i googled toe beans, and was not disappointed

i'ma bean, y'know • also i'm Elorra on ao3

[elorrabean]

Here is a moodboard and a playlist I made for my ongoing fic, 1934. It's got a California and summer vibe, so I thought it would be appropriate to post for the Thommy Summer Smash!

[if-dreams-do-come-true]

Leon S Kennedy: Hair Study

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire -- Episode 6

[ssgvollmer]

[papa-evershed]

baby RJC 👶

[figofswords]

i miss my beautiful wife joann fabrics it feels as if eons have passed since i last saw her. this guy michael keeps waving her visage in front of me and saying she’s living in his house but he is lying to me. i know this because i went into his house and found only fragments and memories of my beautiful wife joann and pictures of her shadowed face labeled “online only”. michael won’t even let me order swatches from him

[theaftersundown]

*writes two paragraphs after months of literally nothing and it took three hours*

[lieutenantpepper]

my favorite thing paul does in interviews is when he mentions a beatles song and then starts singing it to make sure people know it, like he'll say "we were performing she loves you, you know 'she loves you yeah yeah yeah...'" like you literally don't have to do that. everyone knows that song. you are paul mccartney

[lennonmccartneyofficial]

My personal favorite is when he goes to tell and a story and he prefaces it with "you know, john and I- john lennon and I-" like yeah no we know that. we know who john is. you are the beatles

[thisandthetis-deactivated201505]

carson is 6735% sure that they’re fucking

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[thatdisasterauthor]

"Use Libre Office."

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

:| :| :|

Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I am going to light something on fire.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.

[vampirerex]

“It makes no damn sense! Compels me though,” and “no, it’s JUST DUMB” are the two most important additions to the general vernacular ever

[mooned-knights]

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

[the-last-teabender]

My #1 conspiracy theory is that the decision to call LLM and other generative technology “AI” without modifiers was a marketing ploy to muddy the waters and make criticism/dissent more difficult.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

When we were children, my sister had private music lessons at her violin teacher’s house. I only visited there once, but I still remember that afternoon. The teacher had an artificial pond in her yard, a large beautiful thing with lily pads and plant life. And in the pond, there were goldfish. I had never seen such enormous goldfish. 

I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond. 

Funny what lessons children remember. My sister doesn’t play the violin anymore, but that was the first time I caught a glimpse of the overwhelming extent to which it matters, the way the world treats us.

[yellow-hatco]

Reblogged again for this drawing I made for it

[221b-hound]

Give us room to grow and see how we flourish.

[katus77]

In Downton Abbey, Daisy and Thomas's ages are a mystery that I believe is linked to enforced chastity, which serves as a tool for bodily control and infantilization. Carson accepts that the boys have sex (except for Thomas) and decrees that the girls must say no, otherwise they are prostitutes (except for Mary). Thus, by enforcing chastity in the kitchen, mature, free, or autonomous sexuality is denied, and the series' institutional system succeeds in stripping them of their adulthood. Patmore controls Daisy with shouting and orders, and even decides who her husband will be; the result is a mother-daughter relationship that the audience applauds and values. It reminds me of the traumatic attachment relationship between Janine and Aunt Lydia in "The Handmaid's Tale." Janine and Daisy are women, and they behave like insufferable children; this is how their minds protect them from abuse. Daisy, trapped in an asexual limbo for 15 years, is carefully constructed so that the script ensures the audience doesn't perceive her as a woman with her own desires; otherwise, she becomes someone like Ethel, facing expulsion, prostitution, and misery. This is the same logic as Gilead, where women's purity is not a moral choice but a social imposition to keep them docile to the system.

In Thomas's case, the forced chastity is much more violent and explicit. His sexuality is a crime and, in Carson's words, an aberration of nature. Thomas lives in terrifying abstinence, since any minimal encounter ends in blackmail, beatings, or the fear of prison (the wall in Gilead). Thus, while Daisy's adolescence stretches like chewing gum, Thomas's stretches or shrinks according to the circumstances. If Thomas cries alone in a room, he is a child who needs protection; But if he betrays Gwen at the dinner table (a "terrorist" act in the style of Mayday), he becomes a resentful, bitter, and Machiavellian man who deserves punishment. By suppressing the expression of their desires, Daisy appears too immature to demand better wages and Thomas too unstable to ask for respect.

[katus77]

Rob James-Collier is a total heartthrob, what a handsome man! But in the third Downton Abbey film (where the entire cast had aged), audiences thought Thomas looked "old"; in the second, they complained that Dexter was too old (and Rob was already over 40). So what happened? Did Rob age a lot in a couple of years, or did the perception of the character change? I think it's the latter. For six seasons, Thomas's age varied depending on the circumstances. Then, in the first film, Mary was sure that Thomas wasn't ready for the King's visit because he looked like a rabbit facing lions. Carson, for her part, justified the replacement by saying that Thomas was too young and unstable; in other words, Mary and Carson had control over Thomas. In that same storyline, one man asks him to dance, and another kisses him on the mouth! Thus we arrive at the third film, where Thomas has a job far removed from the rigidity of Downton, is independent of his adoptive "family," doesn't have to apologize to anyone for existing, lives on another continent, and has a husband! By giving him stability and a partner, the infantilization trap is broken; and the audience, accustomed to seeing Thomas as the troubled child in the kitchen, experiences a cognitive shock; and to process this new information, they label him as "old." He can no longer be viewed with pity for the wounded child nor with contempt for the incomplete man. By leaving Downton, Thomas escapes the cage of the narrative, and, in turn, the audience is confronted with seeing him as an equal, an adult, with the power of decision, and loved.

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 Summer frock of blue and white from the fashion magazine "Beaux Arts des Modes", Pinterest.

[mimi-maru]

[shinraalpha]

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