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*screenshot from IDW Sonic #76*

#flashbang!#also whoops #this is an hour late #I gotta get around to queuing the whole damn issue #vector the crocodile #team chaotix comic screenshot #idw sonic #sonic the hedgehog

Okay, so I maybe drew a dramatic picture and I'm a little self conscious about it, but I'm posting it anyway, because I am.

#over the garden wall #otgw woodsman #otgw beast #my art #notebook sketch #salt and light #also whoops #this post was scheduled and i forgot about it #i may make that my official Scheduled Post tag tbh

What happened w/ ArcaneMysteries?

Let me set the scene: it is the mid 2010s. The plague du jour was Ebola, thinking Trump was president was the result of a bad acid trip and Tumblr still had porn (ie the user base was the highest it’s ever been). This may just be the nostalgia, but Witchblr was different. It was bigger, more active and had this sense of community. There were a lot of people and blogs set up for mentor/mentee relationships and educating new people. You had to put a disclaimer on your posts that you were not trying to educate any minor because someone allegedly got sued. The “what kind of witch are you” quizzes and master lists of correspondences straight from Cunningham were numerous and repetitive. Poisoning yourself with mugwort tea for prophetic visions was the thing to do.

ArcaneMysteries was one of the biggest divination blogs out there (if not actually the biggest, then at least the loudest). He claimed to be a gay man of color, the most recent in a long line of tarot readers in his family. He had posts upon posts of very pretty, almost professionally designed tarot correspondence lists, symbolism, card meanings, tips and spreads. You could not scroll through the tarot tag without seeing a ton of his content. At one point, there was even an ArcaneUniversity tumblr page, set up by him and run by multiple people, meant to be a place for people wanting to learn tarot to congregate, ask questions, seek mentors etc.

I think what got people suspicious in the first place was the sheer volume of content he was generating and the speed he was putting things out. I’m talking multiple spreads a day sometimes, all of which were watermarked with his url up top. Come to find out, he was stealing entire spreads from other tarot readers, other websites and books. Verbatim, exactly the same and claiming he created them.

I don’t remember how quickly all this happened, but after this became public knowledge, one day he just wasn’t there anymore. I’m not sure if he deleted his blog or if staff did (although I doubt it). He just sort of faded into obscurity. Most of his posts are lost to the void, but the occasional one still circulates. They’re not objectively bad content, but they’re not his to claim ownership of.

Moral of the story: if you build an empire out of stolen content, no matter how large, it will crumble beneath your feet and you will be dragged down with it.

#witchcraft #witch #magic #tarot #tarot cards #divination #witchblr #this was a fun little trip down memory lane #I was still a very green reader #and followed his posts like gospel #the pages in my grimoire that deal with tarot #are copied from his posts #I was very sad when he was gone #but changed my attitude pretty quickly once I found out why #also whoops #wrote WAY more than I meant to

I have a scene that I want to write out so so bad. But the issue is is that I have no idea what kind of story it would fit into and it's a little irritating. I'm not asking for advice or anything bc you probably don't have any. I just really wanted to share my frustration with someone lol

Honestly felt that lol! The best way I usually deal with it is to write the scene and just save it for a rainy day. Sometimes it fleshes out to be a bigger piece, and sometimes it’s just a random scene, but those are nice to have too! Anything to keep creativity flowing and get the ideas out!

#asks #sometimes it just be like that #also whoops #can't help but give a touch of advice #because of who i am as a person

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Shadow and Bone (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Inej Ghafa Characters: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova, Inej Ghafa Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Not Canon Compliant, The Darkling in Ketterdam Summary:

Inej spends a year building up her funds and her nerves.