spiffy-keen art and things

Yeh.

In storage.

Ready for snuggles 💙💖🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you all so much for the overwhelming enthusiasm for the Egg plush! I can’t tell you all how much it means to me to see my character connect with so many of you 🥹

Don’t forget that plushie preorders go live in Little Softs’ shop on June 1! 🦝💙

As the LGBT community I don't think we spend enough time fucking with our political enemies. We need more psyops. We should convince FOX listeners to fight against exon-mobil's "woke agenda"

We just started book 3 of the Bloodlords AP and I have been doing well enough to carefully ink and color new Foundry tokens for the party!! 💀 ❤️ 💀 ❤️

Newly featuring Omorose the blood drinking devil robot, but still featuring Darcy the Battle Oracle (very real vampire), Meadows the ghost Tyrant, Golgari the revenant ysoki necromancer, and Lorian (me) human guy with a gun.

This AP is so good.

hey you can’t just go and say “the theme of totk is hands” and expect me to have a normal reaction

So… one of the moments from A Link to the Past that sticks out the most for me is actually pretty near the beginning of the game. It’s the part where you’re helping Zelda to escape from the castle, and she comes with you into the sewers.  She actually doesn’t do much… she doesn’t even hold the lantern. But little 10-year-old-or-so me was convinced, just from this little bit, that absolutely the next Zelda game would be two players, with 2P playing as Zelda.  It just made sense. It was definitely coming, how could it not? I was so excited.

Well…. I’m still waiting.  But here’s a little sketch for younger me, and maybe you, of a Zelda who would be quite happy to go questing. I started off mostly looking at the old cartoon version of her, but incorporated a lot of things from some of the newer designs, most obviously the color scheme.  I had fun with it.

when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:

remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don't work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they're losing something.

Huh! I believe I’ve accidentally found out what the whole deal with this new wave of porn bots is.

OK so! First of all, I’ve got an answer to the age-old question “Why are pornbot blogs blank now? Shouldn’t they at least attempt to try to look like actual people?” and the answer is:

They’re blank themselves because they target blogs with posts on them.

I’ve noticed this one recently because I’ve got blank blogs I only ever use the draft function to store stuff in and never actually post on them. These blogs have never had any bots following them! I’ve also got a blog where I have never made an original post in, only reblogged stuff to. This blog gets bots following it, even after months of inactivity. So the reason these latest waves of bots keep their blogs empty is so they won’t accidentally follow themselves on an endless loop.

With that in mind and given something I found out entirely by accident a little while ago, I also have an answer to the following question: “So how do they trick people, if they don’t have any porn on them that could lead to people clicking their links?” and the answer is:

They’re trying to trick you into following them. And since they don’t have anything to draw attention to them in their blogs, they’re very probably counting on you doing so by accident.

I found this out by accidentally following one of them with my main account after blocking it when it had followed me on this account. Exactly 25 minutes later, it sent me this very obviously bot-generated message:

So what they do is mass follow accounts and hope you’ll follow them by accident while looking them up or even trying to block them instead. Then they’ll send you their scam/malware link! Of course, the message is all kinds of suspicious but that’s a known trick by people who employ spam: they’re actively selecting the most tech unsavvy people by making their messages ring all sorts of alarm bells to people who know even a bit about how the internet works, so only people who wouldn’t even begin to know how to report them will fall for it.

As for what exactly this link they send will do… I’m not sure, but given what these kinds of malicious links usually do I’m betting it’s either regular malware, ransomware, adware, a crypto mining net trying to use your computer to mine bitcoin or your average old fashioned scam: they’ll make you sign up for some sketchy fake camgirl website and promise you nude pictures in exchange for your credit card information. Which they’ll never deliver.

So that’s it! As long as you don’t follow them back you shouldn’t have any problems with them, but even so the best tactic is to report them on sight so they’ll be deleted.

Uhh…

I’ve had like 900+ bots follow me since like… yesterday evening and it’s not stopping. Idk?

Oh I see…

Deleted :|

Hail the new lord of bots🙌

Tumblr support reply came almost immediately:

That’s cool, I guess. They know about / are working on it. Lemme just start reporting these…. 1500ish boys though lol.

Botlord Shadey update:

After several days and two auto reply responses from Tumblr support, I was hoping that I would be able to report that I had more bot followers than (presumed) normal followers, but we appear to have capped out around 8000. 

Shruuuuuug?

Uhh…

I’ve had like 900+ bots follow me since like… yesterday evening and it’s not stopping. Idk?

Oh I see…

Deleted :|

Hail the new lord of bots🙌

Tumblr support reply came almost immediately:

That’s cool, I guess. They know about / are working on it. Lemme just start reporting these…. 1500ish boys though lol.

unless catastrophe strikes these new journals should also be up in the store on thursday 😘

Uhh…

I’ve had like 900+ bots follow me since like… yesterday evening and it’s not stopping. Idk?

All hail the Bot Parent

T_T