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old team 7 drawing u-u

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belated holiday countdown five [powered by patreon]

AND FINALLY weve reached the end of this , there were only 5 ideas overall so it didnt run for the full 7 but literally Everyone wanted candlenights shenanigans 

and tbh im glad i ran long a bit ?? because none of the candlenights requests were specific and then i could draw some of the tacoma liveshow nonsense ??? this was just genius and griffin is still a total gremlin jfdkjsgjfkdfj

plus a bonus holiday garyl :L

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Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

I hope this helps, and happy writing!  <3

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“lol the only people mad about the tumblr announcement just want porn lol”

Yeah, no.

Tumblr blocked the tag “chronic pain” in this mess for no reason

They’re flagging commonly used tags by queer people, sex educators, and artists who make their fucking LIVING on tumblr

They’re gonna take down genuine sex workers because they didn’t curb the problem with spamming porn bots YEARS ago when tumblr users REPORTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND *OVER* that it was a problem

Tumblr IGNORED the bots, IGNORED the problems, and honestly treated it like NOTHING until their app was taken off a store due to it.

They’re fucking over a shit-ton of REAL PEOPLE who rely on tumblr for community and/or income because they ignored users’ complaints about shitty porn bots for YEARS until it had financial consequences

I can no longer even talk about chronic pain without the post being blocked from searches

I have drawn one or two nude pieces on my art tumblr which is 99% safe for work but now I’m worried the blog will be taken down entirely because Tumblr won’t bother differentiating between spam and REAL PEOPLE just trying to live their goddamn lives

And god forbid I want to talk about bisexuality or sex or kink in just… MY LIFE. As a normal-ass human being who just wants to TALK ABOUT HUMAN THINGS

No, their solution to nuke a problem they’ve ignored for years is to take us all down at once

So maybe don’t laugh about “oh no not my pornz” because 1. plenty of that ~porn~ is made by actual humans making their living and 2. WAY MORE than “just porn” is being targeted

This along with Facebook continuously upholding white supremacy by letting nazi shit fly by while they ban people for speaking out against their oppressors and it’s basically like we’re running out of truly free places to just… BE

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its only been out for 2 hours but im pretty confident on how im gonna spend the next 3 to 60 hours so leave me alone

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Day One: Not enough energy

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If there ever was a moment that proved how important the AO3 is, tonight was that very moment. 

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"Same-sex romantic content will be far more likely to be remove" meaning the art of Steven Universe of the gems and content in general will it be removed and content from the new She-ra, which both shows does have lbgt and queer themes in them?

this won’t be official policy or anything but it will probably be the aggregate effect, yes.

why does this happen, you ask?

because the site rules are enforced by humans, and humans … are not very good at being 100% fair or unbiased. (at least, not when we’re acting in large numbers. any one person could be good at it, but the likelihood that most of a group is good at fairness drops as the group gets bigger.)

thus, Even when we’re trying to be unbiased:

material that’s potentially in violation of the tumblr TOS featuring subjects that are not ‘default’ (NOT straight, cis, perisex, white, able-bodied, healthy, etc) have a greater chance of being noticed and reported. it’s more ‘visible’ because of a combined effect of ‘this might be a violation’ and the brain’s increased awareness when something is 'out of the ordinary’. if straight-cis-white is 'ordinary’: things that aren’t straight-cis-white grab our attention, and are that much more likely to be scrutinized for violations of the TOS. (see: fandom’s tendency to go after media that isn’t mediocre whitebread content for failing to be 'good enough’.)

this is severely compounded by:

 a lack of internal awareness of privilege/bias/etc amongst those who hold the majority opinion. (it’s the majority opinion because the majority holds that opinion.) if the majority is biased against something, that thing is more likely to get reported as a problem by people who don’t even acknowledge that they’re biased against it.

not to mention:

people who will participate in deliberately biased & malicious reporting. there’s plenty of people who are openly racist, openly homophobes, openly transphobes, etc. you think they won’t take special time to go after TOS violations from content that they openly loathe? because they do - and they will continue to do so.

why this happens in America/on American platforms in particular:

at the admin level: in America, the higher up the management ladder you go, the more likely the people making the decisions are straight white cis guys who do not have a strong awareness of their own privilege and/or bias against people who don’t share their privilege.  These are the people who will be responsible for writing & enforcing the rules for nsfw content at Oath and/or Tumblr. they are likely to be unconsciously biased towards content that they personally like and against content they personally don’t like, so in aggregate, their decisions will be more likely to favor straight white cis guy tastes & enjoyments.

at the cultural level: America is obsessive about keeping sexual content from 'the children’ than violent content, because our cultural values are very much rooted in puritanial Christian morality. We also still have a lot of racism, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, sexism, etc. baked directly into our culture. so if something can be concievably argued as a threat to preserving the innocence/sexual ignorance of a puritanical, white Christian kid, then it has much higher potential to be flagged as n sfw. (of course, this means LGBTQ+ content (romantic or otherwise) and non-white content is more likely to be tagged as in violation of the TOS.)

tl;dr: even if every single person moderating tumblr was acting with the best intentions, trying to be 100% fair and reporting/acting without bias, the drift will be towards creating a sexually chaste, LGBTQ+-unfriendly, white-centric, and cis-bodied/perisex only space as everything else gets reported more often as a problem and purged off the site.

that’s why censorship enforces baked-in privilege in brief, folx.

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Its irritating that people are acting like people are being annoyed they’ll no longer be able to jack off on this site and not that this site is notorious for implementing new features in inventive and appalling ways; their last “fix” less than a month ago resulted in 1000s of users having their accounts taken away despite having done nothing

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Where That Candy Thong At?

It’s here! So, update: all pre-orders have shipped and the PDFs have gone out. To top that delicious cake you’re surely nomming at, we have some good news! We raised a total of $388.60 for charity!

That’s not all. We have 24 physical copies left on our shelves and while the Final Boss loves all of it, we would like to share it with y’all. Please reblog this post for a chance at winning one of these spare copies (plus shipping) on us, and!–one of the twenty-four spare copy buyers will receive the last Azreto Body Pillowcase at no extra charge. ;)

Small-Text Notes: profit made from the extras will become a second donation to the same charity. Both U.S. and International peeps who reblog / make a purchase have a shot at winning the spare copy and body pillow.

A big special thank you for making this charity nsfw zine a success! You can visit our store here.

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Taako and Lup also buy those “best friends” heart necklaces but they have to buy two pairs because they can’t decide who gets the one with “best” on it so it’s like

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🍭Jester and Sprinkle 🍭

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this weekend, the Tumblr iOS app disappeared from the Apple store. Today, NSFW/adult content blogs are disappearing en masse.

Tumblr’s official word is they’re having ‘a problem’ with the app that they’re working to clean up, but there’s a non-zero chance the two things are related. Apple kicks apps that don’t meet their cleanliness standards out of the store without warning sometimes.  (I suspect that blogs properly tagged nsfw are being purged while non-tagged nsfw blogs remain untouched. hence: the pornbots are here to stay. probably.)

if your blog is nsfw, or you have any nsfw sideblogs, probably time to back them up & brace.

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Been working my ass off making a Dry Bones costume for my son!!! Still in progress, but almost done!

Definitely gonna post him in it when I’m done

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hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

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here’s a handy checklist for anyone considering redeeming a villain!!!

are they…

❏ a wife beater? ❏ sexually abusive? ❏ violent towards small children? ❏ extremely racist? ❏ a goddamn fascist?

if you checked any of these boxes, not only should you not redeem that villain, but I’m also going to come to your house and pour sewer water into your sock drawer for even considering it

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SHSVDJDNDK ART FOR MY BDAY???

I DO NOT DESERVE

ALL MY FAVES PACKED IN ONE SIMPLE PIC; latinx/wavyhair!Kami, scrunchy nose Baku, clothes swap, soft af,,,,

I LOVE YOU UTSU TYSM, you’ve seriously kept me going for this past year and I’m so glad I asked to read your fic that day, you’re one of the best things that’s happened to me in a long time!

ik i got kiss reqs goin and all, but today is one of my best friends’ birthday! 

Happy Birthday B @fortheloveofbmo!!

it’s a really quick thing so it’s uglier than i would’ve preferred, but it’s for u bc ilysm!!