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i can hear this picture

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Support for Sena Bryer

Wuk Lamat's voice actor could use a hand. Voice actors, like most actors and those in the entertainment industry, actually don't make a ton of money and rely on the limited times they're on a job and any residuals that come in (which get smaller and smaller over the years; Mica Burton has said she was paid the same amount of money on Star Trek: Picard that her dad made on Roots over 45 years ago). Add in the discrimination of trans actors when seeking roles.

Pop on over to her Ko-fi (Tumblr suppressing links doesn't help here) and give our Vow of Resolve a hand.

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As a part time rec center drawing instructor, I don't have an admin breathing down my neck about how I teach or run my class. I give no grades, no homework, and often no critique.

What I do do is talk to the students, because I have a tiny class size and I can have conversations with them. I ask them to think about how they like this or that, if something is hard or if something is easy and why that is. I ask them to fail for the purpose of learning. I ask them to do things they've never done, and let them tear out their sketchbook pages to throw away when it's so bad it's shameful to them. I tell them it's okay to fail in a world where failure is punished with the feeling that some nebulous entity is going to take away their future. I know that feeling. I am cut off at every turn in the adult world myself and I'm struggling to thrive, and I know this is the future for many of my students as well.

My classes have been shrinking lately, or getting cancelled due to not making minimum sign-ups. The pandemic cut down on numbers and now this post is making me think I know why they're even lower than before. All I can hope for now is that my former students hold onto some of my lessons and that my faith in the constant cycle of humanity repeating history is justified. I'd just...prefer to be proactive and find a way to destroy all AI companies and reform the education system while drop-kicking far-right groups into the sun. (That's all I want for Xmas, mom!)

Generative AI has destroyed academia.

In the next few decades we’re going to have thousands of people who don’t really know anything, and can’t do any critical thinking.

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

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I'm not much of a movie watcher but i can only assume Goncharov wasn't put on this list because naturally all of us have seen it so it's like a free square on a bingo card

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

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🔥 The beacons are lit; the library calls for aid

The Trump administration has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services - the ONLY federal agency for America's libraries.

Using just 0.003% of the federal budget, the IMLS funds services at libraries across the country; services like Braille and talking books for the visually impaired, high-speed internet access, and early literacy programs.

Libraries are known for doing more with less, but even we can't work with nothing.

How You Can Help:

🔥 Call your congressperson!

Use the app of your choice or look 'em up here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Pro tip: If your phone anxiety is high, call at night and leave a voicemail. You can even write yourself a script in advance and read it off. Heck, read them this post if you want to.

Phones a total no-go? The American Library Association has a form for you: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

🔥Tell your friends!

Tell strangers, for that matter. People in line at the check out, your elderly neighbor, the mail carrier - no one is safe from your library advocacy. Libraries are for everyone and we need all the help we can get.

...Wait, why do we need this IMLS thing again?

The ALA says it best in their official statement and lists some ways libraries across the country use IMLS funding:

But if you want a really specific answer, here at LCPL we use IMLS funding to provide our amazing interlibrary loan service. If we can't purchase an item you request (out of print books, for example) this service lets us borrow it from another library and check it out to you.

IMLS also funds the statewide Indiana Digital Library and Evergreen Indiana, which gives patrons of smaller Indiana libraries access to collections just as large and varied as the big libraries' collections.

As usual, cutting this funding will hurt rural communities the most - but every library user will feel it one way or another. Let's let Congress know that's unacceptable.

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i didn't think this was how i'd find out my favorite adventurer's guild bro code switched to help out newbies based on assumptions of their linguistic backgrounds

??? at some point, they toned down Baderon's accent for JUST this one line

he still leaved the d out of "and" in every other line, and there's nothing about this line that stands out, or would have had to be edited for any other reason...? what the hell

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mistakes happen

like that time the artist making the thancred standee art turned his gunblade upside down so he was sawing at his arm with the sharp side and they only noticed at the last minute and he died of embarrassment (so naturally they revealed all of this during a live letter with the artist right there)

I think this might be the same artist, he's probably dying of embarrassment right now

lahabrea necklace…… gone

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someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

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The SAVE Act and You

Background behind this question: The SAVE Act is a voter suppression act that requires you to present a birth certificate that matches your current ID. Anyone who changes their name from their birth name (most of these are cishet women who get married) would not be able to vote.

For cishet men...how do you feel if your wife didn't take your surname? Open-ended question, answer however you want.

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and yet if the two stood side by side and told you different things, which one would you ultimately trust to be telling the truth?

ah yes, my new favorite ship: The Truther x The Bullshitter

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when will this circus end i stg

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Long Live the Queen: How gender defines the antagonist of Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail

Spoilers for Shadowbringers and Dawntrail

Critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV (with a free trial up to level 70 including award winning expansion Heavensward and the Stormblood expansion with no restrictions on playtime) released its latest expansion Dawntrail in summer 2024,marking a new start for the game’s story after the previous arc wrapped up in 2021. Dawntrail (written by Hiroi Daichi after the lead writer of the previous two expansions, Ishikawa Natsuko, stepped down) received somewhat mixed reactions. If you ask me, though, Dawntrail delivers some of the game’s best character writing yet, especially regarding its antagonist Sphene. 

Dawntrail is about a lot of things—family and wanting to make them proud, the pressure and responsibility of power and authority, cultural heritage, the dead living on in memory—and Sphene plays into these as a queen desperately trying to keep her kingdom from falling apart at the seams. She thematically calls back to many elements and characters from previous expansions, but provides a fresh—and dare I say innovative—take on these concepts through the way her storyline incorporates themes of gender roles; the intersectionality of gender, class, and race; and the bonds between female characters.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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There are posts for explaining your url but i want one for blog title, so ill just make one myself:

Reblog this and tell us in the tags what your blog title means!

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WoL has environment > music synesthesia and only ever hears bangers

I have this headcanon that the music of FF14 is actually diagetic and that the Warrior of Light is able to hear it thanks to their echo. So everything they hear is actually happening inside of their head. I also love to imagine that my WoL tries to recreate the songs on the piano after hearing them for the first time.