I post for an audience of me

They/Them 🖤🩶🤍💜 I like roller coasters, animation, manga, novels, music, and video games my drawings can be found @hyphen-art

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Maybe -- just MAYBE -- don't spit on other characters and ships and works when the artist you congratulate and reblog from also draws those?

[comedydoctor18]

FANDOM ETIQUETTE NEEDS A RETURN SOOOO STRONGLY

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"Mom's making curry tonight"

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bonus image: my family's curry serving spoon

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"Mom's making curry tonight"

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I'd like to find someone who can help me illustrate a custom The World Ends With You inspired Switch 2 skin in the art style of TWEWY. My current plan is to get the art printed through a website like mighty skins, decal girl, or skinit.

I tried using images directly from official works, but I can't set up the layout in the way that I want it. I think I could photobash something together using photos from different sources (DS game, Switch game, the animation, and irl) to get the layout I want, but I don't have the skill it takes to match my art style to one different from my own.

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Here are a couple of reference images of the art style I'm looking for. I plan to update this post again when I finish editing my reference images into the layout that I have in mind.

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I'd like to find someone who can help me illustrate a custom The World Ends With You inspired Switch 2 skin in the art style of TWEWY. My current plan is to get the art printed through a website like mighty skins, decal girl, or skinit.

I tried using images directly from official works, but I can't set up the layout in the way that I want it. I think I could photobash something together using photos from different sources (DS game, Switch game, the animation, and irl) to get the layout I want, but I don't have the skill it takes to match my art style to one different from my own.

EDIT/UPDATE: I have found an artist that I plan to work with on the design that I have in mind

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

hey, I was just at "things got better" island and everyone there is talking about how excited they are to meet you

[switchblade-dragon]

Hey yeah so this post literally kept me alive for like 6 months. Thank you. And OP is so right. Everyone on this island became my best friends. And guess what? Now they can't wait to meet *you* and they talk about you every single day.

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my family calls me grandma to poke fun at my angel collection, my fiber arts hobbies, and my love of butterscotch

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Just got my first non-funko, non-blindbox anime figure

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update: got another

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My most recent animorphs post got big and someone linked the online pdfs again. This is fine. But I do want to point out that when Applegate/Grant (can’t remember who it was) gave their tacit endorsement of the free online dissemination of their books, it was at a time when Animorphs was out of print, not available in formal ebook form, and generally impossible to access by any other means.

They also added something pretty explicitly to the effect of “if the books come back into print or are possible to buy again, we’d appreciate you buying them, if you can afford to, because that income is part of our livelihood.” Which is far from a fervent moral exhortation against piracy, but also isn’t the same as saying “we don’t care if anyone ever pays for our work again.”

Animorphs is now available via various legal means. The series got reprinted, or at least the first ten books did; there are ebooks available for purchase; there are audiobooks still being released; they’re slowly publishing the first few books in graphic novel form; and all forms of the books are much more widely stocked by libraries than they used to be.

The tendency of people online to report this as “the books are available for free with the authors’ blessing” followed by a link to the pdf files and no caveats or clarification whatsoever is I think part of a larger misconception about book piracy; i.e. that it is economically and ethically the same as pirating television or mass market movies. It’s true this isn’t the same as pirating, say, the Fifth Season, and not just because the authors of Animorphs issued an ambiguously approving statement a decade or so ago. Animorphs is a franchise, and properties are owned by Scholastic. But some of the purchase price does go to Applegate and Grant every time a book is sold; and they are both full time professional authors, i.e., book sales are their entire livelihood.

I’m not making a statement about whether it’s right or wrong to illegally download the Animorphs books. I’m not telling you what to do at all. But it’s simply not accurate to say with no caveats that the authors encourage people to read pirated versions of their books. The authors encourage people to read their books, and at the time they made that statement, the pirated versions were the only way to do that. That isn’t true anymore.

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My toxic trait is I don't care if brownies or cookies are fully baked

I just check if the internal temperature is high enough to kill off any likely foodborne pathogens

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Saw The Amazing Digital Circus in the theatre with a good crowd yesterday

I think that was the first time I've ever seen people applaud after a movie

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Me: What are the odds that two machines are wrong in the exact same way?

My dad (a former lab calibration technician):

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Just got my first non-funko, non-blindbox anime figure

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switched some of my DVDs to slim cases, then immediately filled the empty space with DVDs from the pile that I didn't have space for on my shelf

[macgyvermedical]

PSA:

Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.

That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).

A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.

Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).

Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.

The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.

After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.

You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”

Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.

So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.

[fleetingruin]

Please don't forget this shit, after it happened to a family member, he died 8 years later because of the continuing health complications even though he survived the initial overdose

[cakeisnotpie]

I didn't know this for years, and I took so many pills, sometimes 4 at one go, every four hours, like 16 a day, because of endometriosis and migraines. It took a migraine specialist to explain rebound headaches and overdoses when I was in my 40s. Then I went cold turkey on all OTC drugs to get off the cycle. Please, please, if a couple tylenol aren't working for you, talk to your doctor or find one who will listen to you if you can.

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Personally, if I'm taking tylenol for pain I tend to take 1/2 the recommended dose of tylenol and if that doesn't work within 30 minutes I take the other half of that dose (treating the second half of the dose as the most recent dose in relation to the recommended time between doses on the box). I follow the exact dosage instructions on the box when I take it for a fever though.

I am not a doctor and I was not told by a doctor to do this, so if you have the expertise to tell me whether or not this is a bad idea please let me know so I can update this post with more accurate information.

[penwiper]

So a couple days ago, some folks braved my long-dormant social media accounts to make sure I’d seen this tweet:

And after getting over my initial (rather emotional) response, I wanted to reply properly, and explain just why that hit me so hard.

So back around twenty years ago, the internet cosplay and costuming scene was very different from today. The older generation of sci-fi convention costumers was made up of experienced, dedicated individuals who had been honing their craft for years.  These were people who took masquerade competitions seriously, and earning your journeyman or master costuming badge was an important thing.  They had a lot of knowledge, but – here’s the important bit – a lot of them didn’t share it.  It’s not just that they weren’t internet-savvy enough to share it, or didn’t have the time to write up tutorials – no, literally if you asked how they did something or what material they used, they would refuse to tell you. Some of them came from professional backgrounds where this knowledge literally was a trade secret, others just wanted to decrease the chances of their rivals in competitions, but for whatever reason it was like getting a door slammed in your face.  Now, that’s a generalization – there were definitely some lovely and kind and helpful old-school costumers – but they tended to advise more one-on-one, and the idea of just putting detailed knowledge out there for random strangers to use wasn’t much of a thing.  And then what information did get out there was coming from people with the freedom and budget to do things like invest in all the tools and materials to create authentic leather hauberks, or build a vac-form setup to make stormtrooper armor, etc.  NOT beginner friendly, is what I’m saying.

Then, around 2000 or so, two particular things happened: anime and manga began to be widely accessible in resulting in a boom in anime conventions and cosplay culture, and a new wave of costume-filled franchises (notably the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings movies) hit the theatres.  What those brought into the convention and costuming arena was a new wave of enthusiastic fans who wanted to make costumes, and though a lot of the anime fans were much younger, some of them, and a lot of the movie franchise fans, were in their 20s and 30s, young enough to use the internet to its (then) full potential, old enough to have autonomy and a little money, and above all, overwhelmingly female.  I think that latter is particularly important because that meant they had a lifetime of dealing with gatekeepers under our belts, and we weren’t inclined to deal with yet another one.  They looked at the old dragons carefully hoarding their knowledge, keeping out anyone who might be unworthy, or (even worse) competition, and they said NO.  If secrets were going to be kept, they were going to figure things out for ourselves, and then they were going to share it with everyone.  Those old-school costumers may have done us a favor in the long run, because not knowing those old secrets meant that we had to find new methods, and we were trying – and succeeding with – materials that “serious” costumers would never have considered.   I was one of those costumers, but there were many more – I was more on the movie side of things, so JediElfQueen and PadawansGuide immediately spring to mind, but there were so many others, on YahooGroups and Livejournal and our own hand-coded webpages, analyzing and testing and experimenting and swapping ideas and sharing, sharing, sharing.  

I’m not saying that to make it sound like we were the noble knights of cosplay, riding in heroically with tutorials for all.  I’m saying that a group of people, individually and as a collective, made the conscious decision that sharing was a Good Things that would improve the community as a whole.  That wasn’t necessarily an easy decision to make, either. I know I thought long and hard before I posted that tutorial; the reaction I had gotten when I wore that armor to a con told me that I had hit on something new, something that gave me an edge, and if I didn’t share that info I could probably hang on to that edge for a year, or two, or three.  And I thought about it, and I was briefly tempted, but again, there were all of these others around me sharing what they knew, and I had seen for myself what I could do when I borrowed and adapted some of their ideas, and I felt the power of what could happen when a group of people came together and gave their creativity to the world.

And it changed the face of costuming.  People who had been intimidated by the sci-fi competition circuit suddenly found the confidence to try it themselves, and brought in their own ideas and discoveries.  And then the next wave of younger costumers took those ideas and ran, and built on them, and branched out off of them, and the wave after that had their own innovations, and suddenly here we are, with Youtube videos and Tumblr tutorials and Etsy patterns and step-by-step how-to books, and I am just so, so proud.  

So yeah, seeing appreciation for a 17-year-old technique I figured out on my dining-room table (and bless it, doesn’t that page just scream “I learned how to code on Geocities!”), and having it embraced as a springboard for newer and better things warms this fandom-old’s heart.  This is our legacy, and a legacy the current group of cosplayers is still creating, and it’s a good one.  

(Oh, and for anyone wondering: yes, I’m over 40 now, and yes, I’m still making costumes. And that armor is still in great shape after 17 years in a hot attic!)  

[armoredsuperheavy]

In 2018 I developed a method to bind fanfiction into hardback books. Like penwiper, I was also literally working in my kitchen by myself and trying things out. This solo work was a meditative experience that allowed me to think deeply about the implications of what I was creating and what my ethics and philosophy should be. I got around to the idea that the knowledge I was building should be spread far and wide, so that together, many of us fans could bind all the wonderful fics that made our lives better in a million tiny ways, and wherever possible, create a copy to give to the authors themselves. In 2019 I wrote How to Make a Book From An AO3 Page, a free manual for how to format and bind fanfic, as a gift to fandom as a whole. It took off during the 2020 lockdown and has been going strong ever since.

Now, through the efforts of so many wonderful people, Renegade Bookbinding Guild has developed out of the Discord server I originally created just to answer questions about paper, fonts, printers and such. I figured there would be no more than 15 people joining. We have surpassed 3000.

I hope in another 20 years time my little tutorial still be kicking along out here, my bad photography and potty mouth sitting forever at the foundational level of an exploding practice of radical generosity and community, preserving the best of fanfiction from the ravages of time and digital threats and censorship, and giving authors the best thank you I know how to give.

ArmoredSuperHeavy, March 2026

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i need to get into fanbinding tbh

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just found out I was born in the same year and city as a celebrity I'm a fan of and I'm not sure how to feel about it