Less "I'm sure you're smart!" More "You don't have to be smart to be a worthy and valuable person"

Less "You have so much potential!" More "What you can do NOW already matters. You don't have to do or achieve more to be valuable."

Less "You can do it!" More "It's okay if it turns out that you can't do it. I will value you regardless"

Less "You will get better!" More "Recovering fully isn't a requirement for figuring out how to live a good and meaningful life"

Less "You have no limits!" More "You don't have to push through the boundaries and limits of your body and mind to prove that you're trying. You're doing enough."

Less "Think positive, be happy!" More "It's impossible to be happy and positive all the time. Don't blame yourself for being real."

Less "Keep trying no matter what!" More "Sometimes you gotta get off the wrong path to find the right one. Changing your mind about something isn't inherently a failure."

Less empty platitudes and toxic positivity - more compassion!

If you have no other option, you will succeed.

"I'll figure it out" is a powerful statement. Yes, you may not know what to do next or where to even begin... but you are ready and willing to do what it takes. You will in fact figure it out.

PSA to printed zine makers

As a 37 year old who's been running a sole proprietorship for the last 10+ years, I just want everyone who is planning to run a fandom project that involves accepting money for printing & shipping costs to know that you're actually running a small business and you need to plan for taxes. It doesn't matter if you don't make any profit: that is business income and the IRS will see it as such if you get audited.

If you only take enough money in to cover the cost of printing & shipping then you can write that off as a business expense and probably not pay taxes on it, But in order for that to fly you actually have to do business accounting, especially if you're doing it at scale. Like, you can probably skate by without reporting a $500 project; I absolutely would not fucking risk it with a $5000 project.

Back when I was producing shows there were years when I was where I made $20k in ticket sales only to turn around and immediately pay $18k to my performers. I only made $2k for myself, but I had to report the entire $20k, because it was ALL INCOME. (I only paid taxes on the $2000, because that's how writing off expenses works!)

Yeah this is boring grownup shit and I'm getting my boring grownup fingers all over your fun fandom, but boring grownups doing boring grownup things are the reason fandom spaces exist at all (paying for servers is deeply boring), and I'm way more fun than an audit

THE ONLINE ARTIST HANDBOOK

So I think a lot of us are struggling with being an online artist these days, with the navigation of various socials being increasingly obscure and even perilous at times

It’s why I had an idea: The Online Artist Handbook

What is the Online Artist Handbook ?

It’s a collaborative google doc where all artists all over various social media websites can contribute their knowledge of said socials to help everyone thrive ! This includes becoming more familiar with various customs and ways to post as a part of building your online presence, and things to watch out for.

The document is completely free and open-source: everyone can use it, edit it, cite it, download it, whatever !

How does it work ?

There are two documents: one document is used for submitting notes about various social media platforms, and a second one is a read-only document where all the information is properly written out to ensure clarity and ease of reading.

I’d like to contribute !

That’s so awesome ! Thank you so much ! You can contribute to the document yourself here: [Google doc link]. The clean version of the document can be found here: [Google doc second link]

Remember to add yourself to the contributors section to be credited for your help !

Let’s go Tumblr ! Let’s create a community artist resource !

This is a treasure trove of information for fellow artists online! Thank you so much for organising it, this is an invaluable resource.

“I HATE YOU”

[ mp100 fanart ] — i posted this one on twitter before i still think its funny

got fully locked out of youtube for Using Adblocker crimes today (got a pop-up saying I'd be locked out after 3 videos and then the video player locked down) and after some experimentation discovered that switching to my old YouTube profile that wasn't created via a Google account has bypassed it.

i DON'T know if this has anything to do w the origins of the account or if it's just that they're not rolling the new features out to all accounts at once and I've found a loophole so ig we'll see how long this works for!!

this is what i've learned so far:

it initially presents as a dismissable popup saying that adblockers will shortly no longer be allowed & then after a while you get the 'three more videos and the player will be blocked' message followed by the player locking down.

the filters in this post no longer work

YouTube is rolling out the new measures gradually so if you haven't had any issues it's likely to be bcos it hasn't hit your account yet; comments along the lines of 'i used this browser + adblock combo' are therefore not very helpful.

if using uBlock you seem to be able to bypass it by logging out but this does have the downside of having to use YouTube logged out. it apparently also works in private browsing mode.

I posted the above workaround in a reddit thread on the subject and someone else confirmed that making a new account worked for them.

I'm HOPING that someone will come up with a permanent workaround before it hits my old account but given how aggressive this seems to be I'm afraid this might be the thing that makes me finally bite the bullet and switch to spotify :(

switching over to my old account HAS broken my recommendations but less so than logging out altogether so could be worse!!

ok further research conducted, the following adblockers are defo detected:

ublock origin

adblock plus

total adblock

adblock

ghostery

adblocker for youtube

adblocker ultimate

adguard adblocker

according to comments seen on reddit the following can also trip it:

enhancer for youtube

vivaldi built in adblocker

i am currently having success with an extension called adlock but it's not proving very effective.

ETA: i use firefox + ublock origin; i've seen a number of people speculating that it's a chrome or chromium issue and sad to say it is not :(

Blooper reel from the talented auditioners at @officialtwistedfandub

Auditions are still open until September 30th 11:59 pm

ok i just wanna check something.... reblog if you've never watched/opened tumblr live

reblog if you’d open a cursed tomb before even considering opening tumblr live

deepsea castle

A word from Big Man

this video is so dangerous why did he put this in the public’s hands. killers can watch it after every kill and be able to get into the kingdom of heaven and then keep killing in heaven all they want

Why Fujimoto have draw him in virgin walk lol

BONUS ROUND!

KAGEYAMA SHIGEO X LAIOS TOUDEN

Obviously I couldn't include all of them, so I tried my best to select the ones I thought were the most popular. If there's another character you feel should be on the list, feel free to mention them in the notes!

how im feeling after the love splatfest

she fucking forgor

They call me millions knives cos that's how many knives it takes me to make a sandwich cos I keep putting them in the fuckin sink

do you read dungeon meshi. have you read dungeon meshi. will you read dungeon meshi. when will you read dungeon meshi

All hail King Laios the three headed, demon eater, dragon slayer, vegetable armored, lord of the dungeon , and devourer of all things horrible