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I wanna nit-pick about creating characters. Just some compare and contrast on a specific oc that I've had for years that's evolved into something I absolutely love.

The original concept

Originally her name was Bloody Phoenix Flame. Yes I made her in middle school.

She was the daughter of an all powerful deity that sought to destroy everything that was made by her sister.

Phoenix had wings, horns, sometimes a tail, was a vampire, witch, werewolf...the typical op middle school character.

She had been cursed by her mother for rebelling against her. This curse forced her to go blood thirsty and murder-y every few minutes.

Current concept

Phoenixis Ever-Burn is her name.

She was born into a family of witches that honored and worshipped Hekate and Chernobog.

Phoenix's mother tricked her brother-in-law into believing that she was in fact his wife. They slept together and conceived Phoenix and her other siblings. This did not go unpunished by Chernobog who gave them the immortality they had patiently waited for, but with the added hunger for blood.

They were basically turned into vampires but they are capable of going out in the sun etc. They just have an unending hunger that will slowly drive them mad.

Hekate gave the family a prophecy in regards to the curse breaking. The curses first born would be the vessel that redeemed the family.

The vessel is Phoenix.

Getting into the nit-picking. Having an overpowered character isn't bad. They can be used as a way to figure out what to do and what not to. Having a deity oc shouldn't be frowned on, but that oc should have limits to what they are capable of.

What kind of deity are they? Do they rule over a plane of existence? What would be their opposite?

Now for backstory. I'm gonna be blunt, everyone has trauma. It doesn't have to be physical related trauma either. It could by psychological, emotional, religious, or abandonment. Parents having a divorce is traumatic, having a very important family member die when your young is traumatic.

The abuse backstory is extremely overused. Yes, it is a very real thing. But there's no real difference between some stories (I'm looking at some of the Wattpad writers). If abuse is important to your character, what type of abuse? There are different types and I would like to see more of them portrayed.

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URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 tumblr's nsfw ban hitting the entire internet this spring 2022

February 1, 2022

I’m so so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

WHAT IS THE EARN IT ACT?

The EARN IT Act has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country. This is a bill that will make children less safe, undermine online safety and security, and trample free expression, because it carves out another exception to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), which the ACLU describes as “foundational to modern online communications.” This has been the law that has let the internet grow into what it is today, we’ve had this law since the 90s. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of this law because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship. Platforms will be incentivized to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSEM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

If this bill passes, we're going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms, for fear of the liability that could come with ever accidentally hosting CSAM, as well as the erasure of end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms.

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal's EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please, (Right now, right wing organizers are catgorizing books about racism as ‘porn’ to ban them from schools) which is a cherished goal of organizations that seek to reintroduce obscenity prosecutions for content now protected by Free Speech jurisprudence. This will 1000000% be used to eradicate anything LGBT online.

What this bill says it does on the surface is make platforms liable for their users’ activity if that activity involves sex and minors. However, because of 230, platforms are not liable at all about their users' activity. This has allowed platforms to grow and thrive and many niches online to as well. The bill also creates an unelected commission to create “best practices” to combat online child sexual exploitation. While these recommendations are nominally voluntary (so Americans have no decision on who gets to be on it), platforms that refuse to comply will be liable for criminal prosecutions and lawsuits should the government decide any of their users is engaging in online child sexual exploitation.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of "protecting kids" to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids.

The entire EARN IT act is based on *multiple* misunderstandings of the law and reality. It's a really really really bad policy that will do serious harm. But because Senator Blumenthal wants headlines, he'll pretend that it "helps protect the children." It won't. It'll do real damage. It will make CSEM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works -- without fear of liability for any "failure." Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on "obscenity" as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

NCOSE, the far right anti-LGBT hate group behind the global anti-sex legislations, is pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill?

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) along with a coalition of 26 civil society organizations urged the United States Senate to reject the EARN IT Act. Groups on the left and right, including the ACLU, Fight for the Future, EFF, and Hacking // Hustling oppose it. Because it threatens free expression online and will threaten marginalized people’s safety while being totally unnecessary and failing to fix the problem it claims to address. The EARN IT Act empowers states to give law enforcement access to users’ private conversations and force companies to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement. This is totally unnecessary. Platforms are already handing over CSAM to the federal government. It’s actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don't know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the "make child pornography worse" bill, but here we are.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

EARN IT Act was introduced yesterday! And it’s already scheduled to get marked up, which is the first step post-introduction. Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES (IL, VT, CA, RI, MN, DE, CT, HI, NJ, and GA), CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND HOUSE MEMBERS NOW. THIS IS URGENT. This is who gets first crack, and folks in all have Senators who are on the Judiciary committee.

I'm guessing this month or March is when the bill would be passed if there is no opposition 😭 The bill was re-introduced yesterday, already set for markup this Thursday. This feels like an attempt to fast track it this month. Additionally the current makeup of Congress favors those who want it passed. Back in 2020 it was mostly Senate republicans and democrats who are basically republicans (just like now, check the sponsors) pushing it with Ron Wyden using the filibuster to stop their efforts. The house dems didn't want to give Trump a win and needed to appear as pro-privacy/free speech for the 2020 election. Now the dems have the presidency, both chambers of Congress and if you've noticed have spent a few years repeatedly demanding social media censorship and desperately want to give Biden victories. biden isn't like obama who opposed sopa/pipa to appeal to younger voters. This is similar to how FOSTA passed with the group who made it happen last time back again. Far as I'm aware Wyden hasn't spoken about new earn it yet but even if he does oppose it, it's very possible there will be enough Senate democrats to join the republicans in passing it beating a filibuster. Then pelosi's band of house idiots pass it and we have to choose between breaking the law because they can't stop us from using encryption or being obedient sheep to a group who consider themselves above laws.

It already has a fifth of the Senate cosponsoring it. There is a very very very real chance this bill becomes law. This is an uphill battle that's going to happen fast and quick. PLEASE, FIGHT NOW.

202-224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

More sources to read about this bill:

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/the-earn-it-act-is-anti-evidence

Fight for the Future’s Statement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678EW8v09z8&t=1s

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220131/22423648395/senates-new-earn-it-bill-will-make-child-exploitation-problem-worse-not-better-still-attacks-encryption.shtml

EARN IT Act treats Myths as Facts.

https://surviveearnit.com/what-is-the-earn-it-act/ From 2020, but little has changed about the bill.

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/earn-it-act-back

Center for Democracy and Technology’s Statement

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven't seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

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i-cant-think-of-a-creative-name0 · 2 years

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I need this on my feed permanently. The reminder is always good to have.

Do you have any writing tips?

I do, but please remember these help *me* write and it may not work for everyone!

Don’t focus so much on meeting one specific word count or goal, let the story coast along by itself

Don’t worry so much about adding frivolous words, you can always go back in and add detail later

Don’t focus on time constraints, work at your own pace

Don’t over describe a character, space things out, imply things but don’t say them. You don’t always want to outright say ‘They were Nice’ try ‘They always comforted me when I needed it’

If you don’t like your writing, wait until you’re finished. Clean it up a bit and then check it. You have to trust the process!

If you still don’t like it, that’s okay too. Don’t be afraid to rewrite something!

If you like specific lines of text/terms/or words that you wrote in your last draft. Save them for your re-write! There’s nothing wrong with liking things and disliking others

Inspiration can come from anywhere, try music, describing colors/sounds and making stories out of silly things like planets

Never ever give up on yourself, you can write just as well as anyone else. Never let your brain say ‘they’re better then me’. Improvement takes time and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Finally, make sure that whatever you write is something you like. If you’re writing something you don’t like it will fall flat, the story will drag or feel stale.

Hope these little tips and tricks helped!

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I’m suffering from Sun/Moon brain rot and have spent the last hour trying to think of legal names for a human au.

Moon - Aidan Dusk Selenelion

Sun - Elio Dawn Selenelion

I’m taking applications for friendships. Or if you have ideas or headcannons, send them my way. I beg of you.

#security breach #sunny #sundropfnaf #sunnydrop #moondropfnaf #fnaf sun and moon #headcanons #human au

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I am uncreatively creative....No seriously!

Minors DNI

- This is a preference, but please respect that.

I post sometimes…If I remember Tumblr exists.

I'm an '01 baby. (Currently 22)

Nonbinary, but pronouns are just words so I genuinely don't care. (Though I do prefer he/they.)

I've been writing shorts for years. Since I was about 12.

I actually have 5 or more projects I'm working on. Not all at the same time, but a little here and there for all of them.

I don’t have an update schedule. Here’s why:

I don’t do well with time constraints when it comes to my writing. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬.

Inspiration comes and goes, same for my hyperfixations. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 (𝘈𝘋𝘏𝘋) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺.

I’m a college student and my studies will come first. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.

𝗜'𝗺 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀 𝗜 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻.

𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘮 - 𝚂𝚔𝚢𝚛𝚒𝚖 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗.

𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘵 4 - 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚔𝚢𝚛𝚒𝚖. 𝙵𝙾4 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚎.

𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘯 - 𝚃𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚔𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜.

𝘍𝘕𝘈𝘍 - 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚂𝚞𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚜.

𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦 - 𝙷𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝙰𝚘3 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚎-𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐.

𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘺𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢 - 𝙰𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝. 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜.

𝘛𝘔𝘕𝘛 - 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚍-𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚠, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚘-𝚝𝚑𝚎-𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠.

𝖨'𝗅𝗅 𝖻𝖾 𝗎𝗉𝖽𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗍 𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾.

𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢, 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝙰𝙾3 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚟𝚎.

𝑇𝒉𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑠𝒉 𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑡.

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