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Across the line, you will find, that imagination, undefined...
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chordsykat
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beemovieerotica

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

  • They are all 3 sentences long
  • Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
  • Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
  • No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
  • The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

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mtomauw

The only thing I need tumblr to do is to get like... cool with the idea you can hire people here to do commissions for you and to like.. consider monetary support for artists cuz one of the reasons and the biggest reason I moved to twitter in the first place is because people there buy my art. I make a living there doing art. And the vibe here is **we don't do that here** If you want artists to be here and do art you gotta be okay with the concept of artists trying to make money. I hate capitalism as much as the next person but I'm also 30 years old living with my fucking parents because I can't pay for a 1 bedroom apartment. Artists are not 'big business'. We're not Disney. We're just people trying to make a living or some money for groceries and shit.

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chordsykat
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dispatchesfromtheclasswar

Hell is a place where companies make bank off the aggrieved father of a dead child for the removal of the child’s organs for donation.

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darwins-finch

Oh and then, the recipient is charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for a DONATED ORGAN.

Not as in that this is just the cost of the procedure; but the hospital charges YOU $150k-800k for an organ they were given FOR FREE from a dead child whose parents have to pay to store and/or transport said organ which costs THEM $2k-30k.

Source: I work in insurance.

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biglawbear

I don’t know how you can look at this shit and not be radicalized

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immaturityofthomasastruc
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pedanticat asked:

Hey, remember when the show used to focus on the fact that Marinette was an aspiring fashion designer? Seriously, that aspect of her character has basically been abandoned all together which is a shame because that was a interesting aspect of Marinette. Additionally, if the idea is that the costumes of the Miraculous reflect the wearer imagination/desire or whatever, you think her costume would be a lot more creative since she is an aspiring fashion designer.

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immaturityofthomasastruc answered:

I’ve briefly mentioned it before, but my theory is that that part was only thrown in because the showrunners thought girls liked stuff that had to do with fashion, which I feel is only backed up with the more recent episodes focusing on Marinette’s designer career being related to Adrien in some way.

I also neglected to mention this when talking about it (and I really should have gone more into detail regarding my final thoughts), but Heartcatch Precure has a much better subplot revolving around fashion that goes into the idea of why people are so invested in it.

At the beginning of the series, Erika/Cure Marine starts a Fashion Club at her school with Tsubomi/Cure Blossom and some other recurring characters. At first, it seems like an excuse for Tsubomi and Erika to spend more time together, but things change once Itsuki/the future Cure Sunshine joins. Because she intentionally acts masculine in order to inherit her family’s dojo, Itsuki has a real desire to dress in more feminine clothes, a desire that gets explored as she gets more focus.

Several episodes focusing on the Fashion Club tend to explore the philosophy of fashion design, viewing it as a form of expression. When Itsuki’s brother sees her wearing a dress she designed herself, he comments that it’s what the “real” Itsuki looks like. Once she becomes Cure Sunshine, she realizes she can still kick ass while dressing in overly girly clothing, and starts wearing more clothing like that. When we see Itsuki start to wear the female school uniform after the final battle, it shows how her mindset on fashion and expressing herself has changed.

Then over the summer, another story arc related to a fashion show put on at the school fair is set up, with Erika choosing the theme “A New Me”, reflecting all the personal growth the main characters have gone through in the series. The idea of connecting fashion to personal expression feels consistent, and really helps the audience connect with these characters and their interest in the subject. 

Miraculous Ladybug... really doesn’t do that for any of the characters with dreams. Not even the episode centered around dreams and goals. Most of the episodes where Marinette designs something is connected to Adrien in some way or another, and we still don’t know what exactly got her into fashion.

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thebluestrokes

You all have NO IDEA how long I waited for this moment!

'Heartcatch Precure' was the first precure series I have watched the ENTIRE season and Tsubomi Hanasaki was a character I immediately was immersed with. Her struggle to open up, make friends and to become more confident with her self is what made her become me favorite precure and seeing her again filled me with such nostalgia!

I've seen and shared other fans favorite Pretty Cure, I'm just glad I didn't have to wait TOO long to share my own.

Thank you and here's the GIF version!

#hirogaru sky! pretty cure#hirogaru sky! precure#precure#heartcatch precure#heartcatch pretty cure#cure blossom#tsubomi hanasaki#BEST CURE#BEST SERIES#video#anime
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Three of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible
“All posts must be images of John Oliver looking sexy.”
The Verge

In case you haven't been keeping up with the latest in Reddit drama:

  • CEO backhandedly threatens to seize control of shuttered subreddits that are protesting, by replacing the mods with more pliable/amenable ones
  • He couches this as the need to respect the will of the people, because the entire narrative he's been spinning is that only a few people are ruining the site for everyone
  • He also de-legitmizes all the hard work mods have done cultivating and maintaining popular subreddits by equating them to "landed gentry"
  • Some subreddits (like r/apple) reopen under duress, because they don't want to have their hard-earned communities stolen from them
  • Others (r/gifs, r/aww, r/pics) decide to go the malicious compliance route. After all, if this is all about respecting the will of the people, then let's by all means give them the same sort of narrow pathway forward that the CEO himself is offering
  • They put up polls with 2 choices: Either everything goes back to the way it was before the protests, or every post must be John-Oliver-related (i.e., sexy pics of John Oliver, gifsets of John Oliver, etc etc etc)
  • I mean after all, let's give the people choice, just the sort of choice you're offering mister CEO?
  • John Oliver wins in a landslide
  • Meanwhile, John Oliver - who has been conspicuously silent on Twitter since May1st (as he respects the writer's strike) - breaks his silence to give blessing.
  • He doesn't just give blessing though - he starts supplying embarrassing photos of himself to stoke things
  • The people have spoken
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dduane

Herewith your sporadic reminder to be careful what you ask for: you may get it.

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chordsykat
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uncleromeo

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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chordsykat
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afromediterraneanmenace

It’s Juneteenth! Hello I’m an afro-indigenous sex worker dealing with health problems and mental health issue that prevent me from working at the moment. If you’d like to help survive/not perish in America here are my links

CApp: $lanymphenoire

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