Fiddle's Grove

Female / Age: 27 / Author, Singer, Artist, and Voiceover Actress / BatIM AU+Ask Blog: @whos-laughing-now-batim

[snoozu]

sometimes instead of “why can’t they just be friends” i think it should be “why can’t they also be friends” because sometimes shipping feels much too much like forcing two pretty characters to kiss and be intimate without actually being interested in the dynamic the two people have. what about hanging out together. what about why they like being in each others company. what do they argue about. how do they patch things up. what do they laugh about.

[snoozu]

best tag on this post

[simon-newman]

Wait. There are people who "ship" two characters purely in the sexual way?

What the actual fuck?

On to the top shelf "shipping" goes. Those people are too immature to be using it.

[sophsun1]

HADES voiced by James Woods

Hercules (1997) dir. John Musker & Ron Clements

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[charitydingle]

魔女の宅急便 / Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[beardedmrbean]

[beardedmrbean]

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

It also applies to reel to reel tape.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

While I understand that everybody seems to hate AI in all facets of its existence including the ability to research. I think LLMS doing research groundwork is actually not a bad thing. And in defense of Grok in this particular case, It does not necessarily have to get its sources from Merriam Webster, whom I believe is bent the knee to the mob when it comes to what a woman supposedly is. So. Looking at this realistically I think sourcing multiple sources is a good idea.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

The problem is AI will just make shit up if it can't find an answer. And sometimes when it can. AI's literally aren't allowed to come back with "I don't know" as an answer. It also can't separate fact from fiction or good sources from bad sources. I've gotten AI search summaries that cite one singular article from a site I've never heard of that, upon investigation, seems like it was posting AI written articles.

Much like Wikipedia, AI can be useful for finding a jumping on point to learn what you want to learn, but you can't trust it implicitly and you always have to check the cited sources.

[spaceorphan18]

Is it bad that I feel slightly bad that I keep coming to the library to use its quietness and its desk space and its pleasant atmosphere for writing but I never check out books?

[ckerouac]

Why would you feel bad? You’re using the library for one of its intended purposes. The desks, WiFi, space etc are LITERALLY there for you to do exactly what you’re doing AND each time you go in you add to the foot traffic numbers that prove hey people are coming in to use our stuff mr. government so keep funding us.

[surroundedbybooks]

Confirmed by another public librarian. One of the stats we track is "WiFi usages"

That is, we track number of sessions/devices using it over time.

The library is not about snooping on what you're doing with that WiFi. Libraries respect privacy.

[rosefyrefyre]

We literally have a door counter at my library. Congratulations, you just added to our statistics.

[chaosfrisur]

I think it's a bit sad that with more and more public spaces vanishing, people are feeling bad about not "buying" stuff to "earn" their time at a library.

A library is like a park, you're allowed to just. Exist in it.

I check out books every 4 weeks, when the learning period from my current books is up, but I go much more frequently with my kid to just sit there and read to them, and that's okay. In my school days, we'd go and do our research for presentations there, just reading, never checking out.

A library is a space to just exist.

[foxofninetales]

So a year or so ago, we added some new desklets at our library, in areas where we noticed that people gravitated to but didn't have the right furnishing to use them in the way they wanted to.

The first few weeks of having the new furniture were absolutely filled with excited librarians whispering to each other, "Look! Someone's using the desklet in the back corner!" and "casually" walking by to enjoy the sight like wildlife researchers who had successfully baited a particularly elusive rare bird. Nobody cared if those people checked anything out or not. There was a need! We saw the need! We filled the need! Hooray!

WE PUT THE THING THERE TO BE USED. USE THE THING.

[berdymane]

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Super ironic coming from someone on the site that was invented to do everything he's complaining about lol

[luna-azzurra]

Things i love in books!

⊹ When the villain has a point and you catch yourself agreeing before remembering they're the bad guy and it makes you uncomfortable in a good way.

⊹ ࣪Romance that builds so slowly you don't even notice it's happening until suddenly they're standing too close and your heart rate spikes reading it.

⊹ ࣪when a character who's been stoic the whole time finally breaks down and it's only two sentences but it hits like a truckside

⊹ ࣪Characters who show up for one scene, steal the whole chapter, then disappear forever and you think about them for years

⊹ ࣪hyperspecific details that serve no purpose like what someone orders at a restaurant or the exact way they tie their shoes but it makes them feel real

⊹ ࣪When the author clearly did unhinged amounts of research on something tiny and you can TELL they went down a rabbit hole and loved every second

⊹ ࣪found family but it's messy and they argue and sometimes they're bad at it but they keep choosing each other anyway

[despazito]

when i see a funni post but im blocked by op

[themonstermesh-blog]

If you are blocked by the OP you did something problematic.

[despazito]

you must be new here

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[irishironclad]

We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people.

[awesomebutunpractical]

I try not to judge too harshly, but reacting to a baby crying with "that's why I don't want kids" is, to use the tiktok vocabulary, such a huge ick.

[mapleejay]

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

[mapleejay]

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

[thebelfry]

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

[peniswizard69]

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Oh I love this news!!!!

[pulmonary-poultry]

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[postilionstruckbylightning]

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

[magical-bear-dubin]

That is such an interesting etymology!!!!

And entomology too i guess

[asparklethatisblue]

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

[istadris]

In French it’s “Good Lord’s Beast”

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

[dent-de-l1on]

In Dutch it’s “Lieveheersbeestje”, the Good Lord’s Little Beast

A liddol creeture

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[factbot]

[despazito]

the second radish is 29 feet away

[tranarchist]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post