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Hiya. I'm Davi. he/they, queer adult with Gender and Sexuality going on. you know how it is. This is my main blog and I will be an Adult here, so- 18 and under folks- I'm sure you're lovely. But if I catch you following me here, it's a hard block. I have sideblogs which are fine to follow though.
Recent-ish Fics/Fic Series I've written/co-written:
Unseelie : MCYT, Vampires SMP, standalone fic
your boldness stands alone among the wreck : FFXIV, series, co-written with @azems-familiar
in the shadow of the sun : FFXIV, series, co-written with @azems-familiar
do you taste my pain in this bloodstained place : Jedi: Survivor, standalone fic, co-written with @azems-familiar
The Moonrise Legacy: SWTOR : Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMORPG), series.
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As a chronic people-pleaser, this is my advice for success.
Offer as little as possible. Be terse. Get rid of all those exclamation marks and tidbits about why you want to take a sick day. State your needs clearly and concisely without reason. Start saying “No, I’m unable.” more often. Say Thank You only when the other party deserves it.
You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.
Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?
(Davi goes to a first fandom convention ever vent) Reddit aita-but-not meme post version!
"hey are my friends the assholes for leaving me alone at a convention after I:
1) fucked off from the group from the very beginning of the convention two days in a row (and then the later days too) despite me knowing one of them was in a wheelchair and couldn't keep pace, and that some of my friends would have to stay behind to help them. I just had vendors I wanted to go to and they were moving at the pace of the slowest person :/
2) skipped the afternoon panel we were all supposed to meet up at on the second day because I lost track of time, which they all went to and attended Without Me. Like yeah we were all supposed to go to this one, but time just got away from me.
3) got upset that nobody else turned up to a cosplay meetup directly after the panel I missed, at the end of the day, when the two of my friends who are also disabled were getting severely overstimulated and couldn't handle the noise anymore (and informed everyone in our grouptext four minutes before the cosplay meetup started that they were outside getting air, which was only about 5 minutes away from where I was.Apparently they also talked about this while they were at the panel I missed? Ugh)
4) blamed everyone for not communicating with me and leaving me alone despite acknowledging that i had a phone service outage for at least a few hours that day and couldn't receive any of their messages. Which were communicating plans and locations.
5) never made an effort to ask where on the vendor floor the group was so I could then find, walk, and talk with them after I'd gone off to buy what I wanted or visit the panels I wanted to visit.
And 6) gave everyone the silent treatment and single-word answers, including the person paying for my hotel room and food, after the missed cosplay meetup (and I got told by one of them not to blame them for not communicating when they had been and I just hadn't been paying attention or receiving the messages) until we all left to go home? It was only 48 hours of complete silent treatment, the friend who was rooming with me surely has dealt with worse.
EDIT: no, none of them had trouble meeting back up with each other after *they* would split up, we had both a text and discord groupchat they were using to say where they were. It was only me. I didn't really ask where they were ever though, not until the cosplay meetup.
2nd Edit: no, I wasn't included in any of their conversations going forward, even though I rejected at least two invites from them to do stuff after they missed the cosplay panel, and they discussed plans for the third day right in front of me where I could hear and join in on their conversation, and some of these plans were even reiterated in the groupchat I was in. But I was Obviously giving them the silent treatment then, so that means I was being purposefully excluded because i couldn't talk back
3rd edit: I mean yes, I also change plans for what I'm doing during the convention based on what's healthiest for me. and I also changed our plans for my own sake at least twice in the first two days. But we talked about going to that cosplay meet-up earlier that morning and I didn't go find them again after I left them while they were looking at a vendor. And they didn't know I didn't have phone service for a while. They still could have communicated using smoke signals or something, this is clearly their fault and they wanted me to be alone?
4th edit: i mean yeah i preemptively blocked them on every social media immediately after we all went home because they clearly left ME because they didn't ever come find me- yes I know one of them is in a wheelchair and one of them was pushing the chair and the third has a lot of sensory sensitivities but clearly the fourth person should have split away from the group to hang out with me instead of expecting me to go find the less-mobile group sometimes to spend time with them?
5th edit: i mean yeah i MIGHT have felt less alone if I'd stuck with the group or tried to visit vendors with them sometimes, but they should have been able to come with ME instead. The other two disabled people in the group should have figured it out somehow they're not my responsibility?"
And now Memeing aside. This is a direct vent post! This is about a person who genuinely did all of these things this weekend at the first convention I went to! I'm only leaving the person's name out b/c tumblr Fucking Sucks if names are included. (Trolls are dicks)
Like, I genuinely enjoyed their company until they tried to say we, as a group, left *them* and didn't communicate with them. Like hello??? The other four of us didn't have an issue communicating or sticking together. They could have at ANY point texted the group at any point on anybday for our location so they could find us and come walk the con floor with us for like. fifteen minutes, if they wanted to spend time with us. Or asked us to go visit a specific vendor with them. Or even asked us to try and make the cosplay meetup if it was important to them, instead of making a passive-aggressive snide comment! Because as far as *I* was fucking tracking it was exactly the same thing as the cosplay meetup we had on the friday schedule and all skipped for the exact same reason, and the previous panels and events we skipped for the *exact same reasons*. But no, they torpedoed friendships with four people simultaneously over this. What, were we supposed to read their mind or chase them down in order to hang out with them? The group was 3/5ths disabled folks and we were going at a pace we all could handle even if it meant we didn't get to do everything we wanted. If they wanted to go faster that's fine, but that means they'd HAVE to go solo.
The only mildly funny part about ALL of this is that Literally NONE of us had an issue with them wanting to do their own thing, either. Except that we all felt like they point-blank didn't want to hang out with us, because they'd leave us in the artist alley/vendor crowds without a single word and then just. Wouldn't turn up until there was a panel they wanted to go to later that we *also* wanted to be at! We (or I personally, rather) just didn't bring this up to them, because it was entirely their right to go experience the convention the way they wanted to? We just weren't going to go with.
Oh and if they're reading this; yeah, this is about you. I hope you got what you wanted out of the convention. Literally at any point an apology for blowing things out of proportion could've fixed everything. 3/5ths of the group is also adhd and deals with rsd and etc. We'd have worked it out. But I'm also cool with never speaking to you again, because you treated us like shit for 48 hours over a single missed cosplay meetup, and let someone else pay nearly four THOUSAND dollars for you to stay and eat with them at this convention, only to do this. Really tells me what kind of person you are, behind the screen.
Anyway! Moral of the story; I had a GREAT first convention experience and I genuinely do mean that. But it was in spite of this person, especially in the latter two days. Not because of it. And holy FUCK i am so tired of people who act like this! The self-centering goes crazy lately.
It's all good though. I got Two autographs and the BEST funko pop. And i got to meet a bunch of dear friends in realspace for the first time. That was a blast. And it'll STAY a blast. The beans i went with know who they are
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I’m gonna be blunt: you bring little worth to a friendship if you’re apathetic toward the good in your friends’ lives. If you shrug when they come to you with little things that they’re happy about, they will eventually stop coming to you with anything and you’ll wonder why that relationship feels stale. Practice genuine excitement with the people in your life. If you see a friend try to downplay how excited they are about something just be like “yoooo! This is a cool thing! You’re a lovely person and you deserve lovely things! I love you!“
I think it’s easy to be someone people complain to, but it’s just as if not more important to be someone they know they’re allowed to be excited and proud and happy around.
(writes something) god this sucks so bad. this is awful. i'm the worst writer ever. this is nothing. (rereads it a while after writing it) oh dude this is fire. i'm the god of writing. (writes something again) god this sucks so bad. th
You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit
If people knew what a fucking atom is and how molecules are defined, at least a quarter of all health related cults like movements and scams wouldn't work.
"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.
"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.
"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.
"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?
"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.
"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?
"Just use vinegar it's magic" it's a mild acid. Like, cool, sure, it works for several things, but it doesn't have magic properties. It's just a mild acid. Lemon juice is too. And once again, if you mix it with baking soda, they neutralise each other and you get water. Which cleans a lot of things but you dont need to do *all that* to get your hands on some plain water.
Those bracelets that say they'll fix all your health problems using negative ions?
I always assumed they were a scam because ions (an atom with an electron imbalance) really really hate existing and are hard to make.
Lots of ions are ok in water because water is super polar (oxygen hogs all the electrons so every molecule is like a tiny magnet) and therefore they'll soak up all the imbalanced charges.
Go pour salt in water right now. If it dissolves you've created negative chlorine ions! (And an equal number of positive sodium ions)! Good job on being a scientist.
But in air? Nothing polar to stabilise them.
Go pour salt on your table. It stays a solid? Good job. You've proven the atoms in salt prefer being bonded to each other than being free flying ions. You're half way to a chemistry degree.
The only way to force the creation of ions in air is a fuckton of energy. This can be electricity or radiation.
Go attach leads to a 9V battery. Put both into a cup of water. If you see bubbles you've successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen will be on the positive lead because oxygen ions are negative. The hydrogen will be on the negative clip because hydrogen ions are positive. There will also be more bubbles because water has twice as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms. These bubbles won't be ions though, because again, ions hate existing so they recombine into oxygen and hydrogen gas almost instantly. Still. You did technically make negative ions for a split second. Good job.
But most of those negative ion bracelets don't have batteries (which again, only make ions for a split second and require a renewable resource like water to do that with). So they must be a scam right? They're just rocks!
Nope. Remember the other way to make ions? It was radiation! Those bracelets and necklaces you're supposed to wear 24/7 to keep yourself healthy? They're made of mildly radioactive stone.
So they are splitting the air into ions (for a split second. You now know that ions hate existing so they recombine. Although sometimes they'll recombine into ozone (O3) rather than breathable oxygen (O2). Ozone isn't great to breathe in but you also presumably have been near a car so like... It's not a big deal in the scheme of things).
But more importantly!! They're also splitting your body into ions! Which are stabilised by the water in your body (remember the magnet analogy?) and therefore last a lot longer and can get up to more fuckery.
To;dr the negative ion bracelets do what they say on the label. They just do it by dosing you with radiation. And unlike just walking past a radioactive rock or getting an x-ray or a particularly sunny day, they're doing it on a concentrated part of your body, for as long as you're wearing it. And you're supposed to give these to children!!!
I was homeschooled but for some high school classes I went to an accredited co-op, and one of these was high school AP Chemistry
So while I was taking this chemistry class I walked into a health food store one day and saw a bottle of "alkaline water"
Well I bought it and brought it into class the next day and asked the teacher if we could PH test it, since we were learning about acids and bases, and she loved the idea of IRL applied science so we took ten minutes to do a quick PH test on the alkaline water
Guys it was so fucking acidic. It had a PH rating of 4. Don't ever buy alkaline water it is such a massive scam. I don't even know what they did to it or how you get that to happen. That's the PH rating of wine
I saw a bottle of water in the store advertising that it had a "perfectly balanced pH." Well, yeah, duh. It's water. Its pH is 7. You didn't have to do anything all that special to make it that way. You're being asked to pay extra for a basic feature of water
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
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A tumblr challenge! Or wherever you find this. I suspect tumblr will bite the most.
I have designed a Togruta! She's a little older and has a scared eye. But isn't she nice? This is how I painted her
And HERE! I'm providing you with 2 images of the same size. Her lines and her flats. How about you colour her in your own way, experimenting with colour and design and markings?
Please tag me or use "design me a togruta" as a tag so I can see your work, it sounds so fun!!
And please share it around and keep my watermark <3
Video description: a male california quail pecks at a piece of lettuce held by the person filming. It is very rotund, and the long black feather on top of its head bobs with its movement. It makes squeaky wheeking noises, similar to a guinea pig, as it eats. At one point, it sneezes. It also pauses briefly to extend its neck and look around, before continuing to squeak and eat. It accidentally pecks the camera at one point. End description.
the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds
#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.
Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.
There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"
I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.
There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.
when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.
sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought
I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk
I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes
I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.
I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.
Something about how society cares more about punishing the wicked than about making the world a better place, and how many people really struggle to shake that.
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The way Aloysius Kallig keeps telling you during the SI story he can't look out for you anymore because he only has so much strength only to show up five minutes later banging pots "FLESH OF MY FLESH WHAT ARE YOU DOING"
