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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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ok so @bamsara is to blame for me choosing to try a lamb cosplay (them and me remembering i had a red cloak), they were my intro to cotl. I did referenced many cosplays and fanarts to help guide my hunt and makes and alterations, but this little guy was specifically inspired by this art, so i had to hunt it down (cuz i screenshot it for ref but apparently never liked or reblogged it......wait i think i saw it first on insta.......... 😅 ok that makes more sense)

he was at the bottom of my "to make" priority list, but ended up being one of the first things finished as i had lots of time in various waiting rooms and a dnd session, and this was one of the few projects i could easily take almost anywhere, and i am sooooo happy i made him, i love how he turned out

so thanks Bam, i am enjoying this madness greatly 😁

little lamb doll....

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Well my loves, it appears as though the answer to "Can the Big Pattern Company (Simplicity/Burda/McCalls/ect.) survive the death of JoAnn?" has come.

The answer is no. No it cannot. It has been sold to a liquidator just like JoAnns was.

So if there is ANYTHING you want I suggest you get it now. simplicity.com is currently having a pattern sale and I snatched up some that might be useful for cosplay purposes.

I am very glad these last couple of years I have built up my collection.

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the googs did a thing, and i find it amusing, sooooooooo

Wanna join my cult? Sermons at midnight, and rave music in the distant background uunsting

ALSO, WE HAVE A CAT!!!

more detailed pics

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Hello all! Few?! Whoever is here!! Hi!

So FanimeCon 2025 happened this last weekend and I decided to try for Lamb from Cult of the Lamb as my new cosplay this year. I reused and altered some of my older cosplay pieces, and thrifted and altered others, and then lightly lost my mind over accessories. Much sleep was lost, but I really love how it came out ❤️. And it would seem so did some of the other attendees, had someone offer their plushie as a follower, and another asked me to pet them 😅 Also had an older furry gentleman come over and say "oh oh i've been wanting to do this" and then spun me around, "ewe-turn!" (he also then helped me repair my bookbag) And other than the fact that i kept running my lamb ears and crown into things (hit my friend with my ears a few times 😂) I was very comfortable

if anyone here has pics of me please share and tag me!! hope you all had fun at the con!

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Bank of Sapphire Cold?

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as youre very both old school fandom and also someone who works to preserve old fandom content, what do you think is the best way to print off and preserve fanfics? I've been wanting to start to move my many many many archived pdfs into actual physical copies but ive been way too intimidated to really look deep into it so I was wondering if you had a preference

Okay, so.

My preference is "yes." Yes, I want you to archive them. Yes, I want you to save them. I've worked to preserve 1960s teen pulp mags, for fuck's sake, it can't get much worse than that, and I'm grateful to have them.

With that said, pick any or all of the following options to make your physical printouts last longer: --select acid-free paper --bind by sewing, not stapling --store in archival sleeves, like the ones you use for old comic books And now, pick any or all of the following options to make my life easier as a historian (or, you know, the lives of the historians who come after me): --include the title --include the author's name --include the fandom name --include which version of the canon, if relevant (e.g. the OG Transformers show vs the Michael Bay movies) --include the date, or at least year, of publication --include the summary --include the site of origin, including the URL All of these things are called provenance and help not only to identify a specific work, but to place it within its cultural context. As an amusing example: I recently got into James Bond, and decided to go through every fic in the main pairing tag, in chronological order. There came a point where suddenly, out of nowhere, there were like two solid pages of nothing but A/B/O, which I previously had not seen at all. I had a suspicion, so I looked it up, and sure enough--those two pages appeared within just a couple of weeks of the corresponding Supernatural episode. Having publication dates let me determine that. If I were a historian trying to piece together a long-ago puzzle instead of going "lol I live on the hellsite, I bet I know exactly where this came from," that would be a huge datapoint. I could probably find a similar sudden explosion in other fandoms, as well--and if we're going far enough in the future, if Supernatural were to just vanish off the face of the planet along with its entire fandom, historians could still trace that it existed and even determine some of its events based on when certain tropes begin to appear in other fandoms. And further, the fact that its tropes and major events appear in so many other fandoms would allow those historians to say "this must have been a very, very popular story." (This isn't just me making shit up to sound important, by the way. This is literally how we have records of a lot of things throughout antiquity and even into the Renaissance. The more copies there are of something, or the more references that are made to a thing in other things, the more likely it is for at least part of it to survive. This is literally how we know about Shakespeare's two lost plays--he was a popular enough playwright that quartos of his plays were advertised for sale.) Whew! Now let's get into stuff you could do that would make me, as a historian, scream with delight if I were to open your folder full of labeled, acid-free fanfiction fifty years from now: --write a little something about why you picked this particular fic to preserve in hard copy when doing so is bulky and time-consuming compared to the easy instant storage of the internet, yes, even if your reason is "I'm trying not to use my phone in bed because the screen keeps me awake but this story is soothing to reread" --write a little something about who you are, even if it's just "my name is X, my age is Y, I live in Z, I printed this out in 2022" And last but not least: Marginalia. Marginalia. Marginalia, my beloved. That's when you write your thoughts in the columns on the sides, underline stuff, circle it, and so on. Having marginalia means I actually get a window into your thoughts as you read--your perspective, stuff that stuck out to you, places the story made you feel some kind of serious emotion. And yes, this goes for everything. Villain A kills Hero B and you write "YOU MOTHERFUCKER" in the margin, that tells Future Historian Me that you really loved Hero B, you were invested in seeing her succeed, and that this scene really resonated with you. One of my most treasured possessions in the fandom museum is a copy of the novelization of the Help! movie the Beatles did. This particular copy is very worn--unsurprising, it was a cheap paperback even when it was printed--but also, its original owner apparently took it to the movie theatre and

wrote notes in the margins indicating all the things happening onscreen that weren't in the book. What does this tell me? WELL. Let's go ahead and take a look: 1) the written ink doesn't look any newer than the book, so I'm guessing a little when I say this was the original owner and in the theatre, but I have an actual datapoint I'm basing that on 2) based on handwriting and the main demographic of the Beatles audience at the time, this was a young woman, probably a teenager. 3) she went to see the movie more than once (some notes are in pencil, some in ink, but the handwriting is all the same) 4) she was dedicated to making sure every moment of the movie was preserved. This was an era before home video players, so once the movie left theatres, she had no guarantee of seeing it again. 5) while the book is worn, it's not beaten all to shit. It was read a lot, but there's no evidence it was mistreated, so it was probably a prized or at least respected possession.

What can I extrapolate from this, with the understanding that I mean "what theories can I reasonably form but not prove"? Well. She was probably a pretty big fan, since she went to see the movie at least twice and also bought the book. Maybe she wanted to keep the story after the movie was gone. Maybe she was looking for answers for some teen mag contest like "find these things in the Help! movie and win a chance to meet the Beatles." Maybe she had a friend who wasn't allowed to go to the movie. You know what the most tantalizing possibility is to me, although I'll never be able to prove it and actual ethics as a historian mean I can only present it as one among many possibilities? Maybe she did it as a source reference for writing fanfiction. We don't know. We can't know, because I have no idea who the original owner was or if she's even still alive and no way to trace her. But that? In terms of fandom history, that is a fucking gold mine. Pure 24-karat all through. From a strictly historical view, that's worth more than the animation cel I've got in there, and I paid over a hundred bucks for that thing.

So yeah! That was a lot of words to say "just do it." But there's your answer!

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FanimeCon 2024 Cosplays!! (pt 1)

Sailor Mothras, Landlady from Kung Fu Hustle

went to a CLAMP meetup:

Umi, Hikaru, Ascot from Magic Knight Rayearth; Sakura and Syaoran from CardCaptors; Chii and Freya from Chobits; Suu from Clover; Kurogane, Fay, Syaoran, Sakura from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

Kawaii Reaper from Overwatch, GIFfany from Gravity Falls

Lum from Urusei Yatsura, Kaito Kid from Detective Conan

Poison Ivy from DC, Jack Spicer from Xiaolin Showdown

Momo, Tokoyami from My Hero Academia; Maid Vash, Maid Wolfwood from Trigun

Unit 01 from Evangelion, Luz from Owl House

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One of the more divine things I have ever drawn from drawing night.

Blue from Jurassic World wearing sweet lolita and looking faaaabulous

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patreon | kofi

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FanimeCon 2024 - Kyoka Jirou - My Hero Academia / Boko no Hero Academia

a closet cosplay, just bought the wig and made the ear jacks (only pulled one out of my ear by accident once? ....might have been twice?? but i managed not to hurt myself somehow. unfortuanatly i dont have any full shots, but it was a wide leg pant and white platform boots. again ended up being fairly comfy and did get recognized as the character by a few, so i count that as a win!

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Can the Crown take the shape of other kinds of headgear?

Like, for instance, a top hat, a veil, or a tiara?

Blessed be the Lamb, conduit of fashion

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A new drawing based off a sketch from an old class sketchbook( plus the inspo for the sketch )

i realized pretty early on i was not going to do anything with this sketch for the class, but i always liked it. when looking for other materials from classes recently, i rediscovered it and decided i should do something with it. And it's the first drawing I've done in over a year and half so i figured it was time to share it (the moth/zilla one was the second)

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FanimeCon 2024 - Draculaura, Monster High

due to irl stresses decided to do only closet cosplays for this con (i bought the wig and the top, and i made the pink heart bat for my bag, would have made some boot wings, but my friends ended up gifting me a pair not knowing my plans! )

i love how it came together, was super comfy, and even had someone ask me to take a pic with their Draculaura doll!!

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Drawing Challenges Row 1 Row 2: Left, Right Row 3 Row 4: Left, Middle, Right Row 5

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have some late Valentine's Day art!!

got the idea on the 9th and managed to finish it in time to send to my friends but did not get a chance to share here... i should probably log in on my phone......but that is besides the point! it has its issues but considering this is my second drawing i've done in a month after not really drawing anything for the last year and a half....well, i'm pleased, i think its cute

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FanimeCon 2023 - Sunday - Izuku Midoria, My Hero Academia

outfit based off fanart by Cheniilu on insta

had a lot of fun, and some stress, putting together a Deku worthy fanboy bag, want to add more to it eventually