Sad to be the one to tell y'all, but aborted children and children died before christening don’t get into heaven. They go to the Limbus, the outermost circle of hell, where the souls go who are exempt from paradise without it being their fault
You need to update your sources
Since 2007 unbaptized children go to heaven and limbo doesn’t exists anymore
mf aint even read the patch notes
Glad God threw in a quick hot fix, I wonder if it’s retroactive or if the babies before 2007 are grandfathered in?
Flood warnings today. The red warnings mean ‘act now’
Britain is becoming wet & wild as predicted by climate experts. And the gov tell us there isn’t enough money to build or maintain flood defences, to restore eco systems, to dredge ditches and unblock drains.
It’s fuck you, fend for yourself.
I went for a walk in South Dalton and someone had scooped out big chunks of the grass verge to allow the water to drain off the road. It’s a quick, old fashioned method. It went from flooded to not flooded in minutes.
Simple, piss cheap, just need a couple of lads with a digger and they made the road safe.
But with these shitbloke neolib shitheads in charge, there’s no money for it apparently. They’re too busy telling us trans people are evil and shouldn’t be allowed to play tennis culture war dogshit
Guardian research has found that more than 4,000 of England’s vital flood defences are so damaged they are almost useless. The number of damaged flood defences has increased across all regions in the past five years.
For people who haven’t been in floods before, some very very quick and basic tips:
Never go upstairs, into your attic, or on your roof if your house is flooding because you WILL end up trapped and possibly stuck right on top of a collapsing building.
Stay out of flood water unless it is a choice between entering the water and sure death. Flood water can contain dangerous pathogens, corpses of both animals and people, live and agressive animals, heavy objects like tree branches and furniture, dangerous debris like broken glass and sharp metal, and live wires.
Flood water is a lot deeper, faster, and stronger than you think it is. It’s not just ppwerful enough to knock you off your feet, it can also carry things like cars. You will not win against the flood water. It also rises much faster than you think it will and water that seemed manageable to walk through can very quickly become overwhelming.
If you are in a possible flood zone, now is the time to prepare a go-bag, preferably a waterproof one. Include emergency supplies like flashlights, batteries, bottled water, shelf stable food, blankets, spare clothes, a battery powered radio, and cash (pet supplies like spare bowls, bagged food, and leashes/harnesses too if you have pets). Strongly consider getting your paperwork and identification papers especially together in a waterproof container and put them with your emergency supplies.
Hi, I live in a desert which means in rainy season we get flash floods.
Please also:
—REMEMBER YOUR CHARGER CORD AND MEDICATION.
—digitize anything you don’t want lost, if there’s time. I’m normally extremely anti-cloud but this is the kind of thing for which it can be a lifesaver.
—you know The Thing? The “if your house was on fire and everyone could get out but you could only save one object, what would it be” thing? Put it in your go-bag.
—I don’t know if they’re called overpasses in England, but these things:
STAY OUT FROM UNDER THEM, ESPECIALLY IF THERE’S A DIP IN THE ROAD. A common warning here is that the area under an overpass can fill in under a minute during a flash flood.
—DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATER. I have literally parked my car and walked across people’s lawns rather than drive through flood water. I was in a familiar area where the water depth was known and I only had a block to go, but walking that block with groceries in freezing-cold rain was safer than driving it. Why? BECAUSE MY ENGINE WAS BELOW THE WATER LEVEL. Especially in newer cars, that’s a fast trip to Oh Fuck.
—Londoners and anyone else with an underground metro system: STAY OFF IT. The tunnels can and will flood and you can very easily find yourself trapped in a subway car with water rising and no way out.
And here it is! My first fully completed Procreate Dreams animation. I used audio from one of Technoblade’s more famous rants during his Potato War series. I love Technoblade and miss him every day, so I hope that I was able to capture the magic of his energy in my animation.
I animated the roughs and drew the backgrounds in Procreate, but then I imported that into Dreams to do all the cleanup. It runs at 24 fps, but there’s a lot of variations to spice it up in there.
I wanted to really challenge myself so there’s a LOT going on in this short 9 second clip. There’s a camera move with multiple layers to achieve a subtle parallax scroll, there’s two lighting changes with one being a completely animated shadow layer, and there’s a warp effect on the curtains for when it opens and closes.
There’s still a lot that could be cleaned up. Some of the linework is a little more jittery than I would prefer, and the coloring process was awful. Every color was its own separate layer, which was exhausting to do. I really hope i can figure out a faster and easier way to do the coloring process because that took me over a week to complete! Yikes!
Overall I’m extremely proud of my work here. I’ve been working on this 9 second clip since Dreams released and I really wanted to showcase to everyone just how powerful Dreams is. I know a lot of people were complaining about it when it released and I wanted to do something to help reorient people’s expectations. I genuinely cannot believe that I did all of this on my iPad!
If anyone has any questions or would like to see a breakdown of this animation, please feel free to contact me!
I bring you… my silly little comics. Saw a tik tok this morning about British Museum recognizing emperor Elagabalus as a trans woman 🏳️⚧️, and I just had to draw this.
MMO with an integrated AI, but it never actually says anything, it just analyses the vocabulary and phrasing of player chatter and bans you if it detects OOC on public channels.
scrimblobingus27, your account has been temporarily banned for saying “actually i don’t think i’d be into pegging” in global chat. Our algorithm has deemed that your character Would Not Fucking Say That. You have 48 hours to submit 5-10 run-on sentences explaining why you believe the flagged statement is in-character given your preceding actions and experiences, otherwise your actions may result in further suspension.
Sigh. Another morning in America. I wonder what horrors happened there
“Hundreds of police cars showed up…”
Of course
“…when it’s rumored on TikTok a ten-foot tall shadow alien appeared inside the mall.”
It’s sad how this is so expe-
wait what?
“Police claim it was just teens fighting, but would they bring in that many police for kids fighting?”
Yeah man that’s the most American shit I’ve ever heard
“On TikTok they claim the second the alien appeared someone shot at it, and the police tried to arrest the alien”
Yeah man that’s also the most American shit I’ve ever heard
Looked into it & right away saw someone saying “The dark 8-10ft tall beings is not project blue beam. It is a real manifestation of the Nephilim” and there’s something about people so authoritatively debating something that doesn’t exist that crashes energy through my body, I am Awake now.
hey, if you like my comics, consider supporting on patreon. it goes a long way towards helping me produce comics. And there’s a bunch of options with cool rewards, like my new interactive comic series “bad dog”
Liminal Horror story where a store equivalent of amazon exists. Infinitely stretching aisles where all you can see of a product is a few poorly taken photos and this person nearby seems to have liked it but they sound the exact same as the last guy you saw. Products with endlessly long names that dissolve in your grasp the second you touch them and- is that the same bag as the one I just passed? People trying to sell their own things at The Store but end up buried under copies of thei own work. You look deeper snd realize how much exploitation and abuse happens just underneath the surface of the store but it’s the only place here anymore, everywhere else is out of business, so I guess you just have to deal with it! Oh, and look! Next door there’s a grocery, and a library, and a video rental store, and even a venue to watch people perform live! I wonder who owns those…
“Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order.”
I apologize.
insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it
This one?
Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.
I love how we don’t even need Apollo to be captioned, it’s just “he’s holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it’s Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users”
Users of 4chan are planning to primarily tape up grotesque images all across Dashcon on Saturday afternoon in an attempt to trigger con-goers unless they are paid $17,000 in bitcoin by 7/12/2014 12:00pm central time.
I have gathered this information from /b/ and /pol/ while under a 4chan Gold account, where posts can be made private, inaccessible to anyone without a gold account. They started planning this upon hearing about the Dashcon hotel scam, where the Dashcon Tumblr asked for $17,000 to pay the hotel to avoid getting the con-goers kicked out of the hotel.
I would recommend anyone and everyone avoid the con after noon Saturday to avoid seeing these pictures and other harassment 4chan may be planning.
[Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are]
“If you aren’t a parent, you can’t criticize other people’s parenting” is not an argument. It’s a tactic used to enable abuse. People who are not parents are perfectly capable of seeing what child abuse looks like.
This was the best possible improvement for this post
(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)
An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren’t even creative with their cover design. If you’re going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up – Plush Books – and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either – the fact that “”“publishers”“” can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad – including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives – but basically:
IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven’t done this before, it’s easy! Here’s a tutorial:
HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:
First, go to this form. You’ll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That’s all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don’t have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy’s URL. You’ll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word “product,” as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it’s correct.
Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the “I have read and accept the statements” box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
UPDATE: Plush Books still exists on Amazon and on Goodreads under the pseudonym “J.D. Geraghty” where the fanfics are also listed. They also have a list of cookbooks that are without a doubt AI written (the descriptions for the books are repetitive nonsense so god forbid what exists inside).
From what I can see on Amazon, most of the stolen fanfics have become “Unavailable.” This entity likely operates under more than one name, so it isn’t safe to assume crisis averted. Numerous bad actors are posting AI written works to Amazon, which just means plagiarism slurry with a side of potential danger (like the autogenerated mushroom identification books).
oh ffs. shared.
oh fuck you, ‘JD Geraghty’. You did not write this. I DID.
“Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order.”
I apologize.
insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it
This one?
Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.
I love how we don’t even need Apollo to be captioned, it’s just “he’s holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it’s Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users”
This is Saurchard, a speculative evolution of Dipplin! There’s rumours about it getting an evolution, and I wanted to do my own take on it before the Indigo Disk DLC comes out.
Special thanks to banzaimarten on Discord for the name!
