This means no pranks of any sort, just standard blogging.
Oh yeah, guys, don’t worry. No screamers, jumpscares, nasty pranks or anything that could upset you on this blog. Partly because I can’t be bothered, but mostly because I think people who get seriously stressed by stuff like that don’t need me adding to that.
and this year april fool’s day falls on easter, so…yeah, definitely not doing april fool’s stuff
Update to the go fund me. Thinking about changing the name to #justice4boobear at this rate.
I’m extremely upset about this, and on top of it his food is going to start costing upwards of $100 a month. The money will be separated into a different area of my bank account and only used for his food now. At this rate we have the funds for a couple months to feed him, but if this happens again it will cost $600 to treat. The condition is known as “a blocked tom” or urethral obstruction and there is no prevention besides this food. Even a natural diet will not prevent the issue from reoccurring.
Due to this I’ve updated the campaign to reflect the monetary cost of one year of care. This is with one obstruction per year. I’m trying to find a better paying job and have canceled all of my “fun” subscriptions to things like Hulu, Netflix, and ipsy. The cat comes first.
If you can, please consider a donation. For $5, @jonphaedrus offers to write you 300 words of anything he’s familiar with if you tag the donation #noah.
I can take donations from other sources as well and add the total to the go fund me. We have a good amount right now, and I’m so, so grateful to everyone who has— and is helping regardless of if it’s monetary or not. Over the past 24 hours I’ve been brought to tears more than once and can’t explain how incredible everyone is.
https://www.gofundme.com/5b4ebq8 this is the campaign. I may be taking my vet to court over this action, but as the update states— legal is a wild ride for animals and even cruelty isn’t properly managed in the world of law. It’s disheartening. I’m going to do whatever I can to ensure there’s some form of repercussion to the vet who oversaw Vergil, and the nurse who attended him. There’s no reason for this and it makes me so, so angry that my cat was neglected.
There’s being upfront about it, and then there’s sweeping it under the rug. Vergil deserves better.
Please share and help raise awareness.
Update 3/24/18 @5PM CST
vergil is still having a shit week and this fundraiser is still going! get your cat help + words!
I’M SORRY SO MANY TEXT POSTS BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT
there’s a post going around of some girl linking to a “picture of her prom dress” when the link leads to a picture of a gif’d mutilated face and screaming. i imagine that this could be very harmful to both people with epilepsy or those with anxiety problems and the like. it happened to alarm me a lot.
please boost so no one gets hurt! we don’t want any seizures or panic attacks!
jesus fuck thank you
i would of probably had the biggest fucking panic attack
MY HEART IS RACING AND I ONLY FUCKING READ IT. BOOST SO NOBODY IS TRAUMATIZED K THANK.
YO
This is very important for those who may encounter this, if you are partial to anxiety attacks AT ALL, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CLICK THIS LINK
I want all of you to be safe!
//R E B L O G T H I S ! ! ! i want everyone to be safe!
Y’ALL
Be careful!
idk how old this post is but better safe than sorry. plus like, even if you don’t have anxiety or epilepsy 99% of people would not like that.
The title says it all really. So if nothing else, please share and reblog this post to raise awareness for those that might be caught out – both artists and followers.
For a TL:DR, please look at the bottom of the post
What is happening?
Right now, there is at least one person actively impersonating multiple artists across tumblr in an effort to scam their followers into paying for fake ‘cheap commissions’.
The scammer will clone a tumblr, usually using a slight change to the url/account name to look like the real deal. They will then message people directly through Tumblr with messages along the lines of “Hey, i’m doing cheap commissions right now. DM me to get one”. Naturally, this is ends up just being a way to take their money without giving anything back in return.
Who does this affect?
Everyone. Simple as that. As long as the scammer in question works unopposed, they are free to spread their influence and continue to scam more people. Even if you haven’t been targeted yet, it does not mean you are safe or immune.
Several artists have already fallen victim to this scammer, and I encourage any artists that have to reblog this post with the details of their affected account(s) and the ones the scammer has set up.
How can we stop this?
Tumblr, like many other social media platforms, seems to care very little about ‘minor’ occurences like this one, and despite reaching out directly to them over a week ago through multiple avenues of contact – they have refused to comment on the situation, provide a recommended response for users, or take action on behalf of those already affected.
Despite this, there are still tools at our disposal that we can use to make this scam more difficult, and to increase its visibility to those within Tumblr staff that are required by policy to take action.
Tumblr has the following to say on the topic of impersonation:
Confusion or Impersonation. Don’t do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don’t impersonate anyone. While you’re free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can’t pretend to actually be Benedict Cumberbatch.
They then provide a link to this online form that you can fill out if you suspect someone’s identity is being confused. Unfortunately, this can only be filled out if you are the victim of impersonation. In other words, only the artists can fill this out legitimately.
So, what about the followers and users of tumblr whom aren’t being impersonated?
Our most valuable tool in this online platform is the platform itself. It enables us to spread our word near-virally across all the many sub-communities on Tumblr with remarkable efficiency for a user-driven system. We can take advantage of that effect to increase awareness of the situation. Even if you – the one reading this right now – aren’t an artist or don’t know an artist, the act of reblogging this post or sharing it directly with friends improves it’s ‘ranking’ in popularity increasing its chances to be seen by more people.
We don’t need everyone on Tumblr to see the post for it to be effective, just like we don’t need the entirety of the human population of the world to be immune to a disease for that disease to be rendered ineffective or eradicated. If enough people are aware, the likelihood of pulling off a successful scam increases dramatically reducing efficiency to a point that it no longer becomes profitable to continue.
Why should I care?
It disheartens me to say this, but of the many artists I contacted directly over the past week to warn about this issue many of them refused to listen or dodged the responsibility with lines like;
“I’m not being impersonated, so it doesn’t affect me”
“I’m just one person. I can’t make an impact”
“I need to take care of my community. Other people can look after theirs”
This is honestly disappointing that so many artists or art-rebloggers care so little as to intentionally wave the responsibility of keeping their followers and fellow artists safe from this, that they cannot spare 10 seconds of their time to share an informative post.
I’m not here to bash artists, but it is time that everyone takes responsibility for their own communities, and of those around them.
Artists: You have a responsibility to ensure that your followers and fans aren’t being abused by someone who may impersonate you. If they succeed, your reputation will be damaged, and your followers will resent you. Your followers are also almost guaranteed to be following other artists meaning your efforts can spread beyond your own circle of influence, so don’t be naive when you think you have little effect.
Followers: You have just as much responsibility to be aware of those that might try to scam you or your fellow followers. Don’t just sit in silence when you see something wrong: Ignoring the issue only makes it more resilient to our efforts to stop it. You are the vocal majority if you just use your voices to be heard!
TL:DR
A scammer is impersonating artists and scamming money from their followers under the guise of ‘cheap commissions’. If we ignore the issue, it will get worse.
Every single person that reads this can afford to spend just 10 seconds to reblog and share this post. Those 10 seconds can save others from being scammed for hundreds of dollars.
Reblog & Share
Aah this and also I won’t directly message anyone advertising commissions, I will make a post instead! I already had a problem with someone impersonating me on a different app, that wasn’t fun x-x;
How come every time I need to burp and I start typing it happens
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