“In this essay I will” is a meme that only encourages the op to put forth ideas into the world without making a concrete claim allowing them to express ideas on a subject without conclusion while at the same time submitting a thesis as fact
“Thanks for coming to me TED talk,” in contrast, allows the op to claim that whatever statement they’ve said to be their final say on any given topic, but also allows people to grow on it as well, as are the nature of TED talks
We are creating shortcuts in communication and I love it
Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3.
There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported.
Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3.
Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship…
Hey guys, if some awesome person in China translated your fic into Chinese or created fan art, you really should spread the word! This could affect someone you know!
This is also a call out to all you fuckwits that repost art on Tumblr, twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Your negligence hurts people.
^^^
This is literally shitty and it has become worse and worse
Hopefully it will stop before long but just take care of how yiou take your stances on ao3 or what’s happening with Tumblr
A chinese homoerotic novel writer is sentenced to 10 years to prison because of “illegal publication”* and “spread of obscene materials”. After that, China government set up bounty for reporting “illegal publication”. Everyone on weibo, lofter etc. is deleting thier posts.
China is using this act as a way of controling the freedom of speech, it’s not just a matter of “no homo”. They just use the fandom content creators as an easy target and a way to scare people off from writing and publishing things the government doesn’t like.
China is living the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Please don’t post chinese fan works, especially not with their original chinese artists/writers right now. You could literally ruin their life.
* in China every book has to be approved by the government before
publication. Anything against the government or with “the wrong idea” will be banned. Their government didn’t pay too much attention to fan books before, but in recent years, they are tightening their grip on their people. Fandom and their activities as a whole has become a target because 1) fandom and their creative community make self-publishing a thing and China doesn’t like that the people know it’s easy to print stuffs (to spread unwanted information/ideas etc. 2) fandom and their creative community is the easiest and obvious target because of the general anti LBGT+ envirnment, general public will support the gornment for “cleansing the society from obscenity” withouth thingking about 1)
facts from the transformers comics that sound fake but are completely canon
god started the 4 million year decepticon/autobot war by knocking over a guys drink while trying to get a curly straw
megatron is a communist who wrote poetry and after the war becomes an autobot
cybertronians are a homonormative race, not that they really care or are actively aware of the significance of it
there an instance mpreg, which was written in for no reason other than the author likes mpreg
optimus made megatron the captain of an autobot ship on a journey to find a mythological group of explorers that optimus doesnt even really believe existed
shockwave went back in time and made god, so technically shockwave started the war too
for a while starscream actually was the ruler of cybertron, and he wasnt the worst leader they ever had
there are tons of other aliens besides cybertronians but you dont see them as often because they hate cybertronians and also megatron killed millions of them
cybertronians have the robot equivalent of most drugs (steroids, cigars, weed, vapes, hallucinogens, some sort of addictive substance, dont question it)
transformers is in the same continuity as g.i. joe for no reason other than…..hope for a hasbro extended cinematic universe? idk
in an older series megatron gets sent to the my little pony universe and he hates it
tumblr exists in transformers
transformers had slavery and they had to have a civil rights movement to get rid of it, and this wasnt even a major plot point
there is also racism in transfomers of function vs. form (ex. if youre a jet you have to be in the military, sport cars have to be racers) which was a major plot point in many issues and also caused the war
transformers who dont transform into cars, trucks, or other automobiles will often ride scooters or trains for transportation
theres a toaster transformer who everybody is obsessed with but has no active role in any of the stories other than being a toaster
at one point it was implied that two transformers tried to fuck in the trailer of another sleeping transformer. yes, it was weird. no, there was no good reason for it.
This is called Afrezza. It’s an inhaler for diabetic insulin. That’s right. An inhaler. That means no more needles. It’s only for fast acting insulin, but it could still vastly improve the life of a lot of diabetics.
Imagine having to constantly prick yourself with needles to keep yourself alive, and then suddenly there’s a new product that could change the whole way you live your life for the better.
And here’s the thing: it works. It works really really well. People with diabetes that have been lucky enough to have used it think it’s amazing.
But sadly, it’s probably going to end up as a failure because the pharmaceutical company (a French company called Sanofi) that was in charge of marketing it didn’t care enough to actually try. Not only that, but they made it incredibly expensive so hardly anyone could afford it. Most people have never heard of it, and the way things are going, no one else ever will.
Please reblog this to raise awareness of this product and hopefully get another company to market it. It could change so many lives.
It would change and save my life. If there’s one thing I hate in the top 5 most in this world. It’s the fucking pharmaceutical, money mongering, heartless industry.
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