Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@gaditb one time i refused to let #cats trend on this instance and so @aescling went in and forked the code to make #cats always trend (in a merge request i reviewed but shhh) and that is entirely the kind of energy we go for here

I've gotten some cool new moots/followers, so I'm going to drop a lil #introduction

Been here since 2017, OG, mod on first Black instance, Ive made all your fav hashtags onhere :hair flick:

Artist, writer, PhD candidate-art/philosophy

I make work about Afro Indigeneity & Caribbean/Lat Am

I produce lots of work that you can support if you want (prints, content subscription, decolonial bookclubs and more)

Lots of links are available & my blog has rss feed

https://www.artistmarciax.com/blog-1

Really useful legal guide from the folks at the EFF for people running fediverse servers:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

(disclosure: I advised them on this work a bit)

Cory Doctorow reminded me that January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day (observed), and this year we get a plethora of awesome ...

including METROPOLIS.

oh I think I'm going to have fun.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

You better not cry. You better not shout. The MONSTER THEME POLL is coming to town.

I made a list, and I checked it thrice, and now we're gonna find out which suggestions go on to the monthly theme polls in 2023:
https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/2162319.html

So a lot of people end up thinking that people here don't favorite much because they see posts with way more boosts than favorites but that's just because favorites don't federate!

For posts on other servers you will only see the likes from your instance, but for posts on your own instance you should see the likes from other instances too.

Favoriting is great, it's just not gonna federate to everyone who sees the post; it's about notifying the person who made the original post

#feditips

Fully agree with GlitchCat’s reasoning (see above) for silencing instances which enable global fulltext search. however the doc primarily focuses on the detrimental effects of global fulltext and i’s like to additionally suggest that intentional discovery methods (eg guppe groups, hashtags) tend to actually be more effective for community formation than fulltext search because they’re explicitly opt in

for example, by adding a particular tag, i’m indicating that i expect regular readers of said tag to see said post and potentially respond. an equivalent post surfaced via global fulltext search doesn’t contain that same implicit invitation

Please boost!

Time to really push publicity for the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject 's open fiction submissions period for the podcast.

In January, we will be open for submissions of short stories (up to 5K words) in the field of #SapphicHistoricalFiction and #LesbianHistoricalFiction (including some types of historic fantasy).

We pay 8 cents a word and publish the stories in audio on the podcast and on our blog.

For submission details: https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2023-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series

Today for #DecRecs I'm reccing 缘起缘未了 | when I see you again by stickmarionette an F/F retelling of the Legend of the White Snake

This is a really sweet story! I also love that it is set in Hangzhou and full of material culture and historical details!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28128324
(9k, teen, Chinese Mythology)

Take the 2002 Yuri Fandom Survey!

There's been tons of research into BL fandom, let's take a moment and see what Yuri fandom in the 2020s looks like. Please take and share this short survey about *your* Yuri fandom.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYTmWrbj8_iy4m4NjYcVNlwmMFDxMtW_XN9uznWS3ib0TGmg/viewform

#Yuri #Yurimanga
#Yurianime #fanstudies

when you go to tap for 1 black mana and your cookware shatters call that new pyrexia