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[lghtyear]

sorry i’ve been so quiet ! will hopefully be here a bit on sunday ! catch me on discord !

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[trans-androgyne]

Yes, trans men and mascs have historically been subjected to less public violence and ridicule than trans women and fems. Is having privilege really the only reason you can think of for that? Have you considered that they had less ability to be publicly visible in the first place? Please remember that the lack of autonomy women have historically been granted also applies to transmascs. They would have been considered the property of men. Spousal rape wasn't illegal everywhere in my country until 1993. How easy do you think it would be for forcibly impregnated transmascs to transition? For abused transmascs in general? Do you think they were all even allowed out of the house often without a man? There are so many stories of transmascs being forcibly institutionalized for being trans. Is that situation and otherwise being quietly abused and erased really so much better than hypervisibility?

[sofiaruelle]

Trying to escape bedrotting with some salad milk.

[drdemonprince]

"You would never think [cruel, judgmental thing] about your friends, so don't think those things about yourself!"

Some of us do experience cruel, negative thoughts reflexively though -- about others as well as ourselves. I'm certain that the above advice is useful for a lot of people, but I just want to speak directly right now to those of us whose minds bombard us with really judgmental ideas going in all directions virtually all of the time: those thoughts do not make you an inherently evil or unlovable person.

It is possible for you to lead an interconnected, worthwhile, and love-filled life, no matter the contents of your thoughts. It may not be possible for you to change your thoughts, and it might be causing you immense frustration to even try. You can live with cruel thoughts without taking cruel actions. You can feel impatient and angry with people you love and still make the choice to behave toward them in a loving way. And you can choose to treat yourself well while continually hating yourself.

It's a real bitch and a half to have to exert this kind of willpower and carry all these compulsive negative thoughts around, but it's a lot easier than going to war with your mind or internalizing that having negative thoughts inherently dooms you as a person. You're cool as fuck if you live with this barrage of bad stuff in your brain but you choose the nobler path in your actions instead.

[braisedhoney]

well wishes from the void

[sen-ya]

What would Shanks think of Law and Luffy’s alliance because Shanks obviously loves and adore and is very protective of Luffy, so to see the boy who he’s known since he was seven and is a ray of sunshine next to a grumpy serious and tall older than him pirate captain 

Would Shanks see the signs of love between the two? Would he see that even though they’re opposites that they work together perfectly.

What would Shanks thoughts be when he sees the look of panic and fear and pain in Luffy’s eyes when he asks Luffy about Dressrosa?

hi hello um I def did not hit the tone you were getting at here but this just spilled outta me

[solarpunkani]

You know what, while I'm doing hot takes. And this one may be obvious considering I'm actively contributing to hosting the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week event but like.

Dear everyone who's constantly deriding the aesthetic portions of the solarpunk movement/genre; do you just not understand that being able to visualize the future you want is immensely important to being able to work towards it? Being able to get other people on board with it?

When I first got interested in Solarpunk, it wasn't for the hot leftist takes about the top ways to dismantle the government for the people, or top tips on how to build your own solar panel apparatuses. What brought me in? Visions of a hopeful future. I learned and began to love the rest as I dove deeper into solarpunk circles, but there is no denying that my first intro to it--and likely many people's first intro to it--was via the art and aesthetic spheres. The term 'solarpunk' was literally coined to refer to the aesthetic movement, and we've been building up from there ever since.

'When are people going to realize the aesthetic parts don't matter and what really matters is praxis--' dude, the aesthetic parts do matter. Inspiring people does matter. Showing people visions of a hopeful future is immensely important, it's why so many people join this movement. We see glimpses of what a hopeful future could look like, through beautiful art or riveting stories, we're inspired by things like stained glass and organic designs and statues and fashion concepts--and then we think to ourselves 'how can we help make this future happen?' And we learn the praxis and we work towards the goals and we share it with others because that's just how we work.

Seeing isn't always believing, but sometimes in order to believe in something with your whole heart, it helps to be able to visualize what you want. For yourself and for others.

So yes. The aesthetic parts of solarpunk do matter. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

[seochangbingifs]

STRAY KIDS 4TH FAN MEETING, HALL OF FAME (24.03.29) Changbin via stayttonf on twitter

[circusballoon]

Intermission from usually-scheduled OC art continues because I still have fanart of @insertdisc5's In Stars and Time to get out of my system before Art Fight rolls around. I love these characters dearly :(

[bookrat]

A little wall-hanging Oviraptor commission~

[enement]

on patrol

[ach-sss-no]

i saw a post talking about how we cook our meat because we don't like getting worms

WOW

rude

we can't air this, by the way, that awful noise this jerk made was directly into the microphone and the audio peaked higher than mt doom

[andrastes-cheeks]

They can have a little silliness as a treat

I miss you da2

[project-sekai-facts]

One of Nene's main hobbies is playing video games, and the illustration of her bedroom reveals that she owns several consoles. Among these consoles are:

A PlayStation 4 Pro

A PlayStation 3 Super Slim

An Xbox 360 Pro

An Xbox One

An Xbox (with a modified color palette)

An original release Japanese Sega Saturn (with a modified color palette)

Plus a gaming PC, and another console that doesn't seem to match with any real-life one. There also seem to be two Nintendo Switch Lites on the floor next to her TV, and a PlayStation Portable on her desk.

She also has two amiibo-like figures on her table, plus two more on her headboard, as seen in her untrained To Get Closer to the Canary 3* card (one of which appears to be an Animal Crossing-like character).