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ashesofbluebells:

ao3org:

Hello!

Some exciting changes are coming to Video Blogging RPF over the next few weeks! We are happy to announce that Dream SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP, and a number of other Survival Multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft roleplay fandoms will be getting their very own fandom tags. These changes will be starting 10 May 2022, beginning with Dream SMP.

We want to thank you for your patience both in getting to this point, and in the coming weeks as these changes take place! Our volunteers have worked hard towards this change since 2021, and we will do our best to make this transition go as smoothly as possible.

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Fuuuuuuuyck yessssss!!!! Finally!

Wait, do I have to change all my tags manually?! Because I have a lot of works, with a lot of tags….

Depends what tags you used. Like it said in the post, if you only used Videoblogging RPF or Minecraft for the fandom, you’ll want to add the actual fandom tags now. If you already have your more specific fandom tags added, the wranglers will do all the work from the backend to make them point towards the new official tags.

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sigilmint:

cantina-band:

Watching twilight on a poorly hung projector. (x)

i couldn’t fucking resist

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Rating: CUTE!

Thanks for tagging me! This is a video of a black-and-white Tegu chasing a ball, and all of the tegu’s body language is telling me that it’s a relaxed but curious animal and isn’t feeling stressed.

Tegus are anecdotally known to enjoy chasing balls for fun, and I think that’s what we’re seeing in this video. The way the tegu scrambles at the beginning is just because it’s having trouble getting traction on the slippery floor.

All’s good here!

isakaru:

the problem with kids these days is that they dont watch linkin park anime amvs

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paleiobotanicalbackwardslicorice:

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twosidedcherrytrees:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

sometimes I forget orchids grow on trees and I’m like. oh.

They do what now?

in the wild, most orchids grow on tree bark, a fact which will never not bring me a profound sense of delight

interestingly, orchids aren’t parasites–they are just harmless squatters hanging out with their arboreal buddies. it’s a form of commensalism–one organism benefits, the other neither benefits nor is harmed.

OK but orchids ARE parasites. They just aren’t parasites on trees. All orchids have this very bizzare lifecycle where they begin life as parasites on fungi. Here’s the rough strategy:

1. There’s a tradeoff between how much nutrients can be in a single seed and how many seeds you can make. On one end is the double coconut, the largest seed in the world weighing as much as a small child but each double coconut palm tree makes relatively few seeds per individual per season. OR. Make a fuckton of seed that individually cost very little to make. A lot of your small nonwoody plants chose this option, grasses, dandelions, any little weeds usually.

2. But there’s a limit to how far you can push this.

3. And by god orchids crossed it.

4. Orchid seeds are so fucking small they don’t have the energy stores to fucking germinate.

5. Orchid seeds are so small that they only consist of a few cells that haven’t decided who’s going to be roots or leaves yet.

6. And this is great! If you preferred habitat is in trees where the ability to disperse from one treetop to the next and find the right little spot on that tree to survive as a seedling for a few years is really hard. Lots of seed that can float on the wind and find just that spot is great for that.

7. But shit for actually, you know, being alive.

8. But orchids are crafty bastards.

9. Most plants try very hard not to be colonized by fungi, thats usually not good.

10. But orchid seeds just let fungi in.

11. And how the turn tables.

12. Because they just start eating the fungi back.

13. And this is where it gets weird.

14. Orchids are easily in the running for most diverse plant family at nearly 30,000 different species

15. And every single fucking one of them is like this.

16. And worse than that most of them are dependent on a single species of fungus to do this for them, so they produce millions of seeds just so that one might find the one right fungus.

17. And then after that anything can happen.

18. Some orchids are nice and start paying back their hosts onve they get big enough to phtotosynthesize with nice sugars.

19. Some orchids move on to as many as 30 other fungal species throughout their lives.

20. Some complete bastards keep being parasites after they are big enough to photosynthesize on their own. That’s right, a plant that can make its own food is stealing from something that lives on dead leaves.

21. Some orchids just never grow out of it, orchids have turned into permanent parasites more often than any other group of plants because they’re all parasites so becoming a full parasite is nbd.

22. And worse, most of these actually parasitize fungi that are symbiotic with forest trees that supply sugar to the fungi in return for better access to mineral nutrients, effectively making the orchids both parasites on the fungi and the trees, in a sense the whole ecosystem.

23. This leads to one more weird phenomenon. Mutant albino orchids unable to photosynthesize, of species that normally can photosynthesize, are often recorded as being able to reach maturity and flower without issue. because they just keep being parasites instead. Orchids can just. become parasites at will.

In conclusion orchids are just the weirdest fucking plants in the world. Technically all the above applies to this obscure group of ferns called the Ophioglossum family too. Same fucked up start out life as parasites and become independent (or not) later thing.

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fandomsandfeminism:

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nirruti:

anartchism:

shybi-n-ready2cry:

fandomsandfeminism:

Is there anything sadder than the little chunk of Kikis Delivery Service when Kiki says “I used to really like flying before it was my job” and then gets so burned out that her magic stops working and she cant talk to Jiji anymore and she tries so hard to FORCE the magic that she breaks her mothers broom and stays up all night, alone, trying to make a new one and crying?

And I know it is all ok in the end- Kiki has friends who look out for her and she takes care of herself and finds her place.

But fuck, those 20 minutes just hurt my heart so much.

We didn’t watch the same movie

I’m sorry for the long reply that is coming. I really like this movie, and explaining how to analyze media to others is like…literally my job.

Kiki…does make friends. Before the “I used to really like flying before it was my job” and the subsequent burn out, she is friends with Tombo and Ursula, and has a good relationship with Osono and the old lady. Really the only 2 people we see Kiki fail to connect with are the older witch at the beginning and the old lady’s grand daughter.

What we see a lot of is Kiki turning her passion, and only talent as a witch, into her job. We see her try *really hard* at this job, including letting it interfere with her new friendships and making herself sick (She misses Tombos party because she gets caught in the rain delivering the Herring Pie.)

Kiki is able to use her magic again after 1. Resting and hanging out with someone who is already her friend, Ursula, and 2. Having a reason to use her magic that ISNT for work (to save Tombo, who is also already her friend)

In the epilogue montage, we see Kiki using her magic more casually, not just for work (hanging out with Tombo and his other friends)

So the movie really isnt about “making friends.” She made friends easily, and the resolution wasnt connected to making additional friends or befriending the characters who werent kind to her. The movie is about entering adulthood and striking a balance between using your talents for work and for pleasure. If it relates to friendship at all, its that Kikis over-dedication to her job made her miss Tombos party. (Which he wasnt angry about, but Kiki was very upset at missing)

It’s also worth noting that the entire plot of Kiki losing her magic wasnt in the book- it is Miyazakis invention, and it tells us a lot about what themes he felt were important.

A lot of Miyazakis movies are blatantly about capitalism, greed and profit, and the relationship that people have with labor. (Also industrialization and environmentalism) Before the fall of the USSR (1991), Miyazaki was a pretty vocal Marxist (Kikis came out in 1989.) After this, while Miyazaki moved away from Marxism specifically, his movies still focus heavily on the dangers of industrialization and profit seeking. (Spirited Away springs to mind for this.)

So, is it a jokey exaggeration to suggest that Kikis Delivery Servive is itself a Marxist Text? Yes, ofcourse. They are funny memes. Is the movie still very much about burn out and the dangers of committing too much of yourself to your job at the expense of your own happiness and sense of self (hence the joking comparison to the idea of Labor Alienation as described by Marx) ? Also yes. Is it about “making friends” ….no. The book is. But the book and the movie are pretty different in that regard.

But does overcommitting to one’s job necessarily come from capitalistic pressures? Can it not be Kiki’s personal choice for personal reasons?

That is going to depend on whether your analysis considers the “author dead” so to speak.

In a completely isolated “the author is dead, the text and only the text is considered” reading, Kikis is a story about burn out and the struggle to find authenticity during the transition into adulthood and specifically into the work force. Which isnt *inherently* anti-capitalist, no.

If we take a more “look, the author is right there” approach and consider Miyazakis life, what was going in with him at the time, his quotes about the movie, etc, we can move more into that anti-capitalist reading.

1989 saw Miyazaki as still a vocal Marxist. We have quotes of his about how one of the things Kiki deeply struggles with is the realization that sometimes you just have to work for money, without appreciation or respect for doing the job. And the fact that the movie specifically connects Kikis magic to Ursulas art, when Miyazaki is an artist working in an industry that is known to be highly exploitative of its artists in the pursuit of profit. All together that paints a deeper picture as what the film could be commenting on.

Like I said, I wouldnt consider Kikis to be like…explicitly Marxist literature or anything. But there is a reading critical of capitalism and the negative relationship that can form between worker and their craft there if you want to look for it.

18kgold:

millennial-review-deactivated20:

No offence to anyone, but… this is incredibly transparent propaganda. I’m not defending the Biden administration or anything, but Trump did not, in fact, send shit. Congress approved some slight relief – which Republicans consistently blocked above $600 – and that was it until Biden and the newly Democratic Congress was inaugurated. The next $1400 was under the Biden administration, and the big kerfuffle was their assurance that it would be $2k, then they decided to count the earlier $600 towards that total.

Remember how Trump called for the checks to be raised to $2k with the explicit assurance from McConnell that any such increase would be blocked? Remember how the checks originally were supposed to be signed “Trump”? That was intended to make Trump look like he gave a shit. So is this. He didn’t. The current administration has fucked up a ton, but any comparison with Trump’s response, whether in relief checks or on any other level, is utter bullshit. 

Trump will most likely be running in ‘24, with state-level infiltration of all voting procedures intended to override a losing vote. Stuff like this tweet is the same type of post-truth rabble-rousing used throughout his ‘16 and ‘20 campaigns. Ask yourself, who benefits from this sort of thing? The People? No, the ones seeking to take advantage of social-governmental collapse, same as before. Please consider why there’s this knee-jerk assumption that any hot take is equivalent to speaking truth to power or some shit just because it taps into your rage.

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naryrising:

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butterflyinthewell:

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hex-fauna:

tired-fandom-ndn:

I’ve seen a lot of fics disappear from my bookmarks, some 10+ years old, because they were added to an unrevealed collection. It makes me wonder if people realize what your fic being added to a collection actually means and if the authors approved it automatically without realizing what would happen.

If someone adds your fic to their collection, they can hide it! They can mark the collection as unrevealed and your fic will be unreadable to anyone other than them! If you’re writing works for a surprise event, like a Secret Santa, this is really nice.

But if you’re just writing and someone adds your fic to a collection for their own personal use and marks it as unrevealed, that… really sucks.

I bookmarked this fic in 2017, almost 5 years ago. Knowing me, the fic itself was probably at least a couple years old at the time I bookmarked it.

This is a 5+ year old fic that is completely inaccessible now because it was added to a collection that, as far as I can tell, is literally just for the collection owner’s own reference. There’s almost 30 fics in the collection, all of them unrevealed.

Please don’t blindly accept collection requests and if your works ARE in a collection, make sure that they aren’t being hidden without your knowledge or consent.

Are you able to remove a work from collection after you allow it or is it just a story that’s just fucked?

Yes, you can remove your works! From the faq:

If you’re the creator of the work:

1) Select the “Edit” button from the work’s page and scroll down to the “Associations” section.

2) Select the red (×) beside the collection name you want to remove next to “Post to Collections / Challenges”.

3) Select “Post” to apply the change. The work will be immediately removed from the collection.

I’m not sure if you get an alert if your fic is marked as unrevealed though, so keep an eye on the collections that your works are part of.

There’s also an option in your preferences to accept collection invitations automatically. I would highly recommend making sure that that option is not selected.

I realize this might be a dirty trick pro-censorship fandom harassers might try to pull on some people, so yeah.

Boosting for visibility.

Hey folks, trying to dissuade the panic instinct, as this has been addressed by AO3 in your preference section of your account (as someone mentioned above). I don’t remember exactly when the change happened (bc what even is linear time anymore?) But my gut instinct says somewhere in late 2020/early 2021.

By default, the option to automatically accept being in a collection (the scary-bad-thing where suddenly without notice your fic could be scooped up and marked unrevealed) is OFF. You have to now manually make the decision to have this enabled.

Fics that are old and are currently inaccessible probably got scooped up way before any current 2021/2022 bad fandom behavior. If you’re a relatively inactive ao3 user you might want to take a stroll through your “works in collections” page to check for this past issue, but again AO3 definitely changed the default behavior for this a while ago.

As above re. this not really being an issue anymore, plus - sometimes people deliberately put their works into unrevealed collections, in order to hide them from view. This is actually what we advise people to do in certain cases, should they contact AO3 support to ask - if they are like “I’m unhappy with this work being publicly available for whatever reason, but don’t want to lose all the nice comments I got”, the first thing we’ll advise them is that they can put it into an unrevealed collection. That way they don’t lose any feedback, stats, etc., and it’s reversible (unlike orphaning or deleting) if they do happen to decide in the future that they want the work to be made public again. This is a feature, not a flaw. It’s not uncommon for people to go through a phase where, say, they hate their old work and don’t want anyone to see it, or they want to revise it and polish it up, or they’re thinking of filing the serial numbers off for publication. And maybe in a year or two, they feel differently and reveal it again.

Can we know why every single person’s work in an unrevealed collection is there? No. It’s likely some are accidental, and it’s a great idea to check if you think this might have been the case with your works (although again, this is much less likely than it was 5 years ago). But I can say with 100% certainty that some are deliberate, and in those cases this is the preferable solution, because otherwise that person would probably have deleted their story entirely and it would just be gone. This way the work is preserved safely, although out of sight, and maybe will appear again someday, depending how the creator feels about it.

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my life has been comedy hell for the past 48 hours. so this tiktok zoomer used my email address to sign up for a tiktok account. how tiktok allowed them to do this, i have no idea. aren’t real, respectable social media sites supposed to force you to validate the email before it is used? smh. but i noticed this about a week or so ago. i sent tiktok a ticket telling them to take my email off to no avail. okay, so after receiving the 20th tiktok notification in my email i decide to take matters into my own hands. i reset the password on the account and logged in to make it stop.

then, i posted a tiktok telling the user to POST THEIR EMAIL IN THE COMMENTS so I can change the account ownership over to them. sounds simple enough, but it is here that i truly learned the failure of the american education system. the original user and their friend posted hysterically about how they were going to “text tiktok” to get the account back, i’m a hacker, their username only has letters and numbers in it, how did you change the password, etc. i explained, over ten times, simply and nicely, that this person signed up with my email, and i simply need them to read the instructions and post their email so i can change the account ownership.

whoever is raising zoomers have failed. mfers can’t even read anything more complex than a tiktok caption anymore. stop letting these ipads raise your children or i will call copmala harris. this is the living result of politicians defunding public education. anyway. after an hour, i suppose the two and a half braincells they share rubbed together and an email was provided, but the email is already attached to another account!

i realized this absolute child prodigy signs up for tiktok accounts with emails they have no control over and she makes new accounts when she needs to reset the password. she’s in Fr*aking high school and by that age I know yall have to use your email for stuff. wtf. like this is some shit i’d expect my over 70 year old internet savy-less grandmother to do, and not even she does this! Anyway. Maybe I will receive a functional email at some point today. They are probably asleep because they need to wake up early to attend the grade school that is not teaching them how to read. 😎🔫 WAIT NO THEY ARE NOT IT IS THE WEEKEND. 😎🔫

I’m on hour four, and I had to copy/paste instructions on how to register a Gmail multiple times. They seemingly thought I was speaking a different language. But it penetrated their steel-crafted domes after the fifth attempt. I am making progress!

We are on hour 17 and a gmail has been created, but it has yet to be provided. We are almost there. And for those wondering, they didn’t hack my email. They just put a random phrase in the email field then typed @gmail.com when they signed up for the tiktok account, but it just so happened that their strings of words ended up being one of my exact email addresses letter for letter lol. What’s funny is that they actually have a personal email so they know what it is, but this kid and her friend have no conception that an email address is one of the ways social media sites establish ownership, so i had to explain this. They literally create new accounts when they forget their password instead of sending a password reset email. Zoomers are the new boomers, confirmed.

On hour 18, we have finally transferred ownership of the account. We have educated the youth on internet literacy. My email will no longer be ruthlessly assailed by the hottest Tiktok dance compilations any longer. Thank you for supporting me in this journey. I am free.

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