#Learn it

[alexandraisyes]

Hey TSAMS Community

It's really fucking weird to stalk people's accounts to try to see if they make content that doesn't fit your fictional morals and even weirder to put people on blast for making content you don't like. I've literally seen friends get "called out" on Twitter for making content in this community and now this?

And you can interpret "this" any way you want, I'm not going to specify on what exactly I'm talking about and it's very likely that whatever comes to mind isn't what I'm talking about. In fact, this is purposefully vague to make you do a self-check and a fandom check about your morals and how you're acting in this community. So lets cover all the bases of what this could possibly be about.

Making block lists and publicly reaching out to popular creators with them makes you look stupid. If you have an issue with someone or a concern about someone reach out in private. Messages exist for a reason, not everything needs to be public, and fandom drama is exhausting. You're more likely to get blocked by popular creators if you do that.

MINORS STAY OUT OF NSFW SPACES HOLY FUCK! Do not send hate or "call out" nsfw creators for making, gasp, nsfw content. Do you know how fucking stupid you look?!

Adults restrain yourselves when you see a minor voice an opinion you don't agree with. They are children, and them having a view that you disagree with is not the end of the world, they are still learning. It's our job to be positive role models in fandom, and some of you are really fucking disappointing me.

Do not send harassment to people for coping with their trauma in a healthy way just because you don't agree with it or understand it. This is going to blow some puritan minds, but someone who has dealt with trauma can find it to be healing to make content to help them process that trauma. They are allowed to have their safe spaces with other people who make content about horrible things that happened to them. All you do when you harass them is tell them that they need to be put down like a fucking dog for living through horrible things. That they are "impure, unclean, and not fit for society". Do not rob people of their safe spaces just because you don't like the type of content they make.

Dark fiction is valid fiction and if you don't like that don't read it.

There is a difference between romanticizing/fetishizing horrible things and writing dark content in a respectful way to victims. It's generally expected that when you make dark content you will acknowledge, either in the narrative or out of it, that it is a fucked up situation and toxic/traumatic/horrible/whatever descriptor you want to use. Refusal to acknowledge this or pretending that it is a normal situation and would be acceptable irl puts a huge red flag on you.

Tag your content properly especially if it contains topics that may make people squeamish. This also helps people who want to see the content able to see the content.

You are allowed to specify if something is supposed to be a ship or not in your posts and no one is allowed to be mad about it.

BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK CONTENT YOU DONT LIKE! It is not a personal attack to block people and not a personal attack to be blocked.

No one likes someone who hates other people for existing.

[fivefootassn]

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[demontruth]

THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO LEARN EMPATHY!!

Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more

em·pa·thy

noun

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

[dragonliliy]

More doodles designs of Grek and Hubris

[beautyupdate]

成為閃閃發亮的自己 必做的3件事

你總覺得你的人生沒有目標感嗎？生活很無趣嗎？每天總是兩點一線，規律的上下班，每天總是走一樣的路線，做一樣的事情、說一樣的話，總是羨慕舞台上、講話很有影響力的人嗎？你想突破自己嗎？想讓自己變得很不一樣嗎？接下來將分享3件事，只要你能夠做到，你就會成為那個閃閃發亮的自己！！ #認識自己 #自信 #閃閃發亮的自己 #自我管理 #肯定自己

你總覺得你的人生沒有目標感嗎？生活很無趣嗎？每天總是兩點一線，規律的上下班，每天總是走一樣的路線，做一樣的事情、說一樣的話，總是羨慕舞台上、講話很有影響力的人嗎？你想突破自己嗎？想讓自己變得很不一樣嗎？接下來將分享3件事，只要你能夠做到，你就會成為那個閃閃發亮的自己！！ shine me 在分享之前，請先問自己，你喜歡什麼？在你的人生中，還有什麼想體驗的？你希望成為什麼樣的人？最近有碰到什麼困難是你想要克服的？假如上述這些問題，你都找不到或是不曉得從何找起，沒關係，就去多多去嘗試吧，只有嘗試了，才會知道自己喜不喜歡，才會更清楚、更了解自己。 think me Learn it…

[hopefuldesolate]

the fact conservatives cant understand the difference between personal and private property will never fail to make me giggle

[1introvertedsage]

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passerby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

~Vincent Van Gogh~

[huntressofartemis001]

astrophysics is like math but you have only letters and no numbers

[willowpurple]

Well recently there are so many misunderstandings about queercoding and queerbating etc. and I am so tired of it; specifically about THE wrong and weird interpretation. we need actually educate ourselves in the language. Not just parrot someone else's thoughts. Hopefully, someone find it and use it for good. 🏳️‍🌈

[astronomalyy]

parenting

[phantom-shell]

Fiddleford found one of his old shirts

[monsoon-of-art]

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Shiniuzhai, a convenience store hanging on a cliff in Hunan, that’s been nicknamed “most inconvenient convenience store” in China (x)

[sadclowncentral]

seething about the fact that i will never experience photosynthesis in my own useless cells. i bet it feels so good when the light of the sun both warms you and fuels you at the same time. a bone-deep satisfaction mixed with a heated sugar-rush and endless brightness. not that i would fucking know