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A Queen's Diary is now available for digital download on Itch.io!

The digital download is the full comic plus 4 bonus pages! ~ https://adragonsoulart.itch.io/a-queens-diary ~

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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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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

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something something about how butterflies represent hake changing and how falling into a puddle because of a butterfly is the catalyst for him meeting tusk, who is the person that radicalizes him and brings him out of his faith/the cult

literally "that butterfly set me up" paired with the symbolism provided later and the way that it connects to hake's character..,,,,

"do you think we die if we dont change too?"

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Imagine being bent out of shape of a concept that has been done before your birth. Primal has literally done Saber wolves on their show

and people have done saber wolves before internet became a thing which is before summer of the 2000’s. the only thing kique own’s is the name itself of Akiulfrs and Liulfrs, nothing more nothing less. Heck majority of the work is not OG since majority is taken somewhere else or taken by his “ fans” no matter how much it doesn’t fit the story. Do not Gatekeep whats not yours and don’t put behind paywall especially when the companies watermark is still their, cause both is no bueno and asking for trouble.

Z's stolen species was purely made to replace the liulfr.

If you look in her community, people are using that base to do petty transfers from Kique's bases and species.

Why not let sleeping dogs lie? Why continue like this?

@zirvasityy aren't you tired of the drama?

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and someday together we'll shine

based on this beautiful art by shirahama kamome!!!!

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You found a stardrop! 💜 Your mind is filled with thoughts of (insert favorite thing here).

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Just because Im a fan of paper trails and I saw you talking to someone about the edit history on kiqs doc.

I took this when we were about this doc. I can still see it on mobile but its nothing detailed.

Since this isn't overly detailed and doesn't list personal information like emails I am going to post this as is. This is a public document and will back up what Zirvasity and I were saying. I do not keep up with shadowmirku so I don't have anything more to add.

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After the latest shit with kique (re: the PSA) I'm also dropping my support for shadowmirku. I knew they were friends but didn't know they were so far up kique's ass.

I actually had this happen to me before with the artist IfChickenWasCandy/KFC Employee. They put out beautiful semi-realistic art for wolves. Later I found out they still supported Kique after all of the shit that was posted about him at the time. Needless to say I dropped them after that. One thing I will give to Kique is he is a skilled manipulator. People really are willing to believe him to the point were facts/proof doesn't matter. Case in point, the jackass on Tumblr (which I suspect was Kique) a month or two back that tried to say Zirvasity's 80 page document was a 'fake'.

What was that phrase? You can't see the red flags behind rose tinted glasses. Part of anyone's obligation of being a friend is to let someone that you genuinely care about that they fucked up. But because Kique will drag them in a mud/ostracize them, that doesn't happen until Kique blows up at them personally. That's not a friend, you are just an emotional tampon. Grow a backbone or get better friends.

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How to Spot a Deceptive Document

In light of this Kique/Zirvasity drama, I did want to point out a few 'flaws' in Kique's document to show that he's being less than truthful. Ignoring the two users that infested Tumblr trying to stir up shit (and failed miserably I might add), I guess this is round 3 since 'Kique' got flayed alive on this platform.

I'm going to just post the link for quick reference

The first thing that struck me about this document was the lack of evidence as compared to Zirvasity. I'm not expecting a 60 page document or anything like that, but for all of the bullshit and supposedly horrible things that Kique is claiming his ex has done, 2 pages seems a bit laughable to say the least. That is red flag number one.

The evidence shown is 3 images. THREE out of all of the times that he accuses Zirvasity of stealing his designs, this is all he could muster which works against the claims as outlined on his document. There should be a TON of more instances of this happening if it was legitment which again, works against this document. This is red flag number 2.

The third red flag for me is Kique blocking out not the names, but the TIMES on these messages. This is a stark contrast to Zirvasity's where you can see a clear chain and dates of when the messages were posted. Since Kique is refusing to even list that in this short document, this tells me that he's trying to hide when these messages were created AKA: Falsifying documents to paint a narrative that HE wants his fans to see.

Sorry but this is just bad all around. There is another thing that struck out to me, but I'm not going to mention it to keep this jackass from getting better at scamming. In all, Kique is bitch made and his document is garbage. If anything, it gives you the mindset to how HE thinks of himself.

Also, this is a cautionary tale why you should not try to base your drawing style on someone else. I'm not saying that Zirvasity is in the wrong for doing this, but as mentioned before, her style was miles better than Kique's and now she is having a hard time breaking away from that aspect.