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#funny how Harry can identify as Not!Slytherin yet JKR(what a joker) belives in everyone having pre-assigned roles -@damnsmartblueboxes

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foldingfittedsheets

I revisited the little flock of pride gryphons! I'm so excited for bi people cause honestly that one came out so cute, anyone repping these feathery little bundles is gonna get so many compliments.

You can check out my gryphon buddies on Redbubble and Teepublic! (Repeating pattern is only on Redbubble!)

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mamawasatesttube

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

thevulturesquadron

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

rudjedet

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

justsomeguycore

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

justsomeguycore

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

#i love her every time

theowlburrow

Video games 🎮

theowlburrow

This is a remaster of an old Vap Comic! Now in AMAZING TECHNICOLOR 🖌️🎨

sophsun1

Caroline Rhea as Hilda Spellman | Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996–2003)

reasonandfaithinharmony

…and the vet was like, “You know the thing with geriatric cats is—” and I was like, “What do you mean, geriatric?! It’s a little baby, look at her!" Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025)

#i called my boy middle-aged the other day and my partner was like. that is a Senior.#i do buy them senior food and technically she's right but but he's an adult at most! hes 11 but he's a teenager or grumpy midlife crisis ma

gfnonfictionzine

Physical zine preorders open on June 1!

Get your own 9x7" copy of the zine, with 180+ pages of the essays, infographics, comics, and spot art you love. Keep an eye on this post on June 1 for the link to preorder!

Promo art by @mathsanddinos and @leafofdawn!

mothman-etd

Not sure got to feel when the hobby book says this should only take an hour but it took me 5 hours.

gallusrostromegalus

1. Hobby books are often written by the same people who think you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

May I ask what the Allegedly-One-Hour project was? Both because I like hearing about what my friends are doing and I want to see how wildly inaccurate the listed time scope is.

darkmodepls

I want to point out that a lot of hobby books are like this when it comes to completion time. It's not that the authors are lying about what a project takes. It's the fact that the writers are experts in their crafts due to practice and repetition.

For example, I once wanted to make a bunch of small toys as gifts following a simple amigurumi pattern from a book where all the projects were supposed to take an hour. The first one took me two hours to complete, the 3rd was maybe an hour and a half, and by the 6th one, I was down to 45 minutes.

The person who wrote the book I was using had designed these patterns. They had gone through them over and over and over again, adjusting them and writing the instructions out. The author probably could have done every pattern in that book under an hour while while half asleep, the same way I could with the one pattern I was using by the time I was done.

I've found that baking is the same way. A cookie recipe may take only 20 minutes if you've made it a dozen times before, but a brand new baker is going to take longer because they're trying to be precise with the measurements and careful to follow the instructions.

An author of a hobby book is someone who has studied the crafts within, and an expert is almost always going to be faster than an amateur.

Be proud of yourself for completing your project and don't worry about what the projected times say.

To quote Randall Munroe "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average persons familiarity with their field."

queerprayers

house I am staying in for work usually houses a ~christian marriage counselor~ and I flipped through a book and stopped in my tracks. it had not occurred to me, no.

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many such foolish cases :)

asteroidtroglodyte

I can never leave Tumblr because after years of sporadic therapy utterly failed to even approach the core of my problem some random tumblr user was like “I processed my trauma by writing a 10,000 word work of filthy fanfic erotica” and I was like “fuck it I’ve tried everything else” and now I’m 17 chapters and 20,000 words deep into an unpublishable work of obscenity and after careful literary analysis with one of the Beloved Mutuals I have come to some Terrible Revelations about my childhood and may now continue the process of Healing. Where else am I supposed to get this kind of experience. Who does this. Why are we like this. I’m never leaving. I love y’all.