Tasha's Tales

Tasha || 39 || Canadian Current Obsession: who even knows Sidebar credit to: juuneaux || otome sideblog: razzmatome

[razzmatash]

Making a small pinned post just to say hi!

I’m Tash and this is my main blog. It’s mostly a place for my eccentric reblogs and will be all over the map. Will probably swing back around to Dragon Age because I didn’t have that on the bingo card for this year.

My otome sideblogs are razzmatome, currently active for IkeVil and a sprinkle of IkePri, and oswaldsirius, inactive but predominantly IkeRev and IkeVamp.

Feel free to say hi here or on razzmatome. I enjoy yelling about the things I love

[necromanticsoul]

Go ahead, make your OC the sibling/child/friend/whatever of an important canon character. Ship your OC with a canon character. Its fandom, its posts on social media/fanfic/fan art. Go for it, have fun, make up your own headcanons.

We're all just here to have fun.

[bleaksqueak]

Guess who's back on their bullshit touching up old paintings IT'S ME, BABY Still liked this painting too much to let it languish... decided to use a palette I almost never use since it's such a pretty pairing for fire, and Audric deserves a brighter portrait

[myimaginaryother]

I know some of you like talking to chatbots and all, but my dear yumes... That's not worth it

Your conversations are saved on their database even if you delete them

If something happens and they get hacked, your chats and info can be leaked

A lot of bots are extremely OOC or can say triggering and disturbing things without any warnings whatsoever

You know well that AI was trained using stolen work

Their servers need to consume tons of water to cool down, it's literally destroying the environment and we're currently dealing with its consequences

This business model exploits your loneliness to make you dependent on them. The more you choose to talk to chatbots instead of real people, the more you forget what real interactions and relationships are supposed to be like, making you feel even more lonely and likely to go back to talking to bots

And since the app is free, this means you're the product. They're probably selling your data to third parties (even Pinterest does that)

We're also the first generation to have access to AI, so we end up playing the role of lab rats without even realizing it. AI has triggered psychosis in some people already

Other alternatives:

Go read fanfiction and maybe write some of your own. Writing is beneficial to the brain. You can read and write headcanons, drabbles, one-shots, x readers, imagines... Have fun and don't forget to leave some comments to interact with the authors. Become active in the community

Roleplay. You can find a group to roleplay with, create a RP blog or find some roleplayer accounts to interact with

Install one of those fake chat apps and make your own chats

Join a server and talk to other fans

Go play some fan games. There are so many storytelling games out there that were made by fans and for fans. You can even make your own if you have the skills

Remember that writing and drawing are not skills people are born with. Everyone practices and it's extremely normal to not be good at it at first. It takes time to get better, but the main goal of these hobbies is to have fun and just create in general

Feel free to add more things to this post

[bleaksqueak]

NO FUSSIN'. Guess what day it is

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[atlas-coolbean]

GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

[savage-sinister]

I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.

I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.

If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.

And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.

[dottedwaves]

that fanfic you found a obsessed over and even internally wrote your own fanfanfic of the rest of the night and maybe even printed it out and bound it so you can have a copy on your shelf?

if you don’t kudos or comment that looks exactly the same to the author as someone who clicked on it by mistake/never got round to reading it/got two paragraphs in and hated it

and, frankly, the second is actually way more likely. so we’re always going to assume that the second is what’s happened.

[bumblebeebats]

I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

[katherynefromphilly]

Reblogging for

“Is the writing bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot”

I feel like that should be the canned response to anyone who complains in your fic’s AO3 comments about the [thing] when the [thing] is clearly tagged.

[fsbc-librarian]

For the love of all that you enjoy: DON’T PAYWALL YOUR FANFICTION.

Again, but louder:

DON’T PAYWALL YOUR FANFICTION

It’s getting more and more common. I’ve seen three posts about it in the last 24 hours - patreons where you’ll get “exclusive” fanfiction stories if you’re a subscriber.

Don’t.

Don’t do it.

It’s annoying, but mostly it’s fucking dangerous.

The whole fanfiction community prosper on someone else’s turf under “fair use” laws. In simple terms: we can play with other people’s creations for as long as it’s done for our own amusement, and that of our followers.

Once any kind of financial benefits are made, it becomes another abuse of someone else’s rights.

And look, I get it. It sucks, especially seeing the artists take commissions while the authors get nothing, and it takes hours and hours of our time, and I understand people are looking for a side hustle to make ends meet in this monstrosity of a capitalist society, but if we don’t stop it from happening, the rights owners will stop it.

And they’ll stop it for everyone.

It’s not worth it. Don’t do it.

[alandrosul]

women in stem. women in root. women in leaf.

[catie-does-things]

[emptinesstomelodyao3-deactivate]

It’s always

“When will fanfic writers update their stories?”

And never

“Does this fanfic writer have adequate enrichment to engage in writing behaviours?”

Fanfiction writers (Scriptor fictus) are intelligent animals who need plenty of enrichment as well as encouragement! If they’re stuck in poor conditions (e.g. have studies, work, have to actually write to have something written) then they require the proper enrichment to engage in more healthy behaviours, like writing. Remember, due to poor breeding and socialisation, over half of all fanfic writers suffer from low self confidence and executive dysfunction so take care of them!

Give your fanfic writers proper care. Fanfiction writers are a life long commitment.

[cheshire-cat-101]

Ok I want to say something controversial

But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.

“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.

Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.

[kyraneko]

Since different people have different needs, one person’s safe space will be another’s Trauma Central.

I don’t know who said it first, but “I need to be able to express my anger without shame” and “I need to be away from yelling and loud noises” are both valid needs people can have for a safe space that really aren’t compatible with each other.

So are “I need to process my trauma” and “I need to not meet any trauma.”

Or “I want a safe space to tell/read the stories that speak to me” and “those stories are distressing to me.”

Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.

You don’t get to make others homeless to make the universe your personal safe space.

[quietborderline]

Read this bit again:

“Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is … its own act of violence.”

[sourdough-seal]

hello beautiful new notebook that i am too afraid to use

[unpeeled-human]

i literally dont care what your excuse for using AI is. if you didnt put your own effort into making it im not putting my own effort into interacting with it.

[unpeeled-human]

"buhbub uhbubuh its just a tool!!" yeah youd know about being a tool wouldnt you

[3liza]

if you have the Honey browser extension installed, uninstall it immediately. big big story broke on youtube today strongly indicating that Honey has been massively defrauding basically everyone who does any business with them at every level, including influencers, customers, and actual retailers.

the short version of ONE of the alleged crimes is that they've been hijacking referral links and codes. if you have honey installed on your browser at all, and you use any referral code from anyone, there is a high probability honey will swap out the referral link identifier for their own even if they don't provide a coupon at checkout.

they also are just lying to you, and hiding coupons that very much exist. they're completely fraudulent

paypal bought honey in 2019 for 4 billion, so paypal has been strip mining the influencer economy for 5 years now. the amount of money that's been essentially stolen is unfathomable

[miscbones]

from op in the comments because I didn't quite understand the explanation above:

let's say you watch a youtuber who is an artist who makes tutorials. she says "you can use my code MARTHA at ArtStore.com to get $10 off your order". if you click the link in her youtube video, it opens ArtStore.com/ref=MARTHA in a new tab so ArtStore.com can track where the click came from and pay Martha for the business she sent them. but if you have honey installed in your browser they will change that link to ArtStore.com/ref=HONEY and steal the sale from Martha even though Martha is not a Honey affiliate. it's diabolical

[megafreeman]

If you don't care about this, just know they are also lying to you about discounts too.

They make deals with retailers to give you lower discounts codes so retailers would lose less money.

[natimiles]

“Only one person ever gazed into his jewel-like eyes...

... embraced his burning soul, and sang to him in the night wind.”

Dragon Sylus — moodboard

Masterlists

[razzmatash]

Idk what love and deep space is but your post had me intrigued, and then once i'd clicked the read more i couldn't stop reading......... that was amazing, and so hot!!! Thanks for sharing!!

Oh, nonny, I want you to know I chuckled reading this because love and deepspace is a rabbit hole I don't know if I can in good faith recommend because I am consumed XD

I'm very glad you enjoyed the story! Thank you for putting a smile on my face!