I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

oh man.

Bsky has a new top complaint category on the Play store: Poor user moderation It also dropped almost a whole number overnight

FEEDBACK FORM: Use this to demand bsky roll back its harmful adult content policies and ask for a better labeling system instead! #bskycensorship

Thr biggest reason AI usage gets called out on games is because it's a required disclosure on Steam, and you don't have that black mark if you don't use AI. The advertising industry would change overnight if similar disclosure was required

The more I think about it the more I’m fascinated with the idea of remastering a game from 2000 to look like a game from 2004.

american horror story, euphoria, sex education, elite, riverdale, chilling adventures of sabrina, bet... all these shows depict underage characters in nsfw situations yet (some) of them are incredibly popular among "normal people" hell even Grease would have to be either banned or heavily censored

Would Cinderella hit as hard if she wasn't being gravely mistreated at the start? These stories are CLASSIC, and even if we have new terms for them like "Whump" they retain that structure "Break the Cutie", "Trauma Conga Line" etc etc THIS ISN'T NEW! ITS NOT JUST A FANDOM THING!

And yet fanfics and fanworks have this odd judgement where ppl will ask "WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO WATCH THIS CHARACTER SUFFERING!?!?!" as if all the enjoyers are secret abusers When it is a pretty average and normal thing to enjoy?

It's interesting to me just how mainstream and normal stuff like My Happy Marriage is Where it's just SUFFERING heaped on the FMC, so you can get that overwhelming whump, so the satisfaction when she's saved and things are nice is SO MUCH HIGHER

Shipping a rarepair feels like I’m at a cozy small-town farmers market and we’re all sharing farming tips and complimenting each others apples 🥰

also to add to this - leave comments on older and completed fics because trust me, you never know when you might reinvigorate a writer to return <33

Have you left a review on your app store? Because you should! #bskycensorship

People who start reading a multi-chapter fic and leave a little comment on EVERY CHAPTER in real time, as they read it, are the pillars of fandom culture, and no one will ever convince me otherwise Bless you all

damn i heard it’s true :/

when someone puts a rare ship name in their own name and I have to mute them so it won't ruin all my searches

When I love a rarepair so much but there are less than 10 fics so I just read everything, even the stories that contain my squicks

there is nothing more pure and divine than someone with a random crackship rarepair who has been making the only ship fanworks for their pair for years

It's funnier when it's "[Ship I've Never Seen a Single Person Ship Ever] DNI" Like ???? You just INVENTED a rarepair to hate! rn you're the closest one to shipping it, for even considering it as a pairing

It's funny when I see someone with a REALLY specific rarepair in their DNI, because it's like.... there's like 1 shipper and everyone knows them cause they're the only one in the ship tag Just block the person yourself, idiot LMAO

When I write a weird rarepair and I get a single kudos, you better believe I am cradling that kudos like a baby kitten, i am treasuring it, if even ONE person reads my weird rarepairs i am satisfied

theres no worse feeling than shipping a rarepair and learning literally the ONLY other person who ships it online is an anti with a DNI that includes you 🥲

I DO understand the frustration of having a rarepair, of seeing a ship and dynamic you think is SO GOOD and "why can't other people see it?" Some of my ships only have 2 fanfics & then 1 of them is MINE. But the "solution" is not to yell at ppl for not making other fanworks. A thread 🧵

When there’s only one other person interested in your rarepair and u send eachother fic drabbles and sketches

I have started using a VPN, not to evade /circumvent the age verification thing, but because I listen to a LOT of podcasts and the Neck Oil advert was driving me round the bend. Now, instead of cunts selling shit beer, I get relaxing cheery adverts for shops in Ireland.

And, weirdly, this same group of people are also the ones who also learned how to preserve their media the same way. Not *only* do they still talk to a person they met on ICQ 25 years ago, but they still have the same rip of a movie they pirated then too, or such.

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

If you're *under* the age of 30, pretty much all you've known were walled gardens, you didn't really need to learn the skill of finding a friend hanging out somewhere else.

If you're over the age of 30, your first internet friends were outside walled gardens, they didn't really exist yet. You found them, and then found them in half a dozen different places none of which were the really *important* thing. The important thing was they were there.

Which is interesting. Gen X and millennials grew up having to learn how to use computers, how to go online, etc. One of these skills later generations didn't learn, was how to reconnect outside walled gardens.

If you're gen x or millennial, odds are you have known some people online for *decades*. Across multiple now-dead forums, across vast gulfs of time in internet years. You've probably got a friend group that outlived multiple sites.

That game you love vanishes if no one bothers to crack it and pirate it and emulate it. That person you like, vanishes if the ground turns sour and you didn't figure out a way to find them after fleeing elsewhere.

The ideal social media is not actually any particular instance, but an up to date contact list. Everything else is details, and every hangout spot will inevitably go rancid.

There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives. Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.

she feels a bit self-conscious

it's actually emotionally agonizing to know I will never get to play the Breaking Bad microtransaction slopgame where u can pull Walter White in a gacha mechanic WHY WHYYYY DID I SHOW UP SO LATE TO THIS FANDOM ITS NOT FAIR

tv show fan wars 10 years ago didn't even look like what fans do within their fandoms nowadays. constant policing and cancellations of people and works. i guess ppl moving online full-time made the irl drama happen in groups online instead, making it everyone's business.

i really admire everyone’s affinity for policing fan content and then being shocked when the amount of fan content depletes. wonder if there’s a link there

I don't think us mere mortals can comprehend the fallout of cancelling 100 live service games with a budget of 1 trillion dollars each

i feel like many people who advocate for artistic censorship dont really understand that much of the disgust they feel is projected out of shame from something that brings them pleasure. theres a clear line between fantasy and reality and the guilt is blurring it

I actually made breaking bad for the nintendo ds. with local wireless multiplayer support. video is out now!!! 👇 youtu.be/HiiZxOU934E

We've fallen so far from 2017 smdh

Oh my god “Influenced by the much older Atellan Farce, a tradition of masked improvised farces in Ancient Rome.” I’m like in heaven right now I love Ancient Rome I’m rolling in “humans have been telling silly and ribald stories since the very beginning” and it makes me happy

I love when someone posts about a dynamic or a particular ship and describes all the hottest, most compelling parts of it and i think it's a shipper, and then i realize they're listing reasons why they HATE it and why its supposedly BAD for people to enjoy

anti: WHY THE FUCK would you ship teacher/student when you could just ship teacher/teacher instead? what?? that makes no sense, they're totally different things! Obviously I enjoy teacher/student! Sorry but the "oh no we're coworkers" doesn't hit for me in terms of "forbidden"

No but really I think this is an underrated explanation, pornography is so easily accessible and ubiquitous - while remaining cleanly bifurcated from all other media - such that a generation is no longer able to see sex in media as anything but "just porn"

us: how many notifications do i have? bsky: mmm idk...more than 30??? 😉 us:

wish there was a better way to have the convo about the fact a lot of fans force queer subtext into big corporate IP that is comically devoid of it, champion it for being "so gay", and then turn around and go "mm idk, it isn't PERFECT rep" about indie stuff actually trying to include those themes

It's insane to me that Final Fantasy Tactics is suddenly getting a new renaissance among a younger generation of gamers and journalists who never even heard this game existed. Happy to see it get its flowers. Anyway, here's my review. #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyTactics

Artists will leave. Creators will leave. And they won't just be taking their current viewership with them, they're taking future traffic away too