the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you

teddy. 27. phd student. butch. queer. they/them. (blog title from Louise Glück's October).

[atimeofbeing]

🌙✨II.

[fieldandgrain]

last light in reno nevada || pentax mx | smc 100mm | kodak ultramax

[mydreamersdisposition]

graceland too 🌙

[inyoureyes-415]

Bad Film - light leak

June 2024

Location: San Francisco, California

[animate-mush]

The thing about the whole AD vs CE vs whether it's all just cosmetic discourse is that it totally ignores where this numbering system comes from. We should just call it what it is: Bede notation.

It was invented by one person for a specific purpose - to have a universalizable way of establishing historical dates, rather than having to deal with dynastically based date systems. And it was a really good idea. This is not surprising, since Bede is basically the father of Historiography. He also is the guy who gave us the notion of Primary Sources. Bede is amazing.

When a guy revolutionizes the entire way calendaring is done, he has the right to set his zero point wherever he pleases.

People have pointed out that one problem with CE notation is that it presents itself as neutral when it is exactly the same system as AD. What exactly is "common" about this era? The zero point doesn't become neutral just by effacing its source.

(Also BCE is nonsense. Just use negative numbers)

It makes sense for scholarly tradition to not want to be tied to a specific religion. But scholarly tradition is very enthusiastic about being tied to earlier scholarly tradition. The convention of AD was established by a scholar for a scholarly purpose. We know his name. We know what he was doing, and why, and how. And he was doing it better than anybody else. That is worth honoring.

Rather than pretending that it's a neutral system, acknowledge that it's not. It's not some naturally occurring "common era," it's the system developed by Bede, centered around dates that were important to him personally (but which he intended to be universally applicable).

Like we should be honest about the facts that (a) an awful lot of people have been measuring dates this way for nearly 1400 years and changing it in a non-cosmetic way would involve a lot of seriously obnoxious bookkeeping, and (b) the zero is where it is because that's where the guy who invented the system decided to put it. "Anno Domini" is meaningless to people who aren't into that particular Dominus, and "Common Era" is meaningless period (and imparts a false appearance of neutrality). Pinning it to its creator, though, is already scholarly convention and is objective. It may or may not be the year of Our Lord, and it certainly isn't Common (whatever that means) but it is unarguably the schema developed by Bede, for better or for worse. So unless we're actually going to rebuild it from scratch, we may as well call it that. And even if we do rebuild it from scratch, we should still call it that. Because that is what it is.

[mrgaretcarter]

Deborah's fabulous coats (and robe) in Paris — Hacks 5x10

[goodsirs]

Hannah Einbinder Photographed by Sandy Honig for Polyester

[fieldandgrain]

feather river | pentax mx | smc 28mm | fuji 400

[hagiomoto]

Does no one realize how racist this assumption can be? Most LLMs are trained heavily on Commonwealth and other standardized English corpora, yet now when people from Commonwealth countries naturally write in polished English, others immediately say it “sounds AI-generated.”

I fear this is the beginning of a really awful trend that will make it even harder for non-white writers to get published.

[fairweathermyth]

[elexecution]

there are too many things happening this summer that i'm thinking we are going to need an extra 6-12 months of june and possibly another 3-4 months of july. probably no extra august as the problem should hopefully sort itself out by then. we are also looking into extending the day night cycle to 55 hours and extending the human lifespan to 10000 years.

[echofades]

Will you help me write it? Always. HACKS | 5.10

[codycamera]

blue skies (may 2026)

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Deb/Ava + Hugs

[aroacephotographer]

Wizard's Tower series

Ok, this one I want to share both at once. Because I like wracking focus on some pictures.

[fy-yongsun]

[TEASER] MAMAMOO Special Single [4WARD]⚖️ CONCEPT PHOTO #2 ⚖️ | 2026.06.04 6PM (KST) RELEASE✔

[catgirlforeskin]

so much fiction is made by fundamentally knowledgeless people. Fantasy whose authress knows nothing of history, biology, or anthropology, only other fantasy. Cyberpunk writress with no understanding of political theory, sociology, or technology.

We increasingly live in a world without primary sources, or even secondary sources as the average creative is increasingly uncultured, only tertiary; ideas laundered until any context is sanded away. The median artist a dog that's never eaten food, only other dogs' vomit, some only their own vomit as franchises stumble through decades of self-referential undeath.

So much vitriol against AI art is that it is the previous norm at its most efficient: a mechanical dog that can imagine other dogs' vomit and conjure her own without first heaving.

[avocatts]

the well-conceived advice of “write what you know” to create grounded stories breaks down when the only humanity the writer has experienced is highly processed, refined products designed with primary consideration for profit generation.