yugiohdilf:

hi this is urgent as hell. my partner is sick with covid and im on the low. please help!

opening two slots,full bodies like this (60$)

if you can help with *literally* 10$ that’d be amazing

раураІ is abigailgreen223@gmail.com

stormbluestories:

so just in case the tumblr peeps don’t know: yugipedia is down, it has been down for two days, they have lost three years worth of backups, and if you want to volunteer some minor inconvenience towards fixing it u can google ‘yugipedia recover’ and let it search your caches for whatever files you have in there. psa over.

avaantares:

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren’t even creative with their cover design. If you’re going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up – Plush Books – and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either – the fact that “”“publishers”“” can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad – including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives – but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven’t done this before, it’s easy! Here’s a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You’ll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

• Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
• Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
• In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

• In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That’s all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don’t have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

• In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy’s URL. You’ll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word “product,” as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it’s correct.

• Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the “I have read and accept the statements” box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

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copperdaisy:

Hello everyone, Copper here, owner of the screencap blog @specialsummon. Recently I have been thinking about how I want to run and organize the blog. It is primarily meant to host caps from the anime but I’ve always had the intention of capping the videogames as well. The main problem there is that the anime alone will take me years to get through at my current pace of one post per day. Sure, I could shoehorn in unrelated posts like I did this morning with Duelists of the Roses caps, but I feel like it would interrupt the flow of the blog.

So, in light of that, I have decided to brush the dust off a blog I made a while ago that was originally going to be used for fic and convert it into a blog dedicated to the games. You can find it here at @battlephase. Right now it is still too ‘new’ by Tumblr standards (aka not enough posts and such to register as a ‘real’ blog) so it may take a few days for posts there to start popping up in the tags. I plan to continue posting stuff from DoR such as the battle images of the monsters and caps of interesting dialogue snippets, then will move on to Forbidden Memories. This blog may not get updated everyday like the anime blog is, but capping the games will be a nice little break from working on the anime for me.

tl;dr go check out the new blog if you are interested in the graphics and stories of the older Yu-Gi-Oh! games. I find they make for fun (and a little bizarre at times) AUs and fic fodder.

entamesubs:

Sites like 9Anime re-encode the entire episode, get rid of the typesetting I spend a lot of time and effort on, and slap their watermark on it despite doing none of the work and receiving revenue from your views.

Please watch on Youtube. I always link to an unlisted video whenever I post. If you want to download the episode, do so from either my MEGA folder or the official torrent on Nyaa.

This notice includes me asking you to not post clips or screenshots of an episode (a summon chant, a funny moment, etc) using these unofficial third party versions. If you need a tool to download from Youtube to make a meme or post whatever you found funny, please use this or literally anything else.

Please and thank you.

questionableconvictions:

Hey guys I am moving to Japan and I am downsizing my life! 

That means other people will reap the rewards! 

So I am selling my (almost) complete* series of the original print of the VIZ manga. 

That’s Duelist 1-23 (*missing 21)

and Millennium World 1-8 

They are in LIKE NEW condition. In fact, I think they might have been opened once MAYBE once. 

I am willing to sell this entire collection for 150 USD. I cannot find a complete collection online so this is probably way too cheap lmao. The price for each book in this condition seems to be about nine USD. 

Buyer will pay shipping, but I will ship in a flat rate box. I am located in Arkansas in the USA so I don’t think this is a good buy for an international person just because of the weight. However, if you’re willing to pay the shipping, I will send them anywhere in the world. 

If you have any questions, or are interested please message me. I am not planning on breaking up this collection. So please don’t ask for individual volumes. 

gay-rites:

Rockman Corner has an article about it if you’d like more info, but the tl;dr is that ShoPro, the company that produced Rockman.EXE, is considering distributing the original Japanese show outside of Japan with official subtitles. So if Rockman.EXE with official subs is something you’d like to see, please politely reply to this Tweet: https://twitter.com/AnimeLogTokyo/status/1419288727151550464

Something along the lines of “I’d really like to be able to watch Rockman.EXE in ___ region with ___ language subtitles!” should do the trick!

switchbladesuzie:

ordinaryredtail:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

politicalhobbyist:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

For all of the northerners that stood up for Texas during our freeze and said, “Don’t make fun of them, they’ve never dealt with this before. Their infrastructure isn’t made for snow and freezing.”

This one is for you.

Where I live 108°F with 80% humidity with no wind is normal.

Pacific North West is dealing historic best waves 35-40°C or 95-105°F.

First of all. Don’t make fun of them for bitching about the heat. Just like Texas isn’t built for a freeze and our pipes burst, Pacific North West isn’t built for heat and a lot of their homes don’t have AC.

1. If you live somewhere with a high humidity like 80+ HUMIDITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The “humidity makes it feel cooler” is a lie once it gets beyond a point.
2. If you live somewhere with a lower humidity, misters are nice to cool off outside.
3. Once you get over 90°F (32°C) a fan will not help you. It’s just pushing around hot air. (I mean if you can’t afford a small AC unit because they’re expensive as hell, by all means a fan is better than nothing).
4. If you have pets, those portable AC units aren’t safe. If your pets destroy the outtake thing, it’ll leak CO2. Window units are safer.
5. Window AC units will let mosquitoes or other small bugs in. Sucks, but that’s life.
6. Now is not the time to me modest. If you have to cover for religious reasons, by all means. If you don’t, I’ve seen people wear short shorts and a swim top. It’s not trashy if it keeps you from getting heat stroke.
7. If you do have to cover up for religious reasons, look for elephant pants or something similar. They’re made with a breathable material.
8. Shade is better than no shade, but that shit it just diet sun after some point. Don’t think shade will save you from heat stroke.
9. I know the “drink your water” is a fun meme now, but if you’re sweating excessively you need electrolytes. Drink Gatorade, Powerade, or Pedialite PLEASE. I don’t care if you’re fucking sitting in one spot all day. That shit WILL save you from heat stroke.
10. Most importantly. RESEARCH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAT STROKE AND HEAT EXHAUSTION PLEASE!

Heat exhaustion is more, “drink water and get you cooled off.” Heat stroke is more “Oh my god call 911.”

Be safe.

-fae

Wear a hat and regularly soak it in water. As it dries it will cool your head. Its in the mid 90s here today and my hat is drying out in an hour or so, plan accordingly.

Take your time with tasks Physical activity generates body heat and you do not need more of that.

Good curtains on your windows help keep the sun out and the ac in.

Yes.

If you can afford it, blackout curtains or really thick curtains that keeps the sun out will insulate the windows.

I needed this when I lived in an apartment where my room faced west because the setting sun was too hot and the AC couldn’t keep up.

-fae

Also drink water BEFORE you feel dehydrated. Drink water BEFORE you get hot. Even if you don’t feel like you need water, drink it. There isn’t much to prevent heat stroke, but going into the heat with water in your system will be far better than going into it without water. Avoid soda, coffee, iced/sweet tea, and other caffeinated drinks cuz they’ll dehydrate you.

Another good option is cold watermelon or high water fruits. When I find I’m so hot that the idea of drinking water is gross, melon is what I usually turn to. It’s more interesting texturally and is extremely high water content.

If you are experiencing heat exhaustion, drink cool but not cold water. Too cold will shock your system.

Seconding black out curtains. They’re saving my electric bill rn.

Do not be afraid to pour water on yourself or your clothing. Water evaporating will cool you off. Legit the only reason why I was able to sleep in 95 degree heat this weekend was my soaked shirt.

Also make sure to check your car batteries or tires. Nothing will leave you stranded in the heat easier than a car malfunction, especially a battery. If there is any resistance starting your car, get a new battery asap.

As someone who used to work in the sun:

Freeze a towel or several. Then put them on your forehead, neck, arms, etc..

I’m not trying to make anyone spend unnecessary money but there are cheap handheld fans with water misters.

If you can’t be in a place with a fan or if your car AC is bust, these come in handy. I own two of the first one pictured and they’re really refreshing.

If you HATE the taste of water or Gatorade find flavor packets or drops to add to water.

Freeze treats and toys for your pets if they’re freezer safe. Test the pavement if you have a pet that you walk. If it hurts your hands it hurts their paws!

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kusanagistan:

where are all the yugioh blogs. especially zexal and/or vrains. like this post and i’ll probably follow you, i’m starved 4 content

madamehardy:

annakie:

And now for an announcement from your friendly neighborhood IT worker.

If you use Ad Block Plus, you should uninstall it and download and install uBlock Origin immediately.  (There are Firefox versions of all the extensions I’ll talk about here, just google ‘em.  And some for IE, Edge and Opera.)

Ad Block Plus is now now only letting advertisers pay them to whitelist some ads, but is now letting advertisers pay them to put their own ads on websites INSTEAD of what you would normally see on that website.

Please remember that it’s possible to spread malware, including Crypotowall type malware, through ads on websites.  Yes, ads are how websites make most to all of their revenue, but until ads can be trusted to not destroy your machine, you should not view them if possible.

Please make sure you get uBlock Origin and not just uBlock. 

I also suggest installing a flash blocker like FlashControl.  This will keep flash from automatically loading on websites you visit.  Unfortunately, malware can be spread through just about any version of flash. Make sure you keep flash up to date, as well. FlashControl will be slightly disruptive to your browsing habits, but most things will load with just a single click.  You can always disable it on a website if it’s being too disruptive somewhere.

If you really want to protect your privacy, install Privacy Badger.  Privacy Badger will stop trackers / cookies from knowing who you are and where you’ve been on the internet.  It also can be slightly disruptive, so if a site isn’t working correctly, disable one or both of FlashControl and Privacy Badger.

Even if you don’t want to do FlashControl and Privacy Badger, PLEASE do yourself a favor and move to uBlock Origin.  Hope this helps!

Please read.   Ad Block has sold you out to the ad industry, and this is not an exaggeration.  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/adblock-plus-wants-serve-you-ads-wait-what-1581285

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