hiya; small question/request/idea to run by you. are

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Oh this is funny, just today I was having a conversation about how I keep meaning to put one of those transformative works whatsit statements on my AO3 profile and I keep forgetting. A friend advised I just use the CC BY-NC license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and while that’s basically the gist of what I want [you may share and adapt this material, you must provide credit and indicate where alterations were made, you may not use it for commercial purposes], I want to be a little more specific/ talk about why and what that means to me.

Because of course, this is transformative work, it would be ridiculous of me to tell people not to continue to transform it, to use it as they will– I don’t think I could stop anyone from doing so, nor would I want to– but what I worry about is that things I made up will wind up getting muddled with canon. It sounds arrogant to say that, but I’ve written a lot in this fandom and there’s a lot of stuff I just plain made up because canon didn’t go where I wanted. And what I worry about is some poor sap reading the books and writing a fic and posting it and they get a comment about “where’s X?!” where X is something I made up, that there’s no reason they should know about, nor should they be expected to.

So of course you can use my OCs, you can use my headcanons, you can build on things I’ve built, that’s perfectly fine! All I ask is, please try to make a note somewhere of things that came from me, link back to that source, not entirely because they’re my babies etc. but more because it makes me uncomfortable to think of some poor newbie to the fandom not understanding what the heck you’re talking about.

Also I would love it if you told me how you used my lil guys, but that’s just because I like hearing about their continuing adventures.

More specifically to answer your specific ask, I admit I myself am preoccupied with wider definitions of love than the limited sort we usually get in fiction– platonic love, familial love, companionship-love– but I too tend to kind of, ha, default to sexual relationships, so I feel you there. Like IRL not so much but in fiction it’s just so juicy to use sex to explore all these things. Anyway, also, I have a lot of complicated gender feels about Morvran too that I think I am only going to explore to a fairly limited extent in this series but– do know that I’ve had at least one other person writing me with trans!Morvran headcanons too, that’s definitely something that resonates. I don’t plan to trans his gender entirely (there’s a storyline where… well, we’ll see how far I get) but I absolutely see how someone would want to and I can entirely condone that– but, to be perfectly clear, as outlined above, even if I didn’t see it, I wouldn’t feel it’s my place to tell you not to. However, irrelevant as my approval may be, I super approve, please do keep me posted. (Your picture was not posted)

omg i can log in

so like ages ago, well back last year sometime, i tried to log in to dreamwidth using the saved password in my password manager, and it said my password was wrong.
it's been literal months, maybe a year, and i've-- well i have a whole thing about how i can't get password managers to cooperate with me ever, and this is borne out by the sheer number of websites i'm locked out of. I was going to just transition to a physical fucking notebook with the passwords written in it, but I have for various reasons not succeeded at setting that up despite wanting to do it. who even knows, with this brain of mine.

anyway just now i was at my work computer on firefox which ostensibly knows all my passwords, and i wanted to reply to a comment so i forlornly clicked the login button ,the very same one where it uses my saved password and then says "no that's not it" even though i double-checked and it is, and
well it logged me in this time.

no, i don't know why, but it logged me in this time. so i'm currently logged in. the password is the same as it has always, ever been, ever since the last time i changed it and carefully updated it in all my password managers and it worked for months and then stopped working. so, while i'm logged in, i'm gonna try to catch up but be aware i'm way behind.

anyway hi. sorry the polls look so fucking bonkers. sorry i can't figure out how to make the crossposter tag coherently so it's obvious when it's a reblog and when it's me writing. sorry in general. it's all generally somewhat beyond me. alas.
anyway, hi.

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adblockers, fuck all this shit, and be ready to jump

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transhaunting https://transhaunting.tumblr.com/post/710454995882999808:

i feel like people are getting way too nice to tumblr staff right now. i don’t think all of them are bad obviously, and i know their quirky jokes are funny, but i also feel like they’re rapidly commercializing the site and killing the atmosphere and usability of it in the process. we can’t keep blorboifying them we need to instill fear in their hearts. hope this helps!

don’t get me wrong it’s the nature of capitalism and i’m not against putting some kind of monetary stuff on it. i’m not against blazing, or even tumblr plus, or the mart or anything. it’s the fact that they’re putting trackers on the links and making it so going directly to a blog is so much harder, it’s making it so you can’t read full posts logged out, it moved the tumblr mart button to where the BLOGS button was for like, ever, it replaced the search with tumblr live, and again- i’m not like “against tumblr live,” but you’re completely killing the flow of how the app is supposed to work. you’re making it harder to search and see your own blog than it is to spend money on a site that can’t even fix its bot problem. ridiculous. (Your picture was not posted)

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such a fucking good album, so important to teenaged me, she's so underrated

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Where does the name Hole come from?

[image description: a series of still images clearly taken from a video in which Courtney Love, frontwoman of the grunge band Hole, is being interviewed. The interviewer asks, “Where does the name Hole come from?” Love, sitting next to him on a bench, answers, “Um, well, it doesn’t come from the obvious source. Actually it’s English 101, Euripides Medea, uh, when she uh, when she kills the bride and her own child. She says uh, in the Norton’s Anthology… [She says], ‘There’s a hole that pierces my soul.’ And my mother’s this kind of crap new age, well, my mother, excuse me. My mother’s this new age psychologist, and I said, you know, 'I had this terrible childhood,’ and she said 'Well you can’t have a hole running through you all the time Courtney.’”] (Your picture was not posted)