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@mataglap
Sending love to anyone who is just… tired.
Of the bills. The responsibility. The emotional labor. The constant pressure of trying to make life work for themselves and the people they love.
Be gentle with yourself. The caregiver deserves care, too.
Just a calico girl
The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.
As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:
WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!
Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.
In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.
Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.
Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.
Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.
Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.
If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.
Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.
Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.
Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.
Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.
If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.
Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.
Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.
Bringing this back for my dying mutuals
Electrolytes are really important! You lose a lot of salt from sweating.
They also don’t have to be expensive! Here’s a simple recipe from the University of Virginia health system:
32 oz / 950 ml water
1/2 teaspoon / 3 grams salt
2 tablespoons / 25 grams sugar
The source, which includes more rehydration options: https://med.virginia.edu/ginutrition/wp-content/uploads/sites/199/2023/12/Homemade-Oral-Rehydration-Solutions-11-2023.pdf
" "Why did you ascend to be a Lyctor?" "Ultimate power-- and posters of my face." Fair. "
-Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ⸻ Ianthe Tridentarius Ianthe the First, Prince Ianthe Naberius; Lyctor, Eighth Saint to serve the King Undying, Tall Hot Glass of Skank. A girl who'd tell you she's gotten everything she ever wanted—and you'd almost believe her.
I thought of drawing her propaganda poster as a closer likeness, but decided it was funnier if it was obviously retouched to look more healthy and saintly.
(process pics from sketch to final artwork available to see on patreon! This one had a longer journey than some of my other illustrations.)
Melinoë ♨️ Nemesis
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No. I'm fine, really. I'm just ugly crying about Carroll crater. A bright spot on the far side of the moon. I'm fine. I'll stop crying eventually.
I want to talk about policing the use of AI in creative writing fan spaces any why attempting to investigate and punish people this is a terrible idea.
Now let me be clear - Gen AI is awful and most people agree that it has no place in creative spaces, but that's besides the point. I'm not here to debate AI in creative spaces, I'm here to talk about the moderators who feel the need to investigate and punish writers who they believe use AI.
I'm going to start by reminding people of two important things:
There is no way for anyone to know for certain if someone is using AI to write - unless they tell you they are. The common "tells" that are cited online are found in the work of people who have excellent control of functional grammar, good vocabularies, and an excellent control of sentence structure. AI is trained on the work of talented writers.
There is no way for an author to defend themselves against a claim that they are using AI, especially in an online environment. Nor should an author have to. The rule should not be "prove you are innocent or we will find you guilty!"
I feel very passionately about this and have for quite some time. I've seen fandom witch hunts before, and I know how easy it is for some people to climb to moral high ground and punish those they believe are doing the wrong thing.
My friend recently chose to leave a discord server after the mod team contacted them to announce that there had been reports made by people who wished to be anonymous who suspected their work was AI generated. The mods explained that they had investigated these claims by looking over their writing, and although they admitted they could not be 100% certain the work contained AI, they were issuing a strike/warning to them in accordance with their discord rules because they believed they might have.
The investigation involved them reading some of their work.
That was it.
They read their work and decided that, in their own words, they thought it might be AI so they were issuing a strike. They then proceeded to delete the writing they had shared on the server without any opportunity for this person to retrieve it.
There was no communication prior to them issuing a strike. My friend was not told about these accusations ahead of time, the moderators did not talk to them about the accusations or raise concerns, and did not stop to ask themselves why the people making these claims wished to do so anonymously.
Perhaps if they had, they would have learned that members of their discord had been harassing this person via Tumblr anons about this issue. Instead they chose to give the bullies anonymity, to deny a writer a chance to have open communication, and issued a punishment for a rule infraction that they themselves admitted they could not be certain had been broken.
When my friend gave the names of beta readers and editors who had worked with her in real time, these moderators chose not to engage with them or seek clarification, and instead doubled down and tried to justify their decision.
My friend asked for the evidence they had that their work contained AI content, and it was not provided to them. Instead they supplied a generic statement about how they had made their decision based on their use of syntax, grammar, tone, and word choice was rolled out. But again, they did not give examples or explain this.
As someone who admins and mods several creative spaces, this kind of behaviour worries me. Actually, it terrifies me. Because anyone can be next: you, me, the brand new writer eager to share their work, or the fandom oldie.
It sets a dangerous precedent for fan spaces and the policing of creative works, because it leaves writers in these spaces open to harassment, bullying, intimidation, and censorship under the guise of keeping fan spaces "AI Free". Anyone can accuse someone of using AI to write, and this can be used to bully people out of fan spaces.
Moderators are supposed to keep fan spaces safe for members, not take it upon themselves to play detective and police creative works in case someone is using AI. In fact, mods taking it upon themselves to police writers in fan spaces by handing out warnings and bans are making fan spaces unsafe and encouraging social exclusion. This kind of behaviour will actively scare and intimidate writers into simply walking away - because who wants to hear an accusation that their work is AI?
Facilitating AI witch hunts is killing fan spaces.
Attempting to police the writing of others is alienating writers.
And if you think someone is using AI to write, don't try to be a detective, just click away and stop reading their work.
This is such an important topic — and I want to help recontextualize it in a way that might make why this behavior is so problematic really hit home for people. Because I've seen a lot of these same arguments on reddit and other creative spaces of "guilty until proven innocent."
So putting aside the not-so-gentle slide the argument of "guilty until proven innocent" is into fascist thinking (which is honestly another good reason to sit and re-evaluate this position if you have it), here we go.
I'm a labor organizer. I've not been terribly vocal about that on tumblr, but that's been my job for the last 10 years, and so I'm approaching this through a lens of workplace justice to highlight just how fucked up it is to "do an investigation" that never involves asking the accused a single goddamn question.
Just imagine for me showing up to work one day, and your boss pulls you into their office. You sit down, maybe a little nervous, and your boss slides a piece of paper across the desk stating you have been formally written up and this is your first of three strikes. Three strikes and you're fired.
The offense? A coworker claimed they felt like you were eating someone else's lunch.
No one ever stopped to ask you, "are you eating coworker's lunch?" The person who's lunch was being eaten was also never asked if their lunch was being eaten. All the mattered was the feelings of the person who reported it, and the boss who decided well, you could have done it and so they issued you formal discipline, and now you are that much closer to being out of a job.
But the thing is, you never ate anyone's lunch. You make your own lunch, it's clearly labeled "my own fucking lunch" — yet none of that mattered, and no one even bothered to ask.
You'd be furious, right? That's not what a proper investigation is. The standard in any space should not be: we are presumed guilty and must, therefore, prove our innocence. But in my fictional scenario — and in the real life scenario above — the accused was never even granted the chance to prove their innocence. In my fictional scenario, I'd be writing up the grievance yesterday and I would fight that case all the way to arbitration and I'd fucking win in five minutes.
The notion that we must police other people's creative works in creative spaces and issue strikes (especially without doing any actual fucking investigation that is an actual fucking investigation) is harmful and you know what, fuck it, I'm not gonna go soft on anyone's ass — it promotes fascist thinking. If you engage in this type of behavior, if you believe that people must prove their innocence to you (while denying them the opportunity to do so), you are that much closer to being a fascist. You're not saving creativity, you're not a champion of what is just and good in this world.
You're just a fucking asshole.
Your Deadlock Pocket illustration is wonderful! Could you possibly to the Venator, please?
father quinn rourke i need you to kill that fcking bellhop
I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate.
Leonid Pasternak (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work
oh leonid, we're really in it now
Leonid, you really understand it.
Save me Leonid, from my empty Word document
Leonid what should I do about the emails
Babe are you okay? you reblogged Leonid Pasternak's Torments of Creative Work again
SecUnit meeting Gurathin: IDK he seems a bit isolated and withdrawn but the rest of them seem to like him
SecUnit getting to know Gurathin: He's infuriating. He accused me of being a danger to my clients. He doesn't like my favourite TV show. He keeps being right about where plans were going to go wrong (rude), and pointing out when I'm doing something reckless (even more rude, I already know I'm being reckless, fuck off). He's my client and if you touch him I'll rip your fingers off. I'm sending him a silly video of me pretending to be human but only because he asked and I need to hold the moral high ground. designation: I don't like him.
Other people meeting SecUnit and Gurathin: IDK he seems a bit isolated and withdrawn but SecUnit seems to like him.
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
Overnight it will become illegal for trans people in Kansas to drive their cars. They can be arrested and, if convicted, face upwards of 6 months in prison with a $1000 fine. While in prison, as this is Kansas, they will be jailed according to their gender at birth. If they try to flee the state without surrendering their license, they cannot get a new one in a different state until they surrender their old one because the licenses are part of a national registry. And this is part of the bathroom bounty bill, which allows people to sue anyone they think is in the wrong bathroom.
I have seen several people promoting The Trans Continental Pipeline in response to this - they’re an organization that helps trans people move to Colorado. Colorado shares a border with Kansas, so they are well-situated to help trans Kansans.
No one should have to flee their home to be themselves, but in this fucking hellscape of US politics it’s sometimes necessary. If you have the money, consider donating!
DISCORD IS IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL AGE VERIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. GO YELL AT THEM ABOUT IT.
Source: Discord's official statement
Ethical problems of surveillance aside, Discord cannot be trusted with your information. There was already a data breach of 70,000 users' government IDs in October of 2025.
The support email listed on Discord's website for contact does not work. Instead, flood their system via submitting support requests via this form.
Discord also has an account on X, so if you have an account you can go put them on blast over there.
Public outrage over decisions like this does work. Make your voices heard.
They have a bluesky too and what's interesting about that is they never post there so if it were to be trending that they are stupid for doing it they might have to start using it to keep tabs on the situation...
CANCEL YOUR NITRO, LEAVE 1 STAR REVIEWS IN THE APP STORE, SEND AN ANGRY SUPPORT TICKET, AND BLOW THIS UP ON EVERY SOCMED
Hit them where it hurts: their wallet, and their reputation. We can reverse this attempt at fascist surveillance.
DO NOT GIVE ANY APP A SCAN OF YOUR FACE OR ID. It's NEVER safe, NEVER secure, and WILL be used to harm you.
Worst comes to worse, look for alternatives. I know it'll be rough, but we cannot use an app that violates and puts us in danger like this.
Popular platforms for chatting, video calling, and community-buildingAre you looking for an alternative to Discord? Maybe you'd like more pr
YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY
YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY
for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits
are you a male ski jumper alleged to be pursuing marginal gains that could yield up to a 5-8 metre increase in flight distance or are you just pleased to see me
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: that hotline is forvo.com. It’s a pronunciation dictionary that allows you type in a word and see how it’s pronounced. They have multiple languages as well. Don’t see a word on there that you know how to pronounce? You can totally add it. Visit forvo. Help yourself.
that is much better than a hotline because you don’t have to actually talk to someone
