In Search of the Happiness Max

anomalousdata: justcatposts: Trying to impress cats and...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:18:36 +0100

justcatposts:

Trying to impress cats and failing is universal

(via)

It’s extremely important that I tell you all that this seal is doing the ‘banana pose,’ something seals do when they are feeling particularly happy and relaxed. This seal, looking directly at the cat, is absolutely overwhelmed with Good Vibes, something we can all related to.

takineko: ampervadasz: Unmute ! Im so glad you have eachother

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:01:41 +0100

takineko:

ampervadasz:

Unmute !

Im so glad you have eachother

feliville: constant mood recently

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:59:25 +0100

feliville:

constant mood recently

mosellegreen: X Rebageling because although I know you all know...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:43:46 +0100

mosellegreen:

X

Rebageling because although I know you all know that Superman was always an immigrant story, that last little bit about Clark finding solidarity in an immigrant community is wholesome an a new-to-me idea.

aroarolibrary:Things people should worry about and should probably fight against in a post-Covid...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:50:23 +0100

aroarolibrary:

Things people should worry about and should probably fight against in a post-Covid world: the phasing out of physical money.
Even before all of this started a lot of restaurants in my area were already going ‘paperless’ aka: refusing to take anything but cards in order to buy food.
I hope that people understand just how terrible this is. How the movement to doing this was specifically a move against poor and homeless people. Against people who could not open a bank account. Who could not get a credit card. How it was a move by restaurants to not-so-subtlety ensure that the only people coming in through their doors were ‘desirable’ clients.
In a post-COVID world this is only going to get worse because now companies will have has a ‘societally acceptabile’ reason for refusing paper money. They will create an environment that is hostile towards the poor and homeless under the guise of public health.
I do not have all the answers for how to address this. I do not have answers for how to fix this or combat it. I do not know how to keep both workers safe in a public health aspect and also keep businesses accessible to people without bank accounts. I don’t have the answers but We need to be aware of this. We need to understand how terrible it is. We need to see it for what it is and how disproportionately such a move will hurt those around us.

I’ve been worried about this for a while. Some of my wealthiest friends don’t carry money anymore, which means they’ll never even think of giving change to a beggar.

These days, now I can afford it, I specifically get money out so I can give it away. It’s the main reason I go to cash points now.

gayarsonist:angel emojis, for when you’re feeling incomprehensible and eldritch

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:33:20 +0100

gayarsonist:

angel emojis, for when you’re feeling incomprehensible and eldritch

siryouarebeingmocked: baixueagain: proship-keiji: ^^^ This therapist has since had to lock down...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:21:08 +0100

siryouarebeingmocked:

baixueagain:

proship-keiji:

^^^

This therapist has since had to lock down her account because antis began attacking her and trying to doxx her because they were convinced she was lying about her profession and credentials.

Antis will scream “go to a therapist” until a real, IRL therapist tells them they’re full of shit, and then suddenly therapists can’t be trusted anymore. The kool-aid is powerful.

Almost as if deep down, they were never sincere in the first place.

fueled-by-nightcore:

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:18:16 +0100

fueled-by-nightcore:

dankmemeuniversity:

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:17:49 +0100

dankmemeuniversity:

A New History of Fandom Purges

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:17:31 +0100

olderthannetfic:

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

Christ, was it only 2018 that Tumblr banned NSFW? The last year has been a decade.

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Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:12:06 +0100

catchymemes: Credit: @pet_foolery

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:10:00 +0100

catchymemes:

Credit: @pet_foolery

transformativeworks:adreadfulidea:I’ve got to tell you all about the hilarious journey this image in...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:09:08 +0100

transformativeworks:

adreadfulidea:
I’ve got to tell you all about the hilarious journey this image in having on twitter.
1) First, many mistook it for being a historical romance, which is probably the fault of the wallpaper. I also thought this, but if you look closer he’s wearing a modern shirt and the fabric of her dress is polyester or nylon something.
2) Okay, people said. So this is a contemporary sexy femdom romance then? No. It’s some kind of psychological thriller, which nobody would have been able to tell from that poster.
3) This image is probably supposed to be scary? No one in it looks scared, at all?
prince-kraehe:
honeyglazedbabe:
Good afternoon to this film poster and this film poster only
4) Everyone promptly decided they didn’t care what the movie was actually about. They started writing inpromptu fanfic scenarios based solely on the poster in twitter. I fully expect the AO3 to have a “Cordelia (movie poster)” tag by the end of next week.
Draw your OTP!

Oh GOD give me this as Fenders - fuck!

sweetscasket: paper-mario-wiki: im calling out everyone who says “this cleared my skin and watered...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:04:37 +0100

sweetscasket:

paper-mario-wiki:

im calling out everyone who says “this cleared my skin and watered my crops” when responding to images they like

i know you dont have crops

and i know you dont have skin

stop lying for a “joke”, this is a serious website for people to make posts on their blogs about their life experiences, not about making a ruckus and acting like fools

im so sorry

oscaarisaacs: Poe and Finn’s journey through their quotes. + the...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:03:29 +0100

oscaarisaacs:

Poe and Finn’s journey through their quotes.

+ the Hug:

lipucd: the-scottish-bae: sluti-snek: all the internet did was...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:14:32 +0100

lipucd:

the-scottish-bae:

sluti-snek:

all the internet did was give him a place where he didnt have to worry about being punched in the face when he says what he thinks

“he’s not like that in real life” just means “he’s not like that when there are repercussions”

I feel like too many people take that for granted. That somehow we’re allowed to be utterly rude offensive people towards each other…As long as there’s no direct repercussions for being like such. I think a lot of people misjudge just what it means when someone acts utterly different when they know there’s no laws holding them back, and what that says about them.

hygienequeen:i love my mutuals dearly but sometimes you all reblog the same super long post so that...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:46:08 +0100

hygienequeen:

i love my mutuals dearly but sometimes you all reblog the same super long post so that it appears on my dash 7 times in a row and i want to kill you

Super long posts are death. (Sorry.)

myjetpack:for...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:13:19 +0100

myjetpack:

for @newscientist
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE_ZAA0HW8y/?igshid=5q3zau3veirs

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Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:51:07 +0100

ghostmage:ghostmage:i know y’all like to pretend it’s not possible, but there are trans men who can...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:50:40 +0100

ghostmage:

ghostmage:
i know y’all like to pretend it’s not possible, but there are trans men who can get pregnant, there are also trans men who still want to keep that option open while being respected as their correct gender. don’t push us out of discussions & issues regarding pregnancy / forced sterilization.
trans men have every right to be publicly involved in discourse abt reproductive rights, this is our reality and our bodies, we don’t have to keep silent to avoid upsetting truscum / ignorant cis people.