Trying My Besty

my fandom blog. full of plot bunnies free for the taking!

[kosmogrl]

not a caller not a texter but a secret third thing

[kosmogrl]

don’t contact me. ever

[mod2amaryllis]

parts 1-2

[mod2amaryllis]

part 3

and this is the true story of my monday afternoon

[mod2amaryllis]

it frew up :'(

[heart-sprout]

I'd like to thank op because I have been using these as reaction images since I first saw this post in 2022 and I had lost track of their origin but now I am grateful to the universe for the chance to say bless u

[mod2amaryllis]

imagining someone in the world making use of my 4pm on a monday doodles is sick as hell

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[guardianspirits13]

project fail mary

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[kaninchen-reblogs]

Be kind to trans women or die by my sword

[kaninchen-reblogs]

Respect trans men or die by my axe

[kaninchen-reblogs]

Include nonbinary people or die by my morningstar

[kaninchen-reblogs]

listen to intersex people or die by my longbow

[kaninchen-reblogs]

love he/him butches and she/her femboys and neopronoun queers and all kinds of gnc folks or die by my arquebus

[kaninchen-reblogs]

don’t just see multi-gender and two spirit and third gender and agender people as “gotchas” in your debates or die by my trebuchet

[kaninchen-reblogs]

“Kanny where did you get all these medieval weapons” well you see I defeated the Duke of Worsestkingshireton-upon-avon in glorious battle and claimed his lands as my own and I broke into his castle armory and now I’ve got all these cool toys to use on bigots. I do this every Monday.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

tch... so it's an alliance out of necessity, huh...?

[coelii]

[subaru-copilot]

[scheidungsgrund]

from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

[galecstatic]

it just gets better

and better

[goingonanadventuremaybe]

[funnyfroge]

[thememedaddy]

[terkaterr]

ah doing ma thing just like god int- (remembers im atheist) just like the universe intend- (remembers i don't believe in determinism) just like noone and nothing intended ever. doin ma thang fucking unpredictable style

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[frog-on-top-of-a-log]

I love imagining that every eridian welcome committee comic takes place in the same universe and that grace just never said anything about it.

He doesn’t call them out on it cause that might mean that they will actually research phrases more and second guess themselves a lot. And that would mean the cards would stop. Which would be a shame.

But like this he gets a fun little puzzle every week or so where he tries to guess what the committee is trying to say this time. He can rate the cards on funniness and clarity!

I’d like to think that he explains what a lot of them sound like towards the end of his life after having received thousands of cards filled with innuendos and catcalling. The committee doesn’t emotionally recover for the rest of their lives.

[justcakethanks]

I imagine Grace gets a few that he can't figure out at all and he constantly toys with asking the ewc to explain but that would risk alerting them to the fact that they make mistakes which would ruin everything.

[wildflowerdraught]

In retrospect, it's hilarious that Stratt made everybody on the vat speak English in deference to Grace being monolingual

Because with how quickly Grace was able to pick up Eridian, even with literally NOTHING about it being familiar the way a human language would be, they probably could have chosen Mandarin as the universal language on Stratt's Vat and he would have just. Learned it.

[chernozemm]

Love the soft, curious moments of them sharing about their own cultures, biology, etc. I do think Rocky would have a field day when Grace explains skin as a very sensitive and permeable organ with lots of stuff packed tight on the surface. Since goosebumps are very tactile, I thought Rocky would enjoy hearing those.

Also, bonus.

Because it is endlessly entertaining to me to consider how deep in the trenches Rocky is.

[kedamakedama]

オナガとネコヤナギ

[squiidangel]

hey horrid idea, but more phm crossover stuff, put it with the mcu and what if the blip happened while the hail mary was on its way to tau ceti

like that's the reason why grace is by himself bc yao and ilyukhina got snapped

he still wakes up, no memories, but doesn't find any bodies in the other beds but maybe the display still says deceased bc there's no bodies there anymore. and then he meets rocky, all the same stuff happens, but rocky explains how some of his crewmates just went to sleep and din't wake back up, but some others suddenly disappeared into dust. they don't put the pieces together that this is what happened to grace's crewmates bc how could they?

and what if on the way back to rocky's ship realzing that it's going to run out of fuel, yao and ilyukhina suddenly reappear along with everyone else who disappeared. and then grace has to explain that heyy,, sorry,, we actually were going back home because we got more fuel, but my new best friend is going to die and be unable to save his planet, so we're actually not going back home,, sorry,, also yes my new friend is a rock don't worry about that,,

i don't think yao and ilyukhina would be too upset at this bc they also thought they were never going to go back to earth but now they get to meet aliens?? who cares about suddenly dissapearin for five years and not helping at all with the astrophage problem technically we get to meet aliens !!

and if rocky's crewmates, or some of them at least, suddenly reappear back on his ship, he has to make sure they all get to the engine room area so they don't die of radiation, on top of having to deal with the fuel problem

but hten grace makes his way back and everyone is okay yay !! the blip-a has to get left behind bc of the lack of fuel but then the hail mary becomes even more cramped on their way to erid bc suddenly two humans reappared and also rocky is not going to leave his remaining crew behind

like at least in the movie, the hail mary was decently big enough to probably store three humans and a handful (like maybe four or smth, idk) eridians, bc the book hail mary was tinyyyy

this also brings up the problem of food but let's not worry about that for right now