trust no one not even yourselves
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Cosmic Funnies
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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trust no one not even yourselves
THEY ADDED THE PALICO AMBULANCE WHERE THE CATS CART YOUR CORPSE AROUND AS A MOUNT IN FFXIV?
plant based diet. as opposed to meat cringe diet
Bisexuals rise up!
I feel like I should use my patreon more, bc I have a couple of very kind people giving me money every day over there despite the fact that I haven't posted anything there in months. So I'm going to start using it to post WIP updates (both music and tabletop) for projects that aren't ready for release.
I also still wanna do the CD giveaway I was planning for my patreon followers, I just had to postpone it bc the eventuality of unexpectedly losing my previous job earlier this year meant I couldn't go around shipping stuff internationally. I'll do it when I'm more financially stable.
Anyway I'll be posting something *very* soon :)
This is a track from project I have mentioned couple times in the past on here (and from which I had already posted another track a few years ago) which has been sitting unfinished and sort of on hold since late 2021 (although what I did finish could easily be released as a full product if I wanted to).
It was meant to be a hybrid dungeon module/music album compatible with Mausritter, with the idea that the module itself would be formatted as a CD booklet to accompany the music.
I managed to finish the *album* part of the project and made at least a bit of progress on the module part before life happened and the project ended up losing steam (mpstly bc I happened to get my first serious job while I was in the middle of working on it), and I've been wanting to come back to it for years, but never really made the time for it.
Anyway, this is technically a WIP, so I just made the full 5-track album available for free on my patreon for anyone who wants to check it out, so be sure to go here if you like the track above! I offer the albu, download in .mp3 format but I'm willing to upload other formats if anyone asks.
Get more from imsobadatnicknames on Patreon. music and ttrpg stuff. Support imsobadatnicknames and get exclusive access to their work.
There's also some alternate mixes of all tracks which are slightly more experimental, and which I always intended to be released as bonus tracks in some sort of "Deluxe Edition" of the module, so I'm temporarily making these exclusively available for paying members for a couple of weeks, after which they'll be made available for everyone :) (you know I don't like being definitive about paywalling anything)
maxwell's demon is my favorite thought experiment because it's like "imagine a guy who can't exist existed" like okay what if left was also right that shit would be crazy
cool. another black child died in a hate crime
A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.
apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.
black children get murdered and become victims of hate crimes every fucking day. this is ridiculous
im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.
not daily pokemon: scolipede
People in the notes need to shut the hell up about ai datacenters this is about the US military which you people are clearly not the true victims of so please fuck off and make your own post somewhere I'm not gonna see it.
USAmericans will really see a post about the harm they cause and go "is no one gonna talk about how I'm the real victim here? 🥺" And NOT wait for an answer
This is the most comprehensive and impressive resource I've ever watched on transphobia. I think this is an especially important video for cis people to watch. The video is accessible and meant to be an educational tool for people who are confused by what the hell is going on right now. Every possible question you could have on trans issues is addressed in this video.
This pride month, if you want to help combat transphobia from your coworkers, friends, family, and so on, this is a very good educational resource to help you understand every aspect of transphobic rhetoric, policies, legislation, history - everything. It was made by a cis guy who drove himself crazy trying to figure out why everyone hates trans people, to the point that he dropped out of university to make this video. Given the global state of increasing anti-trans violence, I really strongly urge cis people to watch this video in full. It is an incredibly valuable resource and I cannot recommend watching it strongly enough.
Life for trans people is only becoming more horrifying, and I genuinely appreciate and respect every cis person who takes the time to watch this video, educate themselves, and understand the many fights ahead.
happy pride
idk if patty's stalkers will ever admit this but they do it because it's fun, because it's a habit. they don't do it for victims like they like to pretend, they've now explicitly discarded the wishes of a victim who was useful to them because her wishes aren't useful justification anymore. they can't use her to sanitize themselves anymore. they do it because they like watching patricia taxxon suffer and everything else is rationalization for whatever it is they were already doing anyways.
the reason they stalk an autistic trans girl is also out of convenience. people are primed to see trans girls as predatory so it's easy to spin that, and autistic people don't intuit social norms in a way that's convenient to shaping that narrative. they target someone who was a victim of CSA because abuse like that massively shapes someones worldview in a way that's alienating to societal norms. every fucking deck is stacked in their favor.
What constitutes a good Fic Rec list?
I’ll tell you what I look for in a fic rec list and then we’ll see what everyone else thinks is good :)
all one fandom, and if it’s shippy then all the same ship
titles of the fic link over to AO3
include the rating of the fics and a brief description (or the reason why you like it)
tag the authors so they know they’ve been rec’d
I’ve definitely seen fic rec lists with a specific theme to them as well, for example “[ship] hurt/comfort recs” but I’m personally good with just the description and picking from there.
Do any of you make rec lists? Do you appreciate them? What makes a good list?
Ooh, I love rec lists, but I have fairly different preferences for them:
All one fandom is good, but it doesn’t need to be all one ship. I don’t have anything against multifandom rec lists, but the odds of me being familiar with multiple fandoms on them are slim. The important thing is to be clear about the rec list’s theme before you actually list the recs themselves (e.g. random works I liked, coffee shop AUs in small fandoms, m/m slash in Specific Fandom, etc).
The reason you like it, or the reason you think other people should read it, is absolutely 100% necessary, and ideally it consists of at least a couple sentences (unless it’s a 100-word drabble you’re reccing). Without this, and especially if I don’t know anything about your taste in fic, it’s not any different than skimming a work listing.
If there’s something that you had to overlook while reading the fic, or something that made you hesitate to rec it, mention it! If I know the reccer would usually consider a lack of empty space between paragraphs a dealbreaker, I might be willing to give the fic a go despite the fact bad paragraph spacing is usually also a dealbreaker for me. But if I just click on a link and find a wall of text, I’ll probably back button from not just the work, but possibly the rec list as well.
I think of recs as being for potential readers, not authors, so if I were making a rec list, I wouldn’t tag them. (But I would try to comment on the fic!)
Hello! I recently started a fic rec blog so I have some thoughts:
I agree that single-fandom (or theme) blogs are more preferable to find, but think about what you want to run also. I wanted a place to archive all my favourite works, and I definitely don't have the energy for multiple blogs so this blog is multifandom. It's not for you (random folk on tumblr) it's for me (person having fun making the blog)
similarly, think about the maximum amount of effort you can spend on the task and still complete it. It would be nice to create a highly polished blog with a written summary and full tags and clear themeing, but that is actually a lot of work!
I've gone with a bullet point summary of author, rating, fandom, ship and then my own thoughts. You can check out the about pages for more information on how I'm organized.
I disagree strongly on tagging the author for a couple reasons - for one, you then have to go through the effort of finding the author (do yourself a favour and avoid giving yourself additional work)
also because as sarking mentioned, it's good to bring up both flaws and personal taste in a rec that may end up being very rude to mention to an author. If I'm reccing you something with the caveat that I really don't like how [important side character] was handled, it would be super rude to tag the author!
Additionally:
Think about longevity! I publish one rec a day through my queue, which means I don't have a lot published yet, but also means my queue is very full and I can chillax between doing a few recs in a row
if you are doing a specific fandom or ship rec blog, it is entirely possible to actually run out of good fic. Don't rush to publish a whole bunch of works just to keep your blog from looking empty! it'll fill up!
tags are your friend, but they can also be your enemy. Don't go overboard on keeping things organized - again! keep your work manageable!
it's very easy to absolutely burn out on a long term project, set yourself up for success at the start!
A lot of this is really good advice, so I'm just going to focus on a few differences between a Rec List and a Rec Blog. I've done both of them, and they have different strengths!
A single-person Rec Blog (a blog that only posts fic recs, one rec to a post) is great for long term reach. You can show off the widest variety of fics. It can slowly gain followers, and people can learn what you like and how it compares to what they like, allowing them to really start to trust your recs!
I find that it helps to have a set format for posts, and to provide more info than you would on a rec list - things like ratings/warnings, ships, a separate summary and comments section, etc.
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A Rec List (one post with a bunch of fic links) is great for creating connections in reader's minds. If they know one authour, they can be introduced to other authours that share a positive quality - similar types of prose, the same types of kinks, a shared tendency to write 50 chapter epics, etc.
This means the fics should be carefully chosen. Just throwing up a bunch of fic you like is functional, but doesn't work to the format's strengths.
It's usually better to have shorter recs than a blog would, relying on an intro to get across the theme, along with general range of warnings, etc. The recs are mostly your reaction, with maybe a sentence hinting at the plot. Individual warnings are only necessary if a fic is exceptional - something like, "This one is darker than the others, with a bit of a horror vibe, but the sibling relationship [or whatever the list is themed around] is SO GOOD!"
Regularly posting rec lists can allow you to get many of the strengths of a rec blog - readers who have learned to trust your taste, possibilities to rec a wide variety of fic, etc. - while also keeping all the strengths of the lists. I've followed multiple people who did this, and they were all great!
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Also, a Rec Blog that allows other people to submit, like I'm currently running, is slightly different, as well.
These are great for building a community. They allow for the longest lifespan, as long as you don't burn out - because you aren't the only one supplying them with fic. And they allow YOU to discover new fic!
Structure of posts should be even more formalized. More info is helpful, because people's ability to communicate what they like about a fic is going to vary wildly, and readers aren't going to learn the submitters' likes and dislikes in the same way they can for a single reccer. You have the highest chance of writers stumbling across their fic, so I STRONGLY suggest a policy of focusing only on the positives.
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A final format is the Multi-Topic Rec List. I have a list I updated for almost a decade, until Tumblr stopped allowing me to edit posts that old. It was focused on a single character, with sections for specific tropes I love. I keep a link to it in my header and pinned post. Really fun to be reading a new fic and get all excited that you can add it to a specific section!
Great if you're not making recs frequently enough for regular lists/blog posts, and aren't looking for huge reach. It never got reblogged a lot, but it did get an outsized number of people sending me messages telling me how much they appreciated it, which is a very different and enjoyable experience!
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Tagging the authour seems to be controversial, but I suggest no matter what format you choose. I also suggest wording things in a way that will feel good for authours to read. Recs are for you and other fans, but fandom works better when we're consistently building each other up, even when the other person isn't around.
Also, tagging the authour can expand your reach a LOT. Authours love reblogging posts complimenting their fic, which means their fans, people who presumably like similar fic to you, are exposed to your rec blog/list, and all the fic by other authours you think are equally good.
🌈 Happy Pride 🌈
"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.
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