#updates

[genderqueerdykes]

god... i just realized i can eventually plan to get top surgery now that i'm not bouncing around from couch to hotel to couch to hotel... maybe the future is bright after all. i have something to look forward to for once.......... maybe life is good

[bicycleboyblog]

On this week's page of Bicycle Boy, we dive into another flashback.

[gastrophobia]

One more time!

[thewhalesheart]

no new page this thursday, 6/20. sorry guys ): i'm not feeling well. i'll post the next page this saturday, 6/22. see you then, and thank you!

[artificial-radiance]

Official PTTW AU Changelog

I'm making this to keep track of big changes to my AU while also making it public 👍🏻

This will be updated whenever a lot of changes happen -- I have a habit of changing things as I go, especially with AUs, which is why there's no public lore bible as of yet.

June 20, 2024

Names

The Monsters are now called Wardens (this has been mentioned before, but I'm officially noting it here).

The Voices are now called Wills (i.e. -- Voice of the Dove is now Will of the Dove).

Chapter 3 Warden names that may be altered due to the Pristine Cut (i.e. Shackle, Afflicted, and Presence equivalents of unreleased ch. 3s, and the equivalents of Apotheosis, Den, and Fury) are defunct. There are no canon names or storylines planned yet.

Chapter 3 Warden names that are unaffected by the Pristine Cut will possibly be changed or pondered -- this is mostly due to unfamiliarity with the canon equivalent chapters.

Removals

The Narrator is no longer the one narrating for the Runaway -- instead the Wills are. (The Narrator still shows up in very rare moments.)

[fallstaticexit]

Thinking about taking a tiny little COTF posting break to work on some other things. Got hit with the inspiration stick to do a mini series I will affectionately call Missing Moments, where I basically provide all the life updates on the other beloved Briars since they have been left in the dust they have been waiting so patiently for me to get back to them 🥹.

Also wanted to do some Quinn gameplay as well 🙂‍↕️☝🏾

[ask-world-academys-host-club]

[danielleroserusselldaily]

danielleroserussell: 🐚🌊🐈🤍🪴🕯️

[cleolinda]

AITA for banning my husband and father in law from the delivery room due to their intensely stressful/creepy behavior during my pregnancy?

There’s a famous Reddit post from 2020 where a pregnant woman wrote that her husband and father-in-law were a little too comfortable with their certainty that she was absolutely going to die in childbirth just like her husband’s late mother. It was to the point where her FIL was insisting that she go ahead and put all her clothes into storage, because she was obviously going to die in the hospital and it would save them the grief of packing up her things afterwards. Like. It was WILD.

When I tell my husband [that she feels suspicious of her FIL], he calls me paranoid, but I feel like my FIL WANTS me to die; his whole life identity for the past 35 years has been “amazing single dad” (never dated or had close friends or even hobbies really), and it seems like he’s looking forward to being able to guide my husband through what he went through. At this point, I’d honestly be happy to never see my FIL again, and I certainly don’t want him in the delivery room, especially since he told me he was “putting [his] foot down” about me not being “allowed” to have an epidural…. My husband, in addition to backing his dad on everything, acts like my due date is my death date, and has completely pulled away from me.

The commenters (and me, honestly) were convinced that the husband and FIL were either going to kill her outright to fulfill this expectation, or just make decisions about her care that might conveniently let her die.

And then she never posted again.

Over the last four years, people have frequently mentioned that post, always leading to a thread of people saying, “Oh god, I still worry about that woman.” I did too. It became one of those famous unresolved posts that people always wondered about.

Until yesterday, when someone on r/BestOfRedditorUpdates dug up a 2022 update she had posted on a different account:

TLDR; I had a beautiful and healthy baby girl, and I divorced my ex-husband. I lived, obviously.

She writes that she put her foot down about having her own mother in the delivery room rather than her FIL (!), and she WOULD be getting an epidural. Her husband lost his shit. And in his outburst, he let slip--

I admittedly lost my temper, and told him that I wasn’t going to die- it wasn’t my fault his father’s trauma wormed it’s way into his head, and that he needed to fix it without taking it out on me. He yelled at me that he didn’t need therapy. That caught me a little off guard; I asked him why he went to his therapist and was given advice about my death if he felt he didn’t need it. His expression gave it away, and he caved not long after. It turns out there was no therapist. It was just his dad. During the times he was supposed to be at therapy, he was with his dad. I’m still fuming.

And that was when she got the fuck out.

I’ll wrap this up- I’ve got an adorable little toddler tugging at my leg atm. I’m alive, I’m happy, and I’ve got my baby in my arms. Life is good.

I truly never thought we'd see a resolution to this, and I feel like there's probably a good number of people who remember it, so I thought you might want to know.

ETA: Brilliantly, I put the link in at the top; here it is again for convenience.

[tikkunolamresistance]

ISRAEL HAVE STARTED BOMBING RAFAH! THE PLACE THEY INSISTED WAS A SAFE REFUGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF GAZA! ALL EYES ON RAFAH!

[genderqueerdykes]

we are going to begin compiling our responses to our transmasc+ interview into our new zine today!

this does not mean that we are immediately done accepting new responses- we will still be accepting new responses for a time until we are finished compiling the zine. if you are transmasc, genderqueer, non binary, genderfluid, a trans man, a dyke, a butch lesbian, a lesboy, a faggot, a gay guy, a gaybian, a fagdyke, a faggy butch, a trans bear, ftm, intersex, agender, xenogender, bigender, polygender, or anyone else who identifies on the transmasc+ spectrum please feel free to reach out so i can get you the forms for the interview before we're done!

[adorkastock]

DeviantArt used to be the place I put new poses up three times a week. It was the best place to get consistent updates of new poses from me.

BUT NOW! I have a self-hosted gallery on AdorkaStock.com 🥰 It's a WIP (and there's a lot of work to do) but I like having my poses on my own site. 😌

You can sign up for my newsletter and get an email digest of new poses each week or once a month so you don't have to always remember to go check for what's new. My long term goal is to have this gallery completely replace my DA archive. Reasons for this move include: - DA's enthusiastic support for AI - DA removing categories making it nearly impossible to search for CC licensed images - not being beholden to DA's future random TOS and API changes

Your support helps with this goal. ♥ Ways to support: - Share my work with other artists! - Support me on Patreon for just $1/mo - Shop my Kofi store for pose ref packs and merch Get all my links at my Link Hub. 🥰 Thanks so much for your support and happy drawing!

[michaelcerasource]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, an all-new original series starring Michael Cera & the rest of the Scott Pilgrim cast, releasing November 17th only on Netflix.

[ultyso]

Updates 3/15/2024

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[bebx]

lmao tumblr letting their users choose whether or not they want their likes to be public but then pulling a twitter 2.0 and showing your likes on your followers’ dashboards and specially saying who liked the posts in their new update, without the users’ consent or a way to turn it off, is actually pretty insane.

like how many times to we — the users — have to tell them we don’t want tumblr to be like any other social media platforms and that tumblr’s being different than twitter, instagram, tiktok is actually what makes us stay on this silly little site.

respectfully @staff you’re driving your users away. stop trying to “fix” things that are good and don’t need to be fixed. we want tumblr to be tumblr. we don’t want the site to be twitter or instagram 2.0

edit: so at first I was under the impression that you could turn off the “posts liked by blogs you follow” in your dashboard preferences, but couldn’t control how your own likes showed up on the dashboards of your followers, after I saw several posts claiming that this was the case. — however, now I think I might be wrong and it thankfully does look like as long as you have your likes set to private, they will stay private and will not be showing up on your followers’ dashboards. apologize for any misunderstanding this may have caused.

* from my understanding now, you can choose not to see other people’s likes by going to your dashboard preferences in the settings and turning off the “posts liked by blogs you follow” option, and if you have your own likes set to private, they won’t be showing up on your followers’ dashboards.

[northgazaupdates]

21 December 2023

The situation worsens at the besieged Palestine Red Crescent ambulance dispatch center discussed here. PRCS reports that contact with the staff of the facility has been severed due to the IOF sabotage of telecommunications. However, other witnesses report a disturbing turn of events.

The IOF has now fully raided the ambulance dispatch center. They arrested all members of the medical and rescue teams, and have taken them to an undisclosed location. Within the center are still trapped many women and children, as IOF continue besieging the facility.

Source: Palestine Red Crescent via Instagram