sadie does stuff

Im reading moby dick and my conclusion 18 chs in is this is gonna be an epic homosexual love story about ishmael and queequeg with a dash of whale hunting on the side

Also this whole thing is so trope-y. There was only one bed????????

Like are you kidding me

I'm on ch 37 and I have unfortunately remembered the beginning of the book and that Ishmael is the sole survivor

Argh

Arghfhfkgkfj

I hope Moby Dick survives this at least. It's insane this whale is so well known all the harpooners have encountered him, have bestowed upon him a name/have heard of and passed his name on, oh what I would do to know that Moby Dick survives

Honestly it's a miracle I've gone this long without knowing what happens in The Whale. I shan't spoil this book for myself, I shan't, I shan't, I shan't

But oh how I desire to know whether or not the whale lives. Arrhfhgjkfjgjrjtjgjdkkf

Why do i have the sinking feeling the whale does not in fact live and ishmael is in fact the only survivor of this whole enterprise

Oh woe

Woe is me

This is intolerable

Im reading moby dick and my conclusion 18 chs in is this is gonna be an epic homosexual love story about ishmael and queequeg with a dash of whale hunting on the side

Also this whole thing is so trope-y. There was only one bed????????

Like are you kidding me

I'm on ch 37 and I have unfortunately remembered the beginning of the book and that Ishmael is the sole survivor

Argh

Arghfhfkgkfj

I hope Moby Dick survives this at least. It's insane this whale is so well known all the harpooners have encountered him, have bestowed upon him a name/have heard of and passed his name on, oh what I would do to know that Moby Dick survives

Honestly it's a miracle I've gone this long without knowing what happens in The Whale. I shan't spoil this book for myself, I shan't, I shan't, I shan't

But oh how I desire to know whether or not the whale lives. Arrhfhgjkfjgjrjtjgjdkkf

Im reading moby dick and my conclusion 18 chs in is this is gonna be an epic homosexual love story about ishmael and queequeg with a dash of whale hunting on the side

Also this whole thing is so trope-y. There was only one bed????????

Like are you kidding me

#moby dick

ahopefulsun

Wishing all of you a very merry "I suddenly have the motivation and time to write a minimum 10k fic"... please

festival-of-pudding

lemonsharks

Like to charge reblog to cast

madsciencepottery

You have been visited by the twocumber. May you receive twofold luck in the coming days

clementiens

joomju

Reblog so she lives forever.

terminusverge

20 years. If this gets posted and we all survive for another 20…things might be alright.

teathattast

Item: The Friendship Bracelet Rarity: ⏶ Common

Which game character felt like a genuine childhood friend?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Was more of a book reader than a game player, and even then, books were there to sink into. Escapism. Putting myself into the books or having friends from the books would too much blur the separateness of my little reading escapist fantasy

#mysterious cat asks

warmfigure

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

unlettered-heathen

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

bigandlong

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

jae-felidae

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

cricketcat9

Skeptical! but will try

day 1 at the communal puzzle club: i see a puzzle with a sign next to it that says "please help with our communal puzzle" and i say to myself "don't mind if I do" and did the whole thing

day 2 at the communal puzzle club: i get gently reprimanded for not sharing the puzzle experience with the others. in my defense I thought they needed all the help they could get

day 3 at the communal puzzle club: we start a new puzzle and i put one of the pieces in my pocket and save it for later so i can be the one who puts in the last piece

day 4 at the communal puzzle club: the puzzle is almost complete so i reach into my pocket and realize i left the last piece in my other pants which are currently in the washing machine. i feign ignorance

day 5 at the communal puzzle club: the others are suspicious but they have no proof. they check my pockets before i leave but little do they know that this time i ate the pieces

day 6 at the communal puzzle club: i put an entire bottle of miralax in my coffee to get the pieces out of my digestive system but they are too far dissolved to be usable. my stomach is in so much pain and i can't stop shitting but i rinse off what's left of the pieces and make it to puzzle club anyway, only to find out they don't meet on mondays. i am inconsolable.

day 7 at the communal puzzle club: i realized those pieces are incriminating evidence so i slipped them in someone else's pocket. i should be good as long as they don't find residual traces of my dna

day 8 at the communal puzzle club: there is an odd feeling in my gut. i feel as if something has been awoken in me

day 9 at the communal puzzle club: i am in such deep focus that the others are starting to fear me. either that or they are cowering away from the communal puzzle out of sheer respect for my skills

day 10 at the communal puzzle club: i'm getting better and better, i can now do several puzzles in one day. the others are discussing what to do about me in hushed tones. little do they know my laser focus allows me to hear everything they say. they aren't a threat.

day 11 at the communal puzzle club: the club manager unlocked the door but already i am inside. ive been here all night doing puzzles in the dark. they threaten to ban me from the club so in response i pick a 500 piece puzzle at random and complete it in under 45 minutes, just to show them who the real authority is

day 12 at the communal puzzle club: i have been officially banned from the communal puzzle club. in a fit of rage i grab as many pieces as i can and eat them, making sure to thoroughly chew and swallow every single one. if i can't do them, no one can.

day 13 at the communal puzzle club: it's monday again. the club doesn't meet today. it's the perfect opportunity to break in and do as many puzzles as my heart desires, without any of the club's petty drama to distract me

day 14 at the communal puzzle club: i am in jail because the club manager snitched to the cops like the pathetic weakling they are. this is the worst night of my entire life there aren't any puzzles here

day 15 at the communal puzzle club: the judge let me off with a restraining order since I didn't actually steal anything. i show back up to communal puzzle club just to make a show of ripping the order to shreds. no piece of paper will dictate my life, only jigsaw-cut cardboard has that power. nothing else.

day 16 at the communal puzzle club: everyone is so quiet today when I walk in. I eat some pieces in a show of force, just to remind everyone who's in charge. I comment that they taste somewhat like strychnine, they say it's just because Ravensburger has a new method of chemically processing their pieces. sounds plausible. 30 minutes later i am convulsing violently but i beg them not to call an ambulance until i finish the puzzle i was working on. but the bastards don't listen and I'm shipped off to the hospital kicking and screaming.

day 17 at the communal puzzle club: i spent the night in the hospital. a detective comes in and says they're investigating the manager of the communal puzzle club for attempted murder and asks what i know. i tell him honestly that i ain't no snitch and spit in his face. he says they have more than enough evidence to prosecute regardless.

day 18 at the communal puzzle club: the club manager is on trial for attempted murder and i am called as a witness. i tell the judge that i ain't no snitch and spit in his face. i am held in contempt of the court

day 19 at the communal puzzle club: the defense makes a plea of justifiable self defense, citing the restraining order that isn't even 1 week old. somehow the judge buys that flimsy defense. i mean, this is the same judge who didn't even recognize me from that same case despite being the same judge. i think the poor old man has dementia so i make a motion for a mistrial. it gets shot down because the system is corrupt.

day 20 at the communal puzzle club: the judge says i should get jail time but he decided i should be in a mental facility instead. i don't know why he would think that, i have been nothing but sane my entire life. god forbid a woman have hobbies

day 1 in the psych ward: they have puzzles in here this is amazing

day 2 in the psych ward: all the puzzles are missing a few pieces. this is unacceptable. im going to go insane

day 3 in the psych ward: i have been informed that they do not use the word "insane" in here so i take back my previous statement.

day 4 in the psych ward: i need to find those missing pieces i need to find them i need to find them i have been questioning everybody all the nurses all the doctors all the patients all the miscellaneous hospital staff but nobody knows anything. this is hopeless. i will never be able to overcome this trauma. my life is over

day 5 in the psych ward: it's so boring in here. without complete puzzles there's nothing to do except watch tv but the only channel they get is the local news. i begrudgingly watch out of nothing but all-encompassing ennui. but one of the stories is about the communal puzzle club and suddenly i am overcome with nostalgia. turns out there was a series of alleged poisonings attributed to that location. strychnine was found in three people so far, one of whom was myself. but the others didn't survive. this confirms my suspicion that i am in fact the chosen one

day 6 in the psych ward: with a renewed sense of purpose i will attempt to convince the doctors of my "sanity," but i also came to the realization that they don't care about sanity, they only care about sedation. they want to supress my passion, eradicate my truth, condition me to fall in line with the rest of the "sane" people. with that knowledge, i was able to tell them everything they wanted to hear. i acted polite, pretended i was cured, i even feigned complete disinterest in puzzles! it made my stomach boil but i did it, i convinced them, and just like that, i was free.

day 28 at the communal puzzle club: i don't know why everyone was so surprised to see me again, it's only natural that i'd come to finish what i started

(i know this is supposed to be day 27 at the communal puzzle club but day 27 was a monday so nothing happened) like what am i gonna say, "day 27 i sat alone in my studio apartment eating cereal and biding my time"

day 29 at the communal puzzle club: the communal puzzle club has been disbanded, the club manager has been arrested, and the whole place is swarming with cops. i watched as they hauled off a bunch of expensive looking printers and like a billion reams of paper and loaded them onto a big police truck.

apparently, the communal puzzle club was just a front for document forgery and counterfeit cash, and i had been inadvertently sabotaging them this entire time. which is sad because i support both of those things. but it also explains why they met 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and why they had their own building despite having no profit model and also why i was the only one who seemed to actually care about the puzzles. everyone else was too busy making fake passports to care.

in hindsight, i always knew they were all a bunch of casuals. but i didn't mind because they had so many excellent puzzles. I asked one of the officers if i could at least have the puzzles but he said they were already taken and locked away in the evidence room. the thought sickens me- all those puzzles, gathering dust, never to be assembled again. or maybe the pigs just took them for themselves! so they could have all the puzzles they want while the rest of us ordinary, law-abiding citizens have nothing to do except die of boredom!

the moral of the story is that we can never have nice things because of the fucking pigs. fuck the police.

stevenjgarza

Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

itsclydebitches

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

fixyourwritinghabits

I think this is an incredibly important post for a lot of reasons. You have to write a bad book in order to learn how to do something. You have to suck at playing an instrument before you can improve.

Struggling is part of the process, and I've had a lot of people argue with me that it shouldn't be who fail to see the point. When you replace an composer with an AI music generator, an artist with an AI-generated image, or an author with an AI-generated fanfic, you are missing out on the critical, fundamental experiences humans need to learn and grow. You are robbing yourself of essential skills you need as a person.

AI is not like a calculator, or a synthesizer, or a prompt generator. It's not a tool to aid in your process of understanding or creating something. It is replacing your ability to learn things, and that is going to do so much damage if you let it.

#hard agree

I'm watching High Potential free on abc's website, meaning I've not yet watched the latest ep

But GUYS

Morgan is brilliant. Brilliantly clever, human, emotionally intelligent. Love her.

Soto?? Love her and Morgan's interactions. She learned quick to be direct with Morgan after Morgan's 'you-dont-threaten-me-to-do-something-you-ask'

I'll admit Karadec took a couple of eps to grow on me, but let me tell you, I look forward to seeing him on screen

Oz is a cutie, I love him

Daphne is also a cutie, I love her

All of this to say, I need some High Potential friends asap bc No One I know is watching and I'm dyingggg

i’ll be your high potential friend!! it’s a small fandom but we’re here

Hell yes 🥺 hello new friend, tell me, who is your favorite character and why?

this might be basic but i love morgan! she brings so much to the show with her personality and THE STYLE i can’t get over her wardrobe. i also just love her as a protagonist i’ve always wanted more ‘genius’ women in tv

i also just kind of relate to her a bit

MORGAN!!! Her wardrobe is something else 😍 and the genius woman aspect is so refreshing. I love that her team respects and embraces her for that, too, like yeah she had to prove herself in the beginning, but they respect her? As a person? And a woman? She's not put down for being smarter than the rest of the department? There's no trying to make her be someone else? And I really love that

The relating part def plays into making a character a favorite <3

NO EXACTLY. i love the team’s acceptance of her, even karadec who is type A as hell and the complete opposite of her. and yes i need her wardrobe immediately.. the def leppard (i think!) shirt from the last episode 😻😻 i love aswell how she didn’t tone herself down for the job. her wardrobe and personality stayed the same despite working alongside these serious detectives

what’s your favorite / most relatable character on the show?

YEP YEP all of this 😸

Favorites are hard for me, let's see 😭 I, too, am a Morgan lover, because who wouldn't be? Its become sorta a game to me to see if I can put the puzzle pieces together before she can say it aloud. As for if she's my favorite..? Lemme get back to you on this, I shall tell you once I've seen the whole season. I can tell you about some favorite moments so far though!

THAT’S SO REAL ALL OF IT. each episode is like its own little game, which is why i’m so excited for the finale. also if you’re looking for morgan and karadec scenes they get softer with each other as the season goes on it’s actually adorable (god bless abc for season two🙏🙏)

also i LOVE the whole men being soft with kids thing that’s been going on. between karadec oz and ludo, i swear i barely see men interacting with kids on tv and it irks me

i think we all cried during the hostage episode. that episode was so good i think there’s an ava-centric fanfic on ao3 that actually made me cry even harder when i read it. poor girl just wanted a yes day

(i also love morgan’s kids. even the baby. just every family moment on this show makes me so happy)

also it’s so hard to pick a favorite i get you there. karadec’s my #2 so regardless of where you stand we’re in neighboring boats here

YEAH I'm so excited for s2 already 😭 I was reading an interview done with Ava's actor yesterday and apparently they're gonna leave us with a bit of a cliffhanger... so excited but also SCARED about that

The Morgan and Karadec scenes omg they've grown so much, from like the cool yeah-we-did-the-thing nod at the end of ep 1 to Karadec PINNING ONE OF MORGANS FAKE POLICE BADGES ON HER COAT and doing the whole I-didnt-do-anything thing and carefully not looking at her 😭😭😭 I'm going insane thinking about them

The men being soft with kids is everything to me. I was so scared when ludo was first introduced that he was gonna be an unpleasant ex, but no? He's supportive? Good with kids? Loves Ava like his own? And he and Morgan didn't work out, obviously, but like.. they respect each other? It's healthy co-parenting? I'm just so relieved they didn't throw in 'tumultuous ex' as a side plot

Ahhh please link me the fic??

(Dude YEAH i realllllly hope we get to see more of Morgan's family)

And yeah 😌🤝 the core team, they're all good eggs and it makes me so happy

#high potential

I'm watching High Potential free on abc's website, meaning I've not yet watched the latest ep

But GUYS

Morgan is brilliant. Brilliantly clever, human, emotionally intelligent. Love her.

Soto?? Love her and Morgan's interactions. She learned quick to be direct with Morgan after Morgan's 'you-dont-threaten-me-to-do-something-you-ask'

I'll admit Karadec took a couple of eps to grow on me, but let me tell you, I look forward to seeing him on screen

Oz is a cutie, I love him

Daphne is also a cutie, I love her

All of this to say, I need some High Potential friends asap bc No One I know is watching and I'm dyingggg

i’ll be your high potential friend!! it’s a small fandom but we’re here

Hell yes 🥺 hello new friend, tell me, who is your favorite character and why?

this might be basic but i love morgan! she brings so much to the show with her personality and THE STYLE i can’t get over her wardrobe. i also just love her as a protagonist i’ve always wanted more ‘genius’ women in tv

i also just kind of relate to her a bit

MORGAN!!! Her wardrobe is something else 😍 and the genius woman aspect is so refreshing. I love that her team respects and embraces her for that, too, like yeah she had to prove herself in the beginning, but they respect her? As a person? And a woman? She's not put down for being smarter than the rest of the department? There's no trying to make her be someone else? And I really love that

The relating part def plays into making a character a favorite <3

NO EXACTLY. i love the team’s acceptance of her, even karadec who is type A as hell and the complete opposite of her. and yes i need her wardrobe immediately.. the def leppard (i think!) shirt from the last episode 😻😻 i love aswell how she didn’t tone herself down for the job. her wardrobe and personality stayed the same despite working alongside these serious detectives

what’s your favorite / most relatable character on the show?