they love each other, and i love them both 🤲

He said yes!

Official rentan wedding teacups!

“Only in My Dreams”

Demon Slayer Fan Art: Within the fiery subconscious of the Flame Hashira, Rengoku dreams of what could have been. He dreams of spending time with his tsukugo, Tanjiro, happily chatting and sharing tea together. He lifts his Haori to provide shade for the boy on a sunny spring day as cherry blossom petals flutter in the wind.

God the UI looks like shit

Drew Sanemi for the THIRD time, I can’t help it.

My favorite rejected New Yorker submission

mitsuru sketch

hi! about the "learn how it works before you start making assumptions" about the bluesky post and its networks; what assumptions should we be looking out for? that its not twitter and not everyone is going to be connected like on there? your description of federated networks is understandable, but the default domain it seems to have at signup is bluesky's. I feel like most people would be using this, and only people looking for a certain thing and knowingly leaving that "sphere" will know that theyre isolating to a different community.

I'm new to this too and theres very very minimal, well explained things about it online, and youre the only person I've come across who seems to know anything, so if you have more advice to share I'd appreciate it!

as much as I would like to answer this as an authority and really contribute to the nascent understanding of federated instances as an alternative to current social media platforms, the fact of the matter is that im not. i have a basic understanding of the way in which they work and how to use them, and I dont think im the best source of information. this being the case, since i did bring it up and i did get an ask, i'll try to explain the best i can.

the "fediverse" (dont mind the silly name, we know its silly) might best be explained with the similarities to email. Misskey, Mastodon, and others marketing themselves as federated instance platforms are basically like if you took your email account and stapled twitter to it: Misskey/Mastodon are not platforms themselves, so much as they are frameworks for web servers that connect to one another independently and are run by individuals. These frameworks are usually open source, have different alternative forks that offer different additional features/ui elements, and ultimately all connect to one another regardless. but they are not "platforms" like tumblr or twitter or facebook. anyone can make their own federated instance, and what that instance looks like depends on what framework they used to set it up.

Bluesky and Threads are different. Bluesky differs in that it is run on a private protocol-- it runs differently to the protocols used by the aforementioned open source alternatives and currently cannot connect with them. It's still in beta and its too early to call how it will operate. Threads, like Bluesky, is also a private protocol. At current, it merges your information with other Facebook/Meta products (facebook, instagram, etc). Supposedly, these will eventually be able to communicate with the Fediverse at large, but you should keep a great amount of suspicion with them, as both are run by billionaires. Bluesky is the project of the former head of twitter, and Threads obviously belongs to Zuckerburg and Facebook.

If you head about "x platform is homophobic/racist" in reference to the earlier federated instance frameworks, understand this very crucial thing about Mastodon/Misskey/etc:

They are not websites. They do not have established moderation policies and staff dedicated to managing who posts what.

as stated, Masto/Misskey are just server frameworks. Each federated instance using those frameworks is run by individuals on their own private web servers that they either operate themselves or rent out from a company. the largest Misskey instance, Misskey.io, is currently under fire for having homophobic moderation practices. This does not mean that every instance of Misskey is moderated with homophobia in mind, and homophobic moderation tools are not built into the code of Misskey.

As the old guard of web 2.0 crumbles, the internet is changing again. whether we fall back into the ad-friendly hellhole of yesteryear or we enter a new phase of the internet's wild west depends on platform migration patterns and whether or not people develop some pretty basic web and internet literacy that's been lost over the last 20 years as the internet corporatized and users had to learn less and less about how the websites they used work. my explanation here probably has incorrect information and holes in it, but that is because i, myself, do not fully understand the total extent to which the fediverse and federated protocols operate; i, too, am a layman.

that being said, i hope this was helpful to anyone trying to figure this stuff out. i've already carved my own space on a small, invite-only instance with friends, but i've got no plans to move shop until this place really does burn down to the ground. hope that helps. good luck!

HBD 🎴 🥦

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. spread the self-love ❤ 😊

Thanks for the ask!!

The following are my five favorite fics I've written (not in any particular order):

Coming Through! - KnY; rntn. Do you want a fic where Inosuke causes fun chaos for everybody around him (including rntn) just by existing? Do you also want to read all the names I had to come up with because Inosuke is incapable of remembering Tanjiro's name except for every seventh time he refers to him? BECAUSE I SURE CAME UP WITH A BUNCH.

Deferral - KnY; rntn. This is not a happy ship fic whatsoever, but I really did enjoy the way certain lines sounded, especially toward the end of the fic. "If not then, then when?"

Progression of an Elegy - KnY; rntn. Another angsty fic that I particularly enjoyed writing because I got to play with dreamscapes and drowning imagery (despite of – or maybe because of the mild PTSD I got from near drowning several years ago). At least it kinda ends on a happy-ish note?

You Will Always Come Back to the Forest - PokeSpe; Grantedshipping-adajcent. I don't update this drabble collection very often, but when I do, it's always fun to go all out with themes related to revenge, forgiveness, and the tension that comes from trying to become a better person after almost destroying the Kanto region lol

It Has to Land Eventually - Ys VIII; Dogi/Adol. So I have this thing where I go FERAL if one person keeps touching the other (hugs, head pats, hip touches) but the other is oblivious as to WHY, and then a third party notices and is like ?????? Why don't you get what the first character wants? It's super specific sdkmfmdf but I think I pulled this scenario off well in this fic. Also Dogi/Adol is CRIMINALLY underrated and needs more love.

Anyways, feel free to do this fic rec meme if you want to, either in the replies or by reblogging this post! <3

Sacabambaspis doodles because I love the silly fish

A really quick lil amfy in flash animate

grown adults will get on the internet and say things like “why is this movie about the protagonist, the titular character?” just walk into the ocean i cannot help you