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the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

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People tend to throw out the phrase "extremely specific kinks" as though that inherently implies something transgressive, but in my experience, the overwhelming majority of extremely specific kinks are so innocuous that you could see them in public and not even clock them. For every person who can only get off to having their nipples electrocuted, there are a dozen who are volcanically aroused by seeing their partner wearing one specific pair of socks.

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People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”

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ID: A tan userbox. The image on the left is of the JSTOR logo. The text on the right reads "This user would be doomed without JSTOR." End ID

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i think the thing to me about posts like this that show off some ungodly monstrosity in a shipped game's codebase to prove a point about how doing things the "right" way is less important than getting it done is that it never actually backs up the implicit claim that doing things the right way would have been slower, which is where the actual meat of the claim is. and there are plenty of cases where the simple hack winds up limiting you.

conversely, it's much harder to point at good code and go "this design is so good", so you dont get meme posts about (say) implementing your ability effects as an ADT and how cool this is because it doesn't generate an instinctual reaction

and of course, while most games aren't ongoing projects, anyone who plays hit mmo final fantasy xiv is well aware of the bizarre restrictions in place that are almost definitely due to some ungodly piece of legacy code

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I need everyone to be honest about what you see

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i hate whenever people say "autism and adhd are basically the same disorder" because that isn't even remotely true. autism believes a strong defense is the best offense, and focuses on keeping plays connected in order to steadily earn points, while adhd is characterized by unpredictable high risk combination attacks that prioritize scoring

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i saw this image and thought you’d really like it. it reminded me of you

literally. this is it.

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i just wanna say, as a feeding tube haver, that it's so much more possible to get used to invasive medical devices than you might fear.

i grew up horrified by even being reminded organs exist. i was just so severely grossed out by human anatomy. i got a lot better about it through years of chronic illness, since you just have to get used to it. but that's the baseline i started from originally, in case you are also squeamish and wonder if it's possible for that to change.

so when i needed a feeding tube, i was pretty distressed by the idea. having a tube sticking through a new hole in my abdomen was a seriously horrifying concept, and i couldn't imagine coping with having a stoma (the hole) and caring for it etc. i did it because i needed it to survive but thought i might never get used to it.

and yeah, it freaked me out at first. but eventually i did just get used to it. it just feels normal now. i even feel affection towards it, because it is keeping me alive.

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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

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It's Lesbian Visibility Week and my five years on testosterone, so I have an urgent message from one random man to all lesbians on T:

YAAAAY WHOOO SOLIDARITY FOREVER I LOVE YOU HOORAY WHOOO HAHAHA YAAAAY CLAPPING AND SCREAMING AND HIGH-FIVING YOU AND CRUSHING BEER CANS AGAINST MY FOREHEAD YAAAAAY FRIENDSHIP AND JOY YAAAAY

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6,000 BC: gamer girl bathwater

6,000 AD: nothing but thermal paste

fandom sucks now I never see PSAs for writers about what can and cannot be used as lube

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Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

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

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i must not stir the pot. stirring the pot is the notifications-killer. participation in the discourse is the little-death that brings total activity obliteration. i will face the bad opinions on the internet. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, i will turn the block button onto their source. where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. only i will remain.