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DuskMoon

@darkerdusk

@zapgun (art side blog) || Multifandom acc
Art side-blog: Zapgun

Artfight username: Amario

Hello there! I've been seeing a lot of introductory posts on peoples profiles lately, so i figured i would do my own.

My current name is Dusk, i'm a minor and i'm genderfluid!! I currently prefer they/them pronouns :3

I currently post a lot of Animator vs Animation stuff, though i used to make a lot of Ninjago related stuff! It may make a comeback since my interests can get a bit unstable lol

Yesterday a kid said to me "excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair" which is already amazing and then she said "watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I'm going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out" and she sure did.

Illustration of events

things I wish I’d known when I started writing fic on ao3

  • use & for friendships, colleagues, familial relationships and use / for romantic or sexual relationships (or encounters)
  • not everyone reads fic. Lots of people use screen readers, and screen readers can’t see what’s on images. use descriptive text to help them out.
  • lots of people download fic to read on other devices, not all downloads capture images too.
  • there’s a big difference between No Archive Warnings Apply (NAWA) and Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (CNTW). NAWA means that there’s nothing in the fic that needs to be warned for using the official Archive Warning system. CNTW means there might be something that requires a warning and the author is either avoiding giving out spoilers or they are unsure how to interpret their plot point with respect to the official Warnings. (in both cases, additional tags are where it’s at - you can explain yourself there) 
  • the reason why the number of bookmarks in the fic is different from the number of bookmarks on your stats page is because your stats page number includes bookmarks that are hidden
  • there’s a preference setting where you can receive emails with your own comments/replies.
  • there’s a site skin that hides stats so you don’t have to see them
  • writing in rich text format makes my life easier
  • knowing html allows me to do fun things in the comments section like comment/reply with reaction gifs
  • knowing html also allows me to do interesting formatting in my fics that I can’t do with rich text alone
  • those little blue bubbles with the question marks in them will answer my questions a lot of the time - and also teach me something new
  • the FAQ is linked under the word About in the header
  • if you write your fic in the draft window, you might end up losing it so make sure you copy the text before you hit Post, just in case
  • they aren’t kidding when they say drafts are deleted after 30 days

Here’s some additions.

  • The Anonymous collection will allow you to post anything you want and retain ownership over it.
  • Your identifying information will not be anywhere within the fic to any other reader. Though you will see it from your end when looking at it as a logged in user.
  • When you reply to a comment, it will anonymize you, so feel free to respond to your commenters!
  • You can take your fic off Anonymous at any time
  • When you are signed into AO3, you can easily access your Anonymous fics by looking at the “Works In Collections” tab on your page. Nobody else will see these Anonymous works on this page.
  • Works can be added to the Anonymous collection at any time
  • Just because a fic is Anonymous does not mean it is Abandoned or Orphaned.

Speaking of Orphaned fics:

  • If you have posted a story and for whatever reason you no longer want it on your account or associated with you, you can Orphan the fic.
  • Orphaning fics will remove all of your control and ownership of the story.
  • Orphaning fics is not a reversible process. Once a fic has been Orphaned it cannot be taken back. You cannot delete it. You can’t check stats and it does not show up on your Works page anymore.
  • Orphaning and the Anonymous collection are great options for when you no longer want a fic associated with you, but you don’t want to delete it either.

hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

favourite additions

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

It may not be apparent to everyone how to easily find out who wrote the poem in the tags, so: @mumblesplash

(an instant-classic example of a Tumblr thread where so many people add value!)

And, irrigation canals.

Saves 82% of water evaporation. 💧

Actually do cover our fields.

Solar doesn't compete with agriculture, and can be beneficial to it.

Just also cover our car parks.

Especially with summers getting hotter and dryer in a lot of places, solar panels in agricultural fields is a really good idea. Sheltering vegetables from the hottest, driest time of the day will help them grow better. Cows and sheep and such seek out shelter from the sun. I think I recall reading that they found higher biodiversity in pastures that had solar panels because of the shelter they provide.

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“I wanna make a Beauty and the Beast AU with my ship but it doesn’t make sense for the character I picked as the Beast to be spoiled, selfish and unkind—“

Other reasons the prince was cursed in the fairy tale, variations, and other non-Disney adaptations:

* His parents pissed off the fairy/enchantress and she punished them through him.

* He told the enchantress, his abuser/groomer, “no” when she tried to marry him.

* The enchantress was jealous of either him or his father and was being a petty bitch.

* He refused to be charitable to a seemingly-poor woman, actually the enchantress testing his character.

* The curse is hereditary.

* The enchantress was simply just a bitch.

There's also the Donkeyskin option, where the beast is doing it on purpose as a disguise.

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it's truly insane how much more functional society would be and how much happier everyone would be if every job was perpetually 10% overstaffed (and people who weren't needed could chill and rotate in when needed while still getting paid) instead of 10-50% understaffed but that wouldn't be 'efficient' (in the short term, for shareholders) so fuck everyone I guess