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Thank you @itwearsadress for the original scan (and for everything else you do for us), this image is just so so beautiful. I hope we get a digital version of this one day because I'm not capable of upscaling this as good as I want it to be. I tried!

eidolon-azii

if sensei keeps this up, she’s going to catch multiple murder charges! my heart.

revenantghost

lizardsfromspace

Online conservative guys obsessed with movie casting have spent years insisting that all that matters is that the actor looks as much like the character as possible. So you can't try to make the cast more diverse, you have to cast who looks like the character exactly. Anyway after one round of people suggesting a trans actress who looks uncannily like Zelda play Zelda in the Legend of Zelda movie they're going "well, there are more important things than looking like the character". Fellas, I'm starting to think these people just want to keep marginalized people from playing anyone

championari

You wanna look me in the eye and say this ISN'T perfect casting?!

lizardsfromspace

She ticks every box:

Looks like the character

Unlike most people who get fancast for looking exactly like a character, is an actress who is good at acting

Exactly the type of early-career rising star likely to want to take up a role like "Zelda in the Legend of Zelda movie" (versus an established a-lister, who likely wouldn't want to play a princess in a video game movie franchise)

Literally perfect choice. And yet

puppiesareperfect

people on TikTok don’t realize fic binding didn’t begin with idiots selling mass printed fanfiction on TikTok-Shop. They think it started as a negative thing ON TIKTOK😭it started on tumblr years ago as a way to appreciate authors!! It was never about selling fics, we’re AGAINST THAT HERE and always have been. I am so tired of the way TikTok rewrites fandom culture.

armoredsuperheavy

Hi there,

I don't think it's overstating to say that I'm the person who first popularized fanbinding on Tumblr. I began binding fic in September 2018. It was and is an exciting, novel way to participate in the traditional fannish gift economy. You do it with your own two hands, and you have the chance to make an extravagant gift to authors whose often very personal work means so much to you. In the process you have many opportunities to create close personal connections within fandom.

Because there are so many wonderful fics out there, one person could never give them all the love and recognition they deserve. I really wanted to see the practice grow beyond myself. I wrote a detailed manual of my process and offered it up for free so other people could join in. In the years since, Renegade Bookbinding Guild has arisen, always as a team collaborative effort, and it's remained a community focused phenomenon that explicitly supports open knowledge sharing without fees, deep respect for fic authors, and fosters more practice of that gift economy. You, dear reader, are welcome to join us in this project. We have bound thousands of books at this point, and every day more books are born.

I'm not on TikTok, but I've been linked to a lot of misinformation being posted on it over the last few years. I've also heard about a lot of profiteering going on, taking advantage of the hard creative work other fans have freely offered to feed our souls. Speaking only for myself, I think it's a damn shame that some are so quick to commodify the work of other fans. Gifts should beget gifts, not grifts.

When we treat fanworks as free "content" from faceless sources, to suck down voraciously and demand more, or make a quick buck off, the supply will start to dry up. Fanworks are labors of love, but they are still a lot of labor. The energy that keeps folks engaged and creating is essentially a feedback loop. Many authors and other creators are spurred onward to make more, write another chapter, draw another porny picture, bind another book, simply because of the sheer joy they see that their act of creation gives to other fans. I see the Renegade philosophy as helping to supply that energy back into the system. Fic authors deserve that we respect their works as their own, and that fic you love that they spent so long writing deserves every bit of fawning, gibbering, ranting, sighing, rec listing, and sometimes binding, that we fic readers might offer it in return.

ArmoredSuperHeavy, Dead Dove Publishing 2024.11.26

themanedwolf

"Gifts should beget gifts, not grifts"

foldingfittedsheets

When I was learning German my teacher pulled me aside to ask which of my parents spoke German. I was confused and said neither. Then belatedly I remembered that my dad did speak very rudimentary German after being stationed in Heidelberg for a few years.

This teacher was well loved but very strict, being questioned by her was always a little intimidating. I didn’t know why she was asking.

She pressed to ask if he spoke it with me and I laughed nervously and said no I asked him not to speak it because he couldn’t even conjugate verbs.

Apparently my accent was so good that she assumed I’d had more than one year of practice. The problem was my vocabulary. Ironically I needed her to translate the word for accent as I was unfamiliar with it. I was a decent student but some words tripped me up.

One day she conducted an oral exam and asked us to talk about the hospital. We could say whatever we wanted. In the middle of my nervous little monologue about how we go to the hospital when we are sick and the doctors and nurses help us she suddenly burst out laughing.

I had never seen her laugh before, at least not more than a sensible chuckle. But here she was, bent over her stomach cracking up leaving me baffled as to how talking about the nurses could possibly have inspired this extreme hilarity.

The word I was trying to use for nurse was “Pfleger” but I’d said “Fluger”. (Possibly fliegen? It’s been a long time) What I said was close to fly, and the teacher was imagining flying nurses drifting along the hospital wing.

She apologized and tried to compose herself but she admitted that hearing my extremely competent accent saying absolute nonsense was the highlight of her week.

jams-sims

Hey I don't give a fuck about spoilers. After all the shit Lilo and Stitch live action took out- did I just fucking read Nani gave Lilo to the fucking state? That Nani is able to visit Lilo because of the alien tech-

That has to be the most sickening fucking ending to a childhood cartoon I loved as a child. As a person of color the fact they say its a good thing. When every POC knows that the fuck that actually means. An takes away- Nani relationship with Lilo was never a burden she needed saving from. The point was that it was hard but it was worth it because Nani loved Lilo-

Yeah fuck disney exects- idk how you fuck that up.

dear-ao3

right so. everyones seen that post by now of the kid being like omg how did students write 600 word essays before ai???

and i find myself, at 10:42pm on a friday night, with a 700 word essay to write for a physiology class. i know jack fucking shit about physiology (i was a history major, my brain is incredibly not wired for science) and i am going to prove the kid in this silly little post so incredibly incorrect.

lets do it

dear-ao3

got my coffee and some music

here goes nothing folks

qr-sa

600 words is for high schoolers. History undergrad majors were writing 200 page theses. Hell, our philosophy majors were CAPPED at 20 pages

norisunorin

奈良県　石光寺 Nara Sekkouji

dk-thrive

Twilight to Sunrise time lapse video with Crescent Moon Rising. 5:00 to 6:20 am. 80 minutes in 26 seconds. 56° F. April 25 2025. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT (@dkct25)

probablyasocialecologist

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

fixyourwritinghabits

This is a great post to promote that you can donate to Wikipedia at any time, with almost any amount of money! You can even set up a reoccurring donation, like I did.

2manypdfs

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

cute-catts

bro choose every possible cheat code 🐈😺

nemainofthewater

Oh no! We have to infiltrate a sect/brothel/imperial palace/imperial academy but women/men aren't allowed! What can we do???

WELL

If there is one thing that Cdrama has taught us, it's that changing your clothes and hair makes you unrecognisable even if you don't change your make-up. If you're more worried, then perhaps you can add a fake moustache (it never fails!)

The Most 'Convincing' Cross-Dressing in Cdrama

Li Hanyi (Blood of Youth)

Su Xiaoyong (Mysterious Lotus Casebook)

Tang Fan (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty)

Jiang Xuening (Story of Kunning Palace)

Feng Zhiwei (Rise of the Phoenixes)

Ye Zhao (Oh My General)

Lei Wujie (Blood of Youth)

Gong Yu (Nirvana in Fire)

Danyin (Love Between Fairy and Devil)*

The Emperor of Northern Qi (Joy of Life)

Yang Ying (A Journey to Love)

Other - who have I forgotten?

Voting ended onJan 25, 2024

*I'm actually a little unclear if the actress is meant to be portraying a man at this point, but she doesn't remove her make up so I'm counting it

Propaganda, examples, and write-ins absolutely welcome!

zhoudadudugongjin

I'm glad Tang Fan one this because he looked truly FANTASTIC

But I would also have written in Qi Yan just because she successfully convinced everyone around her that she was a man for over 10 years.

gavilansblog

Aww, too bad I missed this when it was running, I'd have written in Han Shiyi (The Heiress)! The only ftm crossdressing character I've seen where they actually commit far enough to give him the men's style wig. No feminine whispies! And You Jingru plays him very believably as a foppish menace. The trans vibes are off the chart!

Gif from this excellent set

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!