amptp’s bluffing by the way

A rebuttal to the Deadline article.

when conservatives scream "socialism!" as if it's a dirty word, this is what they mean:

it's okay to give media CEOs salaries equal to all the combined benefits that workers are striking to attain, but it's not okay for workers to demand fair and equitable treatment or compensation

You are allowed to write a better world than you see.

Write soft academia. Write loyal friends. Write healthy relationships. Write good parents. Write siblings who get along.

You can have a plot even when your characters love each other. You can have tension even when people are kind.

*puts my interests in a blender* haha two for one

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

• Second kudos:
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">
• Third kudos:
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">
• nth kudos:
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">
• yet another kudos:
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

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let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

LOUD NOISES!! Gonna go through my bookmarks and put wacky kudos on your fics and YOU CAN'T STOP ME. <3

Image description: tweet by @/ImNotJK that reads, "Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends." In response, @/eatinginmycar says, "the best thing you can do early in your career is realize no company will ever care about you and you should work as little as you need to in order to get by and not give them even one extra second of your life." end ID

Listen man, you do just enough to not get yelled at.

• Do the job, do the work well, but don’t do things that aren’t your job
• Management is not your friend
• You meet the deadline, but you make sure the deadline is actually doable without extra unpaid work.
• You never underestimate how long something will take to make your boss feel good.
• You always pad your estimates to account for random bullshit that always comes up.
• Someone else’s promise is not your promise.
• If they promise you some reward for getting something done quicker or extra work, make them put it in writing.
• A raise in pay is better than a one time bonus, unless it is a big bonus
• If you are salaried, don’t work over 40 hours, otherwise you are giving away your time for nothing.
• The only recognition that matters is more money in your paycheck

anyway blackout poetry not just as an art form, but as an act of violence against other works of art

taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make

i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture

just to be clear: i love blackout poetry, im not criticizing it here. i am just waxing poetic about it. i dont really know where im going with this i just have Thoughts about art being destructive

A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:

• When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.
   
  
• If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.
   
  
• This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.
   
  
• Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.
   
  
• This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.
   
  
• Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.
   
  
• This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.
   
  
• Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.
   
  
• However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.
   
  
• Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.
   
  
• Tags are a divine mystery.
  

(For those going “how is this not obvious”, it’s about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)

It’s really good for stuff like this to go around every once in a while!  Strange as it may seem, people may in fact migrate here from Twitter or Instagram, where this stuff works differently and where there are different expectations of engagement.

DON’T FORGET - *most* Tumblr users DO NOT MIND if you engage with their OLD posts!  (Apparently on Instagram they do? this baffles me.) 

Many also don’t mind if you “spam” their notifications with a bunch of likes or reblogs in a row.  

Tumblr has a rich culture of Very Old Posts continuing to make the reblog rounds, and people become fond of them.

Also, unlike Twitter, you can reblog the same post multiple times.  Heck, you can reblog the same post every hour on the hour for days. (Please don’t.)  But you do see a lot of “oh this came across my dash again, must reblog” with posts users are fond of.  This is fine.

Tags ARE a divine mystery.  People use the tags both for organization (inasmuch as this works, sometimes), and for added commentary.  Commentary added to the tags will generally be seen by those who follow that person and see their reblog on their dash; but the OP and whoever they reblogged it from can also see the tags in the notifications. 

So again – you can use the tags for commentary, and many people do. But people WILL see it.  It just won’t “stick” with the post… necessarily.  Tumblr also has a culture of people seeing some tags they think are relevant or clever, and reblogging a post with someone else’s tags included.  So bear that in mind as well – something you put in the tags could get “pulled up” into a reblog chain by someone else, and this is generally seen as fine.

As a noob me self, nice!

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

(Why does this belong on my decidedly not-fan-fiction-related blog, you ask? Because this quote illustrates very well how assuming that anything where people put sex in it is debasing it, objectifying it, or simply ‘sexualizing’ it, etc. often misses a lot of the real picture of why people do that thing.)