#knowing me and my shitty editing it probably won't but who knows

[oxymoronicdumbass]

idc that it's not 2016 anymore i listen to finesse by bruno mars and i enter a completely different plane of existence. i can feel my soul lifting from my body i need to explode.

[girls--complex]

So. Yeah. I can do this in the interest of vaguely trying to be helpful. I feel bad about brain vomiting at anon and then not editing myself when this is probably all they really wanted from me.

As you know I'm very much an intellectual who very much has a well researched and developed system of thought that I use and am not, like, just some woo ass freakazoid stoner, with holes in her brain and kind of a shitty education, who doesn't really inherently enjoy reading books. Yes reading books is extremely boring but I love to do it because I am oh so smart.

Soooo I'm limiting myself to FIVE books because five is a nice number. They are not books that require a great deal of literacy or education to read, or else I would not have read them. They are books that give what I feel is a helpful perspective on the Christian tradition. They will be listed in descending order of how much they mean to me personally to underscore the fact that I'm just some guy who is moreover just saying shit.

The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) Read this book if you want the text of the gospels to glow and pulsate when you read it and it doesn't already do that. Or you want it to do that more. Or you don't want to endlessly strive to be happy or healthy or a decent person anymore you just want to live. You won't like it but you can't argue with the testimony of Bonhoeffer's life. And then if you keep reading it you will like it. Sorry that it's Lutheran but no I'm not.

The Universal Christ (Richard Rohr) Read this book if you don't care about being cool or smart and you just want to be fucking happy for once.

Revelations of Divine Love (Julian of Norwich) Read this book if you want to encounter more than you want to interpret, if you enjoy freaky medieval shit that's actually awesome, if you are in the mood to scream and cry and throw up, or if you are considering a career in nursing.

The Sermons of Meister Eckhart (U know...) Read this book if you don't understand anything or if you feel like you understand anything or if you're a big fan of dharmic religions and want to read the Mandukya Upaishad as recieved by a catholic. Whats cool is they're all pretty short.

The Physics of Angels (Fox & Sheldrake) Read this book if you have some type of a heart for scary woo shit or want to develop a more balanced relationship to woo-ology, or if you want an overview of angels in the Christian tradition that steers clear of thoroughness or academic reliability in favor of wild psychedelic speculation and unchecked boomer optimism.

Thank U for asking me because I love to share. I know it's my blog so I can technically post whatever I want but I also don't want to post things no one cares about because that defeats the purpose of posting. OK bye.

[psilliguykai]

WWWW #1: "-iSH"/"William I Wonder"

[context under the song/cut and art commentary in the tags ^^]

“-iSH”

Well when tension comes to tear my life

Can we survive torn in Soul, Heart, and Mind?

Or will we be captured in the strife,

Damned to repeat until we die?

Well, at 23 oh, will I see

If I'm to "be" as one or split in three?

And when I’m just a piece, is there still a “me”?

Or just a pawn for Heart or Mind?

I am a point in time and space,

And we are the truths that we create,

And so when our matter takes its state

No, it doesn't matter who I am.

No, it doesn't matter who I am.

And I'm gonna be myself again.

“Ryan William I Wonder” [Timestamp 1:47]

William I wonder,

Do you feel the sky?

Weighing down on your back

And crushing your spine?

I see how we’ll suffer,

The horizon line,

And we know we’re bound

To come back sooner or later.

Oh, there's nothing you can do

To hide from blinding rays

Or the moon’s hateful gaze,

And the stars are losing faith.

So William I wonder,

Do you feel the sky?

Weighing down on your back

'Cause it's weighing down on mine.

3/31/25 EDIT: The information below is outdated! Just keeping it for archival purposes. Basically, the idea of having to write 20+ covers has been kind of weighing on me and killing my motivation for this project. So ! instead, I'll be releasing a tracklist with notes on what happens in each song soon[ish] and will be only writing/illustrating the covers that I'm confident and interested in. Whatever covers I get to writing probably won't be in chronological order as I'd like to keep this project a little more open ended and free for me :]

The information below on what the covers/drawings will look like is still accurate, but the rest is outdated.

I'm gonna try to keep talking to a minimum on these in the future, but I figured I should provide some context as this is the first piece. Sooo yeah ! Here's the first song in William's Wanton Weary Wiles! See masterpost for context ^^ these will all be released in chronological order, in the form of written Jash-style (changing some lyrics to fit the story) Will Wood covers. I'll be hyperlinking each original song in the cover titles so people can get a sense of what it would sound like, +for credit ofc :] Most of them will also be accompanied with some sort of art piece !! The majority will probably just be little somewhat shitty sketches such as the one featured here (for the sake of my sanity lol. and also cuz. frankly. I like them :3), but I might have some full pieces too at some point. Formats and realistically a few other aspects are probably gonna be somewhat inconsistent as I'm not the best planner, sorry in advance but also. This is my project and I wanna keep it fun and doable ^^

Props to you if you've read this far!! Seeya in the next one I suppose :]

[elaine19day]

Hey guys~ Sorry for my late post, I was super busy today and just came home and only now was able to take a closer look at the new merch and the post that OldXian made. So, first things first - I stand corrected, lol The leaked merch turned out to be real after all. For me personally, quite surprising because it's a LOT at once. (I mean, 58[!!] different cards/buttons/tickets/plates plus 4 special extras……. WOW!!) Also what I mentioned in my last post already - it's quite a bold move to release merch with those old motifs from early manga chapters and calling it "time mosaic" lmao.

Who knows what went on when these decisions were made at mosspaca headquarters, lol

It's safe to say the images definitely got leaked by either a hacker or a person working there. And a lot of people on xiaohongshu were able to produce replicas quickly and sell them to unsuspecting fans. Which brings me to my next point:

The quality of the merch and the quality of the drawings itself. I promised you to address this 'issue' should there ever be an official announcement about these new items and that happened today.

So. First of all - if you saw the posts on taobao or XHS yourself, where people sold fakes, or even if you saw only screenshots from it, you can tell the image quality definitely seemed off. This will most likely be attributed to two things - producing merch from a small, low quality image will make it look blurry and distorted, sometimes pixel-y. And the other reason could be upscaling. If you use shitty programs to make images bigger, it'll look blurry and unfocused. You can go back to my previous post and take a close look at the parts that I circled and highlighted to point out these issues.

Now. About the thing I initially didn't wanna address because I know some people won't like it. If you look closely at the images posted by OldXian herself today, even there some things still seem a little bit 'off' or 'rushed'. There has been speculation in the past that OX uses an AI model (probably fed/trained with her own works) to generate new images quickly and then she'd just draw over them to fix minor issues etc. Please keep in mind, this is just speculation and rumors. I am NOT saying that this is the case. But it might be a possibility. Personally, I can see quite a few artists using these methods to save time, especially when they're under high pressure. (And if they use their own models, trained with their own works only, there's nothing immoral about it, if you ask me. But that's just my personal opinion.)

So there. This might be an explanation for some of her illustrations or panels looking a bit funky sometimes. The other possibility is simply that she's rushing it when working on these things and heavy time pressure makes it a bit messy. Once again - NOT saying she definitely uses AI, just telling you about the rumors that sometimes surface on the net. That's all.

Anyway. About the merch itself. It drops in about 12h from the time I'm posting this blog. (8pm Hangzhou time)

The taobao link for the items is this for now: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?ft=t&id=792490172782 

There are 4 different options and all of them are blind boxes, meaning you'll receive totally random motifs, unless you order a whole box, which will guarantee you 1 of each regular motif. However, all 4 lots have 1-3 limited pictures, which you might be lucky enough to receive, the chance is small though. (In case you order a complete box and there's 1 or more of the limited motifs inside, it'll lack a regular motif in its place. Example: if you order a full box of 8 buttons and one of them is a limited edition button, one of the regular 8 motifs will be missing in its place. There won't be 9 buttons in the box. It will always be 8 for a full box!)

Option 1: (18 Yuan | ca. 2,70 USD each) Button badges. There are 8 regular badges and 2 limited edition badges. If you order a total of 8 pieces you will not only receive the display box, but also an acrylic standee with Tianshan riding a scooter as a special extra.

Option 2: (10 Yuan | ca. 1,50 USD each) Laser Tickets. There are 17 regular tickets and 2 limited edition tickets. If you order a total of 17 pieces you will not only receive the display box, but also a Shishiki board with Mo from the metamorphosis series as a special extra.

Option 3: (18 Yuan | ca. 2,70 USD each) Tinplates. There are 10 regular plates and 1 limited edition plate. If you order a total of 10 pieces you will not only receive the display box, but also an acrylic standee with Zhanyi cooking/cleaning as a special extra.

Option 4: (15 Yuan | ca. 2,25 USD each) Acrylic Cards. There are 16 regular cards and 3 limited edition cards. If you order a total of 16 pieces you will not only receive the display box, but also an acrylic standee with all 4 boys as chibis as a special extra. [Note about the acrylic cards: The Mo Guanshan card will be the same that was already given as a limited extra during the last round of blind box button badges!]

If you live in the US or Asia, you will most likely be able to use taobao and order directly from the mosspaca shop via the app with the link I gave you above. If you live in a country that's not covered on taobao's shipping list, you can use an agent to order the new merch. Please refer to THIS POST here where I previously explained how to use superbuy and similar shopping agents for buying things from taobao. In case you use superbuy, please keep in mind: They don't offer paypal anymore, so you'll need a credit card or bank transfer or apple pay/google pay.

Also, think carefully if you really want ALL of the merch, even if you're a die-hard fan. You saw I have put the rough amount of US Dollar with each item, so if you buy all 4 boxes, you'll have to pay over 110 USD for the merch alone, plus domestic shipping from mosspaca to the warehouse and then international shipping, which can be as high as 40 USD, depending on where you live. (And perhaps even customs fees on top of it.)

If you have any questions, please drop them below and I'll try my best to answer them~

[bizarrelittlemew]

Hello - just for the record, I do not know the person you’ve tagged in your post. I’ve not seen their blog. I found the gif on an image search. It’s also incredibly easy to create a gif from a video clip. So I don’t know how you expected me to know that one individual owned this particular gif. It would have been so much more helpful if you’d have just told me about it directly and given me their name instead of creating this passive aggressive, condescending post at my expense. A total stranger whose experiences and motivations you do not know. I only finished the show two days ago, and wanted to share my thoughts about it. That was all.

if it’s so easy, you should’ve made your own 🙃

OR if you absolutely needed a gif to "share your thoughts," you could’ve used tumblr’s Add GIF function. it’s right there.

listen, i was actually trying to be nice because i could see you were new, so i wanted to inform about fandom etiquette. i also gave you a link to a post explaining very gently why and how to credit gifmakers. but if you’re going to be rude and disrespectful in my inbox about it, i won't sugarcoat it anymore.

i did a reverse image source and found the post where the gif was from very quickly. i even linked it to you and you still put “google image” as a source?! (i see now that you've changed it to actually say their username but it was not like that this morning). you need to understand that the fact that you "do not know them" or "haven't seen their posts" (i linked the post to you in my reblog btw) does not change the fact that you posted something they made and the appropriate thing is to give them credit. i literally did the work of finding the source for you. proper credit is a username and/or a link to the original post, not where you "found it." the fact that a gif shows up in a google image search doesn’t erase the actual source or make it less shitty to reupload without credit.

i don’t tell people to credit gifmakers as a judgement of their character, so i don’t give one single fuck about motivations or excuses. i ASSUME people don’t know how much work goes into editing the kind of gif you stole because there is this culture of treating gifs like they just appear out of thin air instead of being created by A PERSON, usually a fellow fan. all i’m looking for is “thanks, i’ve added the credit!” and not this kind of bullshit because your feelings were hurt by being gently called out. i went into this thinking “oh they probably just don’t know how much work goes into it” but when you double down instead of accepting the help, you lose the benefit of the doubt.

you are also talking to a stranger btw, one who has put time and effort (for YEARS) into creating gifs. the type of gifs you see here in gifsets on tumblr are fanworks. there is a difference between plopping a video clip into an online gif converter and spending hours in photoshop making pretty gifsets to share with other fans. shitting on the people who make them is gonna make them stop sharing and creating, and make fandom worse for everyone. no one likes seeing their fanworks stolen, no matter if it’s fanart, fanfic, video edits, or yes, gifs. but if you’d actually read the post i linked you, you’d already know the feelings a lot of tumblr gifmakers share around this and wouldn’t have sent me this ask

i have several reasons for adding the source in a reblog to the post instead of writing privately. first, it attaches the actual source to the post, which is the main point for me. second, private messages can easily be ignored. third, i have had people ask me about fandom etiquette before and thus take this kind of thing as an opportunity to bring attention to the importance of giving proper credit (and i got a very lovely ask thanking me for it too, so this does help). although MOST often, i just let it go because it’s not worth the energy when people react like you do

i’d advice you to open your mind a little and listen when people tell you that you could do a small thing to make fandom less shitty instead of immediately taking it as a personal attack, because i genuinely wrote it assuming you just didn’t know and i wanted to inform you before you stepped on someone’s toes. but now you’ve stomped all over mine so here you go, we’re skipping straight past passive aggression to just aggression ✌️

[howlsmovinglibrary]

how do you survive writing a thesis? my dissertation is due in three weeks and i am losing sleep and also my mind trying to make sure everything is spick and span and going to require as little editing from my committee as possible

Oh my God, this is a question.

How do you survive writing a thesis? When you're three weeks away from the deadline and REALLLLY in it??

Honestly anon, you get up every day, and you do what you can. You accept the comments/feedback you can action this late in the game, and which ones you really can't - which ones are essential, which ones are the nice to haves, and which ones are unrealistic. Which ones are said by your supervisor without them really meaning it, and which ones genuinely won't make a difference to your fucking thesis. And then, you gleefully start deleting everything that isn't essential from your brain and, if necessary, your document. Because now, finally, you truly do not have time.

I'll be real with you, anon, and give you the advice I would give to my past self, that I also know my past self wouldn't ever, ever listen to. I also aimed for no (or as few) corrections (as possible). I didn't want to work on my thesis anymore either. I didn't want to have to edit it. This made it hurt all the fucking more, when I got them and had to do it anyway. I also got minor corrections which..... wooooo!, but it also meant I had less fucking time to do them in, even though it was still work. Almost made me wish I'd gotten major and given myself time (although I'll be real, this probably would've sucked too).

Idk if you're UK or US or European or elsewhere, so your experience and the rules of your institution may definitely differ from mine, but I think the way you get through submission is by accepting This Isn't The Final Draft, no matter how much it absolutely feels like one. Your final draft is the one where, for better or worse, you've been examined and gotten that committee input. Stop imagining the feedback you're heading off at the pass, and instead embrace knowing that the feedback you may or may not get from your committee will in fact set the goalposts for the actual endpoint, and that this really isn't it. Idk if this is helpful, but I too worked slavishly to try and avoid ever having to look at my project again, and then got really bitter when I didnt magically stop any of that from happening, because ultimately, I'm not the person who controls that. I can't see what is or isn't perfect in my project, this late in the game - that's what those fresh eyes are for, and you unfortunately cannot escape them.

I realise I'm telling another fellow academic achiever to forego perfectionism. I realise the futility in that. But honestly? My corrections, to this day, strike me as stupid. There was nothing I could've done in my final draft or my viva to avoid them, which tells me it's extremely unlikely (at least in the UK) to come out with no corrections. This is quite freeing in hindsight, bc if I'd known, I wouldn't have tried so fucking hard to get no corrections in the first place.

If your work is already at no corrections territory, you're there. And if you're not, no panic or magical last minute ass pull at this stage is going to get you there. Horrible, right? But again, also very freeing. Just proofread what you can proofread, format what you can format, get yourself under the wordcount... and then try your best to let it go. This end isn't the end, even if you really badly want it to be.

As for how you survive (less brutal harsh truth version), please just fucking look after yourself!!! The Final Parts of thesis writing are like a really shitty, protracted labour, and this is one of the contractions. It will be painful, but it will end. In three *and a bit* weeks, you won't be here anymore. With this knowledge under your belt, endure what you can, but also accept your limits and make sure it's not only just endurance. Give yourself little treats. Eat a fuck tonne of comfort food. Make sure you do, in fact, get some sleep (full disclosure, I got sleeping tablets prescribed). Touch some grass at some point in the day. Please, don't run yourself into the ground, bc the end of a thesis is a marathon NOT a sprint.

Wishing you genuinely, all the best of luck!!! Xxx

[utilitycaster]

speaking of jasmine bhullar, she and brennan had a great convo about min-maxers and i was wondering what your own thoughts on min-maxing were? i'm new-ish to actually playing dnd and i still worry about making myself a problem to the dm as opposed to an asset.

First off as someone who enjoys Adventuring Academy but never has the time to watch the full episodes, thank you for bringing this up - I watched just the debate, and it was incredible and hilarious.

This is a good question. I am 100% in agreement with Jasmine here and she said it better than I could: min-maxing simply means that you read the rules to D&D and decided to use them to your advantage. Reading the rules to D&D is great and everyone should do it (in fact, this a reliable way to be an asset to the DM: know how your character's abilities work). There are a few cases where it sucks but most of those aren't actually due to min-maxing so much as shitty player behaviors that can occur in min-maxers.

I think one reason people dislike min-maxers is that the stereotypical min-maxer builds a character who truly can't do anything except for massive damage, and that does kind of suck, but I also think that that is really hard to build in 5e. You're going to have some other abilities. I think it was much easier to truly min-max in 3.5e, and perhaps in older editions you could really break things (in fact, having listened to some pathfinder 1e actual plays, I know you could).

There is also, as Jasmine points out, a false assumption that min-maxers aren't interested in RP or won't do it. This is very clearly untrue and a few examples off the top of my head from Actual Play that are debatably min-maxed are: Deadeye Cybin (played by Brennan, natch) in NADDPod (damage dealer); Laerryn Coramar-Seelie of EXU Calamity (optimized for survival, especially against non-magical foes); Caduceus Clay and Deanna Leimert of Critical Role (both optimized to be healers, incidentally); Orym and Vex, also of Critical Role (optimized to have a stupidly high perception score), Theo Gumbar of A Crown of Candy (optimized to tank and have a stupidly high AC). These are all fantastic characters with profound RP scenes who happen to also be really, really good at a narrow band of things, but they're also not just good at that. Many of them also can serve as the brains or the face of their party; many have utility spells far beyond their area of specialization.

Another reason people dislike min-maxers is they have a reputation for being ungenerous - for swooping in and stealing the spotlight. The above characters, played by some of the most generous people in actual play, show that's clearly not the case. Also, to be honest, a spotlight hog doesn't have to be min-maxed. It's just a shitty "hey, hey look at me" player. I think attention hogs might be a bit more inclined to try to build a character who is really really good at something (again, usually damage more than say, healing) but that doesn't mean that everyone who builds a gunslinger is here to steal all the glory.

Specialization also isn't bad! The reason D&D is a game where people are in a party is because not everyone can do everything! There are a small handful of characters who are a utility knife who can basically do a little bit of almost everything (Keyleth, Fjord, Moonshine) but they are the exception rather than the rule. Barbarians, for example, are a class that usually is structured around tanking and doing damage. This is fine! You probably don't want a party that's all barbarians because it is useful to have healers and ranged attackers and people who can sink all their high stat rolls into the mental side of things because they don't live and die quite so much by their physical stats, but it sure is nice to have a barbarian in the mix to balance out the glass cannon wizard, isn't it?

If you show up to a table where there is a clear gap in party composition (eg: healing) or there's a clear story the GM wants to tell (eg: very social, requires a lot of diplomacy) and you decide not to fill it because you are too busy building Guy With Stealth Bonus of +20, then that's a problem, but that's ultimately a failure to collaborate. Min-maxing for something that doesn't really help the party is simply the way in which you happened to fail that compromise.

I'm sure there are edge-case, dark corners of D&D Reddit builds that do suck, but honestly most of them suck in that they are actually not good (eg: coffeelock). Your typical case of dumping one stat to max out on another? totally normal, totally cool.

Anyway to get to the part of your question regarding not being a problem: you probably aren't! You're thinking about how to not be a problem to your DM, which people who are problems tend not to do. However, the big takeaways of the above are 1. read the rules of your character and 2. build a character who fits into the world. In the session zero, build a character who has a reason to be doing the things the DM outlines in broad strokes, and who complements the other PCs. If you do that, then it doesn't matter if you min-max or not.

[joe-willow]

PARAPPA THE RAPPER - HEADCANONS

This list will be frequently updated

Hi everyone!! Welcome to Joe-Willow's bullshit, this post is where I'll post every of my headcanons about the parppa franchise ^^

They will will arranged by characters (also plz note that I'm not that good at English, so if there's a word or a sentence that looks weird, please tell me (and keep in mind that it probably was a part that I made from an online translator))

And I love talking about headcanons. If you have any don't hesitate to share them in the comments headcanons are so fun to talk about

OK OK HERE WE GO !!

General Potter

For those who follow me since THIS post, know that I gave up on that theory. It was interesting to think about but honestly made no sense. I have other headcanons for this guy tho.

1 ] he has a white skin

This is an headcanon that I particularly like. In my opinion, his pink skin makes no sense, because it would mean that his skin is from the same material as his pot. Like i mean.... It would be hard to move ??? (but yeah ik magic magic there are literally ear ppl but shh) SO WHAT IF ? His body was a root ? Most plants have white roots. With the other colors in his design, it would look pretty cool tbh.. his pot stays pink ofc.

And like funny part of the headcanon, because his body is a root if you look at his pot from under it's broken because to develop it had to break it lol

2 ] his first name is Alain (pronounced the french way)

It was a reference to what plant he could be but it doesn't work because I have searched and I was wrong, the plant i thought of does not look like his (idc tho, I think that Alain is a pretty cool name and it fits him)

Mc King Kong Mushi

Surprisingly, I don't have that much for him. At least for now XD

1 ] he's "blind"

Idk how to explain it but I made researches about fleas and found some pretty interesting things. I'll edit this later when I'll be sure how to write it.

Edit : he can see, but not as we do. It's à bit complicated to explain, but you see, he can't form images the in his mind but feel the light and this is what allons him to perceive tge environment around him

Now.... why has funclub so much colorful lights then ?? I thought that it was something he wanted actually, like, he knows that he won't be able to see well with thos much light but its like..... the . Uh the hype yk the hype it's like it's...... I can't explain..... I don't know........ I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't understood me 😭😭

2 ] uhhh he uses his upper arms more ??

Shitty headcanon because that's just true, look at the way he moves in the stages (but I thought it was interesting to point it out)

3 ] Takomushi

Y'all know me.

4 ] he's not expressive

I headcanon him to say insane things, like, "oh yeah club fun was burnt down yesterday ahah" with a straight face. i mean ig he wouldn't say that but you get what i mean. You do not if he's being fr or not. His face is indecipherable. Is he aware of it ? Idk honestly I should think about it (I'll probably rewritte this one)

5] He never removes his glasses

Because, 1 : it amplifies the sun's light (REVERSE SUN GLASSES AHAHA) so he can see a little bit better, 2 : he doesn't like how does his eyes look like (actually, he doesn't really care but he already got mocked for how they looked like compared to the vibe he gives (they are tiny, round and black like hamster eyes or marbles)) and 3 : because it looks cool ???????

Good luck to make him remove them

6] he's SLIGHTLY younger than Takoyama

Guru ant

Idk man I don't have much for him either

1 ] he uses his lower arms more

I noticed that after watching someone play big on youtube for the 6 time in a roll lol and that is what made me realize the thing for mushi

I think that it's interesting to point it out because in general, characters with more than two arms tend to use either their upper arms more (makes sense, for character design because it's easier to make them move and because it's where OuR arms are) or both pair of arms at the same time. But his dominant pair of arms seems to be the lower one !

Actually, I think I should maybe watch the video one more time ti be sure of that but sometime guru ant tends to really use his lower arms more

2 ] him and mushi get along like cousins

idk because why not

Takoyama

1] he's like, 45 y/o

Or something near this (older ?)(idk I've seen many people hc him as pretty young, like, not THAt young, but personally I can't imagine him being under that age)

2] TAKOMUSHI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Cheap Cheap

1] before working in a cooking show, she was a pretty popular and arrogant rapper in parappa Town

She then got banned from fun club after a rap battle against (and when I mean against, it's AGAINST) mushi. He still remembers it till these days......

She's proud of this era of her life, but decided to do something more calm, now.

2] mooseleni X her ????

Idk I've seen fanarts of this ship and it's cute...

[otomiyaa]

PSA: Back up your blog, check your tumblr e-mail for copyright strikes

Hi everyone, after suddenly losing my account with main blog + sideblogs last week, I would like to share the following warning with y'all. Not to scare you even though it is shitty, but to raise awareness. If this somehow results in me getting kicked off the platform again, so be it lol.

If you post anything fandom* related on your tumblr blog**, whether that's gifs, screenshots, videos, cosplay pics or even fics (?), you may risk getting a copyright strike (up to 3 in 18 months) or even immediate account termination. The chance is still rather small, but just know that it can happen.

*I say fandom in the broad term, so blogs that post about movies and series, anime/manga, games, celebrities, models, sports/olympics, etc. and it goes for gif and fic creators too. Not just accounts that post music or videos for example.

**I say tumblr blog, but this goes for all of the internet ofc. People have been getting this problem on any platform, from insta to etsy, youtube and twitter.

Disclaimer: I am no legal expert, just an unlucky blogger who lost her silly multifandom fic blog after 7+ years.

This will be a bit long and detailed so I proceed under the cut!

What can you do?

...To make sure you don't suddenly lose days, months, and years of content:

CHECK THE EMAIL LINKED TO YOUR TUMBLR. I know a lot of people don't do it, myself included. Tumblr does send warnings (though not always). It wouldn't have changed anything for me because I wouldn't want to appeal - since I don't want to go into this "fair use" discussion for just a fic & editing blog. I personally don't know the chances of retrieving your blog if you protest against the claims, so can't say much about that.

Back up your Tumblr blog if you can. Also save your Tumblr chats with people dear to you if you can. Account termination seems to work differently than deactivation. I was still able to see chats with people who deactivated long ago. But my blog that got terminated has vanished from everyone's DMs and ask boxes à la Thanos snap. I mourn my years of Tumblr chat with my best friend. It was not as if we even considered exporting/copying it just for the memories of the start of our friendship. But now that it's entirely gone, hehe, well. It is sad.

Save URLs and masterposts outside Tumblr. After losing your account, for I thiiink about 24-48hrs (I didn't clock, but it was temporary) you will be able to access it at least temporarily through cachedpages, if you have the URL. It doesn't seem to work for everything, but most of my Tumblr posts I could still see shortly through this site, even after I got wiped off the platform. I did this by googling my tumblr username + certain keywords, and the posts would pop up and give me the URL.

...To prevent getting copyright strikes and losing your account?

Probably nothing - but like I said, I'm not the expert, just the fool who lost her account. The termination e-mail will give you a numbered URL so it's not easy to see which post resulted in the account loss, but for me the keywords were:

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Despite the 7+ years of posts, many followers and a lot of memories, I did not gain anything else from this blog and didn't think it was worth the (legal-) risks and effort to try and get it back. It would require filing an objection against the copyright claims with personal info from home address to name, and consenting to USA legal law stuff.

Even if I don't know the exact details, I'm sure they're not wrong, because whether it's fair or not, most fandom stuff has copyright issues in the end, so I can't protest against the claims with 100% certainty it won't get me in real trouble. Besides, I read about similar cases, lost cases, and admitted defeat right away.

They work with manual reports and most dangerously, bots, who seem to be randomly picking unlucky people to take down their posts and possibly the entire account.

So besides putting an entire halt to fic writing, gif making, video editing and other fandom indulgement, or the inconvenient act of censoring every single word and image, I don't think there is a way to entirely prevent getting targeted.

The one that treated me to the strikes leading to account termination was a certain Mr. Green who seems to have targeted mostly people on Etsy. But apparently now also on Tumblr. More about this I can share here for further information. I also share some other links that can inform you about how far the copyright problem can go. Again, no reason to panic. It's rare and I was unlucky. But it happens.

About Mr. Green, using bots all over the internet to take down fandom related material:

Tumblr post about his attack on fandom.

Long detailed doc from an Etsy user.

Insta post about also loss of Etsy account.

Also Etsy related, but same Mr. Green and his bots taking down something only because it used the NAME of an anime character.

Tweet about him and his company not being officially contracted but getting compensated.

About copyright claims on Tumblr - they are still rare, no panic, I just call it russian roulette and these are all unlucky people like me :')

Post by user @/marilynjeansiims about claims against users who post about Sims, including a petition against it.

Post by user @/happyheidi about Moomin posts facing issues.

Post by user @/hanyusan about olympic related claims.

Example by user @/koov about what a vague copyright warning looks like.

Good news, post by user @/yunghos about getting their account back after filing a counter notice. It seems to be possible.

Post by user @/iamkatehardy about getting a strike for using a gif.

Post by user @/stxrshxpxd about getting their acc terminated for no 100% clear reasons.

Post by user @/tekweela about getting terminated mercilessly because of a reblog.

Post by user @/fromanotherroom-revived about losing their account with similar advice as I write here.

Post by user @/ladyphasma about gifs and US law

Knowing this won't bring lost accounts back, or change the law, I do hope at least you can be better prepared just in case it happens... Better prepared than I was at least.

[mrbexwrites]

Author Ask Tag

Tagged by @mjparkerwriting here, then @talesofsorrowandofruin here, and then again by @the-golden-comet here

Answering this for Mavis' story arc, as she's been spending a lot of time in my thoughts at the moment:

What is the main lesson of your story? Why did you choose it?: If there is a lesson, I didn't mean to include it. I don't build my stories around a lesson or a theme; I tend to focus on the characters and build around them. But for Mavis, the lesson is probably something akin to 'just because your parents tell you something is right, doesn't mean it is' or 'you need to make your own mind up, rather than relying on blind faith'.

What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding?: I usually take pinches of media I've consumed in the past. I consumed a lot of urban fantasy/Sci Fi as a teen (think Buffy, Supernatural, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek etc etc) as well as reading loads of Terry Pratchett and traditional/high fantasy. So I've probably taken pinches of all of these and added elements to my own writing.

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, or help the reader grow as a person?: Mavis starts her arc as an outcast, having displeased her father, who is the leader of her group of demon hunters. She wants to earn his approval and get back into the group, but I decided that wasn't a good idea, so I pulled the rug out from under her feet. She has to face her own biases and assumptions that she's grown up with. I want readers to know that you can learn to be a better person. Just because you've done something shitty in the past, this shouldn't define you. You can be better, and learn from your mistakes.

How many chapters is your story going to have?: Confession time- I don't write in chapters. I write continuously, and then break down my scenes into chapters when I'm editing. Therefore, I have no idea how many chapters that I have.

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?: Original content, and I'll probably post it onto Wattpad.

When did you start writing?: I've always sort of written silly stories for myself, and started writing my first proper full length novel when I was about 15. I started to take my writing seriously* during the pandemic. *When I say 'seriously' I mean that I've actively tried to improve and hone this skill with the hope of sharing my WIPs, rather than just hoarding them in my google docs folder!

Do you have any words of encouragement for fellow writers of writeblr? What other writers do you follow?: Other, better, writers than me have wiser words to share when it comes to advice. But that said, find the advice that works for you. What works for others won't necessary work for you. By all means, give it a try, but if it doesn't serve you, then just let it go and find something that does.

Passing the tag onto @spideronthesun @cowboybrunch @sarahlizziewrites @queen-tashie @museandquill @jmhwritesstuff @tpbwrites and leaving an open tag for anyone who'd like to share

[roxtron]

Pinned post/About me thing

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you can call me whatever, i usually go by some variation of my username but i don't mind nicknames and stuff

he/they

i'm autistic so my posts will probably vary by whatever/whenever certain special interests/hyperfixations are stronger at the time

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A bit of info about what I post/reblog

i make original art sometimes but art block has been really tough so unfortunately i don't have a lot to post lately :(

besides that I'll usually make either rambling or analysis posts on whatever subject I'm posting about, usually fandom related. occasionally theories but that depends on if what I'm posting about really leaves room for theorizing.

I reblog pretty casually on here so it can range from stuff i find funny to stuff i think could use awareness, fandom-wise this blog somehow became pretty fnaf centered lol, not quite sure how that happened but i still consider it my main.

if i reblog other people's art or analysis I usually try to leave my thoughts in the tags, but sometimes I have a hard time thinking of what to say so sorry if I reblog your work and don't say anything/don't seem enthusiastic about it, if I reblog something it's because I adore it lol, I just don't always know how to put thoughts into words. <3

and as a side note, while I do try to check blogs of people I reblog in case it's a terf or whatever, sometimes you never know, so if I do reblog something from someone who's done something shitty don't hesitate to let me know with an ask or something because chances are I probably don't know lol.

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Boundaries stuff I guess.

I know DNI lists are annoying and pointless but whatever, if there's a chance it'll get people to leave me alone it's worth it. I shouldn't need to list obvious ones like terfs, transphobes, homophobes, all those assholes. But also, if you don't like one of my posts, I'd rather you block me and move on than hate reblog it. It's immature and annoying, and I won't hesitate to block people that do it.

Obviously I don't just mean "if you criticize something I post you're bad," I'm alright with criticism as long as it's respectful, but if you're gonna reblog just to say "look at this idiot" then fuck off.

Sorry about how aggressive that may have been but I don't wanna deal with stuff like that. I've dealt with it in the past and it sucks, if you don't like me, that's perfectly fine, but just block me and move on. Onto a more positive topic.. If you wanna use my art for pfps or anything that's really cool actually!! Ofc I'd ask for credit but if anyone did want a pfp of something I've drawn you can always send me an ask and I'll post a zoomed in version or something or make whatever edit you wanted so you don't need to worry about it lol Besides all that you don't have to worry about interacting with me, if you've got any questions whether that's related to me or my blog you don't have to hesitate to send an ask if you want :)

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Sideblogs

I've recently made sideblogs for other fandoms people don't follow me for here. I figured it'd be easier to separate them but mostly for spoilers' sake. Sure I try to spoiler tag but people aren't gonna block spoiler tags for fandoms they're not in if they see it and I'd hate to spoil someone for a series they could've had the chance to go into blind. That being said, please don't follow my other blogs unless you already know the spoilers for whatever fandom the blog's centered around. As much as I appreciate support I'd hate for you to get spoiled and I'd much rather wait for you to play the game yourself <3 (since as of now they're both video game fandoms..) @roxtron-kh (Kingdom Hearts)

@roxtron-gt (Ghost Trick)

----------------------------------------------------------- Woo I think that's everything! Finally I can get to the tags section of this long-ass post.. I wanna try to tag things more properly in the future, even if I'm not really big enough to warrant it, I still wanna be able to find my own stuff easier at least through the sea of reblogs, so if you're curious about any of my posts, here's a list of tags you can look through! I'm currently trying to update some of my old posts with tags so they can be added to the list.

[silver-heller]

Allo sexuals really be out here like "What? We're not so sex obsessed it leads to the decisions we make or causes us to make certain cultural pushes" and then use said sexuality to justify normalizing shitty behavior or saying harmful shit. "But it's my kink!". Okay. Using your kink to justify being an asshole is what literal sexual predators do, and I have it in good faith a lot of people who say this aren't trying to be one. Being sex positive does not have to mean putting your kink above all else.

Like look, I'm sure some aces are doing it too, but I still think this behavior is very strongly linked to allo culture, and, in general, allo culture just does not go challenged enough.

I also think people have just been poisoned with this idea sex positivity means posting literally everything online. Like, even if it will look terrible out of context and isn't the type of thing that does well when exposed to large audiences. There's a lot of horny stuff I write but don't post either because it was purely to process something or just because that's what got my horny brain off at the time, yet this means it is unrefined and I understand how elements of it won't translate well to a general adult audience. But, with consent, I will share them with trusted friends and partners because they know me and they know the context.

Using "it's a kink!" to assure strangers you aren't an asshole or aren't X or Y thing is useless when a lot of personal context goes into these things. Not to mention "it's a kink!" does not protect you from making content bigots or predators adore, and therefore fostering environments for them, because it feeds into their points of view. I don't shame myself for the writing I don't post, but not shaming myself does not mean ignoring the fact "this thing you wrote off the cuff when you were horny and don't plan to edit probably would look bad without the oddly specific context, thought process, and backstory you were dreaming up at the time when you wrote it that isn't explained in the actual text."

Creating art just to make people horny is fine, but, just like when writing minorities, its important to consider "am I accidentally contributing to harmful stereotypes, and, if so, would this work be best kept to myself and close friends rather than posted publicly?", I think horny fics are the same. Because horny fics are not exempt from this. There's a reason a lot of asexuals are trying to explain to allo folk, "writing smut with asexual characters is fine, we're literally just asking y'all to self reflect and make sure you are actually writing an ace character, and not an ace character that suddenly grew sexual attraction cause sex." (To be clear, by ace I am just referring to asexuals and not the spectrum, cause of course some asexuals on the spectrum may feel sexual attraction).

[lizard-reads-the-world]

Disabled Artist needs housing help

Hey. I'm an enby person with several chronic illnesses. I work from home to support 3 people on my own. I usually (note: usually) barely make it to rent, but this month everything has seemed to come down at once and I'm going to be approx. $900 short. [Edit: As of 10/25 I will be $655 short] I can probably make up a 1-2 hundred of that in a few days, but it's not going to be enough.

This is especially terrifying because moving is highly traumatic to my partner. We've been evicted twice in the past 3 years (once for financial reasons, and the last was a shitty discriminatory management company) - and I don't think we'd make it through another, and I'm not even being hyperbolic. And paying late AT ALL means shitty companies won't renew our lease. I am seriously terrified. Not being able to have these few hundred will be literally life-destroying. I already live every day expecting a flare-up to put me in the hospital again, because that's what stress does to me, every time.

Can anyone help us out with mutual aid? Earlier today I donated $5 to an artist who has helped me, with the hope it can come back around. Anything is helpful. I'd even do a peer-to-peer loan if that's a thing.

Payment links:

Paypal | Venmo : Piichann | Shop: one two | Ko-fi

!! Please signal boost !!

I am just so tired of us all being forced to destroy our bodies, destroy our lives, just to live. And still not be able to pay for basic housing and food. I really want people to unite around mutual aid. Support each other. (And anyone is more than welcome to add their needs to this post) People shouldn't need to wade through paperwork and Telegram scammers to get help.

Society just doesn't need to be like this, and we should be able to change it. I think if everyone tried to, we really could. Unite together. I don't exactly know how we get there, but we should all be sick of this. I know I am. And I will, and do, give back when I can.

❤️❤️ Free Kitty Pic ❤️❤️

To the below people, not all of you follow me, but I enjoy seeing your posts every day! Thanks for keeping me a little bit sane.

@the-bookler @kyliereads @yourneighborhoodbibliophile @therefugeofbooks @thereadingchallengechallenge @just0nemorepage @disabled-dragoon @dragonbadgerbooks @lizziethereader @asexualbookbird @godzilla-reads @richincolor @good-books-to-read

Maybe these nice people could help signal boost too:

@helppeople @donations-mutualaid @goodpeopledeeds @anarchblr @boost-the-signal @lgbtdonate @mutualaidforalll @nonbinary-support

[nono-bunny]

Every once in a while I wake up enraged because I remember Persona 3 Reload won't have femc and thus has 0 appeal to me.

Like?? P3 is an incredible game, even at its baseline, but. I already watched playthroughs of FES and played P3P myself. I know the game! Updated graphics and mechanics aren't enough for me to want to buy and play through the story of the less fun protagonist, y'know? Him being canon doesn't erase the fact that femc has better social links, better music, and like? On a personal level, yes!! I sure do enjoy playing as a character with my own gender much more, thank you very much!

Reload coming out so shortly after P3P finally becomes easily PC accessible is genuinely them shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to players like me who really don't care about all the bells and whistles- the animated cutscenes are nice, and yet, I never missed them when playing through P3P. What I would undoubtedly miss though, would be the ability to go through my favorite route of the game.

Honestly? Yes, I would buy femc and The Answer DLC if they released them and THEN pick up the game, but I WOULD be pissed about it, and unless and until they do that I'm just... Not touching it. Reload isn't what it should have been and it's forever gonna be a disappointment to me, and based on what I saw online? Many other people. It's still probably gonna do well, and like? That's probably the only way we're ever gonna get DLCs later on, but. I'm also certain they really alienated fans aside from myself that would have otherwise bought this game with how they chose to just have it be it a modern remake rather than a definitive edition, and that was just. A bad call with shitty excuses

[pixelkip]

hii we used to be pals back when u were drawing hazy river stuff! i think your art is still amazing and its cool to see u keeping up with it!!! :3

-people who have no idea what this ask is referring to please feel free to ignore all this-

Hi anon! First of all id say "keeping up" is a bit generous- i kinda just like stuff i see now and then. Glad you enjoyed my art. I feel like i should take this opportunity to say some things but mainly- if anyone else knows me from when I was doing this stuff please know I AM A CHANGED PERSON NOW. As much as I had a lot of great experiences in that fandom and made some art and music i'm really proud of, there's also a lot of shit I wish I could un-make, or un-be-a-part-of, and people and projects I wish I could un-have-anything-to-do-with! I'm sure anyone else who was in the fandom at the time will know some of what I'm talking about and I don't want to have to recount it all in agonizing detail!

More under the cut my feelings about this are . Lengthy. And probably a bit of a downer. Cw for vague discussion of category 10 fandom bullshit my old hazy moots are probably somewhat familiar with already (though I'd implore you to read this anyway even if you already know)

There were some people in that fandom back a couple years ago that I and others ended up realizing were incredibly gross or shitty or doing things I wouldn't condone in a million years. Again, if you know you know.

Afaik that shits considered sort of over and done with and one person in particular who was quite popular and whose behavior made a LOT of people, myself included, feel deeply uncomfortable or unsafe has long been called out and ousted from the community more or less.

I knew this guy. They tried to defend some of the behavior they'd eventually be called out on to me personally. I was too scared to say anything publicly and starting shit with this person bc they were very popular and really nasty to anyone who criticized them. I regret that to this day and I'm greatful other people came out with actual proof that yea, this guy was a piece of shit. I won't mention them by name because again, if you know you know!

Edit: can't believe I didn't clarify but this didn't happen over text so I didn't have receipts anyway..

The only reason I feel comfortable interacting with anything hr related anymore is that a good few people I knew who I know weren't ok with what the person in question did still seem cool with hr as a whole and I can only assume that things were.. resolved more or less. At least that's what I hope is the case.

Edit 2: i didn't like how I worded the section here originally so I've opted to remove it. It'll suffice to say I personally was stressing over about the possibility that, from what I knew about the whole mess, hr's creators could've known what this person was doing and chose not to say something but I seriously doubt it and it'd be disingenuous to say that's even remotely true. Still, my own anxieties about it dissuaded me from going back to the fandom.

I think I've for the most part deleted stuff related to anything I particularly didn't wanna be associated with anymore. I might have to comb through some of it again idk.

That being said it's not all bad. Seeing new art of these characters gives me hope that the community is going in a better direction now and makes it feel a little better about the fact that on some level I'm still kind of attatched to them. And like I said, I'm still proud of the art I made in and of itself. I learned better anatomy, got better at music, I made myself learn basic vocal synth skills and pushed the very limited free software I had to its limit.

I don't think many other pieces of media have gripped me the way the hazy river characters did and that makes it even more difficult for me to process all the bad shit.

Tldr- shitty person in the hr fandom made me deeply wary of the fandom as a whole and its creators and I'm still not entirely satisfied with how it all turned out but if the people who denounced what this person did are cool with it, it might be ok? I don't know? I'm still a little worried?? Please tell me if I'm missing something?? Like actually tell me idc if you do it in asks or dms but closure would be nice. I promise I'm not trying to start shit I just wished I had answers idk. Sorry to anyone if this is sort of opening up old wounds for lack of a better term.

And if anyone is uncomfortable with anything I made or was involved with during my time in that fandom- I really am sorry. Chances are it's something I now feel really gross about too. I got caught up in what other people were doing and making and didn't want to question whether some of it was.. kinda not good.

If you read all this thank you. It feels nice to get it off my chest.

[kawhh]

As someone who LIVES for your tiktok edits and was so scared abut the ban that i downloaded them

Your quinn blurbs make me so happy i don’t why but like being a tiktok fan first and then coming over here? LIKE omg i feel i know you for some weird fucking reason

Watching your edits i was like ‘…There is no way someone with this talent just edits…There’s something here’ AND I WAS RIGHT

PLEASE DON'T BE TOO SCARED ABOUT THE BAN (please sell tiktok, it sucks and it's dumb and it's being done for shitty reasons and extended for shitty reasons but I enjoy the platform) I STARTED POSTING THEM ON MY INSTA AND I ALSO HAVE THIS:

It's all my edits that I've done on after effects so it's best sorted by new - I was very bad at first. I update that first before I even post and it'll never go away. Link won't change either. The most I might do is eventually sort them into folders but I'm also lazy, so, probably not.

I'm happy you like the blurbs! I'm not against writing more, uh, normal ones too. Even though that's hilariously harder for me. It's the same with making 'hot' edits being easier than wholesome or cute ones for me.

I fear I've always been a whore.

I'M CRYING AT THE TALENT COMMENT. The gif making is new for me. I've been doing it for a few months. The writing is incredibly new for me, if you can call it that. I just wanted to fully dive into this side of it instead of just watching and editing.

I wanna be here for years and make friends.