😈🌕🗡 | Daughter of Dragons

requiring a new piece of hardware for your new operating system in the midst of an unprecedented computing hardware shortage caused by the technology underpinning said new operating system is such a profoundly stupid no-win strategy it could only come from microsoft

it really is a sad thing the most collective appreciation we see for fandom writers is when ao3 goes down. it feels like a lot of people see ao3 as this magical place where thousands upon thousands of stories simply show up fully formed, with no thought of the people who write them

Sketch sheet featuring Eutrope and the Tyrant in various interactions, including a (powerful) handshake, drinking together whilst secretly pining, and near-miss drunk affections.

what's a few drinks between heavyweight champs, anyway (by @/coco100iluvya)

#tyrant #eutrope #crystalcms

ik commenting is hard, but u don't have to write a dissertation- even “this was amazing” or “i loved this” makes writers happy. it feels like some people treat fic writers like untouchable writing machines and don’t realize they’re fellow fans, who likely would love chatting abt their work with u

listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!

something i wanna note.

blocking doesn't unfollow someone. if you block someone before you unfollow them, you'll still be "following" them while having them blocked. you have to unfollow, and then block. same can be said in reverse (blocking a follower does not force them to unfollow you).

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too.

Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

I’m so sick of orientalism in fiction. I’m so sick of the blatantly sexualised and fetishised amalgams of a dozen cultures into one homogenous “exotic” blob. I’m so sick of White people saying I’m “reading too much into it” or “being performative” when it’s MY culture being bastardised.

A screenshot from FFXIV’s patch notes showing a dark-skinned Female Viera (bunny girl, left) wearing a white Sari-inspired top with white harem trousers with cutouts in the thighs. She is wearing gold sandals and her clothes are decorated with gold coins On the right is a male Hrothgar (Tiger? Man?? Wearing white harem pants, black sandals, and a red and gold draped top.

Anyway, the new “Corvosi” outfits look terrible.
“But surely they don’t mean it!” I don’t care.
“But it’s fantasy!” I don’t care.

We don’t live in a vacuum. We’ve had decades of writing and advocacy against Orientalism. Do your homework and do better.

Reminder that datamined stuff is absolutely spoilers until they're officially revealed, and please keep in mind that people are not idiots so telling someone 'you're gonna like this' or 'not to say x but......' will give a lot away to the right person and people who know them

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

[update] Monitoring: We have made some adjustments based on recommendations from our database vendor and will continue to monitor their impact on system stability.

Happy 20 years

Fun fact, technically my very first solo published book is a very Adult adult coloring book, and Smitten Kitten hosted my very first book event. They’re always looking out! I love them.

Oh hey, it's "AI Slop Bots perform a LITERAL CYBERATTACK on us to steal our fucking articles" o'clock again.

I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

[update] Investigating: Following guidance from our vendor, we've brought #AO3 back online to help troubleshoot. We expect the site will go back down, although we don't know when that will happen. If you choose to post or update your works while AO3 is up, we strongly recom...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

(curse the upload limit as always) #commission #MyArt

Usually ship stuff, and only events that are a week long, I can't do month long shit anymore.

I still have pose prompts from months ago in my saved posts page, I'm just very slow to create and often don't have the spoons for it after I get home from work.

[update] Investigating: AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software.

We're working with our ve...

gonna throw hands with a toddler. How Dare.

KHLOE FFS

Urgent : un chat.

Miaou miaou miaou miaou miaou miaou miaou

Time to boycott Shogakukan

[update] Investigating: We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down, which seem to be related to the previous incident. We will update when we have more information!

Do not give up. Do not give up. Do not give up. DO. NOT. GIVE. UP.

The horrors will continue but you HAVE to hold out hope. The vast majority of people globally are kind, empathetic and CARE. The evil this country is enacting WILL. NOT. LAST.

You have to fight back against despair.

An illustration of Haurchefant Greystone from Final Fantasy 14. His left side is facing us and his shield is covering most of his body as it's in the foreground. He is using his right hand to hold up his sword upwards and to his body. He has a somber expression on his face and blood splatters on his chain mail, chest, and face. There is a blood red moon behind him and a black background framing the entire illustration.

Haurchefant.

#haurchefant #joyeart

also i mute some words to avoid triggers, so people using these variations or censoring (like th*s) forces the post on my timeline which i gotta say feels very unfair to those of us who mute words to AVOID seeing these topics.