PAYPAL IS TRYING TO SLIP THE RUG UNDER US. Or they may have said this and just no one read about it or noticed/knew.
OKAY SO BEFORE YOU SEND ANY MONEY FOR THAT AWESOME COMMISSION YOU WANT TO BUY FROM THAT AWESOME ARTIST. PLEASE STOP AND READ THIS.
Paypal changed the look of how you will fill out information and send money. Thus, you need to be super careful. Don’t go all willy nilly through and be like “Yeah yeah yeah send” you need to stop when you see this screen right away.
Before you proceed, you will first notice one major thing: your address is showing. What you need to do if you are ordering a DIGITAL WORK (aka, it is being sent to you via the interwebz) is you need to click on your address and there around be a drop down menu of 3 (or more) options:
No address needed
Your Current Address
+ Add a new shipping address
Be sure to select “No address needed”, it is very important that you do. If you leave your address in there, Paypal will assume that you are to receive a physical package. A physical package which needs proof that exists physically. Paypal will want the artist to provide shipping labels and tracking info on said package. This is bad, very, very bad. Artists can get in trouble if they cannot provide these things.
Please, if an artist asks to send you back your money so that you can send it again correctly, do not be offended. You are paying them to do your commission, how can they do your commission with no money?
Reblog this, send this around, if you want to make a proper tutorial go ahead, I hope this was clear enough as it is.
Important!!!
And in case the buyer does do this, there is a work around. All you have to do is click on the transaction and go to “edit tracking info” at the bottom.
Then go to order status and set to “Processed/Service Rendered.”
This will let paypal know that the order was a digital good, and no shipping was required.
You just have to check your incoming payments and make sure to do this if this does happen. Cause you aren’t notified otherwise. And you really only get in trouble if left unnoticed.
Reblogging again because I can’t stretch this enough!
anti-feminist:
we need to get rid of feminism because it doesn't help male rape victims
actual real male rape victim:
feminism has helped by telling me that i didn't deserve it any more than any woman would and that the pressures put on my gender to enjoy sex are socially constructed and do not define me.
anti-feminist:
anti-feminist:
okay but feminism makes it so that fathers have a harder time winning custody
actual father of somebody who was out with an abuse mother:
feminism seeks to destroy the idea that mothers are the best ones to care for children, and that their role is more than just that of a mother. i need feminism because I would have actually been a better parent for my child to have been placed under the custody of.
anti-feminist:
anti-feminist:
well feminism makes guys pay for the meal and makes women never have to do anything for it
actual male who doesn't want to pay every date:
actually, the idea that i have to provide for both myself and my female companions is actually very harmful because it suggests that i'm inherently stronger than they are and that i have to be able to be strong at all times. this is harmful to me because it forces dangerous roles and it's also dangerous to women everywhere because it paints them as weaker than their male friends. I need feminism to dismantle these built-up illustrations of my gender being hypermasculine.
anti-feminist:
anti-feminist:
well what about male beauty standards? I have to be muscular and hot that's unfair for men too, and i've never seen a feminist complain about THAT
men who are actually bothered by these standards:
the eventual breaking down of gender stereotypes that feminism seeks to do will result in reduced roles for both men and women, causing both of those genders to have fewer beauty standards to adhere to.
anti-feminist:
anti-feminist:
yea well a feminist called me out for being sexist once so i don't like it
Hey guys, so I’m going to assume a lot of you are in the dark about the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) that’s supposed to be built on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano which has been considered a sacred place to my Hawaiian people for thousands of years.
A lot of celebrities have been supporting #AoleTMT (ʻaʻole meaning “no” in the Hawaiian language), as you can see in the pictures above, and you can help save our precious lands from the developers hands! You can read more about #WeAreMaunaKea here (xxx) and sign the petition to help stop TMT here.
My people and I appreciate all the support we get, please, if you feel it’s the right thing to do, help us save our land!
what do you make of house elves being better off left slaves because they wanted to be? it made me feel weird that there was a species MEANT to be slaves.
a lot of people believed this throughout the series, including sympathetic and wise characters like Hagrid, but they were wrong. Rowling lets good people be wrong and doesn’t chastise them in the text for it. She doesn’t bother spoon feeding readers social justice, but the message that “even good people can condone awful things” is one of the strongest themes of the story. the house elf situation is a perfect example of why you can’t just read the surface text of Harry Potter and assume the author is speaking through the characters when they say slaves love being slaves and change the subject.
like, look at hermione’s SJW phase. the surface read on that? she tried to fix something that wasn’t broken, and she failed hilariously and gave up because nobody cared, even the elves.
except no. she was right about house elves. ideologically, she was seeing something Wizard culture was blind to, and she was 100% right.
but in her SJW phase, she wanted to fix this enormous and culturally accepted horror by trying to force the house elves to make choices that conformed to her notion of what was best for them.
she tried to free elves without their consent, she lectured them about their situation from her position of almost total ignorance, she ignored their wishes at every turn, and she tried to control their liberation and make it be on her terms, and it didn’t work. time and again, no one listened. humans didn’t really mind having slaves, it turns out, and because the house elves she met had never known anything but a world where their lot is servitude, why should they give a fuck about a 14 year old human child’s notion of social justice? she expected the world to change on the strength of her moral outrage, and she failed utterly
this storyline was not meant to impart the message that Hermione was wrong all along. it was meant to represent the vast chasm between meaning well and doing well. even very clever, kind people fuck up a whole lot, and there’s no one cleverer or more kind than Hermione Granger to demonstrate this point.
of course the house elves don’t want to be freed! they’d been abused, degraded and indoctrinated to see “freedom” as a threat. being good at servitude is the only value they’ve ever been permitted to hold since birth! a choice between this familiar, unhappy servitude and the shame of being cast out into the world with no skills, no friends, and no support system is not a choice most people could ever make.
Hermione was instructing victims to stop being victimized on her say-so, and she was offended when they didn’t jump at the chance to throw out what little safety they could count on in life in favor of a freedom that was basically meaningless to them.
She didn’t learn some shitty moral lesson about how house elves are better off as slaves. she learned that paternalism and a massive savior complex are terrible reasons to start a movement. she learned that putting the burden of changing systematic injustice on the oppressed and superimposing your own cultural beliefs on them with no regard for their own feelings is insulting and degrading.
she learned that absolutely everyone will tell you to fuck off if you pull condescending SJW shit on them, even if it’s in their best interests to do what you want them to do.
and Hermione took this lesson with her when she finished school. she became a House Elf advocate within the Ministry. She used her influence and power to enter the system and stop the fuckery from the human side instead of telling slaves to stop being so slavey and being annoyed when they stayed oppressed.
you think a genius like Hermione Granger couldn’t figure out with a little bit of experience that systemic change has to come from within the ranks of the powerful? man, not even.
This might be some of the best meta I’ve ever read.
students whose parents disowned them for being queer stay at school during the holidays and have huge, inter-house sleepovers in the common rooms (those in charge turn a blind eye to the slytherins clambering through the portrait hole with their pillows, the gryffindors wandering around near the kitchens holding their pajamas, the hufflepuffs sneaking out the ravenclaw door the next morning looking like they’ve gotten maybe an hour of sleep, and the ravenclaws tiptoeing their ways down to the dungeons with books and blankets in hand)
those students do “secret santa” so that they all get a gift on christmas, even if it’s not from their blood family. it’s from their chosen family.
this goes on until a rather wealthy pureblood student comes out to his parents and is terrified of their reaction, already preparing to join the “queersmas” group as they have come to call themselves. to his surprise, his parents are accepting and when they learn that the students don’t have a home to go to, or a family to care for them, they insist that their mansion be that home and that they be that family. the students are all brought there for the winter holiday and are absolutely spoiled with gifts and food and love. they leave for school again waving goodbye to the couple who has given them permission to call them “mom” and “dad” if they want to.
If your family ever feels dysfunctional just remember that my parents got divorced and didn’t tell each other where they were moving to so they ended up moving in the same neighborhood and becoming neighbors
this is fucking neo colonialism, telling small immigrant owned businesses what they can and cannot serve in their own fucking restaurants. If you go into ANY of these places THERE IS A BIG HONKING DESCRIPTION NEXT TO THE ITEM LISTING TELLING YOU EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. NOBODY IS FORCING YOU TO EAT IT.
white people stop fucking coming into cultural spaces to demand that they cater to YOU. They don’t. They don’t fucking cater to you first and foremost.
White people will force feed ducks so they can kill them and eat their livers and call it a delicacy but no, eating an embryo is the real cruelty
It’s literally a food that developed to amp up the protein levels in eggs because of the expensiveness and rarity of good quality meat in the Philippines.
Like OK cool y’all get all high and mighty about duck embryo but meanwhile like foie gras is made by literally exploding goose livers and like nobody is ever gonna sign a petition in nyc to take that off the menu. Like Meat is meat. Get that into your heads.
Kung hindi mo kaya, eh di wag mong kainin
blackjackgabbiani this is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. You don’t have people getting up in airs about foie gras the same way they do when it comes to balut. I honestly don’t care for either, but it’s hypocritical how society can treat one as a delicacy, but the other as somehow more inherently disgusting.
Caliborn’s weird homogay crush on Dirk. Is a thing.
And then he got to spend years, years with Dirk.
And part of Cal’s personality knew
EXACTLY
how to fuck with him.
I take back everything bad I’ve ever said about Bro. The fact that Bro didn’t outright molest/murder Dave is a FUCKING MIRACLE.
Magnets and rainbows all up ins.
The implications. I cannot deal with this. No wonder Bro wanted to train Dave so hard. No fucking wonder Bro was always drawing creepy-ass comics about “wanting to play a game.” No wonder when Davesprite prototyped him, all Calsprite did was laugh.
Caliborn was finally able to get Dirk to draw whatever he wanted for him. Whenever he wanted.
I am now and forever creeped out by the idea of Lil Cal compelling Bro to flash step him everywhere. Like Cal’s living some kind of fucked up half life through Bro/Dirk. His very favorite person and weirdo crush. The guy who he just happens to have a soul shard of sharing his creepy puppet body. *shudder*
Just look at their apartment and the things Dave goes out of his way to voice his desperate, brittle acceptance of. The puppets, creepy comics, and mind games scream Caliborn. The barrage of phallic imagery that was wildly inappropriate for a child is pretty Eq, not to mention the creeping miasma of sexuality that was just… urgh. Then add the sticky film of fear (chucklevoodoos) and anger/rage trickling from Gamzee. Finally, the way it all meshed perfectly together with Bro since AR would know exactly how to get in Bro’s head (BEING A SHARD OF HIS SOUL AND ALL) and you’ve got a perfect storm of the worst thing I’ve ever had the misfortune to think about. The training and the physical abuse ramped up to 11 and done with a totally unequal power dynamic (unlike the also uncool but not nearly as fucked up Dirk and Jake situation) also seems very AR/Caliborn-like. That’s not even to mention both Eq’s and AR’s thing for control, and the issues ALL FOUR (well, three and a half, haha) people in there have with the color red and fuck, Dave is amazingly lucky to have made it out of there alive.
And UGH. Caliborn’s thing for platonic affection, the normal kind
of affection you’d give a child so that they grew up healthy. No wonder
Bro has minimal contact with Dave, Lil Cal’s influence would get all
kinds of wires crossed. The only non-evil solution would be to forgo
physical affection all together.
Also, lets consider, Caliborn’s first and foremost talent has always been his dominating personality. I have no doubt he would have been the dominating presence in Lil’ Cal. With just a touch of Gamzee’s ability to get in people’s heads… I’m upset just thinking about it. After lord knows how long of being exposed to him it’s amazing that Bro wasn’t a shambling husk that existed to do Cal’s bidding. The biggest, strongest, prettiest (that crush is still a thing) puppet ever, just for Caliborn. Bro was kind of half way there, but he somehow managed to mostly protect Dave from it which… I’m crying. Maybe Caliborn didn’t want to influence Dave so much or maybe the shades helped. Maybe Bro had a kind of subconscious idea of what was happening to him, I don’t know.
But he wouldn’t really have any way to fight it, not with Gamzee’s powers and Caliborn’s force of personality. It’s so messed up and sad, and it explains SO MUCH. And the way everyone just… desperately didn’t notice Cal was KILL IT WITH FIRE levels of fucked up speaks to a touch of voidy don’t notice don’t look magic.
