#this is certainly a web site

[kirby-souljourney-au]

Get Athena’d, losers.

Here she is, the full ref sheet for my silly little MetaGala fankid!

I had a really hard time trying to figure out her outfits for some reason, but it came out good in the end.

All her info and hex codes are under the cut!

Full name: Athena Iriam

Aliases: Athy, ‘Miss Dream’

Species: Dream-Heart-Matter Asrtral

Planet of Origination: Popstar

Age: 15

Height: 5’6”

Gender: Biologically both sexes; identifies as female

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Sexuality: Lesbian

S/O: None

Family: Ione Argon (father), Galacta Iriam (parent), Auberon Ivi (step-father), Ophanim (step-mother), Artemis Ivi (half-sister), Kirby Argon (step-brother), Cipher Argon (adopted sister), Inifya Argon (niece)

Programmer and musician.

Biological daughter of Ione and Galacta.

Plays electric guitar in her band, The Absolutes, alongside her friends, and is undergoing training regarding her magic.

The second youngest of the family, and by far the smartest with technology. She hopes to one day design and build the best Starship in the Galaxy, as well as just generally incredible space-travel tech.

A sweetheart with a bit of a temper. She doesn’t have many friends, but she is very close with her family, and the other members of her band. She has surprisingly strong Dream Magic, considering the fact that her connection to Dream Matter is very mild (and Ione’s actually really weak for an Astral, so his daughter’s magic being like 200x stronger than his is very jarring), and is training with her friend’s father Elfilin and her aunt Satia in using it better.

She prefers staying at home, but she doesn’t mind going outside to visit friends every once in a while, and finds enjoyment in the concept of space travel.

Her weapon of choice is, for the most part, her wits alone, but she does use actual weaponry when necessary; usually she summons throwing knives with her magic.

Hex codes

Both:

#1C1841 — Tail fur

#202261 — Fur base

#FECD8B — Earrings

#FFDFBE — Face marking

#F4D0D0 — Inner ears

#E3E4FF — Fur fade / Neck fluff

#FFFFFF — Claws / Wing talons

#C7C7C7 — Horns

#9F5252 — Iris

#FFECEC — Eye whites

Regular fit:

#181818 — Socks

#212121 — Shirt

#140C2C — Leg warmers

#D3C3FF — Skirt

Alt fit:

#101010 — Socks / Shorts

#171718 — Shirt

#1C1A22 — Jacket 1

#F0DED2 — Jacket 2

#EDEDED — Belt

#9F9F9F — Belt buckle

Tail-tip:

#11002E — Tail-tip base

#00162E — Fade (using Nebula brush)

#007BFF — Tail-tip glitter (using Glimmer brush, blend mode Overlay)

Wings:

#121316 — Covert feathers 1

#13131A — Webbing (front)

#1F1F37 — Flight feathers (back)

#333340 — Covert feathers 2

#767683 — Flight feathers (front)

#C8DBFF — Webbing glitter (curved 4-point stars / “GK-Style” 4-point stars / Glimmer brush, blend mode Linear Light, layer opacity 13%)

YAY I’M DONE!! Finally I can play more Planet Robobot—

[sainz100]

2022 charity football match | x

[squidgirlautism]

fascinating that this is evidence of zionism where i explicitly state otherwise.

[alatariel-galadriel]

"Leave it to you to go right for the whip, girl."

"Hey, remember when we talked about 'you and me' boundaries? That's definitely a you and me only conversation."

"Well, it was just a joke 'till you made it real. Now people are really curious."

"Dammit."

Mr. and Mrs. X Issue #1

[thefreelanceangel]

The auto mod is going full ham, innit? LOL I mean I know they're Kyhos, but c'mon...

[diamond-rings-and-gutter-bones]

fake idgafer i saw you hating

[ever-so-slightly-monstrous]

It has come to my attention that scrolling my dash on mobile somehow results in sending random posts to people who I follow??? I would like to offer a sincere apology for the truly unhinged posts I've apparently been sending to people. My dash is a Dark Place and I never intended to inflict it unknowingly on others.

[kelsiers]

i look away for 10 seconds and this happens

[kylermalloy]

I just saw that you encouraged sending asks, so I wanted to know if you got mine about Hughes earlier this week? I know tumblr eats asks sometimes

I got it anon! It’s in the queue to be answered 😉

[radioconstructed]

[ I need y'all to know that Al briefly considered changing her URL to angeldustsbignaturals because of this ask. She's seen the URLs on this stupid ass webbed site!! She knows it would fit right in!!]

[foone]

Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant

[evilkitten3]

how dare you say websites can read everyone knows those things are illiterate

girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

[entity56]

250 reblogs this shit is certified [tumblr]

reblog if [tumblr]

[halorocks1214]

out of curiosity because i love to procrastinate everything i do:

this is a question i like to think about because my very first pokemon game was the original pearl, and idk if it's because of bias from poor memory but i really don't have strong feelings for it? like i certainly don't hate it but you cannot ask me about major details in that game because i guarantee i will not know the answer lmao. i wanted to ask this webbed site to see if my opinions fall in line with others or if i'm an outlier of sorts (both are equally possible when it comes to me)

[sea-of-machines]

Why almost every big social media site is from the US?

I'm aware that mourning an app is pathetic in a situation where people's lives are endangered with a certain orange man becoming the president again, but I'm genuinely worried how US centric social media is limiting the freedom of speech everywhere outside the States as well.

In this screenshot that has made rounds around the web today, we see the differences in an app that isn't own by an US company.

We can see that the censorship only affects those who are from the US in TikTok. But that's not the case with the dumpsterfire app Twitter, and that is not the case with Instagram either.

Today, many Finnish (and others as well) leftist people and politicians have noticed how political content has been hidden. Tags such as #theleft, #democrat, #kamalaharris and #leftist has been hidden or made unusable. This post is from a member of the Finnish Left group:

I've also been made aware that they have banned tags like #conservative as well, but not #republican and certainly not #donaldtrump.

Unlike in Tiktok, the political propaganda of Trump and his crew affects the entire world.

And I'm truly saddened to see if Instagram becomes unusable just like Twitter. I don't want to see leftist accounts being banned or restricted. We need social media apps that aren't US made. Europe should step up. I'm tired of the whole online world being the United fascist States of America.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Hello, I am an amateur writer, and would like for people to see my original fiction. I've never posted writing anywhere, so I would be starting from scratch. My question to you though is, why host your writing on your own site, rather than somewhere like AO3? Is that an avenue you would recommend to someone who doesn't necessarily want to sell their writing at the moment?

AO3 is for fanfiction and is non-commercial. While it is true that they don't remove original fiction, and it's probably possible to solicit funding for fics on it by linking somewhere like Tumblr and then to Patreon or whatever, me taking advantage of their free labour and their server space to host my original fiction that I write to pay my mortgage would be what we like to call a "major dick move". I have no interest in skeevy bullshit like that. If you ever intend to sell your fiction, I'd recommend not posting what you want to sell on AO3 at all because you're just creating future issues for yourself when you monetise. (AO3 is, however, an excellent place to post to get readers who will give your other fiction hosted elsewhere a try. The first Curse Words readers were all people who liked my fanfic on AO3 and wanted to see more of my writing.)

Having my own website just works out best for me and the way I like to do things. It's certainly not the only option. There are plenty of web serial hosts out there, and they're a good way to get readers since people go to those places specifically looking for web serials. Royal Road and Scribblehub were the big names last I checked, and that's probably still true. If you don't have any particular interest in running your own website, a site like that is a good place to start, since there's a ready audience, a ready community of fellow writers, and it's all set up to add chapters to your stories as easily as possible without you having to add your own links or do anything fiddly, the reader is built into the website already.