Carry onwards

32, UK, any pronouns. There is so little rhyme or reason to this blog beyond things I currently love. Profile pic by @highviscosity

[eturni]

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

Fandom:   The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Georgie Barker/Melanie King Martin Blackwood & Annabelle Cane Martin Blackwood & Melanie King Georgie Barker & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Martin Blackwood & Melanie King & Tim Stoker & Danny Stoker

Characters: Martin Blackwood Melanie King Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Georgie Barker

Additional Tags: The Magnus Archives ensemble cast Honestly there are Too Many characters and relationships to tag separately in good conscience Fluff Getting Together First Kiss snarky Martin Blackwood Trans Martin Blackwood Transphobia Racism toned down for story reasons but it's 19th C England Eye Trauma Recovery Kidnapping Body snatching Martin Blackwood's Mother's A+ Parenting canon typical circus explosions Canon Asexual Character Alternate Universe - Pride and Prejudice Fusion Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies No beta we kayak like Tim

Martin dropped back, feeling as though he'd been struck. “That's not fair.”

“Is it truly not?” Master Sims’ eyes narrowed, looking at him once again with that feeling of being stripped bare and judged with uncaring intensity. “The only reason I can conceive of that you would expect me to treat my own husband that way is due to the way she treats you.”

Husband it echoed in his head. He could never have imagined a man using that word for him in a way that caused such a heavy weight of sickness in his stomach. “I expect that sort of treatment from a man who would propose to me by calling his feelings abhorrent and myself beneath him. You may rest reassured, Master Sims, that you have discharged your duty in putting your unwilling feelings into such a theatrical declaration and that you may take with you my sincerest apologies that I gave you any indication that I would be at all happy for the affections of a man whose feelings for me were such a singularly unpleasant sensation for him.”

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

some gunpowder tim propaganda cmon guys

Love it

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment

[breakingboob]

Nestle has:

Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.

Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.

Used slavery to produce their cocoa.

Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.

Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.

Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.

Price-fixed food items.

Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.

The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.

[theeretblr]

Nestlé is LITERALLY the largest food company in the world and have one of the worst track records. Pls avoid their products if you can

[nyaahilism]

Flint, Michigan

[creacher-art]

They looooove draining springs and then hopping onto the next one.

They are diabolical.

[todaysbat]

They have an entire page on Wikipedia just for the problems they've caused.

It seems like they know people are trying to boycott them and are trying to avoid advertising a brand is theirs as much as they legally can get away with on the packaging.

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

How did it get up there

[piratekayte]

It’s difficult to tell - typically light fixtures are installed using some combination of screws and brackets to affix them to the wall, but in this case the actual point of connection is obscured by a cat.

[looceyloo]

couple of recent style experiments, having a lot of fun with bright colours and chunky shapes! this is a lil closer to how i used to draw, way back when, and it's been very freeing to go back to something more stylized!

The first one is Noelani, for mustachebabs.com on bsky. The second one is Vojka Marinova, for tyrenias.bsky.social on bsky

[bluemuffin-draws]

So there's this bed in a game 😳

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

[alinalal-art]

Print commission for Erica Mendez, voice of Mio in Fatal Frame II Remake !

[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?

[scenerwiththegreenery]

Okay, so I don't spend a ton of time using these features, but more than a lot of people, because I'm in school and so I have to write papers, emails, etc. I thought I was going crazy because the suggestions just.. do not make any fucking sense. Increasingly over the past few years (started back to college in 2023), Word and Outlook are both making terrible suggestions, and I don't get it because I've been using Word since the late '90s and it has never been as bad as it is now...

Did they add AI to Micro$oft's products? I already turn off Copilot, but is there anywhere else to turn off AI?

[thatdisasterauthor]

Disabling copilot will turn off the generative AI features, mostly, but the problem isn't coming directly from generative AI. It is coming from where these grammar checkers are pulling their data from, because they are essentially crowdsourcing their data now, rather than relying on real, determined rules.

You CAN make it somewhat better in Word at least by going to File>Options>Proofing>Writing Style>Settings, which will open up this big long list:

Unchecking everything from the "clarity" and "conciseness" sections will get rid of A LOT of the suggestions that try to really change your voice. It won't fix a lot of the stupid ass suggestions it makes for other stuff, but it at least gets rid of a bunch of the distracting junk.

However, the settings never seem to stick for me so I have to go back in and check this list pretty often, sometimes even in one editing session where I haven't closed and reopened the document at all.

[birdofork]

Yes, the spelling/grammar check has grown increasingly horrible, but Microsoft DID add AI a couple years ago and didn't tell its customers!

I have a shit computer and was wondering why Microsoft Word was basically unusable and it's because the AI takes up so much more processing power than normal, it was basically crashing my system.

BUT!

You can delete the AI without affecting the rest of the program.

Instructions under the cut cause they got long.

How to delete the AI assistant (in Windows):

Open your C: drive which can be found in "This PC" as OS (C:)

Then open the following folders:

Program Files Microsoft Office root vfs ProgramFilesCommonX64 Microsoft Shared OFFICE16 AI

In the AI folder, there will be two application files called ai and aimgr. Delete both of those.

Unfortunately, every time Microsoft updates, these files will come back and need to be redeleted. I've saved myself time by adding the "AI" folder to my Quick access in the file explorer folder (on the left of the image below) so I can just click on it and delete the ai/aimgr every time I need to (which is pretty much every time I use Word).

This forum also has the instructions about how to delete the files if you scroll down https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4649157/outlook-how-to-disable-artificial-intelligence-(ai

On a related note, Microsoft 365 also started charging users more for a subscription

because they added the AI (that we didn't want). The only way to get the normal pricing back when you're up for renewal is to go into your online Microsoft account and basically go through the motions of cancelling your subscription and they'll offer you the old option.

Absolutely insane that we have to do this for a basic word processor...

[thatdisasterauthor]

Thanks for the tip!

[corpuswalker-deactivated2018120]

if somone made pixel art of mulch id be very happy boy

[bowelfly]

enjoy your mulch

[bowelfly]

throwback to the time i didn’t realize that mulch was the name of someone’s fursona

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[archibaldtuttle]

I want to show you an actual training slide from my customer service job that I had to see yesterday.

[targetdotcom-deactivated2026011]

Fińàncial Harm

[tittyinfinity]

[izbnart]

Dnd animation yayy!

[haarute]

me: i can't do anything... i don't know what my life is anymore...

the jacob wysocki tulpa manifesting inside my brain:

[iconuk01]

Banksy has confirmed that a new statue erected in London is his work and I think it might be one of my favourite pieces by him.

Called "Blinded by the Flag" it... actually, you don't need me to explain it, it's art, you'll get it and interpret it yourself.

It's in Waterloo Place, Central London, if you're nearby.

[cliopadra]

4 DAYS!

[hypotenussy]

the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.

[thecharmingquirksofothers]

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