SlimyOrca

You know what fucks me up the most about the whole "we're gonna delete your Google account if you don't login regularly"-thing?

So, in the 2000s, when internet speeds started being good enough for actually watching videos online (as opposed to downloading them to then watch offline on your PC), a lot of websites popped up creating video content and hosting it right on their own webspace. Some I can think of that I used to visit regularly are CollegeHumor, ScrewAttack, and GameTrailers, just as examples. Then, eventually, YouTube happened, and became the website for watching videos online. There were accounts taking videos from those other websites, and uploading them to YouTube. Eventually, those websites themselves realized that YouTube was the best way to get a bigger audience. At first, they only uploaded a select few of their videos to their own YouTube channel, and advertised that, to see more original content, you'd have to go to the website. Some also did stuff like early access, as in, you get new vids on the website a week before they're uploaded to YouTube.

But it was only a matter of time.

Eventually, the people running those websites realized that it was just more economical to just run a YouTube channel and enable ads on that, than having to manage a whole-ass website. And hell, some websites just died without even having an official YouTube channel.

But like I said, there were also channels uploading videos from those websites without permission. And eventually, as those websites started dying out, people even made channels specifically to archive those old videos. Mad accounts literally just to upload every video they had saved from their favorite website. Youtube remains as an archive for content that Youtube killed in the first place.

And now a lot of that archived content is at risk of being erased forever. Google all but forced this content to only be readily available on their platform, and now they're gonna nuke it. It's like a supermarket chain driving all the mom & pop stores out of business, only to then close shop themselves and leave an entire community without a way to get groceries.

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The Earthsea Cycle By Cami | morchlav

[ID: Tweet from user @ Lubchansky: "thinking once again of the preferable universe where the Earthsea books get famous instead and being stuck on hour 300 of Roke Island School of Wizardy: Legacy trying to find the One True Name of the grass under our feet, or the great wind, or the sky itself"]

Welcome to Essin! Home to many different peoples. From the small, humble Bumpkins, to the towering, powerful Orcs. We hope you find them all interesting!

My Husband and I have been brainstorming the fantasy world of Essin for over 2 years now and are so excited to bring this world to life (as much as two people reasonably can, that is), but feel free to ask all about them! We have a bunch of lore we're happy to share!

Oh, and make sure to peep the alt text on each pic, as there's much lore tucked away in there!

a girl i guess idk

A reasonable boundary for a creator: "Do not send me or tag me in any NSFW art or writing for my work."

An unreasonable boundary: "Do not make any NSFW content for my work at all."

Like I'm sorry for saying this again but when you put your work out into the world, people are going to interact with it in ways you do not like and can't control. Fandoms do not belong to the creators of the original media, not matter how small those fandoms are, and the only thing a creator can really do is control what kind of fanworks they interact with and how they respond to things they don't like.

Boundaries are about how people interact with you personally! You cannot set boundaries about what people are doing in their own lives, even if it's with something that you made! Nobody is violating your boundaries by just living their lives separate from you!

This is the exact same argument creators use to attack fans for creating gay ships or making racebent art of characters. Stop that shit and mind your own business.

Zeldi

the hairstyles of princess !

Hornpot

When someone says something about pedophiles that appears to be a declaration of hate against a marginalized group with the group just replaced with "pedophiles", that's very likely what's happening.

For example, if someone says "pedophiles are subhuman filth and should be put down", it's very likely that "pedophiles" is just a cryptogram for whatever marginalized group they're trying to hate.

Someone who actually hates pedophiles and only pedophiles would want to spell out exactly what evil actions pedophiles are guilty of. They'd say things like "Pedophiles take advantage of power imbalances and want their partners to obey them." A sentence like that makes it very clear how evil pedophiles are and it's clear that "pedophiles" is not just a code word.

LOVE that at some point between BOTW and TOTK Zelda turned the entire goddamn country into a country of lore-obsessed wannabe archeologists. YES I play games to obsess over ruins of ancient civilizations and YES literally ever fucking character in this game does too

It was fun in BOTW when she was the weirdo obsessed w/it and it's even more fun now that you learn she's contagious lol.

Your honor, they're gorlbossing

Playing BOTW: I am in a vast wilderness! I am exploring nature! I am collecting apples! I am finding treasure!

Playing TOTK: I am in a vast wilderness! I am exploring nature! I am collecting - oh my god the trees are alive and trying to kill me! Who thought it was a good idea to give the floormaster steroids?! THE BASEMENT IS FUCKING HAUNTED!!!!!!

Breath of the Wild: "Link, climb these mysterious towers to get a better view of the surrounding lands."

Tears of the Kingdom: "Link, we're gonna fire you out of this cannon like the god damn Apollo space shuttle, try and get a couple pictures before you pass out."

Rauru