#I hope Tumblr doesn't do anti–aliasing to this

[alecramart]

I drew the lionboy! I love how clever and resourceful he is.

The runes are mirrored because he's etching on a tree or rock clipped into the fourth wall. Also, I love drawing tails like these, and completely ignoring any sort of consistent length for the sake of composition.

I've been playing with layering hard mix effects to harmonize and funkify the colours I'm working with, it's real fun.

[neptuniadoesstuff]

Introduction Thing Ig... So.. Welcome to the Basement?

(Update due to imbox spam: While I do support Palestine, I DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY TO SEND! So please do not send me any requests to donate, I don't have a job nor have money (as im just a random kid. All I can say is "I hope you can have a better life than now". So plz dont fill my inbox with donate requests as its only used for art requests & OC based asks/QnA Trash)

(Plz click the read more to see all of the text)

Btw I'm a MINOR, someone who is UNDER 18! SO PLAESE DNI IF YOU ARE A 18+ ONLY OR MATURE ACC!

(Yeh this is a remake of my introduction post, but we don't talk about that-)

So yeh, welcome to this.. place... This is where I store all of my art & whatever I can think of. So, you will expect:

Art (Usually Fandom-based or OC based)

Art WiPs (That of ATs, DTs, & Character Refs)

Meems (Except I'm not funny so don't expect many)

& Stoopid Garbage like my rambles & crud.

(Although reminder that my art can & will be 13+ as it will contain things like g0r3, Cannibalism, & even death, I'm just uncomfy with anyone under 13 actually interacting with me due to my past experience back on Screb... But if you are kind enough maybe I'll let you talk to me, I'm pretty friendly but I do have some problems irl so keep in mind..)

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My Bio (Full):

|| Name: Bubs | Aliases: N (If you know me irl), Neptunia | Gender: Female, She/Her | Age: 15 (I'm a minor, so leave me alone if yur an 18+ only/mature acc) | Height: Blob-Sized, May be a bit chonky lol | Pride: AroAce | Other: Big fan of MO: Astray & an avid enjoyer of Blobs ||

Birthday: December 26.

Zodiac: Capricorn. (I don't take zodiacs seriously though tbh, I just think they're a bit neat to say.)

IQ Level: Moron.

If you know who I am, I'm BuggoBlobs from Scratch (Sadly due to the whole banning fiasco bcs of someone mass reporting me for calling them out on their bs.... Lets say things didnt end well for me..)

So yeh erm... that's why I'm here....? (Well not rlly, I have known about Tumblr for a long time, except I only made an acc this year due to a frend of mine (REDACTED) making an acc on here, so I thought "Let's do the same thing" & here we are)

(Funfact: I'm quite anti-social irl & only have like... 2 irl frends but I only talk to one-)

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My Mascots/Sonas ig-:

Neppy ◆/♠︎/♣︎ (Main Mascot) (You will see her... A LOT, so be ready) (Her Ref & TH Page)

Bubs (Design coming soon) ◆ (This is my "persona"/irlsona btw)

JJ Sam Green ♣︎/♠︎ (Mascot) (His Ref & TH Page) (TW: Can contain sensitive info) (You can also see his full ref here)

(Symbol Meanings: ♥︎ = Comfort. ♣︎ = Favorite. ◆ = Sona. ♠︎ = Just think they're neat lookin.)

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Content warnings!

G0r3/Bl00d

Cannibalism

Death

Sometimes horrifying imagery

Semi-graphic descs of charcters.

OC with Scars

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My Socials ig:

Screb (I have 2 accs on there.but one got murked... At least i have a back up ig? Welp. The one that got murked is a archive now so yeah...), Tumblr (Your Here lol), ToyHouse (Where all of my OCs whom I created/put on there exist)

Or you can use my Carrd here. I don't mind tbh. (+ Having a Carrd is much easier to link than all of my Socials.)

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Fandoms (I'm in ig):

MO: Astray (Fave Game)

Hollow Knight

WoF

Pokemon

TES ig? (Idk I barely ever played it-)

(Reminder: Just bcs I sometimes make content about smtn I'm not a part of doesn't mean I'm actually a part of that thing's Fandom, like example, some of my OCs in Fandoms I used to be in/aren't apart of.)

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Some of my original trash (In no actual order bcs I'M NOT NEAT & TIDY!):

Mortal's Curse/Terminal Archina/PoL (Same Universe as AoE/A2P)

Egolandia

Endoterr's Vail (Project Cata nka Oblivion Monroe &

RoTG (Realm of the Gods)

BloopTopia/LoA (Land of Ackezelle) (Aka World of Eeross)

Silver Valley

Soul Seekers

Noirvillah? (A part of a universe owned by my frend Ashe)

KR1T4.EXE

A Stargazer's Diary

MonoVista

And whatever else I have

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My TOS (You will see it a lot in my art-based posts)

Bubs' TOS: Plz don't repost/steal, trace, or recolor my art WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! If you do, I'll take yur femur and pelvis.. SO, DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! (The PNS on my blog's pinned post clearly means "Please No Steal" plz follow that rule.) If you do post my art on anything like yur blog or somewhere else (With my permission) PLEASE CREDIT ME!

So yeh, if you my any see a PNS in my drawings, that means it says, "Plz No Steal". DO NOT SEAL MY ART!

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DNI If you do any of these:

Taking my art w/o permission (This includes Tracing, copying, recoloring, or just straight up saying it's your art. Bcs I take lots of time making art & you taking my art w/o permission hurts me) (It will not only matter if it was made for you & only you but plz frikin credit me if you post it)

Being weird to me or my characters/designs. (Just... don't... I'm AroAce (+ a Minor) & that makes me uncomfortable tbh... Look even if I do make a character with a certain body type/looks that's kinda "sus", does not allow you to make weird comments about them at all)

The average hate comments, harassment, bullying, & spamming/threats thing. We all know those 4, right? Just be a frikin decent person for crying out loud. (You can dislike me & my art all you want, idc tbh. Just don't go harassing me on multiple levels to the point IT WILL MAKE ME HAVE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN!) (Also, these 4 count for my frends here. Again, be a decent person. I'm watching you..) (Also, this rule includes nor respecting me, just plz respect everyone with kindness... Thanks.)

Pestering/threatening me to draw you smtn. (I work hard on my drawings + I have a life outside of here, so don't expect me to draw you smtn since I only draw for my frends & myself. If you really want art from me, pay in art, idc how bad the art is, art is art & I have no biases when it comes to it as everyone has their own style.)

LGBTQ-Phobes/Menaces to certain groups of ppl who did nothing wrong but exist. (This is a LGBTQ+ Safe place)

Creeps, Weirdos, & ppl who ship problematic ships. (Like don't be any of those plz... Especially the weirdos who like children or animals WAY TOO MUCH.)

(Edit) Making false accusations/hateful comments of my friends. Be a goddamn decent human being for the love of God or ill have to report you.

(Not strictly but I do get uncomfortable) following any adults only/18+ acc on here. Yeh I just don't really interact with anyone who is currently following a 18+ acc bcs it just.. weird..

Breaking any of these DNI Rules can get you blocked BY ME! So be careful...

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My Mutuals/Friends:

"Alt" (Im NOT putting out their user btw this is just my stupid nickname for them), @kuboyesuu (Abi), @viellohi (Vie), @spiasshdown (Splesh) & many more but idk I'm too lazy to put them here.

(4 of them are literally from Screb & only one I know IRL- It's a whole bag of worms lol-)

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Anyways my side blogs bcs I said so:

The Official Mortal's Curse Blog (Ask/RP OC Blog)

My Species Storage Blog (Lore QnA/Original Species Blog) (Originally a Ref Sheet storage Blog)

My MO: Astray AU Blog called Timeline-Breaker (Ask/RP/AU)

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So yeh... Thats its rlly for this post... Hope you enjoyed yur stay, & remember, always stay a goober! Even in the toughest times.

(Art is by me btw, Plz don't take. :( )

[dzamie]

The AO3 Tiffany G thing

So, unlike apparently everyone else in this shitshow, I decided to actually RTFM so I'm not working off of hearsay of hearsay.

What's going on?

The AO3 is electing new board members. One of these members is aliased "Tiffany G." She's facing criticism from part of the AO3 community, who say she doesn't know enough about the AO3, she wants to censor things, and that the AO3 censoring things is bad. Other parts of the AO3 community object to this characterization, saying any of: she doesn't want to censor things, the AO3 censoring certain things is good, and the criticism is driven primarily by sinophobia (anti-Chinese racism).

Where can I find info for myself?

Search "Chat Transcript – August 1" (copy/paste, in quotes) on your search engine of choice. You'll probably either get the transcript directly, or a Tweet with a link. I'd link it here but tumblr hates external links.

Okay, so. Allegations.

Why do people say she doesn't know enough about the AO3?

She refers to herself as a newbie a couple of times, though this doesn't necessarily mean she doesn't know her stuff. However, from Tiffany G in the interview:

I hope [proposed changes to the TOS are] like more warnings and ratings for posting work so people know what to expect.

(responding to whether she believes certain content should be disallowed) That is not what I proposed actually. I would want to be more specific in the rating system and clarifications so people know what to expect.

The AO3 is well-known for its rating, warning, and tagging system. Tiffany's detractors read these responses as though someone walked into a library and said "I think it'd be cool if the nonfiction section was categorized by topic, maybe with a few levels of subdivision. We could use decimal numbers."

Additionally, earlier in the interview, she says this:

a lot of external people are very concerned about the fact that some works contain child pornography, pedophilic content, and other illegal content

This is factually incorrect. The interviewer later clarifies that the AO3 does not host any content illegal in the US (where the Archive is hosted), be it child pornography or otherwise. Her critics claim that saying that the AO3 hosts illegal content shows that she's not familiar with the site, which has a link to a report form at the bottom of every page.

Why do people say she wants to censor things?

From Tiffany G in the interview:

I support 100% “maximum inclusiveness of content”, yet there is always a boundary to everything. Since OTW is already an influential org, we need to protect our image and hold a better image to the public. I want the public to think of us as an inclusive and socially responsible community.

To members of the AO3 community who were active in fandom when LiveJournal and FF.net were major fandom sites, "we need to protect our image" reminds them of the reasons that those sites removed most queer and explicit fanworks: public image, particularly towards advertisers. More recently, Apple demanded tumblr remove sexually-explicit material in late 2018 (dropping site traffic by 50-90%), and again in late 2021 (the #girl incident), again citing the need for a family-friendly image.

This, combined with mentioning a "boundary" to "maximum inclusiveness of content," is tripping a lot of memories and causing people to think this indicates a desire to remove queer and explicit fanworks from the AO3.

Critics of this characterization point to Tiffany saying that "[removal of written sexual content of minors] is not what [she] proposed, actually."

Why do people say censoring things is bad?

*sighs, looks over at a towering pillar of books labeled "Arguments over the morality of censorship in fandom," topped with a dictionary with the entry for "archive" highlighted*

...let's save that question for another day.

Why do people say the criticism is driven by sinophobia?

Tiffany G is Chinese. She mentions a couple of times that the AO3 is banned in her home country, and the only country that has banned the AO3 is China (if you search "countries banned ao3," you get results about China; if you add "-china" to filter the country out, you mostly get fanfic about characters named Ban). There is a great amount of justified criticism of the Chinese government, particularly in regards to speech laws, but people sometimes direct their ire at Chinese citizens, expats, or their descendants instead.

Particularly, people worry that her focus on public image and illegal content is a veiled term for applying the Chinese government's restrictions on speech to the Archive.

There are undoubtedly sinophobes whose biases contribute to their criticism of Tiffany. Millions of people use the AO3, after all. However, the points addressed in this post prior to this section would remain even if she were from the US, Brazil, Germany, or anywhere else.