#browsing the net

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I actually do this.

[felassan]

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[abyssarts]

lesbians who cosplay yaoi together 💛💙

[sad-catra]

Reading fic for a fandom as old as sailor moon is hilarious bc I just found an incredible harumichi one from 2008 on livejournal of all places

[biteofcherry]

Saturday night is on and I can entertain some thots. Soft asks, too.

[agardenintheshire]

“Then Tom and Goldberry set the table; and the hobbits sat half in wonder and half in laughter: so fair was the grace of Goldberry and so merry and odd the caperings of Tom. Yet in some fashion they seemed to weave a single dance, neither hindering the other, in and out of the room, and round about the table; and with great speed food and vessels and lights were set in order.��� The Lord of the Rings, Chapter VII “In the House of Tom Bombadil”

my @officialtolkiensecretsanta gift for @clarascuro! 💖🌸 wishing you lovely holidays!

[internetsafetyweekly]

Internet PSA #1

For our first psa, I will start with the topic of location.

So what's the big deal with sharing your location? A lot actually.

So many of us have at least a friend or two that shares everything including where they are and where they're going. which seems harmless, right? Wrong!

To you, the close -or decently close- friend, it doesn't mean much. I mean what are you going to do with your friend's location? But what about the internet? That's where things can get not so safe.

Say, you post a picture of a route on a map you're going to take. You zoom it out and cross out the city names. seems good to you! but that location dot on screen is enough. Your city, and the part of it you live in can be found -and easily too!

Why's it important to keep your location secret? Because cyber stalking exists and is very hard to predict. And you don't want a cyber stalker to become an irl stalker.

What information tips people off? Well a lot of simple, little things so I would suggest you avoid posting:

Maps screenshots.

Street signs.

License plates.

Names of local businesses.

Landmarks.

Your town/city name if it's a small area.

Location data from photo geotagging.

and more.

You can protect yourself by refraining from posting personal information online, and to remove such data from images, preferably with an app for photo editing. I suggest ibis paint x if you're on a phone. Also make sure that you turn off geotagging.

That about wraps up our first ever PSA! Feel free to reblog and share.

See you next time, and remember:

Be safe while you browse!

[mobbothetrue]

the epic highs and lows of high school football fic searching <- spent like 2 hours looking for a fic with negative success only to find it in my ao3 bookmarks

[autistic-autumn]

There's a website with download links for your pc?! And it's available on linux from the software center or command line!

it should be illegal to put ads in apps or sites for solitaire or picross or sudoku tbh. playing classic puzzle games uninterrupted needs to be a HUMAN RIGHT

[ervona]

I had a bunch of oc pages saved up with different themes and so far I like this one the most... I'd code my own but class made me hate it so I'm not in the mood. anyway check it out and this one too I like it a lot

[pro-anomalocaris]

You can overdose on almost any medicine.

Since overdosing is easier the smaller you are, we put childproof caps on medicine and do not sell them to children. However, if a child gets the cap off, we don't ban the medicine, even if something tragic happens. We blame the parents for putting the medicine where the child could get it. If the child has stolen the medicine from the store, we blame the store owner for not ensuring something dangerous was out of reach and the children in the store weren't being monitored.

Parents who let their kids run around on the internet unmonitored with no restrictions are like the parents who don't put the medicine where it can't be reached. Moderators who don't kick kids out a 13+ space when they discover them are the store owners who have put medicine where a kid can get ahold of it despite the store owner not selling it to them directly.

Aspirin is the most common cause of childhood overdoses. We do not ban aspirin, because it is a medicine that can help a lot of people in a lot of circumstances, including children, just as the internet can. It can also mess up even a grown adult, just as the internet can.

The solution to the problem of kids possibly encountering things they shouldn't online is to do what we do with medicine: control it as much as we can, but accept that this will never be 100% controlled, and turn to the adult whose responsibility it is to take care of the child and asking, "Real quick - what on Earth possessed you to let them do this?!"

I really don't get the, "But a kid could see this and think it's okay!" Because it comes with so many infuriating assumptions.

Why is a kid looking at something that explicitly isn't for them? Why is the creator of said content responsible for that when they properly tagged it and told minors to not interact? Why is someone who's making content not meant for minors responsible for teaching minors that incest and grooming are bad, when that's something a kid should've been taught already?

I'd argue there's a lot more fucked up and traumatizing stuff on the internet than someone's "weird" or "problematic" ship art.

[no-i-will-not-shut-up]

the only 'fine ill do it myslef' i experience is with my weird-ass fetish that i only enjoy in a very specific way

[sarrai]

I find myself getting nostalgic for old fandom a lot these days.

There was drama, always, but it felt on a lower scale. It was a thing that sometimes happened in a fandom space, but now it feels like many fandom spaces are defined by it. I can't browse fandom tags or even ao3 fics without stumbling into some nonsensical discourse.

It's harder and harder to tell which creatives are making their works because they love a series, or because this series is popular and they need to be where the people are. It's heartbreaking seeing a wonderful artist in a fandom I like talk about feeling pressured to continue to draw for that fandom because it's what sells- I get it, I don't judge them personally for it, but it loses some of the connection I have with their pieces. Instead of a fan interaction, it feels more like a service to please customers.

Not to mention the strange adherence to canon nowadays, and I say this as someone who prefers canon-adjacent fanworks. I see people try to insult others by saying their ship will never be canon, or comment how people's interpretations are entirely OOC and that's a real problem worth discussing. I wasn't even IN the Brave Tangled Frozen Dragons fandom and I find myself wishing for its spiritual successor just so we can have goofy fun again.

Everything just feels so bogged down and restrained now. Sometimes I wonder if everyone is even in fandom for fun anymore.

I know I'm not alone, but I used to feel so much passion from fandom communities, for better or worse, and now it feels... like it's just there for some people, I guess.

[radioconstructed]

⌖ Where's my CRYPTID BABY? I need to make sure he's NOT ON THE DANG INTER NET!

[anarchobalkanbv]

Summer vacation is like having a two-month-long weekend

[thedreamparadox]

So the maren siblings are made of something fabric-esque, namely their horns, but what else are they made out of? Like do their base forms look like they're made completely out of fabric, or do they look like those porcelain clowns people like to collect?

Mostly squishy stuff idk. Tbh I haven't put a ton of thought into Maren biology other than "directly converts food into energy" and "their horns are really plush and squishy" and "they're kind of a void on the inside" with the maren sibs all being voids with stardust inside of it and second levels just kinda exploding into light. That and the whole 'yeah their shoes are their feet' thing.

I'd say completely out of fabric but I love the idea of at least Reala's face being porcelain painted on because makeup. Dunno if I'll use that but the aesthetics are definitely there. Maybe NiGHTS too because fancy eyes.

Jackle's probably made out of fuzzy felt, the vibes are right.