I've finished my final fill for 2024's @marveltrumpshate charity auction - @rufferto9 requested Steven Grant in his asylum outfit, Sleepy Time Clint & Bucky and Alpine - and here they are!
I have one commission currently available for April -PM me if you'd like me to make a cuddly version of your Marvel blorbo!
I love them so much! <3
So if you've been wondering what happened to me, I'm still here. I injured my writing hand in Late November and it has been healing very very slowly. Last month it finally started to get to a point where I could grip things without wincing in pain and now I am up to drawing in 30 minute intervals. What I have been doing is a lot of junk journal stuff. like so.
Anyway, that's why I haven't joined any events. I need to be able to finish my MTH fills before getting involved with anything else as whatever time I can make that requires drawing needs to be saved for that
I wish I had known about this years ago, I love stickers and fancy paper and creating scenes. Also, my mum was in the hospital from Dec 26th to Jan 24th having suffered a bad fall and broke her left shoulder. It was especially nerve wracking due to the Parkinsons. Anyway, It's been a difficult time. All's good now, thank goodness she lives in Canada and not this f'd up country. She gets four at home visits a day and they cook food for my parents. All paid for by the government because in Canada, they care about the elderly.
Chapter 38 here! :) Sorry it's been a while, Beta by the wonderful @controlofwhatido
“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”
I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.
Shout-out to all my darlings who have followed me since the beginning, sorry I don't remember who you are because you changed your avatar in 2017
Why did you follow this peron? Simple. Because we were mutuals on LiveJournal.
Why did I follow them on LiveJournal? I have no fucking idea.
every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me
just give me the top result please
Swear in your search request. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the most effective way I've found of it not doing the AI summary is just to add "fucking" go my search.
Holy shit
It also seems to get rid of sponsored posts
GUYS THIS FUCKING WORKS OH MY GOD. BEAUTIFUL.
It really does.:p oh my god.
FYI iPhone users!
Oh... oh that's disgusting.
For emphasis - YOU HAVE TO TURN THIS OFF FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL APP
You can get to all these faster (marginally) by going to Settings > Siri > Apps.
Very sneaky.
Apps with default ON rather than default OFF is a pet peeve of mine (Android do it too).
I don't use an iPhone but lots do, so reblog & signal boost.
I hate how on Tumblr, a username like lisa486 is almost certainly a pornblot, while someone named solidsnakesasscheeks is almost certainly a real person
I could be a porn bot if I wanted to
this is why I will never leave Tumblr.
unfortunately The Character has now lived rent free in my head for so long they can claim squatters' rights
That would be Bucky Barnes ....
I swear we used to be able to think critically about random GoFundMe asks
It used to be understood that if someone using a throwaway blog suddenly starts messaging a bunch of accounts to beg for money, they were most likely a scammer.
Now suddenly there are fucking swarms of throwaway bots relentlessly shilling GoFundMe campaigns to anyone who even so much as breathes in the direction of a trending tag or post, yet the mere suggestion that any of these could be a scam will immediately get you yelled at by self-righteous strangers.
What changed?
Because some people use specific causes as bludgeons and now people just blindly believe that anyone that claims to be suffering in a certain way must be telling the truth and must be helped at all costs. Which probably emboldens the scammers to try even more. And I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of the self-righteous strangers are scammers themselves since it already feels like some of the go-fund-me vetters are scammers or just believe the scammers.
I am so sick and tired of getting either random asks or just popping into some random post about nothing remotely related to these go-fund-me’s and seeing tons of replies pushing the same scams. It’s ridiculous.
If you think about it from the perspective of a would-be scammer, it's a golden racket. Not only do you not have to put in much work - it's not a coincidence that a lot of these messages have the same bland "corporate newsletter" tone that pervades 99% of AI generated text - but even if someone catches on and calls you out, as long as you've created a sympathetic enough character, a bunch of strangers on the internet will defend you from any and all accusations.
Not only is it less work than before, but now you don't even need to do anything to make people believe it, you just crowdsource that out, because calling out your scam is now cultural anathema.
Not saying to never help people if they need it, but like OP said, think critically about it. Do I know this person? Do I have any way of verifying their claims? Does their account have history of any activity other than "Randomly cold-call strangers asking for money"? Are they asking for money through a mechanism with zero recourse if they're ever outed as a scammer?
*looking at lifelong mutual* she's like a wife to me..
couple of good bois
Half of a million-years-late @marveltrumpshate auction fill for the lovely @rufferto9
