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I did it. After a lifetime of using light mode on all my devices, I switched to dark mode. My eyes just can’t take it anymore, and after a few days of using it, I decided dark mode was actually kind of cozy and nice. So it was time to update my light mode art with a new version!

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reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

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New Huntrix art. All the girlies!

Might be final K-pop demon hunters art in a while.

Might make this a poster soon. :3

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Loved kpdh so obviously had to draw a Sides au for it. Virgil would've been the obvious choice but I think Logan w orange patterns just works✨

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The grasp of lighting and shading is so impressive

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this is also from the style on the rise zine! the girlies are on a night out, going shopping :]

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Tens of thousands of notes on a post claiming a bill introduced by the Republicans will make credit card companies support NSFW content, and only a handful going "hey maybe don't support this".

Let's look into how the bill is being reported elsewhere - in fact, from the Senator who introduced the Senate version of the Fair Access to Banking Act

"In recent years, prominent American banks have engaged in a discriminatory practice, referred to as debanking. Banks and financial institutions use their economic standing to categorically exclude law-abiding, legal industries by refusing to lend or provide services to them."

Hmm. What industries could he mean?

"This includes industries such as firearms, ammunition, crypto, federal prison contractors, as well as energy producers."

Wow. Who could've guessed that's what he meant

“When progressives failed at banning these entire industries, what they did instead is they turned to weaponizing banks as sort of a backdoor to carry out their activist goals..."

So it is, in fact, a bill around trying to stop left-wing activists from, say, going after oil and gas companies or private prisons or the arms industry

But - surely it would include NSFW bans too, right? It would overturn them, right? If you read the text of the bill, which is deliberately vague as you'd expect, it explicitly allows banks to deny payment based on "quantitative, impartial risk-based standards" - it only bans it for "political" or "reputational risk" considerations. And claims that the adult media industry is "high risk" is why payment processors drop it

But let's see who supports it!

"The Fair Access to Banking Act is endorsed by several organizations, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation, National Rifle Association, North Dakota Petroleum Council, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, The Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Online Lenders Alliance, Day 1 Alliance, GEO Group, Lignite Energy Council, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, National Mining Association, CoreCivic, and the National ATM Council."

Private prison companies, fossil fuel companies, blockchain companies, and the NRA. But surely...? SURELY a bill we're explicitly told again and again is about preventing left-wing activism against private industry, that's co-sponsored by fucking Lindsey Graham, and that certainly seems to include a carve-out specifically to let payment processors continue to deny adult content, but not deny conservative political causes...would secretly be pro-NSFW content?

This bill is all over the internet now, with viral pleas to GET IT PASSED and shutdowns of any criticism of a bill whose real intent is extremely overt. All of this is a simple search away and straight from the horse's mouth, and nobody wants to do even that modicum of research because they would prefer to take someone's word for it that a magic panacea is just a few phone calls away. If you make phone calls asking for this to pass, you're being played: tricked into supporting a bill crafted by the people leading the moral panic that harassed Itch into oblivion that would do nothing to help that, but that would ban any activism against payments for destructive fossil fuel extraction or gun lobbying. The guy who made it just told everyone that's what it's for! Does no one care to look? To read the bill? You can be the one to read it and say it's bad (being the only person to actually read an odious bill is called "Russ Feingold-ing")

Looking up the talk about this bill one theme I saw a lot was people dismissing anyone pointing out a Republican introduced it by saying "I don't care who introduced it! AS LONG AS SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING!!!!" But you know what? If you saw that a Republican introduced the bill, and your reaction was to go "wow, so a Republican introduced a bill to protect adult content?" without even a pang of skepticism...I have no words tbh

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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

This is such a wild story like holy shit dude

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I was legally obligated to make at least one piece of art for Narumitsu week (jk I love them and I love drawing them) 💙❤️

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This is what it sounds like

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Only thought about this for a few minutes so there's still things to work out but like

Consider the movie opening differently and we don't really get a clear glimpse of the doomed timeline, but we still see someone (or two) go through a time portal, one of them arriving in the present. And they have on the hockey mask and plenty of armor so definitely has tmnt casey vibes but no identifiers otherwise.

And the rest of the movie plot still mostly happens, thought the turtles are far more suspicious of this person from the future who won't show them they're face and okay yeah maybe they're name is Casey but plenty of people are named that

Again don't have the fine details of how some things might be tweaked or changed cause I've only thought on this for so long but her identity isn't revealed until the end when Junior plops out of a portal and she's like "About time you got here. I told Orange these portals were unreliable at best." And the turts are like "Okay seriously who tf are you." So she shows them, then asks that they try not to let her present self find out.

Maybe she finds out anyway idk, Let's have three Caseys running around, win.

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Cassandra Jones doodles because i love her a lot and she deserves much more love

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setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

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the Freedom Flotilla is back for another voyage to end the illegal blockade of Gaza!!!!

just like last time, you can track their voyage. on the ff website are also listed other ways you can help.

please follow the freedom flotilla and share the message, they need everyone's participation

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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NO MORE ZERO COMMENTS BINGO EVENT!!!

Hi everyone!!! As you all know, I'm going away for a week, but I didn't want to leave you with nothing to do, so @circus-complex and I have made a bingo card for you all to do!

The rules are simple. Leave a comment on a fic that has no comments and fits one of the criteria on the bingo card. This time, you can only use a fic for one square each, so if you get a full house you will have left 16 comments!

Post your bingo card with the hashtag #nomorezerocommentsbingo and tag this blog, and I'll reblog as many as I can. Have fun! If you have any questions, absolutely feel free to ask.

More information and tips under the cut <3

The prompts are designed to be easy to filter for, but certain criteria may be hard to find for some fandoms. Try fandoms you don't read often or haven't read for a while, or even reading fandom-blind! The challenges are designed to be a little harder, and are not required to get a full house.

If English is not your native language but you normally read in English, reading in English still counts towards the bonus challenge. Fics translated into your native language do not count.

If you have commented on every single fic you have ever read (or there are no fics you've read previously that have no comments), leave a comment on any fic you've read before and I'll let it count because I'm nice like that

We chose 2015 as the 'read before' cut off because that's the year I (the admin) started writing fic!

"50 or less fics in the tag" can be a character, relationship or fandom tag.

A lot of people struggled to read 10k word fics for the last bingo card, so hopefully 5k will be easier for everyone!

A crossover fic should be a crossover between two distinct fandoms. For example, a crossover between two different Star Wars properties doesn't count, but a Star Wars x Batman crossover would.

"Not from the spreadsheet" is any no comment fic you found on your own without looking at the spreadsheet. It can be by an author who is on the spreadsheet but doesn't have that specific fic on there.

If a fic had zero comments when you decided to read it for this challenge, but by the time you finish it has received a comment, then I'll let that count too.

Hopefully this is enough information for you all, but please ask if you have any questions or need clarification <3

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I saw this drawing of a Sonic O.C. created by Julia Kaye on tumblr and thought it was hilarious. Then I saw that Sonic Prime voice actor Deven Mack himself voiced a line-read!

So of course I had to do the next best thing and animate it!

Enjoy!

If you wanna watch this on YouTube the link is here!