they didnt listen, by the way. because of course they didnt. theyre hiding domo ai from the member list and forcing them into private and public servers. use
/ban user:1153984868804468756
to get rid of it.
if you're interested in the Colorful support post i made regarding this, its under the cut. i'm livid.
i love the misinformation website. this is a fearmongering copypasta that’s been going around for like two years now lol it’s not true. also, the “edit image with apps” button that originated all of this originally was removed last year.
discord is not secretly adding bots to every single discord server. that /ban command works on those user IDs because you can use /ban on an account that’s not in the server if you have their user ID. you can ban me from whatever server you want if you have my user ID but that doesn’t mean i was secretly in there watching you the whole time.
here’s a longer post with cited sources about the whole DomoAI debacle, written by someone else who knows more about it than me, if you want to know more about what’s actually happening and if you want to know what tools you have as a server owner to prevent images sent in your server from being taken up by one of these bots (hint: banning the bot is not one of them)
formal menswear enthusiasts want to slut it up so bad but they're frightened. so they wear shirt-stays and sock garters under their clothes. this is my scientific theory it's making waves in the guyologist world right now
this is masculine lingerie. Feminine lingerie mostly came from similar things in women's fashion -- garter belts etc. I think there is a lot of room for developing it more, but this is, imo, absolutely masculine lingerie, and i wish men's fashion designers would start focusing on that more
since i've seen it asked what purpose sleeve garters serve:
Sleeve garters are just so you can keep your cuffs right where you want them, typically used professionally by people like bartenders, who are wearing dress shirts to do manual labor and don't want their cuffs brushing through spills when they are wiping down the bar etc... but also useful for keeping cuffs exactly the right length for your suit without having to tailor all your shirts, or, if you have several suit coats with slightly different length sleeves, you can always have your dress shirt's cuffs showing that perfect half inch below the suit sleeve or whatever the fashion is for the time
right now it's about 1/2 an inch, but that's the sort of thing, like tie length, that can change a little with fashion trends -- but basically, you never want your shirt cuffs to be doing this
Because that looks SO sloppy, right? Looks like you're wearing your father's shirt under your little brother's jacket
BUT! you do want the cuffs showing, like this
because it makes the suit sleeve look precise and on purpose, or you might push it and show even more if you are wearing nice cuff links
because this clearly still looks purposeful and precise, and shows off your jewelry.
often, fashion dictates taking any opportunity to show your layers -- for example in medieval europe it was fashionable to literally slash expensive outer garments so you could ALSO see some of the expensive clothing underneath, which is how before long you get "slashed" sleeve patterns like this becoming popular among the wealthy
(notice the roughly half inch of sleeve cuff showing at the bottom here as well)
So a sleeve garter allows you to keep your sleeve cuffs positioned exactly where you want them, for either fashion or activity
Introducing the protagonists for Inheritor. Mech pilots from opposing factions who reluctantly end up working together.
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Finally we have some faces for this setting! Not one of these guys is having a normal time. There's technically a fourth but I'm saving him for later. More info about each individual pilot below, for the curious.
TURNER
Turner is unpopular among her fellow soldiers. As a teen she and a fellow cadet tried to desert the army, but they were caught and as punishment their God forced one of them to kill the other to prove their loyalty. Turner chose to kill her friend because she didn't want to be the one to die, earning her her callsign and reputation as a back-stabber. She was made to serve as an executioner, disposing of prisoners of war and traitors. Eventually she was transferred to the Navigation Corps. She uses sonar to chart safe pathways through Hevspace's perilous weather.
Turner is difficult to get along with. She's stiff and uptight, focused on nothing but service to her Church. She's still intent on proving her loyalty, wearing it like a shield against her guilt. Beneath her emotional walls she's a terrified mess who still believes she's a coward.
SMOKEY
Lieutenant General Smokey goes to great lengths to prove his worthiness. Originally a scout, he has spent his entire life climbing the ranks in an effort to gain equal footing with his Church's High Corps. His ideas are often brushed off despite the great lengths he goes to carry out the Seer's orders. He's what most heritors would call a tryhard. He's not afraid to push others down to get what he wants, harbouring an 'every man for himself' mentality.
MATCHSTICK
Matchstick is one of the unfortunate pilots serving in the Church of The Advance, enduring especially dangerous and grim conditions to develop their latest new weapons. She's a part of a salvage crew who siphon fuel and recover vessel parts from battlefields. Matchstick is paranoid about losing her autonomy, using humour and levity to cope with her own powerlessness. She enjoys getting a rise out of other people.
My dad lost his job yesterday, and that puts us at a pretty big risk financially-we're relatively okay for now but I'd prefer to be a little more stable, so here's some adopts, commissions and my Kofi-and if you can't help in that way financially, downloading my Minecraft mods ALSO helps with revenue-and you can download those for free!
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Types of Prophecy & divination!! (for your magic system)
⤷ vision ✧ involuntary, often triggered by touch, proximity, or a moment of crisis. the character doesn't choose this, it just happens to them, which makes it great for scenes where someone touches an object or another person and suddenly loses control of the moment entirely. genuinely unsettling bc it removes agency from the character having it.
⤷ omen ✧ a small sign, a bird's flight, spilled salt, a broken mirror, that has to be interpreted rather than delivered directly. this one's great for slow-burn dread, bc the reader (and maybe the character) can see the omen long before anyone understands what it actually means, and misreading it can become its own plot point.
⤷ prophetic dream ✧ occurs during sleep and tends to be symbolic rather than literal. this gives you so much creative room, bc the dream doesn't have to make sense in the moment, it just has to feel meaningful, and the character (and reader) get to slowly piece together what it actually meant as the plot catches up to it.
⤷ reading ✧ deliberate divination using physical tools, cards, bones, tea leaves, palms. this one's active rather than involuntary, someone chooses to sit down and ask, which makes it great for a character seeking answers on purpose and getting something they didn't want to hear.
⤷ foretelling ✧ a spoken prophecy, often cryptic, delivered by an oracle or a dying figure. this is your classic capital-p prophecy moment, and the cryptic phrasing is doing real narrative work, bc it lets the prophecy be technically true in a way nobody expected until the story reveals it.
⤷ portent ✧ a large-scale sign, a natural disaster, a celestial event, warning of coming change on a bigger scale than any one person. great for raising stakes across an entire world or kingdom rather than just one character's storyline, and for giving your side characters something to be afraid of even if they're not directly involved in the main plot.
⤷ scrying ✧ active far-sight through a tool, a mirror, water, a crystal, and it genuinely drains the person using it. this is a great cost mechanic, bc it means a character can't just scry constantly for information, they have to choose their moments carefully, which raises the stakes of every time they do it.
⤷ blood prophecy ✧ tied to a specific bloodline, and only fulfillable by someone of that line. this one pairs really well with blood wards from the last post, bc it lets you build a whole thread around legitimacy, who actually has the right blood, and what happens if the "wrong" person tries to fulfill it anyway.
˙⋆✮ A boring detective “figures things out.” A good detective has a specific kind of attention. Maybe she notices people’s hands because she grew up around liars. Maybe he notices money because he used to be broke. Maybe they notice what is missing instead of what is present. The way they investigate should come from who they are, not just from the plot needing someone to find a clue.
˙⋆✮ Everybody hiding something is fun, but it only works if the writer knows what each secret does. One secret should protect the killer. One secret should mislead the detective. One secret should reveal character. One secret should make the reader rethink an earlier scene. Random secrets are just fog. Useful secrets are architecture.
˙⋆✮ Your suspects should not all be hiding the murder. This is huge. Most people in a mystery should be lying for completely different reasons. Someone is hiding an affair. Someone is hiding debt. Someone is hiding shame. Someone is hiding that they hated the victim but didn’t kill them. Someone is hiding something kind. That’s what makes interrogation scenes interesting. The detective keeps pulling on threads and not every thread belongs to the same sweater.
˙⋆✮ The dead person should have relationships, habits, contradictions, enemies, debts, secrets, routines, a public version and a private version. The mystery becomes deeper when solving the murder also means discovering who the victim actually was. People should disagree about them. One person says they were generous. Another says they were cruel. Both might be right, and dead characters can still have presence if everyone left alive is reacting to a different version of them.
˙⋆✮ A clue should feel obvious only after the reveal. The reader should not feel cheated, but they also should not solve everything instantly. A good clue is one the reader saw but misunderstood. The muddy shoes mattered, but not because of where the suspect walked. The broken watch mattered, but not because of the time. The missing photo mattered because of who wasn’t in it. The best reveal makes the reader go, “oh my god, it was right there,” not “where did that come from?”
˙⋆✮ Interrogation is pressure. People do not reveal truth because the detective asks nicely in chapter eight. They reveal truth because something becomes harder to hide than to say. Maybe the detective corners them with evidence. Maybe their guilt shows in one tiny contradiction. Maybe they confess the smaller secret to avoid the bigger one. Maybe they lie so badly that the lie becomes more revealing than the truth.
˙⋆✮ Professional detectives need limits too. A badge does not mean they can magically know everything. There are warrants, bosses, paperwork, politics, tired witnesses, messy evidence, mistakes, pressure from media, pressure from families, pressure from their own assumptions. Even if you don’t write full police procedure, the detective should feel like they work inside a system, not above reality!!
˙⋆✮ The detective’s flaw should affect the investigation. If she is arrogant, she misses the quiet suspect. If he is lonely, he trusts the person who gives him warmth. If they hate rich people, they misread a poor suspect as innocent. If they want justice too badly, they push someone until they break.
˙⋆✮ Motive is usually more interesting when it is emotionally specific.
“Money” is a motive, yes, but it’s often more powerful when money means something personal. Money as freedom. Money as revenge. Money as escape. Money as proof they were never loved. Same with jealousy, fear, ambition, inheritance, blackmail. The motive should make sense inside the killer’s private world. Murder is extreme, so the emotional math has to be sharp.
˙⋆✮ Timelines are your best friend and your worst enemy. Mysteries live and die by timing. Who was where? When did they leave? When did they lie? When did the victim last speak to someone? When could the body have been moved? You, the writer, need a clean timeline even if the reader only sees a messy one. If you don’t know the timeline, the mystery will start leaking. And readers notice leaks. They are annoying like that.
˙⋆✮ Setting should create investigative problems. A murder in a boarding school is different from a murder on a spaceship, in a small town, at a royal court, during a music festival, in a rich family’s mansion, or in a fantasy city where magic exists. The place should affect evidence, access, gossip, surveillance, escape routes, power dynamics, and who can lie safely.
˙⋆✮ Do not make the detective solve everything through vibes. “Something about him felt off” is fine as a starting instinct, not as proof. The reader needs evidence. A contradiction. A physical detail. A repeated phrase. A missing object. A behavior that changes. Intuition is interesting when it leads the detective to investigate. It becomes lazy when it replaces investigation. Vibes may start the car, but evidence has to drive.
˙⋆✮ A writer must know the difference between suspense and mystery. Mystery asks: what happened? Suspense asks: what will happen? You can use both. The detective finding a hidden letter is mystery. The killer watching them find it is suspense. The reader knowing someone is lying while the detective does not is suspense. The reader not knowing what the lie means is mystery.
˙⋆✮ Your detective should pay a price for seeing too much. It is not cute to always know when people are lying. It can make relationships hard. They may struggle to relax, to trust, to stop analyzing. They might notice a friend’s fake smile and not know whether to say anything. They might ruin peaceful moments because their brain keeps searching for the hidden motive. The skill that solves the case should also make ordinary life harder.
Indigenous lands are crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. Research shows their health is a direct result of Indigenous stewardship
While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.
I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:
New research shows that approach overlooks the key role that Indigenous knowledge and culture can play in mitigating climate change. It also reveals a dangerous misconception that has taken hold in global climate discussions: the idea that Indigenous lands are so rich because they are remote or sparsely populated.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The health of Indigenous lands and their ability to store vast quantities of carbon stem from the stewardship of the people who inhabit them.
I'm actually bringing this back around to say another important thing.
I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".
I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.
This is your regular reminder that you don't need to feel guilty for being a human. You are part of nature--viewing humans as inherently separate from the rest of nature is actually part of the problem. You will be so much better served redirecting that guilt into supporting the humans who are helping nature or resisting those who are hurting it.
☆ Looking at her felt like finding a glacier in the middle of a desert. Wrong by every rule. Breathtaking for exactly that reason.
☆ She had an eye the color of fog over cold water, surrounded by skin the shade of late afternoon sun on red clay. The kind of face that made you understand why people used to think beauty was magic.
☆ His iris was the exact blue of something you see once and spend years trying to describe to people who weren't there.
☆ His iris was the color of the sky at the edge of a snowstorm. That particular white-blue that means the world is about to go completely quiet.
☆ His irises were wildfire at the center and first snowfall at the rim. Two seasons that should never touch, sharing the same impossible space.
☆ Her eyes looked like someone had dropped honey into glacier water and watched it sink slowly, still glowing, not quite dissolved.
Transphobia is being signed into law in the UK. Let's fight it together.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the rescheduled Mass Lobby at Parliament, now on Wed Sept 9th, 1pm-5pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a con
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It became statutory guidance in the UK on August 5th, 2026.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Our demands have changed. Ask your MP to:
Write to Ministers and Prime Minister Andy Burnham to say they are profoundly concerned by the rolling back of trans rights, and that they believe that it is time for Parliament to legislate to protect equality for trans people.
Ask parliamentary questions focused on protecting trans people’s rights and defending trans people’s abilities to live safe and dignified lives.
Speak up both inside and outside Parliament in defence of trans people’s rights.
Meet regularly with trans constituents to understand their lived realities.
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
We have already had some wins because we took action. The 2026 EHRC guidance has already rolled back its most harmful elements because of mass campaigning by individuals like us, and groups like The Good Law Project. This summer, 166 MPs signed the Early Day Motion 240 to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, because of our campaigning. That is 1 in 4 MPs.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. On the day, you'll get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Here is an online briefing for lobbyists (10 mins read for essential info, 20 mins for details)
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination. e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee. If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73). A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
Sign up for the mass lobby and email your MP here, or click the main link above.
If you are not in the UK but want to support the case, please donate to The Good Law Project.
Save the date and book off work!! I will see you there :))
