#Communications Infrastructure

[shouyuus]

was thinking about it this morning as i was making tea and i think there's a fundamental gap in the advice we give to writers/creators to "first and foremost create for ourselves", bc yes. in the beginning, i am almost always writing for myself. i write all the time, and im sure that artists doodle and paint all the time too. there are things i've written that will never see the light of day and are truly just for me.

and then there are things that i choose to share, because i want to share them. because i'm proud of a story, and want to put it into the world. the act of sharing it is, above all, an invitation.

its me inviting you into a corner of my mind/heart/soul, opening the window and throwing open the curtains and waving, holding up a sign that says "hi! do you like this too? let's talk about it!"

what im asking for is a connection, a conversation. a shared space. digital or otherwise. and the so-called "harm" of "ghost consumption" is not that artists will stop creating art or that writers will stop writing -- no, that's not quite how creativity works (thankfully, and sometimes unfortunately). we will always create.

we just might not be inspired to share it anymore.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think the thing i'm most disappointed about with riordanverse fandom now versus like 2014 is not only has the fandom not gotten any less racist or queerphobic or ableist (in fact in some regards its gotten worse!) but now it's just boring too. like there's no fandom infrastructure anymore - the community these days is almost entirely source material-driven - and you deviate from canon even slightly people get weird about it. whatever happened to the post-HoO fanon boom. the fandom needs to get weirder again. and self-sufficient. and less offensive.

[lilithism1848]

[threestarsaboveclouds]

You're very pretty!

TSAC: ...!!

TSAC: ....

... I... I too am quite fond of my facility. The design of my can and the surrounding infrastructure required great ingenuity from my architects. I was built directly into the mountains themselves, and I was engineered to take advantage of the unique resources of my environment. I'm very grateful that the majority of my structures are still able to function even in my creators' absence.

We iterators were designed for pragmatism, but I am able to recognize the elegant symmetry of my facility's radial construction. The rugged mountain peaks I inhabit and the vast, clear skies I observe are quite beautiful as well.

.... Or maybe you were referring to my puppet? I am fond of it as well. My puppet was personally designed by my lead architect, A Flickering Nova, Thirteen Scattered Asterisms. The design is meant to evoke the appearance of bright stars against a dark sky, which I believe reflects my purpose as an astronomical facility quite nicely.

....

I appreciate your compliment. Thank you.

[ OOC: In case it isn't clear, the last three images are meant to be a blush. ]

[alwaysbewoke]

[lgbtqnationofficial]

All bikes will be equipped with GAU-8 Avenger gatling canons in order to immediately disintegrate cars that swerve into the bike lane.

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

[anarchopuppy]

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is such a great organization, please send them your support so they can help people in New England affected by the floods

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

Normal night in the midnight.

[nando161mando]

You know we’re in a healthy, functioning society when people have to use a burger app to see if they have electricity because the local infrastructure doesn’t exist

[aroaceleovaldez]

hey! is there a link to join the disc server?

If you're referring to mine, yes! There is always a link in my blog's sidebar (and on the sidebar of several of my other blogs - though i know on mobile you can't see custom themes/sidebars), or you can find it [here]. Or I also have a server specifically for my pjo askblog linked in my askblog's sidebar, though that's more focused on the askblog itself than general PJO.

If you're looking for any other PJO discord servers, I keep a list in my Fandom Infrastructure sidebar page. My current list of ones i'm keeping tabs of (though i am not in all of them) is:

My own general Riordanverse server (see above)

Chbnet server

Riordanverse Artists Server

Mallorykeen’s Riordanverse server

Titan Army Server (consult @bvckbiter or @phoenix--flying)

Percabeth server

Percico/Nicercy Events server

Jasico Challenges server

Above The Clouds (Jasico) server

18+ Solangelo Server

Camp Elysium server

Neverland server

Chbofficial’s server

If anybody else has public riordanverse discords they'd like to promote, feel free to send them to me and I'll add them to my list!

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

friendly reminder that landlords nor real estate companies aren't your friends and that shelter is a basic human right, for the longest time real estate as a form of commerce is riddled to the brim with corruption and speculation that ultimately renders nothing but suffering and despair as they will gladly throw human lives under the bus just for a slight increase in profits. Millions of people are homeless and poverty striken with no way up as the system extracts every penny from the people on the bottom. Nothing short of comprehensive regulations or the dissolution of real estate as a commodity will save us, cause in the end never forget there are more of us than them and if need be their trillion dollar mansions would house dozens easily.

[lilithism1848]

[arc-hus]

Public Toilet Design, Chuancang Village, China - Fuyingbin Studio

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