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IT’S PEAK FICTION
I LOVE BEING CORRECT
In honor of our favorite cat’s big glow-up, enjoy some photos from his aquarium adventures when he came with me to Dragon Con last year. No one seemed to recognize him, but he stole many hearts nevertheless!
Omelet is freehand crocheted & knitted by me, and is intended to be a life-sized pre-pupal cat. He really fits in among the myriad strange creatures of the deep Fold.
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On what part of your body is your biggest scar?
head
torso
arms/hands
legs/feet
a different part of my body
I have 0 scars
They want to be alive for this, and so, here and now, they are.
I have been deeply unwell about this episode for the last two weeks, and I don’t see it stopping anytime soon. My heart is so full. I am overjoyed, delighted. I will never be the same 💕
Hello, Tumblr user. Here's a non-binary character who uses they/them. Their ASAB isn't relevant at all for the story and everyone regardless of relationship uses they/them for them and they're trans. Your challenge will be to not try to sniff out their ASAB. Go---- oh you're already telling other people who don't agree with you they're wrong and bigoted for hcing it different from you. Okay.
Someone on Facebook (redacted for privacy) writes this about the Canvas Shinyhunters hack:
"I know the Canvas ransomware attack is terribly inconvenient for many people, and sorry if that means you. I, however, am finding it farcically amusing.
For years and years faculty have been pushed to use Canvas. All courses get a homogenized and flattened interface and everything is presented as an easy consumer experience in a one-stop shop and it doesn’t matter if you object to any of that or don’t want to spend 50 hours dealing with an annoying tech product that doesn’t fit your pedagogy. Even communicating with students has been shunted through Canvas. And if you resist any of this, woe betide you. In fact you can’t print syllabi any more even if you wanted to—unless you pay for your own paper, ink, and printer (which I do).
Now Canvas has been taken down by ransomware, tomorrow is the last day of finals week, and YOU are supposed to scramble and solve this problem, using magic. That includes adjuncts who are not even paid a livable wage and faculty who might have hundreds of students.
This is a failure of a tech platform that was forced on us, and the university administrations nationwide who expect you to move heaven and earth are the same ones who are actively undermining their own institutions’ degrees by leaping into bed with AI companies before they even get their pants all the way off. These administrations (and this includes almost all of them) are not *ignoring* the destruction of education and academic integrity by AI—they are actively participating in it by forcibly inserting AI into student life, university email systems, etc. They are literally giving students software designed for cheating and cognitive dependency for free and applauding its use. And they think you are supposed to materialize a magical solution to this Canvas mess to ensure grades are in? Like between dinner and breakfast you are supposed to recreate everything you had to put in Camvas for an entire semester in some nonexistent other platform?
We just got an email telling us to “communicate directly with your students via email or other available tools for any immediate course needs.” How? Also, we should “Consider alternate methods of submitting assignments digitally or completing assignments in person on Friday” LOL what? So, individual faculty member, grab some No-Doz from the truck stop because in the next 12 hours or so, you must materialize a way for your students to take an online exam! Hope you own a server! Oh also you will have to rewrite the exam because you wrote it in Canvas and you don’t even have the questions anymore! Or just tell the students show up on campus tomorrow for an in-person exam—I hope you brought your personal printer!—and I hope nobody else scheduled anything at the same time, with no coordination! Then sit back and listen to the students tell you they already went home to Wyoming or Guam two days ago.
This is ludicrous. It is a problem created by overpaid administrators who have never had an idea that wasn’t sold to them by a software company and who now expect you to abracadabra a solution even as they are pushing chatbot accounts onto the same students so they can learn as little as possible through the degree.
Think about it this way: thousands of US colleges and universities with millions of students are paralyzed by this Canvas takedown. That means that the presentation of course material has been homogenized at thousands of universities for millions of students, all by U administrators whose inflated salaries are rationalized by their “leadership” skills despite doggedly insisting on doing everything like everyone else does. And they think the solution to a problem of this scale is for alll the individual instructors involved—some of whom they don’t even provide offices or computers!—to literally overnight recreate 16 weeks of records, rewrite assignments, contact dozens or hundreds of students, and set up on-the-fly alternative examinations. It’s stunning, really. Their judgment about AI is just as solid."
Facts about Merlin & Rawfield's friendship:
- Merlin is ~38 years old
- He and Rawfield have known each other for 'tens of traversals' (as he told Kanneken during the interlude interview)
- They met because Rawfield 'yanked him off a first-day tour' at a mica-lung facility to help her perform a lavage
Obvious conclusion:
Rawfield abducted a random teenager off a volunteer tour and made him help with semi-emergency (?) medicine.
This idea continues to bounce around in my head, so I had to write it up:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
my family fucked up my life by using spoonerisms interchangeably with their true phrase counterparts since before i was born and now i can’t escape from instinctively saying shit like “im gonna shake a tower”
oh “meeking a smee” made me feel like i was being fucking tazed
theres a lot of people on this website who dont realize their dad is a gnome
happy pride i'm feeling sad about merlin
I happened to relisten to Bodily Autonomy on the first day of June, and though I am very frustrated with his most recent behavior, I cannot help but feel a great deal of sympathy for Merlin. And because it is pride and I’ve been nursing an aroace!Merlin headcanon pretty seriously since I first listened to Bodily Autonomy, I hope he has an aroace revelation that will allow him to express the hurt the Biological Man and Felix have caused him. I doubt it will lessen the pain (might even make it worse at first tbh), but I want him to understand himself, and interrogating his feelings and communicating them will help with that.
Because the thing is, his feelings are so valid—the anger, the betrayal, the wishing things were different—but instead of addressing the root of the problem (that he is hurting and no one’s at fault and there’s no quick fix) and working through it, he's being a stubborn, passive-aggressive, narrow-minded jerk about it. He's running so hard from the pain he will inevitably feel that he's starting to sabotage all his relationships!
so yeah. grabbing him by the shoulders and shaking him while also asking with genuine concern if he's ever heard of aromanticism and asexuality.
Facts about Merlin & Rawfield's friendship:
- Merlin is ~38 years old
- He and Rawfield have known each other for 'tens of traversals' (as he told Kanneken during the interlude interview)
- They met because Rawfield 'yanked him off a first-day tour' at a mica-lung facility to help her perform a lavage
Obvious conclusion:
Rawfield abducted a random teenager off a volunteer tour and made him help with semi-emergency (?) medicine.
Steve's manipulation of Merlin is very smooth, very deliberate and targeted, and it does seems to be working exactly as he intended it to... but there is one thing he has not yet properly accounted for:
The one-woman anti-cult-bullshit machine that is Ripley Rawfield.
Adding to the ongoing 'ace Merlin' theory: bro has no idea he was conventionally attractive, and has zero appreciate for the fact that that was probably doing a lot of heavy lifting to generate the 'natural charisma' he's now missing.
“I have spent a lifetime surviving, caring for, cultivating, and living in THAT.” Merlin gestures to the Biological Man with a bocular splay of his bocular fingers.
suuuure you did, mr. subsisted-on-nothing-but-coffee-for-several-stretches-of-the-initial-voyage. “caring” for it. mhmm.
Merlin: Cleo, teach me your beguiling Guilemoth ways
Cleo: uh no, I hate the Guilemoth ways, I’m trying to unlearn them, actually. you should maybe talk to Felix about how he hurt your feelings
Merlin: absolutely not, I'm going to go learn cult tactics from Steve instead :>
proud of you buddy. Let the Biological Man say fuck
Steve complains about light but nothing is brighter than the megawatt beam of Charismatic Cult Leader Energy he just turned on Merlin during a vulnerable moment & circumstances. Yes don't worry Merlin, Steve values you where your friends do not. He'll tell you what you want to hear. He'll stand by you and absolutely won't further the wedge between you and the support system you are refusing. That masterclass of manipulation you wanted from Cleo is in session with visiting professor blobular frogecko
