Heads up everyone, there's a new scam in town!

(Or perhaps an old one and I am late to the party)

Reasons it is a scam:

1) long, but doesn't reference the fic or characters at all

2) wants money - and will only communicate through dms, they don't have a public profile with proof of their work

And finally!

3) I googled this copy paste text and... suprise! It is a copy paste text. Loads of other people have the same ask

Stay safe and don't fall for this all!

pulling thorns out of my palm

working midnight surgery

when you cut a hole into my skull

do you hate what you see

like i do?

( souvenir / boygenius)

wilson + looking at house

Hank never really changed then. He always put his faith in violence. He believed it'd solve all his problems. He needed to keep himself and Cristobal safe; violence. He needed to prove to Andrei and Batir he was strong; violence. Cristobal can't leave or else; violence.

It worked before when he saved Cristobal in Bolivia it has to work now. It's the only thing that's worked from a man who has never felt safe in his entire life.

It worked in the end when Hank could no longer go home. Hank lost his safety. The one thing. THE ONE PERSON who ever made him feel safe. He had to be with Cristobal.

Violence was the answer for Hank since he couldn't do the one thing he sought for in life; to live.

why does needing and god forbid wanting feel so incredibly embarassing

Ted Lasso ‘Smells Like Mean Spirit’ (3.01)

SO YOUR TELLING ME THAT THE REASON I FIND MENS PANTS MORE COMFY IS CAUSE THEY DONT TRIGGER MY SENSORY ISSUES

I AM SO MAD.

Tumblr and the No Good, Very Bad Idea

So. You might have heard the news that, as of July 12, Tumblr is testing out converting GIFs into looping MP4 videos to help pages load faster:

This is bad. Tumblr is the only mainstream site left where you can post GIFs and they’ll continue to be GIFs - well, sort of, as Tumblr previously tested and implemented turning GIF into GIFV with the same purpose, and it decreases the quality of the original GIF file. Turning them into MP4 videos is even worse.

GIFs are GIFs. They’re not videos. Creators spend hours making a GIF that will look good as a GIF, not as a video.

I hope I don’t need to explain to anyone why continuing to screw over creators is bad for a site like Tumblr, whose continued existence depends on creators not giving up on it, and why gif-making is important to fandom existence.

I for one will not continue to make any more gifsets if I know they’ll just be turned into MP4 files. It’s disappointing to spend my time making something and watch it become ugly once it’s uploaded - and that’s what is already happening without the MP4 conversion.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

Don’t bother sending a support ticket! They will tell you to do what I’m about to tell you:

Send an ask or submission to @wip​ - the official “work in progress” blog of Tumblr where people can send in suggestions.

Their ask box is open every Monday from 6AM to 6PM EST.

The conversation isn’t over, guys, but it’s important to be a part of it. If you’re a creator or support creators (and you should), then set an alarm on Monday and go send them a message.

Behind the Scenes of Thor: Ragnarok

If there’s one part of Endgame that encapsulates my problem with how the movie treats Thor, it’s the scene when Thor volunteers to use the gauntlet to do the unsnap. They incorporate the recurring ‘strongest avenger’ joke with Thor, but it’s without humor.  Instead, there is raw emotion behind Thor wanting to do this followed by Tony telling him he’s in no state–that this isn’t the way to fix it. It’s a powerful moment, because Tony has struggled with PTSD and trauma–has been where Thor is–and has come out the other side.  It’s just a beautiful moment of Tony’s growth and Thor’s struggle that really resonates with the history of these characters.

But then Rhodey cracks a joke about cheese whiz and the moment is lost.

Omg, THIS. Rhodey’s joke in that moment was probably the one I hated the most, because for one thing it’s fucking mean and for another thing, it undermines the genuine despair/tragedy of what Thor is trying to do and Tony is trying to prevent him from doing. It could have been a really great scene, but they just had to add the fat joke. 

Loki escaping with the Tesseract in EG makes IW’s opening scene even more idiotic than before. Loki and Thor could escape with it, while Thanos was fighting Hulk. They could escape before their capture even. So why didn’t they? Because all of them were used as plot devices. Of course fans knew that Loki could use the Tesseract for travel. That’s how he was appeared in SHIELD in Avengers. But to explicitly show sth like that in EG, shows how little thought was put in that scene in IW. That it was only used as an excuse to kill Loki. Lazy writing all over.

They didn’t because of the people from Asgard. They can’t leave their people. They are the protectors.

They would leave Hulk, Heimdall and other people to die for. Yes, eventually Heimdall is killed, but they didn’t know that would happen during Hulks fight.

The Asgardians on that ship were dead. Before they all got captured(Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Hulk) they could escape. But their capture conviniently wasn’t shown on the screen. Hell, Loki could teleport himself and Thor, put an illusion in their place while everyone was distracted with Hulk fighting Thanos, and then come back for Heimdall and Hulk. The point is all of the characters were downplayed in case of power and intelligence just so Thanos could win. The scene is just done to conviniently further the plot. Put characters from point A to B because they wanted them there, without considering that does it make sense, are they acting in character. The plot holes of the scene is discussed by the fandom during past year. This was one of them. I’m just pointing out that now its flaws are more obvious than before by the sequal’s admission.

Anyway I hate almost everything about the way the Russos direct. between not telling Tom Holland who he’s fighting in a scene and the fact that they locked their actors in rooms for hours to read the whole infinity war script without letting them process it on their own, and then those scripts turning out to be fake, it’s very clear that they don’t care about telling a compelling story. Not only is it disrespectful to the actors, but a good director should want their actors to fully understand the show they’re making so they can get the best out of them and find new hidden nuances. They would want to create the best art possible. A good story can still be good after being spoiled, because the journey itself is the interesting part.

But the Russos are admitting with their very direction style that these movies aren’t intended to be art, they’re products.

This is the moment he knows he’s going to die. This is the moment “sentiment” wins, like it always has, for better or worse.  

The tear in the second gif… oh my god…

How....how did I miss the tear....how....there’s a fucking tear.

I did not need to have more feelings about this scene. I am dead. 

Policy on Explicit Artwork & Underage Characters

This post is to clarify Pillowfort’s position on sexually explicit visual art, particularly art containing minors. We apologize for not clarifying our position on this earlier; we have been working on revising the ToS to address these issues, but an incident arose today that necessitated us taking action on this matter, so it seems necessary to put things in plain terms now.

As of this statement, Pillowfort will not allow explicit visual art of characters that appear to be underage. Now, due to the inherently subjective nature of trying to determine the age of a fictional character in a stylized medium, the “gray area” cases will be up to the discretion of the moderator reviewing the content. Broadly, if your characters are close to 18 and could plausibly or arguably be of age based on appearance, that will be allowed. We are not going to comb through the wiki of a particular fandom to try and find the canonical age of a fictional character and then try to figure out if the character in the art piece is supposed to be represented at their canonical age or not. Similarly, many works of art contain sexual activity as a theme of adolescence and coming-of-age– I’m sure you yourself can think of many movies, shows, etc. you’ve seen that featured underage characters in a sexual relationship, some even explicitly– and even if you wanted to argue that art that explored adolescent sexuality was fine and it’s ‘just pornography’ that should be censured, we aren’t going to be the arbiters of what is art vs. ‘merely’ pornography. Therefore, sexual depictions of characters in later stages of adolescence may broadly be considered ‘safe.’

However, any explicit or sexual art of a character that appears to be physically pre-pubescent or barely pubescent (i.e. not plausibly or arguably of age, or even close to it) will be prohibited. We realize this decision may anger some people, but we have devoted a considerable amount of thought to this decision and we feel this is the best approach for our community.

Importantly, we don’t want people to worry that this heralds a broader ban on ‘problematic’ content. When it comes to fictional depictions or descriptions of divisive subjects such as incest, rape, abuse, etc., we do not intend to restrict that content, for largely the same reasons as discussed above with regards to ‘gray-area’ underage content. We understand these subjects can be distressing for many, and we do request that people posting content that is potentially upsetting tag such posts with the relevant terms so that it can be avoided by those who don’t wish to view such content. The only situation we foresee penalizing the posting of this content would be a case already covered in our ToS, where a bad-faith user appears to be intentionally spamming completely unrelated tags or communities with violent or sexual content with the intent or result of disrupting the usual functioning of that tag or community.

We will update the ToS to reflect these new guidelines soon. As always, if these new guidelines are unsatisfactory to you and you want a refund for your PayPal payment to us, you can email us at [email protected] and we will process your refund as soon as we can.

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Okay, so I was supporting PF as an alternative to tumblr. No more. Here are my problems with this, in no particular order:

-They banned a user and deleted their blog for this before actually updating their TOS. And they didn’t inform the user or flag the post or anything. Just, boom, gone, no communication or reason given, again, for something that wasn’t even in the TOS at the time it was posted. That’s some shitty and shady moderating.

-This cannot be enforced. Between art styles (everyone knows that anime with the 30 year old woman who looks 10, or the 12 year old boy who looks 20), natural human diversity (height, medical condition, bust size- remember that time Australia banned adult women with A-cups from appearing in porn?), a policy that boils down to what a mod ‘thinks’ a picture looks like is basically just giving every mod a ‘hot or not’ button and basing the banning on that.

-Also, we’re talking about fiction. And fandom, which is fiction’s weird-niche central. How do you make a call on a piece of art depicting a child in an adult’s body (body-swapping, shape-shifting) or the reverse (such as an immortal child who is mentally an adult)? What about inhuman characters? And how are you going to rule on non-classically-sexual, non-nude fetish art?

-On a demographic note, this will be slanted against queer, survivor, and disabled artists. Since it’s down to mod preference and bias, preference and bias will come into play. Women are drawn ‘younger’ looking than men in a more normalized way (Disney’s Rapunzel and her mother, who is presumably twice her age, are basically twins), so art with a het ship and similar mlm art where one partner is femme/uke-like are likely going to be treated differently. Disabled, intersex, trans and non-binary individuals sometimes have different or minimized secondary sexual characteristics, so it’ll target them too. Survivors who express or process what happened to them in art will be banned.

-This makes no sense. Gore, torture, rape between adults, etc are still allowed, so this won’t make the site safe for work. And all of those things are clearly objectionable in real life, so this isn’t about only allowing obviously healthy/consensual porn. It’s just a random line drawn in the sand, and that means there are no guarantees that more random lines won’t follow.

-The vagueness leaves this open for abuse. If fictional depictions can be banned, then people can easily mass report ships or art they don’t like. And every mod trying to figure out if Prince of Tennis (a series where young teen characters are drawn more like adults) porn is ban-worthy or not is one less mod focusing on real CP that victimizes real children.