#Benefits of Accounting

[bellaciao-ciao-ciao]

[lazylittledragon]

so uhhhhhhhh. not to be cryptic and bitchy on main but congratulations to everyone in my messages for like 5 months on being right i guess

[valtsv]

something i think about a lot and don't see discussed often in the silt verses are the narrative foils and parallels shared by the saint electric and VAL, particularly when it comes to their respective endings. a woman sacrificing her humanity in flames and undergoing apotheosis, elevated not merely to sainthood but ascended to godhood, and losing the entirety of herself in the process, becoming a product to be traded and sold, and a woman who sacrificed her humanity to be made into a commodity, a "valuable" weapon, finally rejecting her attempts to claim that same godhood in favour of reclaiming her personhood in a similarly fiery death. the peninsulan propaganda machine's greatest triumph, and its most damning defeat. the beginning and the ending of the same tragic story.

[sombreset]

I turned off guest comments on a fic I’ve been working on. Im sorry if you’ve genuinely enjoyed what I write and no longer can leave a comment, but I highly recommend making an AO3 account regardless.

Anyway, here’s what I did so:

Considering the fake-out praise at the beginning, this was clearly meant to get under my skin.

I cannot stress enough how immature, disrespectful, and rude it is to do something like this. I don’t care if I’m writing the most incoherent and amateur story on earth, this would STILL be inappropriate. I mentioned in the endnote of this chapter that I recently had a severe RSD spiral and was overall doing extremely unwell, and this person did not care and/or saw that as an opportunity to beat me while I’m down. Fantastic.

Anyway, fic writers such as myself are doing this for free, for fun, and do not owe you anything. If you don’t like what you’re reading, just stop reading it or write what you want to read. It’s that fucking simple.

I’m honestly uncomfortable knowing this person is lurking because spending hundreds of hours of my life on a project that I’ve legitimately lost sleep over and treated as a part time job is not worth this amount of anxiety. Im not going to discontinue or lock this story, but I’m pretty upset and disappointed people out there are like this.

Please don’t be this person, and if you’re a fic writer and anyone does this, don’t engage.

EDIT: I’m aware that this comment was a bot, I realized that a bit after posting this. The timing just was very coincidental with another comment that /was/ a person, and it threw me off. Thank you for all the support and advise y’all!

[tuttle-did-it]

If you are a UK resident or citizen, please consider filling out this form for the government. The corrupt,bastard billionaires in our government continue to cut and make life incredibly difficult for disabled and unwell people. They are making DRASTIC cuts to benefits for people who are in need and unable to work.

I guess they think we will be less trouble if they just kill us all with these cuts.

This does take a little time, but please consider offering support if you are able to help push back against this.

[xoxoemynn]

For OFMD Tumblr friends who want a S3 and are scared of Twitter

First, no judgment from me. I very much get it. I resisted Twitter for a long time, and even though I'm now a bit more comfortable on it, it's still not my Fandom Home. There are a TON of valid reasons not to be on Twitter, but if you REALLY want to keep OFMD visible right now and help its chances of returning for a third season, Twitter is the best place to do it. Like it or not, Twitter is still the best social media platform for raising awareness and for instant news updates.

Tumblr posts don't make headlines. Topics that have been trending on Twitter do. And if we want this show to come back, we need to make OFMD impossible to ignore.

By now you've probably seen just how close we came to a S3, and if you're like me, you are RAGING and donning your battle jacket. But I get it can be intimidating to get on Twitter for the first time, so I thought I'd address some common anxieties I see. I'll put below a cut because this got a bit long, but I promise it's a quick read.

I don't know what to say! Where do I even start? That's okay! You don't have to create your own tweets (although it's great if you do). Amplifying other people's posts is also important. Go ahead and like/retweet/reply to other people's posts. This may also help you get an idea of what you may like to say in your own tweets.

Hashtags...yes? Yes! Although don't use too many or you may get flagged as a bot. The biggest one that seems to be emerging is #SaveOFMD. Other popular ones are #RenewAsACrew, #RenewOurFlagMeansDeath, and of course, #OFMD and #OurFlagMeansDeath.

Should I just be tagging all the streaming services? Per @renewasacrew, no. It's counterproductive. You'll want to tag one streamer at a time and be specific. Below is an example of a tweet I made the other day -- use specific reasons why that that particular streamer may benefit from picking up OFMD.

I'm scared. People are mean. Yeah, people are mean. But I will say the vibes over at OFMD Twitter are currently the best I've ever seen them. People seem to have united for the greater good and are being overwhelmingly positive and just trying to do whatever we can to save the show. (That said, again, I already had a pretty curated feed, and was very liberal with blocking users/terms I didn't want to see, but I've been able to spend so much more time in the For You tab than I ever have without being jump scared by something.)

But I don't know anyone there! Wouldn't I just be shouting into the void? Not if you use the hashtags! Fans are being really good about following those and engaging with the tweets. Plus, [Stede voice], I'm your friend. I'm xoxoemynn over there as well, I'll follow you back and engage with any of your posts that I see. Plus, what's been REALLY lovely to see is that SO many lurkers have come out of lurkerdom to support the efforts, and they are being welcomed with open arms, so you will not be alone. Again, I am telling you, vibes? Best I've ever seen them.

I can't get sucked into another social media platform, I don't have the time. The beauty here is you don't need to spend a lot of time. I've been on Twitter more in the past week than I have in the entire year I've had an account, and I'm still only on for maybe an hour total the entire day? I open the app, I check a couple accounts, I engage with a handful of posts, and I close the app. It takes all of five minutes. It's an extremely small lift that can have a very big impact.

My bet is on Zaslav expecting us to be upset, and that there may be a day or two of outrage, but then we'd move on. I'm sure right now he's trying to convince everyone that this is a fluke, and that it'll blow over soon. Don't let him win. Keep OFMD in the news. Be loud (but polite) and make Max and other streamers take note of what a passionate, loyal fan base this show has. Make their stocks continue to drop. Make it clear this is NOT just a fluke, it is NOT business as usual. It's a BIG fuck up with lasting consequences.

Twitter, for all its sins, is the best place to do this.

Now let's get our damned show back.

[vren-diagram]

[atropos-moth]

Do you have a plan for funding your IRA and 401k for 2025?

[whatdoinose]

really cowardly to restrict replies on your posts. but the male privilege that trans men experience (and we do! i would know, i'm a passing trans man!) isn't "cancelled out" by the transphobia we're oppressed by. both things can be true, that trans men are oppressed by transphobia and that trans men can benefit from male privilege. also, it should be obvious that a closeted trans person is only superficially "benefiting" from being closeted. closeted gay people are still hurt by homophobia, regardless of if someone knows they're gay.

LOL, yes i am such a coward random person hiding on anon. also none of my replies are off, check who youre seeing the reblog from. click on my post and reply to it, their settings may be overriding mine. yea.

anyways no trans person will benifit from a cis societal structure. they can find ways to "benifit" as good as you can just forget the whole thing and repress yourself forever. benifit from being "cis" there yea? anyways thats not how oppression nor intersectionality works. maybe try and understand some of the fundamental concepts before making stupid comments like this.

also why is a closeted trans person "superficially" benifiting but the random hypothetical trans man you enforce that every trans man is just "regularly" benifiting? absolutely absurd. no trans person benefits from these ideals. at best you can be hidden away and thus 'benifit' from any systematic structures thinking you are trans, but that doesn't mean the social oppression and ideals don't still affect you. this line of logic is absurd at best.

[miodiodavinci]

(empty look of death)

[sunshineandlyrics]

Murdoch's money talks! The Sun gets away with it again.

17 April 2024

[chasing-posts]

Gai and Kakashi got married on the playground when they were 5/6 years old. It was just for fun but they, unlike everyone else in their year, never got divorced afterwards.

(Which is hilarious compared to Obito and Kakashi who got married 28 times, but got divorced a total of 37 times!)

Anyways because of that, the two never felt they needed a real marriage as adults. They had their flower rings Gai would replace once a year (unless Kakashi beat him too it), and their eternal rivalry, what more could one want?

That is until one day, when Tsunade introduced a new pension plan for married shinobi, and tax benefits were too great to ignore, and Kakashi and Gai signed the paperwork the next day!

What's more romantic than asking someone to be your life partner, so you can save money together for all eternity.

[tevos]

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[fookinhellcurlyyy]

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[weaselweaselweasel]

Chat does blocking anons actually stop the account from sending you more asks

I’m getting spammed by what is clearly a copy pasted ask but I’m wondering if it’s the same account or not

Idfk I’ll just turn anon off for now since I don’t get asks anyways

[kaaaaaaarf]

Hey friends, this is a heads up that tomorrow I'm going to be locking all my fics to registered ao3 users only. With apps like lore.fm popping up, I would rather do everything I can to ensure my fics stay on ao3, and do not get posted to any other websites—especially those that would potentially be making a profit from my works.

For the record, my FAQ policy in my pinned post states that my fics should remain solely on ao3, unless you're creating a bind that is not for profit. I ask that you respect my wishes on this.

To be clear, I am not taking down my fics, just locking them so they are only accessible to registered users.

If you have questions about this, or need clarity, feel free to ask!!