I’ve been playing one of those phone app games where you’re basically collecting a series of things. Neko Atsume style games, do they have a technical name? Anyway my life is stressful and sometimes you just want to listen to a calming 10 second repeating theme song and look at colorful things so I’ve been playing Tiny Bird Garden.
And it is the single greatest app I have on my phone.
You have a tiny garden and you fill it with nice things for birds to sit on/play with. You fill your bird feeder with seeds. And then you wait. And the tiny birds come. And they say the WILDEST things.
Sometimes they’re sweet
Some are aspirational
And some of them are just out there
I bet you did tiny bird, I believe you.
Also you can give them tiny hats so now my goal is to outfit all 88 possible birds who can visit your garden with a slouchy hipster hat. Because I like having goals. So far I’ve reached 16/88.
Look at them all and tell me it’s not a worthy goal
thanks you Senshi, your dedication to my tiny garden is appreciated
I actually found the game through a post about one of the developers who had struggled due to messages that women and people of color could never succeed as indie developers. And now she has a lovely game out!
In yet another bad move, Tumblr has apparently made it so that any posts containing links of any kind don’t come up in search results, which is effectively the final nail in the coffin for a lot of content creators
to combat this, and also still find good content, change your searches from ‘tumblr. com/search/ bees’ to ‘tumblr. com/tagged/ bees’ and posts with links in them should still show up
and to help out creators who will inevitably suffer from this, reblogging and sharing our work is now more important than ever, especially things like product adverts, kickstarters, patreons and commission posts. please support your local friendly creatives!
For people who tend to forget doing this sometimes: New XKit has a module that changes the search bar to use /tagged/ instead of /search/ so you don’t have to change it manually every time!
Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3.
There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported.
Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3.
Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship…
Hey guys, if some awesome person in China translated your fic into Chinese or created fan art, you really should spread the word! This could affect someone you know!
This is also a call out to all you fuckwits that repost art on Tumblr, twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Your negligence hurts people.
^^^
This is literally shitty and it has become worse and worse
Hopefully it will stop before long but just take care of how yiou take your stances on ao3 or what’s happening with Tumblr
A chinese homoerotic novel writer is sentenced to 10 years to prison because of “illegal publication”* and “spread of obscene materials”. After that, China government set up bounty for reporting “illegal publication”. Everyone on weibo, lofter etc. is deleting thier posts.
China is using this act as a way of controling the freedom of speech, it’s not just a matter of “no homo”. They just use the fandom content creators as an easy target and a way to scare people off from writing and publishing things the government doesn’t like.
China is living the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Please don’t post chinese fan works, especially not with their original chinese artists/writers right now. You could literally ruin their life.
* in China every book has to be approved by the government before
publication. Anything against the government or with “the wrong idea” will be banned. Their government didn’t pay too much attention to fan books before, but in recent years, they are tightening their grip on their people. Fandom and their activities as a whole has become a target because 1) fandom and their creative community make self-publishing a thing and China doesn’t like that the people know it’s easy to print stuffs (to spread unwanted information/ideas etc. 2) fandom and their creative community is the easiest and obvious target because of the general anti LBGT+ envirnment, general public will support the gornment for “cleansing the society from obscenity” withouth thingking about 1)
theres a new product by verzion called “hum” that allows your parents to track your car and places you go, if your parents are controlling like mine please check under your steering wheel to make sure that they havent installed this
here is what it looks like installed:
you can read more about it here, and here– this excerpt sums up what information Hum will send:
“a car’s owner will be able to get notified on their phone when the vehicle leaves a pre-determined area or drives faster than a set speed… [Hum] will enable location tracking and a driving log, which measures travel times, engine idle times, and average speeds.”
People in abusive relationships, please check your cars.
DO NOT TRY TO UNPLUG IT BY YOURSELF!
To add to this nightmare, I’ve just heard of a thing called ForceField where people get to monitor and block internet sites that you’re going on if they don’t approve.
It tells the user what sites/apps you’re going on, for how long you’re on them, and WHERE YOU ARE ON AN UPDATING MAP.
So you know if you’re in an abusive household and use sites like tumblr to escape and talk to friends, you could be cut off from that.
They say “it’s not spyware” but it sure sounds controlling and creepy to me.
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God. Fuck. That’s scary.
Life 360 is another tracker. My parents have used it on me, not allowing me to delete it from my phone, and sometimes even demanding selfies to prove I was where the map said. (As if I’d go anywhere without my phone)
SpectorPro is another one. Afaik it can’t track location, but it takes screenshots roughly every 20sec to allow the installer to watch a video of your computer activity. It also tracks all keystrokes, so passwords aren’t safe, and records any website you visit + the duration. It’s incredibly creepy and a huge violation of privacy, and was one of the cornerstones of my abuse as a kid.
even if you’re not in an abusive relationship/family, please spread this because you might have just saved someone’s life
my parents use life360 and while we’re on the subject of tracking internet, Xfinity’s wifi allows the installer to have certain modes on a phone such as “bedtime mode” which pauses the wifi from the IP so theres no way to disable it unless you get rid of the serial number on the installer’s device, i think it also has a way to block certain youtube videos and websites, again, from the ip, the world is fucked, so beware and DON’T GET XFINITYWIFI!!!!
okay but the article is seriously mis-titled and it also kind of… misses its focus?? yes, the beauty culture in south korea is insane, but the beauty culture isn’t one only or even main thing these women are so pissed off about…
south korean women are not doing this only as a backlash against the beauty industry/standards, they’re doing it as a much larger female liberation movement that was mainly spurred by rampant video-recording of women in restrooms for pornography and unaddressed sexual assault. they’re rebelling against what the patriarchy demands from them (socially-mandated ”traditionally feminine” looks such as long hair, makeup, etc) to point out that they don’t exist to be desirable. it’s not just because they all suddenly woke up one day and realized the makeup industry is bullshit (though it is).
and like, even though that’s the main reason, you still have to scroll down multiple paragraphs to get to the article even mentioning it?? and the article only TOUCHES on what’s really going on in these women’s minds. like i get that it’s easier and more consumer-friendly to talk about the evils of south korean makeup culture, but maybe focus a little bit more on the bigger issue these women are pointing out…
not to nitpick, it’s still an alright article. but the article makes it sound like this is a passive, peaceful protest and these women are happily out living their best lives right now. they aren’t, and their defiance has been met with very harsh reactions (assault, etc). these women are still spitting furious about a much realer problem than just unrealistic beauty standards, and their very reasonable demands are still not being addressed.
Friendly reminder that SK is best known for diets that they force their female celebrities to follow that consist of eating less than 600 calories a day, when the average full-grown woman needs at LEAST 2000.
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