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I went—not overseas, but by public transport—to Corpus to hear Tamsyn Muir speak.
The bad news: Alecto is not finished. It will hopefully come out "soon" and will likely be fast tracked with few ARCs when it's finished.
The news you may take differently depending on your preferences: It is not being split.
The good news: It is not all written in Ye Olde Alecto speak (it sounds like Harrow's POV will be fairly major, but there will apparently be several narrators).
A slightly random selection of things I frantically scribbled down:
The protagonists of TLT would make an "absolutely shit" D&D party ("Palamedes and Camilla would be fine")
We could have had horse plinko and begone thot, but for the anti-meme ministrations of her editor. She would love an edition that puts all of the memes back in.
On Catholic imagery and lesbianism: "you ain't seen nothing yet"
"Harrow is now a believer without a church"
She said that while John and Alecto's relationship is not meant to be a 1:1 analogue to Humbert Humbert and Lolita, there is the idea of a man fashioning (something he thinks is) a girl into a perfect partner (the question of whether that is a sexual partner apparently may be relevant to ATN)
She does not have a favourite House and would just be a regular person in the world of TLT (though she would last about 0.5 seconds)
The tension between the Houses' ostensible gender equality and the misogyny that still persists is apparently also relevant to ATN. "John has set out to make a society on values he holds dear and cherishes and in some ways he has done really well... And in some way he has fucked it up beyond comprehension" (Maybe not an exact quote. My auditory processing is questionable.)
The backstory in NTN was planned right from the beginning
Lyctors "are not truly human any more. They've crystallised themselves" and "They have lost themselves and the only thing they've been able to hold on to is what other people make of them". She said she would have liked to make the Lyctors more alien but had to balance that with them being relatable narratively.
She is dying to read TLT fanfiction once she finishes the series.
i finished outer wilds (base game) today and i want to Post and Look at Post but i still have to play the dlc so i can't...... pain
since the resource lists i've put together in the past seemed to have helped some of you, i thought i'd pull together some initiatives and programs supporting people in lebanon. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, often after already having suffered earlier displacements and losses, in just a little over a week. if you have funds to spare, now is a vital time to contribute towards organizations and mutual aid projects like these.
makhzoumi foundation - providing food and water assistance, medical care, psychosocial support, and other necessities
lebanon emergency relief - providing food, baby supplies, medication, sleep and hygiene necessities, and financial assistance
lebanese food bank - runs food and water security initiatives across the country
basmeh & zeitooneh - running various educational and psychosocial programs, providing food and water packages, shelter and sleeping supplies, and hygiene products
lebanese red cross - provides medical care, supplies for hospitals, search and rescue operations, and necessities for displaced people
lebanon solidarity collective - works with other grassroots networks to provide food, necessities, medical care, and financial assistance; runs additional long-term bioremediation projects
voices of the unseen - coalition of organizations working to provide food, clean water, hygiene products, weather-appropriate clothing, and medical supplies
islamic help's lebanon appeal - runs clinics and shelters, as well as providing water, food, hygiene products, and winter supplies
anera - provides food, water, hygiene supplies, shelter and weather necessities, and medical care, as well as running agricultural programs
islamic relief's lebanon emergency appeal - provides food, water, necessities, medical supplies
baitulmaal - operates a mobile clinic and provides food, water, shelter, and hygiene supplies
azahir - providing meals, sleeping supplies, baby and hygiene products, medical care, and pyschosocial support with a focus on children and families
jibal - coordinates community kitchens and food supply for shelters
foodblessed lebanon - providing meals and non-perishable food parcels
egna legna besidet - providing support for displaced migrant workers, including food, health supplies, clothing, and financial assistance
nation station - a Beirut-based community kitchen (provides about 1,000 meals daily)
beit aam - community space in Beirut currently serving as a hub for volunteer workers and supply gathering
queer mutual aid lebanon - providing housing and financial assistance to queer and trans people
if you're able, please consider supporting one or more of these initiatives. bombardment and displacement are circumstances no one should have to endure—if you are blessed with safety and comfort right now, don't forget those whose lives and lands are under threat. any small thing you can do is better than doing nothing.
slowly falling into baru cormorant brainrot again where tf are the 5 masquerade series enjoyers on this site
tumblr userbase is going to become unconscionably insufferable in response to this taste of power I suspect. don't let it go to your heads.
Lots of talk about "bullying wins" and little talk about power and the flow of capital, which is what matters to the corporate bigheads who approve these things. imo a few things were at play here to make them rescind this.
- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.
- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...
- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.
What do we learn? The answer is not "bullying works" and "swearing at customer service reps is fun". The answer is to remember that online, we are both the product and the thing that creates the value (similar to but obviously distinct from the actual workers of a corporation; if we vanished overnight they'd have nothing). Brush up on your collective bargaining & try to understand why this happened in this way. And don't try to replicate this for every random update that comes next by endlessly harassing them. Take stock of the little power you have and work out where to put it to use. This is still just tumblr.
not to be that person, but making angry posts about the update isn't gonna do anything. if you're actually annoyed, i'd recommend contacting the staff to complain. if everyone does their part, i'm sure these trash updates will be rolled back. let's go!!!
you can send your feedback here: https://www.tumblr.com/support. the more people describing the issue, the better.
tumblr also has accounts on twitter (here) and instagram (this is their latest post). it'd be worth commenting there too! let's flood their last post with complaints, i guarantee we'll get some kind of response.
you may be thinking that some of the reactions to the tumblr update are unfounded or panicky. but i meant what i said: this will fucking destroy any artist on this site.
for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:
and here is what it looks like now:
holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.
maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.
but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.
do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.
it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.
the tumblr feedback form is currently crashed for me, but when it's up, everyone please go (politely! calmly! like you're walking in a burning building!) tell them what you think. in the meantime: @staff @changes like... i am begging you. literally just set up a suggestion box for ideas on how to monetize tumblr, surely one of us can help you.
please ACTUALLY send your complaints and feedback to tumblr support. dont fall victim to the bystander effect. dont assume everyone else is doing it so you dont have to. send them your complaints.
Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them. -The opening paragraph to My Immortal, posted 20 years ago today
i started a new sketchbook after like 6 years and used the first page to draw a certain horrible lesbian... may be posting her when i have time
reblog and put in the tags the real reason you joined tumblr no matter how horrible or embarrassing it is
earthsea is so fucking good
art soon hopefully, ive been meaning to draw but keep getting distracted
The war is not over !!!!!
Gaza is still bleeding !!!!
Donation link for a family from Gaza
People keep saying there’s a ceasefire but every single day we wake up to another explosion, another family destroyed, another name added to the list of martyrs. I’m writing this because the world thinks Gaza is “calm” now.
It’s not. The bombs didn’t stop. The drones didn’t stop. The funerals didn’t stop.
During this so-called ceasefire, dozens of people were killed. Homes were burned. Children were pulled from under the rubble. You’ll see the photos I’m adding below - all taken during the “pause”. This is what our reality looks like.
My own family is suffering too. We lost relatives. We lost our home.
312 Palestinians have been killed, entire families wiped out during a time that was supposed to bring safety.!
Here is the donation link for my family’s emergency fund:
https://chuffed.org/project/145440-help-anass-family-survive-and-rebuild-after-gaza-war
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If you can’t donate, please reblog, share, tag people.
Your support is literally life saving for us.
Thank you for not looking away.
Thank you for keeping Gaza alive in your heart.
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reading: metal from heaven by august clarke
last series: yellowjackets (haven't finished it yet though)
last film: wake up dead man
last song: silk in the strings by spiritbox
sweet or salty: sour
coffee or tea: both depending on time of day
working on: trying different art mediums! currently it's gouache
not tagging anyone directly but @ mutuals if you see this and want to answer consider yourselves tagged :3
whenever i watch a skong playthrough i forget the red memory is a thing until it comes up and i start crying every single time