disgruntled pelican.

old millennial / elderflowergin on ao3

[richyjerimovich]

I'm everyone's "one who got away." ABBOTT ELEMENTARY, 5.13 "Candygrams"

[azertyrobaz]

It's actually pronounced Wyatt.

[penny-anna]

they should have made another search engine called Ask Wooster where it gives you the wrong answer every time

[simoneashley]

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid Interview With the Vampire Season 3 promo for Entertainment Weekly

[spandexinspace]

I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

[foxgirlofficial]

pov: you’ve been transported to the 17th century

[uvradical]

#in the article it says that the sailboat sailors were concerned because they could not be towed quickly because of the kind of boat#so they asked Götheborg what type of ship they were and warned that they would not be able to go above a certain speed#and götheborg went ' we are also a sailboat. 50 meters length. no worries :) '#and the poor sailboat sailors were just like ' That's not possible. they have to be messing with us' and then the ship Rolled Up (via bunjywunjy)

[ms-demeanor]

I'm crying. Here's a photo of a sailor from the Götheborg watching over the little sailboat in tow:

From the story:

We repeatedly emphasized that we were aboard a small 8-meter sailboat, but the response was the same each time: "We are a 50-meter three-masted sailboat, and we offer our assistance in towing you to Paimpol." We were perplexed by the size difference between our two boats, as we feared being towed by a boat that was too large and at too fast a speed that could damage our boat. The arrival of the Götheborg on the scene was rapid and surprising, as we did not expect to see a merchant ship from the East India Company of the XVIII century. This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it? The Götheborg approached very close to us to throw the line and pass a large rope. The mooring went well, and our destinies were linked for very long hours, during which we shared the same radio frequency to communicate with each other. The crew of the Götheborg showed great professionalism and kindness towards us. They adapted their speed to the size of our boat and the weather conditions. We felt accompanied by very professional sailors. Every hour, the officer on duty of the Götheborg called us to ensure everything was going well.[...] This adventure, very real, was an incredible experience for us. We were extremely lucky to cross paths with the Götheborg by chance and especially to meet such a caring crew. Dear commander and crew of the Götheborg, your kindness, and generosity have shown that your ship is much more than just a boat. It embodies the noblest values of the sea, and we are honored to have had the chance to cross your path and benefit from your help.

"Our destinies were linked for very long hours" is just knocking me out.

[petermorwood]

Reblogging again. This must have been a surreal experience.

[teratomat]

[sunsetbuddie]

hey so anyone else just, feel thin. sort of stretched. like butter scraped over too much bread. like you need a holiday. a very long holiday. and you don't expect you shall return? or is that just me and bilbo baggins

[niedosyt555]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[cheaphalloweencostume]

happy birthday devils sacrament. i wish you were never born

[coldasyou]

Fuck all this, do you wanna go get a drink?

bonus:

[haraxvati]

Thought about it for two minutes so I'm sorry for the collateral damage it is causing and going to cause but corporatised AI is an existential threat to writing and fandom, so people calling it out when they encounter it is good, actually. The next AO3, if it appears, *will* have a built-in feature to inform readers of what was generated by an LLM and what wasn't.

The real individual problem for writers, I believe, is that the reign of terror approach to calling out and cancelling authors isn't sincere, because it rarely is. A substantial number if not the majority of your cancellers are people who don't give a shit about using LLMs themselves and who will happily read 45000 words posted every two days of synthetic blorbo-fucking because they don't know and can't tell the difference between human patterns of production and plagiarised shit; their incentive to retweet an accusation of plagiarism is the fun of joining a riot. That is a social issue and fandom, just like and even more than other kinds of society online, is vulnerable to it.

LLMs will shrink fandoms. There is no way around this. We have to write like our lives depend on it, write to bring joy to strangers, and write to sow the seeds of a future we are not going to live to see.

[holocrone]

It’s like saying “Macbeth” in the theater.

Ayesha Harris as DR. PARKER ELLIS THE PITT | 8:00 P.M. for @srdcovka

[djo]

SUPRIYA GANESH as SAMIRA MOHAN 2.10: 4:00 P.M.

[chat-chouage]

the other day i started writing an office romance but i quickly remembered that i have no idea what working in an office is like

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

as opposed to your vast personal expertise in romance?

[chat-chouage]

[therukurals]

I'll be reading a samira fic and then be like oh nice tamil reference but then it would be something brahmin.

[therukurals]

Self indulgent fics are the only fics I write

[drivingsideways]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Medical Trauma, career redefining injuries, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

Shane shouldn’t be worrying that Ilya is going to leave him over a fight over a leaky faucet, because that was just stupid, and if, if, Ilya was going to leave him, it was going to be about the other thing.

[great-and-small]

Actually I do not feel snug as a bug in a rug I feel uptight as a mite in a fight