Damn. My sympathies, friend. Life dealt you a bad hand and society said “get wrecked” instead of helping you fix it. Hope I didn’t offend. 🫂 🫶

I’m sure you just made a typo, but I am chuckling to myself at the thought that you are walking around being blind specifically because it’s against the law and not because of any biological problems. Like “fuck the police, I’m throwing away my glasses!”

Lemme (heh) know if you ever figure it out – I’m very new here and apart from doing the legwork of finding communities to subscribe to I don’t know what else there is

I think most of this is spot on, but the hearsay was that the subreddits who did participate in the shutdown were threatened with an ultimatum, which while I don’t think is possible to prove either way, hints that it would have happened regardless. Tho I’m usually all-too-ready to don my tinfoil hat when it comes to reddit trying to look appealing to investors; I witnessed a number of hentai/porn subreddits get banned and users actively request to become new mods only to be ignored.

Even if you discount the mods, there’s definitely a certain inertia you see in groups like this (like what’s going on with Discord right now) – people don’t want to leave in part because they’ve got their little in-group and don’t want to have to go through finding or founding a new group elsewhere. I think it’s particularly prevalent with those niche communities that don’t ever really break containment; the community would already be small enough without fracturing to the eight winds. I’m liking Lemmy so far but as I am trying to drum up activity in one of those niche communities (RWBY), it’s kind of disheartening how little relative traffic there is across the place.

I would go for something like debauchery or degeneration, tho the latter has kinda been completely subsumed by horni culture (tho TBH I like the juxtaposition with “generation” as an genAI term)

Also I can’t help but give you a slow clap for that username, my friend ( ಠ_ಠ)ﾉｼ You got me.

Just so you know, I applied for an account over on literature.cafe so that you could actually see any further comments but my registration is still pending approval (since Tuesday)…

Double-posting b/c I don’t think I have the ability to tag you on Lemmy but if you or pelespirit need more CC0 images of animals specifically, check out inaturalist.org. User-submitted wildlife images and you can filter by license including CC0 (public domain) under [more filters]. There are currently 1,892 observations under [Voles, Lemmings, and Muskrats] that are public domain.

If either you or St.Elsewhere need more CC0 images of animals specifically, check out inaturalist.org. User-submitted wildlife images and you can filter by license including CC0 (public domain) under [more filters]. There are currently 1,892 observations under [Voles, Lemmings, and Muskrats] that are public domain.

You could try 12ft Ladder – looks like the .io site went down but first result when I searched the web was “5 alternatives that work” from a tech-focused website. I personally wouldn’t bother since the OP didn’t actually provide a source other than the WSJ’s homepage.

Ironic since this is a fully SFW server (I like it here, it’s the only place I saw a RWBY community, but yea)

It’s math like this that convinces me that you can contribute more to the ecosystem by paying even a single dollar to a creator’s Patreon (even when Patreon takes 30% off the top) and watching w/ adblock than paying a monthly subscription to YT.

Hot take: visually this looks awful in comparison to the original.

I think you shouldn’t discount the immense amount of cultural pride that many people put in their region’s cuisine – not even just national pride, even, as many groups will look down on each other despite being from the same country and eating the same foods just because they see the other as preparing it “the wrong way”.

Oh, lol, I opened up the original post last night before going to bed so I could read it and didn’t even check this community to see it was posted here. I just left a comment on the original so rather than repeating the whole thing, I’ll just say what I concluded with:

Yeah, it’s a little rough – there’s some awkward phrasing here and there, a little disorganized in terms of prose – but still technically competent. I’ve read a lot of fics which required me to gloss over typos and bad grammar every other sentence or just batshit insane turns in the narrative with each additional section. This is just, like, home-grown bullshit, what with the FFXIV OCs and Miku characters. I can’t say I’m immediately captured by the premise or anything – I tend to read RWBY fanfiction for seeing takes on canon characters – but I’m mildly intrigued to see where this goes, if it’s going to be more than a typical adventure story.

There’s a handful of RWBY AUs on youtube specifically – probably the most popular (if the most controversial in this effing fandom) is Fixing RWBY by Celtic Phoenix. As a fan myself, I highly suggest it, it got me to cry for Vernal of all characters. It’s not fully animated, more like a slideshow with script-like narration, but each volume of work has slowly had more and more artists on the project to the point that the latest one (Volume 7) is like 90% original art (which includes occasional animations) and original music.

Another fairly prominent one is RWBY: Reversed Fates by Judgemental Critter. It’s presented in much the same way as FRWBY – narration over paper dolls using all of Critter’s own art. I remember liking the first season well enough but I’m behind and haven’t seen her second season yet.

RWBY: Evermorrow is another well-known one; it started as kind-of an audio drama with a slideshow of pictures but by now it’s nearly fully animated, if a little rough around the edges.

RWBY: Dust Queen was a highly-anticipated fully-animated project to bring a fanfic of the same name to life, but recently ran into some drama issues and if we ever see it again, it won’t be for a long time. (◡︵◡) Episode 1 still got made and looks gorgeous, but also sadly the project lead (the original author) took down the fanfic so you have to search for backup copies if you wanted to read what was upcoming.

There were two “RWBY OVAs” by Cake Station which were kinda fun and look exactly like Poser-era RWBY, but they were from years ago and I don’t think any more are currently being worked on.

As far as Remnant’s Reclaimer goes, it’s a bit of a relic from early in the fandom (seems to have been written just after V1), and it was never finished, but everyone who reads it absolutely loves what there was. I’m actually kinda quoting someone else when I mention “THE SACRED TEXTS!” meme, as that was their reaction when I brought up the name in conversation.

What Alexstarfire said. If you have any sort of RWBY merch yourself you might consider using that to try and establish common ground. If nothing else you can test the waters with something like “cool shirt, is that a show you like?” – that gives you an out in case they’ve never heard of it and just got it secondhand or because it looked cool.

FWIW, I think you should go ahead and post it here ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ♡

I don’t think writing tends to get much interaction on social media sites (or like, just in general given the sheer breadth of written word on sites dedicated to this type of stuff) but it would be nice to see varied content in this community. I myself wouldn’t have across what I’ve gathered are “THE SACRED TEXTS!” of RWBY fanfiction (Remnant’s Reclaimer) if it weren’t for someone talking about it in the r/RWBY weekly fanfic thread.

Oh, man. Did you ever post something to FF or AO3 or somesuch?

Sorry I didn’t even notice this new comment 'til now ( ◡_◡) I’m trying to drum up activity in this community and I didn’t even pay attention.

Didn’t even know proton had a chatbot, tho offhand I can’t remember if I’ve set up a paid account yet. Been too busy and mentally strained the last couple of years to even keep up with all my emails, I’ve still got >100 unreads (not the important ones).

Also I appreciate the bit of self-awareness in your rant. People have become so dogmatic nowadays there’s not a lot of that going around. Also glad to see someone else pumping DDG.

Tho I myself have just made the jump to Lemmy specifically because old.reddit has become locked to lurkers. I even still have a reddit account (which admittedly I hadn’t really used to do more than vote and search for subreddits since the API changes) but I’ve never wanted to use it on my phone so now the mobile reddit experience for me is completely blocked off. Just kinda feels like invoking old.reddit now after they locked it behind an account is a bit off the mark.

Well, played, my friend, well played.