#which is what happens to read mores if you change your url or delete the original post

[12percentspider]

No you know what, I'll slap it together.

So our first bit of evidence comes from the new blog itself.

Now if you compare to the other insulin scammer I've looked at, this one acts a lot more like that paypal-jumper scammer from a while ago. About that time, though, I got an angry anon (lol) to mind my own business. Funnily enough, I had at the time assumed it was from the insulin scammer that was going around then, but actually, I may have been hit by "apollo's dodgeball"...

The cipher at the bottom of the reply?

"But Spidermod, that doesn't-" Hold on. Let's get back to the current scam for a second. [And here's where I put a cut, because it's going to get long and very uh, "Charlie in the mailroom".]

So the first thing of note here is that it's the same exact scammer. But I didn't go looking up Key's post until AFTER I had found the old URL. I needed the url in order to do that. See, it turns out that my twitter investigation turned out a reply that upon donating, someone got harassed by money requests. The user denied this and claimed to be unable to do so. [Reminds me of someone!]

I had a name to work with from the twitter and stumbled across this. Of course, the OP was deactivated. So uh, that's when I decided "I bet Key's got it archived". CORRECT. So if you look at the original version of the post with the archived "old paypal", a smashed-in version of the name given looks a lot like uh... wanngera.

Which happens to be another scam blog that I tracked to a twitter with an extremely similar twitter-matching situation. It just so happens that this time someone called out the scammer for spamming, and I was able to see that before it was deleted. This previous one though, that went down really fast before there could be any further slip-ups.

So I think it was last Tuesday 11/7 when a blog had the exact same scam as the wanngeras blog up. I had not registered the url in my mind and there wasn't proof yet so I didn't make a proper post about it until I remembered it was familiar. I also uh, was out for the count that day. HOWEVER. The only blog that didn't have THAT good of proof yet was 'milkydonutsh'. //Laura admitted to being milkydonutsh.

Below link: LONG AS HELL but it has a detail that I further want to take into consideration. It's important and probably a helpful read but the whole thing isn't immediately relevant to this post, most of it is context at this exact moment.

So there was the "cancer girl that didn't get very far" and that blog was deleted very quickly. I propose that that particular blog was wanngeras. Laura's known for taking her crap to twitter.

I propose that since the widelys blog (also Laura) whose story mirrored a twitter I found and the fact that I was able to get the exact same situation for the wanngeras blog, AND the fact that the same thing came true for the current scammer... the current insulin scam is in fact Laura Deramas.

If you research/know Laura's general tactics/behaviors it matches up actually pretty well. To the point where even if anyone else were to admit to this [extremely likely not], they'd have to be absolutely hellbent on copying her for some weird reason or another, and I doubt anyone would attempt that.

[jupitermelichios]

@jughead-is-canonically-aroace (great url btw) asked me to make my additions to this post rebloggable on their own. for reference if anyone wants it, this is a pretty good write up of the whole ongoing situation

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Having read the thread, along with a number of other connected threads, there is no reason the believe AO3 is going to go down

(that's not to say you shouldn't back up your own fics, or save copies of other people's fics for personal use, it's always a good idea to have backups)

the linked thread is discussing institutional problems with OTW's Legal and Policy & Abuse committees (although the latter primarily in the ways the thread's author believes they are being negatively impacted by legal)

It's primarily a conversation about the OTW having structural problems and being slow to react/change when needed, but three accusations of specific breaches of the law which could get the OTW into trouble are made:

That the OTW does not retain works PAC identify as containing CSAM/CSEM for the legal minimum period of 90 days

That the OTW suspends rather than deletes the accounts of those identifies as being under 13 so that they can restore the account once the user is over the minimum user age, which is a breach of COPPA

Same as above, but this is a breach of GDPR

None of these could get AO3 taken down, and 2 of them are provably untrue

Systems have confirmed the first point is not true. While works are not retained on the archive for the 90 days, the archive keeps complete back-ups for longer than that, so the work can be restored if needed by the authorities. This is, as rahaeli points out, a pretty inefficient way of handling things, but being inefficient is not a breach of the law

Rahaeli corrects themself in their own thread when they realise that COPPA does not apply to the specific type of non-profit AO3 is, so that's moot

The GDPR point is slightly more complicated. I'm not a lawyer, but I work in the finance industry in the UK handling massive quanities of personal data, so I am required by law to be trained on GDPR.

Email addresses are not automatically personal data under GDPR. They can be, but only if they contain other personal information. So if your email is brony47@gmail, that's not personal data. If it's john.smith@company it is, because it contains your wallet name and employer. So, while it's fairly unlikely when dealing with AO3 accounts belonging to under 13s, especially as school issued emails are basically never wallet names because they just deal with too many people for that to be sustainable, it is technically possible that retaining this info is a breach of GDPR.

However, even if AO3 was found to have breached GDPR, that would not result in the website being taken down with no warning or fics being purged. That's not how any of this works.

AO3 would face fines (I don't actually know how those fines work for non-profits, since they're usually a % of annual turnover - I assume donations would be treated as turnover for the ICO's purposes, but I may be wrong about that).

It's possible that fine could be steep enough that the archive couldn't meet server costs and would ultimately need to shut down, but the ICO do not possess the ability to shut the site down, and AO3 owns its own servers so if the worst happened and the archive shut down, they would have plenty of time to warn people. It would not just vanish, that's not what the ICO does.

(The specific affected account would be need to be deleted, but since it would already be suspended and invisible to users, that would not affect any end-users)

(Also the entire process of it going through the ICO and being debated to get to the point of the fine would probably take at least a year, this is a massive pan-european beauracratic body, it is not famous for its efficiency)

None of this is me saying rahaeli doesn't have valid points, or that reform isn't needed, generally I agree that it is, and I think rahaeli's suggestions about what to change sound reasonable, although I'm not an expert and not on either of the affect teams, so that's just some rando's opinion.

But the this post is not about that, this post is about people worrying about the archive being taken down, and again, that is not what is going on here!

TLDR; back up fics if you want, but AO3 is not in legal trouble, and even if it was, the type of legal trouble being discussed would not result in the entire archive just going down without prior warning

Additionally, since a few people mentioned this in tags and reblogs, AO3 is set up in such a way that there is almost no risk of a griffindor's tower 'mod infighting tanks the website' type situation. No one committee has that power, and the OTW has lost its entire board before now and AO3 continuted to function. (That's actually part of the cause of the problems being discussed, because decentralised power makes it resistant to infighting, but the pay off is that it's slow to change, because it requires a lot of different officers and other volunteers to work together)

[elvensemi]

As someone who posts fic to Tumblr and who has friends who post fic to Tumblr and who reads fic on Tumblr... I gotta say, Tumblr is a terrible place for fic. XD Change your url? All of your links are broken now. If anyone who ever used read mores (which is everyone) deletes or IS deleted, all their fics are Gone Forever. It’s incredibly difficult to tag anything that’s nsfw because any words related to that (like nsfw) will result in the post potentially not showing up in any of the other tags it’s been tagged with. How exactly the tagging and search functions work is a mystery that potentially not even the staff know because Tumblr was haplessly spaghetti coded for so long and the current staff are still desperately trying to comb it out. It’s the digital equivalent to graffiti-ing your fanfic on a wall. 

You don’t need to stop and I don’t have a point, it’s just funny to me. I literally just saw a fanfic where the author had deleted their entire blog in the time it took someone to queue it up. It’s like a ghost now, it’s the echo of a fanfic. I touch the like button. Something bad happened here. I really just need to suck it up and learn the exact combination of tags on Ao3 that will get me what I’m looking for. 

[systematic-advice]

From Syscourse to Agony Auncles

Hello and welcome to our page. You might have known us at the start as ‘Fuck-Endo-Ablisim’ and when we started on this blog we were only here for Syscourse. Through some unfortunate happenings we��ve come to find there are more than Endos and Tulpas to battle against. The DID/OSDD Community battles every day against discrimination, misinformation, appropriation and invalidation. I’m sure there are other ‘ations’ in there too. Denial and the feeling of being isolated are also common, which is where we come in. Below we’ll explain what you can send to us and what we participate in as well as a small bit about us. We hope you enjoy your stay here. Our inbox is always open.

➼ What We Do Here ❖ ~

Our aim is to provide a space for Systems to express themselves, ask questions and gain information. We’re looking to make a little corner of the internet where Systems feel safe and validated. We’re also here to learn ourselves! We’re always growing and always trying to understand ourselves and the world around us more. If you spot something we’re misinformed on, please bring it to us! As long as you have evidence to back it up, we’re willing to examine it.

➼ What We Accept ❖ ~

Syscourse related asks/ links ~ We do accept any and all Syscourse related asks, but this does not mean we owe you an answer. If you send us hate, we might feel like replying, but chances are it will be deleted. We are also not obligated to give you a platform for misinformation. If we know something to be false and we have already explained why- we will delete your ask. Think before you send, please.

Rants/ Vents ~ Well, ‘Agony Auncles’ is in the URL for a reason! We take rants and vents by Systems both privately and for display. We ask that if you intend it to just be ours to read that you specify that when sending it, especially though asks. You are free to DM us about anything at any time, just be aware it could take us some time to get to it.

Questions about being a System ~ We are in our thirties and have been living with DID/OSDD since we were below five years old. We have the unique experience and perspective of having lived this life longer than a lot of the people in this community have been alive. We don't know everything, but we have hunted down a lot of good information and we are not afraid to say ‘We don't know’. Please feel free to ask us any System related Questions. We will do our best to link to proof when required.

DMs ~ Our private messages are always open for advice and venting that you do not want posted anywhere. We read all DMs and we do our best to reply to them as swiftly as possible.

Information ~ If you have research that you want linked in a central source, you are welcomed to submit it to us for review and spread. We will simply screen it to make sure it doesn’t try to twist what DID/OSDD is.

➼ All Alters Welcome! ❖ ~

We accept interactions from Systems with Alters from 'any' source. Problematic sources, popular sources, obscure sources, fictives, factives and anyone who doesn't know where they fall. We understand that you are not your source, and even if your related to that source, that still is not your choice. If you need to vent about your problematic sources that's absolutly fine too. We ask that you behave respectfully here, especially when interacting with our followers. As long as that boundary is respected you're welcome here.

Note: This blog began as a Rant and Syscourse Blog. Harry Potter Fans and Fictives may see some anti-HP related posts, some of which are not kindly worded. You are still welcome here under this rule. We do not believe in continued interaction with the HP series, but we do understand that Alter's can't just change. We will respect you. This covers Five Nights as well.

➼ Who We Are ❖ ~

We are a System of roughly 35 Alters, most with subsystems and many of whom will never post here as they have no desire to be involved in this world.  We do have a System name, though for the purposes of this blog I think we would just prefer ‘The Auncles’ as we are trying to keep this blog somewhat separate to avoid total harassment on our main blog. If you know who we are, great! Please keep it to yourself. If you realize it and wish to confirm you are welcomed to ask, but we might choose to ignore it depending on a number of factors.

We use singular and plural identifiers interchangeably and on this blog we do not bother to separate our posts beyond tagging them. Some of us don’t even bother with that. We are here in the capacity of a resource, not as individuals. We will likely continue this trend.

➼ Boundaries ❖ ~

Asks/ Message Times ~ Please do not pressure us to reply to your asks or your messages. This is a blog we run in our spare time which can be sparse. We will always do our best to answer as soon as possible, but we sometimes lack the energy. Remember, if we burn out we won’t be able to answer anything! It is however okay to check in and make sure we got it in the first place!

Endos/ Tulpas ~ If you plan to interact, please know I am only interested in hearing from you from a learning standpoint. If I suspect you are here to either try to mock us or to attempt to sway us into radical inclusiveity neither is going to change our minds. If you come to us respectfully we will match your energy, at least most of us will.

DO NOT ATTACK OUR FOLLOWERS - If you have rage to direct at someone, direct it at me. We designed this blog to absorb some of the harassment other Systems face so if please bring your anger over here.

Spelling/ Typos: Most of the System suffers from Dyslexia and cognitive issues. This means our hands don't always hit the right keys and our brain doesn't always catch it. We spell phonetically very often so we might not catch that either. If you want to point out a spelling mistake or typo, please do so respectfully. We edit posts to fix typos/ spelling mistakes.

Correcting Misinformation- We are always happy to learn. If you see something we post that seems off, please feel free to approach us respectfully and fill us in. We don't bite, we just sometimes feel a bit dumb for a while.

Kins - This is a topic the blog avoids discussing. While much of the kinning community makes us uncomfortable, those who participate in them are allowed to interact. We simply will not reply to asks or DMs about the topic.

Diagnosis ~ While we have had education in psychology and we do plan to finish our education eventually, at the moment we are NOT professionals. This means that no matter how much you share with us in terms of your System symptoms WE CANNOT DIAGNOSE YOU. The BEST we can say is ‘That lines up with our experiences/ the experiences of others we’ve met’ and move on.

Crisis Support ~ We are very happy to give you advice and allow you to rant as needed, we will support you in any way we can. With that said, try to remember that we are a System dealing with trauma as well. We are not crisis counsellors. If you are in immediate distress please see this list of international crisis helplines.

➼ DNI ❖ ~

Necrophiliacs

MAPS/ Pedophiles/ Paraphiles/

Proshippers

NSFW specific blogs (This isn’t the place for that.)

Anti LGBTQIA+/2S (We recognize that 2S people are separate from the LGBT, but we welcome our 2S family. People outside the Indigenous Community should not use this term.)

Anti MOGAI

Nazis

TERFs or LGBT+ Exclusionists (Like Panphobs)

Anyone participating in Fatphobia

We will add more as they come up.

[astoldbysteph]

god, it’s brutal out here! learn how to private your gif packs and manage this new system without losing your mind

so, per request of an anon, i decided to write down how it is that i manage my privatized gif packs. i don’t think this is the absolute way you should do things, so if anyone has any other cool advice or tips they think can aid content creators, please share it and they’ll be aded to the post! with that said, down below you’ll see a step by step guide on how i do things. hope it helps!

First of all, I am going to advice you to keep your gif packs on a sideblog. It’s much better than keeping them all on your main blog because after a while, as you add more and more pages things just start to get awfully cluttered. Many gif makers can attest to this, which is why nowadays I believe most people have a special blog where they keep their packs organized.

For this, I am going to recommend that you change the url of your gifpack blog. Tumblr is really weird and for some reason when you’re working on a sideblog and delete a page or change the url of the page, the old url will still work. 

Technically, there is a way you can prevent that, but it’s very tedious since after deleting your pages or changing the url, you’re going to have to make a NEW PAGE with the old url of the page you’re trying to change or get rid of and then save it as a blank post so people can no longer access the gifs you had in there.

So yeah, save yourself some time and just change the url of your gif pack sideblog.

Okay, so you got all of your gif packs in your sideblog, now it’s time to password protect it. For that, you’re going to go to the settings page for that blog and right at the bottom of the page, you will see the option to password protect it.

Enable it and set a password. I would rec saving it somewhere. One good tip I got from someone is that they use txt files to keep track of all of this, so let’s go with that. I’ll be using my notepad app, but other people use private discord servers to keep track of everything. Honestly, do whatever works best for you.

Why did I write down last updated? Because I would recommend you change the password every once in a while just to give you some peace of mind if you don’t want people you don’t know having infinite access to your resources. 

Next is keeping your packs organized. Now, everyone has a different system when it comes to organizing the pages on their gif sideblogs and the kind of urls they use for their packs. Whatever system you use is up to you, but another tip I give people is to include some sort of code in your url so people don’t figure out your system.

So, say you tag your packs as:

namelastname/movietvshow/pt1

If people figure that you tag everything like that, they’re going to be able to use other packs without asking because you have given them the password and now they got free reign over your packs. So, what I do is that I include a code in my url so instead you get something like this:

/468464/namelastname/movietvshow/pt1

It can be a random serious of numbers or a secret word, whatever you want! All you need to watch out for is that your code DOES NOT start with a zero. For some reason urls that start with a zero don’t work. 

Once you’re done setting everything up, your gif pages should look something like this:

So, all of your packs are private, cool! Now it’s time to figure out how you will handle the process of granting people access to them.

When I first made my gifs private, I just asked people to send me an ask asking for the password. I really don’t recommend it because we all know people just don’t read so I’d get all kinds of requests like people wouldn’t tell me what packs they wanted like they’d flat out just ask for the password or I’d get asks from nasty blogs. Everything happened so once I saw @miyanegifs​ decided to make people fill out and submit a form, I asked for their permission so I could implement the same system. 

But why do this? Well, first of all because it’s going to continue helping you keep everything organized, because you will be forcing people to standardize the process of requesting access to your gifs, and because redirecting them to a form is a good way to try and force people to read your rules. 

Sadly, this isn’t the perfect way to ensure that. Even after I switched to this system I have still gotten requests from people that ignore everything I’ve written down and just submit the form incorrectly, but it’s a start! 

Okay, so to handle all the form business, I made another sideblog, which is the one I link on my gif pack posts so I don’t have to share the actual sideblog where I keep my gifs so when it comes to people requesting access to my stuff, I would only give them the direct link to the packs they mention on their form. 

On the sideblog where I have people submit their forms, I found a theme that would allow me to display some text and then include my submit box. You can see it here in case you want to see how it all ended up looking. 

What I include first are my guidelines, again, so people wanting to request access to my stuff read them. Next, is the form they will be submitting to you.

The form can say whatever you want, but I recommend asking people for:

name/alias

age

main blog

gif pack(s) they want the link to

blog where they will use your packs, rpg they’re part of, etc

Customize it to your liking! Just use this as a lil guide and end up adapting everything I’m telling you to best suit your needs and how you handle things. 

Since you are doing this on a separate blog, once you get request they will end up on the inbox of said blog so you can keep track of who has requested access to your stuff! If you don’t want to keep all of the submissions on your inbox, just draft them so you can consult them whenever and edit them if necessary so you can add little notes or add the urls of the packs you have linked people to so you got them right there in case you change your password and they message you for the links again. 

Assuming that you’re using the code system I mentioned above, obviously memorizing every single url it’s impossible so you can do that or again, use a private discord server or your notepad app to keep track of all the different urls you have so you don’t have to open your customize page every time you want to link someone to your links. 

On your txt file, it can look something like this.

Again, this is only an example. Do whatever works for you!

Then, when it comes to deciding who gets access to your packs, well, that is up to you and it depends on the guidelines you have for your resources.

Personally, after I receive a request and I see they’ve filled out correctly and it includes all the info I ask for, I go check people’s blog. If it’s an indie, I check out their rules and starters and check they’re actually using the faceclaim they mention in their form. If it’s for a rpg, I check the groups rules and see if the faceclaim they mention is taken. I am always very careful with this because I’ve gotten people that lie about playing x faceclaim just to access my stuff so please be careful. 

Once I decide I am giving people access to my stuff, I im them from the sideblog they submitted the form to and include the DIRECT LINKS to the packs they have requested as well as the password. 

And that’s it! I hope this helps whoever has decided to keep their packs private or is thinking about it. It honestly is such a great thing to do and it’s not exhausting or labor intensive or whatever people might say, lol. Once you have everything set up (which is the most laborious part), all you gotta do is wait for the requests to come and decide if you’re giving people access to your stuff.

If you got any more questions, feel free to hit up my ask and I will try to help you out!

[tetrimidion]

One Hellsite VS Another Hellsite

Hey all! So I finally finished making my blog. Thank you to those of you who have followed me from Twitter to here. I was never fond of tumblr, I've had only bad experiences with it in the past, but I really wanted to make a sort of "back up" social media platform in case I ever get booted from Twitter.

Since that's what almost happened.

Here's the story!

To the complete fault of myself, I didn't realize that if one Twitter account gets permanently banned, then the others do too.

The offending account gets its ban and 'instant deletion', while your others you get locked out of and 'marked for deletion' as I found out through trying to find a solution on reddit. Even if you manage to get on the 'innocent accounts', they will eventually get suspended as well. This could take anywhere from 6 months to a year to occur. But when it does, it will be without warning.

They do this by two ways: Any account associated with the phone number and IP of the banned one.

After my ban on the 'offending account' I tried to make a Google voice number to change on my art account, to which twitter wouldn't let me do.

So I appealed the ban on the offending account. What was the offending account? What did I get banned for? Well, I'm glad you didn't ask, because I'm about to share anyway.

The offending account was my Eric Cartman roleplay account. Now, I admit my tweets on there were pretty aggressive, as it is 'canon divergent' rp account where I play him as a yandere.

I have in my profile, in my pinned tweet, AND on my connected url page that it is a parody, rp account. That nothing on there is condoned or real. And, everyone who I was engaging with, were also other rp accounts. These are people I'm also friends with ooc on discord as well. So we were all consenting and just having a good time.

I was rping with another Cartman who basically said they had information that I (my Eric) would want. So what would I do?

My responding tweet was along the lines of doing something to them, and then dining on where those thoughts come from: Words I'm not going to retype, as I know tumblr is now a SFW site. But basically, imagine Hannibal Lector replying while on a kind of tab often given out at clubs.

That got me an instant permanent ban and account removal. I was then given a notice that that I'm forbidden from ever creating future accounts on Twitter as well.

Welp. FML. Because even though I barely had any followers on my art/Tetrimidion account, I still rather enjoyed engaging on it, and it was proving to be a good outlet for me to attain some attention and interest regarding getting future commissions. Because bitch is poor.

So, I sent in an appeal stating blah blah blah 'rp and I have it plastered everywhere that it is rp and not real.'

Several hours later, I got an email back saying that they relooked over my account and unbanned me.

So I had to delete any tweet on there that could be considered 'threatening' to those not familiar with rp if they read it.

That ended up being like, half my tweets lol

So that gave me quite the bit of the scare, and I don't want to risk that happening again, lets I get a Twitter BDSM master who isn't quite as forgiving as the previous one.

Then @romantheskeleton, was a blessing to me by bestowing an extra Twitter account they have. So now I'm going to be taking over said account to rp Cartman there…as the account is associated with a different IP and number (that isn't theirs anymore either)…but I will be MUCH more careful about how I word things such as …..participating in an activity that zombies are known for doing uwu

In anycase, I decided to create this tumblr now for a "back up" basically. Especially since it just came out that Twitter is also now banning people for retweeting between accounts! So if I drew some artwork on my rp account, and wanted to retweet it on my actual art account, that could get you an instant ban.

So yeah u_u

[dartwright]

flip, 21, any prns.

18+, independent, headcanon-heavy blaine dartwright from layton brothers: mystery room.

single verse.

about / bio , smut / nsfw sideblog

rules under cut:

I. cringe culture is dead. do whatever the fuck you want as long as you're not hurting anyone. enjoy your interests, no matter how embarrasing they are. have fun. self-indulge in your own character portrayals, write as loose or strict to canon as you please, fast and slow-moving threads are encouraged here. there's no need to judge each other as writers on tumblr. that said, i don't support pro-shipping or harassment & anon hate isn't allowed and will be deleted on sight.

II. basic roleplay etiquette. no god-modding, powerplaying, or metagaming. cut your threads - if you can't, let me know. i'll do it for you. i don't care about your formatting if it's readable.

III. eighteen and over. that said, threads & content on my blog will contain dark & mature themes concerning drugs, violence, organized crime, and other stuff i don't condone outside of fiction. there's also a smut blog linked in my description, which is accessible only through the fact i'm an r18+ roleplayer. turn back if you're underaged.

IV. multifandom & crossovers. i'm into multiple fandoms, in fact, i'm playing an unused character from a relatively obscure mobile game. crossover friendly? fuck yes. i'll roleplay with anything and anyone, as long as you're not rpf or a celebrity roleplayer. if there's anything you recommend i blacklist, do let me know. i'm not exactly aware of everything in live action pop culture & i'm best described as an animation-leaning guy. though, nothing's going to stop me from playing a video game character in a thread with the guy from morbius.

V. original characters. make sure you have an about / bio page set, so that i'm able to read up on your character and who they are. what's going on with them, y'anno? i always love hearing about other peoples' characters and i'm willing to follow back if there's information on them.

VI. mutually exclusive. i'll only write and interact with people i follow and those who follow back. mutuals automatically can do whatever the fuck they want with blaine and i! crack threads? please. ask memes? thank you. headcanons with our characters? sure thing! this is mostly so that i'm able to keep track of things happening on my dashboard, too, and as for dashboard commentaries - i don't mind if non-mutuals interact with me in that way. it's fun!

VII. formatting. i use little-to-no formatting with small text and a few icons. there are times where i'm entirely iconless, as blaine's more or less a fanon-accepted character in mystery room. i will change urls to character names, but not the hyperlinks.

VIII. magic anons. they're always open! i've missed magic anons so much, in the past few years of discord, i haven't been able to mess around with these prompts. please have a set time for them when they're submitted. if i love your spell so much, i may as well have it as a permanent feature!

IX. plotting. i tend to wing my plots, but i don't drop my threads if they don't happen to "go my way" as the youth says. if you want a pre-established relationship with blaine, let me know through ims and i'll respond to you asap. if you want to do a plot-related thread where we progress our characters' stories, fuck yes. just know that i kinda suck at plotting, but i do wanna get better…

X. threads. rapid-fire replies on tumblr are my favorite thing to do, they'll only be slow if i'm sick or fatigued as i do have seasonal depression. we can drop as many threads as we like, move onto new ones, finish old ones, have live threads… like the old days! i just want to be loose and free in this community.

[griimhilde-a]

if you know, you know.

———       a response to those who refuse to move on.

EDIT: after some encouragement and realizing that, while i tried to be respectful and private about this situation, i was not given the same treatment, i’ve decided to be upfront and filterless. here is a link to my page of receipts that i did not provide in this post. 

i would like to point out that when i made the DNI, it was buried and sandwiched in my super long rules purposely so that it wasn’t explicitly visible and drawing attention. it was specifically put there for mutuals to understand my boundaries for the new blog, and as soon as i moved blogs, my guidelines underwent heavy reconstruction and the DNI section was removed overall ( i don’t like DNIs for myself ), as well as on this blog. all statements made in the DNI were what i felt to be true and based off of not only my experiences, but others’ as well, backed up with evidence i have saved that i didn’t feel the need to provide because it wasn’t meant to be a big deal, but i also felt i needed to explain why this person was on a DNI and that it wasn’t done out of malicious intent. again, if something sounds bad it is because “bad” things were done and i can’t control that.

reading the call-out had me ( and others ) confused on where it was i had bullied her, when i had her blocked since november, where it was i had manipulated her, and so forth. i’m always wanting to be a better person, so i was extremely confused on where i had done anything wrong. i also didn’t appreciate my new blog url being attached to it as it had nothing to do with it and i was trying to move forward, and it read very much like an attempt to blacklist. despite everything, i never wanted it to be a spectacle. the pinned, public call-out by this person doesn’t read to me as someone wanting to move on, but wanting to drag things further. this is not a call-out post, this is me defending myself. i will not name drop. if you know who this is about, i ask you just read this to understand the full story. 

this is going to be a long boi ( i really tried to keep it short but alkfjdklfksldf nope ). i would also like to apologize for any dryness here, but i am aiming to just state facts as they are. it feels    ----    ridiculous writing this all out because it’s something that could and should have been handled privately. but, here we go !!

everything on the DNI is true. i will not post or reveal the sources because one, they are not my stories to tell, and two, i am not going to give her the excuse to bother them. they deserve to be safe, and i am walking proof of what happens when you speak out against someone like her. if i have to bear that burden, then so be it. 

it stopped being about “just a url” a long time ago. it became more about how i was treated in that interaction, and how i was continued to be treated afterwards. not to mention the increasing tension within the rpc and having to second-guess whether or not i was truly wanted. it was about how it was affecting those around me, my time in a hobby i love, and my mental health. the amount of times a mutual has tagged me by accident when they meant to tag her is insane. it most definitely did not feel good !!! if that kept happening, it was a problem. i also had to shut off the anon feature because of the amount of anons i was receiving. some had good intentions, but others had resorted to hate. 

regarding the messages on discord --- i stand by them. i thought if you were friends with someone on discord and have previously talked over time, it was okay to message, otherwise what was the point of discord? i didn't realize it would make her uncomfortable to do so, and i’m more careful about how i approach people now !!! 

regarding the messages: there was no change in tone other than that i grew exhausted and extremely anxious ( shaking !!! palms sweaty !!! knees weak !!!! mom’s spaghetti !!! ) and wasn’t in the proper mindset to sound happy while i was being invalidated to my face. i have even apologized there if i came off as mean. i don’t “present myself” in a way. that’s just how i talk, i prefer communicating one-on-one and i try to alleviate tension that arises no matter what because these types of conversations aren’t always a walk in the park. i wanted things to be good and not stressful for all parties involved. i’m sorry my tone came off as insincere. after being in desc rpc for a year, i was a little surprised seeing a near-identical url so i think it was fair for me to message her about it. she made the decision use it, and i was allowed to react. it was said misspellings in urls made her anxious so i wanted to help and i was shot down and vilified, essentially told i made her feel unsafe and shouldn’t have messaged. if it wasn’t okay to claim i felt “unsafe” and “paranoid”, why was it okay for her to claim the same based on a choice she made herself, but not me to feel anxious about those choices? 

i have never told a blog to block her. i have never initiated conversation about her, nor have i spoken negatively about her as a person. ever. i have, in fact, even stated that i didn’t want anyone blocking and that it would be okay to interact. here’s one example after i was approached about her. i cannot control what other people do.

hardblocking her on my end was to avoid seeing her on dash as much as possible. 

i am allowed to softblock / unfollow people who interact with her after months of trying to be okay with it. what kickstarted this process was someone i thought was a close friend had dropped me and suddenly i realized i didn’t need to sacrifice my comfort for the sake of keeping a mutual. if they could do it, so could i. while i adore the descendants rpc, the rpc is not a family, we’re not obligated to interact IC or be mutuals with every single person in the rpc. it’s not causing a rift when we don’t interact on dash. i have even emphasized that i would love to stay in contact via discord and write there if possible !! why am i being vilified for trying to make my blog a safe space for me?

regarding the “vagues”: they were all responses. a mutual wrote the post, i reblogged it, my tags were in response to the post ( said mutual’s url wasn’t even blocked out so ... ). if it felt like a vague, i can’t control that. the meaning behind the url post was circulating on dash, i didn’t see any vaguing in it other than me recounting my process of choosing this url, which was true ( was i not allowed to participate?? ). the shrek meme was in response to a public dash event ( which i originally thought was a joke ) that had received copious amounts of criticism for. it wasn’t a vague and it was explicit on what it was referring to, it was meant to be silly dash commentary, nothing deep. 

this is in my rules but i have explicitly stated that my headcanons about my characters are not a vague if they differ from yours. the talk about hair styles was actually initiated in a conversation with my friends in private. it had absolutely nothing to do with her. if it sounded like a drag, i encourage everyone to look at how i’ve “dragged” many other things including the original outfits for descendants, evie thinking mermaid dresses are ugly, evie not liking wine, and so forth. my portrayal of evie =/= other portrayals of evie. while she may never do so-and-so, it doesn’t make it wrong for another portrayal to do it. ( why was my blog being kept tabs on and compared with, in the first place? that’s not duplicate friendly ).

regarding sex week: i've stated it was an inappropriate event because the descendants rpc had been heavily criticized for smutting and felt it wasn't the best response, nor was it the best way to promote sex positivity. it was insanely uncomfortable to witness, as someone in this rpc. it doesn’t matter if the people or the muses involved were adults, i would still call it inappropriate had it happened in any other rpc. it wasn’t a “block and move on” situation. i’m also allowed to defend myself because i didn’t want to be associated with something she posted. i didn’t want it tied to my url. i would like to clarify that when i said "embarrassing" in the responses under that anon, it was directed at the anon for misreading the url, nobody else. ostracizing occurred when the descendants rpc was being added to DNIs because of sex week / smutting, which was posted by this person ( if you post it, you start it. simple ). i had been blocked simply because i am a descendants blog and that had never happened before. 

i was also notified that people uninvolved with this have been namedropping me on dash in an attempt to have me “written off” ( their words, not mine ) because my rules stated that i was open to exploring evie’s sexuality. below is a screenshot of my rule regarding smut. i deleted the rules page from this blog when i moved so i snatched it from my other canon descendants blog that i reuse on all blogs. the second is my elaboration on sexual content in my new evie rules. the third is what’s on my google doc, a condensed version of my rules. there is a major difference between smutting and posting a public dash event dedicated to sex versus being open to explore sexuality as a topic. they are not the same. also, me not choosing to smut does not dictate my opinion on smut, so do not make assumptions about that either. if you want to move on, why are you still talking about me on dash, especially when unprompted? if you just want to move on, why are you upset that i’m not “written off”?

this person has vagued me multiple times ( which they conveniently did not show in the call-out ), this person has been shown to talk badly of me in private ( and now, publicly as well )    ----    all of which i have not done. i have screenshots sent by others to show for it, but do not feel it’s relevant to share because this is not about her. this is just about defending myself. 

i have spent three months apologizing for feeling things, apologizing for reacting, apologizing for things i should not have been apologizing for. i have spent so long accepting blame because i felt it would help. i’m done doing that. i know what i did and what i didn’t do. people know what i did and didn’t do.

all in all, i am confused on why a call-out was made when the content provides nothing other than catty remarks meant to air out personal drama. the messages exchanged only show how i tried to remedy things. the screenshots of my “vagues” were just responses, and most of which had nothing to do with this person. my initial silly dash commentary and later discomfort over a sexual dash event posted by this person is not a vague. 

if you ( referring to maker of the call-out and others who partook ) are upset about people not talking about me in regards to the “rest of the call-out”, maybe consider the fact that there was nothing about me in it that warranted a call-out in the first place. people saw that i did nothing wrong. the only thing of substance in the call-out was something the maker themselves did : the public, sexual dash event. people are allowed to identify that as a more prominent issue as opposed to how my messages or public posts could be perceived through basic, biased narrative manipulation.

me deciding to unfollow / softblock blogs that interact with this person =/= involving the descendants rpc or making it public. i am allowed to softblock whoever i want to cultivate my dash experience. most people i know have it in their rules that they are okay with people softblocking for their comfort and that it won’t be taken personally. you know what IS making it public and involving the entire descendants rpc? this person messaging a descendants server and name dropping me in the server, reducing the situation to just being about a “url” and publicly announcing it in the server. here are the facts to consider: her message was sent jan. 21. my DNI went up feb 2. 

so, regarding the call-out: there was no bullying, no manipulation, no harassment, no gaslighting, nothing from my end, and the call-out shows precisely that the claims are just that: claims. whatever was felt is valid, but feelings =/= gravity of the actual action itself - the most common thing pointed out in therapy: feelings are valid, but are they justified? call-outs should be reserved for people who cause actual harm, not because someone wants an excuse to blacklist. if i am a “bully” for unfollowing blogs for my own comfort, then i think the rpc really needs to reevaluate what these terms mean because the misuse is harmful. 

here are the things i did do: treated everyone i talked to with respect. approached things civilly. communicated. tried to accommodate for others. attempted to make a safe space for myself. did not involve the entire rpc by announcing it in a server. did not make a call-out post nor pin it. did not continue to name drop afterwards despite claiming to want to move on.

this entire situation is absurd and should have never been public, much less made a call-out for !! while this was meant to defend myself and state facts, i understand it may not change minds. a friend has told me that people will hate me because they want to hate me, no matter what. and i can’t do anything about that !! all i have to say is that holding hate in your heart never ends well. i hope everyone can find peace at some point.

so please, let me move on. let me write with my friends. let me unfollow / softblock people to keep my dash comfortable. let me take a break from descendants while also having the choice to return at anytime. please stop talking about me when i’m not even giving this another thought and haven’t since i moved blogs. please stop name dropping. stop keeping tabs on me, stop stalking my new blog. please leave me alone. i hold absolutely nothing against anyone i may have softblocked / unfollowed or am not currently interacting with on my new blog. my IMS / discord is always available, you will not be violating my safety by messaging me, everyone is welcome, but i also understand if you feel the need to separate yourself !!! as for those of you who have interacted with the call-out post, i wish you the best but i hope you understand why i do not want to interact with you by any means in the future. 

i’m hoping this post lays everything to rest, seeing as my first one did not. honestly, what are you trying to prove if you still have to post about this? it helps nobody. this back-and-forth is exhausting and unneeded. no more. let’s be better people, yeah?

i hope everyone takes care of themselves, i hope you all have a great day / night !!! thank you for reading this long boi !!

[seeinganewlight]

helloooooo caitlyn!!! (I almost called you amy cause your url . . . how does it feel to be branded as that character akshdjs)

I see you are reading les miserables! yes I know it is SUCH a book™ I'm not sure if you've read the book before or not, but I know when /I/ read the book, there was a lot of talk about the red flag being used at the barricade, and I *know* it symbolizes something, but I can't place my finger on w h a t (I also know it serves as brainrot purposes, but maybe that's just me). I was wondering if you had any takes on the idea? If not, feel free to delete this ask, but if so, please indulge me because there is SO much to talk about in that book! (and feel free to leave this ask until you've finished this idea/have more thoughts)

being branded as amy march is maybe the greatest thing that has ever happened to me so THANK YOU

yes! i'm rereading les mis! i read it for the first time 10+ years ago when i was in les mis and assistant directing it, and i am not joking when i say that this book changed my life. i was 16/17 when i read it the first time and it truly made me rethink everything about myself and like what my priorities are and how i wanted to be remembered and what i wanted to do to make the world a better place. it honestly hits SO HARD and while i have many many (many) favorite books, les mis is the one that i think is the most influential and like has become a part of my being and made an imprint on my soul.

there for sure is symbolism with the red flag at the barricade and the moment my mind is completely blanking, but i think more will come up as i'm listening so i'll for sure come back to it, but i wanted to answer this now because i wanted to rant about how influential this book has been for me 🤣 since i'm reading via audiobook right now, i do want to do another physical reread at some point and annotate which i may have to do before i talk about the symbolism but we'll see. yes, i am fully returning to my les mis phase (which i never truly leave) and i would just like to say, you're welcome everyone!

[sims2packrat]

File Hunting Tutorial

In this tutorial I’ll be going through some file searching methods I’ve been using to find lost/hard to find files. I’m sharing this so you too can get good at using your google-fu and expand the list of useful sites and sources to help.

I started writing this already last year and had it saved in the drafts and then forgot all about it until vegan-kaktus noted that it’s still in the drafts. So I gave it one last poke and it’s finally ready to be posted. Consider it a parting gift from me (digi) It’s really long so the rest is under read  more which, hopefully, should show up right after this row, happy reading! :)

1. File uploaded to Dropbox:

Oh no, the link is dead! What to do? Well there are two things you can do:

Slap that link to archive.org - sometimes if you’re lucky it has it archived and you can download through that. (not often but it’s always worth a try)

Look at the url and find the filename, for example:

highlighted above is the filename, now copy that part and slap it to google and if you have any luck somebody already has reuploaded it somewhere. If not then you still at least have the file name to help with the search.

2. I have picture of the thing, can I use that?

If it’s from the original upload that can be useful, now open google’s image search and hit this:

paste/upload your picture and if you have any luck you’ll get hits with the same picture, those are occasionally reuploads of the file or maybe even the original source. Sometimes this is useless though, google might just give you its best guess at what the picture shows and it’s pretty much always wrong. 

Additionally, you can try other search engines since they give different kinds of results, Yandex has positively surprised me few times when google failed.

3. The thing was posted behind multiupload (or similar now dead service), what to do?

Okay so first, go to the page where the link was posted, right click on the download address and copy that with “copy link” or whatever it happens to be in your browser since those differ between them.

Open web.archive.org, paste the address you copied there:

With some luck you’ll receive some hits like this:

Click on any of the blue dots, if one doesn’t work, try another. Also note: if dots are green it means the link redirects somewhere, usually to random ad sites, but it could also just mean the address of the site has changed so be careful. If you have any luck the page has been archived and you’ll get something like this:

A lot of those files hosts no longer work so there’s no point in trying Megaupload, Depositfiles, hotfile, zshare or 2shared links but mediafire still exists so click on its “Download file” button. On first glance it looks like it doesn’t work:

You should copy the mediafire address (or if it was another file host then that address) and paste it to your browser’s address bar anyway to test it.

It doesn’t always work but usually, as long as the file hasn’t been deleted it should work.

Additionally about Mediafire: Sometimes some older mediafire links will tell you that they don’t work, you can sometimes fix them like this:

mediafire.com/c4txzwdlumxg/uy0nqwnjz0z/(fileName) (original link) mediafire.com/c4txzwdlumxg/uy0nqwnjz0z/(fileName) (delete the overlined bit) mediafire.com/file/uy0nqwnjz0z/(fileName) (= working link, it seems to add the /file/ part automatically to the link)

(fileName) above is stand in for “Janita-scott+male+clothing+-+07+-+Mar+-+2010.rar“ since it was too long. This is actual link that was coming up with page not found error but it’s actually not missing, Mediafire just changed something about their links that made it break at some point.

4. Check chomikuj.pl!

(http://chomikuj.pl) This is some sort of Polish file sharing site that has plenty of Sims files uploaded there. It has some caveats, for example if you don’t have account you can only download files smaller than 2 MB, if you create an account you can download worth of 50 MB every week for free. It’s sounds like a lot more than it really is so if you find good loot better bookmark that page since you’ll be spending weeks getting all those files. To use the site just type whatever you’re searching to search box (I’ve found that simply using the creator name tends to have the best results)

We’re gonna search for ripplesims, the following page has some ads first so scroll down until you see the results:

Then I recommend just opening those in new tabs since there usually are plenty of results. Then to download, click on the file title:

and this kind of window will pop up:

“Pobierz” means download, you’ll want to use the top one, the other one is some kind of ad or something again. Then your browser should give you the normal download prompt and you can save the file. Here’s few users who post Sims 2  content to get you started:

rakuyou

Thumbelina 21

Justyna211

aleksandra.przybylka

mgs1991

5. Check GameVN!

(http://forum.gamevn.com/forums/downtown.281/) this is Vietnamese file sharing forum, that gets updated occasionally. A lot of newer files are just stuff from tumblr (possibly your stuff if you upload custom content, don’t be upset, that’s just how internet works, you post it, you no longer have control over it.), but they also have some older files and for example some files from gamesir. 

6. Check Game.ali213!

(https://game.ali213.net/forum-295-1.html) okay so this board is pain in the ass to browse since it’s in Chinese but these two are the section you’re most likely interested in:

First one is for sharing content made by others, second for sharing original works. There’s for example: daum content, stuff from ReflexSims, some stuff from Yuri and Gameski, more daum content....

Note that some files are posted to hosts that don’t work anymore such as namipan, pan.baidu, rayfile, 91files.com.... there’s a lot of dead hosts really and you’re gonna get disappointed many times when you click on the links. But the files hosted on the forum itself usually are available, they just tend to be in multiple pieces so you need to download all of them and then choose them all at once to extract correctly.

7. Check VK.com Albums!

There probably are others but the one I most often check is: https://vk.com/albums-52214 (hit on show all albums and then start browsing, the first albums are pictures, wcifs and member uploads but then there are reuploads. Not every link works but quite few do so it’s worth checking through.)

8. Check other sites that reupload files!

I’m of course talking about Booty, Simscave, TheSimsGraveyard and Liquid Sims. Sometimes the most obvious place is exactly where you’ll find it. :)

[kiefbowl]

this is random but how long have you been using this account? i remember you as some of the first people i followed when i discovered radical feminism

I had to look up my archive to remember but it looks like I started this blog in June of 2016, as long as I didn’t delete all post prior to June for some reason (I don’t really delete posts, it’s too much work lol. try not to go fishing for anything embarrassing I beg everyone). I would have been aawb then. Plus that timeline feels right, because I had to remake bc around that time ish tumblr out of nowhere reset everyone’s passwords and my email address was tied to a college email I didn’t have access too and there was no recovery. so I had a side blog for about a year or two as radfemeudaimonia, then tumblr reset people’s passwords, and I could only access that blog and my other blogs at the time via the app because that never logged me out. I did that for like 2-3 months, and then gave up and just abandoned those and remade a new account as aawb. Before making radfemuedaimonia, I had been on tumblr on my main account for like who even knows how long, but years. So I’ve been around on tumblr a long time. I changed my url from aawb to kiefbowl probably around nov/dec of 2017, which is weird to realize that because I thought I was aawb for a really long time, but I guess not and I’ve been kiefbowl for longer now. anyway, that’s my rambling history on tumblr, which is not really what you asked for, but I’m glad you asked because I had to look up and take stock of my history which is good to do from time to time and gd I’ve been here a long time lol. 

If you’ve been here a long time with me, you’ve probably notice I’ve changed how I use tumblr a lot. Tumblr used to be so so so important to me in expressing my ideas and finding theory on feminism and connecting with other women. I was also younger, under employed, struggling, angry as fuck, and super depressed. I would spend a lot more time trying to get well written “discourse” posts out there and answered a lot more asks. I def think my edge has dulled a bit, for better and for worse. I’ve come to terms with the ways tumblr has also been very unproductive and unhealthy for me as well, and I’m just older. The need for validation was something I was blind to at 25, I realize how important that was for me in hindsight, and now it’s not that important to me. I know what I believe, I know how I act, I know what’s incongruent, I don’t really need strangers weighing in, even if I like them. I feel I know a lot of mutuals, but I also have come to terms we don’t really know each other. There are a lot of people on radblr (whatever that means) I admire for their posts or attitude or jokes, but I know we might not actually get along if we met in real life. Lately, I’m more focused on my immediate community. I’m trying to put a lot of energy into my irl relationships (including the men I know!) because I think that’s more worthwhile of my time and you have to put what you read into practice at some point. You have to see what the consequences of your words in real time, it’s at times surprising and humbling, which makes it worthwhile. 

I have met a few people from tumblr in real life. some of it has worked out, some of it hasn’t. some of it not working is my fault, bc I had a lot of dips in depression over the past few years. I think about reaching out to them and making it better all the time, and I think I will once covid is done. I met up with someone once and I got creepy anons I ignored who knew about it at some point and then she published a couple anons that creeped me out too (I don’t know if she realizes it) and unfortunately that was one of the reasons I put some distance between us, not that I was conscious of it really but I see it now in hindsight, and became reeeeeaaaally conscious of what I said and posted here and who I met up with, which since has been one other person and no one else. These were people going “I’m so excited to hear you met up with x” and she got an anon she published that said “I think you and aawb should start dating” and I was like “okay there be freaks on tumblr” and since then I just really put a lot of distance between me and the non mutuals here. It’s very clear between me and other mutuals who are “big” (whatever that means tbh) that I’ve talked to it about that there are unwell people on tumblr who project a whole lot of shit onto you even if they admire you. Psychologically, that can wear on you more than dumbass misogynists who argue with you, because they’re just flash in the pan and to them you’re faceless, you’re anybody, you don’t matter. But people who are sycophantic think they know you (not suggesting you are anon, your ask seems completely reasonable. I ignore shit like that now, I’ve stop publishing those anons) and they say weird stuff that is like...dumb. like “you’re the smartest person in the world” or whatever and it’s like, obviously that is not true and it’s not actually appreciated. I’m just regular, we’re all regular people on here.

I’ll be real, I think about archiving this blog by keeping my posts I like and am proud of and deleting everything else, and not deactivating but bouncing. At one point or another, tumblr is going to phase out of my life. It’s probably going to happen sooner than later, I just feel old at this point and sometimes I find it a little embarrassing idk. 

I’m glad you’ve enjoyed my blog and I’ve helped you in whatever ways I have to help you find feminism. I hope you keep at it and remember to talk to as many women as possible as much as you can! :)

It was fun decompressing my history with this anon, it’s actually helped me a little gain some perspective, so thank you anon, even if that wasn’t your intention lol. I do what I want lmao.

[roleplayerconfessions]

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[evermorehaikyuu]

So yes, I am back, but with bigger news about this blog. I will not put a tl;dr because to be honest, this should be read. 

This blog will no longer be a priority of mine. I have many other blogs and I have always put this one first to the point where I have abandoned most of the other blogs because I wanted to make everyone happy. But the thing is, I was never happy. No matter how much I wrote or tried, I was never happy. That’s the point of this entire rant. 

I was never happy because it all felt one-sided.

Most of the requests on this blog are on anon and that’s not bad whatsoever but here’s the thing: I did an experiment on myself and it turns out, that even with the same number of requests coming in, maybe even more, I will be more happy because the person is showing their URL and it feels like they actually do like my work, ESPECIALLY if they keep coming back.

I understand that some of you are shy. I understand some of you are silent readers. But what I don’t get is that even with the anon button available to you, you can’t bother to come through and say something about a fic, even if it was “oh hey nice job!” or “i liked this dialogue.” There are people that have come through on anon to say that they liked the request of theirs and I am so glad that they do so, it doesn’t feel one-sided anymore.

And to those people that comment on my smau, which has practically been my pride and joy at this point, and the ones that came through to interact with me? I swear, if you wanted me to get the moon, I’d get it for you. You know exactly who you are. 

But let’s talk generally, shall we? From my hiatus, I have been noticing a lot of things, even with my head turned away. So many blogs are deactivating, going on hiatus or becoming inactive. Why? There are many reasons why, but one of the ones that seems to be the lack of interest. What I mean by this is not the reader’s consumption of fics, but what the author receives. The author could put their blood, sweat and tears into a 10k fic and all they’ll get are a couple of notes. 

Notes shouldn’t define an author’s writing skill, but it sure does help the author think, “oh hey, this piece wasn’t as bad as I thought when I was first writing it!” And also, we are human. Humans constantly crave validation, even though they don’t say it outright. Even the people that don’t seem like they don’t crave validation, internally they do. 

As the readers, it is your job to give them what they deserve. Validation. Whether it’s in the tags or directly in the comments or even dropping into their inbox, authors deserve to know that their work was incredible. 

However, from what I’ve seen in this fandom specifically, I could say this as many times as I want to and it will not stick. You’ll be going back to your everyday lives and to be honest? I’m sick of that. I’m tired of seeing people scream, only for those screams to fall on deaf ears. Because of that exact reason, many authors lose interest and go. 

Here’s my deal: I started writing for another fandom, which I will not reveal, and I get so many requests per week and I feel so happy about that because most of the time it’s people that are coming back and their URLs? I know them by heart. It feels like they come through, give me the validation I have been craving and I happily do the request for them. Hardly have I ever turned a request down because of this reason.

The anon button is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because you can go undercover into so many authors’ blogs and tell them that you liked a specific fic and it could turn a bad day into a fantastic day. A curse because in my opinion, those requests on anon feel like they come in and then never come back to say anything, making it seem extremely one-sided. We finish your request and then move onto the next one, on and on and on and so forth. A repetitive cycle of writing for what seems to be blank faces. 

Oh and another thing? It seems to me like some of you can’t bother to read my navigation. I am on a fucking break. I do not want to see requests. I do not want to see asks about requests. I do not want to see something that will guilt me into starting to write again. Every time I close requests, someone comes through with a request and I have literally put in all caps locks and in bold that my requests are CLOSED. But on my hiatus? It pushed me off of the edge when I got on Tumblr and went into my inbox. Someone had clearly not gotten the message that I hadn’t posted in a month, was on hiatus and my requests were closed. To know that this isn’t the only time it’s happened is disappointing. It gets to the point where I am seen as a machine to write for you, to please you when I can’t even catch my breath. Read the fucking navigation, it is there for a goddamn reason.

I have checked my notes and even silently gone on my blog. Nothing’s changed. It’s the same as it was before. It was the exact reason why I went on hiatus and why I am thinking about staying on hiatus indefinitely. The only thing keeping me going for this blog is my smau because I know there will be that one person commenting on it. It shouldn’t just be one person carrying everything. The thing that could make an author’s entire day will not take you more than, what, 2 minutes? 2 minutes. Just to make someone happy. And so many of you aren’t willing to go that far.

I discovered from my time away that it wasn’t writing that stressed me out. On the contrary, it relaxed me. I realized what was making me feel trapped. This fandom. Nothing ever changes, not even when people tell you what is wrong. Even now, I know that this post will fall on deaf ears and it’ll probably go back to the routine of requests. 

It’s not fair. Put yourself in my shoes. You spend hours a day on your computer, not paying attention to class and writing for complete strangers online that started off interacting with you a lot and complimenting you. You keep writing into the early hours of the morning, past midnight, just so that you can wake up to the amount of love you get from a fic. But over time, everything starts to decrease as people move onto other authors. That is great, so you keep writing to please the people that have stayed. More time passes by and everything is changing. Your writing has become strained, your carefully-planned out events in your drafts have been deleted and you sit there, wondering what’s the next assignment. Along with this, you have to make sure to take breaks, albeit feeling like if you take a break, someone out there will leave.

All of it felt like it wasn’t enough, no matter how much I wrote. It felt like I was pleading for something impossible, although it was possible and I have seen it and experienced it.

To summarize this all, think. What could this cost you? What could ignoring this cost you? Your favorite authors. Your favorite fics will be deleted. Everything you’ve loved from the author will be gone. Even if you move onto the next one, you’ll never see a fic like that one again. It’s happened to me, when I’ve wanted to see a specific fic, I remember it’s not anywhere anymore because the author deactivated or deleted it.

My patience is wearing thin to the point where I have thought many times of transferring this blog to another email and keeping it as inactive. In fact, I’m actually planning to do that at some point. 

Remember this: Authors will not stay if you don’t give them a reason to.

[snarp]

Pillowfort Problems

From https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/2040132 :

community posted to BetaUsers:

Bug investigation

This is what has been found so far by me and some people I know. We found this very quickly and mostly aren't web experts, which makes me think it's very likely that someone with more expertise could find actual security holes that are worse than "you can dm someone an image that logs them out".

1. can sign up with usernames that are api endpoints - seems to only break things for the user with that username as far as I can see

2. can embed urls in img src - allows signing out users who view the image, easily breaks the site for people but doesn't reveal any information as far as I can tell

3. can embed javascript in img src onerror tag - the javascript is only prevented from execution on client side, this seems concerning

4. it looks like the donate page is a custom one, which means it is likely to also be full of security holes. the payment form is submitted to the pillowfort servers and not a 3rd party provider. if you made a payment through this page I cannot recommend strongly enough that you call your bank and cancel whatever card you use. I'm not going to go poking around with the payment forms because that puts me at legal risk but given how many other bugs are in the site I would really, really not trust the payment form.

Last edited 2 hours ago.

Comments with further vulnerabilities:

communities left a comment 1 hour ago:

5) there doesn't seem to be any limit on post size.  if you load up a page with a crapload of text - like, say, War and Peace - the site crawls to a halt while it downloads a massive 5+ mb uncached JSON file before displaying anything.

community left a comment 57 minutes ago:

oh also posts are sequentially numbered, which would make it very easy for someone to trawl all public posts with a script (this is what happened to parler)

community left a comment 55 minutes ago:

flagging posts for community moderators doesn't work, if you moderate a community you can't see any flags that have been reported

Azpher-Omega left a comment 33 minutes ago:

I just saw and resolved some flags on mine? It sure looked like I did anyway

community left a comment 31 minutes ago:

hmm maybe it's something to do with my having a broken username then

communities left a comment 13 minutes ago:

How to get back a deleted conversation:

1. Delete a convo with the trash can (top right)

2. it disappears from your messages list

3. In the URL field, put in the URL of the deleted conversation (e.g. https://www.pillowfort.social/messages/72074)

It shows up as a "conversation" with no messages

Make a reply

Et voila, the conversation has returned from the abyss

Conversation / message IDs are also sequential.  This seems bad.

(Though, it appears to make sure that you were a participant and gives a 401 Forbidden error if not.  Can't read others' messages, thankfully!)

You might want to review GDPR rules and see if "mark as not visible" really qualifies as "deleted from the server"... I suspect it does not.

communities left a comment 11 minutes ago:

Aside: it's possible to "reply" to a message that isn't the main message of the conversation, by specifying its URL.  This creates a detached conversation that does not appear in the messages at all.

So for example if you send a message and it has ID 1, then a reply with ID 2, then change the URL to begin from ID 2, you can make replies that are "unlinked" from the main conversation.

[universitykpop]

It’s time to talk about it

I’ve decided to publish that post I talked about the other day. I’ve noticed several other writers on here are making posts about lack of feedback and interaction and that they’re leaving or no longer writing. This is a topic that I’ve tried to not post a lot about because I didn’t want to seem ungrateful or annoying. But if there’s any time to talk about it, it’s now. I’ve put it below a cut because it is quite a long post with a lot of my emotions about tumblr and my blog. So buckle up, kids, ‘cause it’s a rollercoaster of feels.

My Experience as a Tumblr Fanfic Writer;

When I started this blog, I was fresh off of onedirectionfanfiction.com and 5sosfanfiction.com, where I never had many readers or any feedback. I got maybe 10 comments (they weren’t in-depth reviews, just ‘omg’ or ‘harry’s so hot’) in total from my dozens and dozens of long fanfics (some stories hitting over 100k words which I can’t even dream of now). Coming onto here, I didn’t think my writing was going to get much attention based on past experience. There was a handful of “big scenario blogs” and I liked and reblogged everything I enjoyed reading because that’s how I wanted people to interact with my content. I didn’t know how it felt to receive positive feedback but I wanted others to, even when they were already getting it from so many other readers. When I hit 500 followers, I thought that was it, I wasn’t going to get more followers/readers. I had readers requesting that I do requests and begging for more parts of stories meant to just be oneshots. I was so over the moon to be receiving that kind of love for something I enjoyed doing. I felt like I was finally good at something; I had a purpose for spending hours writing about people I admired and liked. I was getting messages almost everyday for two years and if I hadn’t posted in so long anons were in my ask box asking if I was still here. I had regular anons who went by cute little anon names for a short time. My notifications exploded so much that I had to turn off push notifications because my phone would not stop going off in classes. I cannot describe how happy I was in that time. I have been writing and reading fanfics since 2009 and I always wondered how it would feel to be one of the “popular” writers on a fic site, and during 2016/2017 I thought I achieved that based on the interactions I got. 

As I continued to write, I started to notice many of the fic writers I followed started making friends with other writers I followed. As someone who is very introverted, shy, and socially anxious (especially at this point in time of my blog), I wondered if any other writers would reach out to me and befriend me. No one ever really did, and I thought something was wrong with me. They had their group chats and inside jokes they’d post and tag each other. They would inspire each other to write things and bounce ideas off one another. I haven’t ever felt like I was a part of the kpop fanfic writing community; I was just kinda there. People knew my url but didn’t know me. I had mutuals who messaged me a few times, and then a while later I go back to see what they’re doing and they’re no longer mutuals with me. It shouldn’t have bothered me but it did. Was I annoying? Did they just not like me? Did someone else talk shit about me and then that person changed their opinion about me? I’ll never know because I don’t like confrontation. I have always felt kind of left out, and it reminded me a lot of my real life. Since 2015 when I started this blog, I’ve made one friend and I still talk to her to this day. At times, she was my only friend. She knows who she is, and I cannot say how grateful I am that she reached out to me.

Around 2018, interactions just kind of stopped. I became paranoid and frantic about how I could get back to where I was, but nothing I did worked. As I approached 17k followers, only needing two more to hit it, I began to lose followers by the dozens. I couldn’t figure out why. I was still posting stories but barely got feedback. I decided to stop writing for a bit and not many readers were concerned. It got to the point that I avoided getting on here because I knew I would only get upset and feel guilty by logging on. It felt weird because I had such a large following yet no one cared. And now, I sit at 16.4k followers who barely interact with my content. I don’t get messages about my content, and sometimes I get more than 5 notes in a day. I don’t feel motivated to write because who’s going to read it? I felt like I lost my purpose; it didn’t matter if I continued to write. My stories became shorter and more scarce. I moved to other platforms to see if engagement would go up, but it didn’t. It was pointless to post here and on other sites. I had a taste of praise and I miss it. When it stopped, I couldn’t figure out if I had done something wrong. I study consumer behavior and write papers about it for my Masters degree, and I still can’t figure out why fanfic readers don’t engage with authors on here. In merchandising, people are always willing to give their opinion on products whether it’s good or bad, so why aren’t fic consumers willing? Some writers I’ve read, who I watched grow in popularity and envied their readers interactions, are now in the same boat I’m in and I hate that this is happening to us. Some of them I’m shocked they are also dealing with this. We make this content for free, spending h o u r s to create it, and we get nothing in return. I loved being able to connect with my readers and feel their emotions about my stories. It made me feel fulfilled finally as an fic author.

Now, I can’t remember the last time I opened my scenario documents. How could something that I loved doing for so long become a burden? This blog caused some of my happiest moments and my saddest. Sometimes I debate deleting my account or logging off for good. But I can’t let go after all the effort I’ve put into my blog. 

Would I recommend becoming a Tumblr fanfic writer? Absolutely not. Do not make Tumblr your primary source where you post your stories. Focus on interactions and feedback from actual fiction websites, where it is meant to host those relationships.

This post isn’t meant to shame anyone or brag. I wanted to be real for a moment and tell my truth. So many writers randomly leave without a word, and I just can’t let myself do that. I want to be in the fandoms and contribute and have fun, but I feel like my time to do that has been over for a long time, like I don’t belong here anymore. I’ll still be around but I probably won’t plan to update stories, specifically on this blog. I will most likely post random oneshots on my ateez sideblog @alotofteez and my accounts on aff and ao3. I’ll still make photo edits every once in a while. I really didn’t think I’d make this sort of “goodbye” post because I had so many plans for this blog that just unfortunately never came to fruition.

[ckret2]

So I've been deeply pulled into the Radiosnake pairing bc of your fantastic writing! Problem is, now I have fic ideas but no knowledge of the Hazbin background. Can you tellI me where I can get more Hazbin info? I've only watched the pilot and read your stuff. I heard there were comics??

That is an excellent question anon, because right now it is really hard to get Hazbin background easily.

Okay, so, the canon info on Hazbin Hotel can be sort of sorted into four tiers, from most to least canon.

Tier 1: The Definitely Canon

There is, of course, the pilot. And then there is an Angel Dust prequel comic, only seven pages of which have been released so far. We’ve been told it’s gonna be finished and we’ve had glimpses of in-progress prequel comics for a couple other characters—most prominently Alastor’s and Charlie’s—but so far that unfinished Angel Dust comic is the only one that’s been officially released.

Finding the in-progress comic pages is... a challenge. Nobody, as far as I can tell, has been specifically collecting all of the pages we’ve seen so far. I was able to scrounge up:

Couple more Angel pages

some Alastor pages

another Alastor page

a random Alastor panel

another random Alastor panel—I’ve seen the full page of this before, Alastor goes “Hello ladies!” and they go “HELLO ALASTOR~<3″ but I can’t find the full page now

There’s a smattering more canon panels on the artist faustisse’s twitter, but I haven’t dug them all out, and some of the posts I’m gonna link in a lil bit have a glimpse of another panel.

If you haven’t already heard of Helluva Boss, I recommend looking into it as well. It’s a second series being created by the same folks, different cast of characters but set in the same version of Hell, so any canon details we learn in Helluva also apply to Hazbin.

Helluva’s pilot is here. Plus a cute music video here.

Earlier this month, during a BLM charity stream hosted by show artist Ashley Nichols—she runs regular streams under the title “HuniCast”—they released a few sneak peaks of future Helluva scenes, all compiled here.

And that’s it for canon. Two pilots, a music video, a smattering of future scenes, part of one comic, a few WIP pages/panels from other comics.

Tier 2: Pseudo-Canon

Everything else we currently know about Hazbin (and Helluva) are things that the creators have told us. Consequently, they’re all pseudo-canon—and likely subject to change in the future as the shows and comics are further developed and released. Some details that were released/described in the past have been contradicted at other times, or else radically changed by the time the pilot came out.

(For example, when Alastor was first created years and years ago as an OC with no plans for Hazbin, he was a demon deer who could shapeshift into a human shape—now he’s a demonized human with a few deer traits. And Charlie and Cherri Bomb used to look very different.)

So until and unless they make it into canon, all these pseudo-canon details are subject to change and should be taken with a grain of salt—but, they also comprise most of what we know about the characters’ backstory and the as-yet-unaired characters.

Pseudo-canon info on Hazbin is scattered mainly between two sources: the creators’ twitter accounts, and livestreams where they take questions and talk about the making of the show. If you and livestreams do not get along (my ADHD and livestreams do not get along), or if you don’t want to wade years and years back into twitter accounts to dig up every scrap of info on the characters the creators have ever mentioned, collating all the pseudo-canon info is gonna be hard. (It’s gonna be hard even if you do want to sit through the streams and dig through all their tweets.) Lots of fans, me included, depend on the absolutely heroic work of various fans who are willing and able to watch hours-long streams and collate a list of canon factoids released during the streams. I’ve reblogged as many of these posts as I’ve been able to find:

Alastor’s sound design (on twitter)

Alastor's Sound Design (post I made with screenshots of weird—but very interesting—subtitles slipped into the aforementioned video)

Sir Pentious and Cherri Bomb’s sound design

Niffty and Husk’s sound design

Charlie, Katie, and Tom’s sound design

Intro song’s sound design

Happy Hotel’s sound design

details from Faustisse (including a pic of a couple costume designs. Most of these posts come from zatyrlucy, who’s been doing a fantastic job of going stream-by-stream to get lists of details from the regular streams by Ashley Nichols and by comic artist Faustisse.)

more details from Faustisse (including a pic of the Von Eldritch family dining room)

Faustisse 3 (better look at that table)

Dollymoon’s Hazbin Hotel Facts - PART ONE (Shoutout again to dollymoon for compiling these, we’ve never spoken but I am eternally grateful for this service. Dollymoon’s posts are THE single most reliable compilation of Hazbin Hotel’s nebulous pseudo-canon facts that I have found to date, including both links to the sources and timestamps where applicable. Dollymoon’s URL has changed since making this post so the “read more” link doesn’t work but the “source” or “reblogged from” links direct correctly to the new blog. Incidentally, the risk of other blog creators deleting their blogs/posts or changing their URLs is why in info posts like these, I always link to my own reblogs rather than their original posts—their original posts might vanish without warning, but I know I ain’t gonna delete my posts, so these links will still work in the future.)

Hazbin Hotel Facts - PART TWO

Hazbin Hotel Facts - PART THREE

Faustisse 4

HuniCast - Australian Wildlife Relief charity stream

I think this was a faustisse stream (the original source deleted these posts, so the comic pages that were originally behind that read more cut are now gone.)

Faustisse stream 6?

And those are all the masterposts of factoids I’ve managed to collect. If anyone has more masterposts, chuck ‘em at me.

Even this isn’t all the knowledge that’s been released about the show. The posts that dig the farthest back are Dollymoon’s, and even they don’t comprehensively cover all of Hazbin’s production. A couple of these characters, Vivziepop created as a teenager, so there’s some truly ancient concept art floating around out there that will have details that probably aren’t canon anymore... but might still be until something happens to actively contradict them.

Tier 3: The Wiki

The wiki is kind of an absolute mess. It’s a chaotic blend of things actually seen in the pilots/comic, things mentioned at some point in some stream somewhere, and wild fan speculation based on what they headcanon as plausible based on the above, all mixed together with very little indication for which is canon, pseudo-canon, fanon, or speculation. Most of the statements on the wiki don’t have citations.

(And, on top of that, half the main characters’ info gets split up into separate tabs instead of just having a normal-ass wiki page, AND their image galleries are on COMPLETELY SEPARATE pages that are linked to in one of the tabs, and the most important characters all have TWO SEPARATE GALLERIES. Which doesn’t have anything to do with the quality of the facts hidden underneath those tabs, but nevertheless drives me up the wall.)

Some things on the wiki were added according to info released so long ago it’s probably changed by now. Some are possibilities that got reported as facts. Other things on the wiki have unambiguously changed, or else are just flat-out incorrect. (For instance, at this moment Alastor’s page still lists him as an overlord, even though it's been confirmed that Alastor is not an overlord despite his power level because he isn’t interested in and didn’t pursue that position, per this stream. For a little bit, somebody’s fanart of their headcanon human Alastor got added to the wiki as concept art.)

tl;dr: the wiki should never be trusted as a primary source. The wiki’s better than it used to be. Even so, at this time, it’s only trustworthy to fill in the gaps of what you already know is true from other, better sources.

The thing it’s good at is it more or less compiles all the known info all in one place. Trying to figure out who the hell this Vox guy is is really hard if you’re reading for mentions of him in compilations of a dozen different streams, much less if you’re trying to comb through those dozen streams yourself, plus a dozen more, plus three different artists’ twitters. In comparison, it’s really easy to, say, just go look at Vox’s wiki page, where all the trivia is compiled. (And Vox’s page is actually one of the better cited on the wiki. Look at all those numbers!)

So, if you need to find out who this character is you’ve never heard of before, if you want to see a full list of the thus far named characters, if you don’t remember whether Alastor likes coffee or tea, if you want to know what Angel’s twin sister looks like, if you need a reminder of Sir Pentious’s death year... check the wiki. It’s an okay starting point.

But, if you see a “fact” on the wiki that you yourself don’t remember from straight out of the pilot, and it doesn’t have a citation that links to a tweet or a stream... regard it suspiciously. And do not trust it unquestioningly as fact until and unless you have seen the source.

Tier 4: Noncanon Creator Shitposting

I’ve mentioned Ashley’s HuniCast streams a couple times. The biggest draw of them is that she usually gets several of the voice actors in the streams, where they’ll happily say nonsense in their character voices. For the most part, they’re not sharing any actual canon info they’ve been given on their characters, just goofing around pretending to be their characters. Nevertheless, a lot of the things that happen in streams get accepted as broad fandom headcanons, like Alastor being into dad jokes. (My favorite, for obvious reasons, is this one.)

It’s easy to find the source audio for all this wonderful nonsense by searching youtube for “HuniCast highlights,” and then rummaging around for animatics people make out of the audio. The only one noncanon video of this sort I can think of that didn’t originally come from HuniCast is a lone one from Alastor’s singing voice (who’s a different voice actor than his speaking voice).

So, obviously, none of these are canon. But they do come from some of the people actually involved in the creation of the show, and they are in the characters’ canon voices, so a whole lot of people treat them as semi-canon anyway. (Even the wiki lists “dad jokes” among Alastor’s likes, which to my knowledge hasn’t come up anywhere except for HuniCast streams.) Since they’re so broadly-known, they’re worth knowing about as important sources of fanon, even if you don’t want to adopt them into your own headcanons. They’re basically the same level of canon as blooper reels.