Welcome To The Shire

Hi! Could anyone submitting a mutual aid ask to my inbox start the post with ‘🌟🌹’ please so that I know you’re not a bot? Kyleigh (Kai-lee)/Space, she/they, adult My feminism is all-inclusive. Aromantic and asexual, my mythic siblings are valid! 2E, ADHD (self-diagnosed, peer reviewed) dysgraphia, anxiety disorder, and depression Eclectic Pantheist (follower of Irish, Greek, and Norse gods, believer in most deities worshipped by humans, Apollo devotee), with a love for mythology, I don't have any problem with Christianity, I just don't think it's a very good reason for me to do anything. I will tag anything I think would trigger someone with either ___ tw or tw ___, if I haven't tagged something that you want me to tag, please tell me. I still unfortunately like very much and may occasionally reblog art for the works of Neil Gaiman and JK Rowling (legitimate special interest in the case of Harry Potter, unfortunately). However, I am trying to tag them to be easily filterable (JKR cw and HP cw for Harry Potter and Neil Gaiman/Neil Gaiman tw for his work), so if you don’t want to see it just block those tags! 🩵 I am not giving them any money, I am going *out of my way* to not give them any money, but unfortunately the worms in my brain have already taken hold. DNI: bigots, exclusionists, pedophiles, genocide deniers, Nazis, TERFs, or apologists thereof. Do not FUCKING speak to me if you can’t agree that everyone deserves basic human rights and decency.

[jkottke]

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

[hildanaser11]

My grandmother could lose her life. Why is she being overlooked?💔

We have reduced our own food so we can save every possible donation for her treatment.

We have received almost no donations. The last one came three days ago.🙏

My grandmother is suffering from serious kidney problems. If her treatment is delayed, she could develop kidney failure, and her body may not be able to withstand it. We are terrified of losing her.

Please, my grandmother is in a critical condition. Her chance of survival depends on the support and kindness of people willing to stand beside her. * We need $420 every week to keep my grandmother from reaching kidney failure—a condition that could cost her her life.💔😭

Please, any donation, no matter how small, helps us provide her essential treatment and gives her a chance to survive.🙏🙏

Hilda💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Donation link

🟢 Multiple vetted

✅ @/gazavetter – List Number #14

✅ @/90-ghost

✅ @/gaza-evacuation-funds – List Number #451

✅ @/Bilal-sala7 – Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List Number #20

[hildanaser11]

4 days since I started sharing my grandmother's story‼️

4 days without any support or donations❓❓

How will my grandmother survive‼️❓ 🔴Please, any donation—whether it's $10, $15, or $20—makes a real difference and brings us closer to providing my grandmother's treatment.💔💔🙏🙏🙏

My friends, this is an urgent appeal. We need your support so my grandmother can stay alive.💔😭

[ingridverse]

"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Oh, dear. I can't reblog that fast enough.

[kingcatnine]

reminding everyone to wear sunscreen because the sun is a deadly laser: 😁😊

having to spend 10 minutes slathering yourself in grease just to safely be outside in the sun for 20 minutes. because the sun is a deadly laser: 😐👎

[washlore]

data: i have no emotions

data, later: hello, geordi. i have created a portrait of us as terran cats. this artistic technique is known as pointillism. it became popular during the late nineteenth century. i selected an american bobtail to represent you, and an oriental shorthair to represent myself. after researching feline behavioral characteristics and common humanoid-to-animal artistic associations, i concluded these were the most statistically appropriate choices. of course, it is not possible to determine which cat breeds we would actually resemble unless we experienced a transporter malfunction or a similar form of energy fluctuation leading to an unexpected physical transformation. i also adjusted the composition to accommodate your VISOR’s perceptual processing. you have previously informed me that faint details tend to blend into surrounding imagery. because of this, i used a high level of contrast to better define the silhouettes. the cats' whiskers and ocular details were rendered in pure white to improve clarity. i additionally incorporated bright violets, cyans, and saturated blues to the main color palette of the piece, as these wavelengths appeared more distinguishable within your visual spectrum. what do you think, geordi?

[depsidase]

[fictionadventurer]

Magic system where magic is treated like work in 19th-century England. Magic is something that everyone is naturally able to do, and you can learn different skills and do certain tasks with it, but it's tiring and wears out the body.

Lower class people use magic all the time--it's necessary for survival--and they're hired to do magic for the upper classes, whether they're working the fields, hiring out their magic for factory work, or working as a maid in an upper class home. Gentlemen are allowed to use magic in a few specific "refined" occupations.

Upper-class ladies are allowed to do almost no magic, except for tiny decorative uses--magic is "low", and using it too much destroys your status in society. Upper-class ladies also regularly go insane from "magic hysteria". Some women are starting to notice this and are arguing for women to be allowed to do healthy amounts of magic. Other people find this idea coarse and unfeminine.

The world and story would be shaped by what the magic actually does (so there's a reason to write this as fantasy rather than pure historical fiction). I'm sure there have to be plenty of stories like this already, but it's still an interesting framework.

[fractally]

With this sudden amount of conversation of AI-assisted fics and such, is there a specific fic or fics that people are talking about as being "super popular" but obviously AI written? I feel so out of the loop

(Feel free to send me this on anon if you don't want to comment something publicly. I won't publish anything that names an author / fic)

[darlingofdots]

I believe the uptick in conversation is in reaction to this. The Reddit post links to a conversation/document that explains a specific html markers which proves that a piece of text has been copied + pasted directly from Claude AI, and then includes a rundown of how many of these markers were found in a subset of very popular fics in the Heated Rivalry tag on AO3, some of which are extremely popular and successful (as in, very high stats, are talked about and recommended a lot, authors have name recognition).

This marker only exists if text was copied directly from Claude AI into the AO3 text box. It wasn't originally identified in a fandom context and doesn't occur if the text was copied from Claude into ie a Word doc or if a different LLM was used. It also doesn't differentiate between text that was completely generated by Claude and text that was only edited by Claude for formatting or spelling.

The main takeaway from this experiment is, in my opinion, that AI use in fanfiction is widespread and ubiquitous and not detectable to most people. There is no reliable way to tell if a text was written using AI because of how LLMs work and what they were trained on, but a lot of people ARE using AI to write fanfiction and the results are good enough to make AI use rewarding.

The other thing is that it complicates the way fandom as a community talks about AI use in fic. Most people don't want to read fic that uses AI, which disincentivises writers from disclosing their AI usage. People have been using AI accusations to bully and harass authors, which is bad because bullying is bad, but also apparently a lot of authors are using AI and vehemently denying it when asked. Reconciling all of this in a way that satisfies all the different interests and ideals about fandom conversations is going to be really, really difficult and probably get really, really ugly.

[kiragecko]

Just saw a post about how it’s impossible to objectify or disrespect characters, because they ARE objects, not real people. This is true.

I have several mutuals who regularly talk about interrogating how you’re writing black or Jewish characters, because it’s very easy to perpetuate stereotypes. Even if the characteristics you’re assigning to them are neutral, if you ONLY ever give those characteristics to guys with certain backgrounds it … implies something. This is true.

I see a lot of posts about how fantasizing about an idea doesn’t mean you want to act it out in real life. Reading or writing about a character being tortured, or cheating on someone, doesn’t mean you want to hurt real people. This is true.

Almost daily I see another trans person laughing about old things they wrote before transitioning where they said ‘caring about this gendered topic doesn’t mean I’m that gender!’ I see posts about how representation matters, and about how people discover themselves through fiction. This is true.

There’s a post going around about how when you’re talking to someone suicidal, it is important to say the word, rather than use euphemisms. If words are too taboo to use, people suffer silently, unable to talk about their experiences. This is true.

There’s also research that shows that reading the detailed description of a suicide can entice other people to copy it, and so it’s better not to focus on it too much. This is true.

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Stories aren’t reality. Stories have power. People explore things through fiction - things they want, things they fear, things that confuse them, things that they care about and want to share with others. What you read says SOMETHING about you, but it’s often difficult to figure out what that something is for a specific person. What you write affects how those who read it will see the world, but you are not responsible for their reactions.

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You can’t objectify a character. If only your poor characters are violent and/or hypersexualized, people who read your writing may feel objectified. Writing a character avoiding sex as much as possible doesn’t mean you hate sex. If you find yourself writing a lot of characters that avoid sex, thinking about asexuality and you in the same thought might prove helpful.

People can write/read about bondage because they like being tied up, because they’re terrified of being trapped, because they’re overworked and want to imagine being forced to take a break, because they like being in control, because they really like people looking at them, because someone they love is taking dangerous risks and they don’t know how to stop them, because they’re curious why anyone would like bondage and want to explore, or a thousand other reasons.

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Of COURSE people are going to find this stuff confusing! Everything overlaps!

[flowercrowncrip]

I don’t care how they’re marketed, these things are not wheelchair accessible, especially for large power chairs.

ID: a yellow and black plastic cable cover which is approximately 5-10cm tall with steep sides and looks like a small speed bump /end ID

Every time I go over one I need someone to help hold my chair and get me over it. Even with that support it hurts like Hell and has caused whiplash injuries for me in the past. It’s also very unsafe for others because even with support I cannot 100% control the angle my chair will end up lurching over it (and my chair weighs over 150kg without me in it so it’s not something you want to collide with). It’s also terrifying and makes noises that make me very concerned for my chair’s structural integrity.

If you want your event to actually be accessible to wheelchair users then consider using something more like this:

ID: the same kind of cable cover but it’s fitted with a much shallower ramp with the international symbol of access embossed on the black plastic. The ramps are about a foot long on either side of the cover /end ID

[ninakaina]

everybody leaving tags on my letterboxd roundup like "they didn't do the nobody scene??" we're so fucking past that i need you to catch up. i went into the movie knowing they wouldn't do the nobody scene and frankly i had made peace with it like okay if you don't want odysseus calling himself outis because you don't feel like the joke translates well enough WHATEVER you dont need to film every line of the poem. what i was NOT prepared for is that THEY DON'T SPEAK TO POLYPHEMUS AT ALL. they don't steal a giant wheel of cheese, they don't get him drunk, odysseus doesn't taunt him after their escape, AND he doesn't cry out to poseidon or the other cyclopes on the shore. it's "revealed" that he can speak in the cave before their escape as he prays to poseidon. someone asks odysseus "should we try to reason with him?" and ODYSSEUS says "we're past that." resulting in an adaptation where odysseus does not use wit or trickery to escape polyphemus at all-- which is the case with every single obstacle he meets. this guy does not lie and he does not play tricks. his intelligence is restricted to battlefield tactics, the administration and direction of his men as units. You have to poke polyphemus so he opens his eye before you can stab it! I am very smart. the only point at which he could be described as "tricking" polyphemus is when-- because the movie is allergic to making odysseus look stupid or silly in any way-- they tie straw to their backs to be mistaken for sheep instead of riding the undersides of the sheep, and we are presented with an action sequence of trousered and armored soldiers somersaulting and army crawling under polyphemus' gently dangling hand. which i hate because it is a less clever solution that only works if polyphemus is extremely stupid (shepherd who doesn't know how many sheep he has) -- and more importantly because it removes IMO the most emotionally efficient moment in the odyssey, which is polyphemus talking to the one sheep that's walking slow because it has odysseus on its belly like "oh no are you feeling okay today? you're moving so slow, maybe you're upset because i'm in pain? you're the best sheep in the world and i love all of you my sheeps" like that scene is supposed to instantly retroactively humanize polyphemus and make you realize odysseus has been torturing a person with feelings who basically just wants to be left alone with his pet sheep and it's extremely good at that in every translation i've ever read. but not one of odysseus' enemies are allowed an inch of humanity in this entire adaptation which seems to be a veiled metaphor for the vietnam war so what can you expect. and yes because odysseus never does anything wrong or stupid or silly, OF COURSE he would never reveal his name and allow polyphemus to curse him, and his crew only "believes" that he's been cursed by poseidon thereafter, which removes the ENTIRE MAIN ANTAGONIST of the story and changes the central conflict from man vs. god to man vs. ????

[kaity--did]

Do you know how hard it is to live with a cat that has the intelligence level of literally like a 3 year old but the pure chaos of a high ranking demon?

He’s learned to open the lazy Susan and won’t stop clawing open the flour and rolling in it like a little chinchilla

[kaity--did]

Criminal charges

[kaity--did]

Hey hey hey HEY

He’s been CRAWLING INTO THE BOTTOM CABINETS to TEAR OPEN THE INSTANT POTATOES and EAT BAGS AND BAGS OF THEM I’m livid but also impressed.

[pigcatapult]

Do you have anything with that kind of texture that he can safely play with? This sounds like an understimulation issue.

[kaity--did]

He’s not playing with it

He’s eating it.

I can tell because the bags are nearly empty except for a few small clumps.

I knew he loves mashed potatoes. I just didn’t know the extent he’d go to to get them.

[kaity--did]

We had him tested and in the course of that vet visit he stole

6 tips

3 of the ear light cover things

Our other cats collar

the ear bud of the vets stethoscope 

several hearts

a plastic glove

the vet techs hair tie

Also yeah he’s fine he just likes to steal

[synebluetoo]

Not guilty by reason of deficiency of other people’s stuff

[kaity--did]

This is his ledge

His ledge is taller then my husband who is 6’2”

I am 5’5”

I have to get the step ladder out once a week and see what Orange Sherbert has taken to his ledge for safe keeping. It’s usually the remote.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Narratively speaking, ending this saga with the reveal that his name is Orange Sherbert was a masterstroke.

[ardentdelirium]

... how many hearts are in the vet office

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He just stole mine <3

[hollowedskin]

Orange Sherbert!!!!

Bus is a massive food theif too and extremely strong, so we have had to keep all baked goods in the microwave bc he hasn't figured out how to open it and can't pry the door open with his huge muscles.

He literally tore open a plastic cat food tub, he's shredded slow feeders. He once ate half a bag of dry rice, he's eaten dry pasta, flour, icing sugar (you can't even taste sugar what are you doing), half a loaf of bread (at once. Multiple times), entire bucket of greenies treats (ripped the plastic box apart), stole the bone after a leg of lamb and dragged it round the house growling, pizza bases, peanut butter in the jar, the top half of every single iced donut, a dozen pikelets, a bag of frozen peas, and the entire punnet of dirt that I was trying to grow catnip in.

This is not a full list of his crimes.

Bus is also an orange and white man. You gotta be careful.

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[butchhatred]

does two face (WITH the facial difference) count as a hear me out?

yes

no

Remaining time: 6 days 16 hours

No nuance we die like the trick coin

[rioblitzle]

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

[hjartasalt]

Iceland is fucking bizarre my name change made the news

[hjartasalt]

Like just @ me at this point I'm literally the only person in iceland (and very possibly the world) who has the first name Lauf

(Article title reads "Lauf and Birningur in group of new names in the name register")

[hjartasalt]

No one lives here so now two of our biggest news outlets are vagueing about me lmao

[hjartasalt]

Hmm you're right. Correction: two of our biggest media outlets are talking about me specifically because they are obsessed with me

[hjartasalt]

This morning I showed up to work and my boss was like "congratulations :))" and I was kinda confused so asked her on what and she said "your name, I heard about it on the radio"

So far I have counted two online articles and apparently the radio is also talking about my name change so I'll keep you guys updated when I'm on national tv or something

[cipheramnesia]

With a little legwork we can make more people on Tumblr see this than the entire population of Iceland.

[kazieka]

was outside earlier and a bird Came Up, squatted down, fluttered it’s wings at me and opened its mouth like a hatchling begging for food (it was a grown female) so I went and checked the seed cube in the feeder and the thing was completely covered in mold. this is one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me. how did she know im the one in charge of the birdseed. How Did She Know To Pantomime Hunger At Me. Hello.

[kazieka]

i have spent my afternoon confusedly getting dressed, driving to the store, purchasing a new seed block, driving home, washing the cage, and getting the feeder set back up. i don’t take this much care for my Own nutrition. ive been bullied into a grocery store run by a tufted titmouse. i feel so loved