#AMA!

[molinaskies]

in your educated view, what is the Sonic Cast’s go to coffee order?

LOVE THIS LOL

Sonic: latte

Tails: triple-triple (Canadian for a brewed coffee with three sugars and three creams)

Knuckles: black with a moderate amount of sugar

Amy: tea latte (not coffee, I know, but I don’t think she’d like coffee!)

Shadow: coffee beans to chew on (allegedly… I’d at least give him an espresso or an americano)

Rouge: mocha

Eggman: black dark roast

Cream: no thank you, sir

Vector: one cream and honey (don’t tell Charmy)

Espio: abstains because it makes him jittery and therefore a bad ninja

Charmy: EWW COFFEE

[batdiangelo]

SoTFD Ask Game!

Adapted from @stephofromcabin12, I present to you, my rendition of the Ask Game™

Send in the following, and I’ll reply accordingly:

��: Give a random fun fact about a character (canon or OC! Please specify which)

🩻:give me an Out of Context CapCut meme

⚰️:give me a random PJO!Sona Lore Drop!

💻:out of context [insert Fic Title] line! (Please specify which fic!)

🗣️: Write a blurb about [OC] (please specify which oc)

🤍: random song that fits [Character/OC/Fic] (please specify which!)

😎:give me a SoTFD meme!

🫥:give me behind the scenes peak!

🌈:Make a new oc! Using only three words [please include 3 words]

🪐:give me Fic recs!

✨:Shout out my fics!

⭐️:give me random headcanons on the gods!

🍪:Give me random mortal parent headcanons

🏛️:give me random Cabins headcanons!

🔏:Make AJ write for 10 minutes

✂️:share a line of dialogue that’s been cut from SoTFD

🖋️:Share a Line of Dialogue in SoTFD

🧸:write a blurb about [Character/OC] as a child!

⚔️:Give me an out of context SoTFD spoiler (meme format only)

⏱️:write as many words as you can in [specified amount of time]!

🤔:Tell me your projected plans for SoTFD!

🍕:Share [Character/OC’s] favorite foods!

🌻:Got any advice for [topic]? (I’m not the best at advice but I’m the dad friend so I’ll try my best!)

🥀:give me an out of context ANGSTY SoTFD meme

🍀:Tell me about your writing process!

🦋:apply the butterfly effect to [Character/OC]

💙:favorite RRverse moment?

💜:Least favorite RRverse moment?

✏️:one moment you’d change in the RRverse?

🔎:Share some of the canon divergences you’ve taken

📸:share a photo from your Pinterest that fits [Fic title/Character/OC]’s Aesthetic

🎥:Who would you fancast for [OC]?

🎮:give me some game night headcanons!

🖍️:show us some of your art!

📖:got any book recommendations?

🎤:give me one song that helps you write!

🎰:Spin The OC Wheel ™, and tell me a cool fact abt whomever it lands on!

🃏:Wild Card; you come up with a random question for me to answer!

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I’ll probably add more later, but here’s some to start out with!

I’ll start answering them as soon as I can!

[takeariskao3]

Can you write a Dobby/Ginny fic for me?

ask me anything!

"Miss Weasley has given Dobby a condom?"

Ginny stared at the elf with wide eyes. She thought she'd given him a butterscotch. Maybe she'd had too much firewhisky after all.

"Dobby is flattered, Miss, but..."

"Fuck's sake!" Ginny snatched the wrapper back, her face heating to about a thousand degrees.

"Hey, Dobby–" a voice sounded from just over Ginny's left shoulder.

"Harry Potter!" squeaked the elf. "Dobby had no intentions of stealing the object of your affections–"

Harry choked on his butterbeer at the same time Ginny cried, "What?"

"Yeah, Dobby?" Harry coughed. "What!?"

A pointed looked passed between boy and elf, and unfortunately, Ginny was a bit too tipsy to decipher it. Damn Slytherin for being so monumentally easy to beat which gave Gryffindor ample excuse to celebrate.

"Dobby will be going now!" he announced with painstaking awkwardness. "Only wanted to wish Harry Potter congratulations on the match. Goodbye!"

And with a loud crack, the house-elf disappeared. Ginny looked left in bewilderment, only to find Harry had vanished just as quickly. She caught the back of his head moving through the crowd.

The tips of his ears were pink.

[hubcaphalo]

3 and 30 from the ask list!

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

Clue, The Fall, While You Were Sleeping, all of which I have seen many, many, MANY times already, lol

30. what's one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

This song. There's a reason it saved all of New York 🗽

from 'questions I think would be fun to be asked'

[the-everqueen]

favorite ice cream flavor? 👀

in general: mint chocolate chip! pero like my usual move when going to an ice cream parlor is to find the "weirdest" flavor on the menu and trying that. memorable flavors in that vein have included basil, caramelized banana, and goat cheese cherry habenero. also i'm slowly working my way through Jeni's more interesting options (lemon-blueberry parfait has been a favorite).

[applepi1101]

accidentally sailor moonified my girlie <33

[theragethatisdesire]

I THINK THESE ARE SO CUTE SO SORRY TO COME BACK TO LIFE WITH NO WARNING BUT PLEASE!

let's chat, i miss u guys and i've been writing all day so i'm too braindead to do headcanons <3 lololol

or just come into my inbox and say hello.....

 ﹟random get-to-know-me ask game  !! 

orchid ⇢ what’s a song you consider to be perfect?

cactus ⇢ something you’re currently learning (about)?

bamboo ⇢ do you change into a different outfit when you get home?

abelia ⇢ do you have a particular piece of jewelry you always wear or can’t part with?

daffodil ⇢ do you have siblings? if yes, in what ways do you think you’re similar to or different from them?

mahonia ⇢ what place, thing, activity inspires you most and how do you express yourself when it does?

chia ⇢ what’s an inside joke you have with someone else?

sage ⇢ what ‘medium’ of art (poetry, music, fiction, paintings, statues etc.) is the most touching to you? why do you think that is?

edelweiss ⇢ how’d you think of your url/username? what’s it associated with to you?

camellia ⇢ what were you like when you were younger? do you think you’ve changed a lot?

jasmine ⇢ do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?

ivy ⇢ what are your ‘tells’ for your emotions and moods? how can someone tell you’re happy, annoyed, upset or tired?

chamomile ⇢ what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?

aloe vera ⇢ what’s something (mundane) you really want to experience in life?

palm tree ⇢ do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

nutmeg ⇢ how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

papyrus ⇢ if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?

taro ⇢ if someone called you right now to catch up, what’re the things you’d tell them about?

[feral-ballad]

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

[photomatt]

You gonna do anything or make any statement about the rampant transmisogyny on this hellsite, especially in cases like predstrogen recently? Or yall gonna stay silent and keep letting/making us get pushed off of it.

I have a number of asks about this, so this is to address all of them, I won't do each individually.

We generally do not comment on individual cases, but because there seems to be mass misinformation around this, I will make an exception and comment on predstrogen.

First, Tumblr has a number of LGBT+ including trans people on staff, and they see things from the inside fully, and they're not protesting this case.

Why do we wrongly have a transphobe reputation? We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation (and also selling moderation, criminally). As soon as we were aware that person was fired, and we later terminated the entire relationship with that contracting firm and have brought almost everything in-house (at great cost). I have previously commented on this publicly, several times.

I am not aware of any Automattician (people who work at Automattic and Tumblr) who has made any transphobic moderation actions. If it's reported it is investigated immediately, if anything were found that person would be terminated for cause immediately.

Predstrogen's account was suspended for:

Repeated mis-tagging of adult content against Tumblr's community guidelines. This has nothing to do with clothed transition photos, she had 20+ other blogs and multiple accounts with names so explicit I can't post them here without a mature tag.

Multiple cases of harassment of other Tumblr users, not just me.

Multiple threats of violence, not just the one I share below.

These represent a breach of our Terms of Service, and we've exercised our right to refuse service.

Threats of violence are never okay. Threats of violence are not protected speech. We will work with police and FBI where appropriate, though to be clear prestrogen's case hasn't warranted that so far. I'm referring to what we may potentially do for other threats. I just got a death threat yesterday from someone mad about predstrogen, and that account was immediately terminated.

So regardless of whether you still think Tumblr staff is somehow a bunch of transphobes, know that threats of violence or death are still not acceptable and will result in immediate and serious action. Know that when you rile people up, they can do dumb things with possibly permanent consequences.

(2 hours later update: I have changed instances of the pronoun "they" or "their" to "the account" because I am unaware of pronoun preference in this instance and don't want to misgender anyone. Thank you for the people who reported this as an issue. Update 2: "She" is apparently better, the post now says that. Sorry for the mistake.)

Here's one (of many!) examples of the harassment violations, this one targets me but there are others targeting other users on the site.

The second part seems to indicate she wanted to be suspended, I'm unaware of why, perhaps to create this sort of uproar. I agree the hammers feel silly, but the start, "i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death" is a violation of Tumblr's community guidelines and terms of service.

The car part did hit close to home as I have almost died twice in car accidents.

Update 2: Added this text to the adult content part: This has nothing to do with clothed transition photos, she had 20+ other blogs and multiple accounts with names so explicit I can't post them here without a mature tag.

[genericpuff]

Tbh at this point you should just make your own webcomic app/website because it would probably be 100 times better than whatever going on with webtoon right now.

hahaha it wouldn't tho, sorry 💀

Here's the fundamental issue with webcomic platforms that a lot of people just don't realize (and why they're so difficult to run successfully):

Storage costs are incredibly expensive, it's why so many sites have limitations on file sizes / page sizes / etc. because all of those images and site info have to be stored somewhere, which costs $$$.

Maintenance costs are expensive and get more so as you grow, you need people who are capable of fixing bugs ASAP and managing the servers and site itself

Financially speaking, webcomics are in a state of high supply, low demand. Loads of artists are willing to create their passion projects, but getting people to read them and pay for them is a whole other issue. Demand is high in the general sense that once people get attached to a webtoon they'll demand more, but many people aren't actually willing to go looking for new stuff to read and depend more on what sites feed them (and what they already like). There are a lot of comics to go around and thus a lot of competition with a limited audience of people willing to actually pay for them.

Trying to build a new platform from the ground up is incredibly difficult and a majority of sites fail within their first year. Not only do you have to convince artists to take a chance on your platform, you have to convince readers to come. Readers won't come if there isn't work on the platform to read, but artists won't come if they don't think the site will be worth it due to low traffic numbers. This is why the artists with large followings who are willing to take chances on the smaller sites are crucial, but that's only if you can convince them to use the site in favor of (or alongside) whatever platform they're using already where the majority of their audience lies. For many creators it's just not worth the time, energy, or risk.

Even if you find short-term success, in the long-term there are always going to be profit margins to maintain. The more users you pull in, the more storage is used by incoming artists, the more you have to spend on storage and server maintenance costs, and that means either taking the risk at crowdfunding (ex. ComicFury) or having to resort to outsider investments (ex. Tapas). Look at SmackJeeves, it used to be a titan in the independent webcomic hosting community, until it folded over to a buyout by NHN and then was pretty much immediately shuttered due to NHN basically turning it into a manwha scanlation site and driving away its entire userbase. And if you don't get bought out and try your hand at crowdfunding, you may just wind up living on a lifeline that could cut out at any moment, like what happened to Inkblazers (fun fact, the death of Inkblazers was what kicked off the cultural shift in Tapas around 2015-16 when all of IB's users migrated over and brought their work with them which was more aimed towards the BL and romancee drama community, rather than the comedy / gag-a-day culture that Tapas had made itself known for... now you deadass can't tell Tapas apart from a lot of scanlation sites because it got bought out by Kakao and kept putting all of its eggs into the isekai/romance drama basket.)

Right now the mindset in which artists and readers are operating is that they're trying way, way too hard to find a "one size fits all" site. Readers want a place where they can find all their favorite webtoons without much effort, artists wants a place where they can post to an audience of thousands, and both sides want a community that will feel tight-knit. But the reality is that you can't really have all three of those things, not on one site. Something always winds up having to be sacrificed - if a site grows big enough, it'll have to start seeking more funding while also cutting costs which will result in features becoming paywall'd, intrusive ads, creators losing their freedom, and/or outsider support which often results in the platform losing its core identity and alienating its tight-knit community.

If I had to describe what I'm talking about in a "pick one" graphic, it would look something like this:

(*note: this is mostly based on my own observations from using all of these sites at some point or another, they're not necessarily entirely accurate to the statistical performance of each site, I can only glean so much from experience and traffic trackers LMAO that said I did ask some comic pals for input and they were very helpful in helping me adjust it with their own takes <3).

The homogenization of the Internet has really whipped people into submission for the "big sites" that offer "everything", but that's never been the Internet, it relies on being multi-faceted and offering different spaces for different purposes. And we're seeing that ideology falter through the enshittification of sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where users are at odds with the platforms because the platforms are gutting features in an attempt to satisfy shareholders whom without the platforms would not exist. Like, most of us aren't paying money to use social media sites / comic platform sites, so where else are they gonna make the necessary funds to keep these sites running? Selling ad space and locking features behind paywalls.

And this is especially true for a lot of budding sites that don't have the audience to support them via crowdfunding but also don't have the leverage to ask for investments - so unless they get really REALLY lucky in EITHER of those departments, they're gonna be operating at a loss, and even once they do achieve either of those things there are gonna be issues in the site's longevity, whether it be dying from lack of growing crowdfunding support or dying from shareholder meddling.

So what can we do?

We can learn how to take our independence back. We don't have to stop using these big platforms altogether as they do have things to offer in their own way, particularly their large audience sizes and dipping into other demographics that might not be reachable from certain sites - but we gotta learn that no single site is going to satisfy every wish we have and we have to be willing to learn the skills necessary to running our own spaces again. Pick up HTML/CSS, get to know other people who know HTML/CSS if you can't grasp it (it's me, I can't grasp it LOL), be willing to take a chance on those "smaller sites" and don't write them off entirely as spaces that can be beneficial to you just because they don't have large numbers or because they don't offer rewards programs. And if you have a really polished piece of work in your hands, look into agencies and publishing houses that specialize in indie comics / graphic novels, don't settle for the first Originals contract that gets sent your way.

For the last decade corporations have been convincing us that our worth is tied to the eyes we can bring to them. Instead of serving ourselves, we've begun serving the big guys, insisting that it has to be worth something eventually and that it'll "payoff" simply by the virtue of gambler's fallacy. Ask yourself what site is right for you and your work rather than asking yourself if your work is good enough for them. Most of us are broke trying to make it work on these sites anyways, may as well be broke and fulfilled by posting in places that actually suit us and our work if we can. Don't define your success by what sites like Webtoons are enforcing - that definition only benefits them, not you.

[takeariskao3]

write something about girls being cheerleaders at a quidditch game

The crowd clapped in unison, a few seventh year girls leading the Gryffindors in a rousing chant meant to give the squad a pick me up. Ginny wasn't sure how the players could hear it over the wind and rain, but one of the twins, she couldn't tell which through the downpour, high-fived the front row as he flew past.

Ginny felt a kernel of jealousy spark to life. She wanted to be out there, flying at break neck speeds and scoring goals. Not stuck in the stands, freezing while attempting to cheer on her house.

She was only twelve, she reasoned, as Harry circled overhead looking for the snitch. Plenty of time to make the team in the coming years.

But Ginny vowed to herself then and there that she would not be a cheerleader forever. One day, she would be on the pitch.

ask me anything!

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

[the-everqueen]

It's an anon that isn't anon. Since you're hungover, what's your favorite hangover food? (Hope you feel better!)

in a perfect world it would be a denny's grand slam (or the insanely expensive bougie version of it at the polycule's favorite brunch place where the wait times are 2 hours if you're lucky). nothing like pancakes and greasy diner eggs over easy and hash browns to soak up the dredge. also an oat latte and a liter of water.

(this morning it's a liter of water, tea, and leftover ginger molasses cookies, which is pretty good for not being the ideal)

[gumy-shark]

having mutuals who’ve never touched the mcyt fandom is so fun for me it’s like an entire cultural experience i’ve had. every so often i remember how many of my Beloved Mutuals don’t know about the mcytblr sexyman tournament. or scitties. they don’t know about the whoreslut survey.

[jaxsterrapp]

Pomni has a crush <3