Fanfiction Obsessive, Lore Whore, Writer/Artist, ADHD dipfuck
old as fuck (30s), any pronouns work, MDNI
There is no method to this madness beyond random hyperfixations.
#most fics require a blood sacrifice on Ao3#this is just the first one to require it from a reader or commissioner#and not the writer or a friend or family member
Little inky paw print bookmarks I'm working on as part of my scriptorium cat collection! Based off the picture on the right of a 15th century manuscript.
please look through the hiroshima peace memorial museum's august 6 exhibition and the stories of victims and survivors. today, august 6, is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima, and saturday is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of nagasaki. please consider these events not only as a series of numbers or even a single day in world history but as the living hell they created for hundred of thousands of people. i realize a lot of people in the world probably don't know as much about the actual circumstances experienced by the people of hiroshima and nagasaki, as well as the indigenous people (downwinders and marshallese) affected by nuclear arms testing by the us, so instead of getting any more angry about how people talk about it (and how they dont talk about it) i just want to share. the images in those links are hard to look at but it's important, if you're in a safe place, please take the time to sit with them and what they say to you, it would mean a lot to me. all of the peace museum's permanent exhibitions are accessible for free online, i strongly recommend exploring them. & free palestine
today is the 81st anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima. august 9 is the 81st anniversary of the bombing of nagasaki. please take some time to remember the lives that were destroyed in these senseless attacks. it's also important to remember that there is no limit to what the united states is willing to do to any people it considers an obstacle to its imperial interest and there is no limit to what it will say in attempt to justify these atrocities.
Seeing ATLA pop up on my dash (specifically a post about Hama) reminded me of an old idea I had to explain why Hama only recently started murdering random Fire Nation people. Because it sure sounds like SOMETHING happened recently to make the change, rather than Hama moving around from place to place making people everywhere suffer.
Simply put: Hama had a family while hiding out in the Fire Nation territory. And then the family died because of the Fire Nation, underscoring the loss of family and community.
She found another survivor who escaped from a different prison. Hurt and traumatized, but alive. The other person was too scared to draw attention back to the Southern Water Tribe by heading home because what if what if what if someone else got home. Time passed as Hama and the Survivor found solace in each other; they don't have home but they have each other and that's enough given the journey home and safety there being too long and uncertain. (Maybe they eventually had kids? Whether they were drafted or fled, they're gone but hopefully alive.) The comb the Gaang finds is assembled from pieces each managed to hold onto - let's face it: the thing is HUGE for something supposedly hidden in her hair for years, and it'd be poetic if it was a whole remade from clutched fragments.
... and then one day a local boy from the village - one SO PROUD of the Fire Nation (so fearful not to be) - somehow realizes that Survivor is A Foreigner. Not the full extent of the truth, not even thinking that The Foreigner is dangerous in themselves or a spy or anything like that... just that somehow someone who "doesn't belong" is living in the Nation and there'd be trouble if anyone was found "harboring" them.
Local Boy was spoonfed propaganda until he choked on it, paranoid and fearful of any hint of Not Fire Nation / Perception of Treason and the problems that'd result if someone more volatile finds out.
So Local Boy abducts Survivor, ties up Survivor in a cave, and goes home panicking over what to do and how to solve the "problem". Survivor's trauma is back in full force over the imprisonment so they're blind to everything but the fear and the darkness. A week of misery results in their death.
Local Boy is panicking worse now. He doesn't think Hama knows what Survivor "really is", and is too scared to open up to friends or family. So he goes to the nice innkeeper who always has a smile for the kids and is so nice such a nice auntie that of course she'll know what to do.
Hama coaxes Local Boy to lead her to Survivor's cave. Sees what happened. And something in her breaks, but she's still smiling sweetly as she turns to Local Boy with assurances that she knows just what to do. And she does: Local Boy is the first victim of her revenge. Made to suffer exactly how Survivor suffered: fear, darkness, no water, no food, no idea if anyone is looking, not even Hama's presence to give some solace that he's not alone.
And then she turns on the rest. Hama has so much wasted time to make up for.
... but I thought the whole idea would be too bleak and struggled with workshopping the community and why no one would've suspected Hama if her spouse/livelong friend was the first to vanish.
âThere are no female aliens in our game because we donât know how to make a female version of this alienâ You know that alien you just designed? That male alien? Give it a female voice actor and have characters refer to it as she. Thatâs it. Thatâs literally all you have to doÂ
Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.
in the midst of capitalism, fanfiction and archive of our own are always unconditionally and endlessly free. love, joy and passion, shared among human beings, are always unconditionally and endlessly free
âbut what if you abort the baby whoâll cure cancer?!â sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâs brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Sometimes I think about how so much of what makes Murderbot who it is comes down to it being a rental SecUnit. When Leonide tells Arada in Network Effect that Company Units have a reputation for being dangerous, she's probably 100% correct. Because of their nature as plug-and-play security for anyone, they have to be designed to be far more versatile than the SecUnits a corporate like BE owns. Three has to be able to secure salvage operations and mining outposts and work with BE's systems and that's kind of it. BE might need its security to fend off hostile takeovers and workplace uprisings, but Murderbot has to be able to do all those things and planetary surveys with unknown hostile fauna, and asteroid mining belts, and whatever the next client might need it to do, and it has to be able to work with whatever other proprietary software the new clients have every single time. It's better at adapting to new situations than Three partly because it's older and more experienced, but also because that's a big part of its function.
And at the same time, Company SecUnits are treated much worse than Three by virtue of being rentals. Many--if not most--of Murderbot's clients didn't want to have any SecUnits, but were required to take them per Company rental agreements for other equipment. Even the ones who specifically did want SecUnits didn't have any investment in what happened to them. They were the equivalents of the U-haul you'd rent to move your couch across town. They just needed to do a job briefly and hopefully be in good enough shape to get their deposit back at the end, but if not, eh. No big deal. Murderbot has never had the same clients for very long, and it's never had to work with the same SecUnits for very long. Every contract changes. Nothing lasts.
No wonder MB loves fiction while Three loves nonfiction. Three has seen basically nothing about reality outside of its job and wants to know what's out there. MB has seen way too much reality and would like some breaks from that shit now, please.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.
@ryanthedemiguy I have been the computer repair person doing this! Here's an article with screenshots, but the short version is:
At the "country or region" screen of the Windows 11 install process, hit Shift+F10 to bring up the command prompt.
Run the command "OOBE\BYPASSNRO". The computer will restart, and bring you back to the beginning of the install sequence.
Eventually the install sequence will ask you to connect to a network. You can disable the device's internet/wi-fi connector entirely so it's impossible to do so (e.g., if it's a laptop with a hotkey to turn on airplane mode, or the article I linked suggests doing it with the command prompt), but last time I did this I was able to just refuse to connect to any of the available networks.
Click "I don't have internet", and then "Continue with limited setup."
Make a local account.
The installation will finish and you'll be in. At this point you can connect to the internet, and your computer won't be linked to an online Microsoft account unless you choose to log into one.
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