I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.
ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.
ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.
everybody say thank you ao3
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Hey idk who needs this but helpful reminder that "virgin blood" in any witchcraft shit that requires that means "virgin" in the same sense as "virgin hair" means hair that hasn't been dyed or processed in any way, natural in the default sense. So no, "virgin blood" doesn't mean blood from a virgin, just blood that hasn't been used for any other kind of witchy shit earlier.
Whether nor not someone has fucked before is completely irrelevant. Any act of fucking doesn't instantly make someone contaminated or un-magic any of their shit. You're just not supposed to re-use blood for blood magic. That's just not. Just do not. Like that's just weird who does that.
Unles you've like, poured out ALL OF YOUR BLOOD, used it for a spell, and then somehow SIPHONED THE WHOLE THING BACK IN, that doesn't mean the blood on the inside of you is also used. And even then, if you'd had your sacrifical blood IV'd back into your body-
actually nevermind, I need to draw a graph to illustrate:
Question from an uncultured mf ✋ if I use blood from a dead body, would it be staled since it isnt quabulating or would it be just normal unused blood? If it is the former, would it affect the spell in any way
"Dead man's blood" is a completely different ingredient than fresh blood! And just like "virgin blood" doesn't need to come from a virgin, the age and gender of the deceased is irrelevant to it being dead man's blood. It would affect the spell, the same way if you were baking a chocolate cake, and the recipe asked for a cup of whole milk, and you decided to substitute it with a chunk of cheddar.
I don't know. Nobody knows. That is some forbidden dark magic best left for the italians, greeks, and whoever else grows and cultivates the trees that bear them.
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.
If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????
Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.
Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.
AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!
It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.
The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.
If you want to make money off your fics, you can instead post them somewhere like royal Road. “Oh, but Royal Road’s culture is so much more negative and stressful and lacks the supportive norms of AO3!” Yeah, because people are trying to make money there. Half the userbase is treating it as a storefront and hustling is the natural social consequence of that. AO3’s culture can only exist because it’s not commercial.
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Record Group 360: Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional ConventionSeries: Miscellaneous Papers of the Continental Congress
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the under signed Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greetings. Where as the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November is the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in the Words following viz "Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of Newhampshire [sic], Massachusettsbay, Rhodeisland [sic] and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Article I. The title of the confederacy shall be "The United States of America."
Article II. Each state retains its Sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.
Article III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence [sic], the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding them - selves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, Sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence [sic] what[so]ever.
Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities [sic] of free citizens in the Several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impo-sitions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State, to any other State of which the Owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any State, on the property of the united States, or either of them.
If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeaner [sic] in any State, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and re-moved to the State having jurisdiction of his offences.
Full faith and Credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrate of every other State.
Article V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recal [sic] its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the Year. [complete document and transcription at link]
I’m have been scammed, they took all my money and they even changed my account email and password through hacking!!!
I’m currently working on getting a new credit card and trying to get my money back (most likely unsuccessfully)
Because they changed my email and password I might not have access to my account for very long and I can’t login on my computer. I only have it currently on my phone and I don’t know how long that will last. I don’t know if Tumblr will be able to help me. I might have to make a whole brand new account with a different email.
If you see this account or anything similar saying they accidentally reported your account for fraud and need to take action, block and report them, your account hasn’t been reported and if your really worried contact Tumblr directly, not who they say to contact especially through Discord!!!
I’d even go to this blog and block them now for peace of mind.
If it’s not this account and I imagine there are many more like it out there if you get a message that looks like this it is a scam!!
However, in worst case scenario, fear not, I have all of my stories backed up on separate document forms so if I do have to make a whole new account, my posts will be back up very soon, and I hope you guys will be able to find me.
Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".
They want to control our elections.
I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.
They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.
[Image ID: a thread of tweets from 🥕EasterGryffon🐇 (@CherryGryffon). The text is in white, with a blue-black background. The first tweet reads:
ATTN: ANYONE WITH NO HEATING OR POWER CURRENTLY
I know it's cold, I have some tips for you, thanks to having been through this before, many times. 🧵
Please RT the thread if you know anyone without power currently! 🖤
The second tweet reads:
- Choose 1 room to inhabit
- Move all furniture to external walls
- Move your mattress to the center of the 1 room
- Block pets from leaving that room, put all needs in it
- If your fridge is warming up, put all perishable items in a trash bag and place outside, form snow around
The third tweet reads:
- If you have plants, move them in the room with you
- If you have a small space heater, move it in that room with you
- Hang thick blankets or large towels in all the windows
- If a sunny day arrives before power, open curtains when sun hits directly, then put back up
The fourth tweet reads:
- Wear multiple layers of clothing
- If your pets are too cold, put socks on their feet and/or other clothing you have that fits them
- Roll clothing or towels and block all door and window gaps
- Throw all your dirty clothes on the floor, covering every space you can
The fifth tweet reads:
Your body heat will warm that room if you remain in ONLY that room. You want to use anything you can to add insulation between you, and the outside. Hence covering and blocking all floors, windows, and walls. Now isn't the time to have a clean house, it's the time to survive.
The sixth tweet reads:
Late addition thanks to a friend of mine:
If you have, or can get, bubble wrap, tape that to all windows, as it creates a kind of double insulation!
Every removable pillow and cushion goes in that room, against the walls.
Any kind of cardboard or foamcore can be pressed into window wells or taped over. Put wadded up newspaper or bubble wrap between the pane and the foamcore. Duct or painter's tape can hold the cardboard or foamcore to the wall. Mound laundry and blankets around you. Make sure pets have a similarly squishy bed to curl up in. Pet carriers are great for huddling in, and it's good to have them out anyway in case you MUST relocate. Food and water go close enough they don't have to come all the way out, if they don't want to.
Remember that to insulate, air pockets are necessary. Don't pack clothes or newspaper loose, but don't squish all the air out either. Insulation is made with foam or blown fiber for a reason. Air pockets in a non conductive material trap the cold instead of passing it on.
It is honestly way less miserable stuck in a single, insulated room than free roaming a house that is cold.
If your area is expected to be hard hit, prepare some of this in advance.
Keep your phone charged BEFORE the power goes out! Put it back on the charger when it reaches 80%, I am not kidding.
And, final tip, if you go outside and get REAL cold, take your clothes OFF when you get back and put different ones on. Preferably ones the cats have been laying on, but even if they are cool, as long as they are warmer than the ones you have been in outside, you will warm up faster. Even swapping just outer layers is helpful.
OH!!! Also, don't burn candles in the weatherproofed room. Bad for pets anyway, and they will use your oxygen and put carbon monoxide into the air, and that can make you sick. For real, even in a big house, constant candles will make you feel so gross after a while, and carbon monoxide BUILDS UP, from what I understand, it doesn't purge through lungs like carbon dioxide, it binds in your blood like oxygen and circulates like oxygen, using up space the oxygen would be using. It will build up over hours or days and make you feel nauseated, grody, headachy, and just generally foul. They are warm, but they aren't good for you. I made myself real sick like this in '07. Don't make my mistake.
In a pinch, stuffed animals or any kind of plushies will make great insulation. I spent my first night in my first apartment in winter sleeping under a mountain of stuffed animals because I could not find my blankets. Worked like a charm!
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Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.
