fremedon:

white-throated-packrat:

everbright-mourning:

largishcat:

yourlocalfallofthewest:

largishcat:

Audrey R., who’s running for the OTW board, is apparently also currently running for office. As a Republican

so uhhhhhh keep that in mind when you’re voting

you’re saying this like a liberal who has the view of republicans.bad dems good and vote blue no mayter who.

y-yes? i sort of think the website that was founded because every other website was purging queer fanwork would be best served by someone who isn’t a member of the We Love Burning Books and Killing Gay People party. but that’s just the humble opinion of someone with a brain that works

For give me, but is this person running for Ao3 board and CONGRESSS at the same time??

Read Fairestcat’s breakdown of Audrey R’s answers to the OTW candidate Q&A for more in-depth reasons you probably don’t want to vote her onto the board https://fairestcat.dreamwidth.org/678527.html

Then read about all the other candidates and decide who you DO want to vote for – there are 6 candidates and 4 open seats – https://elections.transformativeworks.org/otw-elections-candidates/

Reminder that if you want to vote AGAINST someone in the OTW Board elections, you need to NOT RANK THEM AT ALL. If you rank them last, you’ve still voted for them–just less enthusiastically than you’ve voted for everyone else.

Rank ONLY the candidates you would be WILLING to see win. DO NOT rank any candidates you would not be willing to see win.

mutterisims ==> peachieyeenbeans

animentality:

taraljc:

thoughtportal:

Polari

Thanks to this video, I just read a bajillionty nifty notes on the etomology of zhuzh

st-just:

Without hyperbole government offices that take half an hour of waiting to get anywhere and close at 4pm are are a form of oppression against the working class

spacelazarwolf:

xirlos:

spacelazarwolf:

i never know how explicit to make the sex scenes in my books. do i placate the ppl who think that saying the word ‘cock’ is basically porn or do i write for my fellow degenerates who want all the horny details

*taps sign*

u know what ur so right

antisocialxconstruct:

a ship dynamic that’s less of an “italicized ’oh’ moment” and more of an “italicized ‘ah fuck’ moment”

stryfeposting:

wolverine facts.

dan schkade on twitter

Anonymous asked:

Do you know what RSS means? I've seen that a lot webcomics have a RSS page but I've been never quite sure what it does.

unpretty:

unpretty:

unpretty:

readwebcomicsgdi:

Yeah! RSS stands for “really simple syndication” and it’s a way to subscribe to webpages on your own all in one place instead of using social media accounts, it’s super useful for keeping up with independent websites (which is why so many webcomics encourage using it) and social media posts on sites you don’t use yourself. It seems a bit intimidating at first but it’s really handy because you can completely customize your feed, and keep up with exactly the content you want without having to follow all your favorite creators across six different social medias whose algorithms hide their updates anyway.

I’m a huge fan of the concept myself but I’m a fucking barbarian and still just have an enormous list of bookmarks I check manually whenever I think of it, BUT my Cool Blog Pal @unpretty talks about it fairly frequently and knows much more about how it works than I do! She has a very long and detailed post about it over here you can look into when you get a minute. https://unpretty.space/post/181035050748/hey-a-friend-of-mine-is-curious-about-rss-and-the

i am doing my part to keep rss alive and i will spread the word whenever anyone gives me an excuse

i used to say “imagine you got website updates the way you get podcasts” but then i learned that a large percentage of people listen to podcasts by searching for them on spotify when they see on twitter that there is a new episode. that’s horrifying, by the way. use a podcast app or add it to your rss reader. learn to love yourselves.

anyway.

these days i have reverted back to my sales pitch of “a tumblr dash for the entire rest of the internet”. when someone posts something (a news article, a blog post, a comic) it shows up in your rss reader and is generally super convenient. i generally rec feedly.com as the most newbie friendly, but personally i use inoreader. it has the google-reader-esque power user layout i crave. also while feedly is pretty it feels a bit too corporate for me.

the tl;dr of the post linked above is:

• make an account on feedly or inoreader (this can be done in a browser or an app if you’re on mobile) (it’s very easy to switch to a different one if you decide you like it better)
• add the comics you like that have rss feeds (or blogs, or webnovels, or etc etc)
• now when they update they will show up as unread in your… inbox? it’s not really an inbox. anyway.
• never manually check to see if something has updated ever again

oh, right, other things i remembered that are webcomic relevant

if you would ALSO like to combine the power of rss with the power of… webcomic backlogs? comic-rocket.com has an archive binge feature you may find VERY interesting

see, you can look up the comic on Comic Rocket, and off to the side there is a little button to generate a custom rss feed

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it will create the rss feed instantly when you click it

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by default, it will create a feed that updates once per day starting with the first comic, but you can do up to ten per day and even customize which days it updates

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whatever custom feed you create doesn’t actually pull any images through, which is done deliberately as a courtesy to the comic’s original owner. so you’ll still have to click through to actually read the update. it is nonetheless extremely convenient. i got so far behind on girl genius i recently decided to just start rereading the whole fucking thing from the start so here is what a custom rss feed ends up looking like in inoreader:

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i have different folders for webcomics that need to be opened in a new tab to view (a lot of comics work that way) and webcomics that i can read right in my rss reader. here’s one that’s inline, for comparison:

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this is all still relevant and true, aside from the fact that i no longer rec feedly at all because this was too gross:

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anais-ninja-bitch:

saywhat-politics:

'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' - Florida Phoenix

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is pa

Florida Phoenix

FL Board of Education approves African American history standards; critics call them ‘incomplete’

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting.

The description of slavery as beneficial is not the only grievance parents, teachers, education advocates and politicians had with the new standards. People speaking at the Wednesday meeting generally called out the diluting and omissions of history. For example, instruction at the elementary school level is largely limited to identifying famous Black people, and high school teachers will talk about the “acts of violence perpetrated by African Americans” at the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, in which a white mob killed at least 30 Black people.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history our history is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” said Kevin Parker, a community member.

they wanna whitewash the OCOEE MASSACRE??? that is obscene.

for those of you who don’t know, in 1920 a white mob murdered dozens of black people and destroyed the entire black community in the central florida town of ocoee. and why? bc some black citizens had attempted to vote.