resources for staying safe online
always important, but i feel like especially recently. particularly stuff that’s a bit more than just the usual “don’t post personal info”
feel free to share this post on twitter or anywhere else, staying safe is important
- justdeleteme.xyz - direct links to delete accounts
- how a photo’s hidden exif data exposes your personal information
- have i been pwned? - check if your accounts have been compromised in a data breach. CHANGE ANY ACCOUNT THAT USES THE SAME EMAIL AND PASSWORD
- online harassment field manual
- form for removing personal information from google (for the eu), see also: “remove your personal information from google”
- extreme privacy: what it takes to disappear (personal data removal workbook)
- filter lists for ublock origin, and more
- restore privacy - online privacy resources center
- privacytools.io
- online spyware watchdog
- how secure is your password?
- defensive computing checklist
- cloudflare dns
- non-technical tips on staying anonymous
- webrtc leak shield - chrome, firefox
- web safety tutorials by the electronic frontier foundation
- crash override network - resources for victims of doxing and online harassment
note: very slightly updated, reblog this version instead
hey! what's the mandarin term for bisexual? does or have any cool etymology? are there any modern/youthful slang terms (such as P/T) for other lgbt people? just curious. thanks!
Bisexual is 双性恋, or just “双”. 双 means two so it’s basically the exact same meaning as “bisexual”.
I guess since you asked, I’ll just go through some basic/popular terminology real quick:
General terms:
- 同性恋 (tóng xìng liàn) = homosexual ; homosexuality
- 同志 (tóng zhì) = (lit.) comrade; (slang) gay/homosexual
- You can add “男” (male) or “女” (female) in front of either of these two phrases to specify gay vs lesbian.
- 酷儿 (kù'er) = (loanword) queer
- A lot of general modern LGBT terminology is borrowed from the west, i.e, “出柜” (chū guì ; to come out of the closet" or 弯 (wān; “bent”); 直 (zhí; straight).
Lesbian
- 女同性恋 (nǚ tóng xìng liàn)/女同(志) (nǚ tóng zhì)/ 拉拉 (lā lā) / 百合 (bǎi hé; “lily”)
- P = 婆 (pó; “wife)/femme
- T = Tomboy/butch
- H = "half”, or 不分 (“doesn’t separate”) = a lesbian who doesn’t differentiate these categories or doesn’t identify with either P nor T
Gay
- 男同性恋 (nán tóng xìng liàn)/男同(志) (nán tóng zhì)
- EDIT bc I forgot: 基友 (jī you3) meaning “gay partner” or “close samesex friend” (often for servicemen/firemen/police) is also a common term
- 零 (líng; 0); 受 (shòu ) = bottom
- 一 (yī ; 1); 攻 (gōng)= top
- 0.5, 10, 可攻可受 (kě gōng kě shòu), 兼备 (jiān bèi) = versatile
- There’s a lot of numbers involved. If you see stuff like 101 or 001 etc these are just referring to the “roles” in a threesome, etc. Numbers are sometimes also used for lesbians, where T = 1, P = 0, and H = 0.5, but I feel like this is less common. The thinking is a little binary in this regard but adherence to this ~structure~ is really case by case, just as it is in the west with tops vs bottoms in LGBT culture.
Within P/T/0/1/etc slang, there are also adjectives that may be added in front of these classifiers. Ex: 肌肉0 (muscular bottom); 公0 (manly bottom), 大母/母0或大母1 (effeminate bottom or effeminate top); 铁T (iron butch; basically super/manly butch)… It’s all really arbitrary stuff, sort of like “twink” and “bear” and all that.
Bisexual: 双性恋, 双 (shuāng).
Pansexual: 泛性恋 (fàn xìng liàn) (泛 is a transliteration of “pan-” and has the same meaning of ‘general’ or 'extensive’).
Nonbinary: 非二元 (fēi èr yuán) (“non” “binary” direct translation)
Genderqueer: 性别酷儿 (xìng bié kù'er) (“gender” “queer” direct translation)
[Anecdotally I would speculate that “pansexual”, “nonbinary” and “genderqueer” are not popular self-designations as I have never seen them being used online outside of LGBT resource literature taken from the west]
Transgender: 跨性别 (kuà xìng bié) (跨 means “to step across” or “to straddle”)
Asexual: 无性恋 (wú xìng liàn) (无 means “not to have” or “no”/“lacking”)
Misc
- 第四爱 (dì sì ài; “the fourth love”) sometimes gets brought up in discussion of LGBT terms (although by western standards, it’s really completely unrelated). It sort of has a broad meaning but usually it just refers to pegging with a female top and male bottom. I think this might be more of a term from fiction because it’s often brought up with other fictional concepts like Alpha and Omega.
www hollywoodreporter com/business/business-news/the-cw-for-sale-warnermedia-viacomcbs-1235070616 -> Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't want to sound like that anon but would you mind explaining like I was five, please? 🙇
It’s mostly a good thing. The jist is the buyer will be a third partner in charge of distribution after they kicked Netflix to the curb.
Like you’re five?
Your parents, mommy WB and daddy CBS, got together and had you, CW, to sell lemonade to the neighborhood kids.
But it’s not an ordinary lemonade stand. See, the drinks are made with lemons only from mommy and daddy, not lemons from ABC and NBC, nor from Sony and Comcast. Mommy and daddy doesn’t care how many lemonades you sell, but how long you can keep selling their lemonades (Me: it’s called tax evasions). Then after you sell lemonades for 4 years, then mommy and daddy re-sell the same lemonades to sugar-daddy Syndication.
But because you’re a smart cookie you did 3 things:
- First, you changed the ingredients in the lemonade that both the neighborhood kids and their foreign friends would like.
- Second, because they’re kids you know that a lot of them don’t want to come to your lemonade stand to buy the drinks, so you sell the lemonade to another lemonade stand Netflix because that’s where the kids are.
- Third, create another lemonade stand called Apps for kids in another neighborhood.
While you’re making money for mommy and daddy selling popular lemonades to other lemonade stands, your mommy marries Discovery and your daddy marries Viacom.
Your parents and step-parents stops you from selling most of the lemonades to Netflix, because they want the drinks at their own lemonade stands, HBOMax and Paramount+ to attract and keep $ubscribers.
Then your parents bring an uncle name NexStar to the family dinner table.
WB & CBS: CW, uncle NexStar here is joining the family and they’re going help sell our lemonades.
CW: Okay, cool…but is uncle NexStar going also sell lemonades made by ABC, NBC, Fox, or by Disney in my lemonade stands?
NextStar: Maybe yes, maybe no. But in the meantime, lets talk about your own lemonade stands called App and Seed and all those lemonades still there.
Some of Zhou Zishu’s ways of addressing Wen Kexing:
温客行 (Wēn Kè Xíng)
蠢货 (chǔnhuò) - idiot
祸害 (huòhài) - it means disaster (because WKX is talking about “getting dragged into a disaster”) but it also means scourge, bane, burden, so someone who is a thorn in one’s flesh XD (youtube translated it as “a trouble”)
温大善人 (Wēn dà shànrén) - Philanthropist Wen
温公子 (Wēn gōngzǐ) - Master Wen
朋友 (péngyǒu) - friend
知己 (zhījǐ) - soulmate (or like some like to call it “bosom friend” XD)
温兄 (Wēn xiōng) - brother Wen (兄 - is a corteous form of address between male friends)
老温 (lǎo Wēn) - 老 is added before the surnames of acquaintances or friends to indicate intimacy or informality
温三岁 (Wēn sān suì) - three-year-old Wen
师弟 (shīdì) - Junior Martial Brother
我甄家弟弟 (wǒ Zhēn jiā dìdì) - my brother Zhen
我堂堂温谷主 (wǒ tángtáng Wēn gǔ zhǔ) - my mighty Valley Master Wen
你是我的人 (nǐ shì wǒ de rén) - you are my person
Some of Zhou Zishu’s ways of addressing Wen Kexing:
温客行 (Wēn Kè Xíng)
蠢货 (chǔnhuò) - idiot
祸害 (huòhài) - it means disaster (because WKX is talking about “getting dragged into a disaster”) but it also means scourge, bane, burden, so someone who is a thorn in one’s flesh XD (youtube translated it as “a trouble”)
温大善人 (Wēn dà shànrén) - Philanthropist Wen
温公子 (Wēn gōngzǐ) - Master Wen
朋友 (péngyǒu) - friend
知己 (zhījǐ) - soulmate (or like some like to call it “bosom friend” XD)
温兄 (Wēn xiōng) - brother Wen (兄 - is a corteous form of address between male friends)
老温 (lǎo Wēn) - 老 is added before the surnames of acquaintances or friends to indicate intimacy or informality
温三岁 (Wēn sān suì) - three-year-old Wen
师弟 (shīdì) - Junior Martial Brother
我甄家弟弟 (wǒ zhēn jiā dìdì) - my brother Zhen
我堂堂温谷主 (wǒ tángtáng Wēn gǔ zhǔ) - my mighty Valley Master Wen
你是我的人 (nǐ shì wǒ de rén) - you are my person
Christian Samurais: More Likely Than You Think
When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1549 they brought Christianity with Jesuit missionaries. During this period Japan was in a period of civil war known as the Sengoku era where several warlords were in conflict with each other for control of Japan. Unsurprisingly, many samurais - particularly ronins who did not serve a master of their own - adopted Christianity choosing Jesus as their lord instead. Curiously, many of these samurais did not share the same common practices as their fellow warriors like seppuku where they committed ritualistic suicide to restore their honor because suicide is a sin and instead they fought to the death. The most well-known of them are Dom Justo Takayama who is on his way of becoming the first Japanese saint recognized by the Catholic Church, and Amakusa Shiro, who is revered as an folk saint by Japanese Roman Catholics.
Explain? Please?
1. Battle Angel Alita manga gains popularity outside of Japan
2. James Cameron reads said manga
3. Cameron, hot off a successful movie run, is inspired while at the same time wanting to create a show
4. Creates and writes show Dark Angel, casting Jensen Ackles in a reoccurring supporting role
5. Show about genetically enhanced characters features “heat” as something characters go through
6. Show gets canceled after 2 seasons. Jensen Ackles is now unemployed.
7. Supernatural airs 3 years later, with Jensen Ackles as the main character
8. RPF becomes massively popular for the show to avoid the main incest pairing with canon characters
9. Fanfic AU inspired by Ackle’s stint on Dark Angel morphs multiple existing tropes, creating first official ABO (omegaverse) story for Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki
10. Omegaverse becomes wildly popular, spreading across multiple fandoms and variations
11. Omegaverse novels begin to get published, including by Addison Cain and Zoey Ellis who both wrote het omegaverse novels
12. Cain files DMCA against Ellis, with Cain claiming to have invented het omegaverse
13. Lawsuit finds its way to court, becoming the Omegaverse Litigation case, and bringing omegaverse to the public’s knowledge
For those who didn't know Jared and Jensen pair was the first official omegaverse.
Write it down please! Thank you
You can’t tell me the finger touch in last night’s episode wasn’t added by Jensen to comfort Jared. You can tell they broke character for the whole scene. It looks just like the finger thingy J2 do at cons while trying to be covert about it. You know what I’m talking about. And things like this is why in the back of my head I’ll always believe J2 have /something/ together.
Oh absolutely.
Hell yes 🥰
J2 and their fingers forever.
10 Baby Facts for SPN Fic Authors
[I swear this is not a rant - it ISN’T. Honest.]
It is actually kind of cool to realize that you possess specialty knowledge that may be of use to others. Stuff that you didn’t really KNOW you knew, until, of course, you are reading along in a fic and something the author describes (or the character says) brings your brain to a screeching halt. “That’s not right – it can’t possibly happen that way…” And then you go and do actual research to back up your gut knowledge. This little FAQ is the result of one such realization.
My dad fixed antique and classic cars for a living from 1964 – 1978, owning his own showroom for 3 years near the end of that time. Born in 1966, I grew up playing in old cars, hiding in floorboards and exploring them to my heart’s content. Our family car for several years was a 1966 Thunderbird, but when dad went to car shows, we rode in whatever he wanted to show off. I’ve been in rumble seats, hard top convertibles, cars with windshields that laid down flat, and cars with no roof, doors, or walls of any kind. My 1st car was a fully restored 1966 mustang. Without really realizing it, I soaked up a LOT of inherent understandings about older cars. The information below is based in that knowledge, backed up with some internet research.
The following is true about Baby (the character in SPN, not necessarily the actual cars that play her):
1) Compared to most modern sedans, Baby is BIG. Like REALLY BIG. She is 17 and ¾ feet long (5.4 meters) and 7 feet 8 inches wide (2.03 meters). Allowing for door thickness on either side and the gaps between doors and bench seat, I’m betting the front seat is a little over 5 feet wide. Given basic geometry and human skeletal limitations, this means it is not possible for the passenger to have their head resting against the passenger door/window AND place their hand on the driver’s thigh. If the passenger is in this position, the driver can, at best, entwine fingers with the passenger’s outstretched hand. That’s IT (even with Sam’s monkey arms). Sitting up straight, yes. Slumped over, no. On the plus side, this is why the guys can, in fact, get some sleep in her (and have fun in the back seat).
2) Despite how big Baby is, she is kinda short. Baby is only 54 inches high (4’6” or 138 cm). INSIDE the car, she is slightly less than 4 feet tall total. This means that the following actions WILL make you bump your head (or butt or hands or feet) on the ceiling unless you are very very slow and careful: climbing over the back seat, straddling someone’s lap, taking off your pants or t-shirt (unless nearly lying down in the seat), and lunging across the front bench seat to attack someone bodily. And you will look graceless doing it. [Ahem, trust me on these, I KNOW.] Additional negative modifiers for Sam due to height.
More below the cut.
I GOT TO 32 AND SCREAMED!! LMFAO!!
We really need to throw the whole internet away at this point….
I FUCKING HATE Y'ALL 😂😂😂😭😭
I. AM. WHEEZING. 😂😂😂
Childhood ruined
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Tammy Garcia Breaks Her Silence
Mother of Boy Bander Breaks Her Silence, Implicates Disney, CAA, Hollywood Records, LAPD, DA & Industry Elite… Hollywood only wants certain stories to be told. The stories where underage kids are plied with alcohol at the homes of glittery celebrities, like Chris Pratt and Anna Faris, and then sexually abused by adults in the industry aren’t stories anyone in tinsel town wants you to hear. Stories about how Disney knowingly allows their underage stars to be surrounded by predators, and that their executives know about, witness, and even partake in child sex abuse aren’t stories they ever want the world to hear. Tammy Garcia has a story Hollywood doesn’t want you to hear… And today, I am humbled and honored to bring you her story. There is only one way to end the sexual abuse of children that is systemic in Hollywood, and that’s to fully expose it, naming not just the perpetrators, but those who knew, and those who covered it up, no matter how powerful. We need to be brave on behalf of all the children who have been and who are right now being abused.
Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle
I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..
if this comes up on my dash and i don’t reblog it - just assume im dead
Awesome
CON TIPS ONE STOP SHOP MASTER POST!
With con season about to kick into full swing, I thought now was a good opportunity to bring together lots of information into one big master post, highlighting this blog’s most asked questions, as well as information on how to get the best from the SPNcon tips tumblr.
HOW TO USE SPNCON TIPS
This blog has a FAQ section which will help you find answers and tips about the most asked questions.
Here is the link to FAQs: http://spncontips.tumblr.com/tagged/faqs
Here is the link to the TAGS page to find tagged posts about specific topics: http://spncontips.tumblr.com/tags
In addition there is a TAGS search engine on the home page of this blog.
You can also just browse through the blog, and see if you can find your question answered, or just read other peoples questions to get more general information about cons.
LINKS MASTER POST
I have pulled together a bunch of links and information for some of the questions that I get asked the most.
Below is a whole lot of stuff that might help you navigate conlife!
CONVENTION INFORMATION
Your first stop should always be the convention organiser’s online site. You will most likely find your question answered there. From guests booked and the day they will be featured, to ticket prices, package inclusions, information about schedules and when they will be available, convention organisers contact details, cast contact details - pretty much everything you will need will be there. So before you come to the con tips tumblr, head there first.
On the Creation site, you also have the benefit of there being multiple pages for different conventions, which you can look at for price references etc.
Here are the links that will help you find information on specific cons, plus the Twitter accounts of the convention companies:
Creation (Nth America/Canada/UK) https://www.creationent.com/
Starfury (Crossroads UK) http://www.seanharry.com/events/crossroads/
Jus in Bello (JIB Rome) http://www.jusinbello.it/
The Hub (All Hell Breaks Loose Australia) http://www.thehubproductions.com/
Purgatory (Germany) https://www.purgatory-con.de/english/
DarkLight Con (Paris) http://www.people-convention.com/en/pages/next-events/dlc.html
For a calendar of upcoming conventions, check out the Supernatural Wiki
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS LINKS
Here are links to posts about some of the questions I get asked the most
CREATION - AUCTIONS: WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW TO BID
CREATION - AUCTION RESULTS - HOW MUCH DID AUCTIONS COST
CREATION - MEET AND GREETS - WHAT THEY ARE
CREATION - PRE REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION AND TICKET RE-UPPING (FOR GOLD)
CREATION - SCHEDULE EXAMPLES
CREATION - ASKING A QUESTION IN A PANEL
CREATION - PHOTO OPS PRINTS AND JPEG ORDERING
CREATION - VIP INFORMATION
CREATION FAQs
CREATION VENDOR INFO
GUIDE TO JIB
2019 BOOKING INFO
GUIDE TO SAN DIEGO COMIC CON (SDCC)
FACEBOOK GROUPS
BUYING/SELLING TICKETS
SUPERNATURAL CAST AND CREW MAILING ADDRESSES
CONVENTION CHECK LIST
PHOTO OP TIPS/EXPERIENCES
LOOKING AFTER YOURSELF DURING CON CRAZINESS
PAST CON PRICES
If you still can’t find your answer or just need some advise, just send your question to the ask box http://spncontips.tumblr.com/ask
Have fun at the cons, everyone!
-sweetondean
How to pack efficiently a lesson from Mr Jensen Ackles. FIRST OF ALL SEEING JENSEN IN WHITE PANTS LIKE GOD FUCKEN DAMN 🤤🤤🤤. Credit to @s_verasani_new













