hi! I'm Ancient. no that's my name not my age i'm in my mid-20s as of writing this
First and foremost, because i don't trust somebody, yes someone on here has it out for me. Yes they will probably post about me. I don't want to hear it. if they're not actively threatening my life or doxxing me, leave me out of it.
Obligatory "I'm an adult and may block you if you're a minor", i'm part of the alphabet mafia and a tripe A battery (Autistic, ADHD, agender), i write stuff, i draw stuff, sometimes i post it too.
Mostly these days i'm posting about ISAT. game good. play it
“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid
“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid
“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid
Alright guys. The money situation is getting serious once again. Hate to resort to this in the middle of ArtFight no less but I’m back to taking sketch comms
I’ll make a proper post later today but for now here’s my Ko-fi link
Support RoryDraws
I might have to raise my prices though a lil bit… just a heads up
"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
Firmly convinced the world would be a better place if we started treating sex the way we'd treat any other mundane preference in life, like what kind of chips a person likes to eat with their lunch.
Can we be nicer to people who are on the aro/ace spectrum who aren’t aroace please? Aroallos and alloaces and aplatonic folk and cupioromantics and those who want queerplatonic relationships and those who don’t and aros who date and aces who have sex and people who don’t fall on the “sex-favourable to sex-repulsed” line because they feel like it doesn’t describe them well enough and greyromantics and demisexuals and those in polycules and selfshipping communities and those who fight for aro/ace visibility and those who don’t and those who haven’t fully come to terms with their identity yet and this community is such a beautiful place can we see it beyond “uwu innocent aroace doesn’t know what sex is” please god I am begging you
Hi everyone!
This is an illustrated guide I made as part of my co-admining work at The Middle Eastern Feminist on Facebook! It will be published there shortly.
The technique that is displayed here is a genuine one used in psychology - I forgot the name and couldn’t find it again so if you know about it, feel free to tell me!
Some could say: “Yes but you can use that technique for instances of harassment other than Islamophobic attacks!”, and my reply is: Sure! Please do so, it also works for other “types” of harassment of a lone person in a public space!!
However I’m focusing on protecting Muslims here, as they have been very specific targets lately, and as a French Middle Eastern woman, I wanted to try and do something to raise awareness on how to help when such things happen before our eyes - that way one cannot say they “didn’t know what to do”!
I’d like to insist on two things:
1) Do not, in any way, interact with the attacker. You must absolutely ignore them and focus entirely on the person being attacked!
2) Please make sure to always respect the wishes of the person you’re helping: whether they want you to leave quickly afterwards, or not! If you’re in a hurry escort them to a place where someone else can take over - call one of their friends, or one of yours, of if they want to, the police. It all depends on how they feel!
For my fellow French-speakers: I will translate it in French and post it on my page as soon as I can :)
Please don’t hesitate to share this guide as it could push a lot of people to overcome bystander syndrome!!
Lots of love and stay safe!
PS: I you repost this cartoon of mine on twitter or instagram, please add me in the post so I can see it, with @itsmaeril :)
Discord is supposedly saying this is going to affect "only 10% of users", but I really don't believe them at all. It's always going to be way worse and affect more people than what they claim.
So in case anyone needs it:
After Discord announced plans to require age verification for all users, a free, HTML-based tool emerged that aims to bypass facial scans on
There was a post about rdr2 red flags and the post itself was alright, but my comment received a lot of unsavoury replies so I wanted to make my own post about Mary Linton (because she's apparently more hated than the game's actual antagonists).
You see, I think a lot of the criticism aimed at Mary is less based on what the game actually shows us and more on the gendered expectations people place on female characters especially. It is truly disappointing to see such rampant and unjust hate for a character that is seen as a "nag" before being understood. The original poster wasn't particularly helping the situation in the comments either but I digress.
There's no point in me showing the worst replies here, we've heard it all before and giving them attention doesn't help, but it truly is an embarrassing display of how many people seem so unwilling to engage or empathise with a complex female character (in a game known for being complex and filled with other even more complex characters for that matter) yet are happy to understand the complexity of male characters.
There are 109 missions in rdr2, one hundred and nine, and yet people really have it out for one character who only appeared in three missions out of that one hundred and nine, and apparently committed the world's most unforgivable crime by asking Arthur for help.
See, the irony in calling Mary out for "using" Arthur and "manipulating" him and "taking advantage" of him is painful when all three of those missions give you the option to just... decline. As in, you don't have to do it. You don't have to help her. Arthur doesn't have to help her. Players can literally choose to say no and walk away.
You cannot reasonably tell me that hating Mary solely for being in the game and asking for help is worth her being labelled as such when she isn't the manipulator or the one who takes advantage because if anything, that's Dutch. Not Mary.
(And Dutch as a character does not nearly receive the same amount of immediate hate when mentioned I'll tell you that).
There's a difference between saying "I understand why Mary acted the way she did, but I still don't really like her character" and "Mary only used Arthur and manipulated him for her own gain" because one is a fair opinion and the other is just factually untrue since, once again, you can just say no to her.
You. Can. Say. No.
Manipulation removes someone's agency (a person's free will and their capacity to make autonomous choices). Yet in the game, Mary wrote and Arthur chose to go. Mary asked for help, Arthur chose whether to say yes or no. Mary asked to run away with him, and Arthur truthfully said he couldn't. None of that removed Arthur's agency.
All the evidence of the complexity of Arthur and Mary's relationship is written right there in the journal. Arthur loved Mary, Mary loved Arthur, neither could part with their lives and families and it tore them apart with everything that followed. There's so much nuance to it.
It's not as simple as "Mary bad Arthur good" because Arthur wasn't the perfect man to Mary either. The whole point was that neither of them were perfect and they both wished things had been different because they wanted a life together. They never stopped loving eachother, even to the end.
Arthur had even proposed to Mary, that's how much he loved her!!! And Mary kept the ring!! She kept it for so long before returning it because she understood that Arthur couldn't change, and Arthur understood that he couldn't either.
Mary doesn't exist just to serve in Arthur's story, and I think that's why she's so hated. She had her own life, and her own wants and her own fears and her own limits and failures. She is a character in herself and people judge her as if she's some nuisance written to interrupt Arthur's life.
And you know what? Everything she asks for is incredibly reasonable and I'm tired of pretending it isn't. She didn't demand Arthur leave the gang and stop being an outlaw, she just asks for his help and tells him she cannot build a life with him if he can't change.
And Arthur agreed with that! He never spent time saying that she was wrong, because he very frequently said that she was right! And I'd argue that Mary was one of the few people who actually saw Arthur as a man before seeing him as an outlaw because they had so much history together.
Their relationship didn't fail because one was cruel and the other was manipulated, their relationship failed because they truly loved eachother at the wrong time, in the wrong circumstances, and neither of them could be what the other needed.
That's not manipulation or abuse guys. That's fucking tragedy.
Arthur himself doesn't hate Mary, yet so many players do and it's so disappointing to see.
If the person who actually lived through that relationship doesn't blame her, then maybe the players should ask themselves why they do.
It's not perfect- Strawpage's design tools are... not great- but I did my best to bring you all a Tumblr-free transcription of all my lessons. This is probably the most labor-intensive thing I've done for this page (next to the character polls). Four months of blood, sweat, and tears... and now, she LIVES!!!!
Some Notes:
I created it with the intent of Desktop use, so Mobile might have some issues. If it's not working on your phone, try desktop.
Out of the multiple browsers tested (Firefox, Google, Edge, Brave, Safari), Firefox had some issues sporadically.
I'm still going to post lessons on here, first. This page is priority to me, and the website is more of an archive.
The fonts are normal past this opening page.
I will be adding a portion to send funds soon, if'n you are feeling kind and generous.
Thank you all for your patience while I worked on this. It was a labor of love and I hope that it shows. 🙏🏾 Happy scrolling!
It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.
Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.
Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.
Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us
