You Guys Can Thank Me Later On This

i feel like there was a time where people would get mad at people saying "i dont usually like ___ but this is great!" like it was some big insult. to me that always seemed like a deliberately bad faith interpretation of what would obviously read to anyone normal as "i dont usually like ____ but this has qualities so exceptional that it overrides my usual preferences"

Warning: I DO use dude, man, bruh, and bro as completely gender neutral terms, HOWEVER if I call you one of the above and it bothers you, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me.

This has been a PSA 

We talk a lot about the decline of comment culture in fandom spaces these days, and I recently saw a post that reminded me of my prevailing theory about why that started.

I can't speak for everyone, but I know that I personally stopped commenting on people's art and fic on tumblr specifically when I saw the culture shift toward creators berating and publicly shaming the people who reblogged their work for any kind of comments or tags that the creator didn't like.

I stopped commenting art when I saw prominent posts going around ranting about how awful it was to see comments like "I don't usually like x but your work..." and "don't ever ever compare an artist's work to another thing you like" and "don't tag as kin/don't tag as your OC's name."

And then came the era of artists starting to investigate the blogs of people who reblogged their work, and shame/mock/harass/block anyone who reblogged their art who appeared to have a fandom opinion they didn't agree with.

And I am not saying there were even a lot of artists, writers etc DOING this.

But there was enough, and it was visible enough, to make the idea of commenting or leaving a tag on someone's work seem daunting.

Because you never knew if that creator was going to explode on you for some harmless comment wanting to be nice and share your thoughts about it, or even just because you reblogged their art and they decided they didn't like you.

@artchallengegame day theme:

Day 10: cat & skyline

Day 11: Donkey & podcast

Day 12: Bee sail and strom

Day 13: Fennec Fox

Didn't get to finish the challenge within January but best to share what I have

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

Discord Art Fight Angel V.s Demon (June-July 2024) in a Discord server I'm part in

All the characters belong to the members of the Discord server

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.

Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.

Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉

Sorry I'm kind of dissociated and my vocab crashes during that can you explain the Biden drug thing in just. Shorter simple sentences.

Sure! You're not the only one who's mentioned being unclear on what it means either, and I'm happy to help

(Context for anyone else: US Sets Policy to Seize Patents of Government-Funded Drugs if Price Deemed Too High, via Good News Network, December 11, 2023)

From the very basics:

When drug companies create new drugs, they get a legal protection called a "patent." The patent means no one else can make or sell the same drug for whatever number of years.

Usually, this is about 10 years after the drug starts being sold to the public.

So, for those years, that one drug company is the only source of whatever medication. And since people need their medication, drug companies can charge however much money they want.

Meaning a lot of drugs that people need to live cost way too much money to buy.

So, with this, Biden told drug companies "Fuck you, if you keep making medicine too $$$ for people to afford, I'm giving your competition the right to make and sell those drugs too."

The US has never done anything like this before.

This is a huge threat to the whole (awful) drug industry in the US. It will save people thousands of dollars. If he does this, it will save lives.

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Edit 12/17/23: Quick note, as people have said in the notes, this only applies to drugs made in part using taxpayer money. Which is! Literally all of them!

Inaccurate File Sonic AU || Page 3

Reblog Only [NO REPOSTING]

Sonic is not done yet, he has a mission now to get out and discovers a mysterious crystal calling his name. What could it be? Does it hold the answers on how to leave?

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