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@eisatem / eisatem.tumblr.com

not 25 // INTP // Kpop (mainly BTS) // Jrock/Visual Kei

butch fatale

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She walked into my office with the swagger of a racecar pit crew boss. From her steel toed boots to her safety glasses, this dame was giving me forklift certified vibes strong enough to shake me loose from my classic depression laced with alcoholism.

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the 5 love languages are:

- Sharing a blunt

- All forms of cooking

- Being incredibly stupid on purpose

- Collaborative hating

- Ignoring things

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder

I know there’s so many more urgent things but if you like this resource you may consider buying me a ko-fi to keep this project alive

Reblogging myself to add that the difference between langblr and other language learning communities is that here I get thousands of notes and people telling me they desire me carnally (side note: please don’t say this to a stranger)

And on other platforms it gets deleted because Piracy Bad :(

I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer’s permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.

what the fuck.

(adding the date in case this post circulates for a while: i’m reblogging it on dec 1 2022 and the reddit thread linked above was posted within the last 24 hours).

a comment on the reddit thread indicates ao3 is aware of the issue and working on it, and asks users not to send additional tickets as these will only clog the system

is there a way to lock all my works to registered users at once?

Yes.

Go to your AO3 page and click the Edit Works button at the top of the page. On the Edit Multiple Works page, click the All button on the top right, and then Edit beneath it.

There will be a list of all your fics, and below that a list of all the edits you might want to make. Any edits you make will override the current tags/data; any fields you leave blank will not change anything.

In the bottom box, one of the sections is “Visibility.” Tick “Only show to registered users.” Then scroll to the very bottom and click Update All Works.

However, I’m not sure how much use it will be, given that the AI is already trained; they might be doing further scraping for data, but they might already have gotten everything they want from AO3.

I can’t tell if you’re saying this will blank out all my tags or that it won’t because I’ll only be editing visibility?

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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it’s back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

  • 12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it’s configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you’ll have to go elsewhere for those.
  • printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don’t work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you’re trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the “element zapper” (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you’re browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you’re just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it’ll revert everything back to its original state.
  • fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft’s restrictions. haven’t used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft’s 451 error but it seems to do the trick.
  • archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)
  • and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

I am once again asking for music reaction YTers (excluding, perhaps, those “expert reactions”, like vocal coaches etc., because their channel concept involves maintaining critical distance) to be classified as sex workers.

“Mhh yeah baby ohh that sounds so good… wow I’ve never heard such a BIG sound… I’m gonna cry this feels so great to listen to… just leave the money on my Patreon on your way out babe.”

It’s so performative. They’re selling the fantasy of someone being as overwhelmed by your penis music taste as your stupid wife friends “should” be. I watched some of those videos a while back and often one of them would react to a song and go “Oh this blew my mind, I definitely have to check them out and listen to more by them”, and half a year later they reacted to another song by the same band and they seemed to be completely new to them. You pay them and get to choose a song they pretend to be overwhelmed by. The parallels to prostitution are just too obvious.

Plus you can’t tell me the musicians aren’t jerking off to those videos. So there’s that.

I love using “good catch”

I also say “thanks for the update” or “thanks for the head’s up!”

“I really appreciate the head’s up!” also a classic

If I haven’t gotten back to someone in a swift enough period (i.e. one work day max) I say “thank you for your patience. after some consideration, I have decided…”

don’t apologize for piddly things! 

thank you > sorry

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I need to remember

thank you > sorry

Thank you for waiting for me > sorry for being late

Thank you for helping me/for your time/for listening to me > sorry for bothering you

Thanking someone when they do you a favour > apologizing for your existence

This is especially hard when you haven’t been taught that people need to respect your limits, but with a bit of practice you can absolutely get there!