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oh my fucking god. you. you get it. you understand my whole being. fingers in mouth fingers in mouth fINGERS IN MO

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Lydia Pettit (American, 1991) - Entry Points (2024)

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sleepover 💅🏻

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A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.

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Hold up, you're self pub? I love the way you write! Where's your book(s)? Where can I buy? As a fellow self-pub horror writer I want the deets!

Thank you, I'm flattered! I have my books listed on my author site here. They're more adventure-y than my current fandom writing, supernatural and fantasy rather than horror, set in historical settings. At least so far ;3

It includes the webcomic my artist friend and I did together, Bang! Bang! BOOM! which you can read for free online, but is also available on our shop in print form.

Send me yours too! 👀

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Just a heads up that post about the senate bill is sadly misinformed. some more info about what it actually does can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/i-add-sources/790237720648794112?source=share

Oop, thanks for the added context!

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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

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the aftermath of John’s bad dream

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Sadan Vague - 'Twisted Trinity'

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things I would do if you're a nsfw/kink creative now because I've been eerily prescient about every single wave:

a) get a personal site with your own domain you own. now. not a carrd or third party squarespace. not next week. now. get it online with ugly-ass html but get your links there.

b) if you have the money: join one or multiple of eff.org / cbldf.org / freespeechcoalition.com

partly because they're actively fighting this, partly because they have members-only Lawyers You Might Need. Hint. Hint. Canary.

c) Write Down Those Lawyer Contact Numbers in meatspace. phone number of a real human being especially on paper, On You.

I have been in contact with lawyers for a few months now as my doujin circle knows. this should be telling you Many Things.

d) www.ecrater.com is where i'm going to be tentatively testing a shop because i like the fact you can *not* have payment processes and order digital/physical products via purely mail order.

(... be prepared for this to fall through too in the next 1-6 months.)

e) friends and followers of nsfw artists who earn most of their income through it: now's the time to support them. they're going to need the grace and financial flexibility especially mental health wise. domain/shop transfer/refund/therapy bills ain't free.

check in on them, and often.

f) get a VPN, use it daily to acclimatize, have them on your hard drive, several VPN's preferable. this is for the age verification laws coming. Start reading up on secure, privacy-focused infrastructure (prioritize email > website > shop in that order).

eff.org has a *ton* of resources.

g) prepare for discord and tumblr to be hit in the next wave. have alternatives *and actively start using them* if they're mission critical platforms for you.

I've played with matrix though I quite fancy IRC. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I say these things not to fearmonger but to give yourself the maximum amount of time to prepare. the pendulum *will* swing back. it did with the 80's moral panic. it will for this too.

you just have to outlast the bastards.

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imagine you're a highly skilled scientist and your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you call a mechanic to come help you fix it and the mechanic is like "I can't help you but I can tell you about my special interest favorite tv show" and you're like "that's actually not helpful at all and also now I'm having a panic attack" and then the mechanic is like "wait that actually reminds me of an episode of my special interest favorite tv show I am going to tell you about it now because I can" and you're like "please no I actively cannot breathe" and then the mechanic tells you about it anyway because they're neurodivergent and ridiculous and you're like "wait why this helping why are you so gentle and sweet underneath your off putting exterior why are you the best person I've ever met" and then the mechanic is like "I have come up with the solution to your car troubles" and you're like "great I love you let's hear it" and they're just like

"invasive spinal surgery."

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Sevika is the hottest character I have ever seen when she's on screen I'm just BARKBARKBARKRRRRARF

I'm losing my mind not only is she GORGEOUS, but she organized the revolution??? Who rallied people? Who kicked the hero into gear to rescue rebels from prison?? WHOMST???

The most loyal bitch you ever met. I fucking love her godDAMN and she is so fucking hot have I mentioned how hot she is??? what thefuck Im sweating

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A selection of the finest crocheted geodes! Pattern is from Crafty Intentions (a genuine genius of these modern times) and if you try it, I would recommend beads in the 8-12ish mm range. I tried larger (the blue one) and smaller and that seems to be the sweet spot, at least for me!

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OH BABY YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!!

It’s commission time woooohohoooo!! I’ve got limited slots open for each type of comm, flick me a dm/ message!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCI3i14FdZS7JqnaLFte9oSv50bgkkHUdJZX7erW1_E/edit?usp=drivesdk

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seeing The Summer Hikaru Died fanart spreading through a highly spesific subset of the Malevolent fandom has me very giddy/excited clapping my hands and such and also full on Mr. Burns-ing it as i say "excellent" aloud to no one but myself

Aahahhahha you know, I absolutely found about about this series via Malev fandom friends, and it makes all the sense, I feel like it's a story that might jibe with anyone who's into Malevolent, specially for the fans of the earlier seasons.

I'm only up to date with the show, so I don't know much of what comes later in the manga, but so far the story seems to be interested in exploring precisely many of the concepts that drew me to Malev.

I'm really excited to see where it goes :D