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hexiva · 18 days
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oh so when the final boss‘s phase transitions, gamers love it, but when I, a trans woman,
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hexiva · 18 days
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I - look, I'm not generally into tentacles so much in a sexy way because I associate them with octopi, which are about as sexy as a puppy or a chicken to me, but like, as animal interactions go, I wouldn't describe holding an octopus as "gross and weird." It beats getting licked in the face by a dog. I guess they're not as much fun to pet as a cat or a snake or a sea hare? But normally people don't, like, pick up an octopus and go "ew" unless they already found the concept of octopi to be scary or gross.
Actual image of me fighting for my fucking life on discord
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hexiva · 18 days
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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.
for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.
so how can you help?
boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.
learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.
get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.
donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.
and finally…
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hexiva · 18 days
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This is all true, but also, a city without well-maintained public restrooms is a city with piss on its streets, which seems like a thing that even smug rich people with no empathy for the poor shouldn't want
We need shittable cities (actively maintained public restrooms).
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hexiva · 25 days
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anti-wasp sentiment is going to turn me into the joker. "oh i hate wasps >:(((((((( but i love bees!!!!!" L + ratio + bees are wasps + name more five species of bee + honeybees are an ecological nightmare even within their native range + the overwhelming majority of wasps are non-stinging parasitoids + the majority of insects might be non-stinging parasitoid wasps? any hymenopterologists/coleopterologists/biostatisticians know how realistic this paper is? (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-018-0176-x) + have you ever actually been stung by a wasp?
anyway heres a whimsical ichneumonid
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hexiva · 25 days
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You need to look up red cornetfish
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OUUGUGUGGUHHHHHH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
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TRUMPET GUY
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hexiva · 25 days
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I think about this a lot.
OP makes great points and I have no quarrel with them, but I do think there can be some value to some callout posts. Obviously, there is no scenario in which a Tumblr callout post results in justice of any kind via punishment. That's just not going to happen, either nothing is going to happen to them or they're going to get a mob of people telling them to kill themselves, neither of which is good.
But I think the 'raising awareness' part can have real, direct positive consequences, in certain limited situations. When you're in a small, niche hobby community like a fandom space, it's really easy for one creep to burn through the whole community if no one is talking to each other.
I can think of two specific instances of callouts I've participated in and that I'll stand by. One is for fandom-based cult-leader Andy Thanfiction. This guy is a confessed rapist, known abuser, and recurrent cult leader, and he has a pattern of recruiting people out of fandom & using fandom culture to trap people in his bizarre belief systems. Short of someone publishing his home address, I'm always going to reblog his callout posts. If he gets harassed, I'm not psyched about that, but I do really think people need to know about this guy before they get in too deep to listen.
The other example was on a much smaller scale: it was in the Marvel roleplay community here on Tumblr. There was one user who had a zillion accounts, all with a very recognizable theme, and this guy was 1) an open white supremacist, and 2) secretly a sexual harasser. I couldn't vouch for #2, but I'd seen #1 with my own eyes, and that was bad enough. This was a pretty small community, but it wasn't closely knit and we had no central discord server or any other private method of all communicating with each other. He would pop up and add people randomly, sometimes repeatedly, so if you weren't aware of his tactics you'd just think "Oh, a new Wolverine roleplayer, lemme befriend them."
I think callout posts are useful in these types of very specific situations, but because they are, frankly, easy and can have a devastating effect on an individual, people apply them to every situation where someone did something wrong. And there is a distinct tendency to apply only that standard to callout posts: "Is what he did wrong?" Sometimes, if you're lucky, people think to also ask "Is this true?" But they keep forgetting to ask "Is this response in any way proportionate to the wrong committed here?"
Like, it's bad that some random tumblr user I've never heard of is drawing really racist fanart of Finn from Star Wars, and maybe you can get her to stop with a callout post, but is the benefit of "slightly less racist Star Wars fanart" really worth destroying some random asshole's life? There is so, so much star wars related racism out there, why bring the full force of harassment down on one rando rather than focus on either 1) individuals with actual power or 2) a general discussion about r
Like, it's bad that some random tumblr user I've never heard of is drawing really racist fanart of Finn from Star Wars, and maybe you can get her to stop with a callout post, but is the benefit of "slightly less racist Star Wars fanart" really worth destroying some random asshole's life? There is so, so much star wars related racism out there, why bring the full force of harassment down on one rando rather than focus on either 1) individuals with actual power or 2) a general discussion about racism in fandom
I refuse to reblog callout posts because I'm a prison abolitionist
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hexiva · 1 month
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Leon getting heated in a rant
a little leon/elliot scribble from last night
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hexiva · 1 month
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Listen, just so you know, I'm full-time freelance now. Only loyalty is to the almighty paper. So hang on to my number. Should you need anything, you know I'm your guy. You be strange, now, but don't be a stranger, know what I mean?
JOEY BADA$$ as Leon | Mr. Robot (2015-2019)
@lgbtqcreators creator bingo | blorbo
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hexiva · 1 month
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would easily watch a whole series about leon from mr. robot. steals every fucking scene he’s in <3
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hexiva · 2 months
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thinking once again about Renarin’s screaming Shardblade as a representation of disability
“Wait, your Shardblade was SCREAMING the entire time you used it? And you used it anyway??”
“Well yeah, I thought that was normal”
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hexiva · 2 months
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I really wanted to make a gif of this video (cw: snail gets eaten) so that I can use it as a reaction.
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hexiva · 2 months
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Smoked a new opp, his meat came right off the bone
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Smoked a new opp, his meat came right off the bone
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hexiva · 2 months
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[OC] witch x (jealous) monster girlfriend🔮🐙.𖥔 ݁ ˖ (witch OC belongs to @ greenmoonie on tw)
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