Deagh's Mostly Irrelevant Gibberish

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[transcyberism]

there are four human activities and they are crafting, stories, math, and fucking around. whatever you're doing is at least one of those four.

[fiercestpurpose]

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

[mozajf]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88114091/chapters/233604241

This one has been a long time coming. We've known for a long time that Bill's sister would move to Sandrock and end up with Fang, and they've been mentioned as a couple in previous stories as well. They just wouldn't talk to us and tell us how they got together. But, we took the advice that Zeke gave Howlett way back in Blue Clear Sky, and we kept listening, kept our minds open, and finally they started talking. Also worth noting that this Fang is a little different from game Fang, he's older so has had longer to process his trauma before meeting Letty.

A medical crisis with the Geeglers requires assistance from someone with a very particular set of skills. When it's clear the situation is beyond what Fang and Opal can provide in Sandrock, Howlett reaches out to his niece, Letty, who is a vet, specialising in larger animals.

Letty loved visiting Sandrock as a kid, but an unfortunate experience in her teens means she hasn't been back in ten years. Can she face her past and build a future?

Fang is settled in Sandrock, at least as much as someone like him can be, but the arrival of the new vet shakes him both personally and professionally.

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[ranaeley]

Obligatory truck I don’t trust reblog

[deagh]

One time I was driving up the interstate (I was going north, so that's up, versus going south, which is down the interstate.) and I saw this truck that was obviously moving house because there was a mattress in it and I was like "that thing isn't secure and it's gonna fly off." I wanted to get ahead of it but I was still working on it when the mattress flew off and onto the freeway. But because I was paying attention to it I was able to easily avoid the mattress sail of doom. So when you do see a loaded truck, stay alert. Stuff could go flying off at any time.

Also, secure your loads, people. I don't care if you are only going a few miles. A few miles is all it takes.

[stealingpotatoes]

rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:

Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia

Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff

Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh

Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time

Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut

[dragon-in-a-fez]

how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!

listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell

it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp

[dragon-in-a-fez]

updating this post for 2025:

Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit

Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"

Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling

Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke

Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need

[dragon-in-a-fez]

bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today

[deagh]

Just figured I'd add one. Brad Paisley, the dude who sings a song about alcohol from the POV OF THE ALCOHOL and a song about picking up a girl in a bar by saying he'd like to check her for ticks, is also the dude who wrote and sang "Same Here", a song about how despite all our cultural differences, really we're all the same. And had Vlodymyr Zelenskyy do the outro on it.

[animentality]

[deagh]

New spider just dropped, yo.

[msbarrows]

My bus has wifi. Win.

[msbarrows]

Definitely too bumpy to do much of anything. Listening to a long fic I downloaded before leaving the house.

[msbarrows]

Little over halfway through the trip south. We had a brief rest break and I grabbed a snack at the Harvey's (Canadian burger chain) we stopped at.

[msbarrows]

Apparently this bus is something called a "Semi Express" so we've dipped over to Orillia to pick up a few more passengers. Then back west and south through Barrie to Toronto.

[msbarrows]

Within 5-10 minutes of getting outside in Toronto I saw my first cyber truck in the wild. Blargh. Kill it with fire!

[deagh]

There are two in my neighborhood, so I see the awful things all the time. (Yes, I know for sure it's two different ones, different plates, plus the corrosion patterns are different on the two of them.)

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[deagh]

Alllll of this. I am not a Luddite, or at least I never had been. I thought the internet was the best thing in the history of ever. I could look up whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.

But now...it's just all terrible. They ruined it.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

[ohwaitimthewriter]

Especially the last one!

[enigmaticpink]

I firmly believe what ever you’re obsessed with at 11/12 years old becomes a core part of who you are, regardless if you lose interest in it or not. Maybe some of you were lucky and were obsessed with warrior cats or smth, and if you’re real unlucky it was probably twilight.

[deagh]

I got Tolkien! The librarian in our little town let me get books from the regular fiction section when I was about that age and I found The Lord of the Rings. Not The Hobbit, that was later. It was LOTR that I found first. It's absolutely been lifelong.

[writingdose]

[loth-catgirl]

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[sourdough-seal]

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[orbitalmirror]

"how did you get into writing" girl i've been tormented by the visions since i was eight years old