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ive been replaying fe:a <3 happy new year!!
annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦♀️
like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards
put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god
From an adventuring perspective (as a fantasy larper), hair gets knotted SO FAST and SO FURIOUSLY when you're running around in the woods and fighting things. ESPECIALLY when you don't have access to any good bathing facilities
Braids and wimples for the win!
Writing Poll: Individual Chapters or One Big Doc
Fellow fanfic writers I have a question!
When writing a multi-chapter fic do you
Save each chapter as a separate document
Have everything in one big document
Nuance (elaborate in tags)
Reblog for greater sample size.
did your parents *"pre-screen" the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?
yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it
yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved
sometimes, with parental guidance talks
sometimes, no parental guidance talks
not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)
not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)
they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)
my parents fully didn't give a shit about what media i engaged with
see results
*by "pre-screening", i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of "actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it" to "doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it".
feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!
admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying "my parents didn't pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]". i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.
I just watched whatever was on pbs kids. In terms of reading, I could read whatever I wanted. As far as I know. They never said anything either way.
oh, my mom used to have access to my youtube account so she could check my history and she was the one buying books for me and she could sometimes say that something I was watching wasn't age appropriate
Basically we were told that inappropriate things weren't allowed, that's it. Like things that were very sexual and all, but we didn't want to watch any of that anyways so🤷🏻♀️
And I really used to love reading, and they never really stopped me from reading anything either, but then I was into fantasy mostly anyways, and Sherlock Holmes, nothing much else. I just liked something that would make me guess what happened next, kind of, I think.
My parents would check the age restriction on movies we picked out from the movie rental shop, or recommend movies they'd already watched. Books were mostly given as gifts, so already marked "safe", or they were from the library. Once online, we were allowed to pirate anime or cartoons so long as we didn't get a virus on the computer or something. It was fairly lax, but still present. Some things definitely slipped through the cracks.
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
"This month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”
The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas."
I love the Internet Archive. As a crocheter who loves vintage patterns and has found very recent books (2000s+) that are out of print because of the archive, i cannot say enough nice things about it.
But the lawsuit was about the Archive knowing and continuing to scan books that were IN COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE THE ARCHIVE IS INCORPORATED AS A CHARITY.
Which is very important to remember when seeing tweets like this:
1984 is NOT out of copyright in the United States. Where the Internet Archive is incorporated. And also, what a wild fucking choice to plant a flag in when 1984 is so absolutely and completely not some nearly lost novel that may still technically be in copyright but is out of print and would not be known by anyone if the archive didn't do its work.
All the Archive had to do to not lose a lot of those books was to NOT FUCKING VIOLATE COPYRIGHT ON BOOKS THAT ARE SUPER WELL-KNOWN LIKE FUCKING 1984.
Like, there's a lot of crochet books that aren't technically out of copyright but still scanned and up there because crochet books go out of print pretty easily and it's understood no one's looking to fight over the copyright for a book that's not gonna sell any real amount of "legit" copies, so who gives a shit.
I love the archive. I want it to continue. It's one thing to keep alive websites and resources that will disappear without their help. It's another to pretend like violating a publisher's rights while claiming it's for the greater good. There are legal ways to get these books. Request them at your library. Buy them. Write an email to the author to see if they'll just send you a copy.
Internet Archive shit the bed by willfully and knowingly scanning and sharing a bunch of Hatchett's backlist, and Hatchett had every right to take them to court for it. To see them still milking the "omg copyright holders are so mean!!!" take is really fucking annoying.
And to be clear, "is hosting 1984 for free access immoral?" is a completely irrelevant question. What's important is that the internet archive threatens hosting everything else they host by hosting 1984.
You can't just go "I don't like that law, I'm going to break it", go to court, and argue "Um, I totally should be allowed to do this, though?"". That is fundamentally not how the system works, and the Internet Archive scammed a lot of people for money for their absolutely hopeless legal defense.
It's also entirely reasonable for authors to want to get paid for their labor! Which is a thing people generally understand if it's someone working retail or in food service, but for some reason eludes people who want to feel justified and righteous about stealing books.
They could have avoided all of this!
1984? Not hard to find a copy to read. These are the various digital versions my library has (the one in the bottom left is in Spanish):
I'm just really sick and tired of the Internet Archive's whole tone of " the publishers are being so super mean to us 🥺🥺🥺 I'm Baby", and people just uncritically buying into that. And often the very same people are opposed to AI because it rips off artists! Think about your beliefs and be ideologically consistent, god damn it!
A question for the ages.
The earlier on Tuesday you reblog this the funnier it is. (5:28am)
It's crazy how humanity invented bicycles and decided to try it with one big wheel and one small wheel BEFORE they tried having two wheels the same size
This is not quite true, though it would be very funny if it was.
The classic "old bicycle" we're all thinking of, which looked like this:
Is actually a technological compromise developed in the early 1870s. The very first bicycle was invented in 1817 and it looked like this:
It had no pedals and the rider would push it along with their feet, the same way toddlers learn to ride bikes today.
In about 1864, a mechanic in france came up with the idea of adding pedals to the front wheel, making the first self-propelled bicycle.
This was a great improvement because it's a lot easier to move and a lot more fun than the Fisher Price version above. It was a big thing for about five years, but there were some drawbacks.
First, because the pedals were directly attached to the front wheel, you couldn't go very fast without moving your legs incredibly quickly, which takes a lot of effort. It also is kind of awkward to steer because your legs are in the way of the wheel.
The other issue was bumps. Roads were not very smooth in the 1870s, most of them were unpaved and full of ruts, potholes, and rocks. And at first there were no rubber tires, just wooden wheels with metal rims. Altogether this made for a very bumpy ride.
The big front wheel, which was made possible by the invention of wire spokes and solid rubber tires, solved all of these problems. A big wheel runs over bumps more easily: think of how rough it is to ride roller skates over bumps in a sidewalk that you would hardly notice on a bike. And the bigger the wheel, the faster you can move with one push of the pedals. Having the seat on top of the wheel, instead of behind, also makes steering less cumbersome.
There are of course drawbacks to this design, in particular being so high up makes it very easy to go over the handlebars if you crash, and more likely to hit your head or break your arm.
Two more inventions helped drive this comical beast into extinction and bring back a more balanced, and safer, bicycle.
The first was the pneumatic tire, which contains a cushion of air, and makes for a much softer ride compared to a solid tire or a metal one. The cushion effect eliminates the need for a big wheel to smooth out the bumps in the road.
The second invention was the sprocket and chain drive. This lets you put the pedals anywhere you want on the bike, and with a big gear at the pedals and a small one at the wheel, you can get more speed out of a small wheel.
The first modern bicycle to combine a sprocket and pneumatic tires was built in 1879. It was an instant hit, not just because it was much less dangerous, but because the low drag profile and the smooth pneumatic tires made for a faster ride, and the trendsetters in cycling, then as now, were the racing community. There have been plenty of innovations and modifications in the years since, from ten-speed gears to carbon fiber frames, but these are all variations on a theme. The basic form of the bicycle has not changed.
Happy riding.
Okay full disclosure I was high as a kite when I made this post, otherwise I might have fact-checked my joke before posting, but this is awesome. Thank you for the bicycle lore.
interpretation of some of the celestrians in the observatory :) eventually i'll do individual pages for every single sprite type and different ways to interpret the designs (which might mean i can differentiate doubles, or something). the starlight be with you guy is babycute to me so im excited for his page especially
LIZ CLIMO
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They came up with the CUTEST Halloween costumes!
@lizclimo on tumblr. The links on top did not work for me
recollections
it just never ends
I will never be free of people claiming Percy's feelings on Divination are the same as Hermione's
"I don't really read nowadays" is code for I read a whole fucking lot but it's all gay smut and fluff on ao3 and I don't want to tell anyone about it under any circumstance-
What is dat *aggressively scuttles*
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I still contend that this is, in fact, the best video on the internet, period. The sheer comedic timing. The knowledge that it cannot possibly have been constructed. The very human expression Pallas cats’ round pupils give them. And the backstory that this was literally the first footage captured by this camera in this placement, that this is the cat immediately noticing his environment has been changed and investigating with all the suspicion of a grumpy old gardener whose gnomes have been moved again…. *chef’s kiss*
@lynx-girl
"Sorry i reported you" scam making it's rounds here.
I'm not even banned.
Vague details.
Doesn't just start with the reason for contact.
You submit help to www.tumblr.com/support or help.tumblr.com. NOT the links provided in the photos.
the proof of email photo is crunchy as hell. Looks old too.
Why do i have to contact them to confirm my innocence. lmao.
What is the scam? You rush to prove your innocence to the email and they will respond back to you needing to verify your login info and then steal your account. easy. Discord and Steam have a version of this too.
Oh. This one's back again, huh?
Yeah, always go through official channels, and if it seems sketchy, be suspicious.
Very good advice
i almost fell for a similar scam on discord, and i've heard it going around on bsky as well.
I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣😂🤣