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just an FYI for trans people in the US right now
[id: reddit post by user spaghettishoestrings titled "(UPDATE) Just lost my healthcare !" with the flair "Celebratory."
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Original post is viewable through my profile. Apologies, since I’m on mobile, I couldn’t hyperlink. The TLDR: my doctor called me on Monday and informed me that their practice would no longer be providing treatment for gender affirming care as a result of a recent presidential Executive Order, even though the EO was for people under 19. Even though I’m 25.
Also, because it was asked a few times, this happened in Michigan, and I’ve been on HRT for 5+ years. It’s a practice that includes like 15+ physicians, and I think that the decision was made over my PCP’s head, given that she once told me that she literally moved states to be able to provide gender affirming care here.
First off, genuinely, thank you so much for all the replies and messages. I genuinely felt frozen after that phone call and didn’t know where to start, and you all really helped me get my feet off the ground.
A couple people mentioned contacting the ACLU, which, truthfully, I thought, “there’s no way that the ACLU will get back to me” but I sent a message anyway. They actually called me a few hours after my post and we talked about the Executive Orders and my rights. They offered to fax my provider a letter reminding them of my rights and some other legal terms. It’s crazy how a post on reddit resulted in my name being on the official ACLU letterhead.
Anyway, today my doctor’s physician assistant called me and shared that their practice is reversing their decision and they will continue to provide gender affirming care. I’m still keeping a bunch of the resources that y’all shared saved, including Planned Parenthood, Plume, and looking into a private endocrinologist.
This whole experience just reminded me how great this community is. I appreciate y’all <3"
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[id: reddit user copurrs commented:]
You should contact Chase Strangio from the ACLU, I believe he is looking for reports of folks being denied their GAC due to these EOs. He's @chasestrangio on IG and Threads.
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#pass this around to your trans friends in the us#aclu#trans rights#medical malpractice#human rights#transgender#trans#nonbinary
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summer sun forever, rafe cameron
band au!rafe x fan!reader (SMAU)
IN WHICH . . . one of the biggest warnings among celebrities is to avoid falling for a fan. rafe clearly does not consider this when he first notices his self proclaimed number one fan, you.
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A breakdown of apps you can use to communicate with your alters as separate people and write down information about them online and offline with their pros, cons, and a personal rating because I really needed it when I was new to being a system:
Note: by "PC" I mean any computer/macbook/etc. By "all devices" I mean PC, mobile, tablet, iPad, etc.
I apologize for mistakes in advance.
1. Antar: An app created to chat with your "inner self," found in both Play Store and AppStore. One of the more popular ones among systems. It is an app where you get to create personas that would be chatting with each other in chats called "sessions." Those sessions can either be given a name or just left named after the date they were created on. Each persona is given a color that would become the color of their messages in sessions. Offline app.
Pros: Fiarly easy to use, no in-depth information needed to access it fully. Biometric lock; 4 languages (English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish) for the system, however any language can be used via text; no limit to the amount of personas added (as far as I'm aware). Messages sent by the wrong persona can be changed; the "quote" feature allows you to start a thread under a message; provides descriptions of each persona. You can also give your personas an avatar rather than just a color. Has a "replay" and "visualization" feature, though I'd say it's strictly just for funzies.
Cons: Not available on PC; has no backup, phone-related resets or deletion of the app results in all information lost. Session order constantly changes depending on which senssion you entered, which in my opinion (+OCD) is a nuisance; you can't delete the "me" character which I've been wanting to do for a while. Can't add hexcodes.
Personal rating: 6/10. If you need an app that you can lock from unwanted visitors, if you don't mind and even prefer something simple, and if you don't care that the conversations might disappear, this app is a good choice.
2. Discord's PluralKit: A more avdanced discord bot with tons of settings and commands that was created specifically for systems. Allows you to add almost any information about your system memebers, even such things as birthdays. The way it works is, it "proxies" your messages with a certain command somewhere in the "normal" message, sends a message identical to yours from a bot created with the name you chose, and deletes your original message. Basically replaces a message from your account with a message from a bot you created earlier. Proxies are small commands that give the both a green light to do that, and they can be whatever you want them to be. Online bot.
Pros: Feels like different people are talking; allows you to track your switches; available on all devices; one system can be linked to multiple accounts, although you can't create multiple systems under one account; allows you to group alters together; allows you to restrict access to certain information from all users; allows you to add as many alters as you want; has a number of ways you can access the information you put in which would all be sorted and organized for you; autoproxy allows you to not proxy every message you sent; since you can't delete messages of other people on servers that are not yours, and the bot messages are not, in fact, yours, PluralKit allows you to react to the message with an emoji that deletes the proxied message; while you can't use it in DMs, you can set up commands in DMs with the bot; every memeber has a unique code, and so does the system itself, and it records when the member was created; can be exported to SimplyPlural.
Cons: Commands are difficult and complex, and so is the dashboard; can only be used on servers; sometimes offline as all bots are, though rarely; you can't use it anywhere outside discord (a con for those who don't use discord); I had instances where I saw people use it for roleplay which is also allowed; proxies are a pain; you'd need a guide to tell you why certain things are needed in it; you cannot reply to messages with gifs when using a proxy; when being exported to SimplyPlural it exports everything, so if you had 10 members on SimplyPlural and 15 on PluralKit, it's best to add those 5 manually than delete 10 new exported alters (I did it with 100+ alters by accident and it was a pain).
Personal rating: 9/10. Complex, difficult to figure out, but once you get ahold of it and how it works, you'd be amazed. Also a pain that you can't use it in DMs, but it's to be expected from a bot. And you can always create a server with just you.
3. Discord's Tupperbox: A discord bot created mainly for roleplay, but actively used by systems who cannot get along with PluralKit. A simpler bot, easy to use and figure out, most things can be done via dashboard, doesn't have the opportunity to add a lot of inofrmation. Online bot.
Pros: Simple; allows grouping alters; allows different tags for different members and groups, sometimes individually; way simpler commands, and most things can be added via dashboard; looks and works almost the same as PluralKit when in a conversation; available on all devices.
Cons: Can't add avatars via dashboard, only using the commands; can't add two alters with the same name (which you can do with PluralKit); people reported it glitching out and deleting members; mainly used for roleplay; gives a weird list of members via commands that is unusable in my experience; doesn't work out of discord.
Personal rating: 7/10. Perfect for people who just want to talk and not write down information about them with the bot, but the threat of members being deleted, especially as a larger system, is concerning. We mainly use it for OSDD-1a subsystems. It was also not created for systems, as far as I'm aware. I see more cons than pros.
4. Simply Plural: Another more well-known tool used and created for systems. Simply Plural is an app that allows you to create profiles of your members and add any information you'd like about them via custom fields. It has a chat feature, allows you to track your front and switch history, add friends, and many more. Supports endogenic systems (which is being mentioned not for discorse purposes but as a fact. Whether you find it good or not is up to you) and allows singlets to create profiles as well, although I don't know a lot about that part. Both offline and online app.
Pros (and a bit about the app): Backup included; tracks your switches and front, allows you to change exact time for them, too (24-hour clock down to minutes included); the polls feature works like polls on same Tumblr and everywhere else but specifically for your system memebrs; analytics provide information about who fronts the most, during what time of day they usually front; you and your friends can see each other's profiles, which is why singlets can also create profiles, which allows you to acces info about each other's systems; "trusted people" feature allows you to pick whether you want everybody to see your alters or not, or if you want outsiders to see your profile at all; provides resources and guides to plurality (which I personally haven't checked, but still putting it in the pros, if somebody thinks I shouldn't, let me know); has an app reminders feature; you can add as much information as you want; front history shows up in a person's profile; alters can add notes; alter groups are available; available on all devices, however, only as a website on PC; colors of your alters can be used in the chat to highlight names; hexcodes are available; "custom front" is a status you set with fronting which can be hilarious sometimes; connects to PluralKit in a number of ways.
Cons: The chat feature is a bit difficult to use, and first time I did, I freaked out because I couldn't get out of it (the trick is to go to "channels" and press "navigation", there you'll see the dashboard); friends can't communicate with each other; copy-pasting is hard on both mobile and PC; something about the interface and navigation irks me and our visually impaired self; notes have same visibility as the profile itself, which is inconvenient if you want your profile to be seen but not your notes; avatars can't be added via website.
Personal rating: 6/10. I don't like how it looks and works (probably due to being visually impaired and other issues), but if you manage to get the information in it, it's pretty accessible and thoughtful of what systems might need. Could be used as a tool to start working with your system rather than do it long-term.
5. Twinote: An app that is your "personal Twitter." Pretty sure it was created for the purpose of having fun rather communicating with alters. Offline app.
Pros: Backup provided; allows "private accounts" that other "users" can't see; can create as many users as you want, as many posts as you want; can upload up to 4 images; works almost like Twitter; has a chat feature; comments, retweets, likes are present; "lists" feature allows you to group users and see only their messages which could be used for "things only protectors sent" and such; storage shows all pictures used in the app, so you won't lose anything; tagging and following people is still an option, and following private accounts give that user an opportunity to be the only one seeing their tweets.
Cons: Can't upload videos; can't do much with anything other than posts and profiles, so trends and other stuff there is off-limits (as far as I know); you have to constantly switch between profiles for the chat feature; share button only shares the contents of the message; very easy to accidentally press the wrong button and delete a tweet by dragging it left (which I almost did a few times).
Personal rating: 7,5/10. I know it's probably annoying that I didn't just type either 7 or 8, but the reaosn why is cause I have mixed feelings about it from a practical point of view. We use it strictly to communicate what we did during the day as a small journal and just joke with each other, and it's incredibly funny in itself, but it doesn't allow you to write down a lot of information about your alters and has a character limit in profiles. So it's strictly for communication.
6. Notion: An app created as a dashboard for literally everything you could ever dream of. You can personalize it however you want and use it for whatever you want. Those who saw the post we made a while ago probably know the reason I'm mentioning it is due to a template that I linked here. Online app.
Pros: Can be used for literally everything without limits; available on all devices; big and has enough storage for a lot of information, text, projects, etc; can be designed however you want; a lot of useful templates for all life instances (even taxes); can be shared with people who also use Notion in a variety of ways (either only comment, only see, etc); can add your own custom covers and icons via both gallery and links; looks neat and doesn't mess with visual impairment for us; can add a page in a page in a page which can be used for diaries; links to different pages on other pages are also available; endless possibilities, I could rant all day.
Cons: Glitches on the phone a lot; certain things are allowed on computer and not on mobile and vice versa; all templates available only on PC; you need to have an account in order to use it; glitches if it's offline; sometimes deletes a bunch of text because of glitches, usually the triggers for it are writing a lot in it directly or erasing previous text a bunch of times; can't invite someone in your space, it would take too much storage; some storage needs to be bought, although, I don't know the limit (but there's a lot. Like, a lot)
Personal rating: 9/10. With all its antics, I love this app dearly, it's incredibly useful, and you learn to deal with the cons. It's the best one I've used for communication and information storage so far.
7. Texting Stories app: As ridiculous as it sounds, it could be used as a tool to communicate with your alters, especially in secret. We are fighting for our safety here, so I ask you to take this suggestion seriously. Could be used when you don't want to let anyone know you're a system and have noisy family members/relatives/etc who like to snoop through you personal devices, by using it, you can say you've just been doing a story. Offline app.
Pros: I believe you can add as many people as you want; can add avatars; different stories can be different days of the week; easy to use; easy to brush off as "just making stories."
Cons: Can't change colors, you need to pay for most things.
Personal rating: 5/10. Can be used for emergencies and communication only, although we haven't used it much.
8. Notes: Just the same plain old notes app on your phone that everybody has installed as default. Offline app.
Pros: Easy to use; can be easily lost within your other notes for privacy; used for literally everything you desire, even drawing; automatic backup.
Cons: Doesn't give you the ability to really present as separate people; doesn't have as many options as Notion.
Personal rating: 5/10. used it at some point just for communication, was cool, somple, easy, but nothing too big.
I hope this helped to put these apps in perspective. I do apologize for it being a bit all over the place, but I did attempt to make it coherent enough (I am currently in a psychotic state, it's difficult for me to communicate). And remember, there are always options to use a written journal rather than a digital one. If anything, it's better to keep both in case one gets lost. Who knows, maybe our parents asking us what we would do if the internet disappeared is actually a warning. /j /nm
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Ah sorry if this is like alot to ask and you don't have to respond hehe but I wanted to ask if you have any tips on how you set up your fic posts and profile all fancy or should I just ask YouTube? 😭
this will be lengthy so i apologize in advance. also, i’m sorry i’m getting to this ask so late lovely 🥹 thank you for being so patient with me 😭 anyways to start i’ve had a similar theme to the one i have currently on my main blog since december : ) i have always been one to make my themes over the top in the past but decided to dial it down as i tended to focus on that than actually writing. here is an example of an old alien theme from last year (this is a screenshot of a reblog):

i used to go by a different alias then and now stuff is just worded a little differently but essentially it is the same premise but it’s practically almost the same : ) i’ve always had satoru in my themes like my nutcracker theme and such bc he’s always been my one and only 🤍🤞🏻 i lost the screenshot i had of that pink nutcracker theme though :I (so incase something happened to my pinned post i’d know what to do again)
i made my whole pinned post aside from the green light divider (it’s a whole gif too) so now you see what i mean by spending too much time on my themes LOL . this time around i made my own dividers which i also use on my fic posts and it is just a simple gradient or solid designs of different colors (you are free to use any if you like! they are rather easy to make and i use the app ibispaint)
if you need help deciding on a theme, i would suggest going on pinterest and finding stuff. if you ever use art on your posts, please make sure the author first allows reposts and second, credit them. tumblr users also make cute and creative dividers so try searching in the tags and follow the criteria of use.
essentially, i would start off by suggesting you make your theme on a laptop/computer if you have as it makes it easier to use the indented and bullet point options on texts + moving images around.
these are what i use:

step 1: highlight the text
step 2: click the button that says regular and these options should pop up. i use the indented or bullet point option
and this is how the end result should look if you clicked either or (it looks like that on desktop). you can hold down on them and move them around on mobile.
now onto how i layout my fics! here is an example of one:

to make a text bold or italicized you simply highlight the text like i showed above and click either of these two options. the B is for bold and the slanted i is for italicized.
there are other option from what i explained that you can try out and see what you like such as a line across or making a text small. you may use all options at the same time, not just one! if i did not explain it well enough, you can also go to youtube. anyways i hope that helped at least a bit!
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You are nine years old, it is Easter Sunday, and this is your first year in the Big Kids group!
You have never been more excited!
Pleasantview's 2024 Easter Eggstravaganza!
Edit 4/2 - I updated the link since it's being finicky. Hopefully no more issues.
A few notes:
This is specifically formatted for a computer. You will need a mouse for parts of it! I tried looking at it on my phone, and it was garbage. I apologize to mobile users, but that just wasn't a priority.
This popped into my head unexpectedly, and I had to slap it together in less than a week, so I apologize if it sucks. Due to the time constraint, I didn't have as much time to do my customary 7000 rewrites, I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted, and the writing itself is a little... well, hopefully you'll forgive me someday.
THE EGG HUNT
The Egg Hunt portion uses image maps, which I've heard can be a little wonky. I will make an image map-free version (today even!), but for right now, fingers crossed that it works.
In order to participate in the "Egg Hunt," you'll need to run your mouse over the image until a little "?" appears by the cursor. Not all eggs are visible! And not everything you find is an egg! There are clues hidden in a couple of locations that are connected to the main story line, so I hope you find them!
I worry that even with the clues, though, that the story might be a little obscure, so feel free to ask for any clarification you need.
THE CHILDREN
You can "play" as Angela, Lilith, Dirk, Dustin, Gvaudoin or Fricorith. I did recycle a lot of text, but I tried to give each character their fair share of unique text, as well.
#sims 2#ts2#simblr#sims stories#pleasantview#angela pleasant#lilith pleasant#dirk dreamer#dustin dreamer#gvaudoin tricou#fricorith tricou#happy easter!
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I just found your account and first of all, your art style is amazing and blows me away!! the way all your colors look cohesive is just chef's kiss!!
and secondly, it is such a nice feeling, as a mobility aid user, to see someone draw disabled people and mobility aid users. Even though I've been using my cane for years, I still have that little voice that makes me scared of using it and I think that's mainly because I never see any representation...
sorry for the rant haha your art is just amayzin!
No need to apologize!
It’s really amazing hearing how my art has both inspired and touched other disabled people — it means a lot to me because starting my art journey online was rough and I felt very “niche” and not many people liked my stuff for a long while! I only started getting positive comments around 2021/2022!
I love drawing mobility aids, truly. It feels like it’s what i’m /meant/ to do. All the comments, messages, and kind words people have spoken to me just for simply sharing my life and experiences and other disabled people’s views means the world to me.
I personally haven’t struggled with that little voice in your head — but my words of advice is that the world is too short to worry about what other people think of you at first glance. If they aren’t willing to hear you out for more than 2 minutes — then just live your life free from their thoughts! Disabled people have been shunned for too long, even thinking back to “ugly laws” we were forced indoors and locked up just for being disabled. It’s not right. Don’t let lock yourself up like those that have hurt us all. You can go out and live your life, differently than others, because everyone does that! Even able-bodied peoples lives are each uniquely different!
Thank you for the message!
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Have you considered posting your comic here on tumblr or showing a preview instead of just links? Just links doesn't give people an idea of what the comic is about and likely won't be clicked on by new people but clips of the comic or the whole pages + external links would help pique interest more
First of all, let me apologize for taking to long to respond to this 😅
And next I want to apologize for this being such a long response.
Truth is, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Even before you sent me this ask, but I didn’t want to answer right away because I didn’t know what I wanted to do about it yet.
I think you’re definitely right, links to another site are really not the best way to draw people in, especially if you’re on mobile. And I’ve been trying to work on a better solution.
I think for a while I didn’t want to post on tumblr just because that would be another thing I would have to keep track of besides the website, webtoons, and ko-fi and patreon. But I have been considering that more and more, I think that would help make it more accessible, both in general but especially to tumblr users,which is where I think most of my current audience is from lol.
But, I’m still held back by one problem. If I post on tumblr, people can reblog it, (I know I can disable reblogs, but that feels icky to me, I don’t want to make it hard for people to share the comic.) and if they do, then I can’t really control what pages people see in what order, and that’s (generally speaking) not great for stories. I’m not so worried about spoilers, but I’m more concerned that if people are exposed to the comic pages out of order, then the story loses its power of presentation.
I think the story of SotF is really similar to a film, and when you’re advertising a film you make a trailer. You take specifically curated shots and sound bites from the film and place them in a specific sequence to engage the viewers and make them ask questions. Questions like: “How do the main characters end up in a situation like that?”, “How do they get out of it?” “How does Jack Black do as casting for Steve?”, “Is this gonna be as good as the first movie?”. You go see that movie because you want those questions answered. (or you wait a little longer and watch a YouTube review.)
Direction wise, it’s almost a mini film in and of itself. If you see a clip of a film by itself without any explanation, you don’t feel as engaged with it as you would if you saw that scene within the context of the movie as a whole. But it also doesn’t pique as much interest as one specific line from that scene would out of context. It’s a balance between asking and answering questions. What you give/show that makes the viewers ask questions that they want answered.
I really don’t know how to apply all of this to advertising a comic though, and I may be making this more complicated than it needs to be lol. But I think for now at least, I don’t have enough material to advertise with anyway. I haven’t even gotten through the prologue yet! I think right now the best thing I could do for advertising is making promotional posters. And even that is something I have to budget time for.
I also thought about posting clips of some sort, but I couldn’t really figure out how to do that with the pages of comic that I’d put out so far. I would have to do it in either one of two ways: (if there’s another way let me know lol) I’d either have to post a few pages at a time, let people see what the comic is like and get invested so they actually want to click a link to see the rest (this is what I see most people doing), or I would post a snippet of one page, giving people a small glimpse of what happens so that people want to click the link to be able to read the whole page. But there were problems with each. I’m working on this comic very slowly, as I don’t have a lot of time to put towards it, so posting two or three pages all at once would amount to months of work.
And I couldn’t really find a way to cut my comic pages into little snippets. I feel like that can compromise some of the structure of the page as a whole, since I design the pages to be viewed as a whole, to draw the viewer’s eye from here to there. If I clip it down, I don’t think your eyes would track with the page in the same way when you see the full page. I think this method works better for comics that use the infinite scroll format. At least, that’s where I’ve seen it work best.
So TL;DR: I want to up the promotion of my comic but i can't really do that at this point with the low amount of material I've made so far or without potentially compromising the experience of the story of the comic.
Thank you for sending this ask! It really made me think and helped me put these thoughts to words.
If anyone wants to comment or add to the discussion, feel free!
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So, now that Juno, formerly known as Space Ranger, has joined the cast of Overwatch, what sort of Quirk could fit her? I'm thinking something for her Hyper Ring, but instead of purely a speed boost, maybe healing boost too, Not very much, but enough to help others last longer in battle. Apologies if I've already asked this one.
I really really like Juno from Overwatch (as a playable character not just attraction I mean what) so could you make a Quirk for her?
I can't say much about Juno. The most I can comment on is that she looks like Lady Nagant's secret daughter. That aside, out of all her abilities, her Glide Boost and Hyper Ring are the most interesting to me and would be the most unique ability to make around her.
I see it working as a Transformation type Quirk that allows the user to make a white, futuristic-looking propulsion pack on their back. This pack is covered in blue rings, or biopropulsors, that push the user around. This works to give the user a lot of speed and control over their flight, able to go from gentle hovering to flying across the sky with ease. By moving their hands, the user can fire off the rings, making them grow to human size and letting them hover in the air. People passing through these rings will be blasted forward or back depending on where the wings are pointing. This gives the user a great power for mobility and support, able to help themselves and their allies get wherever they need. They can fly over an area to scout it, help allies by launching them, dodge out of the way of enemy attacks, augment allies' attacks, or simply fly around people. Though the user only has ten rings and will need to account for their own speed and the ring's position. The pack has a power supply that can run out if the user overuses it, and the blue rings propulsion effect only applies to organic targets, so it can't push around objects. A possible name for the Quirk could be "Lift Off".
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Hi! I'm writing a character with forearm crutches, who came to use them for balance and stability as well as to alleviate pain and fatigue after receiving severe injuries that caused chronic pain (they were beaten). Are forearm crutches suitable for this? Is it reasonable for them to be able to be pretty mobile for a limited time but need thorough rest at others? The crutches would help with their pain, right? Though of course they will need to sit or even lie down, with plenty of things to help with the pain.
Oh, and since this is a historical fantasy of sorts, is it still possible for them to ride a horse? I imagine there must be a limit on how long they can do so, and probably for a less amount of time than they used to be able to do so before the injuries?
They used to be a dancer (and apprentice healer, though I doubt their knowledge will be affected by their mobility issues), and though I have seen people dance with elbow crutches I am anxious if it might feel like Inspiration Porn™?
I sincerely apologize for the barrage of questions! I wanted to make sure I got it right, as I do not suffer from the same type of pain as they do (my issues skew mental, plus some probable nerve damage on my left arm that left it far weaker than my right, and it'd lock up and stiffen when I use it too much).
Hi!
If their pain and weakness is only or mostly in their legs, then this sounds fine. Crutches are good for stability and load reduction, but they do put a lot of strain on arms and wrists.
It's fine for them to have varying mobility and pain levels--that's accurate to many people's experiences with chronic pain. As a crutch user, I like sitting down whenever possible; my crutches just help when I do need to move.
From what I understand, horse riding will definitely be difficult as it involves a lot of leg strength, but maybe with some adaptations and reduced time they could do it. As alternatives, they maybe could ride with someone else or in a horse-pulled carriage?
I dance and I don't think that sounds like inspiration porn at all! Disabled people participating in physical activity isn't inspiration porn unless the message is "they're doing it, why can't you (able-bodied viewers)?"
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⤹ROBIN ୨୧ 5teen. any prns. amateur writer. archive. ˎˊ˗
ONE 𝜗𝜚 i don’t care if you repost my works just give credit plsplspls !! don’t claim my work as yours though i doubt anyone would do so LMFAO
TWO 𝜗𝜚 idc who interacts with me as long as you’re not part of the basic dni list (pedo, racist, homophobe, etc.)
THREE 𝜗𝜚 i didn’t write nsfw
FOUR 𝜗𝜚 if the layouts look weird it’s because i was a mobile user
⤹❝ Oh, 아름답지만 섬찟할 거야 ❞ ˎˊ˗
( ͈ര ̫ര ͈) ⊹`𓈒 inbox and requests closed — this blog is an archive.
( ͈ര ̫ര ͈) ⊹`𓈒 I apologize for all the people who’s requests I didn’t do,, you’re free to message me (i’ll allow it despite my messages being closed) about it and I can make them public should anyone want to write them. Again I’m sorry.
( ͈ര ̫ര ͈) ⊹`𓈒 If anyone tries to shit on me for archiving this blog so soon — I have no motivation to write for star rail. My interest is dying quickly. I’m tired in real life. The school I’m getting into requires a lot of meetings and paper shit and stuff and it’s also been taking up my time. I’m not in the proper place right now to write requests and things in general. This sounds stupid, I know. But I’m just so suddenly tired.
( ͈ര ̫ര ͈) ⊹`𓈒 i’m probably going to take a break from social media entirely and go inactive on all / any accounts and start new after some time. Discord, Instagram, Twitter, etc. To anyone who added me on those socials — I’m sorry. Don’t bother yourselves with me. Enjoy your lives!! I hope they are filled with joy.
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I cannot emphasize this enough; the reason I'm reporting so much on Mabinogi Mobile is specifically because I understand that I'm privileged enough to be able to play it. I want to provide people who can't, with any information, screenshots; and videos they might want. Because at the end of the day Nexon is AWFUL when it comes to gatekeeping.
For those who are unaware; the website for Mabinogi Mobile is blocked from any and all IPs that aren't Korean. So you're blocked out from even viewing the site if you don't have a Korean IP, you might think that you could just use a VPN, and yes that will get you to the website; congratulations you can now view some information and maybe a bit of the OST.
However.
You can't even download the game, because that requires Korean citizenship, and if you somehow managed to find a version uploaded online that doesn't matter because they took their "security" a step further. They block IPs that come from VPNs. "The whole point of a VPN is that it's a masked IP, it would just look like a Korean IP." I hear you say, and you're not wrong; but companies ARE able to detect VPN IPs. Nexon outright said "no foreigners, period." You can't use a VPN, and if you're trying to play on PC, you need a Korean Citizen ID number to even verify your account which is required to even download the game let alone log in.
To anyone in NA who's been waiting to play this game for 8+ years, I understand as well as anyone how crushing it feels to be denied over literally just xenophobia. Considering I've been lucky enough to get some time with the game, I am doing my best to share anything I can that people might want to see. I apologize if the Mabi Mobile spam has been annoying to anyone, I understand it sometimes is worse to know about something you can't interact with.
My hope is that the success of Mabinogi Mobile in Korea will result in it getting a global release, I'd love to see this game be made available to NA users. Though I've not heard anything of the sort being in the works, they do have plans for monthly updates, regarding new classes, and new content. I'll be doing my best to cover that all as it comes out. I'm happy to answer any questions regarding information about the game, it's content, and it's lore. Basically if you want to know something about Mabi Mobile my ask box is open to you I'll do my best to answer whatever I can.
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(For the most deprived prompt, and apologies if I really live up to my user name on this one, lmfao) Want to see Kobeni utterly massive, unable to move at all. She's stuck to a bariatric bed she's getting too large for and practically oozing fat out of from the sides, the prospect of even a mobility aid is too much for her anymore, she can't breath on her own and lazily sucks on air from a nasal cannula, her vitals are damn near critical at all times with how the machinery around her works overtime to keep her alive, there's a large scar down her chest where her bypass surgery happened, and she's in constant need of insulin injects, though that hasn't done her much good when she's already lost a foot to her diabetes, a stump ending where it should be instead. A proper conclusion for a winner of the competition. At least Makima will enjoy looking after her~ (Once more apologies if this is WAY too much, haha)
Send me the kinkiest, most depraved ideas you have about my muse(s) for the mun’s reaction and thoughts!
(No Longer Accepting)

Poor girl can’t cry tears anymore over the loss of everything that makes her her, thoughts too preoccupied on when she’ll get her next meal, totally submitted to Makima’s control. Or perhaps it’s due to lack of oxygen flowing to her brain? Regardless, with all the medical equipment around her plus extreme obesity, she’d be totally unrecognizable, save for her greasy brown hair kept in her style, accessorized with her red barrette. Her former employer likes her to look cute for her. Oh, and there’s also her moles as identifiers, but they’ve gotten hard to make out with so much pulpy face flab, not to mention her cheeks are always red these days, the reason should be obvious.
Can’t say she’s not well-taken care of! In spite of everything, the Control Devil will keep her pet piggy alive till the end of time, even when her ass completely spills over the sides of her bed and her other foot has to be lobbed off~!
#contestant: kobeni higashiyama#healthplayenthusiast#warning: health issues#finished meals (answered ask)
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Over the Internet- Part one.
-Fuuta Kajiyama x Reader. College AU.
Hello! This is my first fic in a very long time. I usually spend my time role-playing rather than inventing works of my own, so this is very new. I do apologize for the short length, and I do hope to advance in my writing. I did really enjoy typing this up, though! For now, please enjoy my first work on this account, and please let me know if you'd like more!
Summary: Y/N has had a crush on a peer in her class for quite a while. Without the courage to approach the mysterious man directly, she chooses a different route: impress him by downloaded his favorite mobile game. Much harder than anticipated, y/n accepts the help of a seasoned player. Little does she know, the face behind the username Pazuzu_0419 is none other than the very man she'd been attempting to impress.
word count: 1.5k
content warning: Cursing, minor mention of blood, toxic gaming community.
“Hell's blazes, just how hard is this game?”
Falling onto her back, y/n laid flat on her mattress. Hair splayed out from under her, fanning and folding in each direction. A cellular device played sound through blanket-stuffed speakers, lightly clutched in her grasp. An MMO that had only graced the screen for but an hour heated the usually cool surface of the phone. With a mere two words, the young woman had been defeated for just about the twentieth time; *You died.* Just why… did she continue playing this stupid game? …
Right. Because of him.
Y/n found herself utterly, ridiculously, and horribly smitten. From the first day in class, seated two rows forward and a bit to the left, a student had caught her gaze. Red tufts of hair stuck up and fell as if he couldn't care much for his appearance; baggy clothes donned his figure, as well as a mask which obscured most of his face. What could he look like under that mask? Short stature, quiet and hardly talked to anyone other than the man who situated himself beside him. What did his voice sound like, how did he talk? His tired eyes sometimes wandered around, and sometimes… if she were lucky… they would meet her own. Not that he noticed her, no. Never did he stop dead in his tracks like she nearly did, and never did he seem to pay mind to her existence. Instead, he'd pull out his phone and toy around with that blasted game of his…. The intrigue and mystery of it all had really gotten to her. How embarrassing, fancying someone who you didn't even know the name of.
And, how embarrassing it was to snoop and watch the person you like play a game, only to download it yourself. With what? The hope to meet him in-game? To maybe develop the courage to walk up to him and introduce yourself? Hello, kind sir. My name is y/n, and I just so happened to look over your shoulder and knew just what game you were playing! What. an. idiot, she was. An hour of gaming… an hour of playing one of her first ever games, and she thought she could breeze through? It's easier than it looks, I'm sure. I will level up in no time! Only to be mocked and scorned by other players in the very lobby she'd respawned in. Dreams of going up to that ginger kid flew out the window– no one wanted y/n in their guild. All these comments relating to HP, and XP, and… whatever. If she must become a seasoned player by herself, then by herself she must.
Picking up her phone again, hovering far above her face, y/n tried again. And again. And again. Each time had been met with teasing and rude comments. Noob; Get off the game; no one wants you here; No, you can't join us. you'll drag us down; You play like a woman; Can you guys shut the hell up? They're clearly new. Huh?
Rereading, rescanning, re-skimming. The singular comment nearly got lost in the rush of new ones, most now completely unrelated to her predicament. Another comment popped up from the same user. Act like you've never been new to a game before. Fuck off. Username Pazuzu_0419. Some other people responded, spanning from dismissive comments to death threats and insults. What a toxic community… Y/N typed in a reply of her own, the first one she could actually muster. Thank you, Pazuzu. …. Nothing back.
Minutes went by. Googling the game for tips and tricks only did so much when one didn't understand video games. Watching videos on a side screen, listening to dialogue that felt almost as foreign as a new language… AOE, Buffer, DPS… oh, how it made her head hurt. A new weapon found its way into her inventory, as well as a new breastplate. Amazing, now to equip these items… ah, they are worse than her current ones. Just her luck. Though, a soft bling did light up the corner of her screen. Another notification. Another message from someone who watched her die, perhaps… she'd just swipe and…
<Join my guild.> -Pazuzu_0419.
A trick..? Maybe he needed a justification to bully her as well. No matter.
<Why? So you, too, can tell me to kill myself?>
Passive aggressive by all means, or just aggressive, y/n had learned quickly that this was a dog eat dog world. Survival of the fittest, and she happened to be at the bottom of the totem pole. Fingers idly clenched harder around the edges of the phone, squinting up at it while waiting for those three little dots to stop wiggling. For his answer. Anticipation. A reason to argue with someone in DMs, to vent off the frustration of losing all of the time. The phone gave way to pressure, slipping from her grasp and landing directly into her face.
“Ah…” y/n groaned, rolling over and allowing the device to slide off to the side. Touching a finger to her lips, of which had been pinned between the phone and her teeth for but a second, she drew it back and… a busted lip. At least, there was a bit of blood. Metallic taste infiltrated her mouth, resulting in a short grimace. Not life threatening, but also… wouldn't be fun going out in public with this either. She picked the phone back up, this time readjusting her position to upright.
<Just join my damn guild, if you wanna quit getting shat on. Or don't, I don't care.> -Pazuzu_0419
Another message… while crude and unwelcoming, they seemed… genuine enough. She supposed, anyway. Though, still suspicious.
<Fine, then. Since you asked me so kindly…>
Though, clicking on their profile seemed fruitful. Achievements, equipment, a high level… the title under the guild name read simply Pazuzu… How original. A new request flashed across the screen. A request to join Pazuzu's guild… Joining let her see there were a couple other members, but otherwise seemed quite barren. Only she and Pazu were online. This felt somehow intimate– not in a weird way, just like this place was meant for close friends. Not a random newbie to the gaming industry. Now they could message a bit more openly. Not in DMs, but in the live guild chat. <Thanks, btw.> No response… of course, just like before. Really, y/n couldn't get a reading on this person. One moment they seemed like an absolute ass, but then the next they cared enough to stick up for her. Frustrating, truly.
<You're lucky I didn't sell this yet.> The next message read off as high and mighty. Like she burdened them by accepting the join request. A soft tch left y/n, though waited patiently to see what they could have meant. That wait hadn't been for long, nor for naught. Equipment had been gifted over in an in-game parcel– decent equipment, at that. Nothing extravagant, but… far better than what must have been rags when compared to her own. Y/N resisted typing another thank you, as it seemed Pazu wouldn't respond to praise. <Use these instead. Better than that shit you got on. I'mma have to log off for tonight. Catch you another time.> And…. they didn't even wait for a goodbye. No time to type, as immediately after that last message had been sent, they logged off.
What… had been the point of all that? Sure, she was grateful. Sure, they helped… but what in Pazu’s right mind caused them to trust a stranger with their gear and log off immediately? No trust had been founded, no chit chat and definitely no pleasantries. Hell, she could just leave the guild and never talk to the bastard again… but she didn’t. And she wouldn't. Instead, she logged off as well. Partially to allow her phone to cool, and mostly because she didn't want to die again, just to repeat the cycle. Not when she could learn from another person on a different day.
Outside, the moon hung high. It smiled and danced with the stars that hardly blinked back down at pedestrians. Perhaps now would be a good time for sleep. Hardly had y/n noticed just how heavy her eyes had become, now feeling much like an anvil forcefully pulled them down. Classes, shopping, homework and now… gaming… all of it had tuckered her out. So, she forcefully pushed herself off the comfortable bed to switch off the light to her small college dorm room. A satisfying click emanated as light became no more. Somewhere behind her, she heard her phone vibrate; most likely a message from a dear friend of hers. Surely Mahiru wouldn't mind too much if y/n skipped out on replying back tonight.
Finally, falling back onto the bed with a soft bounce of the cushion, y/n nestled herself into a comfortable position. Sleep overcame her, and the moon bade her a goodnight.
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Hello everyone!! We're looking to pick up possibly one or two mods to help with the workload, if anyone is interested! It's been a bit difficult to maintain 13 posts/day between the two of us, and with enough help, we should be able to maintain that queue rate or maybe even increase it a little! There's also some things that would be really nice to do if all of the time we spent dedicated to the blog wasn't just making sure the queue didn't empty out haha
If you're interested, please send an ask off-anon, and I'll DM you from my main when I can! If you don't allow DMs from your main, you can also give a different way to contact you as well in your ask! (Like the URL of a sideblog with DMs open!) Thank you !!
More info under the cut!!
The main modding responsibilities include:
Gathering album information into the planning spreadsheet.
Taking that information and drafting the posts to queue them.
Less importantly, helping keep track of links for posted polls and copying over the poll results.
These can largely be completed independently, aside from any obvious ordering restrictions (can't queue a post if you don't have the data put together), so if, for any reason, you're only able to do one of the first two on a temporary or even permanent basis, it would still be a lot of help.
In terms of technological requirements, all information can be accessed on websites free-of-charge, two require a (free) account to get access to the album images, and everything can be done strictly in-browser if needed. We do use Google Sheets for the planning sheet, but I don't think you need a Google account to edit/access it. I do not think this is something that is reasonable to do on mobile, so you would need access to a desktop/laptop computer.
I think things can be made considerably easier if you can use some non-browser programs. I personally use a Windows 10 computer + Firefox for my own workflow, but things aren't impossible without it for sure! There's always more than one way to do things. I have no idea what potential difficulties may occur for someone who is a Mac + Safari user, for instance. Oh! And in terms of communication, Discord is best, so it would be helpful if that's something you use as well!
Also we're all here to have fun so like this isn't a job much less a role with strict expectations, so it doesn't have to be like a primary responsibility for you or anything like that!
Also apologies if I take a bit to get back to anyone who does send a message! I'm multitasking between my job and some other obligations so I might not see any notifications right away, and I need to coordinate adding any new mods with my co-mod so there might be a bit of waiting involved unfortunately!! Thank you so much to anyone who reaches out though !!
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Hit me with your favorite defunct website
You will regret this.
Have you ever felt isolated by the modern internet, or nostalgic for the way that you can vaguely--but not entirely--remember experiencing as a child? Well I can't speak for everyone, but the past few years certainly have left me feeling that way. Certain nostalgia posts made circa 2021 got my brain churning in that direction, dredging up ancient memories of reading personal blogs and spending hours on flash game websites that were more or less entirely nuked from the internet by my adulthood. The more I remembered, the more distressed I felt by their absence, even though it'd been years since I even remembered most of that stuff existed...
Aside from Animal Jam, I wasn't sure if anything I knew from my mid 2000s-early 2010s childhood experience was out there on the web somewhere--so, I did as any normal teenager would and I started doing copious amounts of research into a subject that basically didn't exist. I discovered the internet archive entirely on accident; spent days examining the layout of early youtube and any other sites I could remember, navigating by year and trying to figure out when everything took a turn for the worst. I started browsing through webcore tags on tumblr just to get close to what I wanted, because "old internet" yielded few results at the time, and google's input was less than useless. Only a few blogs on tumblr had the kind of content I was looking for, but eventually I struck gold when one of them pointed me in a brand new direction of hope.
This is when I discovered neocities.
Of course, I was already familiar with the webhosting platform of geocities from the old days. Geocities was one of the primary hosting platforms that I remembered without the help of research, but you may already have guessed by the lack of a link that it's dead--and you'd be right. It actually shut down back in 2009, which I learned through the same post that advertised its independent successor. For some reason, I'd always associated the memory with the time I was in kindergarten, but the date of shutdown actually confirmed that I must've known about it earlier, making the platform one of my first memories! It's been gone for a while, but not the impression of it that I had as a core pillar in my early web experience. And then there was neocities. What was that? I immediately went to investigate.
Of course, I was mostly doing this in between two late-night bussing jobs to afford my shitty apartment, aside from being in my final year of high school, so progress was slow. At the starbucks next to my school, I was always holed up in the corner during my short window of off-time with a coffee and my computer setup. It took some time, but I began browsing through the top pages one-by-one, following links and cataloguing where they led to. I took stock of which sites linked to one another. Eventually, I noticed a pattern: a lot of them linked back to a website called sadgrl.online, a purple and black neon haven of internet culture run by a webmaster known as Sadness. Everyone say hello to our defunct website of the hour!
At the time, the thing was absolutely bustling. Almost all of the most popular sites on neocities were linked to Sadness' site somehow, usually through her button collection. My own personal site, which I started building around that time, also contained one of her web buttons. She has several, but her most popular one looks like this. (I apologize if you're on mobile. It will NOT look good.)
I was intrigued! In a community so removed from the usual mainstays of the internet, there existed a blog that hundreds of neocities users were visiting every day, and I very quickly became one of them once I finished looking through her thought-provoking essays on programming and web culture. Her site went through a number of layout changes while I was a regular visitor--the vast majority of them are catalogued on the site itself if not also on the internet archive. It was a blog dedicated to the exact thing that I was interested in; what I had been searching for since the modern web started rubbing me the wrong way in my burgeoning adulthood. Her page prominently featured an essay on the faults of centralized internet and her journey to foster a space more accepting of individuality, information, and creativity without thought of profit. I was totally enamored, especially with the appealing gothic graphics that surrounded the lengthy text!
(here's a capture from August 2022)
Aside from Sadness, several other active community members had formed an alliance of websites dedicated to the preservation of old internet culture and the cultivation of unique online spaces. These people called themselves the Yesterweb. The yesterweb was run mainly by webmasters known as Auzzie Jay, Madness, Tsvety, Grafo, Cinni, Vincent, Iris, and Sadness herself, but webmaster Melon (of MelonLand fame) also ran a forum that was parallel to the movement. The yesterweb was a massive project that included an online newspaper, a web radio station, several introductory programming manuals, a forum, web-themed essays from neocities users, button makers, layout creators, and terms and definitions for people new to the decentralized experience. It was easy to get lost in it all... for a time, the rabbit hole felt endless and exciting.
Every day, I returned to check updates on Sadness' various projects while I began work on my own website. She had totally convinced me of my own convictions--I bought the dream hook, line, and sinker. My only goal for a while was for my site to eventually be included in the yesterweb webring alongside all these amazing programmers. I wanted to contribute to the world of creativity that I could only dream of when HTML was still just meaningless jargon to me! But I was too slow learning the languages necessary, and the yesterweb was just growing too fast to be contained. I dipped for a few months to focus on my move to a new city, and by the time I returned, the whole yesterweb had disappeared scorched-earth style.
Okay, so what the fuck happened?
Currently, on the front page of what used to be a hopeful and inspiring collection of internet resources, there's a long essay made by the webmasters who founded the project, detailing burnout and massive stress due to the community growing faster than they could moderate it. It is certainly not poorly-intentioned. However, the discovery was absolutely devastating to me. My dream had gone up in smoke before I could even try to reach it, and I was apparently a part of the problem by caring so much about it. The radio station is gone. The webring was deleted. The forums shut down. My favorite webmasters' sites were no longer being updated. I felt awful for the people who had been affected by all this stress and pressure, but after so long of working to join the movement, I felt betrayed by their abandonment. The yesterweb disappeared in almost exactly the same way the old web did the first time--ripped from my fingers before I was able and ready to participate. And I can only wonder... what happened to the goal of turning the internet back into a place for us? How did it get to the point of ruining these people's lives within the span of maybe two years? I'm really not sure. There's a lot about this story I still don't know, and there's not really a way to access the drama that happened in a discord server that I never joined. The information published on the yesterweb's page is the only reliable source I'm currently aware of.
Still, in spite of it all, Sadness' website has remained one of my major inspirations in programming and web philosophy. I may be in mourning about a dream that died before it could truly live, but whenever I think about the months that I spent eagerly browsing her site for updates, I remember that spark that initially inspired me to begin researching the net in the first place. She was a major player in the game--not the only one. The website that she created was my favorite while it was active, and now it is my favorite website that is currently defunct.
Thank you for coming to my tedtalk.
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Please read, thank you so much!
Good day, everyone. I'm typing this in an internet cafe/co-working space as I'm addressing some of these issues. Yesterday night, January 4, I experienced both mobile data and internet connection loss at my house. As a result, I will be going on another indefinite hiatus until my connection is fixed. If it's still not fixed until January 13, Monday, I will be going on a longer indefinite hiatus. I will be by most likely May-July 2025.
After this post, I'll be posting astra-galaxie's request today, January 5, both on Instagram and Tumblr. As for the two remaining requests, my best friend, Carrie (aka @//kaizolicious) will be posting it only through Instagram. For the duration of January 5-10, I am entrusting Carrie to take care of my account and to take charge of posting the remaining requests. Both art and captions will be posted by me, whereas Carrie will take charge of posting my drawings and captions. I have already given him permission, the details to my account, and have already asked this favor from her so it's settled.
Other concerns regarding my future plans, I will still be posting Zoevid angst this January 10 through the help of Carrie. Whereas for my future plans concerning me opening commissions soon, though I've already had a secure portfolio (through the CC requests here on Tumblr), I will also put this on hold until I can verify my modes of online payment. I sincerely apologize as well to the anonymous user on Tumblr who requested! I will only post on Instagram for the time being until previous issues are fixed. And as for now, requests are closed as I'm still complying with two other requests. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for understanding me and my current situation.
-Reozi, @//headcazed
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