My Obsessions

This is a random assortment of stuff I like. Enjoy.

[uwillneverknowwho]

Literally always take headphones with you. If you decide that you probably won't need them today, that's the devil talking. You will. You will

[flowerinaflame]

[hallogallo]

Smug face of a free man

[rslashrats]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

[poll-dancers]

you have no choice but to reincarnate into one of the choices below. what do you choose?

bumblebee

an oak tree

mountain lion

mushroom

orca whale

Voting ended onApr 17

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I've seen a lot of fics disappear from my bookmarks, some 10+ years old, because they were added to an unrevealed collection. It makes me wonder if people realize what your fic being added to a collection actually means and if the authors approved it automatically without realizing what would happen.

If someone adds your fic to their collection, they can hide it! They can mark the collection as unrevealed and your fic will be unreadable to anyone other than them! If you're writing works for a surprise event, like a Secret Santa, this is really nice.

But if you're just writing and someone adds your fic to a collection for their own personal use and marks it as unrevealed, that. . . really sucks.

I bookmarked this fic in 2017, almost 5 years ago. Knowing me, the fic itself was probably at least a couple years old at the time I bookmarked it.

This is a 5+ year old fic that is completely inaccessible now because it was added to a collection that, as far as I can tell, is literally just for the collection owner's own reference. There's almost 30 fics in the collection, all of them unrevealed.

Please don't blindly accept collection requests and if your works ARE in a collection, make sure that they aren't being hidden without your knowledge or consent.

[hex-fauna]

Are you able to remove a work from collection after you allow it or is it just a story that's just fucked?

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Yes, you can remove your works! From the faq:

If you're the creator of the work:

1) Select the "Edit" button from the work's page and scroll down to the "Associations" section.

2) Select the red (×) beside the collection name you want to remove next to "Post to Collections / Challenges".

3) Select "Post" to apply the change. The work will be immediately removed from the collection.

I'm not sure if you get an alert if your fic is marked as unrevealed though, so keep an eye on the collections that your works are part of.

There's also an option in your preferences to accept collection invitations automatically. I would highly recommend making sure that that option is not selected.

[butterflyinthewell]

I realize this might be a dirty trick pro-censorship fandom harassers might try to pull on some people, so yeah.

Boosting for visibility.

[silveryinkystar]

There's also another way of removing works from collections - if you go into Collections > Manage Collected Works > Approved, you can use the dropdown menu and change the "approved" option to "rejected".

Generally, though, turn off the automatic option and opt in for the email updates - you'll be notified whenever your works are requested to be added into a new collection, or when the collection status changes.

If you're a reader and want to "add" a fic into a collection without its status being affected, you can simply bookmark it within that collection instead - according to the Ao3 Collections FAQ, even if the collection is changed to unrevealed, the bookmarked fic's status shouldn't change.

[thegaymertrainer]

I love otter

[hunter-rodrigez]

[a-rookie-at-life]

Please if you have a chance, report this GoFundMe!

Here’s the Report Fundraiser link: https://www.gofundme.com/contact/suggest/fraud

And here’s the ICE agent’s GoFundMe which you’ll need to copy and paste into the report: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuver-jonathan-ross

[moonstonecassie]

Since Netflix is removing She-Ra February 21st here’s a link to a Google drive with all five seasons <3

[lunarlights-world]

Reblogging to spread this absolute blessing to the She-Ra fandom. Thank you, beautiful soul <33

[rhode-island-empire]

USAmericans: Which region are you from?

New England (Rhode Island Empire, Masshole Land, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine)

Mid-Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

South Atlantic (Delaware, Maryland, DC, Virginias, Carolinas, Florida, Georgia)

East North Central (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin)

West North Central (Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Dakotas)

East South Central (Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee)

West South Central (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas)

Mountain (Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado)

Pacific (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii)

Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, or Virgin Islands

Voting ended onJan 15

This is using the US Census Bureau definitions of regions.

Spread this all over the place, okay, hon?

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[everythingfox]

Not for the streets

[sgam76]

MOM! Thank GOD!

[my-random-fandoms]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

[mothwizard]

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

[wingedcat13]

@swordsmash @speckledpup

[curtwilde]

Bisan says that among all the aid organisations working in North Gaza right now, Ele Elna Elak is one of the most effective, geared towards resolving the water scarcity and making clean water and vegetables available to Gazans.

Donate if you can and share.

[zinaanqar16]

Hey guys, just 2500 euros to reach the target of 40000€. 94% of the target achieved. The crossing is said to be open tomorrow.

[zinaanqar16]

The crossing was not opened yesterday due to Hamas’s delay in handing over the remaining Israeli prisoners, but there is news that it will be opened tomorrow, so I hope you will donate.

Donate to my family to get them out of this suffering and to safety. Tomorrow it will happen and I really hope they do it because we are tired of waiting. Please donate and participate and don't forget, only less than 2500 euros to get there.

[plumpydoll]

Please please donate to Zeina’s family they are very close please don't ignore it just donate 2450 euros only to reach their goal please donate and share this post I love you so much

[zinaanqar16]

It is a wish that if the crossing is opened it will come true, just as you have wishes and dreams that you would like to achieve. Our dream will be a safe life. Please donate and share this post and open the door of goodness for us, please.

[save-the-child-ronza]

GO BACK IF YOU SCROLLED PAST!

Don't ignore this family, and help whatever you can, donate and share if you can't

[zinaanqar16]

I really hope with all my heart that I reach the goal. I want to rest a little at least from one family that I help. I will really be happy that I helped a family to flee from Gaza. Lol. Please donate.

[zinaanqar16]

Guys please stand with us during these difficult times, we hope new safety future 🫂

[unionizedwizard]

Your poll about rats (rare in my experience) reminded me of my kids' favorite memory from a trip to Baltimore. A rat scurried across the path & when we got to where it disappeared we found 2 shiny pennies. The kids dubbed it Birthday Rat and made up a song about it (O Christmas Tree tune) "O Birthday Rat, O Birthday Rat, you bring us all 2 pennies (x2) / the sight of you in Baltimore / just makes us want to come here more / O Birthday Rat, O Birthday Rat, you bring us all 2 pennies."

THIS IS SO CUTESOME I LOVE IT SO MUCH

[draconym]

o birthday rat, o birthday rat, you bring us all 2 pennies

[cheacegirl]

I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

[gorgonsach]

x

[justgfy]

Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.

[gorgonsach]

unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol

[explorerrowan]

Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.

You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.

[mierac]

The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country. 

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Bosses: If you don’t like how we do things, don’t work here.

Workers: *Go on strike*

Bosses: Wait no not like that

[defilerwyrm]

A lot of union folk very literally fought and died for the workers’ rights we have today. Like no joke, bosses would hire goons to straight-up murder unionizing and striking workers.

All the most basic workers’ rights we have today were all paid for in blood. And conservatives have never stopped trying to take them all away again.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

NEVER FORGET THAT LABOR DAY IS ACTUALLY ABOUT. I know people who legitimately think it’s like a secondary mothers day - you know, for going into labor.

But it’s about workers rights and the people who campaigned for it to be a holiday knew this fucking day would come.

If you are in the US and about to celebrate a 3-day weekend, thank a goddamn union worker.