28 y.o. | she/her. A place where I shamelessly reblog any fandom trash that catches my eye and the occasional post pertaining to real life. Fandoms include: Heated Rivalry, Teen Wolf, Merlin, Supernatural, and Queer as Folk, among others.
someone at work told me 'oh, just ask chat' when i raised a casual question and i asked what she meant and she said 'you know, chatgpt' like im an idiot. and i should get an award for the fact that i did not start snarling and biting and killing
im glad this version of the post is making rounds now. the amount of casual ai use i see some teachers do these days is disgusting and they genuinly dont see the problem with making school assignments for children using chatgbt, and even encourage them to use it themselves. school is about teaching kids how to think and they're taking that away from them. this is a sickness and we should be calling it out more so people realize the damage they're doing
i subbed a 7th grade class a few months ago and i gave them a written assignment and they had to use their textbook to find answers and weren't allowed to copy the text, they had to rewrite the answers in their own words. a simple thing i was taught as a kid. i banned the use of ipads and phones for the duration of the class.
50% of the kids couldn't find the many of the answers, even though they only had one chapter to read. the other 45% didnt know how to rewrite the answers in their own words. only 5% finished the assignment properly. they asked me repeatedly if they could ask chatgbt. almost all of their handwriting was on 1-4th grade levels. i struggled to read most of it.
this isnt their fault. the school system is failing them. the adults are failing them. 'we're evolving with the times' we are losing our ability to think for ourselves, and its all thanks to the system being set up. we should all be angry. why aren't we more angry
I've been meaning to make a post talking about my stroke because y'all got bits and pieces of the recovery but I never actually told the story of HOW it went down and the thing is the type of stroke I had is usually the type young people have and since having mine i've now heard multiple stories of people under 40 having very similar strokes and the scary thing is, is that they didn't get help right away. Because you're young and healthy and sure you feel weird but it'll pass right? but it doesn't, and it gets worse, and by the time you get to the hospital (some people literally take days to go) the deficits are worse and recovery is harder.
so here's a super long post about strokes in general, and mine in particular/what I went through.
So for strokes the signs are abbreviated BE FAST. Balance loss, Eyesight changes, Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, -> Time to call 911.
Had I known those MAYBE I would have figured it out but my symptoms were a little mixed. I was reading (fanfic!) in bed because it was a sunday morning and i had nothing pressing to do and suddenly got dizzy. I put my laptop aside because my eyes were blurring (Eyesight changes - symptom #1), and laid down, thinking it would pass, it didn't, it's a little vague how it progressed because I'd been having headaches and neckpain for about 3 weeks leading up to it so I was like 'idk is this a migraine?' (headaches can be a stroke symptom so symptom #2) but i got nauseous and eventually got up and to my utmost surprise I immediately fell over as if I was the drunkest of frat bros. The room literally spun before my eyes as I fell to the floor (Balance loss - symptom #3). I have had some Nights and I had never been that unsteady before. I crawled my way to the bathroom, threw up (nausea - not a common stroke symptom) , took 800mg of ibuprofen, and crawled back to bed.
if you know anything about ibuprofen you might know it's a mild blood thinner and that's a high dose. I may have inadvertently helped myself with that one. I was just feeling like shit and thinking 'idk this might help'
At this point I still thought we were still in Normal Land. Sure, it was a weird morning, but Surely There Was A Reason. (Yes There Was) Anyway, as I'm lying there willing my body to stop suffering I realize my arm is going numb (stroke symptom #4) and I switch positions, because weird, but it doesn't go away, and I gave it a good little while. I'm on a medication that can make my limbs tingle but it usually just does it to my fingers and it dissipates quickly but this wasn't dissipating, and then I realized one of my legs was also going numb. Then one side of my face is going numb.
(at the time I did not look in the mirror but I had a drooping eyelid - symptom #5)
Those all seem bad. I grab my computer and google 'when to go to the hospital for dizzyness' as that felt like the worst of my problems. and indeed the list I found highlighted that if you are also experiencing loss of balance, blurred vision, nausea, and limb numbness, you should see a doctor. That seems like far too many symptoms to be having all to be listed. I grab my phone (thankfully plugged in and by my bed), and start layering on more clothing because it's about 10 degrees out and i'm in a pajama dress. The very nice man at 911 talks with me and sends an ambulance, I tell him I don't think I can get out the front door of my building on my own and he asks if I can get to MY apartment door to which I say yes and he assures me that's fine they will have keys to my building.
(I have been since informed they love to chop down doors but no, I could get that far)
I wait by my door laying down on the ground and they arrive pretty quickly. They see to me in the hallway, which is more of a lobby in my building and the only place with room for me to lie down (I cannot stand unassisted at this point) they ask me a bunch of questions, take vitals, and ask me where I would like to be taken. Me, having never had to go to the fucking hospital in an emergency before, simply go 'wherever is close' because I again, I am having a stroke and do not have the wherewithal to think through these things.
A big firefighter helps me down the stairs (it's only a half flight and I still almost did not make it) and we get underway.
At the hospital they wheel me into triage and I mostly lie there gratefully and answer some questions and respond to some tests (grip strength, following a pen with my eyes, that sort of thing) and then I hear what is great when you've been at urgent care for two hours but what is Very Bad when you just arrived in an ambulance and that's 'She's next'. I jumped the line for a CT scan and an MRI. I was there less than ten minutes before I was actively being scanned. honestly closer to five.
my active symptoms seem to have been worse than some of the stories I've heard, not being able to walk AT ALL in particular, although some other are pretty equal (Footless Jo on youtube had a stroke around the same time I did of the same type and has discussed hers, she delayed going in despite the severity for a variety of reasons and it sounds like her recovery has been difficult) My recovery was pretty easy because i was actively being cared for and on blood thinners right away. I was pretty out of it in the beginning, but I was only in the hospital for 6 days and then in a rehab for another 4 to relearn how to walk and balance, then i was released unto the world and just spent time going to physical therapy and recovering for awhile. I was out of work for about 8 weeks total. I basically had the best outcome for a stroke. I recovered almost fully back to 100% (I'm about 2% less sure footed than I used to be, but it's rarely noticeable), my face still feels a little weird but has markedly improved so I live in hope it will eventually get back to normal. It massively sucked. But strokes can fuck you up for life and I came out a weird medical story to tell and have to take some extra medication now/precautions to take (i cannot do certain types of yoga, no weightlifting, no push ups, no going on rollercoasters.... things that could strain my neck essentially) but overall I escaped very lucky.
For anyone who has ever had covid before, please be sure you are aware of stroke symptoms. Each successive infection raises the risk in a pretty major way, and a lot of people are dying young due to not knowing these signs or being afraid to act on them. Please take care of yourselves.
I think by now Hudson and Connor have repeated enough times that they do not want pictures to be taken that we are all aware, yet the stalking continues.
I don't think any of it is ok. The public street pictures help identify their neighbourhood - where they are staying, which gym they go to and lead to increasingly intrusive, dangerous and disturbing stalking like Connor being touched without consent and followed to his private residence or Hudson being photographed inside the private gym clearly without his knowledge or consent.
If you call yourself a fan of either or both of them, please don't spread these non-consensual photos and videos and call out the stalkers instead of encouraging their behaviour.
They will be working in Toronto for months, and the situation is already spiralling badly with stalkers reportedly flying in to harass them. They will be forced into lockdown, it will impact their mental health being hunted for pics, and it will burden the production to have to increase security.
There are no upsides. We should not engage with this kind of content, and wait until they share what they are comfortable sharing.
I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Sex
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Melissa McCall
Additional Tags: POV Stiles Stilinski, Hurt Stiles Stilinski, Top Derek Hale/Bottom Stiles Stilinski, Bottom Stiles Stilinski, Scott McCall & Stiles Stilinski Friendship, Bisexual Stiles Stilinski, Pansexual Derek Hale, Protective Derek Hale, Top Derek Hale, Slow Build Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Pack Alpha Derek Hale, Derek Hale is Bad at Feelings, Derek Hale Deserves Nice Things, Stiles Stilinski is a Nice Thing, click through for more tags
Summary:
After Stiles was taken by Gerard, he tries to push through the injuries he sustained in the Argent's basement. He's hurt more than he realizes and almost dies. He calls for help, but he ends up calling someone he hadn't meant to call. Now, Stiles has to deal with the after affects of torture, almost dying, physically healing, and confusing feelings he's starting to get for a certain broody emo werewolf. The bi panic is real.
Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale's Pack Members, Erica Reyes, Isaac Lahey, Malia Tate, Vernon Boyd, Lydia Martin, The Argent Family (Teen Wolf), Cora Hale
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Medieval, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Pack Alpha Derek Hale, "the Last of the Born Wolves" Derek Hale, Magical Stiles Stilinski, Holy Saint Stiles Stilinski, Argent Family as the Church™️, Supreme Pontiff Gerard Argent, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Love, But not really either of those, First Meetings, Kidnapping, Getting Together, Mutual Pining, Action & Romance, Pack Dynamics, Derek Hale Worships Stiles Stilinski, Stiles Stilinski Worships Derek Hale, Banter, Soft Derek Hale, Not Much Religious Mention, (since the Argents are not actually religious), Top Derek Hale/Bottom Stiles Stilinski, Shameless Smut, Knotting, Full Shift Werewolf Derek Hale, Sex in Full Shift Werewolf Form (Teen Wolf), Implied Lydia Martin/Cora Hale, Porn with Plot, Porn with Feelings, Werewolf Mates, Possessive Derek Hale, POV Alternating, POV Derek Hale, POV Stiles Stilinski
Summary:
He is the last of the Born Wolves. His enemy is the Silver Cathedral of hunters and the secret weapon they are preparing for the last massacre—the Holy Saint.
The plan is simple: to kidnap the Holy Saint. The hunter’s secret weapon must be removed no matter what.
What is hidden under those veils? What lies deep within? Is it soft rivers of light, or the snapsnapsnap of madness?
- ·✦· -
'I have never given much thought to the afterlife,’ he admits, ‘and if there is one, I imagine I’ll go to hell. But recently, I’ve been thinking…that perhaps because I have died once, to evolve into my full wolf, that I was granted the chance to meet you.
He holds Stiles’ hands, careful. Presses a lingering kiss to Stiles’ knuckles.
“You are my empyrean,” he breathes free, a wisp of a confession voiced aloud—it feels important to say out loud, into the world, even if his voice is barely there and cracking. “You are my afterlife. And I, for some reason, am blessed.”
I hope Connors got climbed like a fucking tree that night in the club God look at his cute fucking face. I think as a little treat for him I'm going to institute a headcanon wherein Connors pulls just INCONCIEVABLE amounts of pussy just by being so fucking earnest and having that funky little mustache. He walks into the locker room and Ilya is like "Connie! Did you take that girl home last night?" And Connors is like, "Oh dude you know I did." And Ilya daps him up and calls him a king and someone is like "Okay I understand Rozanov, he's like objectively hot and he's rich, but Connors I just don't get," and Ilya turns to that guy and says, "Of course you fucking wouldn't, when was the last time you ate pussy," and the other guys just all groan because here we go again...
There's a separate groupchat that someone accidentally added Cliff to and in that group chat someone is like "Hey does anyone else think it's super weird that Cap and Connors talk about eating pussy like all the time. Like they've gotta be capping. Or compensating for something. Like, nobody actually likes eating pussy like that."
"Hate to break it to you," Cliff tells them the next time they're all hanging out at Ilya's place, "But the boys put their heads together and now they think you're both gay for liking pussy too much."
Ilya rolls off the couch laughing. Connors says, "Fellas, if it's gay to eat pussy they're gonna have to put a new color on the rainbow just for me" and then won't stop saying it for the next week.
Ilya laughs every time, mostly because at least half the times he's mentioned going down on someone in the last two years he's actually been talking about Shane Hollander's ass.
Tags: Historical, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omegas are separate species, Pack Alpha Derek Hale, Omega Stiles Stilinski, Protective Derek Hale, Possessive Derek Hale, Full Shift Werewolves, Scarred Derek Hale, Derek Hale Has Self-Esteem Issues, Stiles Stilinski Has Self-Esteem Issues, They're a mess, Werewolf Discrimination, Attractive Stiles Stilinski, Forced Marriage, POV Alternating, Non-Consensual Voyeurism, Public Claiming, Public Sex, Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, Vaginal Sex, Oral Sex, Breastfeeding, Murder, Feral Derek Hale, Minor Chris Argent/Peter Hale, Evil Gerard Argent, Harems, Secret Relationship, Slut Shaming, Boypussy Stiles Stilinski, Age Difference
Summary:
It was a special kind of torture to watch Stiles dance, but to see him in the hands of another was a sickening agony.
Gerard’s hands gripped Stiles’ waist with a hunger familiar to Derek. He knew how that skin felt, he knew its warmth. He gritted his teeth to dust that evening, standing still by the entrance, watching over the guests and the omegas. Stiles did not look at him once, for it could provoke rumors, and Stiles was smart enough to know it. Still, his pointed dismissal spurred bitter jealousy in Derek's stomach. He could not take a single bite that night. At least, he had an excuse to look his fill.
Derek ought to strangle his stupid, selfish dreams. There was no future with Stiles. Gerard would lie with him, Gerard would have him, own him in every way. Gerard's kids would drink Stiles' milk and call him "mama".
Gerard had never known gentleness, and he would not extend it even to the softest of creatures.
uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.
it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually
it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity
this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need
adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups
i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:
open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable
no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever
not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof
Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such
KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.
LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.
I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.
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