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thoughts on anonymity
Someone just created a kinkmeme for a small fandom I've long been a fan of, though never written in.
Why, you may ask, is that sentence not followed by an exclamation point?
The creator(s) have made the meme mandatorily anon-only.
This has happened with at least one other kinkmeme for a small(ish) fandom I'm part of, and I found that it somehow puts me off. I've thought about it several times, and I can't exactly pin down why I dislike it, aside from It's probably a combination of laziness and lack of shame. I may have come to better conclusions in the past, but right now I am sleep deprived and under-caffeinated, so I cannot recall them or re-think them out. (Insert cat macro here: "I thunk yu guyz sum meta, but I forgetted it"?)
I'm 100% for people having the right to be anonymous on the internet, and that includes kinkmemes! But being told that I have to be anonymous results in serious levels of Do Not Want.
Am I the only person in the universe who has this reaction to mandatory-anon policies? Is there someone out there who has the ability to prod my grey matter and figure out why this irks me?
Thoughts, anyone?
Why, you may ask, is that sentence not followed by an exclamation point?
The creator(s) have made the meme mandatorily anon-only.
This has happened with at least one other kinkmeme for a small(ish) fandom I'm part of, and I found that it somehow puts me off. I've thought about it several times, and I can't exactly pin down why I dislike it, aside from It's probably a combination of laziness and lack of shame. I may have come to better conclusions in the past, but right now I am sleep deprived and under-caffeinated, so I cannot recall them or re-think them out. (Insert cat macro here: "I thunk yu guyz sum meta, but I forgetted it"?)
I'm 100% for people having the right to be anonymous on the internet, and that includes kinkmemes! But being told that I have to be anonymous results in serious levels of Do Not Want.
Am I the only person in the universe who has this reaction to mandatory-anon policies? Is there someone out there who has the ability to prod my grey matter and figure out why this irks me?
Thoughts, anyone?
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If you ever want a photoshop-esque program, I highly recommend the open-source GIMP (Windows .exe).
If you've never worked with layers before, it's a new world, but also with many more possibilities than MS Paint etc. offers.
There's a GIMP comm on DW,
How-to: Simple text shadow in GIMP
How-to: Creating an icon similar to this, *points to icon*, in Gimp
I like to think my tutorial skills are better than my icon-making skills, at least :oD