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I like art.

@hefty-flyling

I draw a bit and reblog art–tips and memes.
Current obsession: Transformer, Ratchet in particular.
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LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK 

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why do i even try 

I THoUGHT YOU MEANT THE YEAR

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my l0rd, t3h p34s4nt5 4r3 r3v01t1ng! W3 mu5t s411y f0rth 4g41n5t th3m 4thw1th!

Ahh! I’m crying! Leet speak! It’s even more funny to me because i am currently in the process of reading Homestuck and it’s acually really alright! 

We are going to bake a rainbow cake!

Can you teach us how to bake one??

Of course! But keep in mind, this is only our second attempt!

For the cake we are going to bake, you will need the following:

Step 1) Put the sugar and butter into a bowl and mix together until smooth.

Step 2) Mix the eggs and the vanilla extract into the mixture until combined.

[Here you see Pride Knight Roderick cracking an egg]

A one-handed egg crack and baking while wearing helmets…absolute legends

After seeing Wizard Howl cracking eggs with one hand in Howl’s Moving Castle, I just had to practice it!

Step 3) Mix the flour into the mixture until combined. Then separate the mixture equally into six different bowls. After this, put food colouring into it. You don’t need too much of it! (We used about half a teaspoon of each colour) Then stir the colours into the mixture.

Step 4) Grease up some sandwich tins (we used 20cm/8 inch ones) and put one of the coloured mixtures into it. We used two sandwich tins at a time because we could only fit two tins onto a single tray in the oven. You don’t want to put the tins onto different trays because they will cook at different speeds. Then put the tins with the mixture into the middle of the oven at 160°C or 320°F for 15 minutes, swapping each colour out until you have them all done.

Step 5) Once they come out of the oven, you’ll have cakes that look like the photo below! Don’t be worried if your cake looks a bit discoloured, it’s normal as the cake baked while touching the metal tin. We used a bowl as a template to cut around the cake to make it a bit smaller and to show off the vibrant colour!

Step 6) Now lets make the icing! Mix 350g (1.5 cups) of butter, 700g (5.5 cups) of icing sugar, and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract together with an electric whisk until nice and smooth. Be careful, icing sugar can be messy!

Step 7) After the cakes have cooled off, place the first cake layer down (purple) and cover the top with icing. Next place the  blue cake layer on top and again cover the top with icing. Repeat this step for all the colours, next placing green, yellow, orange, and then red. Finish this step by covering the whole cake with icing.

Pride Knight Gareth is putting on the icing now. Look at how focused he is!

We are almost done! Stay tuned for the big reveal!

Im so excited, ive never been this invested in a cake before

We did it!! Who wants a slice?

This is how i know we’re not in hell because these people exist

I love you guys but the cake….it looks a bit messy  🙈

You are right, but all that matters in the end is what is inside

How did a slice of cake become so inspirational, how do you guys manage to make everything so wholesome and affirming?

i love the strange reality of being a human person with a human brain. one time someone said something to me in a foreign language (japanese, which i do not speak) and i automatically responded in a different foreign language (spanish, which i do not speak well) and then we both said "what?" in english, an experience made more surreal by the fact that everyone around us was speaking loudly in canadian french (as this occurred in Quebec)

Announcing JUST LEAVE (A COMMENT FEST), where you have 5 days to leave as MANY comments as possible!! We have themes to give you a starting place, but you're free to comment on whatever you want, as MUCH as you want! Check below for explanations of each themed day and an FAQ

Dec 26th: Do you remember all those fics you were going to leave a comment on when you got the time? Your AO3 history does. Pick at least TEN fics from your history that you never commented on and #JUSTLEAVEACOMMENT

Dec 27th: Statistically less likely to get kudos, comments, and hits, lets give our favorite G and T rated fics some love! Pick at least 5 fics rated G or T you've enjoyed and #JUSTLEAVEacomment!

Dec 28th: Its true: there are FUCKING INCREDIBLE fics out there that because of timing or whatever just NEVER get the attention they deserve. Today, we correct this error! Pick 5 fics with less than 15 comments, read through it if you haven't already and #JUSTLEAVEACOMMENT !

Dec 29th: Writing a multichapter fic is HARD, and who among us does not feel guilty about that unfinished WIP sitting on our works page? Today we give WIPS and multichapter fics some love! Pick your favorite WIPS or multichapters and #JUSTLEAVEacomment on EVERY CHAPTER

Dec 30th: ITS TOTALS DAY EVERYONE! Spend today scrambling to post as many comments as you can anf then post your weekly totals with the hashtag #justleaveacomment! There will ALSO be a super special bonus task for authors to be announced the day of!

FAQ:

This is really cute and i‘m gonna leave lots of comments this year!

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

  • Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
  • Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
  • In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
  • In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
  • In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
  • Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!