#review it please

[thedisablednaturalist]

physically disabled person: hi

every abled neurodivergent person in the whole world: Hi I know this isn't about autism but I have executive dysfunction and I really think we should talk about that more not to derail or anything I just wanted to share my experience :) don't forget that not all disabilities are visible! I have anxiety and depression and this explains sooo much!

[theholmwoodfoundation]

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION -EPISODE ONE AND KICKSTARTER

It's finally here! Please enjoy Episode One of the Holmwood Foundation, Across The Moors.

CW: swearing, threat, static, brief emergency sirens, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy, and depictions of violence.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY, APPLE PODCASTS, OR AT THE ACAST LINK BELOW:

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast, a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK, in an effort to stop him once and for all.

If you enjoy this episode and want to hear more, please consider supporting our Kickstarter to fund the rest of Season One. We need £23,000 to make the rest of the season a reality. Tiers start from just £5, and we're offering a range of exciting tier rewards for our backers!

Visit Our Official website for transcripts and Cast and Crew information: HERE

[californiannostalgia]

On Dandadan's Dual Protagonists

I've watched the anime and read some chapters of the manga, and I think I understand why Momokarun works so well.

The antagonistic forces in Dandadan's world are violently nonconsensual and deal with deprivation of agency from women, children, etc. Momo and Okarun are to each other the first person to respect their boundaries. Possibly the first person that they hear apologies from, after an inconsiderate comment was pointed out.

These dual protagonists will take down the other's walls to have an unflinching talking-to, especially when there are things that need to be said. But they always respect boundaries when they're lined out. This is what lets them be comfortable around each other, to the point where they allow the other to come much further into their personal bubble than anyone else.

Momokarun make allowances for each other that they would never think to make for anyone else. They trust each other with their lives. They shared one intense fight for safety and agency, and then they just kept on going like that. They make each other feel powerless in affection and powerful in companionship. But most importantly, they make each other feel safe.

The two themes of Dandadan are consent and compassion, by the way.

Aira hugs the scary ghost that killed her and tells her, 'I love you.' Jiji cries for a demon and willingly gives up bodily agency for him. Ayase "shounen-protagonist" Momo is strongest when she's fighting for someone else's sake. Takakura "my-friends-call-me-Okarun" Ken will throw himself in between the worst monster and its victim, because isn't that just what you do when you see someone in trouble?

Not only is Momokarun a practice in consent, but they're also about that compassion. Within the narrative, the first person Momo found new empathy for is Okarun, and vice versa.

Ah, to be known and loved by the first person who really, truly saw you.

[good-pokemon-center-reviews]

[sugaredrhubarb]

A QUICK GUIDE TO AO3 CUSTOMIZATION FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT CODING

ft adding pink to everything and my secret to writing long comments

note: I originally posted this to twt but if that place burns in a fiery pit I spent too long on this for it to disappear, so I'm putting it here too :)

so many people know way more about this than I do, but this is a step-by-step walkthrough of the changes *I've* made, and hopefully it works as an introduction people can build from for whatever they'd like to do

There are a lot of images in this post! (click to enlarge)

to start, AO3 skins

site skins change how the AO3 website appears when logged in (even on mobile), mine is pink and blue!

I'll have my skin turned off throughout the post so the guides appear as they will for you

to create, edit, and view skins, go to the "skins" tab from the left-hand menu. you can also view public site skins from there or from the button in the preferences.

public site skins are made by other users. i would really encourage previewing and exploring them to become familiar with the possibilities (maybe you just want to use one of them and now you're done!)

to create your own skin

on the skins page, click "create site skin"

if you don't know CSS (same), use the wizard! clicking on the "?" will give more information about each option

I only use the colours section you'll see a link right there for hex codes I use pink as a header colour and bue for accent but lots of people change the background colour and that looks really cool!

submit

The next step (optional!!!) is to add CSS from a public skin to your own. I use "ByLine" by Branch. this separates the tag categories and adds spacing to make them easier to read.

here is a before and after using the fic "Landslide" by @roosterbruiser as an example

to see the CSS of a skin, click the title

copy all the text below the CSS heading

in the skin creator/editor press the custom CSS option and paste all the text into the CSS box

you can have both wizard and custom CSS settings, in mine you can see the header and accent colours as well as the CSS

level up: USERSCRIPTS

userscripts are small pieces of code that modify a website. for AO3, this may involve adding shortcuts and buttons or even advanced tagging functions (computer people, I'm so sorry if this is wrong, I'm trying). I use Greasy Fork and Tampermonkey.

This is how I write long and formatted comments!

Greasy Fork is an archive of userscripts and Tampermonkey is a browser extension and userscript manager. You don't need to use these two in particular. please use your common sense when downloading anything or adding permissions to your browser.

Greasy Fork guide on installing scripts

Install Tampermonkey on Chrome

there are TONS of user scripts for AO3. This is another good opportunity to explore all the possibilities. there are lots of more complicated options I haven't explored.

scripts for AO3

i use this floaty review box

and this comment formatting

EDIT: if you use chrome you might need to turn on developer mode in your chrome extension manager - you can google "tampermonkey developer mode" and it should explain that :)

to install (once you have Tampermonkey installed):

open the script you want in Greasy Fork and press install

Tampermonkey will open, press install again

clicking the Tampermonkey extension will let you toggle scripts on and off, and opening the dashboard will let you view, edit, and delete scripts

i find i can only have a few turned on at a time before they cancel each other out, but that depends on which ones you're using and someone more savvy might be able to fix that

how to use the floaty review box - write more comments!

there will now be a "floaty review box" button at the top of the work, it will open a floating text box you can move anywhere on the page. highlighting any text and pressing the insert button will paste the text with italics into the box

anything you type in the review box will appear in your comment at the bottom of the page!

if you have also installed the comment formatting script, you'll be able to highlight any text in your comment and use the new buttons above the comment box to format it

thats all ive got! Hopefully this is a good starting point to get familiar with some of the terms and basics for skins and scripts <3

if you want some inspo for how to comment on fics i made a whole fic rec list on twitter based on comments I've left, it's here. i have a masterlist of recs there mostly for darklina/reylo and similar ships.

the tag #reading with ru has cod recs and me talking about books

:)

[episodes-without-incident]

Drawfee Bits Wrapped (2024)

Cats (2019)

Episodes referenced: 13 (15.29%)

Episodes not referenced: 72 (84.71%)

This is a 0.40% increase from 2023, meaning the years were nearly equal in percentage.

First reference: January 11

Last reference: November 21

Longest streak of no references: 22 episodes (July 4–November 14)

Shortest streak of no references: 0 episodes (Referenced in the March 12 and 14, April 18 and 23, and November 14 and 21 episodes. They grouped them this year!)

Cascada (2005)

Episodes referenced: 8 (9.41%)

Episodes not referenced: 77 (90.59%)

It's hard to compare these numbers since Cascada counting only began partway through last year, when the bit was near its peak. References are definitely much lower in this year's time period (9% compared to 22%).

First reference: January 2

Last reference: November 7

Longest streak of no references: 22 episodes (February 13–April 30)

Shortest streak of no references: 0 episodes (Referenced in both the January 2 and 4 episodes)

Combined statistics.

Episodes where both were referenced: 2 (2.35%) (February 13 and July 4)

Episodes where only one was referenced: 17 (20.00%)

Episodes where neither was referenced: 66 (77.65%)

It's again hard to compare because of different timeframes, but comparing this year to the last five months of last year, there was an overall decrease in references.

Conclusion

We broke both records of no references this year (bringing both to 22 episodes without incident). I was starting to wonder if I would have to change things up! But as always, the bits came back around, and I bet they're here to stay.

And though I've had my suspicions before, this blog was officially interacted with by the creators for the first time this year, when David liked my post challenging them to a fist fight. Fun times! Also, scary. Get off my lawn.

And, well, I'm as grateful for Drawfee and this community as ever! Thank you all for coming along! You can check my pinned for the full spreadsheets and charts.

[gunsatthaphan]

"do you agree? - yes."

[eeveekitti]

rambley my new best friend rambley

[4rachn1d]

Venom 3 should have ended with Eddie walking into Mrs Chen shop, her speaking through Eddie and talking directly to venom only for them to stand in pure silence before aggressively sobbing and mourning his dead and NOT with a fucking maroon five and the worst Edit on the god for saken planet

[aropride]

one day i will have a little apartment with a friend and my room will be relatively clean and i'll write every day and there will always be fruit on a bowl on the table or in some containers in the fridge and we'll play music without headphones and it will all be okay

[insertdisc5]

In Stars and Time passed ONE THOUSAND POSITIVE REVIEWS ON STEAM!!! this little timeloop RPG has 1000 reviews AND a 99% positive rating now 🥺🥺🥺✨✨✨

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

i puzzled over this for a long time.......and then i realised:

i have to ask: does. does this person somehow think...that javert and petit gervais are. the same person?

[t-hirstreview]

[californiannostalgia]

when a story has a predestined ending and you thought you already knew who the characters would become, but then you're hit with the fact that no, you actually didn't know these characters at all, they were unknowable to you until this very moment when a larger portion of their life has been revealed to you, and you realize, abruptly, that they had lives and losses and the aching desperation of a love they guarded with every piece of stubborn will they could muster, and the unknowable is suddenly rendered sublime for its opacity

[good-pokemon-center-reviews]

hey guys i think i’m going to take an indefinite break from this blog. general seasonal depression + pokemoncenter.com still not working on my phone + just feeling overall really discouraged and Bad. hopefully once spring comes i’ll feel better but i just don’t have the motivation right now

take care

[necromancer-snail]

DBDA year in review!!

In "Ships" Payneland is at 37, below Merthur and above Chilshi.

In "TV Shows" Dead Boy Detectives is at 16, below Stranger Things and above Hannibal.

In "TV Shows Fictional Characters" Edwin Payne is at 29, below Rhaenyra Targaryen and above Leonardo (rotmnt). Charles Rowland is 33, below Danny Fenton and above Donatello (rotmnt). Niko Sasaki is 86, below Sun Wukong and above Sally Jackson.

In "Celebs" George Rexstrew is at 88, below Timothy Chalamet and above Simone Ashley.

I saw a couple people post one or two of these but not everywhere DBDA appeared, so I thought I'd post it myself :))