Writer friends, tell me how many WIPs and how many UFOs you have. I have 2 WIPs and [redacted] UFOs (jk it’s around 16 across my three main fandoms)
going one step further… another yarn craft term that writers should put into use is frogging. If you don’t like the project, but the yarn is good, you can frog it (take it apart) and reuse it for another project.
I think a lot of writers don’t give themselves credit for how many of their ufos have actually been frogged, ie that particular project has been abandoned, but the concept, characters, or setting has been taken and reused on a new project.
Almost all of my abandoned fanfics have been frogged. You’ll find the pieces of them in my original work
my favourite thing about frogging and why it’s called that is because you… rip it rip it (ribbit ribbit)
But! yes! I wholeheartedly concur. I keep “line graveyards” for works that I keep frogging and they wind up being so useful later.
as someone who’s in the writing community AND crocheting/knitting community, i approve of this message
Reading about how sonic the hedgehog was designed. Some highlights-
Ohshima felt that people selected it [the original sonic design) because it “transcends race and gender and things like that”.
The detailed design of Sonic was aimed to be something that could be easily drawn by children and be familiar, as well as exhibit a “cool” attitude, representative of the United States at the time.
Sonic’s blue shoes evolved from a design inspired by Michael Jackson’s boots with the addition of the color red, which was inspired by the contrast of those colors on Jackson’s 1987 album Bad;
his personality was based on then-presidential candidate and later President of the United States Bill Clinton’s “Get it done” attitude during the 1992 presidential campaign.
Sonic was created without the ability to swim because of a mistaken assumption by Yuji Naka that all hedgehogs could not do so.
The original concepts gave Sonic fangs and put him in a band with a human girlfriend named Madonna.
it’s not even about one tag having more suggestive stuff, if you look through both tags, (if you type a period after tgirl it still works) they have the same amount of suggestive selfies! And I’ve seen more explicit photos BLAZED by cis women! I’ve legit seen underwear pics right on my dash in front of my fucking salad. Go to hell GO DIRECTLY TO HELL.
I saw a post like this about “crossdressing” which has since been unblocked. As of today, “tgirl” is still blocked. Calling them out works, make them change this NOW
For context, current staff inherited the block list from the old one. The current staff is the one we like, who made portions of tumblr open source. They have been going over the block list since they got it, drawing attention to a specific tag, helps push that tag to the front of the line for review.
I slept in and just woke up, so here’s what I’ve been able to figure out while sipping coffee:
Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
The official branding is that a tweet is now called “an X”, for which there are too many jokes to make.
The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn’t reclaim the username first.
The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name “X” in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for “X” in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term “X Japan” is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
Elon had workers taking down the “Twitter” name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says “er”.
He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as “Xvideo”. Nobody tell him.
This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.
Edit to add further developments:
Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.
Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.
The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.
The act of sending a tweet is now known as “Xeet”. They even added a guide for how to Xeet.
The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words “tweet” and “Twitter” are still all over the place on the site.
TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it’s because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).
This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to “X-Paypal” and eventually just to “X”.
This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to “pay online” (as in “I’ll paypal you the money”)
X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I’m not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he’s hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn’t be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.
Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.
The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.
One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won’t be enough to pay the debt (since it’s worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.
Sesame Street’s official accounts mocked the rebranding.
Please let him default and have all his toys taken away
Also, the bit about TweetDeck cannot be stated strongly enough. It is the only way to use Twitter in a sensible manner
Even if us evil trannies were forcefemming innocent men, are you really gonna complain about there being more women in the world? That’s what I thought, misogynist
I’m waiting for an arborist to hop on here and confirm that this is bad for those kind of trees or some shit, too.
I am a botanist and also worked as a gardener for two years, and I can weigh in on this!
Yes, as is obvious, those trees are fucked, in multiple ways. This may be a bit of a long post, but I hope I will explain all the ways these trees are fucked in a clear manner, and even teach about some botany in the process.
