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Sometimes social media drives me insane but every now and then we get gems like this

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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

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Hallo deutsches Tumblr - nicht deutschsprachig, sondern wirklich Deutschland-deutsch, bin selber aus Österreich - helft mir, was rauszufinden: Kennt ihr die Wörter "Beistrich" und "Strichpunkt"? Nicht ob ihr sie verwendet, nur ob ihr die schon mal gehört habt und versteht.

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when you understand one line in a song in a language you're learning

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It is a real tragedy that English does not have a diminutive suffix. There is no way to properly translate that from Dutch to English and it's tragic because in many cases the diminutive adds a layer of meaning that you can only translate with like a dozen extra words

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Daily reminder to all my creatives; it’s okay not to post every single day! Take breaks, make things that’ll never be posted online, work on projects that are just for you, do things completely unrelated to your online presence! Don’t burn out trying to appease the algorithm ♡

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a dramatical "schwiiierig" is literally the worst response you can get from a German

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reblog after voting!!

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🎄 25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS → DAY SIXTEEN 🎄 THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), dir. Henry Selick "Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!"

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I did the OC trading cards for the two missing characters, now that they finally have names.

The other four can be found here

Still unsure about the power levels but Ellaria has a high power level due to her useful power rather than fighting skills, although I might have her get some training in the future. Ginny, on the other hand, is quick to battle and ready to throw her fists at anyone but at this point, she still needs a lot more training, so I've decided to rank her between Niara and Neri in terms of power. (Neri is actually quite powerful in the water so if only that would count, she would have top power levels!) Niara's will raise in time too, but for now they're all still learning.

Anyway, this is fun!

Check out the original post by @auxiliarydetective here and make your own oc trading cards. (I gave up on photoshop and used photopea). Check the original post for an amazing editorial on how to make these trading cards!

Now that they all have faceclaims I should probably have used those... but I already had four done and I wanted these to match, so I ended up using picscrew again.

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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