#mod talks

[pregatron-polls]

this poll has concluded, with a win for idw1!

pregatron polls round 3 poll 1 !!

NO NSFW PROPAGANDA

welcome to round 3, everyone!

prime (left) vs idw1 (right)

[ag-updates-and-archives]

once again got tony'd yesterday but im back and rested now!

[creation-help]

STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND

[shadowfoxsilver]

There's this really cool thing that a handful of diaspora Palestinians have committed a lot of time and effort to called vetting (maybe you've heard of it?) in which they speak directly with a fundraiser holder face-to-face or over phone/video call to verify all portions of a fundraiser. There are so many posts [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] that talk about the details of this process to verify that a fundraiser organizer, recipient, and the details are correct by verifying legal documents like proof of residence, photo ID, fluency in Palestinian-Dialect Arabic, family tree constructions, etc.

These vetters have been posting about Palestinian/Gaza/Arab culture/Islam/etc. for a really long time, [1] [2] [3] (these are Wayback machine links to the tumblr accounts of 90-ghost, el-shab-hussein, & nabulsi before you start crying "but, you can post backdate on tumblr!") [4] (moayesh's Instagram because his tumblr is fairly new) meaning that they didn't just pop up after Oct 2023 to start posing as a qualified individual. They are real diaspora Palestinians with stories to tell and culture to share.

GFM also has strict requirements for withdrawing money, needing evidence of a bank account from a country they service and a solid way to transfer funds from that bank account to the recipient's bank account. If the funds are withheld from the intended recipient, that can be reported to and resolved by GFM.

If you're too overwhelmed by trying to distinguish between scams and real fundraisers, then whatever. That's your problem, not everyone else's. You don't need to publicly announce to everyone that you're too busy/tired/incompetent/ignorant to properly investigate fundraisers, so everyone else should stop supporting them as well. There are plenty of vetters and scam-busting blogs dedicated to helping people distinguish between real and fake.

Donating to established nonprofit aid organizations is absolutely a good deed and is much more straightforward, but it's not the only way to help. Especially with the repeated aid blockages, sometimes Ghazan families need a more direct flow of money to pay for the ridiculously inflated cost necessities (I recently received a video from Farah wherein she states that a bottle of dish soap cost $50. $50!!!!) as well as save up for evacuation costs once the Egyptian border crossing opens. (Thousands of dollars!)

With a few minor parts removed, here is a copy/pasted text that was originally in a reblog but now in its own post since the original account is gone. Links that didn’t work anymore have been left out. I figured it’d be useful for anyone who needs it.

[tmnt-multiverse-election]

If you have filled out the form, please double check your response. Some of you have double picked a character.

Once again, people aren't listening or reading. Do not pick me for every question. Do not pick one character for every question. That is not how popularity polls work.

If you do not know the characters, find information about them, ask creators about them, learn about them. I am doing my best to make this fair, to figure out how to stop this from happening, but no matter what I do, it doesn't seem to be working...

Unfortunately if people cannot follow rules, Popularity polls will cease and I will have to figure out how to do eliminations another way. This is not how an election should work.

Follow the rules. I am one person running this, doing all of this in my less than free time. I'm doing this for fun, I'm doing this to bring attention to other amazing artists. By you not following the rules, I can't hold the competition.

The first Popularity Poll is now open.

Please remember to be respectful and kind. Eliminations will begin next Thursday.

[project-sekai-facts]

[need-him-pregnant-poll]

$5.99 AT THE THRIFT STORE LET'S GOOOO (and I'll get it 30% off cuz my mom's got the senior discount 😈)

[malwaresilly]

Pool day <3

I spent. Way too long on this gdi

Tagging the Malware enjoyerssss

@stormbreaker-290 @eternal-soup @obsessivecelestial @idlingmoons

@ze-slaughtermod

[weekly-eons]

Can we see…your bunyy??

This is Sock, and he is the love of my life

He is difficult to photograph if there isn't enough lighting, but that doesn't stop me with half of my phone album being Sock pictures!

[cookie-lore-keeper]

//NOT FIRE SPIRIT BEING CANONICALLY SEXY 😭😭😭

[a-roguish-gambit]

X men evolution: *has Kurt kiss Bobby on accident, turn into a girl, repeatedly get put into girls cloathing, etc etc etc*

Me: this is a 2000s show he's not actually queer if anything they are probs just making gay jokes

X men evolution interview: yeah we wanted to make Kurt gay but the execs wouldn't let us so we named his girlfriend Amanda cause he'd date "a MAN duh!"

Me:.....OH NVM he is queer! Lovely!!!!

[pregatron-polls]

this poll has concluded, with a win for earthspark, who will face idw1 in the next round!

pregatron polls round 3 poll 2 !!

NO NSFW PROPAGANDA

earthspark (top) vs one (bottom)

[utdr-fractured]

I got a tattoo today of all the soul traits and the artist goes "So I take it you really like Undertale? I got excited when I was assigned to your appointment!"

She walks away to get me a water and

I. Shit. You. Not.

Sans is just there... in the corner, STARING AT ME

It scared the living hell outta me...

[creation-help]

Hey. You. If you're a second language English speaker. You should make more of your ocs your own nationality. They don't all need to have inexplicably English names. They don't all need to somehow conform to American cultural conventions. They should speak your first language also. Holds your shoulders and looks you deeply in the eyes. Okay? Okay.

[shadowfoxsilver]

Some tips and tricks on how to spot scam accounts in general. This isn’t a detailed explanation as I have more info on my other blog but here is some general things to go by and what to look out for overall.

The pinned post is only a few days old or even a few hours old. The text may occasionally be multicolored for the link.

The ask they sent you seems catered to a specific issue or event and looks very odd if you read it throughly. Text might seem out of place or make no sense at all by a health standpoint.

They sent you an ask after following you and have no prior interactions and isn’t someone you’ve met before. This is usually prompted when interacting with a trending post or sharing a post related to certain topics.

The blog doesn’t have very many posts. It’s usually limited to a few posts from a trending tag, a popular topic, or catered to pass at a simple glance if you don’t scroll far enough down. Most posts are made the same time as the pinned and shared seconds apart.

Even if your bio says no aid asks, the account will send you one anyway because they don’t read or don’t care they just want your money and will keep spamming asks until you share the post or block them.

Sometimes the same ask is sent from multiple accounts all using the same story and setting as the account that sent it to you at a different time. Any errors in the text don’t get fixed and it’s usually a quick way it’s a scam.

The accounts usually base their blogs overall theme around whatever is going on at that moment more often then anything else.

Sometimes the ask is about sharing their pet aid post. Any images used may be stolen off somewhere else so it’s advised to ask them questions back and see what they can tell you and if it matches.

On occasion they’ll say to answer privately because they don’t want anyone else to see the ask.

In general, most strangers asking you for money in your inbox found you from searching tags and you need to check and ensure their being honest as scammers unfortunately exist. Not everyone asking for money is a scammer! Just do your research.