#curlicue

[orofeaiel]

Mossy Curlicue

[fooltofancy]

did i mention my truck sheets

[curlicuecal]

Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

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[impoliticwestie]

Since then … either we had to escape the country or stay faithful to our roots. Different stories. Here, there; where are we? We don't know who we are now. Who do we look like? Sometimes we wanted to know. Remember? We left, started new lives. The outside world became a bigger cell. But, do you remember this? Progress wasn't inevitable. It doesn't work anymore. Everything is different. The people changed too. What do I look like? Like anyone around us. Like you. I didn't recognise our street. I rarely recognise anyone I know. I photographed the whole thing, looking for a story. Ghosts everywhere. But, isn't it a beautiful place? Can you show me how to do perspective?

[purlturtle]

Just watched the first ep of Percy Jackson, and was hit by a thought:

We've had a couple Bering and Wells Are Halfbloods AUs, but what if - hear me out, Angst and Pain fandom - what if it isn't Helena that is the half blood?

What if it was Christina?

Daughter of Hephaistos, Aphrodite and Helena - because Hephaistos loves Aphrodite too much to ever cheat on her, but a threesome? oh he's down for that. And Helena, tinkerer, artificer: he has adored her for a long time, even before she came to Aphrodite's attention for her flirtatiousness.

And Christina was one of the half bloods that didn't make it.

Helena was heartbroken, of course, and threw herself into figuring out a way to bring her back. She tried to build a time machine, and it would have worked - but it would have rent the Earth asunder, so Hephaistos intervened, changed a little detail, and made it go forward instead of back.

And now here Helena is, 2010, and she runs into (adult) Myka, and knows immediately that Myka has the air of divinity around her - and oh, how she hates it. That Myka survived, that *any* of them survived, when Christina didn't. But fates (or Aphrodite) keeps intent on smacking the two of them into each other over and over again, and Helena can't help but find herself drawn to Myka, can't help but find herself helping Myka's tasks along, can't help but find herself supporting Myka's attempts to live as normal a life as a daughter of Athena could ever hope for...

[montereybayaquarium]

Weave got a feast for your eyes: Check out this deep-sea basket star! 👀🧺🌟

[siena-sevenwits]

Shall we have a midnight feast, pocket friends?

[luminelfy]

• Transparent Curlicue Walls •

Something that came up to create a while ago, I added a simplified version to the "old conversions" collection, but also wanted to create a bigger one to be used as a backdrop ♥

Below is an example of the variations added:

category: wall deco

use bb.moveobjects

32 vers/swatches

base-game comp

feel free to recolor :)

[ download ]

@sssvitlanz @emilyccfinds @sims4-fantasy-cc-finds thank you so much for sharing ♥

[columboscreens]

[wundrousarts]

helloooo from the discord server, saw you wanted art requests. how about....hawthorne in an ugly christmas sweater? he'd totally rock it

Shout out to this request that led me to find this monstrosity. The Swift family totally has a full set of matching sweaters like this, 100%.

[ID: A digital drawing of Hawthorne Swift from Nevermoor in an ugly Christmas sweater. His hair is messy and he’s smiling down at the sweater he’s wearing. The sweater is bright green with a vertical red stripe down the middle with a large red bow and a tag that says “you’re welcome”. End ID.]

[theartgremlin]

Ell hates getting wet but she loves the rain. Where she grew up near the desert coastlines on Savareen, it only rained a few times a year. She loved to go running in the runoff that filled the arroyo. Now, whenever the Temple gardens have a shower scheduled, you can be sure she’ll be there with an umbrella to splash in the puddles <333

[curlicuecal]

Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I'm always like "why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day."

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you're inside the car, inside the situation, it's easy not to notice all the extra work you're doing just to maintain the status quo.

There's all sorts of work that we think of as "free" that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged by sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you're tired from "nothing", consider instead that you're probably in situation where you're doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

[lunelfy]

[fistfulofgammarays]

Inked this Leyndell knight sketch.

[prismatica-the-strange]

Different aids some of my S/i's have

Mika: After the whole demobat thing, Mika does sometimes need mobility aids. She will either use crutches or a cane depending on if it's her ankle or knee that's bothering her.

Stelle: Between her anxiety, adhd, and autism, she does get sensory overload a lot, so she always carries her sound canceling headphones. She also keeps super dark sunglasses with her in case her photosensitivity gets too bad. And a pen and notepad for if she goes nonverbal.

Bradey: She has really thick glasses, even when she was a toddler. After the whole Nogitsune thing and playing Lacrosse so hard in high school, (and all the injuries that came with both) Bradey can have a hard time staying upright and walking. So when she's having a bad day, she uses a wheelchair to get around. She also sometimes has to rely on Google translate when she forgets how to speak English (which is only when she's exhausted)

Celeste: Her hearing was damaged in The Battle of New York, and she's used hearing aids ever since. They were damaged when she fell to Sakaar, and that's when she learned that Loki knew sign too.

Fae: Is mostly deaf in one ear and needs a hearing aid.

Evan: Goes non-verbal, and relies on text to speech.

Lucinda: She's been in in enough Jaeger accidents that it's not surprising she would need mobility aids. But she also has a mechanical arm and robotic ocular replacement.

Séamus: Wears a knee brace most of the time, but will use a cane at home/in camp.

Reggie: Uses a back brace most days.

Curli: Uses a cane for mobility reasons.