Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you
Long loooong time ago I saw some buttons spreading shipping peace (if you know who made them please link so I can properly credit the inspiration!!). Made this last year because I wanted to do something fun and constructive out of something so immature and dumb as shipping wars. Transparent, so you can put it your blog and spread peace.
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We abducted humans.
To be fair, we abducted members of every new race. Abduct a small percentage of the population, expose them to some galactic prisoners, and we get a good idea of what germs, diseases, and viruses will make the jump between races. Do this over the course of a [roughly equivalent to a century], and you get a good idea of what there is, how quickly it mutates, etc. You also have the time to develop vaccines for any races that might be affected by the new race (including itself- we’re not heartless).
But we underestimated humans.
It was [roughly equivalent to four decades] into our testing of humanity. We picked up a human from his transport and placed him in a containment cell. He had some nutrients with him, and we picked that up too: less we had to feed him later.
But we underestimated the resourcefulness of humans.
Something went wrong- we think it was a door malfunction- and he escaped the cell. He disabled the guards easily (we suspect they were less alert than they should have been) and took their weapons. We locked all hatches, hoping to seal him in the laboratory wing. Unfortunately, he hacked the shipboard computer, gaining control of all systems. He made his way to the bridge, where he took the captain hostage. We offered him riches, technologies beyond human understanding.
But we underestimated the stubbornness of humans.
He was paid us no mind as he wrestled with the controls, as if on some quest. He punched numbers and figures into the console, and mumbled something about ‘being lit on fire’ by a superior. He set the ship down on the other side of the city from where he was picked up and opened the doors. We braced ourselves for a military confrontation, but it seemed like we were outside another human’s abode. He jumped out, carrying the nutrients with him.
We underestimated Domino’s 30-minute or free guarantee.
me: maybe i'm not complete trash
me: *scrolls through otp tags for hours*
me: huh, looks like i am complete trash after all
Dark times all around but there are still people out there who love you
Do not hurt yourself, do not hurt others, get help, talk to someone, anyone. Humanity has survived before and we can do it now if we all just support each other. My country and my people let me down and endangered my life but there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about that so let’s try to spread the love that is so clearly lacking.
I dont know if it has been done yet, but HIGH HIGH HIGGGGGHHH REC for "Somewhere a clock is Ticking" by seven league boots (memphis)!!!!!! like, omg, it was a klance fic that I hadnt even been looking for and got me back all the vld feels without all the problematically argument-forming portions of the recent seasons!!! peeps, please please read and support this wonderful author!!!
Somewhere a Clock is Ticking by seven league boots (memphis) (1/1 | 23,750 | Teen And Up)
This is a story about time travel, lost memories, growing up broken, ukulele lessons, peanut butter banana sandwiches, and a stuffed hippo named Patches.
This is also the story of how James Griffin saved the world, but couldn’t stop his parents from falling in love.
// blood and injury
(adam / shiro, hunk / shay)
Today we are going on a scouting mission in the tags. Our target looks like this:
They post links with very similar titles. Posts have very, very random tags. My guess is that their software chooses 20 tags from a long list of words. Bots even appear under the suicide tag.
Search for a tag (sky, nature, batman etc)
Go to ‘recent’ (not most 'popular’)
Click the arrow
Click report
Report for spam
This approach is different from purging the comments. This time we use the arrow button. Using the arrow reports the entire post. We DON’T want to do this when we purge comments, otherwise we report the OP who made a nice post and not the bot.
Pay attention to the tags porn bots use. They give you directions where to purge next.
Don’t forget the warrior ethos. We only report bots. We don’t spam ourselves. Don’t comment 'purged this post, 2pm’ etc.
glory or wisdom? love or power? violin or piano? fire or water? air or earth? forest or river? black or white? left or right? heads or tails? theatre or cinema? give or take? dawn or dusk? gold or silver? art or music? morning or night? venus or mercury?
Here’s a list of his comic dubs and their corresponding Tumblr accounts in alphabetical order: https://goo.gl/EqFK56
Quick update: I’ve been called out by Kyotosomo. Yay. I’ll link a follow-up response post here and in the comments after I publish it: <Where’s the link?!?> Here you go! (https://pscoldfire.tumblr.com/post/172471041889/kyotosomo-calls-out-pscoldfire-for-being-a-lousy) Update: I’ve been asked a few times why I did it. I will explain my actions in another follow-up post, and I’ll put the link here once I’m done (Yes, I can hear you groaning across the monitor. Fine I get it, but I’m writing it anyway!).
Quick update: This is not the first time there’s been drama with Kyotosomo and stolen content (on Youtube, no less). Apparently he got his first 13,000 subscribers by uploading stolen content.
For anyone who believes he deserves a third chance, read these links from 2 years ago:
https://imgur.com/WI75tte
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/36980n/someone_has_stolen_my_work_and_reuploaded_it_onto/cwnba09/
https://archive.is/fwHiD
I’m sorry this is a VERY long post, but if you have a few minutes, please stay for now. I feel you all should know this.
Most of you gave permission to Kyotosomo (Pierce Riola) to dub your comics. What he did not tell you is that he is monetizing them. And from what I understand after talking with some of you, none of you gave any permission to make money on your art, and he has not shared any of that profit with you or anyone else.
If you watch without AdBlock, here’s how you know:
1. Yellow line in video player (usually on the left)
2. Advertisement plays before/during video
(Note – most monetized Youtube channels make ~$1 per 1000 views. The actual amount can be more, depending on a variety of factors) EDIT: According to Kyotosomo’s Tumblr response, his rate is closer to $1 per 4000 views. I see no reason to disbelieve him.
If you have 10 minutes to spare, you can do at least one of these right now:
1. Make a Youtube account. Report his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/kyotosomo/about
2. Report copyright infringement on each of his videos containing your artwork. If you need help finding your comic, here’s the list again: https://goo.gl/EqFK56
(This comic from @ameri-lie was uploaded without permission. More on that later)
After you do this, he might ask you to remove the copyright strike and let him keep the videos up or remove it on his own (he won’t).
He will probably make excuses like:
“I’m doing this purely for fun”
Then why is he making money from it? Quite a lot too, if these posts are anything to go by:
UPDATE: After stating in his response post that he doesn’t even make that much money, he is now trying to sue me for libel, claiming “tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.” (https://redd.it/895f6m) (In case he deletes it - https://archive.is/uYvK3)
Or he might say:
“I’m doing this for charity”
Except he lied about this in the past. For example:
(sorry about the image quality)
EDIT: I was wrong about the lack of donation. A mere two days after that last email, he donated $688 (of his hard-earned $11,000 in 2017) to AMF (https://imgur.com/rh0aPzn). So why the discrepancy between these two emails?
EDIT: Here is the full story: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqg737 Long story short, he was using AMF’s logo to solicit Patreon donations despite not giving anything to the charity beforehand.
He was confronted about this on April 14, 2017 and two days later, he finally made a donation. He has not donated anything since then.
Or he’ll say:
“I tried to contact you but I couldn’t”
Personally, I’ve had no trouble with you all so far. Here’s how to contact people on Tumblr: (image courtesy of skitschell)
3. Just send him a message, and he’ll probably remove the monetization. Just know that this will not stop him from monetizing other people’s content, or re-monetizing your comics once you’ve stopped paying attention.
4. (optional) Let your friends know. You are welcome to share, re-post or re-blog this post if you’d like.
If you’ve read the whole post, thank you very much! If it helps at least one person, then the writing of this post was well worth it.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, etc., feel free to leave a reply.
p.s. – How silly of me to post this on April Fool’s Day! Unfortunately, I can assure you this is not a joke.
p.p.s. – Here is a copy of a message he sent to @ameri-lie, who reported the above video featuring her comic (he did not ask for permission before uploading).
She dropped the strike in December 2017 after he promised to remove the video (as I’m writing this, the video is still up, and of course, still monetized). EDIT: Not anymore
Coincidentally, @skitschell received the exact same message after reporting her video last week.
Edit: Sorry, skitschell just gave me a correction. This message is from December 2017, the first time she reported her video. Like ameri-lie, she dropped the strike after Kyotosomo promised to remove the video.
As you can see, she’s reported the video again after finding it was still up.
p.p.p.s. – Technically your work is automatically copyrighted the moment you create it. However, if you truly need to legally protect your work (and be eligible for statutory damages or attorneys fees), you can pre-register your work here:
https://copyright.gov/registration/
p.p.p.s. – UPDATE: A few hours before I wrote this post, Kyotosomo heard about what I was doing and sent me a threat. For privacy concerns, I won’t share the exact contents (until I find it necessary). Just letting you all know who you’re dealing with. EDIT: Never mind, he shared it on his twitter: https://twitter.com/Kyotosomo/status/978794804795486208
p.p.p.p.s – UPDATE: (this Tweet is now deleted) https://twitter.com/Kyotosomo/status/979983004226306048?s=19 I think he’s talking about me on Twitter. Thank you for sharing, @michietkh!
p.p.p.p.p.s. – Comment from his “apology” video (now deleted)
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