Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

alright so

we really fucking hate doing this, especially since we were already begging for money with another gofundme just a few months ago, but things cannot stop getting worse in our household. our mom is borderline having a psychotic episode everyday, and she thinks she has parasites that only she can see. she is trying to extort us into forcing us to stay in a house she knows damn well why we hate it here. she also threw a dog over a hotel railing during a PSTD episode she had while she ran away from the house because she said we didn't love her anymore. our grandma is an abusive maniac who screams at us until we're in tears, and holds keeping our pet rabbit over our head. she has caused us so much pain, and even has invited our dad who sent us to a mental hospital to our graduation. our grandpa is a qanon psychopath(so is our grandma) who keeps trying to convert us back into christianity.

this place has broken our mind over 400 times, and we want out so so so so so so bad

so, we are doing this one final time. we are going to try and get the money for a car to get the fuck out of here and go to the college we got accepted to. we're making a new gofundme so we can properly keep track of the money from this

our c/shapp is $theteufortdozen , our vnmo is @/theteufortdozen, and here is a link to our k-fi and gofundme

full transparency, transfers on gofundme won’t be up for a few days due to us hitting the limit you can do without putting in your ssn. it’ll probably be two days maximum, but if you can, please do the other methods. if you don’t have any disposable money right now(which is perfectly okay and i understand), just reblog :]

as an update, we are at 700 dollars as per our cashapp. our goal is around maybe 2000 dollars, but we’d prefer around 6k so we can get a slightly nicer car. please reblog as much as you can, thank you’

here’s our bunny by the way as encouragement. tater tot

as an update, we’re at about 1k so far

thank you to EVERYONE who’s donated so far, you are literal life savers

we’re planning to possibly put down a deposit on a more recent car and we MIGHT end up skipping town before college starts because it’s just that bad here, which would be around may since that’s when graduation is plus we’ll be 18

so we’re gonna need as much as we can so we can

- put down a deposit

- pay for the following months

- possibly find place to rent

- gas

- possibly food

- etc

we have a job right now but it’s 12.50/hr and i’m not sure if we’re gonna keep it for very long

so please, reblog if you can

a new gofundme will be up soonish

our wonderful friend has remade the gofundme and they’ll be transferring the funds from this one to us :]

our computer which we need for most of our day to day activities is starting to shit itself and i think it's gonna die soon, and our family told us they refuse to pay for repairs, AND all of the repairmen in our area are horrible, so we just have to buy a whole ass new computer

please donate man

we have the computer thing under control, but we also need to get tater tot(our rabbit) spayed now so she doesn't get uterine cancer so please help?

haven't gotten any donations in a few days :[

[OCs] more vampire x werewolf stuff 🥂 (based on a prompt i saw on twitter!)

spade queen doodle

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

@billy-babe

would you take ibuprofen with him?

I really like what this physicist, Lamar Glover, has to say in Behind the Curve. 

+ this part from Spiros Michalakis:

Incredibly good take which is really rare for these topics

The thing about shame is that it only really works if a person sees you as part of their ingroup and wants to please you. If you make clear you do not see them as such, they won’t care.

i dont like the idea that kids these days are doing their fandom rps with ai chatbots. that's how you're supposed to make lifelong friends as a weird really online teen.

it's because forums are dead. tumblrs become too janky to easily find communities and many are abandoned, twitter isn't very intuitive for it, we don't have mailing lists, facebook doesn't really let you make character accounts anymore, and all the old "omegle but for role play" type websites died out ages ago. toy house exists, sure, but can be hard to get into and in my opinion is more oriented towards displaying art and designs rather than writing.

these days there just isn't space to meet other online rpers and connect like there used to be. back in the day you could go to gaia, neopets, any number of pro boards and other custom forums, you could meet people in chat rooms, there were websites dedicated to rp matchmaking and ads, email lists and circles and "guilds", tumblr communities, just unlimited networking options.

these days if you don't have an established network your options are:

-reach out on mainstream social media (high risk of no one finding your profile, high risk of regular accounts finding your profile and being rude about it)

-join an MMORPG, LARP, or tabletop (not the same imo)

-get really into solo writing

-use the janky AI out of desperation

it sucks pretty bad but i feel like the best way to tackle the issue isn't "ugh why do people use these awful bots" so much as "hey where the fuck DID all the role play networking websites go"

it's the same energy as when people started wondering why kids don't go outside anymore after they were banned from the malls

Use RPG Directory for finding roleplaying forums. No established network necessary and there are dedicated fandom sections.

A woman wearing Chinese armor

Lmao

( @dynastyandtree )

I am really happy that other people are getting the word out on sharks.

Everyone is always saying that they are scared of sharks and don’t want to help them.

But, this is a serious issue.

Sharks aren’t he only ones who are affected by the actions of hunting and shark finning, but the entire ecosystem.

So everyone, PLEASE REBLOG!

SAVE OUR SHARKS!

My art touches people, but it is still far from touching the real shark killers. I will continue, even if it takes my whole life, even if just somewhere in the sea, someone stopped the knife that would cut a shark’s fin, because someone showed my art.

I keep dreaming for the sharks…

AYO my commissions are open! ⬇ Fill out the form if you're interested! ⬇

PUNK RAT POISON Film Indiegogo

Gavril is a convict on the run due to his control over black goo that can eat people. His goal is to make his way from NYC to LA to meet up with an old friend he reminisces about, but he is intercepted by the FBI who struggle to combat his mysterious power.

Punk Rat Poison is a 4 minute action film with elements of horror and black comedy. It mainly acts as an introduction of Gavril into the larger story of BUBO!

All the Indiegogo information is in the link above, but essentially:

NOTE: This is flexible funding so you don't get refunded if the goal isn't reached! That's specifically because this is my thesis film required to be finished to graduate so whatever funds I receive below the goal will absolutely go towards it (+ rewards and taxes) as promised! Thank you for understanding!

Even if you can't support the campaign monetarily, simple sharing it around is just as helpful! I appreciate any amount of interest, support or encouragement that goes toward my work <3

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