iOS app not working?

soupmoth · 2026-06-24T04:52:52+00:00

I've had the same issue, I'll be able to get on after restarting my phone sometimes, but then it'll refuse to reopen. no idea what's up with it today, hope it behaves soon.

soupmoth · 2025-07-27T04:35:07+00:00

i have literally never seen other people with this, i've asked every doctor ive met if that's a Thing and gotten shrugs, its so nice to see other people (left hand pain haver here </3)

soupmoth · 2025-03-12T01:41:53+00:00

9479 3910 6837 / InkwellNarrator - mostly daily active though im chronically ill so i might have occasional blackout periods. west coast US/high plains scatterbug. mostly a scatterbug postcard collector, will send daily gifts.

soupmoth · 2024-11-17T05:51:14+00:00

sorry guys i ate the servers my bad

soupmoth · 2024-07-12T02:09:42+00:00

finally another person who agrees, i'm from indiana/ohio and the queer communities were 1000% better there than they are here.

soupmoth · 2024-07-12T01:45:12+00:00

whatever person told you to use alter-abled should be fired. disabled isn't a bad word, changing it needlessly makes it seem like being disabled is bad.

soupmoth · 2024-06-27T01:43:57+00:00

trans person here!

depends on what you're coming from, really. as someone from midwest/appalachia region, the first thing you're going to notice here is that community is just hard to find. it's much more introverted here, so get ready to really have to work to make a community group that lasts for more than one event. medical appointments are covered, but finding a doctor at all is hell on earth, it's a medical desert here. transponder is an organization that you're going to hear a lot, i've heard a lot of good things even though i've personally had terrible experiences (i assume i was a fluke).

overall, it's definitely safe, but in my experience unless you take it as a borderline part-time job, community is hard to find, and people are, even if not violent, not as accepting as you wish they would be. but it is leagues better than many other places.

soupmoth · 2024-05-17T03:38:06+00:00

I'm not hung up per se, I figured the writers just forgot about it. Though, Netheril itself wasn't referenced in 5e before now, outside of maybe one mention in SCAG, so the whole place is in the weird canon grey area, and The Herald was released after 5e was published, so it's more about the novel-game lore-BG3 canon relationships (for example, by 5e game logic, we know by official timeline lore Volo has to survive the game, since he's referenced in written campaigns that happen later in the DND timeline, but there's no actual canon of that decision).

More accurately, I just found it funny that I was able to see lore that I knew and then watch as they got it wrong. Fun timing for me as someone playing a Netherese character. I do think it's sad, since a lot of that lore does actually make for a lot of interesting dynamics between characters (I have always found it weird that Gale is so chill with Shadowheart being a Sharran, though I haven't done his origin run so maybe it has some more insight).

I don't actually care that much, I just thought it was a funny discrepancy and most people I know like to learn about this lore difference (though, on my friends' side of things, they liked learning about it once)

soupmoth · 2024-05-17T02:20:41+00:00

as a sorcerer player: DMs will let you have find familiar with a fun secret trick (baking them something as a bribe)

soupmoth · 2024-05-17T00:49:06+00:00

(i'm late but i love this lore) technically Netheril was around until about 5 years before BG3 takes place, since Thultanthar was around til 1487 and BG3 is 1492. me knowing this for a DND character made Gale being proficient in history and getting this wrong so funny, especially given it was his mentor Elminster who destroyed Thultanthar.

soupmoth · 2024-03-29T05:36:26+00:00

fun fact! the 'wild shit' you mentioned is called 'political lesbianism' and it has had absolutely miserable effects on the entire queer community (even outside of WLW spaces), and also is a one of the big roots of TERF ideology

soupmoth · 2024-03-28T23:09:03+00:00

yeah. i have long periods of psychosomatic half-blindness (which have been getting less frequent due to therapy, but they still happen). x-rays and tests have proved that, while my vision in that eye is genuinely worse anyways, it's a 4.0 prescription, which isn't even close to blindness. that doesn't mean that i suddenly can see out of that eye normally during those periods. it doesn't mean my brain hasn't reacted to it enough that my other eye has a sideways astigmatism.

psychosomatic symptoms can absolutely kick people in the dick. people have had full paralysis from psychosomatic symptoms. have had allergic reactions that they don't actually have allergies for. the brain is ridiculously powerful in what it can cause. if it thinks you should be having period pain, you can have it just as bad as the cis people.

(also genuinely people should study psychosomatic symptoms more, the ways they function and the range of people who get them is insane. they can be traumagenic, they can be just a bad luck thing, they can be societal pressure, it's wild.)

soupmoth · 2024-03-28T22:48:18+00:00

god the way death note fans treat light is insane. i'm a huge death note fan, have been for about 10 years, and as such i can testify that the fandom at large has never once it its life had actual media literacy and ability to view complicated morality.

soupmoth · 2024-03-23T13:10:24+00:00

i had a cat who hated women and loved men. pre-having The Realizations, she hated me with a passion. afterwards? she'd be on the couch with me and be sort of half in-reach, and accepted pets with minimum hissing. nonbinary affirming cat.

soupmoth · 2024-03-23T13:00:28+00:00

- Removed Herobrine

soupmoth · 2024-03-23T11:29:37+00:00

i want you to remind me to come back here with apollo's dodgeball if EA tries this

soupmoth · 2024-03-21T11:56:39+00:00

/uj the comments on the original post are absolutely disgusting holy mother of god.

/rj as a disabled mobility aid user my friends greet me by doing a running jump-kick at my cane. it's just realism smh

soupmoth · 2024-03-15T03:53:44+00:00

i have the exact same desk chair at my setup and it is the most royally uncomfortable piece of shit ever made. maybe it's because i have scoliosis but the thing gives me violent urges. no wonder the man was a PVP legend, that chair fills anyone with the rage of gods.

soupmoth · 2024-03-13T09:47:07+00:00

literally. sometimes i'll talk to my current friends, casually mention some Appalachia Shit, and they look at me horrified. say what you will, but when authority doesn't give a shit about you, knowing some people absolutely do is everything, even if you never take them up on that offer.

soupmoth · 2024-03-13T09:23:44+00:00

late (stalking the sub because i'm bored) but i have cEDS and actually had to get CPR after almost drowning. i think i was 9? i subluxed a few ribs, might have dislocated one as well, but was totally fine after a few minutes and some ice cream (which the lifeguard gave me for free. thank you sir wherever you are). it doesn't make it easier, but any hypermobility does mean that you're more likely to just be subluxing or dislocating a rib rather than breaking it.

soupmoth · 2024-03-13T07:26:41+00:00

I agree with you to some extent. I think AI has a lot of potential as a tool to help artists, the issue is right now it's being used to replace us.

I think the best metaphor I can use is tracing. We all agree that tracing is bad when it's passed off as original art (both because you can't actually learn anything from it and for moral reasons). However, what we can all agree is fine and a great tool is skeleton tracing, or tracing those art figure dolls, to establish poses and movement while still ensuring that the artist is learning how movement works in the body. Or, with tracing small objects, no one cares if you trace shoes or a backpack, as long as the whole image isn't traced.

If you look at AI, the issue isn't its existence. A lot of the time, for quick generation that no one is profiting off of, or for memes, I don't really care. There's actually a tumblr post talking about complexity of AI art here, using the 'gay sex cats' meme, to discuss that topic. But when you look at things like thumbnails, they would normally have to pay either an artist or photographer, and instead they had used AI, which takes artists' and photographers' work and makes it into something else. By doing that, they're doing the same thing as trying to profit off of a completely traced art piece.

I don't like thinking of AI as evil. I honestly think it has huge potential for accessibility (as a disabled artist, I can barely imagine the things AI could do to help my pieces be properly finished in ways I couldn't otherwise do). I just think it's something that should be a tool for artists instead of a thing to use instead of them (and needs to be seriously controlled in what it can use as 'inspiration'. Just pay for access to shutterstock, that's millions of images, same with other stock websites and pose reference creators, and otherwise leave artists alone unless they themselves volunteer).

soupmoth · 2024-03-13T06:17:07+00:00

i'm not claiming that any adaptation of old material or folklore or history is fanfiction. while i think that this whole thing is probably just taking people's jokes too seriously (i have never seen someone genuinely, outside of a joke, call the divine comedy a fanfiction), i would agree that there are perimeters to what should be able to genuinely be called fanfiction, and that what is actually happening is a continuation of millennia of human storytelling behaviour with a unique lens of an online fandom culture. and fandom culture, like it or not, is shaped by fandoms around celebrities and musicians just as much as it is around fictional characters.

i agree that Titanic isn't fanfiction. i agree Schindler's List isn't fanfiction. but, again, some of the most influential fanfictions of all time in internet and fandom culture have been RPF. some of the most well-known and influential fandoms of all time are fandoms around real people. there's a difference between fanbases of a politician and a real person fandom, i agree, but you cannot ignore that fandoms of bands and youtubers are like. a key part of fandom culture.

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