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Reblog if you're comfortable receiving crabs on Crab Day (July 29th) so all your beloved followers know who they can comfortably crab on crab day (July 29th) without feeling nervous about crabbing someone 9n Crab Day (July 29th).
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Any of you guys using mastodon? I've been persuaded to try signing up
I'm kind.social/@JupiterMelichios if any of you feel like following me over there!
Disclaimer: this is just for fun and no hate is meant. It's also purely about the name, not the ship. I don't care which ship you hate most, I care which has the worst smushname
* I feel like I to explain this one. The characters have names, but they're androids and also have serial numbers. If they're part of the same product line, people add together the serial numbers, so RK1000 is a ship between an RK100 Android and an RK900 Android. Other ships include RK1700 (RK900/RK800) and RK1600 (RK800/RK800)
#it is fine and normal and morally neutral#but this post has forced me to think about the fact that no i don't#and yet i have just finished writing a 250k fic in which it's a recurring plot point#which is totally unrelated to my previous 50k fic in which actual cannibalism sex happened#why is my brain like this?
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
i see this take so often, i have genuinely lost any ability to tell if people are joking, or if they just really have never spent even 5 minutes researching how and where vfx actually gets made
yes, vfx artists in the USA should unionise. basically every profession should unionise. but that would not stop the use of vfx in movies. it probably wouldn't impact it at all, in fact
because 90%+ of it isn't done in the USA
cgi is the one aspect of film-making that can be very easily exported to another country without any impact on the film-making process. cgi artists don't need to be in the same country as the filming location, they don't need to work collaboratively with the other film-makers the way most jobs in the industry do. yes there is collaboration, but it's with the other vfx artists, or it's weekly meetings with the director, art director or studio to check what they're making is in line with the concept art. that can be done over zoom, or by phone with very little difficulty.
the bulk of vfx art isn't being done in the USA, even for the big US based houses, it's done in malaysia, korea, china, india
there's also a lot of freelancers, and non-contract employees, in the industry which makes labor organising harder, even if forming a union would uncomplicatedly fix the problem, rather than just pushing even more of the work overseas
again, I am not saying they shouldn't unionise, they should, (and so should vfx artists around the world, and so should the games industry which has a lot of crossover with movie vfx) but it's not the panacea y'all seem to think it is
(also, do not believe the internet when it tells you how much of modern movies are cgi, it's usually wildly wrong. I saw people on this hellsite angry that black panther 2 got a best costumes oscar nomination because 'all the costumes are cgi anyway'. literally none of the costumes in that movie were cgi, they were incredible works of art that very skilled craftsmen spent hundreds of hours of work on so that they'd move correctly both on land and underwater, and it fully deserved the nomination. there absolutely is an over realiance on cgi, but it's nothing like as bad as weirdos who refuse to use google want to tell you it is)
(also also the mcu has the symptoms of a lot of the big problems in hollywood right now, but it is the cause of none of them. that's not how creating art works. the problem is late stage capitalism and the studio system, and the mcu ending tomorrow would have 0 impact on either.)
#obligatory tag because otherwise i'll get get people acusing me of being a “stan”#black panther 2 is mostly not a good film#the script editting and a lot of the performances are pretty shit tbh#but the costumes are incredible#hollywood is fucked#stop blaming one franchise for industry wide problems#but then that would require people to confront the fact that most of them don't actually give a fuck about cgi#they just like hating popular things#and no this isn't me defending the mcu#it's produced some good movies and it's produced some absolute shit#and it's getting worse with time#but it's still a product of the system not the cause#and it's definitely not the first blockbuster franchise to overuse cgi#(that would be the bayformers movies)#and it does not contain the first movie to replace sets with cgi#(that was sin city)
this Resoundingly Bad Title, found in a goodwill
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[ID: A small, square book on a bookshelf, featuring a picture of a man, woman, and horse. The man’s part of the picture is torn apart from the woman and horse. The book is, concerningly, titled “Dump Him, Marry the HORSE! - Why a Horse is a Better Match Than a Man”]
Disclaimer: this is just for fun and no hate is meant. It's also purely about the name, not the ship. I don't care which ship you hate most, I care which has the worst smushname
* I feel like I to explain this one. The characters have names, but they're androids and also have serial numbers. If they're part of the same product line, people add together the serial numbers, so RK1000 is a ship between an RK100 Android and an RK900 Android. Other ships include RK1700 (RK900/RK800) and RK1600 (RK800/RK800)
#polls#shipping#ship wars#but the fun kind#celestribra is fine until you realise it looks like a wonder bra competitor name#also shout out to invader zim and yugioh for having the most imcomprehensible ship naming systems#I can only do 10 options#and i don't have the patience to run a bracket#so honorable mentions to Tuna#Fuck#and Flomas#also to danror purely because it edged out the objectively better niteschach
yes yes i know a chapter should end at wherever the author feels is appropriate of course or just however much they want to write, I'm asking how much are you, a reader, most comfortable reading for a single chapter. Like if I had a 250k fic fully written out would you prefer I divide it into five 50k word chapters or fifty chapters all about 5k in size?
This is just one person's opinion, but I think the most important thing is finding a length/stopping point that allows the chapter to have a good punchy ending.
For me as a writer, that's usually in the 3-7k range, I find less than that doesn't give me enough time to tell a satisfying narrative, and longer than that I end up pulling in too many different ideas and it gets kind of messy and it's hard to get a satisfying conclusion, but there are writers who can make the most impactful 1k word chapters you've ever read, and writers who craft amazing detailed 20k chapters. Every writer is different, but I do think most writers, or at least most stories, have a rhythm to them where the natural stopping points are at semi-regular intervals.
you just never really know
lot going on in here
"what do you mean there's going to be a new pope? When the pope dies, doesn't the world end?"
To this day, I still have no idea what she meant by that, or who she thinks the pope is...
(5/5 I 34,987 I Explicit I Steddie)
Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth.
(it's possible i've already rec'd this but it doesn't matter. because it's brilliant. and it will be a classic. one of the fics that people recommend to new readers as a must.)
you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,
Anonymous asked:
ALL timkon recs I BEG
hello hi! here are some of my favs! it got long so putting some under the cut
💄 Lipstick on the glass by @cairoscene read for timkon being soft and goofy and disgustingly in love, set in vague future college-y years with amazing core four dynamics too. cair is one of the funniest people to ever exist and we are so blessed that they decided to write some timkon. (also read for my own greatest contribution to literature, the fictional “jerry the void nexus” meme)
🎢 been a number and a name by @wynterstars i had SO MUCH FUN reading this one, a 90s comics-divergent AU where robin and superboy become friends—and crushes—when superboy is pretty new on the scene. feat. lex luthor being terrible, tim staging a rescue operation that at one point involves platform shoes and a blonde wig, spice girls references, and fantastic action sequences. it’s also a series, with an installment focusing on kon & clark, and a currently updating longfic sequel with SO MANY timkon identity shenanigans (my beloved) and kon feelings (also my beloved).
📸 the surveillance series by @smilebackwards i feel like i rec this all the time but it’s because it’s THAT GOOD. a tim-centric AU where tim joins the family late, but is still involved in bat business without the bats realizing. there’s some fun timkon identity shenanigans at the top, and some of my all-time favorite tim characterization (ruthless! lonely! brilliant!) plus a great tim & bruce arc, too.
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Ships: Stiles/Derek, McCall pack bonding, Stiles & Erica bromance
Tags: creature!Stiles, shapeshifter!Stiles, I poured water into season 2 to see where it leaked and plugged the holes with greek mythology and this fic was the result, this isn’t technically a vampire AU but there sure is a lot of sexy blood drinking going on, (there’s also some light cannibalism, but that’s not sexy unless you’re into that sort of thing)
When he says nothing, Peter studies his face, like he’s looking for something, and sighs. “You haven’t figured it out yet, have you?” Derek’s too tired for Peter’s games. “Figured what out?” “That you’re in love with Stiles.”
Cryptozoologist!Eddie & Park Ranger/ Secret Cryptid!Steve oneshot — Rated E, 16k
Here’s a silly goofy gross thing I wrote. I don’t know how to tumblr anymore so forgive me but I thought I’d try my hand posting here, too.
just once, before riverdale is over, i want something nice to happen to kevin
just one thing
i doesn't even have to be a big thing!
while in general i adore all the riverdale costume choices, and i want to give everyone in the wardrobe department a kiss on the forehead for their incredible work in the field of deranged women's fashion
i am deeply disappointed that we get an entire subplot about betty discovering sexy lingerie, and they're too cowardly to put her in a bullet bra
why are tv & movie costumiers all convinced audiences will balk at the sight of pe-90s lingerie?
love that this season being set in the 1950s has done nothing to decrease the insanity of the blossom family's costumes
honestly scott and isaac were very homo.
watching a deleted scene from 3a and scott asks isaac if he's living out of his lacrosse locker after seeing a bunch of clothes in it. isaac tells him he's living at derek's.
mind you he is changing the entire time.
scott than asks where he's sleeping and isaac goes:
"on the floor. it's a good floor. it's flat and hard. well flat and hard."
*prolonged eye contact*
my dudes. my guys. all the homo to you.
another deleted scene is scott asking to give isaac a ride
and
#i've never been able to make up my mind if scott's into it/being deliberately gay#isaac is#obviously#especially once scott's an alpha#isaac's sexuality is exclusively people who could throw him through a brick wall and then kiss him better afterwards#he is here to cause problems and get topped#and i respect that clarity of purpose#i was just never sure if scott knew why Isaac stared at him all the time#or if he just thinks they're bros
hey, can you make an original post version of your "ao3 is not going to just go dark" reblog? i want to reblog it but i don't want to reblog all the panic preceeding it since its a good chance people won't necessarily scroll to the bottom. thanks!
Hi! Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you, but I've created a new post with just my additions and tagged you in it 😊
@jughead-is-canonically-aroace (great url btw) asked me to make my additions to this post rebloggable on their own. for reference if anyone wants it, this is a pretty good write up of the whole ongoing situation
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Having read the thread, along with a number of other connected threads, there is no reason the believe AO3 is going to go down
(that's not to say you shouldn't back up your own fics, or save copies of other people's fics for personal use, it's always a good idea to have backups)
the linked thread is discussing institutional problems with OTW's Legal and Policy & Abuse committees (although the latter primarily in the ways the thread's author believes they are being negatively impacted by legal)
It's primarily a conversation about the OTW having structural problems and being slow to react/change when needed, but three accusations of specific breaches of the law which could get the OTW into trouble are made:
- That the OTW does not retain works PAC identify as containing CSAM/CSEM for the legal minimum period of 90 days
- That the OTW suspends rather than deletes the accounts of those identifies as being under 13 so that they can restore the account once the user is over the minimum user age, which is a breach of COPPA
- Same as above, but this is a breach of GDPR
None of these could get AO3 taken down, and 2 of them are provably untrue
Systems have confirmed the first point is not true. While works are not retained on the archive for the 90 days, the archive keeps complete back-ups for longer than that, so the work can be restored if needed by the authorities. This is, as rahaeli points out, a pretty inefficient way of handling things, but being inefficient is not a breach of the law
Rahaeli corrects themself in their own thread when they realise that COPPA does not apply to the specific type of non-profit AO3 is, so that's moot
The GDPR point is slightly more complicated. I'm not a lawyer, but I work in the finance industry in the UK handling massive quanities of personal data, so I am required by law to be trained on GDPR.
Email addresses are not automatically personal data under GDPR. They can be, but only if they contain other personal information. So if your email is brony47@gmail, that's not personal data. If it's john.smith@company it is, because it contains your wallet name and employer. So, while it's fairly unlikely when dealing with AO3 accounts belonging to under 13s, especially as school issued emails are basically never wallet names because they just deal with too many people for that to be sustainable, it is technically possible that retaining this info is a breach of GDPR.
However, even if AO3 was found to have breached GDPR, that would not result in the website being taken down with no warning or fics being purged. That's not how any of this works.
AO3 would face fines (I don't actually know how those fines work for non-profits, since they're usually a % of annual turnover - I assume donations would be treated as turnover for the ICO's purposes, but I may be wrong about that).
It's possible that fine could be steep enough that the archive couldn't meet server costs and would ultimately need to shut down, but the ICO do not possess the ability to shut the site down, and AO3 owns its own servers so if the worst happened and the archive shut down, they would have plenty of time to warn people. It would not just vanish, that's not what the ICO does.
(The specific affected account would be need to be deleted, but since it would already be suspended and invisible to users, that would not affect any end-users)
(Also the entire process of it going through the ICO and being debated to get to the point of the fine would probably take at least a year, this is a massive pan-european beauracratic body, it is not famous for its efficiency)
None of this is me saying rahaeli doesn't have valid points, or that reform isn't needed, generally I agree that it is, and I think rahaeli's suggestions about what to change sound reasonable, although I'm not an expert and not on either of the affect teams, so that's just some rando's opinion.
But the this post is not about that, this post is about people worrying about the archive being taken down, and again, that is not what is going on here!
TLDR; back up fics if you want, but AO3 is not in legal trouble, and even if it was, the type of legal trouble being discussed would not result in the entire archive just going down without prior warning
Additionally, since a few people mentioned this in tags and reblogs, AO3 is set up in such a way that there is almost no risk of a griffindor's tower 'mod infighting tanks the website' type situation. No one committee has that power, and the OTW has lost its entire board before now and AO3 continuted to function. (That's actually part of the cause of the problems being discussed, because decentralised power makes it resistant to infighting, but the pay off is that it's slow to change, because it requires a lot of different officers and other volunteers to work together)