I used to work in the lingerie department of a medium-to-high-end department store and I had a woman come in and tell me this story. She once had a party with a bunch of girlfriends and the theme was they all had to wear cute pajamas. You know that thing moms liked to say– “Always wear clean/cute underwear in case of emergencies”? It was based on that.
Well. Lo and behold, they have a fire at this party. Something happened in the stove and they had to call the fire department. Nobody got hurt and the house was fine, but you have half a dozen women standing outside in super cute pajamas with all these seriously hot firemen taking care of the house. (Multiple numbers were exchanged and one girl dated one of those firefighters for a couple years.)
WWII gay love letters are honestly the most beautiful, heartbreaking, and anxiety inducing things I’ve ever read, hands down.
This poor guy is about to have a nervous breakdown and almost outed himself to his fellow pilots. Sweetheart…. no….
“All the lads are guessing where we are going, darling. I only know I am going away from the man I love, the one and only you old darling. But I know I will come back darling to you, and it will only be a dream darling.”
Oh my god they’re so in love….
“You don’t know how much I miss you Monty. I love you darling so think good of me my sweetheart. All my love and a merry Xmas.”
So this gent right here is the Monty that received the letters posted above.
And here’s Ralph, the man who had been sending them:
it didn’t occur to me people might not know this but notch isn’t involved with minecraft any more and in fact removing himself from the project was one of the requirements for microsoft to acquire it and it’s become increasingly obvious as to why they wanted to distance themselves and minecraft from him.
He actually publicly asked for a corporation to buy out his share of Mojang after catching flack for an actually good EULA change back in 2014. Basically to stop the predatory-ass megaservers implementing microtransactions, pay-to-win, and “donator” perks (read: hey give us money for in-game shit), in summer 2014 Mojang changed the EULA to basically say “either your server is completely free-to-play with only cosmetics allowed as donor perks, or your server has an entry fee to begin with and no further monetization” and the owners of megaservers and networks like Shotbow, Hypixel, and Mineplex convinced their players that Mojang’s changes would “kill minecraft” and started a #SaveMinecraft hashtag campaign. In June notch tweeted “Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang so I can move on with my life?
Getting hate for trying to do the right thing is not my gig.” then in september microsoft bought the shares of all three mojang founders
so surprisingly enough it was actually a time when he wasn’t being an utter dick that led to the buyout
Attention fanfic writers: If you use Google Docs to write/store/back-up your fics, you might want to download anything you don’t already have backed up elsewhere. Google is apparently invading and deleting people’s personal drive content thanks to the FOSTA/SESTA bill that recently passed through Congress. Essentially, it criminalizes ANY platform where sexual content could be placed.
It may also be worth making sure you have offline back-ups of any and all fics you have posted here on Tumblr and on AO3, in case Yahoo get antsy (they’ve been cracking down on the porn bot tumblrs already) and OTW face a legal challenge to take down AO3. I’m hoping that’s not the case – but I was on LiveJournal during Strikethrough in 2007 and I remember the way that whole communities as well as individual LJ accounts were deleted and purged; it was instrumental in the founding of AO3 in the first place. That was a widespread purge of fanfic writers and communities, LGBT+ communities and writers and more, all due to legal threats that SixApart, the company that owned and hosted LiveJournal, received due to allegedly hosting paedophile content. After Strikethrough was over and LJ admitted they’d gone OTT, there were a number of communities and accounts that didn’t get reinstated. I’ve always been quite careful not to have my Tumblr flagged up as NSFW in part because of that. Given the number of Facebook accounts that get temporary or permanent suspensions thanks to malicious false reports, I have very little confidence that Tumblr’s staff won’t make mistakes.
I’m not sure what this means for collaborative fics; but Google Docs probably aren’t a safe platform for that anymore.
If this is news to anyone else, listen, whatever happens in the world of politics, backing up your stuff is always a good and necessary thing. Do it and do it often. Be wise. Nothing is certain. Nothing is stable. Even data decays. In a world of rapidly-decreasing hard copies, you must perform backups. It’s not paranoia, it’s prevention.
@tisfan@27dragons I know you both use it so I thought it would be a good idea to tag you but I’m not sure if anyone else does so, please, be safe and save everything you can wherever you can.
If they touch Ao3 I fucking hope there will be a revolution overseas to bring it back, killing of everyone who tried to get us off of our drug.
Creators should beware of google for more than just their privacy policies and any “decency” enforcement. Pay attention to the terms of service. They state:
“When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps).” [emphasis mine]
I will never use google docs for any of my creative work.
omfg *gathers all my fics and safe guards them because i worked hard on them and don’t want no social justice corn chips deleting my blood sweat and tears*
Google’s TOS are exactly why I won’t use their services except my freakin’ email.
Um. Point of order: Can anyone show me a website that allows user-submitted content that *doesn’t* have that bog-standard piece of legal boilerplate in its TOS?
Yeah, the ToS is boilerplate with expansion for blanket coverage of Google’s services (e.g. the business listing on Google Maps example). It’s the same song and dance that’s had every time someone bothers to read a ToS and sounds the alarms. As for the content purge, it was real but the sources that I can find on it specifically refer to targeting sex workers sharing explicit video and photo content via Drive.
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