Ah shit, here we go again

Sarathewise | 21+ | She/He | Chaotic Bi | Writer and Artist | Dragged forcibly back onto the hellsite | Recovering Homestuck fan | The friend that drives you to your fandom support group

[sarathewise]

Coming soon: The Obsidian Princess: A Queer Black Fairy Tale

A short fairy tale about love in its myriad forms— familial, found, and free, all brought together by Black Girl Magic!

Once Upon a Time...

there was a princess named Audre. The princess loved her mother, the Queen, very much. One day, the Queen told Princess Audre, “When you grow up, you must only marry someone who loves you as much as I do.” She gave Audre a kiss on the head goodnight and tucked the little princess into bed. The next morning, the Queen was nowhere to be found.

The Obsidian Princess is a fairy tale written and illustrated in conversation with the Brothers Grimm and other fairy tales from around the world. In many of these stories, blackness is seen as a shorthand for curses, misfortune, and moral failures. In others, women are depicted as villains for valuing themselves. The Obsidian Princess talks back to these stories by centering Blackness as a strength, girlhood as a boon, and love as a superpower, not something to be ashamed of or compromised on.

Feel free to follow the page to be notified when The Obsidian Princess Kickstarter launches on July 25th. See you then!

[sarathewise]

The Obsidian Princess: A Queer Black Fairy Tale

A short fairy tale about love in its myriad forms— familial, found, and free, all brought together by Black Girl Magic!

The Obsidian Princess Kickstarter is now LIVE!!

[sarathewise]

Hey folks, the Kickstarter for The Obsidian Princess is FULLY FUNDED!! Currently shipping for physical books is only to the US (international shipping rates are astronomical), but ebooks and bookplates are available to everyone! Stretch goals coming soon!

[monchursouls]

🌾🌾🌾

Harvesting my wheat

[rat-in-the-grain]

Hehehehehe

[monchursouls]

Can I fucking help you?

[sasuke-offical]

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

[monchursouls]

What

[rat-in-the-grain]

What

[endofalltim]

[ikimaru]

magic water fish ✨

[isuggestkillingyourself]

[tactfulsaboteur]

[psybomb]

Every time I see that last pic, I have to note that the funniest line is the one immediately after the highlight

[lesbianelsas]

Sesame Street Memory: Lucy Liu | #ThisIsMyStreet

Lucy Liu shares a heartfelt memory of learning to speak english by watching Sesame Street and finding a family within the cast. Share your favorite Sesame Street memory on social media with #ThisIsMyStreet!

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I was five years old when Sesame Street first aired in 1969. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching the show in the afternoon, and then, the next day, kids talking about what Oscar had said over snack time (he was the first character for children I saw that was allowed to be grouchy and not be “bad”).

[apatosaurus]

Sesame Street celebrated a neighborhood that was multiracial and multicultural. When I was in preschool, that was my reality, too. Though I did and still do have a lot of cultural racism to unlearn, the extent to which I was able to learn how to be friends and neighbors with a diverse peer group was supported by Sesame Street. To be clear, this is why conservatives have wanted to destroy it from the beginning.

[iheartvelma]

The Mississippi State Commission for Educational Television briefly banned Sesame Street in 1970 with the flimsy excuse that Mississippians weren’t ready to see racially integrated neighborhoods. And that happened in a few other Southern states, including one where the owner of a local NBC affiliate chose to air it, for free, no ad revenue, because he thought people were ready for it — or needed to get comfortable with it. And these state ETV commissions eventually relented after getting a lot of negative publicity.

[sarathewise]

Coming soon: The Obsidian Princess: A Queer Black Fairy Tale

A short fairy tale about love in its myriad forms— familial, found, and free, all brought together by Black Girl Magic!

Once Upon a Time...

there was a princess named Audre. The princess loved her mother, the Queen, very much. One day, the Queen told Princess Audre, “When you grow up, you must only marry someone who loves you as much as I do.” She gave Audre a kiss on the head goodnight and tucked the little princess into bed. The next morning, the Queen was nowhere to be found.

The Obsidian Princess is a fairy tale written and illustrated in conversation with the Brothers Grimm and other fairy tales from around the world. In many of these stories, blackness is seen as a shorthand for curses, misfortune, and moral failures. In others, women are depicted as villains for valuing themselves. The Obsidian Princess talks back to these stories by centering Blackness as a strength, girlhood as a boon, and love as a superpower, not something to be ashamed of or compromised on.

Feel free to follow the page to be notified when The Obsidian Princess Kickstarter launches on July 25th. See you then!

[sarathewise]

The Obsidian Princess: A Queer Black Fairy Tale

A short fairy tale about love in its myriad forms— familial, found, and free, all brought together by Black Girl Magic!

The Obsidian Princess Kickstarter is now LIVE!!

[dreamlogic]

asked one of my coworkers how she's doing today and she goes "could be better, could be worse," and another coworker nearby who was eavesdropping chimes in with "could be a lil bit o' alligator curse!" i have no idea what he meant by that but i do know that it has been immediately added to the lexicon.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[darkwarlock707]

For those who thought that this was Nintendo baiting people into posting videos for them to take down, (as I initially did, admittedly), it’s actually people posting pictures of YouTube takedown notices. Nintendo didn’t bait anyone...They walked into a metaphorical garden rake.

[heroineimages]

Okay, that's funny.

[akkivee]

the handful of bottom ichiro fans in jp are coming together to make an anthology and look at the animations they used for their website 🥺

[jazaeplays]

inspo🎶

[polikkc]

WINX COSMIX REDESIGN🪐

(with final touches and updated wings🫶🏼)

[gayelectro]

[heathensimmer]

FIXING SIMS 3

Ahh a classic EA glitch.

The Lifetime Wish “Culinary Librarian” is broken.

Sims can complete it way too easily because when EA added new recipes with XPs, they forgot to update the tally of this lifetime wish. It’s only 28 recipes and that can be easily completed.

Go to Nraas Retuner at the City Hall.

Go to General

Tunable XML

Gameplay.Skills

Cooking

Change the “Menu Maven” challenge number from 28 to a higher number.

If this doesn’t work, use Nraas Master Controller.

Go to Sim

Go to Intermediate

Lifetime Wish: Change Tally

Type a negative number

This brings the Sim’s “count” of how many recipes they have learned down.

Happy Simming!

[inkskinned]

my most ungrounded and unresearched fear is that so many companies are pushing AI in part because it builds them a pathway towards a subscription model for a huge number of things that should not be subscription, but theoretically could be:

do you want to talk to verizon's help desk because there's an error on your bill? to access a real agent, you have to pay for Verizon Access+, only 5.99 a month.

want to filter out all the fake job postings from the real ones? subscribe to Indeed: Advanced Tactics and only verified postings will appear on your dash.

sick of the infinite ai slop? buy Google Premium; it'll automatically detect ai within a site and gives it a credibility score. with premium plus, you can shuffle high-credibility results to the top.

do you want a "luxury" experience? well, you'd have to pay for that luxury, and since the company sure doesn't want to pay its employees; the cost would fall to the consumer.

when automation has made every experience unpleasant; the experience of genuine humanity will be commodified.

[marzipanandminutiae]

This is already happening – one of the softwares used by a museum I work at only lets you talk to a human help agent if you have their premium subscription. It's such bullshit

[inkskinned]

the fact you are not the only one in these notes saying "no this is already happening; i have to pay money to speak to a representative" is just... really awesome! you said a software used by museums is doing this shit? okay! great! wonderful!! anybody know where i can scream

[parkchanwoohoo]