"Hope for the Best,Thirst for the Worst"

Charismatic microfauna from the cold north. Has a spouse, two cats, a pharmacy degree, several diagnoses and a temper. Is nominally an adult and sometimes talks about adult things. Probably fans characters you hate; live with it.

[1elskling-deactivated20260320]

I’m just a little bunny enjoying my first snow

[afurioushawk]

For the people who said this vote was out-of-character for her, it wasn't

She just can't stop helping Russians for some reason.

[pansyfemme]

it really is crazy how there are so many influencers with millions of followers i have never heard of in my life

[pansyfemme]

every day someone is like ‘have you heard about the situation with johnny youtube?’ and i go. pardon. who the hell is that

[crimeronan]

sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome

[good-to-drive]

It's kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I'd prefer if no one else saw it

[agendratum]

[yourspecialeyes]

Reddit user has cracked the code on how to read fanfic and study at the same time

(image via twitter)

[televisionenjoyer]

original reddit post

[veggiezombiex]

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User cotton-seed-oil posted to the FanFiction sub-reddit:

I studied for my exam with fanfiction, and I think it worked. This is so fucking funny. It is the best thing I have every done. I am a physics and astronomy student in college. I am taking cosmology this semester, and it is much harder than expected (we glossed over all of special and general relativity in two lectures, and our previous classes were not expected to teach us this). I spent days trying to study for this exam, and nothing worked-everything was going in one ear and out the other. Finally, two days before my exam, I decided to get creative. I wrote a fanfiction about four characters discussing the concepts, explaining them to one another. One issue I had faced when studying was getting very anxious while reviewing the material, making it hard to even think clearly. Writing this fanfic eliminated that-after all, it's fanfic. Therefore, no danger. It removed all the pressure. 48 hours later, I wrote over nine thousand words in Overleaf, at 30 pages long. It was fun, and it was complete. This afternoon, I took the exam-and while was difficult, I felt like I knew what I was doing. More than that, I actually think I understand the material now. When I reviewed my old homework questions, they were understandable, whereas I had been completely lost the first time around. I have a Quantum exam next week, and I am using the exact same technique, because holy shit, it works like magic (and is so much fun).

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@atlinmerrick

[porcupine-girl]

Research has shown over and over again that studying with the expectation of teaching the material to someone else is WAY more effective than just studying to remember for a test. This is brilliant - if you don't have anyone to teach it to, have your blorbos teach it to each other!

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Rubber duck programming taken to a totally new level.

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[beaft]

this website is so funny because every couple years we repeat the discourse of "which marginalised group is it morally okay for us to shit on?" and somehow nobody ever learns from it. we just look back and go, "hey, remember that time when everyone was joking about how ace people should all be put in meat grinders? that was so messed up. we should not have done that. anyway, here's my topical joke about how polyamorous people should all be put in meat grinders."

[beaft]

this post is still getting me anon hate pretty much on the daily btw. in case you were curious about the state of things

[thebiscuiteternal]

I've decided Christopher Lee vs. 90% of his male costars is the minimum height difference re: Nie Mingjue vs. Everyone else I'm willing to accept, canon height charts be damned.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of prancing

[tearlessrain]

having anxiety is like being given permanent unwanted custody of a halter arabian. like okay buddy is it panic time again. cool you probably need more exercise and an apple and then maybe you'll calm down.

[tearlessrain]

taking my stupid walks for my stupid mental health with my stupid hypervigilant brain horse

[tearlessrain]

thoroughly enjoying the notes on this post because it's equal parts people with anxiety going "yeah that's what it's like" and people with arabians going "yeah that's what they're like"

[tributary]

wake up babe new batshit insane conspiracy theory just dropped

[theowlseye-deactivated20240403]

Obsessed with how some people get so attached to their own headcanons that they get mad when they see a character presented as they are in canon

[poetikat]

via @ourlordapollo

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[pawthorn]

Really hate that most people don’t understand the difference between “self-expression” and “artistic-expression.”

I say this as someone who sells pottery, and many people who see my art assume I am using art as an outlet to “express myself.”

I am not.

I use art to challenge myself. A lot of what I do is the equivalent of doing a hard sudoko or a half marathon, answering the question of “can I do this?”

I use art to question things and explore ideas. Finding physical synthesis between concepts and working out a design to its end state.

I use art to make money. I make some things just because I suspect they’ll sell well, and I keep making them when they do.

This idea that an artist is “putting themselves out there” every time they create is not only stupid, but harmful, and it kills critique and analysis.

Yes every creative work is influenced by its creator, but the most preliminary step of analysis is to define the purpose of a work of art (functional, narrative, entertainment, persuasive, decorative, ceremonial, etc.) and a vanishingly small percentage of that is self-expression. Even then, it’s generally tied to the self’s relationship with something else—perception, society, etc.

It’s very tiresome to have people assume they know you because they like (or dislike) your art, to make assumptions about who you are and how you approach the world. It’s nothing new— people called the Impressionists insane and the Fauvists degenerate. And now people are expected to hand out their identities and traumas to prove they have the right to explore certain subjects.

But to actually understand art, you have to contextualize it beyond assuming it’s just what the artist felt like making at the moment and it’s somehow coming from their deepest soul, or you’ll badly misinterpret most art you come across.

[doomhamster]

Overtagging on AO3 is getting out of control, we all know that, but seriously... tagging a fic with "nonconsensual spanking" because one character smacks another's ass, once?

Don't raise your readers' hopes like that.

[doomhamster]

Also what is the point of mentioning that your explicit fic includes NUDITY?

Tagging for clothed sex might make sense because someone might go looking for fics involving that, but... "just so you know, the characters get naked to have sex"?

[doomhamster]

So 13 people just got stricken from the election rolls of the Swedish Left Party for antisemitism and supporting Hamas.

I suppose it's good to know that those sentiments aren't OPENLY mainstream in Swedish politics? But fuck, I hate living in a timeline where this is a concern at all.