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turing-tested:

turing-tested:

turing-tested:

non homestuck dont understand. if you have cosplayed terezi, sollux, or dirk at  ANY point in your life you have bought shades from the same man. like its literally just one man whos making HUNDREDS of pairs of specialty cosplay glasses. it is literally JUST one man who makes those glasses on the entire internet

this one man controls the entire pointy anime shades supply. if he ever dies we are all thoroughly fuckt and left to make our own like animals

YALL HE FOUND MY POST AND RESPONDED

“homestuck keeps the lights on” im not crying youre crying

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Akujinscos

here’s a link to his Etsy shop!

How to (almost) instantly disable all 300 companies Tumblr wants to share your data with

tariqah:

canmom:

If you’ve logged in to Tumblr in the last few days, you will have seen the GDPR warning, telling you Tumblr is part of the Oath family of sites, and requiring you to opt-in to their privacy settings.

You may not have realised that, in contravention of the GDPR rules which ban default opt-ins, if you don’t go into the ‘more options’ button and opt out of each individual sharing partner, Tumblr will share your data with a whole huge list of other companies. Like, 300 of them.

@the-mad-duchess has a post here describing how you can disable them.

If you’ve already opted in to the Oath privacy stuff, you need to go to your Settings page:

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Click the Privacy button on the right:

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Then, click the little button next to ‘Cookie Consent’ to revoke it.

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After confirming you want to revoke consent, you will immediately be taken to that big privacy opt-in page again. From that point we follow the steps @the-mad-duchess described – first click ‘Manage Options’:

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Then, click the blue ‘Manage’ button, and expand the two lists. You’ll see five kinds of data sharing, and like 300 different companies:

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The first five you can click manually more easily than using javascript. That might be enough to opt out of any data sharing – but I want to be sure. So, let’s make sure we disable every single enabled partner as well.

However, clicking on 300 little buttons to opt out of  is an absurd demand. There is, thankfully, a shortcut, using your browser’s developer tools.

What you want to do is open the web console. In Firefox, you do it like this: click the little menu in top right, then go down to where it says Web Developer:

Then, click the Web Console option:

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This will open up the web console in the bottom of the screen. It will have a bunch of messages in it that you can ignore:

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As shown, what we want to do is copy and paste some JavaScript code into this, then hit ‘enter’, which will make the browser simulate a mouseclick on every single one of these little buttons and thereby turn them all off. The code is this:

var rows = document.getElementsByClassName("vendor-options")[0].children;
for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {rows[i].lastChild.firstChild.click();}

If you’re not familiar with JavaScript, let me briefly explain what this is doing. The first line finds the part of the page with all the buttons in it – specifically, the rows in the table of vendors, which is identified by the “vendor-options”. The second line goes through each of them one by one, and for each row of the table, goes inside and finds the button, and simulates a click on it.

If it works correctly, you will abruptly scroll to the bottom of the page and all those little buttons will slide to the ‘greyed out’ position. Now you can go ahead and click Done, click the OK button, and carry on using Tumblr, trusting that if they keep their word, they won’t share your data with those 300 companies.

I’m gonna chat with the New XKit devs to see if this can be added (they may already be working on it). But I hope this saves you some time.

Note also – this is not actually compliant with the new GDPR laws. The rule is that you have to explicitly opt in to letting companies use your data, you can’t have a list of default opt-ins behind a button like this. At some point, somebody will hopefully sue Yahoo/Oath and establish that in court. In the meantime, let’s keep our data to ourselves.

God

arteinthemachine:

ayellowbirds:

Thread by @melgillman​ on Twitter, about dubious recent offers to creators from the webcomics platform Tapas. Transcription follows:

Hey, we all know to avoid Tapas (the webcomic platform, not the delicious finger foods) by now, right?  

They’re going after young creators again with a new “incubator program”, so just as an FYI, let’s examine some information from their call for submissions.

First off, they’re looking for 600+ panel full color comics to be completed in 6-9 months.  Script to final art.  That’s about a 120+ page graphic novel, for comparison.  (Also, the fact that they use the word “season” is a red flag — they’re looking for tv series, not comics.)

[screencap from Tapas

Mobile-Optimized Vertical Format
Your project must fit our preferred format: full-color, mobile-friendly (also known as “vertical scroll” or “infinite canvas”), and be long-form narratives. A single season will consist of 20-25 episodes, with each episode being roughly 30 panels. 

Time Frame
Most projects will start in July and take approximately 6 – 9 months to complete one season of an original story. While we will try to work out a schedule that is most comfortable for you, the ideal start date for projects will be in July or August. 

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Wanna know how much money we’re offering?  You gotta send us your idea first, sorry.  But don’t worry, we promise it’ll take up a ton of your time and not give you any benefits!

[screencaps from Tapas FAQ:  

How much will I be paid? Can you give an estimate? 
Because everyone’s situation is different (length of story, production time, etc.), we are unable to provide an estimate of compensation. Details about compensation are worked out after we give you an offer. You are under no obligation to accept the offer.

How much of my time will be required for this program? 
This project will take a significant amount of your time to complete so we ask that you carefully consider your schedule before submitting.

Do I get benefits (like health insurance or parking expenses)?

No. Being selected for this program doesn’t mean you will be considered an employee of Tapas Media, which means you are ineligible for benefits.

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THIS is the real boogeyman of the agreement, though.  In practice, “joint ownership” means “really, they own it” — you won’t be able to do anything with your own stories without their permission and involvement.  This is NOT a normal or fair publishing practice.

[screencaps from Tapas FAQ:  

Who owns the copyright of the resulting work?

The copyright will be shared between the creator and Tapas Media.

Why is this a joint ownership?

As we are investing a significant amount of money, effort, and time into your project, we feel that asking for co-ownership is fair. If the idea of joint ownership isn’t comfortable with you, please don’t feel obligated to apply.

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If you remember that whole Tokyopop debacle, a lot of cartoonists lost their work altogether from signing one of these “joint ownership” contracts.  This is a giant red flag.

Last one, and they tried to bury this information: they’re gonna give you no time to negotiate this contract.  They want you to start working the same month you get accepted.  This isn’t time to hire a lawyer/agent to read over it and help you fight for better terms.

[screencap from Tapas:

Important Dates
Submissions Open: June 1, 2018 12:00 AM PDT
Submissions Close: July 1, 2018 11:59 PM PDT
Responses will begin rolling out after submissions close. 

Time Frame
Most projects will start in July and take approximately 6 – 9 months to complete one season of an original story. While we will try to work out a schedule that is most comfortable for you, the ideal start date for projects will be in July or August. 

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Anyway, they close their own dang FAQ saying basically “if you don’t like it then fuck off”, and to be honest, it’s in your best interests to do exactly that.

Start that awesome webcomic on your own, keep your copyright intact, avoid these people like the plague

[screencap from Tapas FAQ:  

I don’t like this, I don’t like that.

We understand that this program might not be a good fit for everyone. If there is an aspect of the program that doesn’t sit well with you, you don’t have to apply.

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Oh, and if this helped, you can check out Mel’s work melaniegillman.com, where they do stuff with colored pencils that makes me weep. 

Good to know…

cookievampiress:

morthils:

deliciouslycookingrpgideas:

a-daks:

probablybardrpgideas:

probablystrangerpgideas:

probablybardrpgideas:

Kids these days who think that being a bard is just about swinging swords and playing lutes disgust me. Where’s the pizzazz? The showmanship? The seduction??

you ain’t a real bard until you seduce your way out of at least 19 situations that would normally end in combat

You’re not a real bard until you make your DM cry because you seduced the Big Bad that they’ve built up to for 10 sessions

Once a bard friend rolled a 1 for a seduction and ended up killing a girl and tried to hide the body. He was caught, rolled low on deception and they all thought he was fucking her corpse.
He then tried seducing the guards and rolled low again so all the guards had boners while arresting him and the DM had to sideline the entire game and make up a dungeon for the rest of us to get our stupid bard out of.
But we didn’t. So for like 3 nights the DM essentially ran 2 different games, one of us questing without ol’ corpsefucker and then the adventures of corpsefucker: escape from boner castle.

He seduced his way out, naturally.

A true bard

I don’t know a damn thing about D&D but this funny as fuck

tag urself fantasy weapons

maleprotag:

bow: considerate, healing personality, gentle voice, attentive, open fields watching the clouds, constantly talking about love, thought to be lazy at times, always in their thoughts

sword: protector, adventurous, late nights looking at the stars, the warmth of a sunset, usually late but always with reason, amiable, the gayest one, overly idealistic 

dagger: frank but fair, the first smell of rain after a hot day, sleeping in, cold drinks, sensible, doesnt share much about themselves, cares deeply, needs caffeine  

axe: brave, persistent but stubborn, rather use action than words, loud and boisterous, unmannerly but always apologizes, kind hearted, really likes dogs, the sensation of finally lying down in bed after a hard day

lance: cautious, practical, dumbass passing, overly defensive at times, prefers sweets to savory, the first to offer advice, a safe person to be around, probably bi

staff: intuitive and careful, writing poems, mid day tea, not the most athletic, sarcastic and witty, over working, lack of sleep, loyalty, probably really into frogs tbh