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theories and other stuff

craftbadger:

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re at a low point:

If you were a fictional man right now, there would be *at least* ten people if not a large portion of the fanbase that would call you their wet beast poor little meow meow

dear-ao3:

your-local-asexual-loser:

dear-ao3:

dear-ao3:

so aparently our queue ran out a few hours (days?) ago but it’s fixed now

and ive been in court

also tumblr wouldnt let me queue

WTF DID YOU DO KATYA

MY FUCKING JOB

jasperbee:

Things today’s taught me:

1. Download fics you really like because you never know when you’ll need them
2. Support and donate to sites you use a lot (ao3 is a knee-jerk reach daily for me and basically the whole internet and I will be donating to them next time that season rolls around as I hope many others are)
3. Ao3 volunteers are under appreciated without question for all they do for this site

Please show the site some love once it’s back up and thank the vols too

Edit: Also go comment on your favorite fics when the site is back up, saw someone else say and I personally will be doing just that

pellaaearien:

artsietango:

This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.

I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.

My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.

I’m so sad to see so many panicked posts about google docs when the original inflammatory post has been debunked and retracted.

Google is ONLY talking about publicly available data. Stuff that is in your drive DOES NOT COUNT as publicly available. 

There are SO MANY companies that use drive and docs for proprietary information who would have MANY lawsuits to bring if it was discovered private drives were being scraped.

Now, I’m not saying NOT to swap writing programs because google docs is pretty pants as an actual word processor, and also, never ever have all your stuff only in one place, but I don’t want anyone to freak out that their writing isn’t safe.

catnippackets:

catnippackets:

listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical

just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me

sharkgirldick:

Hot reminder that you can just be trans. It’s fine. You don’t need extreme dysphoria or anything.

I started transitioning because I didn’t vibe with being a guy. That’s it. I’m just happier as a girl.

guiltrose:

do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

transboyzuko:

transboyzuko:

the moon and water spirits Tui and La come from the Chinese for push (推) and pull (拉) right and in Taiwan you see that shit everywhere because it’s on every door to get in and out of a building

so thanks to y’all fuckers every time I’m reading a fic where someone curses like “Tui and La!” all I ever see in my mind is the front door to my local 7-eleven

and I swear to tui and la you will nEVER see me type that in a fic I write ever, I am haunted enough by that dAMN DOOR

there’s a lot of chinese in atla (obviously? maybe it’s not obvious but I mean it makes sense) and there’s some cute examples

like the spirit heibai (黑白) means black and white

but the one that really gRINDS MY GEARS is in the great divide with the two tribes

the clean tribe is called the ganjing (乾淨) tribe which means…. clean tribe

and the dirty tribe is called the zang (髒) tribe which means…. dirty tribe

and I don’t know why I just HATE it, it’s SO DUMB

bigwizardhat:

i love these kinds of blogs. i love reading winnie the pooh as a #female manipulator #coquette #girlblogger

ralfmaximus:

memewhore:

Your task today, tumblerites, is to slip platypusary into casual conversation. Bonus points if nobody notices.

oykamu:

What is your most toxic driving trait?

Tailgating

Texting while driving

Switching lanes with no signal (I call this California freeway hive mind)

Hitting cruise control and sitting with both feet up on the seat

Jarring stops and starts

Fast and furious speeding

Sitting in the fast lane going the speed limit

A road terror—more than one

I don’t drive/none

Other—leave in tags

See Results

garfieldildo:

have you ever used Tumblr live before?

yes, I regularly use Tumblr live

I use it sometimes, but not regularly

Used to, but not anymore

Have never used it

See Results

For the record, accidentally tapping on Tumblr live when it randomly appears every week does not count as using Tumblr live for the sake of this poll. This is only referring to purposeful use of the feature.

I’d appreciate it if people could share this for a larger sample size!

cerberuschaos:

223-jay:

apocalypticjay:

mememuseumofhistory:

sonnetseven:

despoinanyx:

xxchinbo:

evelin-lmh:

daily—toks:

Imagine making a small talk with your barista and they slide their social battery badge down a level

OMG I bought that pin last week and it arrived today!

*For the people asking I bought the pin HERE

imagine sliding this down mid conversation lmao

In a good day I’m in yellow ngl…

You’re at a lunch with friends when they all stop talking.

They were distracted by the low health sound of your social health bar

Do-do do-do do-do

I need this for… reasons.

you know what? this sort of thing should be normalized. if im talking to someone, and they feel like they need a social break, let them use this! plus it might help people who have trouble telling where they’re at on that scale

BRB BOUGHT TO GO ORDER ASAP

Me too man, me too

tinydragontori:

bitchboynasty:

Absolutely true

you are so right

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