Maimoncat

Can you hear us? Can you feel what we’re going through? Fear. Hunger. Death. A never-ending siege. The silence of the world hurts as much as the bombs.

We're crying out to your humanity—please don't look away. Speak about us. Stand with us. We're not okay. We're trying to survive.

This is not a nightmare. It's our reality.

Don't forget us. Do something—anything. Share. Donate. Repost. Help keep us alive.

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r/scrungycats is fucking amazing

They just like me.

@shuchelle

nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

i will not deal!!!! that is not how any of this works!!!!

if you see people doing this shit, report it. its against the terms of service.

genuinely. copy the link to the fic or series, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page:

click on policy questions & abuse reports which takes you to this page:

if you scroll down, youll be able to report the fic right there but you can also check for yourself that its against ToS

all you need to do is explain that theyre deliberately mistagging things which is just not a thing on ao3 because its an archive.

by posting your fic there, ao3, has the right to manually recategorise tags. its in the ToS:

you cant deliberately mistag stuff on ao3; it is an archive. you cant tag for reach, and this is likely gonna get pat tag wranglers because they deal mostly with form not content of tags and if theyre tagging for reach, its gonna be the more popular tags.

so report the fuck out of them for it. most likely, their fic will just have tags adjusted and their account will be fine.

and if they keep doing it and get suspended for it, its their own damn fault.

also thats not even getting into the fact that mistagging fics is kinda antithetical to their goal of reaching more people because youre not reaching the people who want to read your fic?

i am about to create an au SO self indulgent. the target audience is 1 person and that person is me

Ich wollte bei @aniflowers LeshyCatPril mitmachen. Irgendwie fiel mir außer dieser Szene nichts für den Blumenprompt ein. Wie ihr seht, will mir diese Idee noch nicht aus den Kopf kommen. Den Comic zu zeichnen war echt schnell, aber ich werd ihn wohl später fertigmalen, bin momentan ziemlich kaput. Außerdem wollte ich noch einen anderen LeshyCat Comic fertig kriegen! 😉

I wanted to take part in @aniflowers's LeshyCatPril. Somehow, this scene was the only thing I could come up with for the flowers prompt. As you can see this simply wouldn't leave my mind. Sketching the comic went really quickly, but I think I'll finish it later on, I'm kinda spent right now.

Anyway, here's the english text:

Leshy: I think I miss the camellia's colour the most

Somy: I'm sorry abou that… at least you can still smell them, right?

Leshy: you try it

Somy: hm? … oh…. They're scentless

Leshy: welp…

Somy: sorry I just… didn't think this through

Leshy: s'alright… the best part of them is the taste, anyway!

Somy: LESHY, NO!

Volevo partecipare al LeshyCatPril di @aniflowers, ma mi è venuta in mente solo questa scena per la voce "fiori". Vabbè, è sempre la stessa storia. Magari un giorno lo terminerò, ma momentaneamente sono davvero sfinito e ho altre cose di cui mi sto occupando. Qui il testo in italiano:

Leshy: credo che il colore delle camelie sia quello che mi manca di più.

Somy: mi dispiace… almeno puoi ancore sentirne il profumo, no?

Leshy: provaci tu

Somy: eh? … Ah… non ha odore

Leshy: già…

Somy: scusami… non ci ho proprio pensato

Leshy: fa niente… la parte migliore resta comunque il sapore!

Somy: LESHY, NO!

I posted before about Paul O. Zelinsky's art, and there's another artist I want to bring forward: Roberto Innocenti's illustrations for Pinocchio.

Aaaaaaah, this was the edition I grew up with!

Those giant detailed tuscan sceneries, where both the reader and the very small Pinocchio get lost in!

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

Recently, a privately funded asteroid mission failed immediately after launch. Here are some choice excerpts from the company's blog post about it:

they cost that much because they do integration testing

.....by skipping integration testing

"skipping integration testing was the right move actually"

come fucking on.

AND YOU FUCKING LAUNCHED ANYWAYS

it failed immediately you dipshits

or you could. i don't know. do integration testing?

source

Hey, Fuckchop: If you did it for 10% but you have to do it 10 times? You fucking failed AND didn’t save any goddamn money.

Even if you had the money to throw away, why would you launch with known problems? What are you possibly learning from this? Were they just hoping those wouldn't matter? "Yeah, whoops, blew up an expensive payload because we figured it was worth rolling the dice on problems we already knew about instead of waiting for a new launch window!"

Launching-as-part-of-iterative-design only makes sense for a kid's model rocket you don't have other testing methods for. Or for things that don't explode.

Launching substandard low-cost products to low earth orbit is a decent way to make a lot of improvements fast. I say this as someone who has directly designed/built/flown over 700 smallsats at a couple different startups. New teams don't realize how difficult troubleshooting in space is until they've done it at least once (or in Planets case.... A half dozen times). But the trick is to do it in low earth orbit which is relatively benign (fuck you solar maximum) and decently accessible for communication.

The problem is this gives these idiots the idea that they can apply the same rapid design to things that are multiple orders of magnitude more difficult. Anything that requires being outside earths atmosphere???? Fuck me man. It's awful.

I'm landing a sensor on the moon next year and every fucking week I have to argue with the CTO that no, we cannot skip this environmental test. Why? Well the last three tests revealed fundamental flaws in our understanding of the expected thermal repercussions of the estimated lunar environment. This next test, which will be off actual telemetry data from a comparable location currently on the moon is also non-negotiable. And it has to happen on the flight model so if we find a big fuck up we have a chance to fix it before delivery.

No it cannot be fixed after shipping by "pushing software".

As someone who has built crewed vehicles under the NASA safety system and built uncrewed NASA instruments there are things I'm willing to be a little looseygoosey with in build-fast-break-things mentality of low earth orbit. I'm not willing to take that risk anything higher than MEO because it's a waste of their money and my time.

Andddd now all the icons are big. What the fuck

you're literally god can't you change it back

porn artists getting treated as below sfw artists is so funny to me considering the dude who is the grandfather of anime drew furry TF porn in his spare time for fun.

i hope he knows this art is extremely revolutionary

NSFW art is important. kink is important lmao

no, SEXUAL EXPRESSION WITHIN ART IS IMPORTANT. Better wording

Sillies

Damn, I’m depressed now

Going back to this, I just wanna add that I’ve always thought Charlotte’s Web was a great way to introduce the concept of death to kids.

But instead most parents nowadays would rather shield their kids from learning about hard topics and instead just shove an iPad playing Cocomelon in their faces

I know this word gets thrown around wayyyy too much on this website but it's really worrying how so many people have borderline fascist view on art. "Art is supposed to make me feel good and only praise good things and do it obviously" That's not art then. That's propaganda or hedonist indulgence. It rots your brain, telling you exactly what you must think and feel. Those are the same people who hate abstractionism, metal music or modern public performances. It forces them to consider the existence of things they do not like nor understand and god does it make them angry