CompassRose
@compass-rose.bsky.social
Podficcer. Artist. Avid reader. Rampantly multifandom. Too old for nonsense. AO3: compassrose, because I wasn't fast enough to grab it here. (they/them) (icon by @rosalarian)
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Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Fascists appeal to the imaginary past, so it is important to be able teach people who aren’t fascists about actualities. History isn’t a set of facts. It is a contested narrative based on contested evidence.
July 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Fascists appeal to the imaginary past, so it is important to be able teach people who aren’t fascists about actualities. History isn’t a set of facts. It is a contested narrative based on contested evidence.
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Also, if you're concerned about personal safety:
History shows that, under fascism, staying passive comes with no better odds of survival than engaging in civil, covert, or even military resistance. So you might as well resist in whatever way your skills, age, ability,.and conscience permit.
History shows that, under fascism, staying passive comes with no better odds of survival than engaging in civil, covert, or even military resistance. So you might as well resist in whatever way your skills, age, ability,.and conscience permit.
There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.
A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.
Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.
They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.
Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.
They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
February 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Also, if you're concerned about personal safety:
History shows that, under fascism, staying passive comes with no better odds of survival than engaging in civil, covert, or even military resistance. So you might as well resist in whatever way your skills, age, ability,.and conscience permit.
History shows that, under fascism, staying passive comes with no better odds of survival than engaging in civil, covert, or even military resistance. So you might as well resist in whatever way your skills, age, ability,.and conscience permit.
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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Happy Friday! It's been 24 hours since this launched and it's 1/3 funded. Get your queer monster smut in hard copy form so you can read it when the power is out or when the powers that be say no more smut online.
I am kickstarting another book of smut! Get it in print so it won't matter when all porn is banished from the internet!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...
July 12, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Happy Friday! It's been 24 hours since this launched and it's 1/3 funded. Get your queer monster smut in hard copy form so you can read it when the power is out or when the powers that be say no more smut online.
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The 9th and FINAL chapter of "i only came here for you" is up! The fic is done!!!
🗡️ 13.5k words for the chapter/86k for the fic
🗡️ Xie Yun asks questions
🗡️ A'Fei actually answers them
🗡️ The comfort part of the emotional hurt/comfort
🗡️ Hot sex
🗡️ A happy ending!
archiveofourown.org/works/514133...
🗡️ 13.5k words for the chapter/86k for the fic
🗡️ Xie Yun asks questions
🗡️ A'Fei actually answers them
🗡️ The comfort part of the emotional hurt/comfort
🗡️ Hot sex
🗡️ A happy ending!
archiveofourown.org/works/514133...
i only came here for you - Chapter 9 - ScarlettStorm - 有翡 | Legend of Fei (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
March 3, 2024 at 11:53 PM
The 9th and FINAL chapter of "i only came here for you" is up! The fic is done!!!
🗡️ 13.5k words for the chapter/86k for the fic
🗡️ Xie Yun asks questions
🗡️ A'Fei actually answers them
🗡️ The comfort part of the emotional hurt/comfort
🗡️ Hot sex
🗡️ A happy ending!
archiveofourown.org/works/514133...
🗡️ 13.5k words for the chapter/86k for the fic
🗡️ Xie Yun asks questions
🗡️ A'Fei actually answers them
🗡️ The comfort part of the emotional hurt/comfort
🗡️ Hot sex
🗡️ A happy ending!
archiveofourown.org/works/514133...
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1) The head of T&S is not the person making decisions about individual moderation actions;
2) Viewing a post in the thread means not having whatever T&S tools and info is built into the report system (agent safety features, context about past reports, metadata about the account)
2) Viewing a post in the thread means not having whatever T&S tools and info is built into the report system (agent safety features, context about past reports, metadata about the account)
February 29, 2024 at 7:23 AM
1) The head of T&S is not the person making decisions about individual moderation actions;
2) Viewing a post in the thread means not having whatever T&S tools and info is built into the report system (agent safety features, context about past reports, metadata about the account)
2) Viewing a post in the thread means not having whatever T&S tools and info is built into the report system (agent safety features, context about past reports, metadata about the account)
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Someone needs to do a deep dive on the way Wattpad readers’ expectations differ from AO3’s, how the cultural norms didn’t transfer to the app generation, and how that plays into the consumer vs. gift economies.
As promised, my piece on the recent wave of illegal fic-selling is live! On money and fanfic in 2024, and what happens when the ever-expanding sphere of fic readers gets totally disconnected from *fandom*: www.wired.com/story/pull-t...
Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors
Next year, SenLinYu’s Harry Potter fic Manacled will disappear from Archive of Our Own. They don’t want to take it down, but it’s the only way to keep others from profiting off of the work.
www.wired.com
February 29, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Someone needs to do a deep dive on the way Wattpad readers’ expectations differ from AO3’s, how the cultural norms didn’t transfer to the app generation, and how that plays into the consumer vs. gift economies.
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Absolutely deliberate. It's in nobody's* interest to have a widespread information and solidarity network, rather than an abusable propaganda-delivery machine
*except the people but we don't count
*except the people but we don't count
February 28, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Absolutely deliberate. It's in nobody's* interest to have a widespread information and solidarity network, rather than an abusable propaganda-delivery machine
*except the people but we don't count
*except the people but we don't count
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I'm so tired of this idea that I have no ownership of my own work because I posted it on the internet, but the place I posted it to does own it and can sell it, to companies that are putting me and mine out of work, but if I don't post on the internet no one will see it. When do I get to benefit?
"Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals."
www.404media.co/tumblr-and-w...
www.404media.co/tumblr-and-w...
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.
www.404media.co
February 27, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I'm so tired of this idea that I have no ownership of my own work because I posted it on the internet, but the place I posted it to does own it and can sell it, to companies that are putting me and mine out of work, but if I don't post on the internet no one will see it. When do I get to benefit?
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I don't know. What's the point of creating a cool, non-gendered, non-human character if Hollywood is just gonna cast a cis white guy for the part?
*sighs*
*sighs*
December 14, 2023 at 7:22 PM
I don't know. What's the point of creating a cool, non-gendered, non-human character if Hollywood is just gonna cast a cis white guy for the part?
*sighs*
*sighs*
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Yeah, me and all of my creative-type buddies took at least a 30% loss of income, communications in emergencies got borked sideways, and community reach was bled out until nearly gone, but at least Elon is fucking miserable.
December 9, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Yeah, me and all of my creative-type buddies took at least a 30% loss of income, communications in emergencies got borked sideways, and community reach was bled out until nearly gone, but at least Elon is fucking miserable.
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The Wheel of Fortune card from my original tarot deck. Everything moving in a circle, the moon, the clock, the plants and animals. But behind it is a roulette wheel, for luck plays its part as well.
Learn more about it or pick up a copy of the deck at tarot.rosalarian.com
Learn more about it or pick up a copy of the deck at tarot.rosalarian.com
December 12, 2023 at 8:12 PM
The Wheel of Fortune card from my original tarot deck. Everything moving in a circle, the moon, the clock, the plants and animals. But behind it is a roulette wheel, for luck plays its part as well.
Learn more about it or pick up a copy of the deck at tarot.rosalarian.com
Learn more about it or pick up a copy of the deck at tarot.rosalarian.com
hang on a minute...
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one sec.
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one sec.
November 9, 2023 at 7:06 PM
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one sec.
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one sec.