Another #aromantic spectrum awareness week link: a metaphor for asexuality and aromanticism in the form of a pond
https://dragonheartftherpays.tumblr.com/post/154272125479/i-did-a-very-quick-sketchy-comic-because-i-was in comic form
https://pinkdiamondprince.tumblr.com/post/154254729403/pinkdiamondprince-trying-to-figure-out-if-youre the text post the comic was based on
@cozykaffe additionally, in the mindset of "describing the image in question to someone over the phone"
Hi all! We're in day 4 of the seventh annual international Gender Census, and we are almost at 9,000 responses, with one new submission every ~48 seconds!
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2020
If the gender binary has failed you, join in! We want to know how you refer to yourself.
re: horrifying doggerel, the art form
@Soreth
roses red
violets blue
copulas superfluous
unlike you
re: horrifying doggerel, off the rails completely
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
Having produced the set-up couplet
I can do whatever I want afterward
Look here's a fifth line to the poem
In this essay I will (cont'd)
re: horrifying doggerel, meta meta
This is just to say
I have eaten
the roses
you kept in
the icebox
and which
you were definitely
mistaken
in putting there
They're roses
what's wrong with you
they don't belong in the icebox
what do you mean what's wrong with me
I ate the roses
I had to
that's how the rhyme begins
yes the thorns hurt a lot
we do foolish things for love
Family tree software and gender negation.
One of my tabletop RP characters has a family tree that's actually relevant to the game. To get a decent graph of it, I'm trying some software called "Gramps" which allows for custom attributes and such, but it falls down in a couple places.
Time to report an issue....
Good metaphor for content warnings?
We're used to seeing food labels with major allergens, an ingredient list, and basic nutrition info. This is so you can decide at whatever level you need whether this is something to pick up off the shelf and eat. Pretty reasonable, right?
Content warnings are like this for your mental health, and precisely as valuable.
Minor WorldAnvil UX annoyances.
What WorldAnvil says: "Use the Images & Files feature to upload images and files!"
What WA means: "Files? Only if they're JPEG, GIF, or PNG. Which are images anyhow, but we like to call them files also. Cover all the bases, why not?"
What WA says: "Upload files up to 1.0MB in size!"
What WA means: "Upload files up to 1,000,000 bytes in size! You know, not like a megabyte like everyone actually uses the term, but like hard drive manufacturers do. That's okay, right?"
The filesize limit would have been less of an issue if I could just upload this PDF. sigh
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