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He-man.org will close in 5 days.
He-man.org has been a staple of the Masters of the Universe community since the early days, originating as an email list that worked to document episodes before anything (not footage, not lists, nothing) was available online. It grew into a sprawling, multi-faceted beast of a thing, including an encyclopedia (an in-house wiki), merch lists, a marketplace, forums, anything you could think of.
Several years ago now, the main site went down for updates/maintenance. For a few weeks, we were told, maybe months. The forums remained open for fans to communicate, and barring a period of downtime earlier this year things were going smoothly.
Yesterday, the owner of the site, Val Staples, announced the site would be closed on November 14th, 2023. Six days later. We are currently attempting to contact him, to see if he’s interested in selling, and if he means closed as in “no new posts” or closed as in deleted entirely. Regardless of its eventual fate, the archiving of these forums is essential to preserving the history of the franchise, the fandom, and the brand.
TO SHE-RA (and MotU) FANS SPECIFICALLY: I have personally used these forums to answer questions that could be answered nowhere else. Had I not had access to them, I would never have been able to prove that Purrsia was fake, or found so much unpublished concept art, or discovered that Scott “Toyguru” Neitlich personally wrote Catra’s MOTUC bio (even if he’s put off answering my questions about it for over a year now). Forum members have conducted interviews with the likes of Jon Seisa, Cathy Larson, Janice Varney-Hamlin—essential figures in the very foundations of POP, and those interviews revealed and recorded priceless information for future generations (me! you! us!) to find. Did you know Cathy Larson named Adora? That she originally pushed for “Dorian”, after her own daughter? We cannot let this treasure trove disappear into the ether(ia).
TO THE UNAFFILIATED: Please help. Pretty please. If you’ve ever liked my art or my writing or my haphazard blogging, ever, at all, consider archiving just one board. Just one page. Literally anything helps. I am spiraling into madness & this is my library of Alexandria. The mythical one that was totally unique and persevered nowhere else and was destroyed in a single cataclysmic event. Pretty pretty please help.
HOW TO HELP:
Archive.org has several ways to upload shit but most of them are longer term than “a few days” so we’re focusing on two (which can be run simultaneously): Save Page Now, and browser extensions. From their help page:
1. Save Page Now
Put a URL into the form, press the button, and we save the page. You will instantly have a permanent URL for your page. Please note, this method only saves a single page, not the whole site.
We want to keep outlinks and screenshots wherever possible. The Archive does not keep your IP address, so your submission is anonymous.
2. Browser extensions and add-ons
Install the Wayback Machine Chrome extension in your browser. Go to a page you want to archive, click the icon in your toolbar, and select Save Page Now. We will save the page and give you a permanent URL.
One plus to installing the extension is that as you surf around, when you run into a missing page they will alert you if we have a saved copy.
More extensions, apps, and add-ons:
Firefox add-on
Safari Extension
iOS app
Android app
I strongly encourage you to use these tools even if you aren’t helping with this project/after it ends. Documenting and preserving information is essential in this day and age & The Internet Archive is at the heart of it. Please support them however you can.
I’m serious about paying you, though I may need more communication with folks I don’t know so we can coordinate/verify shit gets done. I think this is a worthwhile pursuit in itself but I recognize your time is valuable & like, people gotta eat. DM me if you’re interested and we’ll talk. I may need to adjust pay depending how many people bite but I’ll do what I can
#motu#he man#she ra#spop#pop#sorry for tag spam but this is important and relevant to you#catradora#it counts!#sorry also if the formatting on this is a disaster#i’m on my phone and haven’t updated my tumblr app in… a couple years#archives#archive#archive.org#wayback machine#help#org forums#neotag#brothers. this has nothing to do with you but don’t you wanna help a bitch out? do it for illusen#please signal boost if you can
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Jorts needs help! Our neighbor has started trapping and shooting cats and I talked him into releasing Jorts to me yesterday, but I don’t have the room or resources to keep him. I’m disabled with two cats of my own in a tiny home in a rural area of Mississippi. Right now he’s in a storage shed but he can’t stay there for long, it isn’t mine. He’s the sweetest boy and I don’t want him to die like that.
I found someone willing to adopt him if I can get him fixed, and there’s a clinic two towns over running a special on boy cats right now. I just need $40 and he’s safe. PLEASE help if you can, boost if you can’t, he’s so close!
UPDATE:
WE DID IT, I CAN PAY THE CLINIC, please don’t send any more donations, thank you all so so much!!
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Hello! My friend's ( @virtualalternative ) cat just had surgery to help him pee properly and the cost is pretty heavy. The total is 1610.90€ (1,737.04 USD)
I'd like to offer some art requests in trade for your donation to help Ganesh!
(Some examples)
How To Get Art:
1: Send a donation via Paypal to: [email protected]
2: Take a screenshot of your donation and send it to me here along with your request.
3: After confirmation, I will start work on each request in the order that they're received.
Thank you so much, and If you can, please signal boost this!
#emergency donations#donations#art for donations#art for others#art requests#art commisions#art#cats#kitties#cat lovers#please signal boost if you can
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Call for Guest Art!
I feel weird doing this, but here goes. I'm calling for Guest Art to share between chapters for my webcomic, Fairmeadow.
I need to take a break between chapters to allow myself some time to heal from an extremely annoying RSI that's popped up. I have quite a bit of buffer built for Ch05 already, but I don't want to burn through it all before I can continue making new pages. Tentatively I hope to launch Ch05 in June, and could start posting some fun filler stuff by May 17. Sorry it's a bit short notice!
Details:
The pages I post are 1550 x 2440px, so your work will look best on this site if your canvas is proportional to that - or at least vertical.
Here's a Drive folder with character references.
If you'd like to entertain the idea of your artwork being printed in a Fairmeadow book one day, I'd recommend making it at least 6.5 x 8.5 inches and 300 dpi (we can cross this bridge when we come to it one very distant day)
Because of bizarre restrictions with my ad network, I can't post mature content. (Violence and non-sexual depictions of breasts ok, but no genitals.) So keep it in your pants but apparently go HAM on the bloodshed. That's the American way!
If you've already sent me fanart and want me to share it with this batch of guest art, reach out on social media / the comments section here / email and I will do so!
I'm really up for whatever and honestly would be incredibly humbled if anyone submits anything at all. Change outfits, bend genders, make up an AU, hit me with a fan theory, do whatever!
If you want to contribute, send your art to [email protected] along with your social media handle/personal website for credit, along with any projects you'd like me to mention.
Thanks!
#fairmeadow#guest art#please signal boost if you can#hoping for some internet magicks#hiveworks#webcomic#fantasy#orcs
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Call for Beta Readers: The Composition of Us
Hello everyone!!! I'm so excited to announce that my adult contemporary book that explores aromanticism, asexuality, and chronic illness (103k words, 2nd draft) is ready for beta readers! If you've been following me for a while, you might know this project as tea cow, or TCOU.
In case you need a refresher or you're new here, this is my elevator pitch:
"Ruby Wang is a career woman determined to keep her work first priority. However, after a particularly bad bout of dizziness, she loses her job and begrudgingly returns to her hometown, only to find herself pulled into the messy love life of her childhood best friend. The Composition of Us uses the building blocks of traditional romance to explore aromantic & asexual identity, friendship, family, and chronic illness."
I'm currently looking for up to 5 beta readers who can read through my manuscript and offer me feedback by Sunday, April 30, 2023, with some flexibility if needed. I will be choosing readers on March 19, 2023 and then accepting additional readers if needed on a rolling basis thereafter.
If you're interested, please fill out this form here!
The form contains additional details about my expectations and information about potential compensation/perks :)
Signal boosting would be hugely appreciated!! If you want to learn more about tea cow, such as its origins, feel free to check out my intro post here.
tea cow tag list: @cyanide-latte @ameliedebruyne @lividdreamz @mjjune @enchanted-lightning-aes @sarcasticjuiceboxes @axl-ul
#writeblr#writers#beta reading#beta readers#beta reading call#creative writing#writing#tea cow#wip: tea cow#please signal boost if you can
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How about an engagement bingo?
Are some of you planning on only reading or reblogging? Or do you want to keep track of your interactions besides your own work?
An engagement bingo would have you cross off fics you've read, art you've reblogged, comments you've left, etc.
It's obviously not compulsory. It's to provide incentive to comment and also make fans who don't contribute otherwise actively participate with their own tallies.
I'm doing this interest check to see if the idea is popular enough, so I don't make a custom bingo card that nobody uses..
#arcane#arcane netflix#arcane week#bingo#participation bingo#poll#fandom event#arcaneyear2#arcaneyeartwo#please signal boost if you can#i dont mind the bit of extra work to make a cute bingo card#but i need to know how many would be interested
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Emergency Hurricane Sale!!!
Heeey so Hurricane Ian is coming directly towards my hometown. Like...nearly dead center. I’ve had to evacuate to the other side of Florida which was so fucking expensive in gas and also hurricane supplies and food were pricey as hell too. I’m not broke broke but I’m looking at my bank account like 😥
ANYWAYS my OF is $5 right now if you would like to help me out ❤️
If you’d like to help me without subbing to my OF, my CashApp is $ArkhamesqueCosplay but please note that I am not in dire straits and will be okay no matter what 💗
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If you have money to spare, please give a couple bucks to my pal Prada here, she's needed a lot of special care this month.
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I haven't seen a lot of coverage in the news about this, but my state has just advanced legislation on a bill that would criminalize trans bathroom use in publicly owned buildings. this could mean up to 6 months in jail and up to $1000 in fees for those convicted.
most alarming aspects of this bill:
-"publicly owned buildings" include airports, schools, libraries, government offices, some hospitals, and most terrifyingly AND explicitly within the bill, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis facilities. transgender people, who are estimated to be almost 4 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than cisgender people, could become criminalized in the very spaces they seek out to shelter from abuse.
-on that note, the bill potentially threatens federal funding of already-underfunded domestic violence and sexual assault facilities. to recieve federal grants, facilities are required to follow nondiscrimination laws. this law could place the facilities in danger of losing the grants they rely on. this is severely going to impact victims' abilities to access critically needed services.
-the bill legally defines "sex" in a way that has a lot of potential impact across state legislature. according to the bill’s text, HB 257 would legally define a female as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova,” and a male as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions to fertilize the ova of a female.” this could effectively end the state's legal recognition of trans people.
-the bill demands that trans people who DO use bathrooms in publicly owned buildings must have undergone both gender reassignment surgery and have had their birth certificate changed. this has several issues, obviously, but the biggest one I want to highlight is that this opens the door to potential genital inspection by law enforcement if someone is accused of being transgender in a bathroom. in addition to any other indignities suffered by being harassed by cops when trying to use the restroom, it is completely possible for law enforcement to now demand to see whether someone's genitals are in compliance with these laws. it's an unconscionable and humiliating invasion of privacy.
-the bill requires trans students to develop a "privacy plan" with their school in order to arrange access to unisex spaces. if unisex bathrooms are unavailable, the student can be granted access to a sex-designated space “through staggered scheduling or another policy provision that provides for temporary private access.”
-the bill allows the state’s attorney general to impose a fine of up to $10,000 per day on local governments that don’t enforce the bill. in essence, any government that isn't sufficiently committed to enforcing these draconian laws may face massive fines until they have reached the attorney general's standard of enforcement.
this is one of the most unbelievably severe anti-trans laws that have ever been proposed in the united states. it would effectively ban trans people from participating in public life, harm nearly every single victim of domestic violence and sexual assault who seeks services in the state, enforce criminality on random trans people in bathrooms, and open every single person who could be potentially accused of being trans up to a wave of harassment and discrimination from both private citizens and law enforcement. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that this law would literally force me and my transfemme fiancee to flee this state.
the law's been fast tracked to an insane degree through the legislature. similarly to the anti-dei bill currently making its way through, it's only been a week since it was introduced, and it's already passed the house, and is now up for vote in the senate. if it passes both sets of votes, the only thing left in its way is the governor's decision to veto.
please share this post. make as much noise as you can. if you live in utah, please call and email your district senator as soon as possible. it doesn't matter how late you see this. the bill is up for vote this week (1/23/24 at the time of writing) and we need to do whatever we physically can to protest its passing. we've already moved past the opportunity for public comment on the bill, but a few organizations have called for a rally at the capitol steps on thursday (1/25/24) at noon. if you are in the salt lake area or are able to make it there, please consider attending. wear a mask and bring a sign. we are stronger together.
#narrates#signal boost#please tag anyone you can think of with a large platform in this post. we need this to spread asap
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Commissions are now open!
I’ll be accepting the requests through my ko-fi page. Pricing will be $45 per character. Any character will do as long as it’s SFW. :)
Slots will have limited availability. If interested, you can check out my commissions page which can be found here!
#gotchibam commissions#commissions#commissions info#updated the pricing for my commissions!#really need extra funds again#literally wasn't able to sleep last night bc of bleeding gums so I think I'll have to go see a dentist.....#another one to add to my list of expenses @_@#please signal boost if you can#thank you!!
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There are over 33 million people affected by floods in Pakistan with at least 1000 people killed and over 180,000 people displaced. Please, if you are able to, donate to help and if you’re not able to donate, please reblog this.
https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/ (Has a lot of information about the floods and is also a trusted place you can donate to)
#pakistan#pakistan floods#climate change#signal boost#please donate if you can#reblog is appreciated
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26 days to go for Kitty Snack Kitty Fandom charms!
With bonus options:
And custom options!
(Link in my link card in pinned post)
#cats#cat memes#fandom merch#Loki#Blackbonnet#Sterek#ineffable husbands#Stucky#Buddie#sasunaru#wangxian#steddie#charm commissions#signal boosting#please signal boost if you can#thank you!#also if you see this can you let me know?#I'll shut up about this soon I promise ; u ;#Just trying to get to the next half
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HEY TUMBLR! I DESPERATELY WANT TO DESTROY SOMEONE IN AUSTRALIA!
SOMEONE STOLE MY BEST FRIEND'S $2000 EBIKE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND GOT AWAY WITH IT
HELP THEM GET A NEW ONE
The details: One of my best friends in the entire world, @takenbynumbers, has been having a rough time lately. Their birthday is on the 10th, but the last couple months have been complete hell—and then today someone stole their ebike from where it was locked up right outside their place of work, in the lot, in front of the doors, in broad fucking daylight.
Nobody saw anything. All that was left was their extremely hefty lock, which was sliced to nothing, and their helmet.
They need this bike to get around, first and foremost, but also it's an integral tool in retaining their literal physical mobility, as it's a low-impact exercise that helps stave off the deterioration of their hips due to a hereditary condition. A police report has been filed, but that's not likely to go anywhere—these things are never recovered.
If you're going "wait a second, didn't one of your friends have an ebike stolen a couple years ago?" you are correct! This is the same friend! Last time someone broke into the locked secure storage cage at the apartment complex where lived and stole it in the middle of the night—they got a lock to make sure that couldn't happen again, and THIS TIME SOME JACKASS USED BOLT CUTTERS!
I AM SO FUCKING MAD BUT I AM IN THE WRONG HEMISPHERE TO ENACT REVENGE
If we can raise enough to get them a new one it would be the best birthday present in the world. External links deboost posts all over the net, so PLEASE signal boost this if you can. Everything helps.
#signal boost#fundraising#donate if you can#please#this is one of my favorite people on earth#i'd buy them a bike myself if I could#but I can't#so please#everything helps
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Support a translator of color!
This is an ongoing situation as of 2023.06.24.
My friend Yilin (she/they) does a lot (A LOT) of work translating literature from Chinese to English, among other things. And they allowed me to signal boost this on tumblr since she doesn't have one yet.
The beginning of the thread is here: https://twitter.com/yilinwriter/status/1670305203206385665 and all the tweet images below are not described because they are previews of direct links to the tweets.
Key points: The British Museum stole their translation work and used it, uncredited, in a major exhibit where they "appeared in photos on a giant display, on signage, in a physical guide, in a digital guide, in an audio guide, and in an app that is available for international download. How did NO ONE catch there was no credit?"
The response from the British Museum has been enormously disappointing so far:
"we will not be reinstating the translations in the exhibition that have been removed following your complaint, and therefore you will not be acknowledged in the exhibition as your work will not be featured" - except the uncredited translations are still in the 30,000 copies of the exhibition catalog.
Go check out more updates downthread as the situation develops.
Want to support Yilin?
"If you want to write to them or have written to the BM, you can help convey these demands of mine to them: - credit + public apology everywhere the work appears - proper payment (increased to account for lack of prior permission given & all the time the work was uncredited)"
Boost Yilin's book! "The Lantern & the Night Moths, an anthology of Chinese poetry that I selected & translated, featuring poets incl. Qiu Jin, accompanied by my essays on translation, forthcoming w/ @/invisibooks in Spring 2024"
Yilin's page: https://yilinwang.com/book-announcement-the-lantern-and-the-night-moths/
and the pre-order link: https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/the-lantern-and-the-night-moths/
I'll try to update as more things happen, or you can go camp out on the thread.
Edit: please reblog the most current update here from 2023.07.05:
#Chinese poetry#British Museum#Yilin Wang#translation#copyright infringement#colonialism#translation is a lot of work! credit the translators!#signal boost#my post#book rec#long post#If you see this through me#please update the most current reblog#you can probably find it most easily on my blog in Yilin Wang tag#crowdfunding#lgbtqia+#racism#the full post is so long now as of 2023.07.05 but more to come~
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helping stray animals
PLEASE, REBLOG
Hey!
Firstly, thank you for your support and help. I remind you that I live in Ukraine and help stray animals. They have no home and family, and live in basements, attics, garages, etc. Now we need your help!
There is almost no food for animals. We also found dogs that we feed until they find a family. I remind you that I feed about 20 cats, and now 5 dogs. I can't do it without you. Please donate if you can:
buymeacoffee
patreon
pp [email protected] (for animals)
Or just reblog! Thank you again!
#thank you#stray dog#stray cat#stray cats#stray animals#cats lover#cats of the internet#cats of tumblr#dogs of tumblr#cute cats#strays#mutual aid#important#emergency help#emergency#fundraising#donate if you can#ukrainian#ukraine#boost post#please boost#signal boost#please reblog#please support#fundrasier#dogs#boost#donate#aid#need help
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