Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@dee@kitty.town well how else would you get the coconuts places

via swallow?

(now the referential joke ouroboros is complete, my work is done here)

@halcy i do remember from my biology degree days there's been extensive study on this! largely looking at different types of birds as model animals. some songbirds seem to be able to learn, some have more of an innate knowledge of their song, etc.

there's a lot of fascinating research out there (if, i will warn you, you have the stomach to read about animal medical testing, which some may not)

@dee@kitty.town either that or it's a cowboy type ranger, riding on horseback, using lasso and prods to move the coconuts along in their great migration to be sold

GIT ALONG NOW LITTLE NUTTIES

@dee@kitty.town i'm going to go with yes, especially if at some point you make an excuse to stream/talk about Fallout New Vegas and make the icon for it be you as an NCR ranger followed by a nonplussed companion clacking together coconuts like it's Monty Python and the Holy Grail

because that's immediately where my mind went with Coconut Ranger for some reason

@SapphicGirafarig@donphan.social i'm going to be just agog over here at how QUICKLY and ACCURATELY a cosplay got put together

like damn, that's hella good for a closet cosplay! i wouldn't have known it was a closet cosplay at all if not for the caption LOL

just got done with trial roul and i swear one of the healers, a sch, went directly to 20% mana and didn't go above it for the entire rest of the susano fight. *with* me mana shifting them constantly

this is why you shouldn't learn to do all roles in mmorpgs, kids! because then you'll notice when people fuck up and the whole time you watch them

@InspectorCaracal the main goodies i've seen be extremely useful are annotations (scar x, marking y, always wears necklace with additional closeup of it, etc), and colors off to the side in blocks (easily eyedropperable). so a list like - eyes [block of color], fur [block of color], separate from the drawings. even putting a hex code of the specific colors if you REALLY wanna be fancypants and make life easy on artists later commissioned.

@InspectorCaracal i'd say maybe look at ref sheets used by animators - that kinda gives you a good baseline.

personally my starting point (if i had spoons to do it up proper) would be

1. full body facing forward
2. full body behind
3. head closeup, profile
4. head closeup, head-on (or 3/4 if you're feeling sassy)

@InspectorCaracal doctor please i got a bad case of rice crispy shoulder, i need some marshmallow fluff injections stat

i also had half an iced latte which is making me want to vibrate through the walls ever so slightly, so time to burn off some of this energy and-or rage fighting shit in ffxiv

quoth my shoulder, CRUNCH SNAP POP CRACK SNAP

:(

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online it means they have one tool available to them right now.

instead of saying "you're an asshole if you try to protect yourself", you should shift out of the victim-blaming mindset and on to "hey, we need to give people tools that actually do what they think it does, so they can draw reasonable boundaries and enforce them". because that's an actually good point! and it has nothing to do with how anyone using blocks right now is a dick.

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online minorities online have to play this game with great frequency.

in the absence of a block, the other only common option for drawing a firm boundary of not wanting someone to see our content is to just leave.

i think forcing people to give up their accounts if they aren't okay with harassers accessing their content is a bit more of a dick move.

you bring up a good point about how blocks need to be strengthened. but it does not mean someone using blocks is a dick.

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online i could just mute this hypothetical person - but i know he would still be fixating on me.

and at that point, if all i have is a mute, i have to weigh the harassment versus him knowing more information about me, and him feeding his fixation on me.

it's much less effective - he's still there not changing his habits any, and focused entirely on me.

my only real choice is to close down my account and start fresh and *hope* that *he doesn't find me again*.

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online for example: would i be an asshole if i blocked somebody who...

-sent me an unsolicited dick pic

-commented on every status telling me about his desire to rape me in graphic detail

-kept his comments escalating into violence after an implied rejection, heading towards threatening my life?

i don't think it's an asshole move if i draw that boundary. i don't think he needs the last word.

do you?

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online look at it this way: just because you have the resources to deal with harassment doesn't mean everyone else does.

for many people, it is a crucial escape and a break to catch their breath. they deserve being able to draw a firm boundary and not have to deal with it. it doesn't make them wrong, and it doesn't make them assholes. it makes them people having necessary control over their social media.

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online i've seen mobs also form for something as simple as shipping. not even spicy shipping, but "two legal adults of the same age range who met in adulthood and have an uncomplicated egalitarian relationship" shipping.

something as simple as "like to see these characters smooch" can, and will, make some people get the pitchforks and torches, pass around names, mock people, etc. etc. etc.

it... definitely happens.

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online you lead a wonderfully charmed life LMAO

i've been there and done that for the high crime of Being A Woman Online Playing A Video Game. and i'm even white and cishet, so i don't get a lot of other additional shit.

i would urge you to seek out voices of people talking about how and why blocking tools are important to them and a necessary part of social media.

you will find that most of them aren't dicks. they're just minorities seen as "easy prey".

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online key word there is shouldn't. they can still access your content, and in many harassment campaigns, this means access to crucial information. even if it's something as simple as "screenshots of what you just posted to trash you on their platform, fuelling mob mentality of harassment to recruit others to do that work".

blocking is a more firm and clear boundary than just muting, as well. punishments are typically a lot harsher for crossing that boundary.

@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online as someone who has been on the receiving end of harassment, that part of the block is very needed and necessary. it tells the blocked person "enough - let it go". it at least makes them go through some amount of hoops to see someone's content, and administrators can then point to that as circumnavigating a block in order to continue the fight.

it's a basic - and extremely necessary - boundary that every social network needs in this day and time.