“And then you use the needle to pick up the thread… Yes, like that! And you pull it through… Just like that!”
ISTUS, MY LOVE, THIS IS INSANITY. I MIGHT AS WELL WILL THE FINAL PRODUCT INTO EXISTENCE. THE CREATURE WILL BE DECEASED BEFORE I AM FINISHED.
“No no no no, love! You’re doing so well!”
…TRULY?
“Yes! I’m so proud of you!”
HMM.
“And everyone loves homemade gifts.”
HOME, MADE?
“Something you make yourself!”
IT WOULD STILL BE MADE BY ME IF I JUST “MADE” IT HAPPEN…
“That’s quitter talk, and surely Kravitz and Taako will value the work you put in.”
BELOVED, I AM UNSURE…
“Nonsense! The yarn you chose is nice and soft, even if the color is a little drab – for my taste but Kravitz will surely appreciate it – and you can’t even see the lumpy, uneven stitchwork thanks to the fluffy texture of the thread!”
Is there anything more nauseating than ‘expensive heterosexual wedding’ culture?
My dream wedding: outside, illegal fireworks, shoes are optional, mostly potluck, someone’s dressed as a wizard, I get to insult my relatives, hopefully some live music.
You want to get married at Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday
Plume is an open-source, federated, user-run blogging platform. There are no ads, no data harvesting, posts come to you in chronological order, NSFW is and always will be allowed (depending on the instance), and it has a lot of tumblr-like features other sites lack: no character limit, a rich text editor with bold/italic/hyperlinks/etc, inline pictures, headers, tags at the bottom that can be used to organize posts on your blog, comments, likes, sideblogs, and so on. It’s still under very active development too, meaning more features are on their way!
But what about the userbase? You may ask. I’ve never even heard of Plume – is it completely dead? The answer is yes and no – there aren’t that many people on Plume, true, but that doesn’t matter. Plume uses ActivityPub, the same standard used by Mastodon and the other sites on the fediverse – what that means is people on Mastodon can follow you, see your posts, and like/comment them from Mastodon. Same with other platforms like WriteFreely, PixelFed, Hubzilla, Diaspora, Pleroma, Friendica, etc, etc. And I can tell you from experience, the fediverse is bumpin’; you won’t have to worry about your audience
The problems with tumblr are inherent with centralized corporate social media, and switching to another corporate master won’t solve them. What you need to do is stop giving power to profit-motivated companies to control your experience. Take that power back yourself on the fediverse! Join Plume!!!
Please signal boost and tell your friends who want to leave tumblr about Plume!
@damnfool-of-a-took so Plume is currently in it’s first Alpha release – it’s not even Beta software yet. And… it shows. Yes, it supports rich text formatting through Markdown, which is nice. But there are a lot of features that it doesn’t seem to support yet – following other blogs, for one. Which is, you know, a key feature for any social media platform, let alone one that’s hoping to duplicate Tumblr’s functionality.
The only features that seem to be working right now are user registration, blog creation, post creation, and post tagging (and editing/deletion for all of those). There’s something that offers to be a way to upload images, but it’s definitely currently broken.
It has potential! It’s just nowhere near ready right now.
Next I’m going to give Pleroma a try – it promises to be super lightweight, but also potentially duplicating the experience of Mastodon (a note, as well: for Mastodon & most other fediverse software, post length is something that can be set on a per-instance basis. There are definitely Mastodon instances that have 5000+ character limits).
Cool, good to know
I super-duper appreciate the amount of research you guys are putting into this btw
I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.
This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.
You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.
“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.
If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.
This needs to be reblogged today.
Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut
Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following:
1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place
2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about
3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU
4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia
5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all
6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.
7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.
8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.
9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.
If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.
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