ANYWAY I've started posting about the Ghibli House over at Ko-Fi a little bit! There's literally NO mandatory monthly subscription, which I find very friendly, so you can just follow along my (very slow) renovation journey for free if you like, and watch me cut my way through some truly insane foliage :)
Good Omens season 2 + text posts
i’m going to start saying “sorry i was stimming” in an indiana jones voice forever now
“We were hooking up all through raiders vut they never showed it”
Anonymous asked:
I think those fruit chairs are AI generated 😕
GOD. TRAGIC 💔
so… asexual stede bonnet.
asexual stede bonnet who feels even more isolated when he’s at boarding school because everyone is talking about girls and attraction and things he just doesn’t understand. asexual stede bonnet who thinks it’s just because they were talking about girls and he’s more interested in boys, but even when he tries to imagine the things they talked about with boys, he just doesn’t get it.
asexual stede bonnet who grows up hearing about the duties of a husband and father with a sense of apathy and dread, because when he tries to imagine his future it’s just him and his husband, without children. asexual stede bonnet who resigns himself to marrying a woman because there was never going to be another option, but can’t ever quite bring himself to face the fact that he’s expected to have kids until he’s sharing a bed with mary.
asexual stede bonnet who gets married and hopes desperately that all the things the boys at boarding school talked about would kick into gear, and he’d feel some spark of attraction towards his wife that would make sex and trying to have children enjoyable, but it never happens. asexual stede bonnet who does what he has to do to fulfill his duties as a husband, but does so with his skin crawling and a sour feeling in his gut and guilt, so much guilt, because mary is a nice, beautiful girl who deserves so much more than broken baby bonnet (because that's the only thing he can think to explain why he feels this way- he must just be broken).
asexual stede bonnet who does what he's expected to- marries a woman and fathers two children- and says no more. asexual stede bonnet who, while he hadn't wanted children, loves alma and louis fiercely, and promises to be the best father to them that he can be, except he isn't happy and neither is mary, and so he runs away to the ocean.
asexual stede bonnet who finally feels free for the first time in his life, except for the fact that he still doesn't understand what his crew talks about when they talk about missing the touch of another or when go out for the entire night when they make port and stumble back all disheveled in the mornings.
asexual stede bonnet who falls in love with ed but doesn't even realize it because it doesn’t feel the way he’s always heard love described to him. asexual stede bonnet who keeps waiting for those feelings of attraction and lust that he's heard about to set in, but they never do. asexual stede bonnet who knows what he feels for ed is deeper than anything he's ever felt for another person, but doesn't know if it's love or friendship or something else so he never says anything, never even dares to think about it because what if he's wrong?
asexual stede bonnet who is kissed on a beach and it's soft and sweet and everything he's ever hoped for, but he still doesn't know what he feels because he thought finally kissing a man would make him feel all those things the boys at school talked about but it doesn’t, and it isn't until a week later as he listens to mary talk about love that he realizes he really has been in love with ed this whole time.
asexual stede bonnet who goes and finds ed, and apologizes for leaving him and tells him he loves him, and later once they’ve talked about stede leaving and ed marooning everyone and trying to kill lucius, he explains that he's always felt different about love and attraction than any one else and how he’s sorry that he still can't love ed right. and ed just looks at him and says none of that matters to him, because stede came back and he'll take any love that stede can give him. asexual stede bonnet who finally feels at peace, who has found love and family and himself, who ended up with everything he ever dreamed of having.
just. asexual stede bonnet.
ID: A digital drawing of Adora Belle Dearheart from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. She is a young woman with pale skin and black hair, which is styled in a bun. She wears a long black dress with puffed sleeves. She is smoking a cigarette, holding it in one hand with the other arm folded across her body. Behind her is bright circle against a dark background. She is looking to the right with a skeptical expression. end ID.
Adora Belle Dearheart from Going Postal
Drew Adora and Moist in the meme hehe
I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.
(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)
The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.
So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.
I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.
First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?
And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:
Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.
Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.
I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!
Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.
Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).
Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.
So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.
They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.
I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.
Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.
For future reference: Writer Beware exists for this exact purpose. If somebody is recruiting writers or works, and you aren’t sure if they are legit or sketchy, or you don’t understand the legalese in what they are offering, first check to see if they’ve covered that company already, and if not send all of the details you have--company name, contract text, everything--to Writer Beware and ask! Spotlighting scams, harmful contracts, and predatory practices in publishing is literally what they do.
I never go on twitter (because, you know, it’s twitter) but I just had a look at it to check up on Hank and I’m glad to see he’s being *extremely* Hank about this
yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they
Peasants marry for love.