#That's concerning

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[confusedkittensposts]

Me and my mom came to an agreement that I will pack all my art supplies and stop all the projects starting 1st January 2024, and focus only on my studies for a whole year.

That agreement lated for the grand total of 20 days, before I was drawing Juliet.

But the thing is, most of my were packed away and I had to draw on scrap paper. And now I feel super sad.

I think it would have looked better on proper paper.

*fulta mela mazha nashib*

[cosmic-ships]

My posts aren't showing up on dash? Why?

[monty-glasses-roxy]

This may come as a shock to people, but I think Steel Wool need to calm their fucking tits with the trailers they’re just a little studio what the fuck

[fdrsamericanflagduckfloaty]

explain rn

okay so im watching this first ladies doc and on Eleanor Roosevelt's episode, there was a part where, when she was 14, three locks appeared on her bedroom door. now that's... not normal but this is also a strict ass household and maybe it was normal for the 1890s (spoiler it was not in any sense).

but then, the lady explaining it, says a friend visited and asked why there were three locks on her door.

Eleanor said, "To keep my uncles out."

...

fucking pardon what

[bestbotnames]

Chemical zoo

[her0-se7en]

Concerned Ape knows what's up

[likethesword]

king shit !!!

[ithappensoffstage]

I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishistic"

[titleofpersonage-p01]

[junglejim4322]

Something that I have noticed is I know almost nobody my age that goes to a food pantry. I know people who regularly run out of money for food and in general have to eat an unsuitable diet because that’s what they can afford and they still don’t go to a food bank, im not sure if it’s because they’re embarrassed or maybe if you didn’t grow up going you don’t know much about it but if you’re financially struggling I really recommend it. And look into other options for food assistance too like community fridges and gardens and other programs that can assist you, where I live Salvation Army pays for an allotted amount of grocery delivery for low income people every month, in the summer farmers take excess produce to the library to be taken by anyone who needs it, etc. There are a LOT of resources for free food that you can look into especially if you are literally not eating because of your financial situation

[dyscomancer]

[glitter-stained]

Random goon: Hey boss, were you the one to pick that name as an alias? And why this one?

Red Hood : I used to have another name, before... A long time ago. But that person is dead now. I get to choose for myself now, they can't take that from me. I won't let them.

Goon: Huh.

***

Random Goon: Say boss, why do you never take off your shirt in front of us?

Red Hood: Well uh, I actually have that really fucked scar on my chest and I'm not comfortable with...

Random Goon: Don't worry boss, we get it, you don't have to explain yourself to us.

***

Red Hood, high on some toxin: God, I wish my family...

Random Goon (on boss-sitting duty): why not try reaching out to them?

Red Hood: They would never accept me as I am now... They wouldn't agree with my so-called "life choices". Besides, they don't miss me, they miss the person they think I used to be... I wasn't even a man when I last saw them.

Random Goon: Damn boss, that sucks.

***

And then the goons throw the Red Hood a party on trans visibility day and Jason is so confused he straight up cries.

[nogoodnikolai]

preaching to the choir obviously but to rob people of a personal choice out of the ostensible fear they might come to regret said choice is a thousand times crueler than allowing them the freedom to do things they might ultimately regret

[excarow]

Everytime ao3 is down I'm reminded of two things:

One is that humans have and always will love telling stories, and they will continue to do so even if there is no benefit to telling these stories, but simply because we love creating things

The other is that a concerning amount of us use fanfiction as an extreme form of escapism that we can't function without and we should probably look into that

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.