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Subscribestar quietly updated their TOS yesterday to ban a load of previously allowed content at the behest of payment processors. There are no safe platforms. This will keep happening and we have to fight back.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art, Substar, itch, Patreon, etc)

This is your chance to tell them directly that you don't want to be told how to spend your money:

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

✨ Guidance on submitting an effective comment per the Free Speeh Coalition via ECR News:

"YES it's a good idea to comment on this as ero creatives. the FSC is also submitting a comment. Summarized advice from the FSC (from their lobbyists) was that you should tell your story/explain why the issue is important to you, and – most importantly – clearly say what you want the Fed to do about it. In this case, eliminating "reputation risk" from the Board's supervisory programs."

Before anyone suspects this is only going to benefit republican institutions, remember that last year the OCC specifically named adult industries as a sector facing unfair debankment.

Please leave a comment as so many others have done already! Artists need you and you're going to need you too because they never stop with what you personally find distasteful. They are insatiable and you will watch your livelihoods, what you love, disappear too.

writing-prompt-s

Your spells are custom-made for you, by you. Usually it doesn’t change much, but tonight you were robbed and as the thief tried to cast one of your spells, he burned to a husk before he finished the first line. Your party takes a step away from the book.

wulvercazz

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inky-duchess

Fantasy Guide to Addressing Nobility

It can be hard to remember how to properly address your noble or royal characters when writing a fantasy court. Here is a quick guide:

1. King/Queen:

Usually addressed as either “Your Grace” or “Your Majesty”. Consort (married to a ruler and not reigning in their own right) can be addressed the same. Sire or Madam can be used also.

2. Prince/Princess:

They are addressed as “Your Highness”. They are NEVER addressed the same as a King or Queen

3. Duke/Duchess:

These are addressed with “Your Grace”. This was a common term also used by royalty before Henry VIII got to big for his codpiece.

4. Earl (Count)/Countess:

Are almost never referred as the “Earl of Narnia” but “Lord Narnia”.

5. Lord/Lady:

An easy one. They are called “My Lord” or “My Lady”.

6. Emperor/Empress:

These may be equal to a King/Queen for status but the have a grander title. They are only addressed as “Your Imperial Highness/Majesty”

I hope this helps when writing your court or fantasy novel.

novlr

The symbolism of flowers

Flowers have a long history of symbolism that you can incorporate into your writing to give subtext.

Symbolism varies between cultures and customs, and these particular examples come from Victorian Era Britain. You'll find examples of this symbolism in many well-known novels of the era!

Amaryllis: Pride

Black-eyed Susan: Justice

Bluebell: Humility

Calla Lily: Beauty

Pink Camellia: Longing

Carnations: Female love

Yellow Carnation: Rejection

Clematis: Mental beauty

Columbine: Foolishness

Cyclamen: Resignation

Daffodil: Unrivalled love

Daisy: Innocence, loyalty

Forget-me-not: True love

Gardenia: Secret love

Geranium: Folly, stupidity

Gladiolus: Integrity, strength

Hibiscus: Delicate beauty

Honeysuckle: Bonds of love

Blue Hyacinth: Constancy

Hydrangea: Frigid, heartless

Iris: Faith, trust, wisdom

White Jasmine: Amiability

Lavender: Distrust

Lilac: Joy of youth

White Lily: Purity

Orange Lily: Hatred

Tiger Lily: Wealth, pride

Lily-of-the-valley: Sweetness, humility

Lotus: Enlightenment, rebirth

Magnolia: Nobility

Marigold: Grief, jealousy

Morning Glory: Affection

Nasturtium: Patriotism, conquest

Pansy: Thoughtfulness

Peony: Bashfulness, shame

Poppy: Consolation

Red Rose: Love

Yellow Rose: Jealously, infidelity

Snapdragon: Deception, grace

Sunflower: Adoration

Sweet Willian: Gallantry

Red Tulip: Passion

Violet: Watchfulness, modesty

Yarrow: Everlasting love

Zinnia: Absent, affection

your-average-bibliophile

Always loved flower language

officialfemme

things to update after a legal name change!

Social security card

Driver’s license

Passport

Birth certificate

Employer HR

Bank account

Credit card company

Car insurance

Health insurance

Utilities

Cell phone account

Voter registration

Your school

Professional organizations (for nursing, bar, teaching, etc.)

Doctor’s office & other health specialists

TV & internet

Paypal

*Please add to this list if you can think of anything else!!!

pinktwink

#1 thing I notice trans people forget to change after just a social name change is their voicemail recording!

#useful #for future use #important

kittiemitties

I can put this here, right

Neat

#Bleach

animedoragon

POV: you just called him cute

#Bleach

liberalsarecool

We must reframe the narratives/dialog.

#LanguageMatters

huevo-mundo

Had the best drawpile sesh today and we ended up with lots and lots of KaiZen stuff ghfkdjgdf

Vampire Au kaizen! It may be bordering on crack but its such a fun pairing~

pandelion-fic

bending always toward the sun

Color doesn’t show well in Hueco Mundo, washed out by the pale moonlight. Grimmjow’s hair shows more silver than blue, Harribel’s hair bleached pale as bone. Color, in Hueco Mundo, are only shades of grey.

So when he holds up the handful of petals, they look the yellow of old bones, not the vibrant, almost gold color he knows they’d be somewhere, anywhere else. He tips them off his hand, watches them float down to the sand. They look so out of place, too solid and real in the reishi-haze that passes for both land and air here.

Hollows don’t suffer diseases, not like humans. They’re spirit forms, not flesh and blood. And they don’t get sick the way shinigami do, too far removed from their humanity to suffer the same soul-sicknesses.

These petals should be impossible.

Keep reading

#Bleach

huevo-mundo

More drawpile stuff!

#Bleach

benepla-deactivated20200506

just delete your amazon account tbh. even past the boycott. Fuck it. Go to stores. don’t go on IMDB go on Wikipedia or watch a movie’s extra features (which are usually much more in depth and are probably on YouTube/putlocker). Fuck audible, go to a bookstore. I really think Amazon and it’s subsidiaries have thrived because Americans live for convenience and quickness. Would you rather live conveniently or ethically?

beachdeath

p.s. libby does everything audible does and more 100% free of charge with a library card

axelfloyd

I agree w the Amazon boycott, but ppl should be aware that a chuck of the physical infastructure is owned by Amazon. Their servers host millions of websites -- this is actually how they make the majority of profits. I recommend reading Kashmir Hill's piece on how blocking Amazon is nearly immpossible to get a full idea of their scope.

beachdeath

yes, kashmir’s article “I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible” is excellent journalism and required reading, as is her whole series on trying to live without the “big five” of apple, microsoft, facebook, google, and amazon.

whimsicalethnographies

Also remember The Post is owned by Bezos, and I’ll straight up cop to never not supporting the Post unless they become a printed Fox News. We do actually need them now, especially since the Times has been shitting the bed so badly lately. The Post gets it mostly right.

We need to support anti-monopoly legislation and simultaneously not beat ourselves up when we can’t fully cut this shit out of our lives completely.

mirandashepardauthor-deactivate

Writing Sensual Romance 101

It seems that Erot!ca is a dirty word on this website, by that I mean the search function gives you nothing, and so I’m flying low to avoid the radars, so to speak.

If you’re a writer that adds any element of romance or sexuality to your writing, you’re going to stray into my neck of the woods eventually; you might not be writing all out erotic fiction, but it doesn’t hurt to know how to write it well. Worst case scenario, you have a skill that you can utilise to varying degrees. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it, after all.

How do I do the do?

For lack of a more sophisticated question to start us off, I’ll quote a good friend of mine,

“I just get so… squeamish. I mean, how do I do the do?”

What she meant by this, of course, was “how do I write erotica without making my toes curl?”

The answer is so simple, and oh so complex; write what turns you on. If you’re not confident in what that is, it’ll be harder for you (no pun intended), and if you’re not comfortable with sexuality it’s definitely going to be an uphill battle.

So, first on the list; get comfortable with what turns you on, and get ready to pick it apart. Even if you’re only writing fade to black scenes you’re going to want them to stir something in your readers. If you’re not getting hot and bothered writing it, there’s a high chance you’re doing it wrong.

3 Hard and Fast Rules

There really are no such things as concrete rules when it comes to writing, but I have 3 rules that I follow more often than not when it comes to writing romance or erotica. They are;

1) Characterisation is King; when you sell romance of any type or degree you’re selling the chemistry between characters more so than plot. Plot matters, of course, but not as much as characterisation or chemistry. A poor plot can be saved by good chemistry, but a fantastic plot will not sell a romance that is devoid of tension, sensuality, and friction.

3) Spare the Shaft; please dear God, never use the phrases “python”, “throbbing rod”, or “love tunnel”, or any of the many euphemisms which litter so many poor-quality, dated romances and erotic novels. Stick to terms that are functional and appropriate for your time period and story lean.

4) Foreplay of all Kinds; this applies to you, yes you, even if you’re not writing erotica! I don’t just mean the tongues and fingers etcetera; I mean the longing looks, the touching of hands, the whispered adoration. There’s a good, solid saying; if they have to kiss for you to know they’re in love, you’re not writing it well. That may be a poor paraphrase, but I stand by it. Your readers should know the characters love, desire, want each other before they ever touch.

Pacing

If you intend to write straight up erotic fiction the pace is much different than, for example, that of a romance or adventure novel. Think less context, more action, but nonetheless follow the basic principles of plotting;

Stasis; how is life now, what are they dissatisfied with, and what is it they crave. Is your MC a lonely widow/widower, and adventurous young adult (over 18 of course), or a promiscuous singleton? Are they seeking no frills fun, emotional fulfilment, a release for emotions and tensions, or something a bit less tangible.

The Disturbance; generally speaking this is the moment they meet their Love Interest.

The Swivel; the moment your M/C realises what they want is potentially being offered in the form of their love interest.

The Proposition; moving into the negotiation of their interaction. Assuming what you write is fully consensual this could be a discussion on limits, a make-out session that leads to questions of how, when, where etcetera, or a straight up offer e.g. “I have what you need.”

Foreplay; literal and figurative. Be generous to your characters. Ease the readers and characters into it together, and get the engine running before you get into the fray properly.

“The Do” - pretty self explanatory.

If you’re writing what I call sensual or erotic romance the structure differs a little;

Stasis - every plot begins with stasis. When you’re working with a bit more of a plot involved story use this to set the scene as well as identify the need for romantic/sexual evolution.

The Disturbance - this could be the moment they meet their love interest or the moment that leads to them meeting this person.

The Hook - if you’re writing romance you need to draw it out a little more. The hook is the event which throws them together for the first time in a very real sense. Think Margaret Hale meeting John Thornton in her fathers study, or Katniss Everdeen finding herself on the train with Peeta Mellark. This is the moment they must interact properly.

Catastrophe! - You know this bit, everyone knows that there has to be a point where a horrible misunderstanding, mistake, or argument comes between them, This is the moment that highlights how far they have to go.

The Swivel - the moment they realise how terribly wrong they were about their love interest!

The Choice - at this point they have to choose between the easy path and their lover. Think of the moment Margaret Hale gets back on the train to Milton with John Thornton; the characters choose to make a change for love.

The Slide - in romantic or sensual erotica you want to think of this not as a proposition, but a gradual loosening of inhibition. You’re essentially giving your reader a romance novel with on-screen satisfaction for all the feelings you’ve built up in them.

Foreplay and Climax - once again, pretty self explanatory.

This is far from everything you need to think about, but if you can nail this down you’ll have a good foundation to work from. You can also check out these resources for extra help;

How to Write Erotica

Sensuality Vs Sexuality

Writing Better Romance

5 Ways to Kill Your Erotica Instantly

Write a Banging Erotic Novel

10 Well Written (Modern) Sex Scenes

#writing

eldritchscholar

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

benegesserwitch

Hi fun fact!!

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.

darkersolstice

@we-are-threadmage

systlin

Someone port Doom to a blanket

rolypolywardrobe

I really love tumblr for this 🙌

isnerdy-deactivated20190101

It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:

Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:

You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:

The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.

And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.

dollsahoy

(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)

butts-for-days

Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”

costumersupportdept

I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.

With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.

ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.

And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.

The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)

synebluetoo

This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.

moiraecrochet

I’m in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:

Here are the punch cards:

Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns. Here are some patterns:

How many punchcards per pattern?

This many:

Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but while Joseph Marie Jacquard gets all the credit for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.

the-fibre-stuff

I’ve seen this cross my dash a few times, but I’ve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention when I was a kid, but I don’t remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. It’s cool to see the how, not just the what.