#it counts!

[a-power-outlet]

has this been done before. it's been plaguing me in my dreams so i had to make it real.

[canned-semoruu]

WIP

[This is a repost, I forgor the watermark again bye]

Just wanna share this rq but here's another wip art! I wanna finish this but not now bc im still deciding if I should include Crepe or change them to another character, but anyway here's some FOFHAU sillies squard art for fun :PP

The poses were referenced from a short on YT!!!

[chiliger]

He can make friends!

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

poor plushward!

a little plushie of poor edward from fallen london, made for my dear friend!!

[charmac]

The Gang in Hospital

[abstractbliss]

i don't know if it's just me, but i've noticed that some(!!) people are quick to dismiss the sentience of the AI characters because AI are, well, artificial. but. this is a fictional setting. it's... very clear that characters like caine are genuinely capable of emotions. maybe he's lacking in empathy, but humans can be that way, too.

this is also why i don't understand why people are against soma/cloned consciousness theory on the basis of it making them less "real". even if they aren't the originals, even if they are just copies, they're still real people because they have genuine emotions and experiences together.

it doesn't detract from the story at all. being human isn't the only way to be alive. it doesn't mean they can't mourn what they'll never get to have. maybe it's just the nonhumanity in myself shining through, but i just think people have an oversimplified way of viewing personhood.

if you think, then you are.

i won't say i necessarily follow this theory, by the way, because i feel like the finale will probably whack us all upside the head with something crazier, this is just something that personally irks me about the way people are discussing it. i'm not an analyst or a theorist or anything!

anyways alterhumans/nonhumans follow meeee ❤️

[clarenecessities]

He-man.org will close in 5 days.

He-man.org has been a staple of the Masters of the Universe community since the early days, originating as an email list that worked to document episodes before anything (not footage, not lists, nothing) was available online. It grew into a sprawling, multi-faceted beast of a thing, including an encyclopedia (an in-house wiki), merch lists, a marketplace, forums, anything you could think of.

Several years ago now, the main site went down for updates/maintenance. For a few weeks, we were told, maybe months. The forums remained open for fans to communicate, and barring a period of downtime earlier this year things were going smoothly.

Yesterday, the owner of the site, Val Staples, announced the site would be closed on November 14th, 2023. Six days later. We are currently attempting to contact him, to see if he’s interested in selling, and if he means closed as in “no new posts” or closed as in deleted entirely. Regardless of its eventual fate, the archiving of these forums is essential to preserving the history of the franchise, the fandom, and the brand.

TO SHE-RA (and MotU) FANS SPECIFICALLY: I have personally used these forums to answer questions that could be answered nowhere else. Had I not had access to them, I would never have been able to prove that Purrsia was fake, or found so much unpublished concept art, or discovered that Scott “Toyguru” Neitlich personally wrote Catra’s MOTUC bio (even if he’s put off answering my questions about it for over a year now). Forum members have conducted interviews with the likes of Jon Seisa, Cathy Larson, Janice Varney-Hamlin—essential figures in the very foundations of POP, and those interviews revealed and recorded priceless information for future generations (me! you! us!) to find. Did you know Cathy Larson named Adora? That she originally pushed for “Dorian”, after her own daughter? We cannot let this treasure trove disappear into the ether(ia).

TO THE UNAFFILIATED: Please help. Pretty please. If you’ve ever liked my art or my writing or my haphazard blogging, ever, at all, consider archiving just one board. Just one page. Literally anything helps. I am spiraling into madness & this is my library of Alexandria. The mythical one that was totally unique and persevered nowhere else and was destroyed in a single cataclysmic event. Pretty pretty please help.

HOW TO HELP:

Archive.org has several ways to upload shit but most of them are longer term than “a few days” so we’re focusing on two (which can be run simultaneously): Save Page Now, and browser extensions. From their help page:

1. Save Page Now

Put a URL into the form, press the button, and we save the page. You will instantly have a permanent URL for your page. Please note, this method only saves a single page, not the whole site.

We want to keep outlinks and screenshots wherever possible. The Archive does not keep your IP address, so your submission is anonymous.

2. Browser extensions and add-ons

Install the Wayback Machine Chrome extension in your browser. Go to a page you want to archive, click the icon in your toolbar, and select Save Page Now. We will save the page and give you a permanent URL.

One plus to installing the extension is that as you surf around, when you run into a missing page they will alert you if we have a saved copy.

More extensions, apps, and add-ons:

Firefox add-on

Safari Extension

iOS app

Android app

I strongly encourage you to use these tools even if you aren’t helping with this project/after it ends. Documenting and preserving information is essential in this day and age & The Internet Archive is at the heart of it. Please support them however you can.

I’m serious about paying you, though I may need more communication with folks I don’t know so we can coordinate/verify shit gets done. I think this is a worthwhile pursuit in itself but I recognize your time is valuable & like, people gotta eat. DM me if you’re interested and we’ll talk. I may need to adjust pay depending how many people bite but I’ll do what I can