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SONIC AU COLLISION

As you may or may not have noticed, the sonic-au-collision blog has been deactivated.

Even now, I don't know the reason why. I hadn't accessed the settings that day or gotten near anything that could have led to myself accidentally deleting the blog. I had checked my emails and scavenged all through Tumblr to see if they had given any prior notice if they were going to delete the blog. There was nothing.

I tried contacting Tumblr support on April 8 and have yet to hear back from them.

After thinking it over the past few days, I have decided to continue Mini Collision sign-ups here on my main blog while I continue to work on getting this issue sorted. Depending on the outcome, the polls will then be hosted on the original blog or on a new one.

Please consider reblogging and sharing this post so more people are aware of the current circumstances. Thank you all for your support and understanding <3

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Dichotomy time if you were depicted in a red/blue characters dynamic

No other colors you are getting SHOEHORNED into these boxes

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

sorry if this is controversial but if you’re rude to cashiers i think you should. idk. Explode

the lack of patience and overwhelming sense of entitlement….. Start pointing at fellow customers and loudly asking “why are you acting like that?” let’s all hold hands and do this. together

"boycott it on launch and buy it the next day" so....a boycott where you buy it anyway after the one single day you refrain from purchasing it?

I'm really starting to think people don't understand what a boycott is

ffs the death note is not a trolley problem it's a "how riddled with hubris are you" problem

everyone thinks they're the exception who can use it for the greater good without corruption. The entire point of the entire series is that human beings are inherently incapable of wielding that kind of power without becoming corrupted by it. The Death Note is The One Ring, not a trolley lever.

And those of you smugly claiming it's immoral not to use it to kill Hitler: a. the Death Note does not come with time traveling capabilities; b. the Death Note does not grant the wielder the ability of foresight even if the temporal positioning lined up, and c. YOU DON'T USE FASCIST METHODS TO UNSEAT FASCISTS, YA DINGUS

This reminds me of a discussion I had with my partner about "The Substance" (and I promise it will come back to your post's point).

I watched the film with some of my Film Nerd friends and we all agreed that the point of The Substance was that it was a personality test. If you are the kind of person who would use The Substance, you will always misuse The Substance. If you are the kind of person who would never use The Substance, then you would use The Substance correctly. But it wouldn't matter because you wouldn't use it.

The clarity of the directions given in the film are mostly for the audience to understand the stakes. The Substance could have come with a manual as thick as a King novel and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to the story, because anyone who'd use The Substance will misuse it and would not be saved by incredibly detailed directions.

Then I watched the film with some of my more casual movie friends, ones who are learning about film theory and storytelling. And I started to talk about this dichotomy in the chat, only for one of them to loudly and smugly announce: "I would simply use The Substance correctly and live forever! I would never have a problem! I would follow all the rules!"

Which... no. You wouldn't, and the fact that you would even SAY that with no self-awareness makes me a little nervous around you.

I still haven't seen Death Note, but I am well aware that this is also the point of Death Note. The kind of person who would use a Death Note will always misuse a Death Note. No exceptions. The kind of person who would NOT misuse a Death Note would handle it correctly, but that's because they'd never use a Death Note. No exceptions.

The kind of person who says "Oh, well, why not kill Hitler with a Death Note?" is the most dangerous kind of person to acquire it. Because they're the personality type who simply, easily, casually, turns everyone they don't like into Hitler.

THAT LAST PARAGRAPH THOUGH

It's not even the "I would kill Hitler and I think I'm better than people who wouldn't" that scares me, it's the "I see nothing fundamentally flawed with this line of reasoning" bit.

It scares the shit out of me that capital punishment is no longer a Baby Leftist's First Opposition 101 issue. I thought we were against punitive justice.

Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.

Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.

This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.

The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.

This one text exchange could:

If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.

Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:

You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:

Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.

States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.

A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.

Fantastic addition

I actually can’t with pop psychology and the demedicalization of disabilities and conditions.

No, your ex is not a narcissist.

You are not “so OCD”

The weather isn’t bipolar.

Loving your boyfriend isn’t “BPD coded”

Small inconveniences aren’t trauma.

You aren’t “delusional” for having a crush.

Stop using medical language to describe everyday, non clinical experiences.

Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

oh and people with ASPD and borderline and bipolar disorder and anybody who experiences psychosis but doesn’t have schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder. i love all of you and i wish you the absolute best <3

i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or trying to bring back asexual discourse or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king