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Can’t risk it
this is the idea chicken
she lays an idea egg every day whether you use it or not
idea eggs will be plentiful for you because the world is a vast and fascinating source of ideas and you don’t need luck or blog voodoo to have them for breakfast every morning
i made a thing to encourage people like me who struggle with basic daily self care
the idea is that coloring in the little hearts with your favorite colors will be a nice treat for your brain to remember and do stuff!!!
i hope it helps anyone out there
All of this delights me to no end.
…I’m actually speechless.
I wasn’t looking for any information about railroads and now I’m left with that + knowledge about spaceships, Roman chariots and one (1) unexpected but welcome joke.
I am now trying to figure out how to share this (the age-appropriate parts) with my middle school history students. What a great chain of facts!
I need all white people to read this like 10 times, just because you see yourself as progressive don’t mean you get to talk over people of color and what we side eye
Unlearning racism is like flossing.
Since racism is baked into our culture, we ingest it every day; sometimes it gets stuck in our teeth, and others can see it. When people of color say, "Hey, the thing you just did or said was racist," they're saying, "You got some racism in your teeth, dude."
Do we say, "No no, I flossed last year, there's no racism in my teeth?" "My spouse is a dentist so I don't have anything in my teeth?" No, we say, "oh damn, thank you," shut up and go find some string.
Flossing has to be done again and again. So does unlearning racism.
odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
Oðinn spake:
Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count'nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.
I need this framed on my wall it’s so beautiful.
ay @systlin hmu
My husband complained that this was more Shakespeare than Eddas, and I challenged him to do better.
Solen sken, skönt gyllene
Dagen Tor föddes
På trottoaren, vid Taco Bell
Där låg Loke
—KJN
My translation:
The sun shone, sweet golden
The day of Tor’s birth
On the tarmac, by Taco Bell
There lay Loki
(For poetry reasons, Thor needs the Swedish spelling.)
ay yo show ur husband
@bold-sartorial-statement no but hang on this should be in runes:
(oops spot the typos)
i wanna translate this into icelandic so imma do it
Sólin skein, björt og gullin við fæðingu Þórs á stígnum við Taco Bell Þar lá Loki
The amount of quality going into these shitposts is amazing
This is not shitposting, this is transformative work!
Solen skinnede, skøn og gylden
På dagen for Tors fødsel
På asfalten ved Taco Bell
Dér lå Loke
“LEV MERE (LIVE MAS)”
When Thor born
He hair shine brite
A very very
Magical site
But then I see
A bab from hell
I pik up loki
From taco bell
the rosetta stone of shitposting
Now THIS is the best post on this hellsite
obsessed with how recipes are expressly banned in ao3′s terms of service but underage is a main content tag
Like… cooking recipes?
Sigh.
A work that “consists entirely of actual […] recipes” is against TOS, because that’s not a fannish work. AO3 is specifically an archive of fandom material. If you just want to post your Nana’s famous meatloaf recipe online, there are other places you can do that. If you want to post a fannish work that includes a recipe, that would presumably be permitted, as long as there is enough non-recipe material to establish that this is a story about or analysis of an existing IP. You can go into as much loving detail as you like about what your blorbo is cooking, I promise.
On the other hand, “Underage” is one of the core archive warnings. It is a special, more prominent tag so that it is easier for people to avoid this content, which is not against TOS because the TOS explicitly allows any fannish work that is not illegal under US law. You, as a user of AO3, are expected to self-regulate and use the tools provided to find the material you want and avoid the material you dislike. By using the site you are agreeing to act like a person who is old enough to use a computer unsupervised and use the goddamn back button when appropriate.
Yeah, you could write a story wherein your blorbos from your shows make and eat meatloaf, and then append your Nana’s Famous Meatloaf Recipe to the end, and that’d be totally fine.
deep breath
Ok, so this is a good example of how someone can use facts that are technically true to imply something that is completely false.
First, note how the first fact is framed by the OP. While it is true that non-fanwork* recipes are disallowed on AO3, OP’s framing implies that AO3 has gone out of its way to specifically ban recipes. Compare, for example, the differences in the connotations between “recipes are expressly banned by the AO3’s TOS” and “AO3’s TOS disallows recipes.“ In combination with OP’s second (also true) statement that “underage is a main content tag,” this suggests that AO3 is willing and able to not only ban, but specifically target, non-objectionable content like recipes, while in contrast it specifically facilitates and encourages underage sexual content. The implication is that AO3 is specifically set up to distribute “questionable”** content like underage sexual content, to the exclusion of non-objectionable content.
*a lot more on that in a moment **this is the implication of the post, not my opinion
This is an example of a kind of misinformation, even though the two facts presented are, again, technically both true. The statement implies something nefarious about AO3 by framing cherry-picked facts and removing important context.
@bramblepatch already did a great job of breaking down OP’s framing of the underage content warning tag, specifically how the OP’s framing is misleading because they leave out the context that “underage” is not just a “main content tag,” it is specifically a “main content warning tag.” This is context is important, as bramblepatch says, because the prominence of that tag is intended to make that kind of content easier to identify and avoid, not necessarily to encourage the posting of that content, as the OP implies.
However, I want to examine the first half of OP’s statement, that “recipes are expressly banned in ao3′s terms of service.” This statement is once again technically correct, but misleading and missing important context.
If we look at the relevant excepted text from AO3’s TOS’s above, two things immediately jump out as important:
That first element is important because it means that AO3 did not go out of their way to specifically ban recipes in the way that is implied by the language of the OP; they are just part of a long list of disallowed content. The second element is important because it tells us how to read and understand that list of disallowed content.
When a text, especially a legal text like a TOS, includes an introductory clause before a list and a catch-all term at the end of a list, it is providing us context as to what the list actually means. That last sentence is kind of abstract, so let’s look at our particular example:
The introductory phrase, “if it consists entirely of actual…” is setting up the framework that our list lives within. To see what I mean, compare the first clause of the sentence in question: “Content may not be uploaded to OTW’s servers if it contains or links to child pornography.” The contents of the list occupy the same grammatical place in the sentence as “child pornography” does in the first clause, and the introductory phrase, “if it consists entirely of actual…” occupies the same grammatical place as “if it contains or links to…”. So, no content may be uploaded to AO3 if it contains or links to child pornography, even if that is only a minor part of the uploaded content. However, the kind of content on that list that includes recipes is only disallowed if it is both an ACTUAL recipe, instructional manual, etc, and that actual recipe/etc. is the ENTIRETY of the uploaded content.
The catch-all term, meanwhile, shows us that the list of disallowed content is non-exclusive. Rather, there is a category of content - in this case, “non-fanwork content” - that is disallowed, and the list consists of examples to help us understand what that category means in this context. “Non-fanwork content” is not allowed on AO3, but since “non-fanwork” is as complex to define as “fanwork,” AO3 provides specific examples of things that would be considered non-fanwork. You could rewrite the list to say instead, “Content may not be uploaded to OTW’s servers…if it consists entirely of non-fanwork content (such as instructional manuals, technical data, recipes, etc.).***
***As a sidenote: while this is a relatively simple example, you can use this same technique if you are trying to read a legal text that includes a very long list that makes it difficult to parse the actual sentence.
The thing that is banned is not “recipes” in general, but specifically recipes that are not fanworks. As both the above posters note, you can absolutely include recipes in a fanwork, as long as it is not the entirely of the work. In addition, it’s not hard to imagine content that uses a recipe as the format of a fanwork. For a good example, this is an original short story that is ostensibly a technical manual, but tells a complete story through the editor’s comments. It’s not hard to imagine a piece of fanfiction formatted in a similar way.
This was a very long close reading of a single phrase, but I hope it makes clear why the OP’s statement, “recipes are expressly banned in ao3′s terms of service” is so very misleading. A lot of discussions of misinformation focus on the importance of looking facts up to confirm if they are true. While that is important, it’s also essential to recognize that framing and context matter just as much.
In this case, OP ignored all of the relevant context, and that ignoring of context served a specific purpose. A recipe is a type of content, just like underage sexual content. Both are allowed on AO3 when they are part of fanworks. Neither would be allowed if they were not part of fanworks. The implication of OP’s original framing does not work if we understand why and in what context recipes are disallowed on AO3.
note also that while there is a tendency among a certain anti-AO3 subset of fandom to collapse “underage” into “child pornography,” and use the existence of “underage” as proof that AO3 hosts or even encourages “child pornography,” it doesn’t. in fact, it specifically bans it. it’s right there in the TOS.
swimsuits
do i even need to say it?
nah i got a feeling about this one tumblr
if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!
a caveat on op’s caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled “custom theme.”
tumblr works it’s just a closely guarded secret
OMG useful.
This made me so fucking angry I have to inflict it on all of you.
what’s the punchline here
wait
Lady D.
I honestly have to reblog this again to add my two cents.
I work at an archive. We have hundreds of thousands of photographs that would be super cool to publish in different contexts, but we can't, because
This is just how it is. In one hundred years' time (or less, obviously, with older photos) we can publish because the copyright has expired and the people depicted are dead, but right now we just have to put the photo away. Same thing if our customers want copies of the photos. It depends on their purpose, but there is always a chance that we have to say sorry, we can't because we don't have the rights, and we can't gain the rights.
What makes the fucking tech industry so fucking special???
toads riding snake
they took midnight train goin anywhere
I love the Winnie the Pooh newspaper comics. Everyone’s such a dick to eachother, it’s so out of character. Is it simply called “Winnie the Pooh”? I never bothered to read the title, I just call it “It’s Always Sunny in the Hundred Acre Woods”
piglet strikes back
Lemmings don’t jump off of cliffs unless they’re being chased. Frogs don’t stay in boiling water unless they’ve been lobotomized first. Crabs don’t pull each other back into the bucket unless they are desperately and randomly grabbing for anything to try to get themselves out, out of fear for their lives.
Actions taken in specific, negative conditions don’t exemplify the nature of all beings.
Before you mock a sheep for staying with the flock, ask what dogs nip at its heels when it strays too far, and what wolves wait just beyond the edge of the pasture.
While we’re at it, “alpha males” don’t appear in wolf packs unless they’re in captivity.
