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ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS! THE WORD “INKTOBER” BAS BEEN TRADEMARKED. YOU WILL RECEIVE A TAKEDOWN NOTICE FROM THE CREATOR OR HIS LAWYER! ! ! ! IMPORTANT

yes. it’s real. Jake Parker, the one who started inktober trademarked “inktober” and his lawyer will shut down anyone (INCLUDING YOU if youre involved) who is selling things like sketchbook of their OWN artworks using the word.

LINK TO THREAD.

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Kikidoodle & Purrmaids on Twitter

“ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS! No longer participate in #inktober. Jake Parker (person who started the tag) has Trademarked it and their lawyer is

dane is the victim of this trademark bullshit

https://m.facebook.com/groups/artistalleynetworkinternational/permalink/1351723584999628/

my advice is AVOID using inktober and instead use another tag like “drawtober”, etc.

please reblog! ! ! tell your artists friends

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to my fellow black folk: we lost an actual superhero, and it feels like it. It's perfectly okay to feel distraught, sadness, emotional at that loss. I know being black is hard when it comes to what feels like consistent, communal trauma. it's okay to take a breather and feel- you don't have to always feel "strong". We're all here. ✊🏾❤️

(you can, and please, share if you're not black, but don't dare start no discourse in my comments)

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

TBH maybe more people would rp with real humans instead of chatbots if we sat them down and taught everyone proper roleplay etiquette

idk guys maybe we should try calling the amazon rain forest “sovereign indigenous lands” more often because i’m still seeing people talk about it like some sort of vast terra nullis where there are only animals–you know, like a colonialist

i am russian and i am scared. contemplating dropping out of university and running away from the country because i have no idea what to do.  PLEASE SHARE THIS. NO ONE OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA KNOWS ABOUT IT. PLEASE.