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My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

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THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - OVA 1995

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Homestuck fandom fucking listen to me I am grabbing you by your shoulders right now - if they do keep updating homestuck^2 WE ARENT FUCKING REPEATING LAST TIME . WE ARENT HARASSING THE TEAM BEHIND IT. WE ARENT BEING FUCKING DICKS.

if you don't like it or the direction they're going that's completely fair, but this is a team of people working to update a comic we all thought was dead FOR FREE. it isn't hard to just. Not be a dick about it. Don't read it if you don't like it

peachducy

ashes to ashes, dust to dust

theartisticapparition

They are complete~ Man what a team.yes I am still marinating on this very niche thought. Feel free to ask me about them and this HiveswapxATLA AU

#huh #ATLA #hiveswap

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(2021)

rhiz0me9

diana model

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theatsthetic

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mangonetics

ah shit they're gaining on us. we gotta jettison some weight. throw all those stolen boomerangs out we don't need em

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On it, boss!

supreme-leader-stoat

Bad news, boss!

pasitamay

Conquest War Famine

luxlightly

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

zoesupreme

like I knew the FTX crypto exchange was a ponzi scheme but finding out it was run by a polycule of racist Harry Potter tumblr nerds was a real gut punch ngl

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