I wanna nit-pick about creating characters. Just some compare and contrast on a specific oc that I've had for years that's evolved into something I absolutely love.
The original concept
Originally her name was Bloody Phoenix Flame. Yes I made her in middle school.
She was the daughter of an all powerful deity that sought to destroy everything that was made by her sister.
Phoenix had wings, horns, sometimes a tail, was a vampire, witch, werewolf...the typical op middle school character.
She had been cursed by her mother for rebelling against her. This curse forced her to go blood thirsty and murder-y every few minutes.
Current concept
Phoenixis Ever-Burn is her name.
She was born into a family of witches that honored and worshipped Hekate and Chernobog.
Phoenix's mother tricked her brother-in-law into believing that she was in fact his wife. They slept together and conceived Phoenix and her other siblings. This did not go unpunished by Chernobog who gave them the immortality they had patiently waited for, but with the added hunger for blood.
They were basically turned into vampires but they are capable of going out in the sun etc. They just have an unending hunger that will slowly drive them mad.
Hekate gave the family a prophecy in regards to the curse breaking. The curses first born would be the vessel that redeemed the family.
The vessel is Phoenix.
Getting into the nit-picking. Having an overpowered character isn't bad. They can be used as a way to figure out what to do and what not to. Having a deity oc shouldn't be frowned on, but that oc should have limits to what they are capable of.
What kind of deity are they? Do they rule over a plane of existence? What would be their opposite?
Now for backstory. I'm gonna be blunt, everyone has trauma. It doesn't have to be physical related trauma either. It could by psychological, emotional, religious, or abandonment. Parents having a divorce is traumatic, having a very important family member die when your young is traumatic.
The abuse backstory is extremely overused. Yes, it is a very real thing. But there's no real difference between some stories (I'm looking at some of the Wattpad writers). If abuse is important to your character, what type of abuse? There are different types and I would like to see more of them portrayed.
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URGENT: ๐จ๐จEARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE ๐จ๐จ
tumblr's nsfw ban hitting the entire internet this spring 2022
February 1, 2022
Iโm so so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this
WHAT IS THE EARN IT ACT?
The EARN IT Act has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country. This is a bill that will make children less safe, undermine online safety and security, and trample free expression, because it carves out another exception to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), which the ACLU describes as โfoundational to modern online communications.โ This has been the law that has let the internet grow into what it is today, weโve had this law since the 90s. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of this law because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)
The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship. Platforms will be incentivized to scan their usersโ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of โprotecting kidsโ and โfighting CSEMโ, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.
If this bill passes, we're going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms, for fear of the liability that could come with ever accidentally hosting CSAM, as well as the erasure of end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms.
This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything โadultโ online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal's EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230.
EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of โpornography" as they โ or the lobbies that fund them โ please, (Right now, right wing organizers are catgorizing books about racism as โpornโ to ban them from schools) which is a cherished goal of organizations that seek to reintroduce obscenity prosecutions for content now protected by Free Speech jurisprudence. This will 1000000% be used to eradicate anything LGBT online.
What this bill says it does on the surface is make platforms liable for their usersโ activity if that activity involves sex and minors. However, because of 230, platforms are not liable at all about their users' activity. This has allowed platforms to grow and thrive and many niches online to as well. The bill also creates an unelected commission to create โbest practicesโ to combat online child sexual exploitation. While these recommendations are nominally voluntary (so Americans have no decision on who gets to be on it), platforms that refuse to comply will be liable for criminal prosecutions and lawsuits should the government decide any of their users is engaging in online child sexual exploitation.
This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.
This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.
Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said โFacebook should ban finstaโ) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesnโt show the text of the bill until hours later, and itโs WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of "protecting kids" to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids.
The entire EARN IT act is based on *multiple* misunderstandings of the law and reality. It's a really really really bad policy that will do serious harm. But because Senator Blumenthal wants headlines, he'll pretend that it "helps protect the children." It won't. It'll do real damage. It will make CSEM much much worse.
One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works -- without fear of liability for any "failure." Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.
(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on "obscenity" as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)
NCOSE, the far right anti-LGBT hate group behind the global anti-sex legislations, is pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of โGodโ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.
The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldnโt he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill?
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) along with a coalition of 26 civil society organizations urged the United States Senate to reject the EARN IT Act. Groups on the left and right, including the ACLU, Fight for the Future, EFF, and Hacking // Hustling oppose it. Because it threatens free expression online and will threaten marginalized peopleโs safety while being totally unnecessary and failing to fix the problem it claims to address. The EARN IT Act empowers states to give law enforcement access to usersโ private conversations and force companies to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement. This is totally unnecessary. Platforms are already handing over CSAM to the federal government. Itโs actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.
I don't know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the "make child pornography worse" bill, but here we are.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
EARN IT Act was introduced yesterday! And itโs already scheduled to get marked up, which is the first step post-introduction. Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES (IL, VT, CA, RI, MN, DE, CT, HI, NJ, and GA), CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND HOUSE MEMBERS NOW. THIS IS URGENT. This is who gets first crack, and folks in all have Senators who are on the Judiciary committee.
I'm guessing this month or March is when the bill would be passed if there is no opposition ๐ญ The bill was re-introduced yesterday, already set for markup this Thursday. This feels like an attempt to fast track it this month. Additionally the current makeup of Congress favors those who want it passed. Back in 2020 it was mostly Senate republicans and democrats who are basically republicans (just like now, check the sponsors) pushing it with Ron Wyden using the filibuster to stop their efforts. The house dems didn't want to give Trump a win and needed to appear as pro-privacy/free speech for the 2020 election. Now the dems have the presidency, both chambers of Congress and if you've noticed have spent a few years repeatedly demanding social media censorship and desperately want to give Biden victories. biden isn't like obama who opposed sopa/pipa to appeal to younger voters. This is similar to how FOSTA passed with the group who made it happen last time back again. Far as I'm aware Wyden hasn't spoken about new earn it yet but even if he does oppose it, it's very possible there will be enough Senate democrats to join the republicans in passing it beating a filibuster. Then pelosi's band of house idiots pass it and we have to choose between breaking the law because they can't stop us from using encryption or being obedient sheep to a group who consider themselves above laws.
It already has a fifth of the Senate cosponsoring it. There is a very very very real chance this bill becomes law. This is an uphill battle that's going to happen fast and quick. PLEASE, FIGHT NOW.
202-224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline.
This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.
More sources to read about this bill:
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/the-earn-it-act-is-anti-evidence
Fight for the Futureโs Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678EW8v09z8&t=1s
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220131/22423648395/senates-new-earn-it-bill-will-make-child-exploitation-problem-worse-not-better-still-attacks-encryption.shtml
EARN IT Act treats Myths as Facts.
https://surviveearnit.com/what-is-the-earn-it-act/ From 2020, but little has changed about the bill.
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/earn-it-act-back
Center for Democracy and Technologyโs Statement
TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven't seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.
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I need this on my feed permanently. The reminder is always good to have.
Do you have any writing tips?
I do, but please remember these help *me* write and it may not work for everyone!
Donโt focus so much on meeting one specific word count or goal, let the story coast along by itself
Donโt worry so much about adding frivolous words, you can always go back in and add detail later
Donโt focus on time constraints, work at your own pace
Donโt over describe a character, space things out, imply things but donโt say them. You donโt always want to outright say โThey were Niceโ try โThey always comforted me when I needed itโ
If you donโt like your writing, wait until youโre finished. Clean it up a bit and then check it. You have to trust the process!
If you still donโt like it, thatโs okay too. Donโt be afraid to rewrite something!
If you like specific lines of text/terms/or words that you wrote in your last draft. Save them for your re-write! Thereโs nothing wrong with liking things and disliking others
Inspiration can come from anywhere, try music, describing colors/sounds and making stories out of silly things like planets
Never ever give up on yourself, you can write just as well as anyone else. Never let your brain say โtheyโre better then meโ. Improvement takes time and thereโs nothing wrong with that.
Finally, make sure that whatever you write is something you like. If youโre writing something you donโt like it will fall flat, the story will drag or feel stale.
Hope these little tips and tricks helped!
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Iโm suffering from Sun/Moon brain rot and have spent the last hour trying to think of legal names for a human au.
Moon - Aidan Dusk Selenelion
Sun - Elio Dawn Selenelion
Iโm taking applications for friendships. Or if you have ideas or headcannons, send them my way. I beg of you.
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I am uncreatively creative....No seriously!
Minors DNI
- This is a preference, but please respect that.
I post sometimesโฆIf I remember Tumblr exists.
I'm an '01 baby. (Currently 22)
Nonbinary, but pronouns are just words so I genuinely don't care. (Though I do prefer he/they.)
I've been writing shorts for years. Since I was about 12.
I actually have 5 or more projects I'm working on. Not all at the same time, but a little here and there for all of them.
I donโt have an update schedule. Hereโs why:
I donโt do well with time constraints when it comes to my writing. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ.
Inspiration comes and goes, same for my hyperfixations. ๐'๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต (๐๐๐๐) ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ.
Iโm a college student and my studies will come first. ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ธ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ง ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
๐'๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ๐ ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ-๐๐ผ-๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ, ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป.
๐๐ฌ๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ - ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.
๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต 4 - ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐. ๐ต๐พ4 ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐.
๐๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ถ๐ฏ - ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ธ'๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐.
๐๐๐๐ - ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ - ๐ท๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐๐. ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐ฐ๐3 ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐-๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ข - ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ธ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.
๐๐๐๐ - ๐ธ'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐-๐๐๐-๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ .
๐จ'๐
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๐ป๐พ ๐๐๐ฝ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐พ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐พ๐ ๐๐๐๐พ.
๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ข, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐ฐ๐พ3 ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ก.
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