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[ Lyn ] || adult Third Culture Kid || fan writer || fandom || ani-manga || western fandom || gaming || J-pop culture || het, gen and slash friendly || photography || a cultural soup || currently based in Asia; lived many elsewheres This blog is on a permanent queue (but random spontaneous posts are made from time to time). Current obsessions: >> Hoyoverse (Genshin Impact; Tears of Themis >> Figure skating (women's and men's singles) >> James Bond (the Craig!Bond films) >> Yuri!!! on Ice >> Kimestu no Yaiba >> Tolkien (The Hobbit; LOTR) >> BBC programs in general >> Star Wars (Legends fan) >> The World Ends With You >> Kingdom Hearts >> and miscellaneous anime-manga and book fandoms I've been in since 2004 blackidyll @ AO3 tumblr fic tag

[ncsdlr]

yall ever start writing a fic in a certain mood and the next day youre not in that certain mood anymore so now you gotta wait until youre in that mood again so you can continue writing the fic ??

yea

[ruinedchildhood]

These grandkids planned to surprise their grandma at the airport dressing as t-rex but she heard about it and planned her own surprise.

[valdevia]

Pueraria suffocata, known as smotherwort, has been recorded as the fastest-growing species of plant. This vine of the kudzu family can, under ideal conditions, cover a distance of 10 meters in 24 hours. This has made it an effective invasive species in warm and humid climates. It receives its name from its tendency to choke other plants, and occasionally animals, as it spreads over them.

It primarily grows during the night, sometimes entering buildings. People living in areas where this species thrives are advised to close their windows while they sleep to avoid accidental asphyxiation.

(Bestiary)

[valdevia]

tumblr we need to have a talk. are y'all doing ok

[subversivecynic]

No, no we are not

[valdevia]

Understandable. Go my plant.

[rednightjar]

First thing that popped into my head when I saw this

[petrichorin]

day 7. couple shirt 💕 for jingheng week 2026

[dailyshirbert]

It hasn’t happened yet, you fool. And don’t you dare tell anyone.

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987) dir. Kevin Sullivan

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

[girlballs]

[said while concealing great pain] teehee

[keikomivra]

BIRDS OF PREY (2020) Dir. Cathy Yan

[heedra]

so far one theme of the 30s for me has been realizing that literally every human being on earth who appears completely cool and collected and together with it at first glance has some threshold past which enough known information about them will shatter that mystique completely. i don't even say this negatively or pessimistically it's just been helpful to keep in mind that we're all like that.

[probablyasocialecologist]

After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia.  “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies,” Wikipedia’s new policy states. “For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below.” The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own. 

[...]

The policy was written with the help of WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors dedicated to finding and removing AI-generated errors on the site. Editors have been dealing with an increasing number of AI-generated articles or edits lately, and have made some minor adjustments to its guidelines as a result, like streamlining the process for removing AI-generated articles. Editors’ position, as well as the position of the Wikimedia Foundation, has been to not make blanket rules against AI because Wikipedia already uses some forms of automation, and because AI tools could assist editors in the future.   The new policy doesn’t ban the use of other automated tools that are already in use or future implementations, but it does show the Wikipedia community is less optimistic about the benefit of AI-generated content, and taking a stand against it. 

26 March 2026

[jabberding0]

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

[nepharim-tree]

[diidona]

THE MATRIX (1999) • dir. The Wachowskis

[yama-bato]

A stunning three panel Chinese silk embroidered folding screen believed to be created during the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912).

[bookshop]

I have been following this account for something like 15 years and for that entire timespan, literally every time i log into this hellsite, it's posted something that takes my breath away

[tordenvejr]

me seeing purple flowers on a lawn: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing sunlight hit the waves of the sea: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing raindrops sparkle colorfully on a bus stop bench at night: that’s the

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

[gastronauticsyd]

The Screenshot (2014)

[fredersen]

The Reblog (2014)

[toratiger-deactivated20211204]

Bahahahaha love this

[processintegrated]

The Unnecessary Comment (2014)

[grumpygreenwitch]

The Revival (2026)

[ghostlycoyote0]

Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that I’ve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So that’s cool I guess

[karl-von-moor-official]

it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.

normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!

n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."

m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).

on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear

like so.

and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash — this definitely done in published writing too! — it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.

[marta-bee]

The Abortion Absolutist

Warren Hern has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients as ever.

This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

[the-truth-within-the-lie]

This is oaywalled but it made me weep with relief to see an honest recounting for once, so I’ve saved some good bits:

[the-truth-within-the-lie]