#free block list for me

[efteris]

I freaking don't understand all the anti kink thing. Let people have fun omfg ???

[puppppppppy]

u know when youre bored of everything and it feels like theres a hole that youre trying to close but it just keeps sucking everything up

[icedb1ackcoffee]

to my fellow creatives: never stop making art. art is an act of protest.

[bloodshedbabys]

can we make this a post that people reblog with things that are needed/wanted/appreciated by those that are unhoused besides just cash?

[bluerose5]

Those people on that one poll about favorite elf companions expressing how Alistair shouldn't count as an elf or how it's only a technicality or whatever, yeah, I get it's only fantasy, but keep showing your asses. I would not trust y'all around real life mixed people based off of some of those reactions and rationales I see, especially someone like me who isn't the "perfect" representation of that because I could pass as white. Anyways, fuck off. Thanks for the free block list.

Sincerely,

Your Local Mixed Person in Fandom

[ardinwriter]

A particularly annoyingly evangelizing vegan colleague of mine got me wondering what exactly the end plan for these people is.

Presumably they want everyone on the planet to go vegan.

Okay, did the math and growing the world's densest (most calories per acre) crop, potatoes, on every acre of the world's arable land you could more than achieve the majority of the nutrition side of things.

You'd still have to deal with the B12 issue (the required human nutrient that potatoes lack), which depending on your level of veganism could be a problem since there are only three sources of B12: meat, dairy, and pills and the contents of the pills is bacterial cultures so that might be a no go, I don't know. Maybe that's fine.

We'll ignore for the moment the distribution issues of getting those spuds to people in non-arable areas.

So say you've completely solved the nutrition problem of being vegan.

How do you plan to open up the arable land currently used for animal production (roughly 75% of currently arable land is currently used for grazing) and what do you plan to do with the existing animals? Being vegan, you can't kill them or harm them in any way, so you can't sterilize them either. So they're just going to keep breeding with no culling other than natural deaths.

In the US alone, we have an estimated 308 million commercial laying hens. Each producing roughly an egg a day. At the moment, with the majority of those eggs going to stores to be consumed as eggs, the US has a fertilization rate of 13%. Even if that didn't climb after egg eating was stopped, that means 40 million fertilized eggs a day. If even 5% of those hatch, that's 2 million chicks after the first 20-21 days of this.

If we aren't eating or killing them, that's a problem.

And since the larger the predator, the longer the gestation time and smaller the number of offspring in a breeding period is a general reality, we are hosed on chickens alone if everyone just stops eating them because there won't be enough predators in the food chain without humans to stem the the chicken tide.

And that's just one livestock animal. It'll be a problem with the others as well.

And all this is ignoring all the other non-food products we get from animals. What are we replacing those with? And don't say plastic (or vegan leather or it's equivalents, cuz those are just plastics), I'd say relying even more heavily on fossil fuels isn't a good strategy here.

So, really, what's the end game here?

[rexonalapis]

idk man, who are you to dictate what people can write or not 🙃 if you have a problem with fluff stories and want to write some absolutely deranged story that fulfill your own personal fantasy, just fucking do it. these people write stories for free and they are passionate about it. clone of each other? isn't arts fundamentally about getting inspired by something that speaks to you and making your own iteration?

your desire for more edgy dead dove stories does not make you special to the fandom, btw. someone who belittles other people's attempts in creative writing does not deserve to do it themselves so idk i hope your ao3 account got hacked and your invitation queue would not get through until 2025 ❤

[lady-lilly-gray]

falling down a wikipedia rabbit hole because I just discovered a Vasu named Dhruva

Vasus are Hindu Dieties of Fire/Light that serve Indra

Like Agni (fire) and Soma (the moon)

and the sanskrit spelling of Dhruva literally means "Pole Star"

ya know, Polaris

[hyungwonn]

i was tagged by the lovely @dojaejung thank u lia this was so much fun !! 🤭💞

tagging (of course feel free to ignore this!!) @ningtual @kimsuyeon @oddinarys @leegahyun @jaebeomtual @hwangchoons @neonsbian @sheawolfmp3 @28reas0ns @bj-wnjn and whoever wants to play <3

this is the template !!

[voidcatgalaxy]

New "commission" listing: Surprise sketch!

I don't know how long I'll have these open, but currently I'm taking requests on my Ko-fi page (@VoidCatGalaxy on Ko-fi) for free surprise sketches! Basically, I'll draw one of your characters in any pose I feel like. Their expression and other details will be up to me as well, making what the sketch will be a surprise.

Using the code "SURPRISESKETCH" while checking out (minus the quotation marks) will give you 100% off of the commission's price! Discount codes are the only way to set something as free on Ko-fi, so I apologize for the inconvenience.

You'll be allowed to edit the sketch as you wish, except for using AI to modify it in any way - that means you're free to create lineart using it as a base, as well as color the sketch, if you feel like it (so long as you credit me for creating the original art and don't claim credit over what I created.) All of my terms of service still apply to free sketches; you can find the complete ToS on my Ko-fi page.

I also take commissions for sketches where you can choose how the character will be posed, if that's of interest - it's $1 per character. That commission listing is labelled "Sketch," in case you decide you want a sketch where you get to choose the details.

Thanks for reading!

More examples below the read-more:

[arcane-vagabond]

Still thinking about how someone tried to tell me, a QUEER author, that I can’t talk about politics that affect ME personally on MY blog (where no one is forced to be), all while stating that they inherently believe that women are inferior to men.

Amazing.

[vvelegrin]

I HATE BAD UI. I HTAE BAD UI. I HATE BAD UI.

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

I did not just see someone say I'm not "pro-kink" for thinking incest shipping is wrong.

My brother in christ.

"It's not real, though!" And??? Why would you want to ship incest anyway??

I'm sorry, but no.

[copsecore]

Redacted Audio / Kenju Audio Comparison

PSA: just found this very interesting how similar the two are - I am NOT accusing Xander of stealing Erik’s content

I made a table comparing different character types/video titles and I found that there's a redacted vid that perfectly aligns with every kenju vid - it's linked in the replies if anyone wants it

With the videos, some titles are so similar they're basically exactly same, eg. "Bakadere Empathy Daemon Asks You For Help" [R] / "Werewolf Hunter Asks For Help" [K] and "Tsundere Werewolf Boyfriend Teaches You How To Cook A Meal" [R] / "Trying To Cook Dinner With Your Tsundere Werewolf Boyfriend" [K]

the same/very similar aesthetics

use of the same font (Montserrat bold/regular)

use of the same icon style (from Microsoft)

Thumbnail design - when i saw a kenju vid pop up on my feed, ngl I thought it was one of us making a redacted thumbnail as fanart bc I've seen that been done before

I've seen some people say "oh he's inspired by erik's channel" yes i know, but being inspired and having your stuff be the same are two different things (guys please don't attack me, i dont mean this to be malicious)

I checked on here to see if someone else had noticed it before i had and saw a couple people had - thank god it's not just me

character similarities: I looked at the two channels side by side and I could easily put the characters in pairs, eg. "Grumpy Medic" = Sam, "Biker Wolf" = David, etc

IDK if this is a standard "don't copy my work message" taken from somewhere but they both have the same thing in their video descriptions

[REMEMBER THIS IS LESS CRITICISM/ACCUSATIONS (for now) AND MORE OBSERVATIONS]

paraphrasing plagiarism: "the use of someone else's writing with some minor changes in the sentences and using it as one's own. Even if the words differ, the original idea remains the same and plagiarism occurs"

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than file names

You're more amazing than Deific Artorius

[menthea]

I like clearsky because at heart I’m still a messy bitch I need to know all the tea and this is how I found out after I left TikTok some of my mutuals ended up blocking each other