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[No you did not!]

Having watched so many isekais now, I think I know what makes me like it as a genre but kinda dislike some series on varying degrees. And it’s commitment to character personality.

I love My Next Life as Villainess not because of the plot or anything new and mindblowing the series does or doesn’t, but because they’re committed to Catarina being super intent on gaming her story to a good ending but also being just absolutely clueless and not managing to intentionally do anything.

And I didn’t like Why Raelina Ended Up at the Dukes Mansion quite as much because while the series depicts her as capable and brave, making these game of chess comparisons in her thinking, they suddenly reduce her to the level of absolutely clueless like Catarina when the plot requires it.

And why I prefer So I’m a Spider, So What to That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime, because Slime/Rimuru doesn’t show much aptitude for strategy or thinking outside “oh so that’s what it does, huh?”, he just gets these OP powers because the story wouldn’t advance if he didn’t. And once he’s powerful, he’s suddenly this strategic genius, whose trick still seems to be to keep the best thing hidden from even the viewer/reader until he’s literally at 1hp.

While Kumoko ponders on all her skill choices and even keeps some stuff un-updated because she just doesn’t know what they do. She thinks about everything she does and acts according to her gamer personality. Which is incidentally also why I absolutely LOVE Log Horizon.

[No you did not!]

[virgo-dicks]

Yeah my name is Tim, short for OpTIMus Prime

[helianthus-hellion]

[id: tags saying "wait wait i wanna know where they plan on using their full name, why'd you cut it off"]

answer: THEIR WEDDING.

[thepleasuregoblin]

I can't describe to you the emotion I would feel if I was hanging out with my friend Tim and he was like "hey we've been friends for a while now I want to show you something," and he hands me his driver's license, upon which I read "Optimus Prime Jones"

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

I mean, aren’t kinda like, required by law to use your full name in that situation?

Or is the actual situation wedding invitations etc?

[No you did not!]

[worldwithoutmiracles]

“I always thought I couldn’t sort my life out like a normal person because I was depressed and anxious. But it turns out I was depressed and anxious because I couldn’t sort my life out like a normal person, because I was not a normal person, and I didn’t know it.

“Now, this is not to say I still don’t struggle. Every day is a bit of a struggle, to be honest. But at least now I know what my struggle is, and getting to the starting line of normal is not it.”

- Hannah Gadsby, speaking of her adult autism diagnosis, link to TED talk

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

Your life doesn’t suddenly become easier upon the realization because the world doesn’t change. But knowing makes is easier to seek out the tools to navigate that world. And you still struggle because the world didn’t change.

[No you did not!]

[sinsear-aisteach]

pros of corded headphones:

• Cant lose phone
• dont need to charge headphones
• they look cool and are amazing

cons of corded headphones:

• Every doorknob in existence is now out to get you

[sinsear-aisteach]

glad this was a hit with corded headphone users

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

cons of wireless as an old wired user

• You forget you’re now wired when charging, resulting in yanked cords and destroyed property

[No you did not!]

[cy-lindric]

Ok so !! We're finally attempting to open up our Dumas/Musketeer discord server ! So far it was just a very small group of irl friends, and we've only used it privately for a few days after migrating from another app so it's casual and kind of disorganised, but please feel free to join !

There are channels in french and english, so far we've only used french for obvious reasons but I hope we can get international ! See you around !

[cy-lindric]

Bringing this back with a fresh link for newcomers : join us !

Since this post has been made, the server has grown significantly. There are now both french and english speaking channels. You are all welcome to join and participate regardless of whether you've read some Dumas already, if you haven't and you want to start, or if you just like adaptations of the stories ! See you around !

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penrosesun asked:

Just had a truly BIZARRE AO3 experience which I feel like you might get a kick out of: I left a comment on a work with a ko-fi link, gently pointing out that ko-fi links weren't allowed, and suggesting that they remove it since many people feel pretty strongly about this and will report fics with ko-fi links on sight. The author responded with a - I kid you not - 1,713 word long rant, where they (among other things) claimed that the noncommercial rule of AO3's TOS violated the 14th Amendment

olderthannetfic answered:

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Facepalming so hard right now.

[sholeh675]

Okay, setting aside how ridiculous it is to bring up the 14th amendment on ao3, I'm kind of curious about how they think it applies? 🤔 do they think the equal protection clause covers Kofi links? 😂😂😂

[penrosesun]

I'll be honest, I haven't got a clue what they were thinking, but here's that portion of the comment (which again, was 1,713 words long!) and if you want, you can try and parse it out yourself:

Btw, DO NOT do the "it's not a tip, it's a gift!" thing that they suggest here. I'm assuming that this person is simply lying about having been an "'employee of the month' winning former tax professional" because I'm an attorney who did actually study US tax law, and uh... doing that as a tax professional is in fact criminal tax fraud. Which is a wild thing to confess unprompted in an AO3 comment, but it's also hardly the weirdest thing about this response.

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

Just fucking link to your website/blog/tumblr/masto whatever in your profile where you can share any ko-fi, patreon, or whatever links. It’s not that hard. And someone who thinks your fic is good enough to donate to will seek out that link while the person who will not, won’t do so even if you shove that link down their throat.

[No you did not!]

[brother-genitivi]

couples themed photoshoots and old romance films have such a Grip on me they're all so destian and it makes me unwell LIKE

LIIIIIIIIIKE

[brother-genitivi]

MORE

feel free to use these as refs!

[brother-genitivi]

even more!!

[mistahgrundy]

[No you did not!]

[bogleech]

The Merry Melodies cartoon "Greetings, Bait" about a worm vs. a crab dd SUCH an imaginative abstract gag here that really only works with a stalk-eyed character design. It's too bad they never used the crab in anything else.

[No you did not!]

[song-of-the-rune]

y'all are absolutely free to use tumblr however you please but I want redditors to know that they could, hypothetically, start a sideblog about a particular topic, add moderators to it, turn on submissions (and asks), make an "about" page laying out rules and such, and create a good tagging system. If you want it to be a bit more familiar.

[mehmango]

Looking into this. How would a mod team be created? Would they all need to have access to the account the sideblog is on?

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

I don’t know if anyone’s already replied to this but I didn’t see any on the reblogs so here’s the basic gist of it on the web version:

You make a sideblog, first of all. In this example my old, dead Queen sideblog. On the settings you see members. This has 1 because I, the owner, count as a member.

When you go to that page, you get this view. It shows you as the admin. I’m not currently a mod on any collaborative blogs that are okay so show so I don’t have a pic of what that looks like but it’s basically just a list of blog names who are members. Members can post but not change settings, unless promoted to admin. There can be multiple admins but do make sure you’re all on the same page with it comes to the blog or conflicts can get ugly.

You type a tumblr username or the email address related to that account on that box to invite them. Sometimes you need to do this multiple times because the fucker just doesn’t work. Sometimes it works like intended. It’s a fun game. Also, it will give a link to share if nothing else works. And oh, only main blogs aka your actual username account is valid to invite as far as I know.

No need to password or account share, you all use the shared blog as individuals. On the settings you can choose whether those individual members are shown on the blog avatar as this smaller avatar of the post writers own avatar on the lower right corner or nah.

That’s the basics of it.

[No you did not!]

I got ID’d twice today~~

Sometimes I get annoyed bc I have bags, I have wrinkles, so people only look at my clothes I guess. But my 39th birthday just around the corner, I guess I don’t mind.