I awoke to solve this mystery

24 year old Grad Student in Neuroscience at Umass Amherst. I study the effects of cortisol on Fetal development.

[comics-and-things-deactivated20]

Read me a story!

[iconuk01]

Parenting level - God Mode

[pascalcampion]

Distances. #pascalcampion

[bykinomi]

Summoning 8 pages (2018)

It sucks when people assume that you’ll always be there to save the world.

[charminglyantiquated]

that story where you challenge the fairy queen to a match of wit and skill to win back your loved one. and it goes … fine, you think? probably.

adapted from this very short Elsewhere University piece, changed slightly to be a little more self-contained.

other comics//tapastic//patreon//ko-fi

[thearmada4231]

loving the avatar renaissance because it means I get to make memes again

[sweetoothgirl]

Chocolate Bourbon Marble Cake

[valtsv]

hey bro are you okay? i just wanted to check in on you because i haven't seen any lightning flash ominously while a flock of crows flies overhead or heard your menacing evil laugh for the last few days and i got worried. i care about you, dude

[dogthenotdog-deactivated2025111]

Bro I'm busy waiting to be awakened from my slumbers! Thank you for caring dude!

[valtsv]

no problem man! stay diabolical!

[memewhore]

[zandraxofnebulon]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen and I don’t know why

[loremonster]

Facebook PSA

Hey all, a little Social Media PSA if you have the Facebook App on your phone. 

With the last update, Facebook began tracking something called ‘off-Facebook Activity’ which keeps up with all apps and browsing you do off of Facebook and collects that information with the purpose of targeting ads… which means they’re selling it to ad agencies. This includes access to any banking apps on your phone and your spending habits. 

 Not only is this a major breech of privacy that Facebook didn’t have to tell us about when they updated the app, it’s, of course, automatically turned on. 

To turn it off, go into your Facebook app, pull up the menu from the main screen [the button with the three horizontal lines] scroll down to security and privacy, find ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ and hit the button that lets you manage your history to see all the apps it’s been collecting from. From there, you can clear the information it’s already collected, and there will be a button regarding ‘Future activity’ where you can turn the ‘feature’ off, at which point Facebook with give you an ‘ARE YOU SURE YOU DON’T WANT US COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION TO SELL YOU THINGS???’ screen. Yes, yes you are sure. Because this is disgusting. 

[blackmarkettrombones]

Facebook made this super hard to find, so I’ve written up instructions for how I got through it (on my app - I don’t know if there are other versions where it’s different):

From Facebook, go to the Menu by clicking on the three horizontal lines on the top right of the screen.

Scroll down to the bottom and select the Settings & Privacy drop-down menu.

Then select Settings (the first option under the drop-down).

This will take you to a screen showing multiple headers with lists of links under them

Scroll down to Your Facebook Information and select Off-Facebook Activity.

The next page has a short explanation of Off-Facebook Activity. Click Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity after the What You Can Do header.

This will take you to a screen with an option to Clear History (which I recommend). To actually turn off this feature, you will have to click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select the Manage Future Activity option that pops up.

This will take you to a page explaining in more detail what they’re doing. Select the Manage Future Activity at the bottom of the page.

THEN you can finally select the toggle to turn off Future Off-Facebook Activity. 

If it’s glowing blue with the circle on the right side, it’s active, and if it’s gray with the circle on the left side, it’s off.

[simplyclockwork]

Just went and checked this out and yikes on a stick

[justusmice]

i would never have this app on my phone to begin with, but if you do, here’s what you can do about this particular privacy violation.

[theeleganteuropeanwoman]

Just did this, and it says it takes up to 48 hours to disconnect fully, so after two days go back and delete your history again!

[sweetoothgirl]

Crepe Cakes!

(recipes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

[jedthewolfdog]

ah yes. i too am a big fan of the mcelroys

[uncle-knobheads]

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

[galadrieljones]

Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:

30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell

50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville

250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW

[princesweetpea]

I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.

Holy shit.

[iffeelscouldkill]

This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.

So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.

Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.

[corancoranthemagicalman]

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe = 38k fic

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic

Of Mice and Men = 30k fic

Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic

For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.

(honestly shout out to all fuckin fic writers. You didn’t have to give us shit and still y'all out here living ya best life and doin something you love. Bravo.)

[hectatess]

Damn…. that’s…. eye opening.

[anosci]

this is probably the best scene in any foreign movie I’ve ever seen and I want to share it

[daywatch]

Okay but does John show up???

[allavengedromance]

You fucking bet he does

[prokopetz]

I think a big part of the reason I love cryptids is that they’re literally the only subgenre of conspiracy theories where you can be reasonably assured it isn’t secretly about hating Jews. Like, when people talk about aliens or lizard people or sinister banking cabals, at least 80% of the time when you look up the foundational literature it’s a bunch of Antisemitic rot and “lizard people” is just a codephrase for “Jews”, but there are very few neo-Fascist whackjobs out there claiming that Bigfoot is Jewish.

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

Like to bid Bigfoot “Shalom!”

Reblog to prepare him a kosher meal

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[casliyn]

oh my fucking god.

[hundondestiny]

For those who didn’t see, in 2011 Anne Hathaway co-hosted with James Franco, and he was high out of his mind. There are a lot of cringe moments from that ceremony bc he was a mess and she had to try to hold it together.

[humanpersonface]

Also, remember that SHE ended up getting a bulk of the crap for it from people complaining that she was over the top and annoying because people just seem to hate Anne Hathaway all the time for no reason.

Including James Franco himself who said in an interview with Howard Stern that she was “goody two shoes” and that it’s “fun to hate her”. Because he needed more of a reason to be a trash person apparently.

[hashtagloveloses]

So lately there’s been a lot of scary things happening in media (journalism is dying and there’s huge media layoffs, Amazon, Disney and Netflix are taking over everything, etc). I want everyone to remember how truly amazing and unique AO3 is and the sheer amount of organization and work it takes for it to be independent - many of you on here are young and may not know how much it changed being a fan. Read your history.