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taylor price
#extradirty
Claire Keane
we're not kids anymore.
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Sweet Seals For You, Always
will byers stan first human second
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Jules of Nature
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Discoholic 🪩
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
Peter Solarz
Andulka
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@topieornottopie
Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)
MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck. Not bad luck. I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!
“See him face”
I sure fucking do see him face
Him face
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021
I SEE HIM FACE MY DUDE
Why AO3 Works and Why You Should Stay There
I’m assuming most of the people posting about what AO3 allows are children. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it does explain why people don’t understand why people would defend AO3.
It’s because any alternative site that relies on moderation of any kind for what’s allowed will become Livejournal.
Everyone used LJ 20 years ago. Seriously, asking someone if they had a Livejournal was as common as asking someone if they had a Facebook.
The site got huge. It was sold several times. And between owners, moderation tried to reign in what was and wasn’t allowed.
Which was a huge undertaking. It was literally not possible for LJ to hire enough people to moderate, so they created bots which would do the work for them. “Top of the line” bots with a small margin of error. Bots that would delete the unwanted fic and allow other fics to remain.
If you know how AI works, you know that even TODAY there is no way to program AI to do exactly what you want it to do. If you direct an AI to delete all offending fics, it will find the easiest path to success wherein it uses the least memory and resources to do so. And it WILL delete every offending fic.
It will also learn that all offending fics contain certain words. Maybe it’s the word ‘fic.’ Maybe it’s the word ‘sex.’ To make sorting the good from the bad easier, it will now discard anything that uses either of those two words.
Now it’s got a bigger pool to learn from, the AI finds that fics that use the word ‘sex’ also sometimes use the word ‘gender.’ The AI decides that fics using the word ‘gender’ must also be deleted for being undesirable, and suddenly the AI is deleting fics about transgender characters.
This is essentially what happened on Livejournal. You’ll sometimes still see people posting about “the great strikethrough” in which accounts that used certain words too much, even if they weren’t part of the intended purge, had their accounts suspended. Accounts that were havens for victims of abuse were deleted, for example, just because the AI found certain key words it had deemed inappropriate.
And this happened so many times to so many people that it was impossible for the Livejournal staff to keep up with all the review requests. It would often take weeks for an account to be reinstated, and by that time, the author had moved on.
If AO3 decides to moderate more than they already do, they will never have enough volunteers to read every story that’s published. They will never be able to adequately sort through every request that comes in. Because perhaps YOU have good intentions. You will only report fics that violate the TOS. But someone else will report every fic of someone they don’t personally like, even though there’s no violation.
This happens on Instagram. I recently helped a friend recover her account because an art thief reported the original artist for stealing art. There were not enough people to really look into whether or not the original artist was innocent, so they just suspended her account. It took WEEKS to get it back.
This is what you’re asking for on Ao3. I know you don’t understand this, or your initial reaction is to say “that won’t happen,” but it WILL. Every time any site has gone to heavier moderation, non-offending accounts are lost in the shuffle.
I can’t believe you didn’t learn from tumblr’s handling of banning certain images. It’s the same fucking thing. C’mon, guys. Use your heads here.
teenage us were braver than any US Marine
the supernatural news would be funny at any time but the tension floating around life currently has made it absolutely HYSTERICAL
who had “destiel” on their apocalypse bingo sheet because I certainly did not
I did that thing where I was checking out a wip I haven’t touched in a long while, and before I knew it I was really sucked in and just reading it and enjoying it, and then it just fucking ended abruptly during a good scene and I nearly started screaming, and then I remembered it’s my own fucking wip and that means I have to be the one to fix this and finish it and I really really nearly started screaming and just asdfghjkl
Hey op, you didn’t have to come into my house, drag me out of bed, and proceed to drown me in my own bathtub
What Lies at the End
Title: What Lies at the End
Author: @Bigspicysenpai
Artist: @Topieornottopie
Rated: T - Teen and up audiences
Pairings: Kent “Parse” Parson/Jeff “Swoops” Troy
Warnings: No archive warnings apply
Summary:
The Las Vegas Aces are one of the premier teams of monster hunters in the National Hunter’s League. Renowned for their efficiency and speed. At their head is their young captain, Kent, a broody ranger with a dark past. Still disappointed about the turnout of the previous season, Kent runs off on his own right before the new hunting season begins. His teammates go looking for him, with an offer for an amazing bounty that they won’t be able to pass up.
A D&D inspired fantasy AU which features the Aces as a competitive monster hunting team.
Fic
Art
Another year, another @omgcpreversebang piece! Boy 2020 has been turbulent so far. It’s been a few months since I made this drawing but if feels like years ago now!
I am super thankfull to @bigspicysenpai for writing the fic for this piece called What Lies at the End . It’s an exciting D&D inspired fantasy AU which features the Aces as a competitive monster hunting team, and I think we could use a good adventure story right now!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
my second and final piece for the @omgcpreversebang !!
this fic was so different to what im used to writing (tho I managed to slip a lot of my common rants and character traits into it) and it was a genuine joy ! I cant wait to (hopefully) add more to the series!
a massive thank you to @topieornottopie for creating such beautiful art and supporting the weird direction I took it on! you can find their beautiful art here <3
I owe my soul to @nhlandglitter who basically co-wrote this with me, and put up with far too many 4 hour video calls to try and hash out this wild plot. Betty, you’re my goddamn favourite and I love you <3
please let me know what you think if you give it a read, or if you have any suggestions on what I should write in the future of this series (or in general! always accepting requests/prompts!)
thank you <3
This fic is abosultely awesome and I love it!!Go read it everyone!!
This is my art for the @omgcpreversebang 2019! My amazingly kind and patient author @anybodyhavealaurens created the fic "Fall back together (monsters turned out to be just trees)" which you can find here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19101385/chapters/45384889 so please go check it out!
trying to use your own hands as reference like
I've been practicing sketching hockey poses form reference lately and I think I've gotten a lot better at it! I think the top right one is my favorite :)
A Bit About The Turmoil In The Zine Community
Hello,
Mod King here.
I’ve debated for a long time about whether or not to make this post from this zine, but after seeing some recent messages in the inbox with well wishes (and well-placed concerns) I feel I can’t put it off any longer.
Some of you may know about recent events that have rocked the zine community. A mod on several projects in two different fandoms (Voltron & BNHA) has made off with quite a large sum of money. This mod, called GG or Astraldefender/gutgemact (a now deleted blog and a now made-private blog respectively), also effectively ghosted her mod teams, and left them without access to blogs, storefronts, emails and google drives for the projects affected.
Those of you that follow my blog @kingotabek have probably already seen that I’ve made SEVERAL statements about this situation, as I was on not one, but two of the mod teams left behind in the wreckage. Specifically I was involved with the @vld-occult-zine and the @vld-au-zinecollection Heith Edition.
At no point did myself, or the other team members ghosted by GG, have access to essential things for these projects. We still have no exact knowledge of funds, as GG alone had control of the financials, and we were denied updates and communication at every turn.
A project GG started in the BNHA fandom, the @bnha-hallowzine was the first project to suffer at her hands. The collapse of it, and subsequently the exposure of her mishandlings, are ultimately what lead to the fall of the Voltron projects.
The mods left behind (me included) gathered in the wake of community panic, and did our best to form plans, and conduct emails to GG herself. We flooded questions from customers, and we drafted and sent a request to GG.
We asked her to turn the passwords, money, already purchased merch, and any other essentials needed to continue these projects, over to us. We sent this request at the beginning of December via the last known-to-be-working email address for GG, and we gave her a deadline of Dec 15th to give it all up.
At this point the BNHA project had already labeled her a scammer…. but we in the Voltron fandom held out hope. GG managed to refund the money she had taken from her BNHA project, and we wanted to believe she would do the same for her Voltron projects.
Instead the response we received from her was an unsatisfactory excuse and a hasty “I’ll get everything together to hand over.” We asked for clarification on this statement, and a date for hand-off.
In return we were ghosted. No further communication was achieved. Many of the mods left behind were blocked by GG’s accounts, and some of her accounts were even deleted.
At this point the gathered mods decided we had to dissolve these projects, and guide all customers toward seeking refunds. (We were still in good faith that GG would refund the way she did the BNHA zine).
This was very hard for us, as we had to do so by posting and spreading word through our personal accounts, having no access to the social media for the affected zines (minus the occult zine). We also had our own work mixed up in the fray, as many of us were contributors as well as mods, and some of us had even purchased the zines we weren’t modding over, making us customers too.
We made our posts, we held our breath, and we waited. We waited for someone, a customer, contributor or a mod, to finally receive a response from GG, and we waited for refunds to begin.
Unfortunately, neither of these things happened.
As it stands, we’ve rolled over into the year 2019, and GG has truly ghosted everyone. She has officially been tagged with the label scammer and none of the remaining mods are willing to defend her from it.
It is estimated the amount of money in her hands equals over $20,000 dollars, and talk of legal action has begun from both contributors/mods and customers alike.
As she has made no move to refund this money, we advise all customers to file chargebacks with their banks if they ordered from projects such as @bnha-hallowzine, @vld-au-zinecollection, @vld-occult-zine or any other projects offilliated with GG. Including a BNHA birthday zine, and a merch shop called Premium Garbage Merch.
I would like to state that GG was in NO WAY involved in the production or care of Kings On Ice Zines or any of my affiliated and completed projects.
I simply wish to use this platform to spread word, as word has already spread far enough to effect this blog.
If you seek any further information I do ask that you check posts on my main blog @kingotabek (I also ask that all contact about the situation be sent to my Kingotabek blog, as any sent to kingsonicezine will not be answered).
You can also read posts by others affected such as @tootsonnewts @deafmic and even the @vld-occult-zine blog.
Im very sorry to interrupt the flow of this zine’s blog, and of your timelines with such harrowing information, but I feel it necessary to call out this situation on all platforms that I am able.
Until The Next Time We Skate Together,
Mod King
The nipple-police is coming
Well, I’m sure you’ve all heard of tumblrs new no-nipple policy
They’re banning all adult content, and even though they said “illustrations and art depicting nudity” would still be allowed, a lot of my works are being flagged, so I’m gonna be looking for a new platform to post my (nsfw) art.
I may have to dust of my Deviantart account, and I’m also looking into Dreamwidth and Pillowfort. In any case, all new accounts will have the same username: Topieornottopie (bc i foolishly committed to this ridiculous username now and there is no going back) so it will be easy to find me.
