how did you even get here?

it's elvhen for "this might sting" [she/he]

[anuon]

Vague attempt at a pinneroonie:

Shit idk what to write here. This is why i keep not making one. Gods i really hate listing like, all the ways i'm off-meta, but i recognize that i seek confirmation of shared identities when i'm considering following a new person and that's like 80% of the point of these. Okay, i can do this. In order of when i thought of them:

ndn(kwak) // queer // autistic // enby (him/her) // mixed // retired-af activist // canadian // ex-SW // uhh... 30-something? // is polyamory even off-default anymore? who knows.

stuff i'm into: dragon age, hades, kpdh, silly little guys beating each other up, uh... human rights? hearing about your creative pursuits, just generally hearing about my friends' and acquaintances' daily lives too, tbh. oh, graffiti, esp. political graffiti but really all kinds. i write stupid little stories because they make me happy but am very very very bad at posting them. sorry in advance.

lately i've been getting really into talking shit about the colonial state again but i'm trying not to do that on the internet so much bc like... wasting all my good swears on tumblr seems unproductive when there's like... real work i could be doing about it instead? idk. if u wanna hear gossip about historic Indian Affairs employees i'm ur guy tho lol.

I kind of reflexively queue everything, because i am always worried things will get out of order and that will in some way be bad. Sorry if that's weirdo behaviour, i guess?

oh: Anuon is absolutely not canon elvhen. and that's not really how it was translated either. i know these things. however! idk i like it.

last updated: 2026/04/06 no longer a student <pos>

[anuon]

hands down worst thing about being an ally is when a marginalized group you're in community with but aren't a part of make a REALLY funny in-joke and like you ARE in the know, so you get the joke, but due to your very obvious lack of membership you are super not supposed to laugh at the joke in public

but it's like... it's really funny. it's so funny it makes your jaw hurt and you are frantically forwarding it to your friends to whom you are allied, and they are loving it and cackling in the group chat and it's so so funny but you must. not. laugh. out. loud.

excruciating, that is. truly.

[uss-edsall]

At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map

[the-murmuration-project]

My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.

We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[tockthewatchdog]

we need to give this tweet more credit for im pretty sure coining "die mad about it"

[invertprivileges]

checks out, thank you melanie

[jabberding0]

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

[nepharim-tree]

[my-balls79]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

English sauce I'm cryinggggg

[l0verseyes]

nocturnal

[thatdisasterauthor]

Today at work a girl at my register was heatedly explaining to her mother that wearing a dinosaur costume to her school’s decades day was, in fact, perfectly acceptable because her teachers did not specify any particular decades.

[antique-scarecrow]

the kids are alright 

[gallusrostromegalus]

SCA garb guidelines say “before the 1600’s” which includes like. The Ice Age. Catch me rolling up to Pennsic on assorted pelts and the latest in attatl technology.

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[otterlyrambling]

I mean.

Cartoon design is based off of 70s/80s fashion

So, it’s not wrong.

It’s rather likely

[spiffylindster]

I’d like to add dickey collars for consideration.

I can picture him having an entire drawer devoted to an assortment of these, right next to his drawer full of ascots.

[everystarstorm]

May I present this image from Legend of the Vampire?

[synille]

what is the FUCKING truth

[meckamecha]

He has multiple outfits that all look identical while having completely different construction

[autism-official]

[nogodsnokingsnomasters]

Kent State University

[tiredtransgal]

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[solarpunkcast]

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

[captain-rez]

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

[saurons-optometrist]

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

[bando--grand-scamyon]

What in the absolute fuck

[wuh2k]

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

[depsidase]

[anuon]

in trying to gently dissuade someone from pursuing me, last night i described trying to have sex* with me as being "a lot like the game Operation? a stressful and delicate endeavour wherein you attempt to touch only the exact right piece, and touching anything else will result in a loud, unhappy noise and potentially a sharp, sudden pain."

[tkaronto-archives-of-graffiti]

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens#I read it as shittable and go wait that can't be right#oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense#but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho#cities should definitely be shittable#it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME

it must also be shittable

[best-of-memes]

Rich people showers

[officialkeikoandgilly]

[labyrinth-runner]

reblogging for that gif

[immenseheadaches]

i’m sorry i couldn’t help myself 

[laterovaries-deactivated2017022]

Not gonna not reblog this….

[atomskdluffy]

The drawings are a necessary addition. (Gargle shower and fireplace showers still best)

[mr-prism]

*muffled screams*

[paperandpencilsandskips]

My uncle works at PEMDAS and he's saying they're adding a new way of fucking with numbers called "gleebing it"