-fannish writing to fans who'd simply never run across the kind of fandom spaces that would allow them to understand the cultural context. Eventually, we succeeded enough to get this type of work included on AO3.

The types of communities I'm talking about are like "original slash"/"original BL" circles where people are intentionally keeping things noncommercial and sharing their work in the same context as slash fanfic. It's certainly not a practice restricted to m/m content only, but the distinction is more obvious there.

When I want to sell my original work, I post it to Amazon. My original work that goes on AO3 was written for fandom to enjoy for free. They are not the same.

This is only confusing if you're inexperienced.

--

As for the original question, I'd presume trolls or antis before I'd assume copyright infringement.

[glowcowboy]

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

[its-your-mind]

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

[beautifulterriblequeen]

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

[dear-ao3]

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[khashanakalashtar]

My computer is so quiet and reasonably-temperatured now and I barely notice a difference in utility, why is windows like this

maybe I can even play computer games again

[paintpencilink]

The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.

10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.

Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")

The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.

[lo-55]

Excuse me? How am I supposed to rewatch the beginning of Bleach when the new animation look like this? It's like going back to eating canned chicken after having Gordon Ramsay prepare you a Nduja stuffed chicken with calabrian honey.

[bryophyteish]

lets be 25¢ with mama

[kittycara-sketches]

Ok but… can we just appreciate the parallels between Ritsuka potentially qualifying as an Avenger and Mash potentially qualifying as a Ruler but both of them rejecting all that jazz and actively choosing to move forward with their human hearts intact, battered and bruised as they are?

[theconcealedweapon]

[grim-work]

thinking about that post that said the real horror of spn was the ways abuse will resurface and thinking about how season 1 is so explicitly intensely overwhelming about domestic violence and abuse in the home…………….there’s something in the pipes, there’s something in the walls, there’s something in the closet the children see at night. we know, but we can never say it