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interested not in final girls but fridged women. i’m opening the refrigerator door i’m pulling them out of there i’m draping coats over their shoulders and warming them up
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Jason as those AO3 authors who have the worst tragedies happening to them and yet still continues to pump out his new chapter every week
Some poor, unbeknownst Gothamite: “My favorite fanfic writer hasn’t posted or updated any of their fanfic in like four years. I don’t want to bug them but I’m always hoping for them to come back. I hope their okay :( ”
Jason, in between cutting off right hand mens heads and antagonize black mask, like Really Living It Up: “hey, sorry, guys! I know it’s been forever! I literally died and clawed my way back from zombiehood, but I’m back now! Hope you enjoy this new chapter!”
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How do I put this. Y'all know that a more natural yard doesn't mean you can't mow a smaller area that you actively use, right?
Like idk maybe this is a US centric conversation because around here it's common for people to have enormous stretches of grass they don't even walk on or anything that they keep mowed because that's just what you do
Also it's common to dump huge amounts of herbicides to kill "weeds" and to water these empty stretches of grass all summer, wasting thousands of gallons of water
But there's a persistent misconception that any alternative takes way, way more maintenance. And a lot of it is misunderstanding of ecosystems and how nature fills space. Yes of course if your "flower bed" is neat rows of plants with big empty spaces of mulch in between in direct baking sun, it's going to fill up with weeds constantly.
And people also are unaware that there is potential for a "natural" area to look like anything other than a weedy tick-infested thicket of grass, because they don't get that the thicket of grass is created by a combination of invasive species+being an immediate result of a plot of land trying to recover from ecological devastation. The ultimate goal isn't to get a yard that looks like it hasn't been mowed, the ultimate goal is to replace as much of that empty space as is practical with plants appropriate to your biome
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Happy 29th anniversary of Hellboy getting banned from the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
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Activated charcoal filters will remove some PFAS but they won't be able to get everything. Reverse osmosis treatment is about the best you will be able to get in an affordable home setting.
There's still a lot we don't know about PFAS and it's effects on people and the environment, but we are working.
The biggest problem is that it causes issues at levels heath what we can detect. Activated carbon filters do a fine job of lowering PFAS compounds below the level of detection, but it’s unclear if that’s sufficient- but since we can’t do anymore, no point for normal citizens worrying about it. Scientists, lawmakers, water purveyors should be worrying about it, but they are
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Look, the only difference between the young and the old is EXPERIENCE. While young does not always mean inexperienced, old does not always mean stagnant ideology. We all benefit from listening to one another with open minds.
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underrated take: Both Nightwing and Redhood should be separate from the batfam doing their own things
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Some things you need to know if you really want to be an ally to Jews:
-There is no such thing as a "Semitic people", and if there was, only Jews would be considered "Semitic people", since "antisemitism" was coined specifically as an alternative to the word Judenhasse, which means "Jew-hatred", and specifically to refer to Jews. If "Semites" was a legitimate identity, the only "Semites" would be Jews. People from the Levant who are not Jewish are not "Semitic", and are still very much capable of being antisemitic. In linguistic sense, "Semitic" only refers to a language family, not a cultural identity.
-"Goy" is not a slur. It means "nation", it's literally a word that means "non-Jewish person."
-Only Jews get to define what is and isn't antisemitic. If Jews are saying that something is antisemitic, listen to them.
-Jews are not White People Lite. There are Jews of every skin colour, and even light-skinned Jews can still be subject to racialized antisemitism. Listen to Jews when they say they experience racialized antisemitism.
-Judaism isn't just a religion. It's an ethnoreligion, a tribe, and a peoplehood. There are non-religious Jews. There are atheist Jews. And all Jews experience antisemitism.
-Judaism is a closed practice. Yes, we allow conversion, but it is a long and difficult process, and we do not allow prosletizing. It's like a locked gate where getting the key is extremely difficult.
-Judaism is not Christianity-Lite. Judaism came first, it is an ancient identity and peoplehood independent from Christianity. Christianity appropriated and butchered elements of Judaism.
-There are Jews of every sexuality and gender identity, and we have a long history of gender diversity and non-heteronormative sexuality. Include LGBTQ Jews in your activism.
-The Holocaust isn't your metaphor or comparison tool.
-Antisemitism has been around for thousands of years and it's still extremely prevalent and rising today.
-The Jewish community is a diverse, multi-faceted community. There are so many ways to be Jewish and so many ways to express one's Jewish identity. No two Jews are the same, but we are united by our shared history, heritage, and identity.
Thank you for taking the steps to being a true ally to Jewish people.
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I’d like to add, not all Jewish mysticism and lore applies to Christianity, and so it is EXTREMELY possible to appropriate from Judaism. Lilith, golems, and Kabbalah are most commonly appropriated. They are Judaism-specific and have nothing to do with Christianity.
YES
Also the Hebrew alphabet isn't a "mysterious, occult alphabet" like I've seen some neo-pagans and witches treat it, and then of course use it for the ~aesthetic~.
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Why do you say "do not repost" your art? Unless it's paysite material I mostly ignore that line. I mean, reblogs & re-tweets technically count as a art repost so that makes "do not repost" invalid. If you don't want your art out there don't post it to the internet. Not trying to come off as mean, that's just the mindset I have. Once you posts something to the internet... it's out there.
…… hm.
when i say “do not repost” i mean, do not:
- save my art to your computer
- reupload it to your own social media site, especially without credit
- exploit my my art so you can become more popular/get more attention/etc
reblogging/retweeting is not the same as reposting. those actually allow the artist to keep ownership of their own art as it gets spread around. they are different things.
it’s not that i don’t want my art to be on the internet. that’s why i post it. but i don’t want OTHER people taking credit for MY art and the hard work i put into it. i have a store where i sell my art. having people repost my art to their own sites literally takes money away from me. because people don’t know that I’M the artist who drew it, then they don’t know about my store, and instead consume my art mainly through websites that repost my art for their own amusement or profit.
do you know how many japanese artists have deleted their pixiv/twitter accounts because people kept reposting their art without permission, OR credit, and have even profited from stealing their work? so much art is floating out there without an owner because the japanese artists were harassed so much due to their art constantly being reposted without any credit to them, that they had to disappear from the internet just so they could keep ownership of the rest of their art.
do you know how many people found my art through pinterest? i’ve gotten so many messages from people saying they found my art there, and it took them anywhere from days to WEEKS to find me and my blog, because most, if not all of it was posted 1. without credit, or 2, without a link back to the original, because the pinterest user reuploaded it from their own computer.
do you know how many people try to apply for jobs with their art, but can’t seem to claim ownership of their own portfolio because it’s been so spread out and reposted everywhere on the internet, that companies can’t be sure that the person they’re interviewing is the actual artist themself?
i don’t think you understand just how detrimental reposting is to artists. and i don’t think you understand how important it is for people to respect artists’ wishes. my art is not yours to use for your own amusement. there is a reason why most websites have a dmca report option, to take down unauthorized use of their art. even the law recognizes it as a personal right.
i do want my art to be shown to the world, but under my own terms. i want my wishes in regards to my art to be respected. you are not doing me any favors by reposting my art onto other sites without permission or credit. just the opposite, in fact–your hurting me personally, financially, and possibly hurting my chances of earning a job with my art.
so in conclusion, here are the dangers of reposting:
- the artists loses ownership of their art
- no one knows who made it anymore, and don’t care
- the artists stop making art because all that happens is their art gets reposted without a source, and so they prefer to disappear off the internet entirely. the world has now just lost an amazing artist.
- people make a profit off their art, literally stealing money and potential customers from them, because no one knows where the art originated from
- they lose job opportunities because the reposting and art theft is so ubiquitous, that even if they are the original artist, no one can be sure of that.
etc.
reposting is detrimental. it’s not the same thing as reblogging/retweeting, it’s something that literally harms artists in the long run.
at the end of the day, the biggest way to prevent this from happening is by respecting the artist’s wishes with some basic human decency. that’s literally it.
i hope i’ve cleared some things up for you.
at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:
like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"
and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.
#dendarii.orig#dendarii.txt#16th#August#2022#August 16th 2022#okay but who is he texting? do he and uhura have a chat in japanese for compaining/making fun of their coworkers?#is he announcing chekov's problems to the entire ship?#or is he just fullblown doing this on the universe wide web for everyone in the federation to see#tos
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Prompt Poll is now open!
Alright, the poll for this year's prompts is up and running! Thank you to everyone who submitted prompts! The poll will be open through Tuesday, the 16th, 11:59PM PST.
A reminder to please only vote once, to be fair to everyone else participating, and if you have any questions, go ahead and send us an Ask!
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I remember in middle school and high school before I went on HRT I would have bouts of depression over the idea of leaving the house and being perceived as a gender I wasn’t or of being misgendered/outed to other people (as I was still stealth at the time). So yeah, I agree. I never see people talking about it and it’s a very real and alienating experience.
Even if you’re like me and stubbornly insist upon leaving the house regularly anyways there’s likely activities you either avoid or dread doing.
I had to give up swimming, basically. And I loved swimming. And going to certain parts of town. There’s degrees of extremity to this problem and no matter how “bad” it is for you it’s okay to be upset about it.
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On the Collapse of HBO Max and the Importance of Physical Media
This article is a great articulation of a problem I have noticed increasingly over the past couple of years. As more and more movies and shows simply are not released on physical media, I’ve waited for something like the collapse of HBO Max to highlight a huge problem: we are no longer able to own our entertainment. Streaming is, at its most basic, a rental. We pay to rent, and that’s if we have a high-quality and stable internet connection. Those who lack internet are basically shit out of luck for entertainment.
And more than that, when a streaming service suddenly vanishes, or merges with another and does a purge of their shows and movies, those shows and movies simply … vanish. They no longer exist unless some enterprising individual pirates it. At that point, the only way to access a piece of art is through illegality.
And this is why I’ve been so angry about the ‘phasing out’ of physical media. If I like a show, let me buy the season. I’m fine paying more for the boxed set of physical media that I then own, no matter what the platform that originally hosted it does after. Let me take those shows with me even if I go to a place without internet. Let me get special features and lovingly crafted DVDs that give me behind-the-scenes peeks whenever I want. Ditching physical media puts us all at the mercy of giant media conglomerates, begging them to let us watch something we have paid for many times over. And they can take it away whenever they want. So buy DVDs or Blu-Ray or whatever you like. But make sure you shore up your collection of the things you love, and never trust a media company. They’ll drop you the second they feel like they’ve pumped enough money out of you.
Very very good points.
Personally I don’t particularly care about owning, but I care very much about accessing and preserving. This is culture we’re talking about, and we’re letting it get thrown into the trash whenever a copyright monopoly feels that it threatens the profits of their newest acquisition (because the old competes with the new, right?). Today, we have technologies that allow for the most comprehensive preservation of human culture in history, and our laws let it get buried and destroyed instead.
Our laws need fixing. Monopolies shouldn’t exist at all. Creators can’t negotiate with these behemoths, they sign the dotted line and take whatever they’re given, which is underwhelming compensation for their work but more importantly, complete loss of control. Control goes to the monopoly. But no one should control culture.
Here’s a quick and dirty fix for works disappearing from streaming services: distributors and publishers should never retain the copyright of works they removed from circulation. It should immediately revert to the creators, and they can republish it in some other way (or release it to the public domain if they can’t be bothered).
That doesn’t fix everything. For example, Amazon fucks over the authors of e-books and audiobooks precisely because digital books are perpetually in circulation, so they can’t renegotiate their deal ever. And if Amazon chose to bury their works via algorithm, or if for whatever reason they’re not satisfied, they can’t go to another publisher. Ever. Amazon fully controls their works, until they die and for decades after.
(With physical books, copyright – the right to copy – reverts automatically to the author when the publisher doesn’t publish – doesn’t copy – the book any more, presumably because they don’t think it’ll sell. Printing and distributing a book IS a big deal, it takes effort and time and money. Not deleting a file from your servers takes no effort at all. Fuck Amazon, and fuck the laws that allow it to shaft authors like that. Fuck copyright law in general.)
As for DVDs and assorted physical media, I think they’re useful but not strictly necessary. The servers of archival projects (and their mirrors), and our hard disks (and their backups) are more than enough to preserve anything in digital format, as long as we don’t delete it, and continue copying it and sharing it and converting it to new formats when needed.
tl,dr; As long as the law allows monopolies to form and to control copyrighted works, they will do exactly that. This can’t be solved by “better” companies. It can be helped by better national laws and international treaties (TRIPS is a global fuckup, even if American lobbyists drafted it). Until then, support archives, and please keep torrents alive, especially torrents of things out of circulation, hard to find, etc.