#i think it accounts for more than the other tbh

[specialagentartemis]

thinking more about @thetransfemininereview's Trans Microlibrary Project.

It's a good idea, an important idea. TBH microlibrary preservation projects seem like a good idea in general. My mom used to warn me about internet safety, “The internet is written in ink”—that once you put something on the Internet, you can never fully remove it. But the tragic problem is, that’s only true of the stuff you don’t want spreading—the stuff you actually want to preserve is so ephemeral it can disappear without a trace, and you can never get it back again. Jamie Berrout's work is an eternal preservation difficulty this way. A few years ago, a Metal Gear fanfiction author on Livejornal I loved deleted her LJ account and all her foundational Metal Gear fanfic was just—gone. I go and reread some important blog posts about asexual history and link rot has already set in. The Internet Archive did something phenomenally stupid and as a result faces a credible threat to its continued existence.  Personal offline archives of internet-native work seem more important now than ever.

I believe wholeheartedly in the Trans Microlibrary Project and I certainly have PDF copies of several trans books that it is hard-to-impossible to get anymore (Jamie Berrout’s work, primarily, but also one of Xemiyulu Tapepechul’s poetry chapbooks) and other indie trans fiction that who knows how long the content hosters will allow in this skittish political climate (Gillian Ybabez’s flash fiction and various works by the Trans Women Writers’ Collective/River Furnace), so I’m thinking about buying a handful of flash drives and making my own personal preservation projects:

Contribute to the decentralized Trans Microlibrary Project as described in this post (and this will be an inspiration to read M. Kirin’s book Memory Leak, which a recent review piqued my interest in. Itch.io is a very under-recommended venue for indie queer books!) I'm particularly interested in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and related genre fiction.

An Ace & Aro archive—so much of the important ace writing is on blogs and in zines, and with Matt Mullenwig beefing with Wordpress, I don’t know how stable Wordpress-based blogs will continue to be. Thinking about trying to download PDF copies of the entire Asexual Agenda. I also have several self-pub ace and aro books that are… at best okay tbh. But worth preserving as well. 

Fanfiction. Wanting to have the stuff I like on hand and safe—not even from government censorship or hosting problems necessarily but from all the things that inspire people to delete their fics and their accounts and their blogs. I’ve been burned by Athena Crikey deleting her LJ after years of inactivity and I don’t want to lose so much work I’ve enjoyed over the years.

More projects than that would probably prevent me from doing anything at all lol. But this offline preservation work of internet material is something I have a renewed interest in actually doing.

What do you think is worth preserving?

[scaryorganmusic]

so late to this specific discourse but when i see cynthia erivo feeling deeply offended by a fan edit of the wicked poster simply made to look more like the original musical poster it just makes me think how i wish fans and celebrities had completely separate spaces.

i'm not gonna sit here and bash her for the way she reacted because clearly it was about more than just the poster, she's been facing bs and racism and deep fakes and etc since the casting was announced and i'm sure all of that just overflowed at that specific point

i also don't think the person who edited it did anything inherently wrong, they clearly had an attatchment to the original poster and decided to make a little art project idk it's fine

i just wish people could make and share their fan creations without having to worry about how the artists might take it. and i wish the artists could be shielded from some of the things that might bother them but aren't even that personally about them really, they are just people enjoying fandom as a hobby.

whenever i see "is rpf okay?" stuff i'm just like idk i just hope they don't see it unless they truly truly want to go after it for some reason

i can't imagine being a fan in any website other than tumblr for that very reason, and every time a big creator with a tumblr fandom actually made an account here the results varied from cringe to hellish tbh

[danieyells]

Because zzg wants your money 😔 also possibly sub-optimal team comp. My advice: any diamonds you get should only be spent on gacha so you can get an SSR. Whatever SSR you get, put all of your resources into it. Balancing out your units is useful early game but not so much so later on. I'd find your strongest SR or SSR and boost it up as much as possible.

Also if you're in a server like EA-1 where the steongest players are like 50m on their own, raids will be hell on earth which makes gathering resources painful. If you've started recently and aren't super attached to your guild and haven't spent any money I'd heavily consider starting over in another server, ideally with a higher number. (Tap your icon in the upper left and press the globe with your server number under it, then switch servers. If you have the time/energy/attention span/dedication you can manage multiple accounts and just see which one suits you better!) On average the players will have lower power levels which will make raids much, much easier, which means a higher chance of getting a few more resources for strengthening your units which means advancing further, a little faster.

Also manually make sure that you're giving your strongest units the strongest equipment. Letter grade matters more than number grade but the auto-equip system doesn't always think that. Only give your SR and above units guardian spirits and make sure the attack type you're boosting with guardian spirits and equipped gems matches the attack type of the character. Higher stars on spirits matter more than you think they do but rarity matters most.

Do not buy any of the Mr Mo equipment BELOW LEVEL 100. Save for the level 100 ones! And, when you do have them you will need to, again, pay attention to the stat you're raising with Special Attributes. Your physical attacking unit does not need raised special attack.

Also finding a decent guild that has a lot of active members is more important than you'd think!

Other important things a lot of people forget/don't notice:

Your arena rewards can be spent on bronze chests. You might have some bronze keys already, so buy bronze chests and open them for more resources

If you have gold or silver chests you can also buy their keys with your arena rewards

Everytime you do the gacha or collect the free daily rewards from the gacha you get green feathers. Green feathers can be spent on resources as well!

Guild points can also be spent on resources and keys/chests!

If you put potency and special attributes into lower level warding cards you can untrain them to get back most of the cost and redistribute to newer, stronger units

I always raise all of my units to level 50 minimum and level 40 on their warding cards. This matters more in earlier investigations than later ones.

Having one really strong unit is generally better than having multiple mid-strength ones. If you get an SSR focus everything onto it! If you get more than one try and focus on one at a time!

Make sure you've awakened all of your equipped warding cards to their maximum potential if you've ever gotten a dupe warding card. This will increase your units' strength overall

Make sure if you have warding cards equipped to characters that don't have link bonuses with that card that you check to be sure you haven't gotten a card that does have a link bonus with it. Personally I'd recommend only giving units you don't have the linked card for warding cards that don't have link bonuses just so it's easier to keep track. You may also have to manually choose the better card because, again. The auto system is wonky.

Spam try the investigations!! You can often win them even if you've lost multiple times at the same power level. The rng is just a pain in the ass. I'd do like ten tries one after the other before deciding you might need to be stronger tbh.

If you didn't already know, you can spam tap through the cat rhythm runner for the diamonds. There's no penalty for tapping too early or too late or before reaching a jump point.

Uuh. That's all that I can think of for now and it's entirely possible you already knew all of this but hopefully some of it helps a bit! I wish you the best luck in catching up 8'D obviously spending money is the fastest way to boost yourself but. I would advise against doing it or at least heavily moderating your spending and keeping an eye out for in-game deals/"premium" rewards. Gacha is gambling even if it doesn't feel that way, and it isn't worth it to spend money a ton of money on a game like this.

But if there's anything you're confused about as far as managing your units goes hopefully someone can help if you ask! I definitely don't have the best understanding of how to do it but. I do have a pretty strong base SSR Taiga so i'd like to think, on top of being really lucky, I did something right haha

NINE DAYS

[ghost-bard]

Actually insane that BBH thought giving charlie an egg “named” juanaflippa would calm him down like-

Bro…

I personally wish he had succeeded in his crusade of killing the eggs (not including Tilín since charlie is kind of a prental figure for her lol)

Like him being a cringefail dad/murderer is funny dgmw, but it sort of felt like most of the ppl didn’t actually want to. Help him. They want to appease him so he doesnt try to do anything to them, which. Objectively he probably wouldnt have succeeded.

Honestly i think he would have had some sort of breakthrough with Fit had BBH and Rorier (I believe it was them but correct me if im wrong) not interrupted them. Maybe. But also later in the stream he also wanted to simply appease charlie so who knows.

But regardless i think he should have had a little bit of murder. As a treat :)

Little bit of an edit teehee:

I just wanted to add that him not killing anyone def fits more in line w his character and him more so just mourning than anything else, i just like seeing characters kill ppl thats just. A me thing-

[wonder-worker]

"The feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist being appointed as the day upon which the coronation of the king [Edward V] would take place without fail, all both hoped for and expected a season of prosperity for the kingdom."

-Excerpt from the Croyland Continuator / David Horspool, Richard III: A Ruler and Reputation

Even though Edward IV’s death was unexpected, after twelve years of peace there need not have been too much of a sense of foreboding about the succession. The great dynastic wound from which the Wars of the Roses had grown had not so much been healed as cauterized by the extinction of the House of Lancaster. There was no rush for London, as had happened in earlier, disputed successions. The royal party didn’t set out from Ludlow for ten days after hearing the news of Edward IV’s death, while Richard took his time, too. And the new king had [his mother the dowager queen and] two uncles to support him: his mother’s brother, the sophisticated, cultured, highly experienced Earl Rivers; and his father’s, the loyal and reliable Duke of Gloucester, to whom Edward IV had entrusted unprecedented power and vital military command.

... [Richard of Gloucester] had achieved his goal by a mixture of luck and ruthlessness, and if he made it appear, or even believed himself, that destiny played a part, this only made him a man in step with his times. Modern historians have no time for destiny, but sometimes the more ‘structuralist’ interpretations of the events surrounding the usurpation can come close to it. When we read that ‘the chances of preserving an unchallenged succession were . . . weakened by the estrangement of many of the rank-and-file nobility from . . . high politics, which was partly a consequence of the Wars of the Roses and partly of Edward IV’s own policies’, it is hard not to conclude that an unforeseeable turn of events is being recast as a predictable one. But without one overriding factor – the actions of Richard, Duke of Gloucester after he took the decision to make himself King Richard III – none of this could have happened. That is, when the same author concedes ‘Nor can we discount Richard’s own forceful character’, he is pitching it rather low*.

Edward IV had not left behind a factional fault line waiting to be shaken apart. Richard of Gloucester’s decision to usurp was a political earthquake that could not have been forecast on 9 April, when Edward died. After all, Simon Stallworth did not even anticipate it on 21 June, the day before Richard went public. We should be wary of allowing hindsight to give us more clairvoyance than the well-informed contemporary who had no idea ‘what schall happyne’. This is not to argue that Richard’s will alone allowed him to take the Crown. Clearly, the circumstances of a minority, the existence of powerful magnates with access to private forces, and the reasonably recent examples of resorts to violence and deposition of kings, made Richard’s path a more conceivable one. But Richard’s own tactics, his arrest of Rivers, Vaughan and Grey, the rounding up of Hastings and the bishops, relied on surprise. If men as close as these to the workings of high politics at a delicate juncture had no inkling of what might happen, the least historians can do is to reflect that uncertainty [...].

(*The author who Horspool is referencing and disagreeing with is Charles Ross)

[herecomesthesol]

When I wake up, I'm afraid Somebody else will take my place

Afraid - The Neighbourhood

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@lizardthelizard Holding out your boy tonight ahaha woops!!

[deus-ex-mona]

series i’m gatekeeping from my family vs series i’m ✨ok✨ with my family knowing i’m into:

[fragmentedblade]

Boothill's presentation being entirely on the twitter post makes me think he will be irrelevant in the story in the long(ish) run, and that the game itself won't dwell on him almost at all

[big8cola]

Hi

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

the implications....

folie a deux meaning / folie a deux album cover / pete's bear hat(s)

[sad--tree]

am having the weirdest issue w/ this dvd i bought online, where like, it plays but the video is deeply fucked up and jerky/skipping therefore unsyncing it from the audio (which is fine). BUT. only on the xbox. i found one single solitary review saying it ended up working fine on a regular dvd player and lo and behold, tried it on my dad's laptop and it's true! How? Why? Who Fucking Knows! Now i gotta go dig our fucking oldass dvd player outta basement storage bc lord knows neither my new laptop nor my old laptop has one -_-

it's fuckin weird, tho, right? Like, there were other amazon reviews mentioning the issue but just the one about the xbox vs dvd drive thing, and there were def other ppl positively reviewing the dvd itself and not just the movie (they mentioned the extra features). i also kept finding one-off comments on various reddit threads that mention the issue but never any resolution. i even logged on to facebook (gag) on my computer and scrolled alllllll the way back to 2017/2018 on the movie's official fb page and again. just the occasional comment about the issue and like 1 single reply on 1 comment mentioning the xbox thing ://///

[3416]

CANNOT BELIEVE YOU DID! THAT! just sat here opening links and gifs and articles like damn this is a thesis an encyclopedia a treasure trove of silly goofy gOodness! the world needs all of the 1634 content it can get because that stuff is pure jOy and happiness and dog hair combined. THANK YOU SO MUCH 💙

JFKLSDJFSDLKFSFKL THAnK YOU!!! FOR ALWAYS CHEERInG ME On ABOUT 1634... i've literally been thinking about them like. so much... every day... since september..... they're such goofy guys who just really click for some cosmic reason, and i'm glad so many ppl on here seem to enjoy them too.... UR A BLESSInG <3 so glad you got into the leafs.

[a-commas-a-pause]

Tags from @penny-anna that I think might merit consideration

i think having worked a retail or food service job actually is more important to not being a loser than doing drugs or having sex. the poll that showed so much of this site has never worked one of those jobs was actually way more concerning to me than any of the celibacy sweep polls

[the-bluestreak-cat]

My extremely personal red flag is if you’ve never lived independently.

Do not open tags it’s just a personal vent and I hit the tag limit (30) and that’s never happened to me before ajskdlf

[ladysophiebeckett]

the only problem is that i dont have a 5th season to immediately watch rn.

[snapbackslide]

i have yes! for some reason whenever i get messages i want to respond but i never do! i fear i may be scared of possible commitment or something because i’ve been like this for a while when i used to respond to every single message lol

maybe, it could also be that it gets boring to entertain pointless conversations with people you're not really interested in 🤷‍♀️ the fear of commitment is also valid tho, especially in this day and age with less and less people valuing loyalty to one person...