Sinful Self Shipping

Please look at little Hamoud, and his specimen of a cat in Al Zawaydah. Such floof.

Hamoud and many other Palestinian children like him benefit greatly from Gaza Soup Kitchen. Please consider sharing and donating to help the people of Palestine in northern Gaza!

If you match my donation, then you could redeem your donation receipt (as low as $5!) for commissions and other rewards from volunteer artists (check this linked post to find out).

I'm officially opening commissions!

opening up 5 slots for now, I'll close them again for July but afterwards they'll be open pretty much permanently (until I get a job).

if you're interested, shoot me a DM here or on Discord if you have my contact details there, payments are done over at my Ko-Fi page!

Open Slots

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hiya! I’m Clockwork, this is a Sun-Moon-Eclipse-centric side-blog to @aquietemptyspace! you can find all of my doodles and art pieces in the #clockwork doodles tag, and any drabbles I do will go in the #clockwork writings tag.

if you’re interested in some content, I’m working on several at the moment!

- So Cries the Wolf, an Eclipse-centric demon hunter/forest ranger!Y/N story under #so cries the wolf AU. Here is a link to the AO3 story!

- Offer of a Toolbox, self-insert escapism with bounty hunter!Eclipse and his mechanic, tagged with #offer of a toolbox.

- Old Forest Gods AU, a modern day fantasy AU with god-like but monstrous Sun, Moon and Eclipse, and their beloved aromantic photographer Y/N, tagged under #old forest gods AU.

- Tangled Strings, an enemies-to-lovers soulmate-centric fantasy AU, tagged under #tangled strings AU, which also has an AO3 story.

- Fae Ruins AU, a MXES-centric story where several Ruin DLC characters are fae rather than AI, and an urban explorer Y/N needs to find out which ones will help and which ones will harm, tagged under #fae ruins AU.

Hey! I’m Taru and this is my selfship/selfinsert tumblr blog.

I used to be a lot more active here years ago, switched to twitter, and now I’m trying to keep up with both. Tumblr really is still the best for compiling all my silly little ships. 

About/Directory | What I’m about and what my tags are. Favs List and Ships | I keep this somewhat up to date. BYF/DNI | Please skim over this before interacting, thank you! Selfship Twitter | I’m much more active here.

Art Tumblr | Trying to keep this up to date but it’s hard. Art Twitter | The latest news on my art and commission status. Main Twitter | I just be saying things there.

Who wants a chance at winning some cute Chestnut merch??

Time for a giveaway!

As usual, the rules!

REBLOG for a chance to win. You can like the post, but it won't count. And to save people's dashes, you can only reblog up to five times so choose wisely when you hit that button. Any other reblogs will be disregarded.

Open to all followers of CI, no matter where you are. I ship globally.

Adding on to point numero 2, you have to be comfortable giving me your address or P.O box. Don't worry, I'll only use it once.

The winner will be selected via a random number generator.

A post signaling the end will be queued for the deadline, the winner will be chosen on Wednesday Feb. 2nd. Most likely in the afternoon but I'll let y'all know.

Have fun, good luck and for any q's just shoot me a DM, an ASK or reply to this post.

wood////crawlers has been stalking and harassing a friend of mine since May and their bf is likely in on it. They've also run MULTIPLE people off tumblr as a whole, even masquerading as other users to send anon hate in other people's names.

If you at all interact with them with this knowledge, unfollow me and block me. I want nothing to do with those dregs.

hello, today is my birthday, and im asking for help to move away from an abusive family and unsafe living situation thats leaving me constantly ill, hungry, and traumatized. i have a detailed explanation of what ive been enduring in the GFM's description

Okay, so. I’m going to try and collect my thoughts and talk about what happened and what I think we as consumers should do about it. If I come across as emotional and disorganized, it’s because I am. To say I’m upset about this is an understatement.

Here’s what happened:

GameStop announced on December 14th that they would be the sole seller of the Kingdom Hearts III PS4 Pro in the US and Canada

Pre-orders opened and were sold out within hours

Over the course of the next month, some people here and there who ordered online posted about their pre-orders being unexpectedly cancelled. I think these cancellations were more prevalent about 1-2 weeks after the system was up for pre-order. There was a lull in which I stopped seeing people post about it, so I’d assumed that everyone who hadn’t been contacted yet would receive the orders they placed.

Fast-forward to yesterday, four days before the (legitimate) release of the game in the US and everywhere else outside of Japan. E-mails were sent out to countless people who’ve had the PS4 Pro pre-ordered for over a month saying first that there was an issue with their payments on file, and then in an additional e-mail that there was a “system error” that disrupted their orders.

GameStop’s way of apologizing to customers was to offer a $25 online-only “gift coupon.” IT IS NOT A $25 gift card. YOU MUST SPEND AT LEAST $25 ONLINE in order for the coupon to be applied.

E-mailing customer support, calling customer support, and calling in-store yielded three different answers

E-mail: We oversold and Sony refuses to make more PS4 Pros.

Call: We are contacting the manufacturer to make more and will add you to a list to be contacted when/if anything more can be done. Try calling stores to see if they have any availability.

In-store: All orders were to be made online and stores had nothing to do with the process.

TL;DR GameStop allowed too many people to make pre-orders and then cancelled hundreds if not thousands of orders four days before launch.

So, what happens next? I have to be honest, guys. With GameStop and pre-order culture being what they are, I’m not sure anything will be done to fix this particular problem. GameStop is a company– a cold, hard business. They don’t care about you as a person. They don’t care that you’ve been waiting for Kingdom Hearts 3 for years. They don’t care that you may have taken measures like saving up or even trading in an old system in order to make your order of the PS4 Pro happen. All they care about is your money, and that is why the $25 “gift coupon” they sent requires you to spend money in their online store.

Unless a miracle happens, GameStop, Sony, and Square are not going to make this right. All we can do is use our power as consumers. It’s time to put our money where are mouths are and punish GameStop. 

FIRST AND FOREMOST: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE DON’T BE MEAN TO THE ASSOCIATES, STORE MANAGERS, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE REPS WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS MESS. 

That said, even if it feels pointless, make noise about this. Call Customer Support. E-mail them. Contact them about it on social media. Encourage your friends to do the same. RESPECTFULLY.  

DURING THESE INTERACTIONS, LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU HAVE NO INTENTION OF GIVING THEM YOUR BUSINESS IN THE FUTURE.

AND THEN FOLLOW THROUGH WITH IT. I don’t care how cool a GameStop exclusive looks. Stick to your guns. Do not give a company with a reputation for misleading and disappointing customers with pre-order screw-ups get away with what they did to you. Buying anything from GameStop after this would be like letting someone punch you in the face, leaving for a while, then coming back to their house to let them punch you in the face again. Like I said. GameStop doesn’t care about your inspirational KH story. They care about your money and whether or not you give it to them. SO DON’T.

I know a lot of other people who were affected by this clusterfuck (including my best friend who is just devastated, and it breaks my heart). All we can do is try to wield the power of the consumer like a Keyblade and unlock the door to better business practices. It’s a long shot, but we, the gamers, DID manage to get EA of all companies to revamp their lootbox system in SWB2. We CAN make change if we are a determined and unified front.

a mutual of mine

suddenly has posts on their blog

with links to “find women to have sex with”

my mutual is NOT POSTING THESE

bot brute-forced their password and posted pictures of women with links underneath

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

They gave me a number to shoot for.  It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.

So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.

I got what I asked for.

If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known.  I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.

This is my cat, Brigitte.

24 hours after I brought her home, I got a mindblowing job offer.  Since I adopted her nine years ago, my life has become an amusement park.  She has brought me good luck ever since I took her into my home.

I’m telling you, there’s something about this animal.  Good fortune follows her everywhere.

I don’t want to be selfish.  I have everything I need and then some.  So, I’m sharing her with you.

Reblog Brigitte and you’ll receive fantastic news in the next 24 hours.

And when you do, please remember to help your local SPCA and support them in the difficult work they do for wonder animals like Brigitte.  Any donation helps your SPCA, even if it’s just five bucks.

Kitties like Brigitte are counting on you to give back when they bring you good luck.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad she’s a huge hit, it’s super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. It’s validating.

But it’s also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment. 

I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which I’ve never gotten before. I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantly to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out great, and it’ll all be worth it in the end – recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didn’t even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out. 

I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: “I know you realize this is really hard for me,” my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didn’t have my dream job anymore – or any job at all – and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.

She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesn’t matter. Get the fuck out.

Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. It’s obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better.  And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Who’s work is undoubtedly making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.