Rah

THEY CLOCKED YOU SO HARDDD, RIP...

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE BDAY WISHES BY THE WAY!!! it's mostly been a do nothing day, but that works for me perfectly 😤 i'm sharing my cake in spirit

he is, in fact, extremely adorable (and actually very sweet between his bouts of Kitten Hyperness) so i can't be mad at him 😤

RIGHT, THOUGH... just wild how quickly time can fly, smhh... at least it's good to see everyone's hanging in there as best as they can

stopped from sleeping in on my own birthday, this is homophobic (this little cat wakes me up just at or right after dawn every day without fail 😔 he does have an automatic feeder but his first meal of the day is wet food)

anyway sup, I've joined the 30 club B0

I FEEL INSANE TYPING IT OUTTT

"so do you know how kids are prone to making almost direct copies of characters they like in games and shows? imagine that but it's adults doing it out of spite. no, no they still like the artwork and designs, they just want to spite the artist. yeah, i don't get it either"

unfortunately the person who runs the specific blog i found is in their mid 20's 🙃

LITERALLY THOUGH... it's a weak justification for being an asshole and wanting to be praised for it bc it's being directed towards somebody who "deserves" it.

there is literally no reason to make a show of "reclaiming" somebody else's shit unless you want attention or validation for doing it

also damn!! it's august!! my bday is in 2 days!!! but much more importantly it's pmd day tomorrow 😤 maybe I can whip something up last minute... (provided delta actually lets me draw, smhh)

like buddy. "I'm TAKING this design from this STINKY DOO DOO PERSON because they don't DESERVE it!!! but I!! DO!!! >:(" is not the rational argument you think it is. maybe don't let the foundation of your characters/ideas be wholly built on spite (or traceable to ppl who have actually done harm) huh

happened to come across a tumblr blog dedicated to helping people "steal/reclaim" oc designs from artists who have been outed as pieces of shit or widely disliked ("stealing" as in using said designs for inspo or whatever) and I'm just super glad I'm not that terminally online, LMAO

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I'm opening up for 4 YCH slots using these sketches!
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You do, actually, really, truthfully have to treat "websites with single-digit staff counts doing their best" with more respect and sympathy than multi-billion megacorps, if only because if they decide the grief isn't worth it then the extremely inclusive platform they built Goes Away

To be 100% clear on this:

Emails cost them nothing. They can delete them, ignore them, forget they exist, whatever.

But there is a dollar cost associated with every single customer service call. That's why most phone trees are over-automated these days. Calling messes up the C/S team goals.

#itch

I'm going to outline for you exactly how the christofacists win, because it's an obnoxiously simple strategy but a reliably powerful one. You know that post that's like "I don't trust y'all to eat the rich because you'll just target a bunch of doctors and actors and forget about the people who do the real damage?" That's our communal Achilles Heel. Here's the play: Collective Shout organizes a bunch of phone calls to payment processors demanding the elimination of NSFW/LGBT/ETC content. Payment processors go "oh, that's a lot of phone calls, we should do something" and then tell Steam and Itch to comply with those demands or be cut off from being able to do business. Then Steam and Itch have to make a decision between cutting off an arm and clamping down, or take a stand and shoot themselves in the head, functionally nuking their entire platform which, especially for Steam, have exponentially farther reaching ramifications.

Then our community gets mad at *them* and start calling them cowards and boot lickers and profess never to support them again. And like, yeah I get that getting mad at Itch is easy when you've got nothing to lose, but what the fuck with "I'll only support you, the comparatively small business with no real power as long as you can singlehandedly and successfully fight off the international might of the owners of theocratic capitalism with no further action from me?" like do people really not see the distance between creators and Itch (that's like, what? 30 people?) vs fucking Mastercard?? When the Goblin has Spider-man under his glider, we start throwing shit at him, we don't go "Damn, Spider-man, you said you'd save us. I guess you suck. Fuck you." So if you want to be more than a useful, reactionary pawn, I'm linking to a bunch of posts where smarter people than I are sharing payment processors phone numbers, scripts on how to talk to them, and other resources. If you do not pick up your phone and make that call you have *no* right to be mad at a company that has historically been pretty good about their support for creators and are likely trying to figure out how to weather this storm in real time.

grumble grumble

𝔐𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔦 🪦

no shame in going off tbh! we've all got some media related things that we feel strongly about 😤 (i also don't take comms, says so in my pinned!! o/)

RIGHT THOUGH??? IT'S JUST... ODD TO ME... it's dragonair inspired but they leave out one of the two things that stand out on its design (bc i remember the neck orb more than i remember the tail orbs tbh)

i guess they left the tiny wings there for the charm, but like. it's still dragonite, y'know??

it's also funny bc apparently i had a save file that i'd started and /almost/ finished but forgot about. and there's a specific... thing that i thought was a glitch until i remembered. ah. right. no this is correct, actually

in unrelated news, guess who played oneshot againnn after like 7 years (it was me) (it made me emotional again) (me when i GET you, oneshot writers)

A Mega Dragonite with a slightly tweaked design: its smaller wings have been removed, and additional pearls have been added to its neck and tail. The tail is also longer. The written notes say "Just embrace the ear wings >:/ (tiny ones gone), "and!!! give him his necklace back!!" and "MORE noodle"

pokemon spoilers, pokemon z-a spoilers. i'm not using the adult content warning for spoilers, use your gotdang mute function

but anyway!! i'm largely indifferent @ the pokemon news. i just wish they embraced the dragonair vibes just a little more with the mega 😤 (it just feels weirdly naked to me)

Rin, anthropomorphic arctic fox, scowls and looks at the camera fluffily

they are a soft fluffy snowfox.... 🦊

LMAOO TRUST ME, I'VE BEEN GETTING THE FULL KITTEN EXPERIENCE, i at least knew what i'd be getting into tho 😤

he may or may not have unintentionally been named after the game deltarune bc we had a different name for him initially (ppl we got him from thought he was a girl at first) and I had to come up with something on the spot at the last minute, LMAO-

A picture of a black, bicolor two month old cat.

hi hello I rarely pet post, but here's a little guy :) his name's delta, we've had him for a little over 2 weeks

it's my first time raising a pet from this young! (my first cat laila was already a few months old when we found her, and my dog neena was 4-5 when she was brought in)

A big part of social media is the Secondary Hobbies. You need mutuals who have a harmless additional interest that you will otherwise never learn about, but you kind of root for it to work for them. I hope you do enjoy the new issue. Your needlepoint looks great. I'm +1ing for you

🎉🎉EEEEY WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!