#event: blackout

[fixing-bad-posts]

J.K. Rowling: This man is king, currently a king of a man, i am losing.

[lethiepie]

Club penguin operation blackout short comic

[paxcallow]

deserved. he's been through a lot

[a-lonely-dunedain]

ok question! related to this post by @gwynbleiddyn that I see resonated with the folks here on lotro tumblr:

the devs have given you permission to add 1 (one) quest of your design into the game, specifically doing something fun/low-stakes with one or more Rangers post-war. What are you doing and with which Ranger(s)?

I'll go first: (under the cut bc it got longer than intended)

Corunir has been enlisted to help do repairs in the lower circles of Minas Tirith. And by "enlisted" I mean "Corunir Does Not Know How to Take A Break and needs to be constantly helping people, so he showed up wouldn't leave until the foreman gave him something to do"

Now, as this quest would have to be located in Minas Tirith Midsummer, the foreman is not particularly comfortable saddling this war-hero with busywork when he should be celebrating the end of the war he helped bring about! nevermind that that's what literally every other quest in midsummer is making the PC do shh don't worry about it

ANYWAY, he's got a plan, but he needs your help with it. Around dusk, he wants you to tell Corunir that there's some repairs that need done on the top of the wall at east side of the 2rd circle, which coincidentally just so happens to be where the best view of the fireworks they're setting off at the gates is. Also be sure to bring along this plate of snacks and some comfy pillows to sit on.

so when Corunir gets up there he's like "that's weird, I don't see any damage up here-" and then he sees the fireworks starting to go off, that you brought snacks, and puts two and two together and is like "oh darn, it looks like I've been tricked into watching a fireworks show, you devious trickster you (affectionate)"

so you guys get to hang out and watch the fireworks for a bit, and afterwards Corunir laughs at the fact that you literally had to trick him into relaxing and having a good time. Perhaps you have a point, he should allow himself some time to actually enjoy the peace they fought so hard for. He recalls Radanir had proposed the Rangers should do a pub-crawl later, and now thinks he should take him up on the offer. (and, of course, the PC should be allowed to join in, but alas I'm only allowed to add One quest as per my own rules lol)

[felixcloud6288]

With the Reddit API change about to take effect, I want to mention a few things that I've seen that are likely to change or go away.

First of all, there's multiple bot accounts used for moderation, user tools, or plain fun. Everyone here loves haiku-bot. Reddit has u/haikusbot which does the same thing. The API change means it won't work anymore. There's also u/RemindMeBot which you can ping to set reminders. One useful bot due to repost karma-farmers always being an issue is u/RepostSleuthBot which can scan Reddit to see if a post has previously been uploaded. There's also u/SaveVideo which can create downloaded video files of posts. So the API changes mean losing a lot of user tools.

Then there's site specific bots like u/Roboragi which posts links to anime/manga sites for people. r/lotrmemes is filled with tons of bots of various lotr characters (and Robert Baratheon) and the bots will have full conversations in the comments. So the API changes means an end to a piece of some subreddits' culture.

And finally there's u/automoderator. This is a major tool used by mods to manage the subs. u/automoderator is used across multiple subreddits and has various functions per sub. One simple task is to check if a poster has a certain minimum karma, thus preventing spammers from casually brigading a subreddit. It can also auto ban users who post to certain subreddits which keeps out certain political views (or maybe two subreddits are just having silly wars with each other). Also, it can auto-comment important messages to posts.

So this change is going to destroy a lot of the internal charm of the site and it will also open the flood gates to bots, scammers, and all sorts of horrible things that mods can only barely hold back, especially on the huge subs, political subs, and any minority support subs.

[pthalomars]

hhhhhghgg... jason grace thoughts... [my telekinetic powers make every wall in my house explode]

[estcaligo]

[sugas6thtooth]

Message from Gaza: 12/15/23

[jasico-challenges]

The Jasico Bingo Challenge 2024 is oficially over!

We want to thank eveyone who participated, all of your works were amazing and cute, the Jasico Nation is forever in debt with you haha

We also would like to ask you to keep reblogging your fellow creators' works! Everyone worked so hard and deserve the praise! Besides, you can never have too much Jasico works!

Now the fun part!

We're all very proud of every single participant in this event, it doesn't matter if you had a blackout, filled five in a roll or if you posted one work, we're happy this challenge gave you a creative boost!

But for those of you who blackouted their cards or filled five in a roll, we have a special treat! Fill out this form if you want to be included in the Hall of Fame and receive a Contratulations badge via e-mail.

The form will be open until March 5th so don't forget to fill it of you meet the criteria! Check the Calendar for more dates.

Thank y'all again, we hope you have fun! Stay tunned for the Hall of Fame post and future challenges news, we have a fun one coming up this semester!

[robotslenderman]

Long story short Reddit is axing third party apps to prepare for going public and Reddit’s response is a collective “lol, no.”

[fixing-bad-posts]

[dramas-vs-novels]

Every time Prapai gives Sky medicine, he's narcoleptic inside 5 minutes.

[nixie-deangel]

anyone want to toss ideas at me for my remaining bingo squares?

the hearts are completed and posted works. the yellows are ones I have ideas for and am working on to fill. but the unmarked ones I've got nothing for.

*edited because I was gifted an idea for another propmt!

[fellowshipofthefics]

Happy Summer, Fellowship! ☀️

We hope you’re enjoying the season, and with that, we bring to you Summer Stories! Now, if you recall, we did this last year, and we’re doing it again - but bumping it up a month! 

For four weeks in July, we will drop various prompts for you to do with however you please! You could smash them all together into one project, do all five separately, or you can call out to your followers to send you prompts they want to see!

Don’t limit yourself to the suggestions above, we want to see your creativity, which comes in a variety of forms! Whether you write 100 words, or 1000+ words, we want to see it, so be sure to tag #fotfics and drop your stories into our queue via → this form!

July 1st - 8th Prompts

Fireflies

Seaside

Beat the heat

Postcards

Evenings

[beanzdoodlez]

WELCOME ALL

[sunb0ts]

dude come december every year on this website and people start to reblog calibers of yaoi that I don't think I've even comprehended yet and that every other month of the year they wouldn't reblog even if an unbenevolent god was watching them