Del Toro Was Right

Hello! I am Alex, she/they, 29, possibly immortal, Australian, Taliesin Jaffe, Guillermo Del Toro and Rob Paulsen are my idols, I play video games, dnd ^_^

[ashamedofmybrain]

Just found out my favourite band, the band that basically saved me from myself through their music when I was 17 and then more times after that apparently did a show with a very right wing antivax homophobic band, and the lead singers brother has come out with snippets of his story of not being involved in his family anymore and the band has had absolute silence on the matter

I can’t believe this it’s like a bomb has gone off and I’m just standing here stunned

[adderall-juice]

me when they call my name at mcdonals (i am approaching the counter)

[blogspede]

here you go sir

[adderall-juice]

thank you

[littledeviantsworld-deactivated]

Did you ever just feel so lucky for knowing someone you met online? Like.. I was one click away from not following you. I was one second away from never even knowing of your existence.I would never have been this happy!!!...

[sharpestlives]

some of you people are so annoying. i mean me too but good lord

[antigoneprogone]

[scoffs] You couldn't PAY me to jack off to Brian Griffin! [remembers the state of the economy] Well, you could, but it would have to be a four figure amount. [remembers to be honest to myself] Three figures. [remembers not to devalue my own labor] Four figures.

[antigoneprogone]

#LOVEWINS!!!!!

[amygdalae]

I absolutely adore dogs but I think dog haters are (usually) more justified than cat haters wrt their reasoning

[amygdalae]

your average cat hater: I don't like how they r bitchy and ignore me/ won't let me manhandle them

your average dog hater: I have been mortally endangered by an ill-trained dog

[nocturnal-stims]

🌟 Eugene.octo on IG

[forest-woman]

[markthekng]

I watched Iron Lung again tonight in the comfort of my home and my dog must've been watching with me cause as soon as bad things started happening to Simon she started crying. In the scene where he ultimately dies she could not stop crying at me. I am now watching him play the Henry Stickman collection so she can see that A.) He's not dead and B.) He's not in distress. Occasionally he'll whine or hum in discontent about something and my dog will look at me and whine to try and get me to fix whatever is distressing Markiplier.

[markthekng]

Her genuine reaction to Simon getting Iron Lunged:

[zzoupz]

she's the opposite of that snake that hates markiplier

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[thatdisasterauthor]

"Use Libre Office."

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

:| :| :|

Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I am going to light something on fire.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.

[technofeudalism]

[freakoutgirl]

This is how June is going to feel

[freakoutgirl]

ngl June has ended up feeling more like this

[arsonarena]

reblog if you like to see your own characters tortured

[luniastheelf]

@pangur-and-grim this feels like you as well

[depsidase]

[mistawolfie]

My feed is filled with tick-shaped Rocky, dorito Adrian, and Bloodymary. I am exactly where I belong.

[starkwoes]

There's this video of nuns talking about their favourite things to do outside of nun activities and one of them says "ultimate frisbee" and the other one goes "and sister you are so good at that." I literally cannot get "and sister you are so good at that" out of my head. Out of all my stims this one is my fav lolol

[theauspolchronicles]

Talk to One Nation voters

Be the person who pierces their echo chamber. Talk to them. Figure out what they are angry about and find solutions, or point out how One Nation isn't going to fix anything.

Are they worried about immigration? Well, immigration is actually steadily declining and population growth is at a record low.

Are they worried about cost of living? One Nation wants to repeal workplace protections and make it easier for workers to lose their jobs.

Are they concerned about people coming here and not speaking English? English competency is a requirement for Australian citizenship and so is a non-issue.

Are they concerned about the cost of electricity? Electricity prices are actually cheaper because of renewable energy. Higher costs are due to the cost of gas. One Nation wants to get rid of cost-saving renewables and doesn't believe in climate change.

What about house prices? Pauline Hanson has consistently voted against measures to increase housing affordability.

What about the major parties being bought for by corporate interests? Pauline Hanson is literally being gifted millions by one of Australia's richest billionaires, Gina Rhinehart. Hanson also repeatedly fails to declare gifts from Rhinehart and One Nation repeatedly fails to give any kind of financial disclosure at all. This is very dodgy! If they're worried about political corruption then One Nation should be the prime target for distrust.

Go forth.

Talk to people.

This is how we save Australia.