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[kprince101smail]

#WHAT IS ETHICAL HACKING? |Part 3 |#intro beginner |[HINDI] #एथिकल हैकर ...

[rynrising44]

Some fanfiction tips and tricks:

Hi hello how are you- I've been writing a lot of fanfiction recently (shocker) and wanted to make a little list of helpful tips when it comes to formatting and getting thoughts in order. I still fall prey to many of these errors and see a lot of them out there on AO3, which stifles a good chunk of fics that readers, especially English only speakers, ultimately lose interest in/are unfamiliar with.

NOT HARD AND FAST RULES. Just what I've noticed throughout my process.

English speakers/ writers use quotation marks in their writing. They look like this: "I can't believe you've done this!" she screamed. Using << I can't believe you've done this! >> she screamed, OR 'I can't believe you've done this!' she screamed when writing in English are foreign to most readers. If you're having trouble reaching audiences and are using one of the two formats above, it's probably because of the way your dialogue is written.

NOTE: if you are writing in another language which uses <<+>> or '+' keep using those formats. This only applies if you're writing in one language but keeping the structure of another.

You don't have to say, 'he said,' or 'she said,' after every line of spoken dialogue. Have fun with it and go back and forth! Here is an example in present tense:

"You're about to get sacked after being shot by Russian sleeper agents and stealing a helicopter," he says with bad taste. "How does that make you feel?" "Getting shot? Or getting fired?" Mackey asks. "Getting shot and then getting fired." "Seriously?" "Just... taking the piss, alright?" Mackey doesn't bother replying.

Epithets are not your friend. Do not use them. Get in the heads of your characters! Would the wife of your main character refer to him as 'the taller man' or 'the blonde?' NO! We refer to others by their name, nicknames, and pet phrases (don't overuse the pet names though).

Read books! The best way to learn how to write is to read. This will really help you understand the way sentences flow and how to end/begin sentences.

The quotations go outside the period. "Like this."

Pick a tense and stay with it. Don't go back and forth between 'said, went, replied,' and 'says, goes, replies.' This is a mistake I see people do a lot, especially when first starting out.

When tagging your fics, don't use tags like "Bad at tagging" or "This is garbage I don't know what I'm doing." That is YOUR WORK. Your fic is yours and you should be proud of it. If you don't stand by your creativity and ideas, then why should anyone else?

One shot collections should be in a series. NOT in a multi-chaptered fic. Unless they are complete, in the same universe, and follow a timeline, try to post them individually. That way, if someone likes one but not the other, you aren't screwing yourself over.

Use your summaries wisely. Quotes, action scenes, and eye-catching statements will draw a reader in. (Please don't say something like "Bad at tagging and summaries.")

Write what you want to read. Not what others want to read. If you love writing rare-pair F/F fanfiction with established relationships, DO THAT. (Shameless plug there.) Don't go chasing pairings and tropes that you hate just for views/kudos. The good feelings will not last, and you will pigeonhole yourself into things you don't like. (want proof. Try it out and see what happens.)

Get involved in the fandoms you write for. Comment on other author's works, especially if the fandom is small. Chances are, they will click on your fic, read it, and share it with others. Also, you can yell at one another and keyboard smash all day long.

Give each other shout outs on Tumblr.

The summary section for your fics is NOT where you put things like 'taking requests. give me a request. please comment fic recs.' Save that for Tumblr/ Twitter (rolls eyes, 'X') and Wattpad. AO3 is for stories, not algorithms. If you really feel the need, include it in your profile.

WRITE SOMETHING IN YOUR PROFILE. People love personalization. Also, you can give blanket statements about your rules on gifts, inspirational works, and other things.

Do not overtag your works if those tags do not apply. Writing 50+ tags for a 1k fic is a little head-scratching. Focus on the main ships only and the top relevant categories (and any triggers, oc). If it's a 1k fic, people will honestly just get annoyed at seeing all the space taking up their AO3 pages. (I say this with love. We all remember that one 'Untamed fic.')

Don't like. Don't read. Don't bash. Don't be cruel.

Do. Not. Hate. Fics. Publicly. On. Tiktok. Or I swear to the gods I will hunt you down and skin you alive. Save your scathing reviews for private messages and private DMs on Discord. Fanfiction is free and authors don't owe you anything. (YES! This includes drabbles. And incest. And any/all of the clerical errors I have already discussed above.)

Also, comment on older fics.

Comment on all fics, actually.

Also, read WIPs. If you want fanfiction to continue and you want longer works, support the authors that write those works. Don't be greedy and entitled by closing up your mind. If you want to read complete works only, that's your right. But you don't have to brag about it/ moan about not having anything good in your fandom of choice when you refuse to keep an open mind to like, half of the fics on there. (This is not a statement about my works, btw. I have a little group that comments/I know is aware and interested in some of my stuff. This is more for the general public.)

Kudos aren't limited. No one tracks them. Literally no one cares what you like. If you're worried or embarrassed about something you like that's between you and god only, private bookmark it. But kudos everything you like/re-read because if you don't, the author probably assumes you didn't like their work and that will make them sad.

AI is not art and you should never use it. Not even to help you come up with ideas. You're better than that, okay? And if I see/read an AI work on AO3 I will block you and mute all your works ASAP without a second thought.

There are definitely so many other things that come to mind when thinking about AO3 and writing in general, but I feel like this is a good place to stop. Again, not trying to step on any one's toes. Heaven knows I use purple prose and commas and the words 'and/ gods/ absolutely not' like they're candy. But I'm also aware that I am doing so and being aware of my habits and tendencies make all the difference.

(The writers curse does exist btw apologies in advance, but your life will probably go through changes the instant you press that 'post' button.)

[all-hail-trash-prince]

can someone please please please please pretty please hack elon musk's tech bros. please. it would be so funny

[hauntingblue]

Ace...?? they cloned my beautiful wife...

[marco-the-vampire]

Just finished "Chase: Cold Case Investigations - Distant Memories" And let me tell you..... it's so badddd

I have many thoughts, the characters are not well fleshed out, it's basically just dialogue after dialogue, no mini games what so ever, the game makes you feel like you are trapped in the office with them even though the POV charcter leaves to do things multiple times and also she is almost useless as is only there for exposition and to balance for the Protag, who isn't likeble at all, and the only twist that actually worked for me was the very last one.

Very disappointed coming from the same people that made "Hotel dusk" and "Last window" that are by no means perfect but they are incredible to me.

[classicwhatthefuckplotline]

listening to the black books dvd commentaries and oh my god i need this for literally every other sitcom in existence!!! its just the 3 of them doing bits and taking the piss out of each other 💀 (and occasionally mentioning something about the episode). Dylan practically just sits there and points out the jokes they wrote that he thinks were shit 😭😭😭 its absolutely perfect. 10/10 no notes

[arowizards]

youtube dot com slash fullmetal alchemist brotherhood all openings and endings. btw

[windsails]

🌈 cosmic checkpoint - v1.1 🌱

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[haruthewolfdog]

Greetings fellow freaks and geeks!

Allow me to introduce myself:

My name is Haru

Im (at the time of posting this) 18!

Im a Therian and a furry :3

Im pansexual and genderfluid (so if possible please ask for my pronouns)

I enjoy Cybersecurity, general technological devices, music (punk, rock, indie and a whole lot more)

Im diagnosed autistic, ADHD, dislexic, disbraxic, disgraphic and more ^^;

Im currently self teaching for red team cybersecurity, art and guitar as well as fursuit making and other crafty things

Currently this is my main blog where ill post just whatever and i plan on making 2 other blogs but ill announce when that is ;3

For now enjoy the insane ramblings about anything and everything all of the time.

[askspiritfukase]

//ooc have you ever thought of making a lore doc or smth alike for those new to the blog?? sorry for bothering i read the characters sheets and still kinda confused of what’s going on, love the art and keep it up!!

//Yeah unfortunately I don't have anything like that,,, I periodically update the about page, glossary, etc and reorganize information on it to try and help make it easier to understand but it's always a work in progress for many reasons,,

I think part of what makes making a lore document hard is bc I have to reveal information on this blog gradually so there'd be a lot of missing pieces and I'd have to constantly update it which....it'd end up being pretty much exactly like what I'm already doing for the blog's information pages already

i really appreciate everyone who tries to understand this blog's lore and concepts tho even with how messy it is ;w; I'm trying to do my best to make it as easy as possible but i am drowning

[cosmik-homo]

i NEED to become the second doctor but like in a drag king way. <- has cosplay coming up in two weeks

[tempest-of-the-pearl]

— ‘it’s a pleasure to be working with you. to keep this simple, i am miss natazha s. forte, just call me miss forte if you’d rather not call me by my first.’ — a detective in 1918, whose narrative is full of intricate and rather complicated threads. care to entertain one another? | semi-selective, multi-fandom

[ introductory post; rules; about muse + mod; fandoms muse is in — aforementioned sections under rules cut. ]

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RULES ! | set by the muse’s companion: hyperbole / card / async

— do not rush or pressure me into replying: this is a hobby for me that i will not treat as a job. i also have a life and somebody controlling my internet connection, and that will complicate my timing for our threads. if you fail to comply with this, i will put our threads on an indefinite pause until you let up and reread the guidelines i’ve placed.

— the person running this blog is a minor (15-18): if we don’t know eachother before this blog or any of my other roleplay blogs [ @relentless-researcher / @pyretic-shots / @glimmering-chances ] (i.e. being friends on discord, mutuals on tumblr prior to any side blog creation, et. cetera.), then i implore you to not flirt or be sexual with me—even as a joke—if we are only roleplay partners. flirting with the muse in-character is fine, and i don’t mind mod simping for muse n’ vice versa—but i am both taken, and it’s illegal if a predator just so happens to prey on me. if you attempt to do so, i will block you and continue to take any further action to discourage you from any further interaction with any of my blogs.

— respect any boundaries i’ve set: this goes both ways. respecting eachother is common courtesy. if you fail to comply with this, i will put our thread on an indefinite pause until you let up and reread the guidelines i’ve placed.

— do not abuse anonymous to send unnecessary hate: do i have to elaborate? if you fail to comply with this, i will not fuel your fire. i will not respond, and i will delete what you’ve sent.

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“miss forte? that 30-something russian detective? she isn’t exactly the most easiest woman to get along with, especially after the events of 1914 until now. she was eccentric, slightly temperamental, and was also rather adamant on being respected despite the women’s status during her era—the 1910s. she was charming however—talented and gorgeous, so her demands on being treated equally were fulfilled in different ways.” “what she looked like? ah, you challenge me with my poor memory, listener—but she stood tall and proud, with pearlescent blonde hair, a hauntingly pale, porcelain-like complexion, and memorable eyes of ocean blue whenever there was a storm that happened above. i remember her always boldly going against the stylistic rules and standards they’ve held, yet she obeyed with the late 1800s. perhaps it was nostalgia—perhaps it was grief.” “she had a family once, most of them have disappeared however. don’t press me for any more information on that note.” — your friend from afar.

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aww, learning more about little ol’ me? well . . .

hi !! — i go by three primary names: hyperbole, card, and async! he/they/heirs is very preferred for my pronouns :3 . . . i’m a minor, as stated in the rules—taken by my lovely wife too<3 i’m mostly opening these roleplay blogs as a way to pass time and be more insane about the characters i create with an audience, so you can most likely expect accidental posts on the wrong blog (woops), silly interactions, in-fandom posting, n more ~~~ soooo; lets have a toast to our potential companionship!!! 🥂

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— fandoms that the muse will participate in + the original universe she was made for + muse’s tags f;; Reverse: 1999 / Genshin Impact / Honkai: Star Rail / Pyun Pyun Heart Throbbing Endless Love Bakery (how lengthy-) / Keeper Of The Lost Cities / Stardew Valley / Kimetsu No Yaiba—Demon Slayer. og;; the mansion. tags;; — fortissimo. (in-character / rp) // — side job: crack! (in-character joke posts) // — the pairing of a tragedy with her darling. (pairings between my muse and yours) // — card hacks into forte’s account (mod posts)

[arizonaconservativegal]

This shit makes me so mad.

$30 million and they're only building 54 units? That's $555,555 a unit!

We're just talking about studio apartments mostly and a handful of one bedrooms.

A New Leaf is described in this article as a nonprofit but it would be more accurate to call them quasi-governmental because they pretty much only work on government funded projects. This one is being paid for with federal covid money.

The average cost to build a whole new freestanding house in the Phoenix area is only $334k. Why does it cost A New Leaf an extra $220k to build just a studio apartment? Where does all the extra money go?

I wish I could tell you it was something as simple as a board member's vacation home in the Caymans but the real answer is a lot more boring and frustrating: government funding means strings attached. Expensive strings.

Anyone who tells you government can or should solve the housing crisis is a fool. This is how they do it every single time. The Phoenix area needs 50k+ new housing units today to meet existing demands and that number grows daily. If the cost is going to be $555k a unit for a government build, we are looking at a total cost of $28.777 billion - about three times the entire annual state budget, and for just one part of the state. It is never going to be possible for government to spend its way into a solution.

It is negligent at best for government officials to pretend they are doing something about this problem while thousands of people are stuck waiting for help that isn't coming. It disgusts me.

You want to fix this? You want to actually help people? Cut the red tape.

Let the private sector build market rate housing and let them cut out the unnecessary costs. Stop tying them up in endless zoning and permitting delays. Eliminate outdated regulations that drive up the cost without providing any benefit. Lower the cost of market rate housing and people on the edge of workforce and market rate will be able to move up into market rate for the same or less than they pay today and get better quality housing.

Same thing with workforce housing. The private sector can handle that profitably for builders and affordably for residents if we stop making it impossible to do so. It's time to modernize building codes so that we aren't requiring builders to do things like build an entire closet to stick the water heater in because they used to explode - a perfectly reasonable regulation at the time but these days you could just use a tankless heater that fits under the sink and does not carry the same risk, so why don't we let builders do that instead? Or for another example, tiny homes would be a great option for people who don't need a lot of space but we can't build them because zoning categories literally do not exist for the concept. You can build a single tiny house on a full size lot but that pretty much defeats the purpose.

Affordable housing might always need some subsidies. Fine. But we have got to stop doing things that mean building affordable housing costs more than luxury units. Give the contracts to actual home builders instead of going through nonprofits who chew up 20% of the money as "overhead" for being middlemen. Simplify the request for proposal process so that it doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars to apply for the contract - a cost that gets added to the bid and since you won't get every contract you apply for, you add enough to cover several applications. For $555k a unit, I'd expect these apartments to be sparkling with gold and marble but instead these poor people just get scraps with the leftover money once the paperwork is paid for.

[socialmediasocrates]

YOUR PRINCESS IS IN A DIFFERENT CASTLE: a wip intro

Genres: fairy tale retelling, fantasy, adventure, romance, new adult

Status: plotting

Tropes: Knight in Sour Armor, Earn Your Happy Ending, The Power of Love, Don't You Dare Pity Me!, Boy Meets Girl, Girl in the Tower, Be Careful What You Wish For

In short: Two unremarkable side characters try to rescue their love interests from a demon who doesn't even know who they are...oh, yeah, and save the storyscape, that, too.

Synopsis

The starborn is among the last of its kind, doomed to a lonely eternity in the Graveyard of the Stars...or it was. Until a kitchen runner accidentally summoned it and botched the entire ritual. Now the starborn is Aster, a pathetic little man with an equally pathetic little crush. Grappling with suddenly having humanity thrust upon it was not in the Design. Being a nameless filler character in a story it doesn't even know was not in the Design. Inheriting an infatuation with Theobroma Cirolla, a pastry chef with the temperament of a wet cat on a good day, was not in the Design. But the starborn is making a valiant effort at doing all of the above, all the way until the day one of his own kin devours his story, steals Theo away, and casts him into the broader storyscape.

Forced to join forces with shepherdess-turned-witch Beata, Aster strikes out to save Theo, go back to his quiet, unbothered existence, and save the fabric of reality, in that order. None of this was in the Design, but the Design is unraveling. Along with his last goddamn nerve.

Characters

ASTER

The food runner was squishy where he wasn't gangly and bony, unevenly freckled all over, the image of earnest mundanity. It takes the starborn a solid week to get used to using these clumsy, slow feet, and nearly a week longer to adapt to the surprising strength of the arms and upper back. It trips over Aster's uselessly long legs all too often, sending trays laden with foot and drink scattering, shattering, and splattering all over rugs that look expensive. Nobody even seems surprised by this. At least it's slotting itself neatly into Aster's life.

THEO

Aster had thought the pastry chef called "Theobroma Cirolla" or "Theo, unless you want a finger chopped off" was the most beautiful person he'd ever laid eyes on. This, unfortunately, colors the starborn's perception of her, too. She is small, even for a human. Soft, composed entirely of curved lines and circles. The hair that peaks out from beneath her scarves is densely curly and roughly the color of melted chocolate. Her eyes are big and brown and ringed with heavy, dark eyelashes, and her skin is always a little flushed from the ovens. She refuses to lift her chin to look him in the eye. She is always looking up at him through that screen of eyelashes, and she is always looking at him like he's a cockroach in her bread basket. And the entire time, it is endlessly, hopelessly charmed.

BEATA

He thinks that you would end up with someone that looks like her if you took a cloud, dipped it in gold glitter, and sculpted a person out of it. The mystery woman has puffy wheat-blonde hair and deeply tanned skin and, most crucially, a shepherd's crook that bleeds magic. It is nearly blinding to look at. He has to blink four times for his sight to clear enough to make her out again; by then, he's more or less determined to avoid her at all costs. She is perched on a fence, waving to get his attention, a welcoming smile edged with venom on her face and a feral sort of panic in the tension of her shoulders. He wants nothing to do with her. Because life is never about what he wants, though, she is directly in his path.

FAUST

Now, give a good think to what you would do in Faust's shoes. You made a deal with a demon because you wanted people to like you better. It blew up in your face. The demon is now threatening to unravel the fabric of reality and ascend to godhood, and you are being rescued at this exact moment. If you think that you'd be a little grateful, it's because you're not Faust. Faust grins one of those stupid grins. He holds up some twisted chunk of metal in his hand and opens his mouth to say something. He never gets to, though, because Beata throws her shoe at him.

[theluckiestrose]

Pokemon AlteRed With Gun is um. Really good so far?

The last time i tried AlteRed was a couple years back and the sprites were...pretty bad. Evidently the team refined a lot of their ideas and made some genuinely excellent pokemon in the end.

Here. Just one example.

This is Zigzagrub. It's a bug/electric retype of Zigzagoon. It has some fun ideas, and the core color palette is pretty good, but the shading is off and the freehand spritework is less than stellar. It's pretty average as far as rom hack spriting goes. This is from the original AlteRed, it's what I encountered in version 10.2.

THIS is the modern Zigzagrub.

Holy SHIT what a pokemon! FosterZ and Chairry did this according to the doc and just look at that little guy! It's still recognizably a Zigzagoon retype, but it's also a firefly and those BLUES. I saw that and said "I NEED IT." This sprite is in AlteRed With Gun and i believe is also in the current version of the original AlteRed.

It shows an incredible improvement in the art department, and it gets me excited to find out what else they've done to the pokemon i know and love. AlteRed With Gun is sort of a difficulty hack, a companion to AlteRed they apparently released for April Fool's. As old school binary hacks they have their bugs, but come on. Go back and look at the Zigzagrub. That's a friend.

For me a rom hack lives and dies by the quality of its sprites and AlteRed is thriving. I'm personally extremely pleased with how it's developing, and I'm having enough fun with it in a casual playthrough i might even do a challenge run or two.

[vounoura]

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