I’m reaching out to anyone who is planning to attend D&D in a Castle in either 2022 or 2023.
We had booked in better times (pre-Delta/Omicron), but our circumstances have changed and we cannot attend.
This was meant to be a once in a lifetime experience for us and has completely fallen apart, and we’re hoping to at least recoup some expenses; the only reason we could afford this was because I had money from being made redundant, so it’s not like this is something we could just go and do whenever.
We have USD$7,400 of store credit that we really need someone to purchase from us.
Please send me an Ask with your email address if interested.
Signal boosts appreciated, also suggestions of other places to share this besides here, Twitter, and Facebook.
A kind individual has helped us out with this and there is still USD$2,425 available if anyone is attending on their own/is better able to commit to the lower amount. Please send me an Ask with your email address if interested. We deeply appreciate all the signal boosting.
just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list
I love you blocking I love you content filtering I love you blacklisting I love you “not interested” button I love you scrolling past a bad post I love you not looking at the comments I love you exiting a bad page I love you curating my online experience I love
Hey Tumblr, while you’re changing layout stuff, can I just get a direct link on the left there to my drafts so I can see the number glaring accusatorily at me of how many posts I’ve dumped in there with every intention of tagging and posting ‘later’?
PS when I tried to post this post without tags, Tumblr prompted me to add tags. Now, fortunately I do have a tagging system, but boy that’s got to be annoying for people who prefer to freeball it.
Penetration is a gender-neutral act. Topping is gender-neutral. Bottoming is gender-neutral. You are not more or less of a man or a woman depending on how you fuck. You are not “fake trans” for having sex a certain way. You are not any less masculine for bottoming or any less feminine for topping.
Additionally, acting like being penetrated is an act of submission is deeply rooted in misogynistic, cisheteronormative ideas of sexual intercourse, as in “penetration is something that is done to women for the sexual gratification of the man, nothing more, therefore it is inherently degrading and feminine”.
A cishet man getting pegged by his cishet girlfriend is not gay, he’s not less of a man or submissive by default. A cishet man getting pegged by his cishet girlfriend can be sexually dominant and simply likes to be fucked in his ass - these two can co-exist. Yet, in the eyes of cishet society, a man that likes to have his ass played with, must enjoy it because it’s “degrading” , not because it simply feels good.
That’s why I so heavily preach about the difference between sub/dom/switch and bottom/top/vers. Penetration can be used to increase the feeling and severity of a power dynamic, but it doesn’t create one. These two things are entirely separate from eachother, unless connected willingly.
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do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now
You just gotta unclog the pipe. Are you dumb now? No. The water was sitting stagnant because you were busy doing other things (100% fine btw). If any ‘dumb’ got in the water then it will quickly leave once you let the water start flowing again. Go get all the stupid out into a doc that doesn’t matter. Even several of them. It might take a good while, especially if you’re returning to writing after years or after a period of intense burnout, or both (waves). But you’re just rusty, and letting that stop you will only ensure you stay stuck! Go forth and write some nonsense!
as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it’s used digitally
like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!
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those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!
but now look at how it looks digitally
the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!
and let’s look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:
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(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it’s okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it’s also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we’d probably not say that bi people “blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.”)
so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.
but…here’s the deal
Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!
but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.
which got me wondering…what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?
oh! oh, my god.
look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!
look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!
and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!
look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!
if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that’s closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.
anyway, I guess I don’t really have a point here? this isn’t so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.
and sometimes, I think it’s okay to compensate for that.
out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:
it’s the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink
but that’s just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!
anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality
lmaoooo and he’d have to ask Holly to dress him. Like a little dolly.
“Holly, give me a stationary bike and a cycling suit.”
“Any particular colour?”
“The colour doesn’t matter. It’s for exercising in, not picking up girls ……… Make it yellow. With blue gloves. I plan on riding hard, but I don’t plan on getting calluses.”
“Okay, Arnold. There’s your yellow cycling suit with blue gloves.”
“Where’s the helmet?”
“Helmet?”
“I’m about to go cycling I need a helmet.”
“Cor blimey! It’s a stationary bicycle! Helmets protect yer ‘ead, they do nothing for brains already damaged so it’s not going to be of any use to you. Besides, you’re already dead.“
“Just give me a smegging helmet you waste of hard-drive space.”
I had not, to this day, noticed the blue gloves, and I think that’s because my attention was always more… between them.
Being quite new to Tumblr, I’ve been gradually following tags related to various media I’ve been obsessed with over the years, including stuff I haven’t really thought about much lately. I am surprised but pleased to discover that one of the most active fandoms among them is the one for Red Dwarf, my very first fandom, aged 12 in the mid-90s! It was the subject of the first fic I ever wrote (well, it was the script for an episode, if that counts) and also my first fan art, including my bedroom walls, painted by me and my best friend (below) and my first fan vids (we remade several episodes). Long live the RD fandom!
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