twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right
oh my other big dm tip is just. your campaign isn't about you and your cool plot. it's about your players and how to have fun as a group. if your plot doesn't incorporate your players and give them agency, it isn't an engaging plot.
my big player tip is: your dm is hosting a story for you. be willing to engage in it to the best of your ability.
it goes both ways. a dm should build their story to be told through the players and the players should be enthusiastic about engaging in that story.
i just simply think of a campaign's story can be told by replacing the entire party with different characters then it's probably not a great campaign. like yes modules exist and etc etc. but also modules work best when you CONNECT your character to the module's plot and your dm engages with it.
like. if you could put your character into any other game with no changes to their story or you could replace your entire party in the game your dming with other characters and everything would be the same then. that's not engaging. sorry.
freshman year of college I (a simple lesbian) met a gay dude and we instantly clicked and started talking about our childhoods and stuff and discovered we were born in the same hospital on the same day so we became each other's beards and watched hentai together every weekend
I was born on an American Military installation in Germany just after the fall of The Wall. According to my mom there were only 3 or 5 other babies in the same hospital on that day
sometimes I think "huh, only 5 people. Maybe it wouldn't be that hard to find them" but then I remember that doing that would involve more detail than the already kinda dicey amount I just gave and think Maybe its not worth doxxing myself over
we are gonna be vacuuming up this post for the next five years
It almost looked like they threw a fish upwards into water (the shadowiness of their hand) & it swam off causing a splash of glitter.
Yes Elon is bad at running Twitter. It should be noted that he is more than likely intentionally tanking the value of Twitter, so he can declare bankruptcy. He must do this while looking like he's doing his best.
Remember, all this happened because he joked on Twitter about buying Twitter to temporarily spike his Twitter stock. This is blatantly insider trading, and the sort of thing the SEC loves punishing people for.
This put Elon in a tricky place. He could say he was joking, and risk getting investigated by the SEC. Or he could double down, and actually buy Twitter to prove he wasn't lying to boost his stock price. These were both horrible options for Elon. But being investigated by the SEC is the type of thing that rich people have nightmares about.
So he was forced to buy Twitter. He could not afford Twitter. So he was forced to engage in a leveraged buyout, meaning he had to pay a big chunk of the check in Tesla stock. This was a shit deal for Elon. Twitter was well known for essentially being at the peak of it's profitability, and the previous owners were looking for a nice exit. They were happy to sell the company to Elon for what was probably the highest price tag Twitter would ever have.
What this meant for Elon, was he had just used several billion dollars of his actually profitable company, and had to tie it's ankles to a company that would only drop in value. (and a company he had no idea how to run.) If Twitter drowns, Tesla does too.
His only way out is to tank Twitters value so the company can declare bankruptcy, sell off the assets, and stop bleeding money. But he can't LOOK like he's doing that ON PURPOSE for the same reason that he had to double down on buying Twitter in the first place: the SEC is very scary.
i learned that in India, there is a species of giant squirrel that have multicoloured fur, with with varying shades of orange, maroon and purple. Their bodies measure 36in from head to tail – double the size of their grey relatives – and they can leap 20ft between trees (x)
aproclivityforgayshit
Some more pictures of these funky dudes cause they’re so pretty
Oh, and they’re very cleverly called Indian giant squirrels or Malabar giant squirrels
They look like heat-treated steel!
See?
Pls do not reblog anything with the old disability pride flag, it does cause seizure and migraines, please use the new one which was created by the same person with the feedbacks of many other disabled people.
This is the safe one:
Dont use the zigzag one, your making disabled space inaccessible for a part of the community.
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my dad knows what yuri is because at a museum he used to work at he was trying to organize some event about Yuri Gagarin and im still not over the mental image of my 50 year old father sitting down at his computer at work and googling "yuri images" fully expecting to see black and white photos of the russian cosmonaut and just seeing anime girls kissing instead
now would be the absolute funniest time for tumblr to unban porn
The art he used
P.s: I think I never heard/read him directly calling Cas gay, each time he called ot homosexual declaration of love it was the meaning of this but also people could say Gas is bi and some saw him on Ace spectrum, here he is saying directly Cas is GAY.
True; but you can also be gay and Ace.
Yes, and, this? This is actually what an “if you liked that, maybe you’ll like this!” algorithm is trying to replicate, in its own clumsy way. The basic idea is that, if you like Thing X, then you may like other things that people who liked Thing X also liked.
Only the algorithm has no actual reasoning ability, or understanding of what it’s doing--it’s just wandering around bumping into things, looking for patterns that sorta match. Like a sack of ferrets tracking a scent trail through a department store, and the store is trying to tell you that the ferrets are highly skilled personal shoppers.
AO3, on the other hand, is set up so that you can find out directly from other human beings who like Thing X, what else they liked. It probably wouldn’t work in a department store--hence the sack-of-ferrets system--but fandom is a gift economy, so it does.
A further variant on this is to see who bookmarked the stories you love, and investigate their bookmarks. If they seem reliably appealing to you and they're being actively updated, you can also periodically check in on their bookmarks to see what's new.
[Image description: A Twitter thread by sen (@SenLinYuWrites) that reads “I have been reading fanfic for decades. I am going to tell you the secret to finding good stuff without an algorithm.
- Find a fic you fucking love, like everything about it hits your buttons, writing, characterization, tropes, kinks, ending, etc.
- Read everything written by that author regardless of the stats, since they've already proven themselves to write stories you like.
- When you've read all of their stories, go to their bookmarks. They probably read the same quality and kinds stuff they like to write.
- Find a story in the bookmarks you fucking love, like everything about it hits your buttons, writing, characterization, tropes, kinks, ending, etc.
- Return to step 2.
- Repeat ad infinitum.” end description.]
ok, with Muskrat fucking Twitter over like a nail-spiked dildo without lube, it probably wouldn't be that hard for some other less sucky rich person to buy it back at a huge mark down the same way This beautiful hellsite did, and maybe just maybe, get all the people that were wrongfully fired back and take some 3 to 4 years to undo a years worth of entitled rich kid fuckery
Is it likely to happen?
No
Musk would rather burn the place down and piss on the ashes and tell everyone it was all on purpose, then watch his fanboys roll around in the mess as they praise his name
but it's not impossible and twitter can not be worth that much right now
what your favorite Tolkien ship says about you
Sam/Frodo - looking back on your childhood, you can pinpoint Lord of the Rings as the beginning of your crippling addiction to soft gay cottagecore
Aragorn/Legolas - you still have that poster of Orlando Bloom from a tiger beat magazine that you taped to your bedroom wall when you were 10
Legolas/Gimli - you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of height differences
Aragorn/Boromir - you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of dying tragically, like if you cry every time
Aragorn/Arwen - your ideal date involves being carried off into the sunset by a buff man who drinks nothing but respect women juice
Eowyn/Faramir - you spend your days panhandling outside Peter Jackson’s house for footage of the deleted wedding scene
Eowyn/Merry - you saw Eowyn stabbing the witch king and you were like, “god I wish that were me”
Arwen/Eowyn - your ideal relationship dynamic is just girls being friends, gals being pals
Elrond/Celebrian - you just want good things for Elrond, and really, who wouldn’t?
Galadriel/Celeborn - you were thrilled when “Barbie is everything, he’s just Ken” became the hot new meme
Sam/Rosie - you are heterosexual
Galadriel/Sauron - you are extremely heterosexual
Bilbo/Thorin - you have written at least one fix-it fic where Thorin and Bilbo raise baby Frodo together
Thranduil/Bard - you’re just here for the dilfs
Thranduil/Thorin - your ideal relationship dynamic is that one meme that’s like “fuck you” “fuck me yourself, you coward”
Melkor/Sauron - your addiction to edgy boys got so bad that one day you were like “hey you know what’s better than one edgy boy? two edgy boys”
Maedhros/Fingon - you have a thirty page google doc citing HoME quotes that you incest—I mean insist—are proof that Maedhros and Fingon are Gil-galad’s true parents
Fëanor/Nerdanel - you have gotten into at least three heated internet arguments with people who think Fëanor is a fascist
Celebrimbor/Annatar - your ideal date involves getting pinned up against the wall by your sworn enemy as they place the tip of their sword just underneath your chin and then use it to tilt your head up a little
Celebrimbor/Narvi - half of you are coming here from shipping gimleaf, half of you just want Annatar to get eiffel towered
Túrin/Beleg - you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of the “I’ll cut your throat” “you’re beautiful” scene from Princess Mononoke
Haleth/Caranthir - you’re always a slut for MEN! GETTING! PEGGED!
Glorfindel/Ecthelion - your ideal relationship dynamic is verified himbo, certified morosexual
Maglor/Daeron - you are a film believer in the inherent eroticism of dramatic breakup songs
Beren/Lúthien - you are J. R. R. Tolkien
My favourite thing about the latest Twitter meltdown is all the artists reanimating their dead Tumblr accounts today and immediately being greeted with hundreds of notes because even a Tumblr account they literally have not posted to in 3–5 years has more active and engaged followers than the Twitter account that they've been updating daily.
WHAT IS HE FUCKING DOING
I need the Twitter refugees to know that we, the Tumblr natives, mean you no harm.
And don't mind the reddit refugees either.
They also mean you no harm.
Careful, though.
You try and start Twitter discourse here and you might see some teeth.
sunstone 8 nearing completion and with its end the next part of this tale begins, the crimson era and with it comes marion and things get very messy