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honestly that's kinda impressive congrants you all anons for sharing the same idea NKJDFN
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#also like because they knew back in phantom menace that there was another sith besides maul#so like yeah this means that obi wan just thinks that by the time she was 14 padme was a sith lord with an apprentice via @joystickchevr0n
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Hey do you know what rumination is?
Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.
Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.
Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.
I'll say it again:
Rumination is a compulsion.
Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.
I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.
And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.
Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.
Like this was genuinely life changing for me.
Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:
Defining Rumination
How to Stop Ruminating
ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination
What to Do When You're Triggered
Just want to add that if you're on the spectrum, you may also experience Autistic Rumination, which is distinct from the obsessive variety, despite the two having some overlapping characteristics!
I haven't had the energy to log in and thank everyone personally yet (the weather in MN is killing me rn), but thank you to everyone who donated to my Ko-fi so we could get our dishwasher repaired.
The company I bought the unit from--and which I supposedly have an extended warranty with that they're refusing to cover, but that's another matter--quoted me 4-6 weeks to come look at the machine for a diagnostic, then warned me there was another 6-8 week wait for parts.
They also quoted me several hundred dollars for the estimated parts, which they were going to order pre-inspection (????), and told me it'd be $400 for some rubber tubing, which was the likely culprit. And then another $900 for labor, not including the diagnostic testing.
Well, thanks to the very kind people who donated, I was able to call another company that came out the next day, told me the problem wasn't with any tubing at all, but the water sensor at the base of the machine was busted, and then quoted me $700 to replace it. Bracing for the worst, I asked about the timeline for parts and how much everything would cost in total, including labor.
Yeah, turns out that $700 included parts, labor, and diagnostic testing.
Oh, and ordering the official licensed parts took a week.
I told him the other place told me it'd be almost two months to order parts, and he asked who the company was, rolled his eyes, and said, "Yeah, they've been doing that. They're trying to get you to just buy a whole new machine."
Anyway. He showed up this morning at 7:30 a.m. and fixed it. I have a working dishwasher again. Thank you for helping with that <3
Haben Ärzte noch irgendeine andere Aufgabe, außer einem zu unterstellen, man sei drogenabhängig, und einem zu sagen, man solle abnehmen? Falls ja, muss diese erst noch entdeckt werden.
An der MedUni gibt es einen speziellen Kurs, in dem man lernt, wie man ein Volltrottel wird.
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou
Let’s fucking go
This is HUGE.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.
5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.
Tumblr gave us the ability to see comment history. Neat! Extra neat that main blog and side blog comments are completely separate.
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Hey look it’s your boyfriend
Reblog to gain creative energy and to give more creative energy to the person you reblogged this from.
Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.
I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.
me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment
I couldn’t resist starting another Luminous once I saw this line of fabric. It’s called Color Collage by Shelley Davies from Northcott and it’s been in the back of my mind for ages.
I’m using six colours in the piecing, which should make it 92”x109” (unless I mess with the pattern even more and take one of the rows out completely) which will technically be a king size LOL The seventh colour pink is gonna be used on the binding so I get to use alllll the colours we had in stock in the shop 🎉
Someone please stop me, I can’t stop making these fucking things lmao 😭😭😭😂😂😂 I had a plan to do something else but I couldn’t help it!
Okay, blocks done and middle rows complete!
I did take one row out of the centre so there are only two red centre blocks instead of three. 109” is too big for my queen bed, but I can work with 101” LOL
Technically this will still fit a king at 92”x101”, but I am a blanket hog and that feels like a really skinny king to me.
ALSO??
Because I altered the amount of rows (downsizing) but did not alter the amount of blocks I made, I ended up with just enough left over to make two matching pillow cases! They are even on point like the quilt.
This is gonna look spectacular on a bed.
It’s so beautiful…. 😭😭😭💖💖💖
And it’s so fucking big LOL
Not as big as the greyscale king for my brother, but still. It feels big.
As you can see a little from the roll on the back of the long arm, I found a fun rainbow universe print to put on it with all the colours on the front.
I’m quilting the pillowcases too, though in a tighter pattern so they can handle more washing.
I can’t wait to put this on a bed.
I love it so much. My favourite Luminous, I swear.
The pillow cases look so good too. As I mentioned, I quilted them much tighter than the quilt so they can be thrown in the wash a lot more. Same pattern, just smaller design.
It’s so busy, I could stare at it for hours finding things in the prints.
Also? I love the pink binding. I really did want to use every colour, so this was a nice compromise to having to resize everything LOL
The backing is also so busy LOL You can hide a lot of pet fur on both sides of this thing.
The pillowcases turned out great. I used the leftover from the backing to back the pillow cases so that everything matches. And they’re envelope style so the pillows won’t slip out. Hate it when the pillowcase slips off my pillow.
I had to sew three 45” wide strips of fabric together for the backing to fit on the long arm. Since the quilt was only 101” at its widest, I had a whole 30” strip that was usable and perfect for this.
So there are obviously much more pressing thoughts I have about Barbara Gordon: Breakout and the story it is telling about Barbara, but I’ll hold off on that for a few days to prevent too immediate of spoilers.
Until then, on a goofier note, seeing how Dick is depicted in outside media versus his own comics is always the funniest shit to me omg
Like he’s so cute here. He has been having a weeks-long breakdown in Nightwing. He lays on the floor and self-flaggelates for his perceived failures for a few days and then someone calls him out to help and he’s like “okie :D”
And it’s not like this is some unprecedented mis characterization by BG: Breakout; every series does this. I dunno what to tell you.
If it were just one cameo that did this, the argument could be that the author just doesn’t know what’s happening in Nightwing. But I refuse to believe that at this point. Meaning either:
1) This is an editorial mandate to have Dick adhere to his more well-known persona when popping up elsewhere, and that “well-known persona” is Good Boy McGee.
2) This is some kind of 4D chess commentary on Dick’s ability to act and his martyrdom when it comes to the people he loves, choosing repeatedly to present a facade of fine-ness so as not to worry them, or because he doesn’t think he deserves to be worried over.
Like I see Dick being a goofy goober in these panels with the context of the Nightwing comics and I think
Interesting sad/happy boy
Poll about reasons why fandom is "quieter" these days: https://www.tumblr.com/memorizingthedigitsofpi/819055973575589888/there-are-lots-of-reasons-why-fandom-is-quieter
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I'm amused that there's no option for "rose-tinted glasses" or even "other".
I feel like I'm forever posting about Baby's Second Fandom problems. Maybe it's my age or how long I've been in fandom, but it seems like I'm constantly tripping over toxic nostalgia, and this poll is yet one more example. The poll itself isn't toxic in the sense of being rude to other fans or anything like that, but it betrays a mindset that is generally not great for the people who hold it.
Fandom isn't quieter now.
LJ went the way of the dodo, and a cohort of "LJ was the golden age of fandom" people continue to cry about this. Since I'm the right age and was on LJ, I know tons of such people, and they show up on every single one of my "LJ was not the peak of fandom" posts to reminisce about how it was totally the peak of fandom and everyone agrees. Ah, LJ! Those were the days!
Tumblr is now where LJ was a decade or more ago, and I'm seeing more and more tumblr era fans choosing to be sad old fogeys prematurely.
It's certainly true that 2026 tumblr doesn't feel identical to 2012 tumblr even taking out the personal element, but I've been pleasantly surprised at how much tumblr has hung on post porn ban, even bouncing back a little as twitter shit the bed multiple times.
But I look at those poll options and just sigh. Discords are hard to know anything about from the outside, and there are negative aspects to that format, sure... But mailing lists were siloed. Invite-only LJ coms were siloed, and there were far more of these than people remember. Some of the old fic archives did not have open account creation.
It goes much deeper than places that one couldn't freely make an account on too. Even at the height of people thinking fandom=LJ or tumblr=fandom, it wasn't so. There are whole other parallel worlds that I never knew about at the time and only found out about a decade+ later when the quizilla tweens ended up on AO3 in college or whatever. Quizilla was huge. I could have been there. I just wasn't. I was on FFN at the beginning but left in the early 00s. Whole eras of FFN culture sprang up without me knowing about them. Even now, I see LJ slashers going "Wait? I thought everyone left FFN back in the day?" on a post that lays out just how much this isn't so.
Baby's Second Fandom problems can be a midlife crisis or they can be literally your second fandom.
Fandom wasn't that easy to find in the past. Even in an era where it's easier to hear of it, it's not always that easy to really get into it beyond reading a few fics on a site and doing zero interacting. People tend to enter fandom in meaningful way when they happen to like the hot flavor of the moment and when they're in a phase of life where they have the right mindset and level of free time for that.
It could be that they're in college and super excited about their favorite show. It could also be that they're terribly depressed, stuck in bed with a broken leg, and fic on the internet is the one bright point in their day. I'd say the positive version is more common overall because one needs energy, but the other one exists too.
I'm often into less popular things, but I found fandom properly by liking The X-Files just as it was majorly taking off. I learned to actually like and use tumblr in the thirty seconds during which I actually liked Sherlock. There simply wasn't anything here for me before that. Suddenly, everything was for me... even if Superwholock was extremely not.
One's first fandom or one's first fandom era or one's first platform teaches one how to be this type of fannish as a general response to media. I like canon in a particular way, so I want fic of it. I like canon like this, so I want meta of the fanworks fandom variety. etc.
Time passes.
One gets into some other media. Maybe it's also the flavor of the moment. Maybe one is lucky for a whole decade. But eventually, one falls in love with something else. This new Fandom (or ship or subset of a fandom) of One's Heart is not popular. There's next to no fic. Nobody writes analysis. Nobody cares. Or maybe it's just that nobody cares on this platform in the vocabulary and mode one expects.
The response is often that Fandom is Dying and/or that one's new fandom/ship/blorbo was robbed, robbed I say! But the reference point is a glowing memory of the peak of Sherlock fandom or one's experience shipping Harry/Draco. "Where are the ship-specific fic exchanges?" Except almost no ships ever get those, even fairly popular ships. "Where is the LJ com?" Except it's 2016 or 2026, and LJ coms aren't how we organize ourselves anymore.
Ye olde Media Fandom zine people did a round of this.
LJ fandom did a round of this.
Tumblr fandom is currently doing a round of this.
But just like with sharks, you have a choice: swim or die.
No one is denying that enshittification has hit many online hangouts, but there are always ways around that. Some of the AO3 forks have quite social and active communities—or so I've been told by the people making them the centerpiece of their current fannish activity. There are ways to find discords just like there were ways to find mailing lists back in the day. You can even start your own discord. You can't be excluded from the party if you're the one hosting it. One could start a curation tumblr that reblogs the important content from an active fandom even now in 2026. Sure, it would be a lot of work, but running a fandom newsletter was also a lot of work in 2006.
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At the moment, I'm reading my way through a bunch of danmei webnovels plenty of other nerds read five or ten years ago. I'm still working my way through the sprawling tentacle monster that is DMBJ and its many adaptations. I'm finally getting around to the Thai BL dramas I didn't make time for until now.
Every time I post about these things, their many fans leave positive comments. Maybe I'm not hitting them at the moment they were most excited about that thing, but lots of people enjoy revisiting via someone else's keysmash-y liveblog. They can come up with at least some comments and ways to interact.
For that matter, I got a reblog on that Bad Girls vid from someone who liked it back in the day.
Other people eventually got around to Beyond Evil. I get an occasional n00b to Miami Vice finding my ancient posts.
In some ways, the most fun is when you yourself feel young and positive and full of energy (regardless of actual age) and you're into the latest hot thing while all of your friends also are. I had a brief stint in BTS fandom like this where all of my offline friends were in the same fandom for once.
That's the outlier. Even if you just chase BNF authors from juggernaut ship to juggernaut ship, your other friends may not. Some friends will peel off as we change platforms. This is just how things work.
Fandom isn't quiet. My old friends from X time and place are.
Fic feedback isn't dead. You're just not in any hot fandoms right now.
It's the same song and dance any time a cohort ages out of the honeymoon phase with fandom or out of their initial juggernaut ship where they were well fed and into a more typical fandom experience where they have to go make new friends or hunt around to see what everyone else is watching or where fans are chatting these days.
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The reason I'm forever rewriting my rants about this is that I think understanding the pattern makes it a lot easier to proactively look for fun or to choose to sit this round out or to decide to become that BNF who makes a small-but-live fandom happen.
Giving in to this It's Quiet Now mindset means being mired in toxic nostalgia, sounding like a grumpy and out-of-touch fogey even to other fans of your same era. They might tell you "Hey, the cool discord's over here!" if you sounded fun. You do not sound fun.
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For what it's worth, looking at all AO3 works in English posted this year, here are some active fandoms. If a person feels like everything is too quiet, surely at least one of these has some actual community somewhere and not just fanworks (and is also not morally objectionable/the wrong genre/a canon format you hate):
Original Work (60161)
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (42519)
Stranger Things (TV 2016) (33991)
Heated Rivalry (TV) (32720)
僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) (27328)
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid (17166)
Batman - All Media Types (16941)
呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga) (16820)
The Pitt (TV) (16677)
原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) (16114)
Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) (14427)
Marvel Cinematic Universe (12253)
Stray Kids (Band) (10812)
Formula 1 RPF (9594)
Naruto (Anime & Manga) (9453)
One Piece (Anime & Manga) (9087)
Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse) (8819)
Star Wars - All Media Types (8543)
방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS (8475)
文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs (8431)
9-1-1 (TV) (8209)
The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) (7783)
Supernatural (TV 2005) (7317)
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) (7196)
Project Hail Mary (2026) (6868)
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin (6803)
Cookie Run (Video Game) (6536)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV) (6396)
Forsaken (Roblox) (6163)
Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) (5771)
If you've never been into Asian media, maybe now's the time.
If you normally don't pay attention to RPF, maybe all of the many AUs in kpop fandom will appeal where more real life-ish RPF does not.
If you just fundamentally hate animation and can't go there, there are still plenty of live action canons getting fic.
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Feeling exhausted and alone happens. It's just not a reflection of Fandom™ being quiet now or tumblr being dead or any of the things people normally blame.
It's some combination of one's personal circumstances that need to be addressed outside of fandom and one's unwillingness to check out wherever the action is instead of crying that it isn't delivered to us for the exact thing we already like in the exact format and location we already know.
We all have the power to fix this for ourselves. It just may require hosting the party or being willing to try new things.
Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.
Before and after photos of the renovated façade of the barn with newly-exposed stones ♡ I repainted the shutters too, though I tried to find the same shade of bright pink because I really like it...
And I thought I'd take the opportunity to talk about the business project I've alluded to a few times in previous years—I've been superstitiously avoiding to talk about it until I was sure it could really happen, because it was quite a large project, but it’s nearly done now— I've been having the old barn building next to my house renovated to create a guesthouse 😊
It has two 2-bedroom flats upstairs, and a common room downstairs with a big fireplace and library. I've recently moved the chicken coop a bit closer to the house so guests can more easily get eggs in the morning, and I've planted quite a few fruit trees nearby :) It's a nice place for a holiday if you like the French countryside, books, woods, opinionated animals, unhurried mornings and unreliable phone reception.
(I will work on my pitch.)
In terms of entertainment, well there is no internet in the guesthouse (yet) but llamas can be observed in their pasture from the south-facing windows, except when they have escaped in which case they can sometimes be observed in the woods from the north-facing windows.
Everything isn't quite finished yet, I will need to make a website, and I'm still missing a few pieces of furniture and still in the process of unboxing all my books for the common room library, but all the major stuff is done— I should be able to open next year I think, though in the meantime I will have some relatives and acquaintances staying over as test-clients...
It's pretty amazing to see this renovation project almost done when I look at the pictures of the barn from a few years ago, when there were no proper ceilings or walls, rubble everywhere... Here are before/after pictures of a corner of the 1st floor:
And here's what the ground floor and the fireplace looked like when I first moved here - and now...
There have been lots of difficulties and setbacks, it's a project I first started forming eight years ago, it's nice to finally be able to make this post— and I'll definitely make more guesthouse posts in the future, this one is just a faire-part as we say!
Die temu ad die
Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.
It accidentally is latin
Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.
Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.
This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
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Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
how dare you say we error on the scribes
this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu
No one talks about the part of a friend breakup where you end up losing the shared OCs.
