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your favourite idol 🎵✨

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

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❤️ Kiss Event ❤️

Like and Reblog to make them kiss! 🔄 30 Reblogs ❤️ 75 LIKES

Art by: @eveenstudios

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me and my undying urge to be someone’s favorite

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[papamin au 🐅 ] birthday surprise 🎂

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Anon said: This one may be stupid but mine color change so I never know

Feel free to tag your eye colour!

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I actually do not like leaving my house, particularly for things I don't want to do. Sorry to my college friends but i won't be leaving my house Saturday morning to drive an hour and a half to meet at a trendy juice bar in the second most expensive place in our area.

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Some of mine Genshin pins designs

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You know that smut you like? Y’know, the really, REALLY good one? You know that one? Yeah?

An asexual wrote that.

And that really good romantic fluff you like? The really cute one, the domestic fluff? Y’know that one?

An aromantic wrote that.

So before you go to sleep reading fanfiction tonight, be sure to thank all the asexuals and aromantics that are writing your favorite fics!

Because no, we are not the pure little children you think we are.

Everybody say thank you a-specs!

Thank you a-specs!

Alright, I’ll let you go now :3

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haikyuu is incredible man…

you ever think about the fact that some people exist not to become stars but to lead others towards the light? ….

hinata was so moved by the little giant that his life found meaning the moment he came into his life (and the little giant never really ended up becoming a pro volleyball player in the first place despite his drive and talent!)

nekomata sensei’s “all we have to do is to lower the net!” shaped kuroo’s entire existence. it left such an impression on him that kuroo turned it into his goal in life: helping as many people as possible discover volleyball.

kuroo himself never going pro but becoming instead a bridge between people and volleyball (which he loves so dearly he wants to make it everyone’s business).

takeda sensei’s “He Who Would Climb a Ladder Must Begin at the Bottom” (which he says to hinata during his first year) became so meaningful to him that hinata hanged it on the wall of his bedroom in Brazil.

sugawara becoming a teacher and getting emotional when facing hinata (to whom he used to set when kageyama refused to do it) and kageyama (who quite literally took what had been his place up until the moment he came) and their growth.

you might think you will never end up doing anything great. instead, i believe you might not end up doing something grand, but whatever it is that you do in life it will always be great and you simply never know whether that one thing you said once or that one thing you once did will ever become the driving force behind someone else’s dream.

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he’s right 🐮🍫

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I want y'all to notice something else about tumblr’s opt-out AI setting. Look at how it was officially announced:

And now I ask you to consider something else: When we introduced “blaze other people posts”, Staff also got a lot of flak for making it an opt-out setting. But really it wasn’t (at first): When it was launched, every tumblr user got a pop-up the next time they logged in telling them about the change and warning them to go to settings and disable the new checkbox if they weren’t ok with it. And you didn’t really get opted-in until you had seen that pop-up: It could have been better, but at least there wasn’t anyone being opted-in without their knowledge.

But with AI? no pop-up, just a (very hidden) new checkbox in the blog settings, and a @staff announcement. An Staff post that makes an strong use of passive voice to not making it too clear that tumblr ACTUALLY has partnered with AI companies to sell your data: It looks like they are being nice and giving you the chance to add an extra layer of security against data scraping, right? nothing too urgent, don’t worry about it!

But then the 404 media post went out a day before they intended to (quietly) launch this and they had to rush it out. With the verbiage that was intended for a purposely low-key announcement. Sure, without that 404 post there would be some low-key pitchforks and torches, focused on why the hell don’t make this protection the default… but they weren’t planning to let us know that AUTOMATTIC ALREADY HAS A DEAL WITH OPENAI TO SELL YOUR DATA BY DEFAULT, just that “hey we are giving you this new setting to discourage any AI company to use your data for training… wouldn’t that be crazy if it happened, uh? hehe”.

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