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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Hi! Just wanted to pin a short intro, although most of it is on my bio.

European translator | She/they | 35+

This is my personal blog, so I share whatever I find funny, beautiful, important or interesting.

Mainly books, manga, anime, video games, and my fandoms (No.6, YOI, OFMD, Gomens…)

Feel free to DM me here or elsewhere. I’m hamykia everywhere, so I’m easy to find, but have some links to my AO3 and my gaypirates Mastodon account. Those are the ones I use more often.

My OFMD fics:

My OFMD Fic Recs:


Note: Some of these are explicit, so you know what to do.

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p0tat0-g0ddess

Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

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My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

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And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

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This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

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And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

elljayvee

This is a variation on a much older scam that often results in the victim being out money and also out whatever they were selling. It goes something like this:

- victim posts an item for sale on craigslist or w/e

- scammer contacts asking if a check is ok

- scammer then asks if they can write a check for more than the agreed-upon price and for the seller to give them the overage back as cash, often with some excuse about it being an out-of-state bank, they don't have a card and need some cash for something else, or whatever.

- scammer gives check, gets cash and item, and bounces

- guess what the check does, too


ANY kind of structure where you supposedly get money but have to give some of it back to someone should twig your scam radar, frankly.

fizzimus

Reblogging because some people need to refresh their scam radar, or start building theirs. I see far too many people fall for traps, and don't dare say for a second "this will never happen to me" because all it takes is a momentary lapse in judgement.

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chloelemay

12 frames of animation I made using knitting! I spent a long time on this and I’m so pleased with the results, really looking forward to trying more ‘yarnimation’ in the future. Process video out now too! 🐑

derinthescarletpescatarian

“Stop motion animation doesn’t take long enough already, let’s add textile arts.”

drscalie

[video description: an animation in yarn of a row of sheep all jumping over a fence in a grassy field. /end description]

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After Axing the Word "Transgender," Stonewall Monument Website Quietly Cuts "Bisexual" Too
Erin Reed reports the “.gov” removed several mentions of bisexuality in favor of “gays and lesbians" or “the Stonewall community.”
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They removed bisexuals from the stonewall monument website. How long until the website is just “stonewall is something that happened. I guess” because they cut every group out.

amuseoffyre

The Stonewall Inn has also put up posts on instagram in the last 24 hours that they are not specifically affiliated with the monument.

A screenshot of the post from the Stonewall Inn official instagram. It is a black image with white text: At Stonewall, no one gets erased. Ever. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Recent reports about the removal of “bisexual” and “transgender” from the Stonewall National Monument site have sparked outrage—and rightly so. We want to clarify for our community: ➡️ The Stonewall Inn bar is not connected to the National Monument or its federal operations. The monument is run by the National Park Service, and we’ve joined others in calling for full restoration of inclusive language. Our role—then and now—is to uplift the full truth of who led, resisted, and changed history. That includes every letter, every voice, every fight. The Stonewall Inn now and then represents all in the LGBTQ+ community and no government erasure can change that fact! The stonewall inn logo is at the bottomALT
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mokeonn

The Princess Bride is such a funny book to read after ONLY seeing the movie. Like Goldman made up a fake author from a fake country and proceeded to write the book as an abridged version of what the fake author wrote... and then he proceeds to add in notes to the "abridged version" mentioning all the boring world building stuff he skipped because it was boring.

Like shout out to William Goldman, man really did make an entire book that is just "the cool scenes you thought of in your head" and then made up a fake author to abridge so he doesn't have to connect them.


And it slaps

thuriweaver

I used to work at a used bookstore, and had a group of three teenage boys come in wanting the "Unabridged Version" of Princess Bride.

They would not believe that it was a narrative device and the unabridged version didn't exist. Said no author would credit someone else for their own writing, that was ridiculous, and was there a guy who knew about fantasy they could talk to?

I grabbed a coworker and left him to deal with it. Heard him explaining the concept of a pen name as I walked away.

horizon-penblade

the unabridged princess bride 🤝goncharov

fictitious works of media that sound very interesting but can never exist in a way that lives up to the expectations built by their nonexistence

necarion

Although one of the big things of the "Unabridged Princess Bride" is that Goldman-as-character has declared that it's actually...super boring [if you aren't a tumblr user fascinated by political satire].

In Goldman's "footnotes," he describes how his father used to read The Princess Bride aloud to him; thus the book became Goldman's favorite without him ever actually reading the text. As a father, Goldman looked forward to sharing the story with his own son, going to great lengths to locate a copy for his son's birthday, only to be crushed when his son stops reading after the first chapter. When Goldman revisits the book himself, he discovers that what he believed was a straightforward adventure novel was in fact a bitter satire of politics in Morgenstern's native Florin, and that his father had been skipping all the political commentary and leaving in only "the good parts." This moves Goldman to abridge the book to a version resembling the one his father had read to him, while adding notes to summarize material he had "removed." Morgenstern and the "original version" are fictitious and used as a literary device to comment on the nature of adaptation and to draw a contrast between the love and adventure of the main story and the mundane aspects of everyday life.[5] The nations of Guilder and Florin are likewise pure fiction.[5] Each section or chapter takes place in a certain setting or place. It's an episodic structure with each "episode" taking place in a specific part of the Kingdom of Florin (the Cliffs of Insanity, the Fire Swamp or the Forest of Thieves). [6]

Also, this is too funny to leave out:

In the novel's commentary, Goldman writes that he added nothing to the "original" Morgenstern text. He did write one original scene, a loving reunion between Buttercup and Westley, but, he said, his publisher objected to this addition.[13] He invites any reader who wants to read the "Reunion Scene" to write to the publisher (formerly Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; now Random House) and request a copy. Many readers wrote in to the publisher and did receive a letter, but instead of an extra scene, the letter detailed the (obviously fictitious) legal problems that Goldman and his publishers encountered with the Morgenstern estate and its lawyer, Kermit Shog. This letter was revised and updated periodically; the 1987 revision mentioned the movie, while the 25th Anniversary Edition published the letter with an addendum about Kermit's lawyer granddaughter Carly. The 30th Anniversary Edition has a footnote that the three pages of the reunion scene were now available online.[14] However, the website itself contained nothing but the text of the original three letters. This website has since been taken down and superseded by the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt product page for the book, which provides the 2003 version of the Reunion Scene letter as a digital download.[15]

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