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Maybe you should slow down, Lumen? We can hardly tell what’s happening!
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A not-really wild Dewott appears! What challenges will Lumen and Burst encounter in the next chapter? Stay tuned and find out!
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Goomy x Hoppip
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🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🏵️💐💮🥀
Have some flowers (:
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piplup grain entrapment
piplup cares a lot about his work
piplup reports on the company's finances. layoffs are inevitable.
piplup takes a sick day
piplup considers some jorts
piplup forgives his father.
piplup goes grocery shopping
piplup jumps your battery
piplup lights the menorah
piplup sees the pale blue dot
piplup catsits
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Every time Disney or Pixar makes a movie with a one word title I just think, how dare you actually, who the hell are you to attach an ordinary everyday word to your IP. The sheer audacity to presume every film they make is that important. It's such transparently cheap viral marketing logic it's obscene.
The worst offender is still "UP." Fucking "UP?" A two letter word everyone says a dozen times a day? Besides the greed of planting a little Disney flag on the word UP of all things, it was empty of any fun or whimsy and communicated nothing about the film except that something or other goes "up," which is technically true of every film ever made, at some point. A single word as mundane as UP or FROZEN or TANGLED does not capture a child's imagination. Words like DRAGONS or ROBOTS, yes, but in Japan they changed the title of "UP" to "Grandpa Carl's Flying House" and whose curiosity wouldn't be piqued by that?? Of course I want to know why grandpa Carl has a flying fucking house you morons
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Racing into October
dear 18+ discord server owners:
this:
is how you avoid legal liability for anyone lying about their age to access 18+ content within your server. if your channels (and server, if you’re on iOS) are properly marked as 18+, you do not have further legal liability for anyone knowingly lying to gain access to the content in your server.
furthermore, asking for censored versions of someone’s legal documents is incredibly unsafe.
no-one should ever send photos of their legal documents to anyone who has not verified they have received the proper certification and training to handle legal documents, and no-one should ever send those photos over an unverified channel (i.e. discord DMs, twitter DMs, a random person’s texting number).
this applies to censored versions of your legal documents.
there are certain paid courses you can take to prove you are capable of handling sensitive information (a broad classification of personal information that includes photos of legal documents). any company that requires you to upload sensitive information to access their services has internal training policies for any employees handling said information (often making use of those paid courses), and uses specific programs to handle said information without storing it on servers and to limit the possibility of said information being leaked or breached in some way.
if an organization (including an informal one like a discord server) does not have those training programs and does not use those programs to handle your data, they are dangerous and you should not give them your information. if your organization (including an informal one like a discord server) is asking for that sensitive information without staff going through this training and using certified and safe methods of collecting this information, you are creating a dangerous environment. it doesn’t matter how much you trust your mods; legal documentation is a big fucking deal and handling it requires a massive dedication to data security.
if you are really, sincerely worried about facing legal consequences for someone lying about their age via discord’s built-in age verification, to the point that you feel the only way to avoid legal liability is to handle photos of your members’ legal documents, you need to commit to the highest level of data security to run that server.
reblogs are appreciated because honestly the fact that i keep seeing people acting like this is a normal or OK thing to request is insane.
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The Witch of the Woods 🦊🌲
Anonymous asked:
What does "dead dove don't eat" mean? I'd Google it but I'm afraid of getting graphic images of deceased birds in the results.
It’s a meme from an old episode of Arrested Development. You’ve seen it here on tumblr, but not always with the original context.
The character sees a paper bag in the fridge labelled “Dead Dove Do Not Eat.” He takes the bag out of the fridge, opens it up, makes a disgusted face, and then the famous “I don’t know what I expected.”
There really was a dead dove in the bag.
When you see a fic tagged with “dead dove do not eat” it basically means, “this fic is clearly labelled (tagged) indicating content that some people will not want to read. If you read it anyway, it’s your own fault. I warned you.”
It can also be interpreted as “See those tags and warnings? I’m not joking around. Pay attention to them.”
The way I understand it then, it’s basically just a more amusing way of saying “don’t like don’t read”?
I would say it’s best understood as an intensifier to Don’t Like Don’t Read.
Just for example, say a series has some implied cannibalism in it.
A given fic for this series might tag with “cannibalism warning” just because it’s in the canon and the fic acknowledges or discusses it. Some people might be okay with discussing it in the abstract, even if they don’t want to see it represented explicitly. Others might be uncomfortable with just the concept, and the author might add “don’t like don’t read” to remind those people that they may not want to engage with the fic at all.
But if you see both “cannibalism” and “dead dove do not eat” the author is telling you that in the course of this fic, a character is going to straight up chow down on some dead bodies, onscreen.
To refine on that “intensifier” concept slightly, I interpret “dead dove: do not eat” as an intensity modifier. The presence of a tag itself doesn’t necessarily tell me exactly how that content is going to be handled (which is not to say it’s not useful, just that it’s incomplete information). “Dead dove: do not eat” suggests to me that it’s going to on the darker, more serious end of the spectrum, and I shouldn’t read it if I’m not prepared for what may be a psychologically intense or harrowing treatment of the tagged material.
You know what! This conversation has gotten me thinking about the concept of “intensity modifiers” all this morning, and I think it’s actually a fascinating subject we should talk more about!
Because I started off by thinking “DDDNE serves as an indication of subject intensity, which is an important purpose and it’s a shame that we don’t have other things like that” but then I realized, we do! They’re just slightly less formalized than other kinds of tagging systems modern fandom tends to work with.
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of intensity scales in common use in modern fandom.
The first is the violence/sex intensity scale, which tends overall to be conflated with or used as a shorthand for the intensity/maturity rating of the fic itself. And people have talked in detail about the difference between an M and an E rating, in terms of how explicitly the sex act or violence act is described.
But sex and violence are not the only topics that warrant an intensity scale. There are plenty of topics that people (myself included) are okay with when talking about in an abstract or general way, but if the narrative starts to dig down into the real nitty gritty of the topic I might only want to read it if I’m in the right headspace, or not at all.
And though there isn’t an official G to E scale, fandom has implicitly recognized this need and filled it with canonical tags – such as Implied/Referenced X, Canon-Typical X, or Dead Dove Do Not Eat.
1. Implied/Referenced X tells the reader that topic X is going to be discussed, but not shown explicitly on-screen. Unless the whole broad topic is a trigger for a reader, it’s probably okay for them to read.
2. Next step up from that is Canon-Typical X, which can generally be understood as the base or standard level of intensity for topic X in fandom Y. Exactly what level of intensity that is varies from fandom to fandom – ‘canon-typical violence’ for The Avengers is probably going to be a different level of intensity than ‘canon-typical violence’ for The Witcher, just to name two offhand. But it is generally understood that if you’re reading fic for fandom Y in the first place, the level of X present in the work is probably not going to be too much for you.
3. And then at the far end of the intensity modifier scale is Dead Dove Do Not Eat, where a topic is explored in such detail and intensity that even fans of Fandom Y will have to decide whether they’re okay to read this today, or maybe at all.
see this is the kind of quality content that keeps me coming around here on tumbler dot com.
Love me some good fandom midrash
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Art Fight batch 5!
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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon day anyone?