#A PSA from the mod

[cleminthewriter]

Message From The Sitcom Au Discord Mods: In Regards to Having Pastra in Aus

Hello, I know recently a lot of us have been excited about our aus, which is a wonderful thing, and have been including pastra in them (I do not take innocence in this), but after recent dissaproval from the Pastra mods, we have decided it would be best to stop making aus with Pastra. In the eyes of the fandom, the personalitly and real person are very much the same, and turning a real person into a character without consent can have dangerous consequences. It's still wonderful we are being creative, but Pastra is a real person. There's no one person to blame, a lot of us just got to excited and accidentally went too far. Let's all stop aus involving Pastra the creator, or at least shelf them until they can be reworked to not have real people."

[correct-hermitcraft-quotes]

“I will give you one fish for your unwavering loyalty” - Grian

[akito-shinonome-daily]

hey what abt chibi akito on the trick (alex g) album cover please?

➥ AKITO!!!!

[welcometotheravenclawcommonroom]

Things they teach you in middle school science class: the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!

Things they SHOULD teach you in science class: do NOT mix cleaning chemicals or you will chloroform yourself (or worse)

[noncanon-fictionkin]

Bigoted assholes like you have no business running blogs.

holy shit, we got our first hate message! i could have totally ignored it, but i'm a little bitch for attention & thus decided to indulge you. in any case, i highly encourage you to come off anon & say this to our faces. preferably while elaborating on what the fuck are you talking about. if you're gonna talk bullshit make it make sense, you know? hugs & kisses, mod star.

edit by mod blue:

literally hop of our dicks. if youre gonna go out of your way to call us bigots, at least be creative with it. or idk make it make sense. hope you have the day you deserve.

love, mod blue <3

[habitual-creatures]

OKAY- GOOD VIBE KINDA KILLED FOR A MOMENT-

I ALMOST just had to break into a car to save a dog that had been left in there (( didn't because owner came back but I did tell them to do WAY FUCKING BETTER )) and that FUCKING SICKENS ME.

You should NOT bring your dog if you know you're going to make multiple stops AND go INTO STORES with NO ONE TO SUPERVISE AND TAKE CARE OF THE DOG when it is HOT OUTSIDE (( or ANY temperature for that matter! DON'T FUCKING LEAVE UNATTENDED DOGS* IN CARS! YOU COULD KILL THEM! ))

*this extends to BABIES and KIDS and OTHER PETS too!! DON'T LEAVE LIVING THINGS IN A CAR UNATTENDED!*

I may not be a firm believer in "Hell" but there is sure as FUCK a SPECIAL PLACE IN IT FOR PEOPLE LIKE THAT.

[bktdbkweek]

Hello everyone! Happy event month hehe! I hope you all are as excited as I am for all the incredible works we’re going to be getting so so soon!

As “Barbarian King Katsuki” is absolutely going to be a popular feature, I just wanted to share some things I’ve learned recently!

The term “barbarian” unfortunately has often been used in a derogatory manner to describe real life folk who are indigenous, nomadic, or tribal in any capacity. This has also extended into fictional work as well, meant to contrast “civilized” folk.

While I’m sure many of us (including myself) were maybe not aware of this and have not been using the term in such a way, I thought it would be best to share and educate!

For this reason, any official posts on this page will use “Dragon King Bakugou Katsuki” instead!

This is not mean to be an “I’ll be policing all of you!” type of post, just information I was kindly given! :) I’m aware that the tag is quite popular so any tags for yours works will be under your discretion and will not be “rejected” or not featured

Thank you for reading! 🫶🏽

[valenfield-inspo]

Block Warning

I don't mind ppl blocking this blog, as that is your right on here to curate your experiences but if I find you still managing to reblog my edits, you are getting blocked right on back. I am not up for weird shit this early in 2024.

I just find it unfair as hell as I actually wanted to reblog some of their stuff from before. I really only found out I was blocked b/c months ago I wanted to reblog one of their edits on here but it would not let me reblog it, not even draft it. I tried reblogging their stuff on my main and it let me reblog as normal yet on this blog it wouldn't let me. So I am taking that as a sign that they indeed blocked this blog. Now fast forward some to a few days ago, I found them reblogging an edit of mine and yet I still can't reblog from them, so that's not going to work for me. You cannot reblog stuff from me and then still proceed to have me blocked, nope. Can't have your cake and eat it too, I'm afraid.

[hskinhome]

Can we get a pendulum reading for whether we're a system or a fictionkin?

These two things are not one and the same. You'll know in time if you're a system, and that's a hell I wouldn't wish on anyone to begin with.

Now, if this were phrased differently, Meu or myself would be more inclined to answer because it's possible for parts/alters to have kin or to be confused about whether this kin is a kin or a potential split (i.e. a new fictive).

This question, however, opens us to potential liability for "offering diagnoses" which, as no one on the blog is a licensed therapist or doctor (not that it'd be something we'd offer if that were the case anyways), none of us have the right or justification to do. If you suspect you're a system, please seek out a therapist if you must know. It is not our place to make that determination for you, and we will not do that regardless.

As such, this is a reminder to everyone: Please remember that being a fictive and a system is vastly different from just being kin.

Thank you.

/Mod Eridan

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

(tumblr @changes source for this, for the record)

PSA Regarding Hateful Anons

Tumblr recently made it a requirement for you to be logged in to send asks anonymously. If you receive a hateful ask, don’t publish it - report it to Tumblr. It can be traced back to the user that sent it and with enough reports that person’s account will be suspended.

Share to raise awareness but also to make the clowns who think this behaviour is acceptable think twice before acting brave behind the guise of invisibility.

[lacefuneral]

it's 2024 and people are still accidentally deleting their ENTIRE tumblr accounts while trying to remove a sideblog, so... a PSA.

do not "delete" the sideblog. you have to change the "members" (admins/mods) of the sideblog to zero.

you can either do this by removing yourself from the list of members, or if you want to be extra safe you can add a burner account (ACCOUNT. NOT SIDEBLOG) as one or the members and THEN remove yourself

or, to be even safer, just set the sideblog to "password protected" - which means that no one can view it.

this website is made out of duct tape and it is very likely that if you try to delete a sideblog, you will delete everything.

[correct-hermitcraft-quotes]

impulse, talking about flowers: gasp red!! right next to you!! red!! skizz: well i was too busy looking at your naked body . That didn't come out right . [this is from season 1 of naked and scared from a decade ago sadly i don't remember episode or timestamp]

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[earlgraytay]

Chest binding is a form of body modification.

Like all forms of body modification, it comes with its risks and drawbacks. That does not make binding bad-- but it means you need to be informed about what is and is not safe.

I've gotten a couple of people on my 'don't buy Amazon binders' PSA trying to claim that warning people about the risks of binding is transandrophobic TERF fearmongering. And it's true that TERFs will often overstate the risks of binding to make younger/newer trans guys afraid to try it. But here's the thing.

Binding your chest is like dyeing your hair, or getting a tattoo, or gauging your ears. It's a process that modifies your body for cosmetic and psychological benefits. There are 'right' and 'wrong' ways to do it-- and generally, the 'wrong' ways to do it are the ways that can cause you serious injury.

If you dye your hair with a box kit, it can damage your hair- possibly permanently. You can wind up with hair that's the wrong colour (say, green instead of blonde), you can wind up with frizzy or thin hair, or you can wind up with a permanent bald spot. If you get a tattoo from your friend Steve on his kitchen table with a sewing needle, you can get a tattoo that doesn't look like it should (because of bad ink or technique), you can get permanently scarred, and it can even theoretically kill you from blood poisoning.

These are the 'cheap' ways to get a body mod, and some people still do them. For some people, they even turn out okay! But you are taking a risk when you dye your hair with box colour or when you get a tattoo from your friend Steve. It might be a small risk; it might be a big risk. The people warning you about these things aren't trying to tell you that you should never dye your hair or get tattoos- most of these folks are heavily dyed and pierced, and many of them have made these mistakes! But they're trying to tell you to get body mods in a way that minimizes risk.

Similarly, the people warning you about chest binding being dangerous are generally older transmascs who have messed up with binding in the past. If we tell you, "don't bind with ace bandages" or "don't buy amazon binders" or "don't bind for more than eight hours at a stretch", it's not because we want you to stop binding! It's because we've made these mistakes with binding, or we've seen our friends suffer from the consequences of these mistakes.

Just like your tattoo friends don't want you to die of Steve-induced blood poisoning, your transmasc friends don't want you to break ribs or start getting asthma attacks. You are free to listen, or not-- but we just want you to know what the risks are so you can choose how to live your life.

[mariska]

theres an unintentionally funny non-bad side effect my brain experiences from having to take specific medications to be able to fall asleep at night and that side effect is that, because i have to knock my adhd off the rails Crazy Train By Ozzy Osbourne brain out to get it to shut up enough for me to try to focus on calming routines/learned skills for falling asleep, there is usually a point where im physically in bed but have not started preparing for sleep yet, and because i am literally always in a state of constant panic and stress and physical pain during the day, sometimes i just take a few mins to sit and appreciate the sensation of my brain slowly quieting its naturally loud background noise.

and sometimes i also happen to be partaking in like. one activity like scrolling through tags for things/people/media that i enjoy like i was last night. and i had seen a pic that immediately made me think of one of my ocs, Paige, who is mostly like 1960s-1980s in the main story stuff i've written/created for her over the years, and put it in my oc inspiration tag for her when i reblogged it, and then my immediate next thought was 'OH that reminds me i wanted to save some photos of Marianne Faithfull (cool as hell rock star and actress who was very active in her career/in the public eye in those same eras my character's main story takes place in) as art and writing inspiration reference for Paige since they look pretty visually similar thru that time span and i keep forgetting to do that'. so the idea was that like. i was gonna save maybe 5 photos and that would let Future Me know that i had that thought and could look up more reference photos later at some point.

but because this was middle of the night sleepy chill Mariska. the train of thought de-railed immediately. so. long story short, woke up today and opened my camera roll to find pages upon pages of like every fuckin photo that has been published of this woman in my camera roll

[wyllaztopia]

2025 is coming so i let my friend @kayseeye [new agdt mod and assistant!!] clear agdt's askbox

as devastating as it was to see a bunch of creative remarks and asks go down the drain - let's be real, i won't have time to answer them with how linear the story is becoming for ease of access [goodbye 500 asks... though kacey took screenshots of drawings you guys sent in our inbox!!!]

hooowever, there's also another key reason we had to clear the inbox

[^ satire btw]

very long and convoluted psa/ramble about this matter ahead! but also slightly important and i encourage you to read it if you think about using agdt's inbox as a way to vent or share things about your irl troubles

some people treat the blog's inbox as a venting area

it doesn't really make me uncomfortable, it's just something i prefer not seeing. i don't like sharing or being shared personal information especially from an anon or a stranger

this doesn't go for just agdt - it goes for all blogs you interact with: please don't make yourself vulnerable to a stranger on the internet. you are putting yourself in a dangerous spot.

if you need escapism or help, turn to a professional or someone close - going to a stranger can go horribly wrong in two ways: you make them uncomfortable and subject them to a responsibility they never signed up for, or you let someone use your vulnerabilities and personal information against you.

i can probably count like 100 or so asks of people sharing something overly personal and asking for comfort. i don't hate it, i'm not mad, i'm just worried and i hope the people who send them become aware that they should not send those asks knowing that if they're answered, they could be answered publicly with everyone and their mama being able to see that vulnerable moment in that ask.

"just ignore them, wyll! besides, you didn't have any rules abt yo blog anyway, yo!"

nah, i'd win

can't exactly ignore them when it's been almost a year of young impressionable users over sharing to a stranger who answers asks publicly [along with the fact that i hardly see people talk about this matter when it comes to rp/ask blogs.] also so they don't do this to another askblog that has another impressionable youngin running it and publicizes asks that contain personal life info.

we don't add rules to asks on agdt because we can pick and choose which ones we answer. a set of rules isn't going to stop an asshole from breaking them so i'm not wasting my time trying to enforce one. and that's not what i'm trying to do in this post either. i'm putting this out there because i don't want people making the irrational decision of making their life and weakest moments accessible to people who want to use it against them.

i'm not trying to make a big deal out of this either. i can just skip or delete asks that i know i shouldn't answer or won't be able to. but that's my side of responsibility as someone with a platform. i want to make it clear that the audience that decides to interact with these kinds of blogs should be aware that just because you're behind a screen and concealed by an internet persona, that doesn't mean you're any safer from other people using your vulnerabilities against you.

[lexosaurus]

PSA to those interested in DPxDC Crossover Content

Reminder that, as per the Danny Phantom x DC discord stated rules, the official tag that the crossover fandom operates under is DPxDC with NO spaces. This is because Tumblr filters do a bad job when it comes to spaces and often get confused.

If you wish to participate in the dpxdc fandom, please tag all your content accordingly, and DPxDC server mods have advised people to avoid using the DC tag and the Danny Phantom tag. This is because the dpxdc fandom entirely overpowers the danny phantom fandom in sheer numbers alone, and it is in fact so big with so much lore that it's really a separate entity from both DP and DC. And tagging properly reduces unwanted flooding to the separate fandoms.

If you have any questions, please refer to this awesome tagging guide made by @ectoentity about the dpxdc fandom and tags. And as mentioned previously, there is a huge DPxDC discord server you can join if you're interested. You can DM the mod-operated blog for an invite: @batpham-discord-highlights (all the mods for this server are awesome, real tea)

have fun!