Queer ships galore!

Perpetually cuddled under several blankets. Call me Doom. They/them. Adult. 🌠 My AO3 | my fics | my memes | my queer banners | my art. Icon by my darling girlfriend and I, header by @maruti-bitamin. 🌠 My fandoms include Heartstopper, She-Ra, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Adventure Time, Omori, The Last of Us, Epic: The Musical, Steven Universe, Hollow Knight and The Good Place.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4136:

make sure you spend more time making absolutely sure that none of your characters have the same name as any real person ever than you do actually writing

[guiltfactory-moved]

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)

Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

[awkwardinnocent]

personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4137:

writing a novel is like composing a symphony. it's really fucking hard

[goddisposez]

x

[trash-fuckyou]

Audience note from test screening of VIDEODROME, 1983

[palebluepixel]

This person hated videodrome so much they forgot their gender

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4138:

sometimes the most rewarding part of writing is selecting the whole page and hitting backspace

[incidentalcomics]

The Summer

[practicefortheheart]

Digital sketches

[glitch1920]

[evil-tboys]

[pisshandkerchief]

this is an example of a symbiotic relationship

[glitch1920]

[evil-tboys]

[pisshandkerchief]

this is an example of a symbiotic relationship

[sayuupi]

Happy Bear-weekend! 🐾

[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.

[queerautism]

The "all animal death is always morally wrong" attitude is also how you end up with the guys who say any predatory behaviour in nature is also morally wrong and we should work to put a stop to it. Like. Make it so lions aren't allowed to kill gazelles and such.

Ideas ranged from driving all predatory species to extinction (genius move. What could go wrong?) To animal shaped drones and artificial meat set ups. Truly a fascinating bunch. I wish I remembered what the subreddit was called lmao

[intersexcat-tboy]

More people need to be comfortable admitting they don't know something. It is more harmful for you to give a wrong answer than it is to say "I'm not sure" or "I don't know"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life