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Ave Maria Gratia Plena

I'm early-mid twenties, i am def not old, but its straight up scary not being able to find people older and more knowledgable people on BEING fae. Its scary that the resources i can find are either lackluster or obscured by a thick layer of metaphorical dust (with the half-exception of The Silver Elves Wordpress blog, love those elves).

The few other fae ive met are my age or younger and know less than me and i dont know much!! We're kids with no guidance a lot of the time!! Its a stark difference to the canid, felis, otherwise therian, and the other mythos, ESPECIALLY compared to the vampyric and draconic communities!! These are lovely and complex communities - keyword: COMMUNITIES

There are no faekin discord servers i can find, there are little people talking about the SPIRITUAL side of being elfae, and the idea of starting myself is daunting cause i feel underqualified - but we all do!!

Lots of fae are solidary, not out of desire but from necessity. Just like the other Other communities its hard to be Other, but unlike them we are especially scattered.

Yeah, it is frustrating (and weird, for an old fruit like me who lived through different times) that elfae are such a minority now when it wasn't the case 25-30 years ago. The virtually complete merging of the used-to-be-more-separate mythic-otherkin and animal/therianthrope communities had a big impact on that. Or rather, the mythic section got kinda dissolved in something bigger and the term otherkin got applied to the whole mishmash.

When I was attending High School at My state's School for the Blind, back towards the end of the 2000's, They kept this huge Ice Cream freezer in the Cafeteria full of Ice Cream. Most of the Ice Cream found in this Freezer was the kind You could find at most Convenience stores, especially 711.

I like how the rituals are structured not as a long list of steps but under their own headings. It feels neat and organized. I also like that most of them require a handful of supplies that you probably have around the house. The author mentions that they wanted the rituals to use free or low cost supplies to support folks of all income levels. I also appreciate the suggestions for alternatives to burning or burying things if you can't have open flames or land in which to bury things. There are also instructions for reusing things used in some of the rituals.

And the fact that it’s NOT a common threat is why we need to drill it so hard in the first place - instictive reactions to pain/danger are usually the correct response! It’s survival instincts! Like, if you get a bad cut, your first reaction will be to slap a hand on it and keeo it there, because ‘apply pressure to bleeding wound’ is the correct response! But being set on fire just doesn’t happen enough to be a serious concern as a species, so the instinctive reaction to that happening will actually cause horrific burns and/or death, because we don’t really need a naturally programmed in response for such a rare problem.

I've been set on fire twice in My life, both times resulted in My hair getting set on fire. The first time was due to My own loack of vigilence, and I paid the price for it. The second time was due to ritual shenanigans.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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01. I'm currently thirty eight years old and I think Artificial Inteligence, especially Generative Artificial Intelligence, is absolutely evil and should be Napalmed into oblivion. Naturally, My view on it is radically negative.

02. I rarely visit such websites because most of them seem to be moderately to extremely inaccessible for Someone like Me who is Blind and who uses a Screen Reader.

I decided to go full whimsy, lol (but unfortunately I don't think nerdykeppie still sells this dress, I bought it a while ago)

And they were in their wizard getup:

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

@jubs again!

First of all, thank you all for the feedback in the original post!

Today, we're launching the new "Comments" tab for Blog pages, and we'll be testing a For You recommendation based on comments from people you follow. The posts will have a preview of the reply, so you know why you're seeing that post.

You will be able to control the new tab visibility, and whether we should include your comments in your follower's feeds, through a new setting:

The toggle can be found on https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/YOUR_BLOG or in the General Settings > Replies section, on Mobile. If you have already disabled the "Share posts you like" setting, the setting will default to disabled.

The new tab is only available on Web and iOS (44.8+) for now, but the toggle is available to everyone (including on Android), so you can control what other people see on your blogs, even if you don't have the new feature yet. Don't worry, we have plans to implement the tab and posts on Android, soon!

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We want to later include these replied posts to the Following feed as well, and we're planning on adapting the current "Include posts liked by the blogs you follow" toggle to also consider comments, in case you don't want to see shared comments from people you follow.

Or recommendations at all, for that matter. Because Tumblr is extremely terrible at recommending Me things, to the point that I would turn all of that off forever if I could do so. And don't even get Me started on the recommended blog options in the various Tag Feeds. That's even more of an accessibility problem, making it slower and harder for Me to find posts I want to read from a particular Tag.