#public domain disabled characters

[publicdomaindisabledcharacters]

Oswald the rabbit is public domain, and now, trans and a cane-user! In the first short film, Oswald has a detachable leg, which I've decided is a prosthetic :)

Here's a link to the HD version of this file on the web archive for you to download and do whatever you want with. Literally anything!

You can also buy this design from my Threadless store!

[ID: A digital drawing of Oswald the rabbit, a black and white cartoon rabbit on a white background. Oswald has black fur, white shorts, and a white face, with round black eyes and nose. In his left hand, which we see on the right, Oswald is holding a sign that reads, "Disabled trans rights". In his right hand, which we see on the left, Oswald holds a cane with a black tip. Oswald's chest has two top surgery scars from a double mastectomy, and his left leg below the knee has a curved line going across it to mark a prosthetic shin and foot. End ID.]

[rjalker]

Wow, hey did you know the invisible man from H.G. Wells' book of the same name is albino? That's literally the key to him becoming invisible, because the thing that lets you become invisible doesn't affect pigments, but his skin already does not have any pigmentation, so he wouldn't have been able to make himself invisible if he weren't already albino.

listen here on the internet archive to a free audiobook version

or from project gutenberg

[hauntaku2]

There will be a girl with a wheelchair in my game!

Her name is dolly and she's has limited mobility. She can stand up and move around a little bit, but can't go too far without her wheelchair. She's the owner of a successful tavern (lots of happy customers) and you'll be battling her in my bullet hell game. She's no pushover either!

[novella-november]

Here's a WIP list of my ideas for a full year of monthly writing events!

If you have any suggestions *please* feel free to send them in :D

Not everyone has free time to do a full 30k in November in particular, and the key of learning to write consistently...... is consistency!

Writing in earnest for just one month out of the year doesn't give you much practice, does it?

But 30k every single month can be exhausting an daunting!

So, here's my WIP proposal....

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January [15k total / 500 each day]-- Public Domain-Day Dash -- On January 1st, pick a brand-new Public Domain work, read/study it for a week while brain storming, then spend the next three weeks writing 5k words to make by the end of the month a 15k word short story, adapting that PD Work into another genre / time period / etc. February [20k total / ~714 Each day ] -- Freedom February -- Black History Month. Each week, write 5,000 words each week celebrating freedom from tyranny in all its forms. March [9,300 total / 300 each day] -- Spring Equinox -- Each day, write 300 words based on the concepts of warmth, renewal, rebirth, changing of the guard, etc. April [8k total / ~285 per day] -- April Fools -- Each week, write 2k words of a comedy short story, to end the month with 8k words of comedy. May [6,200k total / 200 each day] -- International Workers Celebration -- Each day, write 200 words about a character in your line of work (or a nonfiction diary/article) and what you enjoy about it and how it keeps the world turning, or saving the world in some emergency, then take some time to relax, you've earned it! June [15k total / 500 each day] -- Pride Month -- write 500 words each day, either fictional or nonfictional, about queer history, pride, solidarity, or intersectionality. July [15.5k words total / 500 each day] -- Disability Pride Month -- Each day, write 500 words about your favorite genre, from the perspective of a disabled character (or a character with your own disabilities), and what kind of accommodations they use in their daily lives, without magically erasing their disability. August [15.5k words total / 500 each day]-- Alien August -- Aliens have invaded! Pick your favorite genre, and each day, write 500 words of that genre, with a plot that gets interrupted by an alien visitation! September [60-100 Pages / 2-3 each day] -- Scripting September -- Each day, write 2-3 script pages for an audio-drama, stage-play, or movie/tv show, to end the month with a 60 to 100 page script. October [20k total / 714 each day] -- Ominous October -- A choice of themes will be decided on before October, two options for each week, and everyone will write a 5k word short horror/spooky story each week, that all get posted on October 31st / Halloween

November -- Novella November [30k total / 1k each day]-- Write 1k words a day to reach 30k words by the end of the month. You can write a 30k word novella, use it as the start of a larger novel, write a series of short stories (such as writing a 7.5k word short story per week), etc. [30k total / 1k each day] December -- Don't Touch It December [6,200k total / 200 each day] -- this is your month of relaxation! Write just 200 words per day about anything you enjoyed / are proud of from the past year, and what you are looking forward to in the future! [6,200k total / 200 each day]

If you prefer to focus on just the longer challenges and spend the other months editing, we can also have mirror events each month for different ways of editing with community support!

Things like Beta reader swaps, doing cover mockups, localization help for those not writing in their first language, etc!

[4witchofmoon]

Characters of my SU AU.

Calcites.

The main villains of the "Achromatic Psychopath" chapter series.

They are related gems to chalks, but unlike them (the slaves), they occupy the highest level in the hierarchy, playing the role of guard chiefs in the White Diamond domain. Their investigations and activities are so secret that even other guard chiefs, represented by the aquamarines, are not allowed to access their documentation unless absolutely necessary. Moreover, there is a hidden feud between the two security departments, and hostility reigns.

The calcites have dozens of conspiracy apartments in each residential block. In addition to fighting crime, these Gems identify dissent and deviant behavior and then compile a dossier on a potential rebel.

In addition to immobilization, they can temporarily disable the minds of gems, but pointwise, not en masse.

These gems, depicted in the picture, live in the capital of the country/sector/district of White Diamond - Norr (Swedish: "North") - a place immersed in darkness, frequent snowstorms and northern lights.

The speech of calcites is polite, kind and endearing. The public is not informed of the full list of their work, so ordinary citizens are not afraid to contact them and even trust them.

The masks are parts of their faces, not a separate element. From the mouth of the Calcites, "cracks" extend. The eyes are white. The arms widen towards the hands. They look like birds and lizards at the same time, as well as chalk. Height is about 190 cm. The hair is long, can be straight or curly.

They wear lush elegant costumes, reminiscent of masquerade. Decorative feathers and fur.

[trivalentlinks]

I made Discount (open source) Tumblr Dashboard Bells as a Firefox extension to decorate your tumblr dashboard!

(And they're already reviewed and approved even though I only submitted for review yesterday!)

You can get them here.

(You can also look at the source code. (Here are instructions for downloading Firefox extension source code.) The code is Mozilla Public License v2.0, which I think means you can modify it and/or distribute under the same license if you like (but I'm not a lawyer). In any case, I'd be happy to hear any edit suggestions!)

Once you've added it to Firefox, if you to go to your tumblr dashboard it should have a row of bells at the top like this:

When you mouse over a bell or type the corresponding number or letter (not case sensitive) it should play the sound and light up like below.

(After opening tumblr, you may need to click somewhere on the dashboard to get the sounds to work.)

The keyboard keys you can use are q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, and digits 1-8, with q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, being one octave below 1-8. ('i' plays the same bell as '1', which is why there is no 'i' bell.)

You can disable the bells by clicking "Disable Bells". Otherwise they will play when you type the relevant keys even when you are making posts :-(

They unfortunately don't look or sound like tumblr bells. When I made them, I couldn't remember how tumblr bells looked well enough to draw them from memory, and these bells were in the public domain. The sound is vibraphone, instead of jingle bells like tumblr bells were, because I couldn't find jingle bell sounds in even one octave. Sorry about this; that's why they're called Discount Bells.

If you click "Play a string" the div should expand like:

And then you can enter a string and a tempo.

Any character in the string which is not one of q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, or 1-8 (NOT case sensitive) will be treated as a rest. My preferred rest to use is the comma.

The tempo is in bells per minute (rests count as bells).

For example, my best approximation of Hallelujah (verse and chorus) is:

et,tt,ty,yy,et,tt,ty,yy,ty,yy,yy,tt,et,t,,,,,,,,et,tt,ty,yu,ti,ii,yi,12,12,22,23,33,21,1,,,,,,e,ty,,y,,,,,y,te,,e,,,,,e,ty,,y,,,,,y,te,,,rew,,,,qq

with tempo set to between 200 and 240.

You can find the source code on the Mozilla link provided above. Here are instructions for downloading source code for Firefox extensions.

Hope you give it a try and let me know if you have any thoughts/encounter any issues!

EDIT: I've made an update so that now the bells are disabled by default, so you need to click "Enable Bells" for the bells to work. (I also made them less loud. Let me know if you think they're still too loud.)

[accessible-flatland-art]

Here's a post with tips for writing your own image descriptions.

If you have Flatland OCs you regularly post art of, and would like to help me at least tag them properly, here are the tags I use for this blog, saved to a notepad for easy copying and pasting as needed.

If you want to help, you can go through these and create a specific tag cluster for your different OCs for me to copy and paste.

Just pick out whatever here is relevant to your OCs, and put it in a paragraph, separated by commas. It should include their name, anything you think people would want to search for (like Queer characters), and if applicable, the title of any stories they appear in.

I have been considering adding tags for the shapes of each characters, so you can add that in as well. (Ie: Rectangle, Cube, Straight Line, Kite, ect)

Then you can send me the results in an ask, and I'll be able to save those to a document, so all I have to do when I reblog your OCs is copy it in and all the right tags will show up.

You can have each character's tags separated by a paragraph.

IE:

Billie: [paragraph of tags separated by commas]

Bomb: [paragraph]

Joe: [paragraph]

I'm not sure what the character limit is for asks these days, but feel free to send as many at a time as you can fit in an ask.

Including the names of the characters in your art whenever you post them will also help.

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described images, described art, Flatland, Flatland art, Flatart,

transcribed audio, transcribed lyrics, lyrics, music,

Photoedits,

Physical books,

Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions, Flatland Illustrations,

Book collections, Flatland collections,

The Color Revolt, Configurationism, Circularchy,

Stylized form, Literal form,

Flatland animals, Flatland rabbit, Flatland bees, Flatland horse, Flatland chicken, Flatland dog, Flatland cat, Flatland mouse,

Flatland technology,

Flatland anatomy, Flatland worldbuilding, Flatland cosmology, Flatland structure,

A Square, A Sphere, The Grandson of a Square, A Square's Wife, The Wife of A Square, The Sons of A Square, The Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather of A Square, The King of Lineland, The Monarch of Pointland, Chromatistes, Chromatistes the Pentagon,

memes, Flatland memes,

Public domain characters in Flatland, Flatland versions of characters,

Public domain characters,

Family Trees, Comic, Animation,

Flatland OCs, Original characters, Flatland original characters,

Character reference,

Disabled characters, Neurodivergent characters, Physically disabled characters, Characters with mobility aids, Characters with disability aids, Characters with prosthetics, Characters with canes, Characters with walkers, Characters with swimmers, Characters with glasses, Characters with wheelchairs, Characters with chairs, Characters with sleds, Characters with crutches, Characters with rollators, Characters with scars, Characters with facial differences, Characers with limb differences, Characters with visual impairment, Blind characters,

Queer characters, LGBTQIA+ characters, Gay characters, Bi characters, mspec characters, Lesbian characters, Trans characters, Nonbinary characters, Characters who use neopronouns, Aroace characters, Aspec characters,

Black Characters, Characters of color,

Irregular characters, Deirregular Characters,

Werestars, Stellanthropes, Shapeshifters, dragons, serpents, weredragons,

Characters with wings,

Sphereland, Flatterland, The Arts of Being, The Breaking Point, Neopronouns in Action, Flat Dreams, Flatterland, Flatland the film 2007, Flatland the movie 2007,

Neopronouns in Action 062, Neopronouns in Action,

Neopronouns in Action 090, Neopronouns in Action,

A 2024 Flatland Summary,

Tarzan of the Apes, Mickey Mouse,

Dayo,

Esther Flat Dreams, Nora Vigenere, Nora Flat Dreams,

Pollux Codex, Madelyn Schwarz-Carver, Hunter Schwarz, Marianne Smith, Michael the Misogynist Pentagon, Providence, Nature, Providence and Nature, Germs, Mr Square, A Shape,

Oblisi,

Liam,

A Son of A Square,

Cy,

Frau Line,

Lily Cipher,

Ruth Galton, Ruth, Liz, Elizabeth Huntsworth, Stella, Orbis, Irene Huntsworth, Mama Huntsworth, Chief Jr, Atlas Huntsworth, Atlas, Vance,Vance Huntsworth, Elijah, Elijah Huntsworth, Jasper,Jasper Huntsworth, 01 Isosceles,

Vincent, Trey,

Rutabega,

Hauntlight the Irregular Line, Cenotaph the rabbit aether, Sirenade the Irregular Multiangulus, Raptigan the _, Avispa Oro, Beatris Baker, Mo Guy, Unnamed characters, Billie Bob and Joe, Billie the Straight Line, Bob the Circle, Joe the Hexagon,

Jerult the Irregular Kite, Cairis Garret the Equilateral Triangle, Letel the Isosceles Triangle, Aralinda the Straight Line, Leteralinda the Straight Line, Ambrosine the Straight Line, Lucille the Straight Line, Carolayn the Kite, Tristram the Isosceles Triangle,

Arsenn Lupin, Arsene Lupin, AScrossover, Arsene Lupin crossover, Ortence Daniel, Hortense Daniel,

Flyssa of Ib-Wa, Dearg of Ib-Wa, Lieutenant Kellite the Configurationist, Grandna Tuokeli,

Vikki Line, Victoria Line, Lee Line, Jubilee Line,

Huffy,

Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls, GFcrossover, The Book of Bill, The Mother of Bill Cipher, The Father of Bill Cipher, Dipper Pines, Mabel Pines, Ford Pines, The Axolotl, Andrew Kryptos, The Mosaic,

Carlton,

Randie,Gravity Falls, GFcrossover,

Spacelanders, Flatlanders, Linelanders, Pointlanders, Hyperspacelanders, Higher Dimensional Beings, Beings From Unknnown Dimensions, Planiversers,

Alternate Universe Forms,

Video, autoplay, GIF, Autoplay, WIP animation, Unnamed Animation 001, Animation,

Flatland Merch, Art you can buy, Art you can print,

Art templates,

plush, plushies, arts and crafts,

Ty for adding it to the original,:), ID added in reblog, ID in original,:),

Plain text ID added in reblog, Original ID in ALT text, :),

[magz]

Big Magz Promo! I’m making progress. I passed my first IT certification. I'm gonna be "babysitting" starting tomorrow. And I'm doing some creative / tech projects again.

My birthday is on December 9, and I live in the “third world” as a multiply disabled black native nonbinary person, with complications.

I do art, tech, and research stuff. And I help others when I can :P (silly tongue-out emoticon)

💚For me:

General Wishlist + Humble Bundle Wishlist (on sale)

My Ko-Fi + My Pay Pal + U.S. CashApp

Commissions - $3 fast drawings and 20% discount for November 2022 (Tumblr Post)

❤ For you:

Freebies on my ko-fi shop (to be expanded)

Tumblr Blog Backup Tutorial (Tumblr Post)

Tumblr Batch Block browser extension revival (Tumblr post)

To be Announced Later:

Charms and Spirits, prologue. (creative project)

Experimental music collection (music project)

Obsidian Example Vault, with note-taking / planning / organizing / reminder templates.

Resources and Help Page (public archive of useful information and links)

My Website's relaunch

My Old Tumblr Custom Themes Revamped

Article mailing list/collection (substack or medium)

...and more.

[Images: A banner of my art. Black vampire, brown doll, princess luna gijinka, cherry pie, and commission art of masked original character with radioactive dog. A public domain golden-colored divider image, with an ornate rose design. End of Description]

[find-me-in-hell]

with sherlock becoming public domain people want a gay sherlock story of which there are already a few if you know where to look.

Firstly: Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint from Doctor Who.

Two women who are married and have been mentioned as the inspiration for Doyle's works in the DWU. One of the women is non-human.

They have not appeared in the show since 2014.

(From the episode The Snowmen)

Secondly: Sherlock Holmes and William James Moriarty from Moriarty The Patriot

Very queer-coded. Features a trans masculine James Bonde. There is a four-part(so far) musical adaption and they canonically have love songs. Not confirmed canon (yet). There are also various disabled characters throughout.

[captainclervals]

NO FOR REAL the way the people on here talk about disabled people and characters is straight up EVIL. I cannot fathom the horrible way they'll talk about things like Frankenstein like the takes aren't already bad enough. The things they say are so destructive toward us even if they think they're just heehawing at a character, the second ableism comes up it stops being funny and they don't even get it

YOU'RE SO SO RIGHT ... you get it 😭 I'm so sorry you're also affected by what a prevalent issue it is but I'm also glad to know I'm not just being overly critical or pedantic HAHA I don't want to be mistaken as just trying to gatekeep a bajillion-year-old public domain book from new readers because that's not at ALL what I'd like, it'd be nice to have new artists and enjoyers and friends to meet! but while it should be fun and accessible and not feel like another high school class full of rules and guidelines on what to write, we also need to speak out on offensive humor and portrayals... not on behalf of a character but because, like you said, it's destructive to the real people right alongside us!!

I have a ball with comedy and jokes! I don't feel like classic literature is a sacred thing only to be approached with academic sobriety, BUT everyone has that responsibility to have fun in a way that isnt going to implicate real world people. a lot of folks hate Victor, I get it, and despite him being my favorite character I'm unfazed by just general dislike because if it's just a matter of taste/opinion, that's fine! I don't like everyone else's favorites!

but unfortunately from what I've seen it's rarely as respectful as that... it's very easy to list the reasons for hating him such as, he's useless, he's pathetic, he's annoying, he takes advantage of/is a burden on his friends and family... and typically they won't go all the way down to why but it's still there: because he's chronically ill? because he's disabled? not going into the moral aspects or whatever, we're just apparently cracking on him because he's prone to fainting and wild emotional spells and spends long periods being bedridden and requiring care, and because he can't/doesn't do something of equal magnitude in return, he's a bad friend and a burden and should have been left to suffer alone? and it's just funny because it's weak and effeminate to have bad health I GUESS? and he made bad choices so he deserved it or something? (the classic "if you're disabled you brought it on yourself somehow") I've literally seen people say he manipulated clerval and walton into caring for him and that they should have left him to die alone??

😩 I really don't believe the jokes are made in bad faith but there should just be more awareness of the fact that disabled people are so apt to see others, even their friends, subtly (or not so subtly?) say "it's joke material to be that sick! people who require care are bad friends/family members and your able-bodied loved ones also think you're a parasite!" it's just so ingrained in people that I'm pretty sure the majority don't even realize at all the implications of what they're using as a punchline. like do y'all think I should be abandoned by my friends and family and should die alone so I'll stop wasting their time and resources? I really doubt anyone does (ufgsj at least I hope not) but that's how I FEEL seeing some of these posts!

this is literally what made me so much more reserved and afraid of my own disability and how it looks to other people! seeing people make that exact kind of joke about frankenstein was a negative turning point in my perception of myself! I honestly somehow didn't fully recognize until seeing people laugh, right in front of me, about how weak and pathetic the chronically ill character is FOR being chronically ill and that he didn't deserve the love of his friends in caring for him when he wasn't able to take care of himself and it hit me that THIS is how people see me!! weak for being disabled, useless, and a parasite for needing assistance in simple tasks while contributing very little to the world! I've become even more hesitant about sharing details of my experience with chronic illness and far more reluctant to ask for help even when I desperately need it—

I very rarely discuss details of my disability, so most people don't even know that it's such a deeply personal struggle, but I don't feel like you should HAVE to disclose your medical history just to keep those around you aware enough to not use disability as an insult or punchline. I really don't think it should be necessary for someone to just rein in ableism politely just while someone disabled is in the company. you never know who is listening or how they feel! so out of kindness and respect it's just the decent thing to focus the victor malice towards, y'know, things like his moral failings and NOT towards his mental or physical health (and even then some of what I see typically classified as his moral failings actually are tied at least in part to his health but that's another discussion LMAO)

and not even really touching on the mental health aspect because I feel like USUALLY people are more inclined to treat that with sensitivity (even though I have seen PUBLISHED BOOKS talk about the whole "victor was delusional and imagined the monster to shield himself from the fact that HE killed his friends and family" thing. which i despise as a psychotic person with paranoid delusions. gotta love the constant reminder that generally people assume that if you experience psychoses you must be violent and always one thread away from a killing spree...). but stuff like having bouts of illness after strong emotion or needing friends to help ground you during paranoid spells or addiction resulting from a coping mechanism ARE ALSO not something to laugh at and call a weakness!

[publicdomaindisabledcharacters]

I gave him a shirt covered in Flatland characters and also a spiked cane.

[Image description start. Two versions of the same and digital drawing showing Oswald the Rabbit standing facing forward with a cane in his right hand, which we see on his left, a pair of shorts held up by a diagonal shoulder strap with a small flower button holding it in place, and a short sleeved shirt covered in intricate zigzagging and straight stripes with dots and smaller shapes drawn inside.

The first version is black and white, the second his shorts are dark teal, and the shirt is a gradient of red-brown to orange to tan going from the outside in. In the first image his cane is solid black, in the second version it is red and covered in light spikes.

On each version, a thin white line on his left leg which we see on the right marks his prosthetic leg below the knee.

Image description end.]

[rjalker]

Random parts from my dream:

Part.....2?

The mom: Oh, yeah, I've known who your soulmate was since you were 13, lol, you just didn't notice the message written in the clouds.

[the person who's just met their soulmate for the first time paraphrasded in the ether: and you didn't bother to tell me???]

The husband, cheerfully: Yeah, I think he'll have something to tell you that I forgot.

[the person who just met their soulmate paraphrased in the ether: Why aren't you upset about this????]

[the husband paraphrased in the ether: because we chose to get married and I know we actually love eachother. a soulmate bond can't even try to compete with that.]

It was a world where soulmates were a thing and forever ago before written history people had figured out that you could easily break a soulmate bond by just. aborting the baby it produced. and then the Magic Eugenics God™ would go ewwwwwwwwww you had a misscariage you're unfit to be in my breeding program get outta here!!!

and then in the future they invented medicine you could just take to simulate an abortion/miscarriage so no one actually had to get pregnant. If you found your soulmate you could just take the meds and instantly break the bond before any bullshit happened.

___

then there was stuff about Flatland I mostly forget...I think A Sphere and A Square went on a picnic...

___

Part...1?

there were 3 rings that were used to create portals to three other worlds. One was called White As Death and had a symbol of a bone. It opened a portal to The Death Zone. Another one was...okay I just forgot what it was called but it was red and had a symbol of a cloud. It went to The Twilight Realm. The last one I didn't learn the name, but it was green and had a symbol of a snake that looked like the number 2. I have no clue where it went.

The Death Zone was where ghosts and other souls of the living went after death. The Twilight Realm was I think an endless dungeon thing. if you ever found the sky it was always pink and purple and cloudy which is where it got its name.

To open a portal, you had to have all three rings, worn by three different people, and you had to use them to trace the same shape in the air that would become the portal. Whichever ring you used last would determine your destination.

The portal making thing wasn't going well because the people were failing to communicate properly and the first time thy made the portal too small for anyone to actually fit through. Then they got in a tent and made the portal by tracing along the doorway. Then they all grabbed the tent and ran through the portal, which flipped it inside out and....successfully closed the portal behind them???

very weird.

___

And then there was this guy, Riowolf, or to his friends, Rioruff. A trans man who was kidnapped by the government and experimented on in a secret evil lab into a partially-transformed werecatwolf (the government wanted 'the best traits of cats and wolves combined with Human Intellect™') before they tossed him back out onto the street. A common problem in this setting, with varying results. The government has not suceeded in making a full werecatwolf (or werecat, or werewolf) yet but they don't care how many people they have to torture to make one.

being bitten by one does not let you become one. yet.

His ear normally stands fully upright but I made the canvas too short. this is supposed to be expressionless since it's just a character reference.

[ID: A simple digital drawing of an original character. In the center top of the image is his face, in the lower left and right are a very simply drawn version of his full body, flipped to show his front and back. The left half of his face (which is on his right) is light pink, with darker red-pink burn marks on his forehead, over his eye, and his mouth, with this eye closed, drooping to the left. His mouth also droops to the left. The other half of his face is covered in black fur, with a tall pointed ear, a grey nose, and whiskers. His eye on this side has dark sclera, a large round pupil, and a red iris. The black fur continues down half of his body and includes a long tail, with a red double-spike at the end. On his wrists and ankles are grey, red, and grey stripes. He wears no clothes,and the human half of his body is simple pink blobs in the shape of an arm and leg. On the werecatwolf side, he has a digitigrade leg and a paw, both with sharp claws. End ID.]

with extra text and also his clothes

[ID: The same drawing above, but now Riowolf is wearing a red short-sleeved shirt under a denim jacket with tattered edges, and grey jeans with ripped edges. On the werecatwolf side, the jeans have been cut at the knee. The front of the jacket is covered in many small black pins, with text reading, "assorted other pins", "he/him pronoun pin (trans man). On the back is a black symbold of scratches left by claws. An arrow points at his closed eye, labeling it, "blind in this eye". Smaller text above his angled ear on the face closeup reads, "not mad the canvas is just too short". In the upper left corner, text reads, "July 22 2024, public domain, Riowolf or to friends Rioruff". End ID.]

He's a punk anarchist. He lives in a time when there's either nuclear winter, or just on a completely separate planet where there's constant cloud cover making it "permenant night". Cities are enclosed and kept heated by some sort of thing with wind. certain parts of the city would always have lights on for visitors from other cities, others would switch on and off to simulate day and night cycles.

Here's what the end of his tail looks like. Not really sure what you call this shape.

[ID: an MS Paint scribble of Riowolf's tail, which is solid black except for the end, where there is a large red double-spike, like a flattened bolt of lightning, or the letter N mirrored onto itself. End ID.]

I think they were transforming people by dunking them into giant chemical vats. It wasn't very clear though.

You can see the speedpaint of me drawing him, as long as the HD versions of the art above to download here on the Internet Archive:

[just-a-space-duck]

Well, guess this is a good time to put this out into the world

Before I start, I'd like to say that I am just throwing my hat into the ring. I am not trying to be the ultimate authority or come up with the perfect solution. Please add-on and disagree with me.

The TL;DR is yeah, patents and copyright and capitalism are terrible and we should do away with them and it is an especially poor take to argue that art trumps medical need.

Now every person out there who defends on some level intellectual property rights has different reasons for defending IP rights, but I'm going to address the reason I had (and still kinda do) for being pro-IP rights.

Copyright and the like say that a specific person gets to "own" an idea, be the sole individual to dictact how that idea gets used and accrue resources from other people accessing that idea (or in less fancy terms, you write a story and then get to be the only person who gets to choose how it's shared and earn money from it if you so choose). But the thing is, that's a terrible idea. Why should anyone have to ask Bob Hypothetical and follow his demands before they get to show their friends his cool painting or write their own stories inspired by his novels or perform a life-saving medical procedure that he invented/discovered?

Why would I, an impoverished, disabled artist, want to defend something that could result in me being sued for me simply drawing my favorite character or taking a pain reliever? Because I don't get to have intellectual property rights.

You see, IP rights as they are presented to us are a terrible idea, but there's this extra lie sold to us that IP rights apply to everyone, but they don't. People who actually make art are made to sign away the IP rights to their loving creations in exchange to corporations for tokens to acquire food while those very same corporations make bank for only the top members by remixing the public domain. Thousands of people gather mountains of student debt and work countless hours creating life-improving medicine only for it to be locked behind a several hundred dollar paywall so the guy who happens to be the grandson of the company founder can profit off of millions of people's pain.

We have all been sold the myth that if we work hard enough or produce X we should get Y out of it. So when I hear a small artist or a struggling student or a person who had to give up on their dreams so they wouldn't die or really most people who aren't in some high level corporate position defend copyright and the like, I hear someone who is tired of not getting the benefits they were promised by being a productive member of the capitalist machine but have yet to realize that the machine will never work in their favor and even if it did, would still be a terrible machine.

But also, it's gonna be a while until we get to that "everybody gets what they need just cause they need it" utopia, so stop complaining when artists charge $100 for commissions but please do keep pirating Disney movies (this of course does not apply to things people need to comfortably live).

>pharma companies monopolize on medication and restrict access to it thanks to intellectual property

>"I disagree, people dying because they can't access the medication they need is an arbitrary unimportant scenario, have you thought about my art?"

alright then.

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Concrete Steps

Concrete steps, quite literally, form the foundations of our built environment. From sidewalks winding through bustling city streets to grand architectural wonders towering into the sky, concrete steps serve as both functional structures and aesthetic elements.

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Yet, their significance extends beyond mere construction; they symbolize progress, stability, and the journey forward. In this exploration, we delve into the world of concrete steps, unraveling their intricate role in shaping our landscapes, cultures, and societies.

From the humble beginnings of mixing cement to the innovative techniques shaping the future of construction, let us embark on a journey to understand the concrete steps beneath our feet and the stories they silently carry.

Concrete steps hold a profound significance in the realm of construction and urban planning, embodying both practical functionality and symbolic representation. Their importance extends across various domains, ranging from infrastructure development to architectural design, societal accessibility, and environmental sustainability.

Understanding the Importance of Concrete Steps

Structural Integrity and Stability: Concrete, renowned for its durability and strength, forms the backbone of many structures worldwide. Concrete steps, in particular, are engineered to withstand heavy loads, foot traffic, and environmental factors.

Their robust construction ensures stability, providing safe passage for pedestrians and supporting the weight of buildings and infrastructure above. This structural integrity contributes to the longevity and reliability of the built environment, crucial for urban resilience and safety.

Accessibility and Inclusivity: Concrete steps play a pivotal role in ensuring accessibility for individuals with disabilities and diverse mobility needs.

Well-designed ramps, alongside or integrated with steps facilitate seamless navigation for wheelchair users, elderly individuals, and those with mobility impairments.

By promoting inclusivity, concrete steps contribute to fostering equitable access to public spaces, buildings, and amenities. Thereby fostering social cohesion and empowerment within communities.

Architectural Aesthetics and Design: Beyond their functional utility, concrete steps serve as key architectural elements, shaping the visual identity and character of built environments.

Architects and designers leverage the versatility of concrete to create striking staircases and grand entrances that enhance the aesthetic appeal of structures.

Whether adorned with intricate patterns, textured finishes, or integrated with landscaping features, concrete steps lend a sense of sophistication and style to residential, commercial, and civic spaces.

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Demigods can have one talent or ability influenced by their godly ancestor's domain. You can choose any ability you like as long as it clearly relates. For instance, a child of god associated with love or beauty may be able to change their appearance or be able to charm/persuade people to do their bidding. A child of a youth deity may age slowly and have a longer than average lifespan. Remember, since the gods stopped appearing in the mortal world powers have been weakened, any godly talent or ability should have clear limitations.

You do not have to play the direct child of a god. You can choose to play a child of two demigods or someone who has demigod ancestry. Remember, though, that you may only have one ability from one god and that the further removed your character is from their divine ancestor, the weaker their ability will be. You may choose a god from any pantheon but please be respectful of cultures as you're building your characters. Keep in mind that deities of marriage and deities known as "maiden" or "virgin" gods would not have demigod children.

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Lot of 'not quite right' in this thread.

The above Captcha type was not used to train AI (at least not by the company that made it). It's automatically generated, by compositing text and a few confusing lines, which means that the system that made it already knows what it says. It is purely for verifying that a user isn't a bot.

Later Captchas did help with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) training because they used words from books that were scanned in as part of a book archiving process, and were being converted from images to text. This made it so computers could read the contents of older books, which has upsides and downsides--it makes older texts publicly available and searchable on Google, but those results are likely locked in Google, rather than publicly available (even if the scanned works were public domain).

The most recent Captchas have been pictures of stop signs, fire hydrants, etc. This is definitely helping Google by providing training data for their self-driving car project. While there is public benefit to having self-driving cars, e.g. for disabled people, and while Google seems to be going about it more responsibly than, say, Uber or Tesla, it's still something that will be owned by Google rather than a public good.

Lastly, Captchas do have value. They are an important tool against spam and abuse, and the internet would be a much less pleasant place without them. This kind of attack against captcha has been possible for a while now, so Captchas have already moved toward behavioral analysys--Instead of just making sure you get the right answer to the fire hydrants question, they also watch your mouse movements and clicks and browser attributes while you answer, to see if they 'look' human. This sounds a little bit skeevy, but I honestly don't know of a better way--most of the proposed alternatives involve requiring some kind of license or proof of identity, which is much worse.