sing me awake

call me Friday, she/her,  multifandom. prone to sporadically fill your entire dash with people from media wildly diffrent from what you followed me for. love and respect y'all

[menocchio-final-final]

baby I don't want you killing anyone tonight

baby I was so nervous you might do something extreme I took a four hour train to secretly supervise

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[adibkhorram]

So I saw this news last week and finally switched over to duckduckdo and the difference is STAGGERING. It's like...search from 20 years ago. The results I want are at the TOP. I can't believe I waited so long to switch.

[tjalexandernyc]

agreed, switching to duckduckgo last year was the single best improvement in my life. just remember to change the search settings > manage ai and turn all the different toggles to Off (duck.ai), Never (search assist), and On (Hide ai images)

[ship-to-starboard]

Hornblower Letterboxd reviews: Mutiny

[sparrow-olli]

Damn he used the first name on him in a professional setting....... i know what you are 👀👀👀👀

[thefighting74]

Actually my favorite Hornblower story is the sequel short where he's happily retired and spending his days at home with Barbara but then some weird ass mf shows up asking for a horse and carriage (urgent) and claiming to be Napoleon. Hornblower meets the guy, goes "yeah, sure, whatever" and sends him on his way. Smash cut to a few months later and he gets a letter from Napoleon II, Emperor of France, thanking him for helping him get back to France so that he could ascend the throne and he's like "I'd like to honor you for the great service you have done to France" and inside the package theres. The Legion d'Honneur. And Hornblower is so fucking pissed and the story ends right there. It's so funny to me.

[sadboybrigade]

Bush & Hornblower's interactions in Hotspur are so so funny to me. Horatio Hornblower worst compliment receiver of all time (...same tho)

[werewiire]

Ioan Gruffudd in Wilde (1997)

[here-am-i-sitting-in-a-tin-can]

let’s observe the enemy with mama

[crankybeetle]

Be the change you want to see (Horatio Hornblower art in the big 2026)

[blowing-my-horn]

It's literally them

[leona-florianova]

Man is named Hornblower and doesnt even play any wind instruments...

doesnt like nor understand music at all... completely tone-deaf..

If I was wordplay and nomen omen loving musical man like JA, such revelation would have probably deeply saddened me... *but its also really funny..

[slettlune]

this is where we're at with my hornblower rewatch. i was gonna post some screencaps and then i realized they wouldn't convey how soft they play this scene so i clipped it and then i was like but surely i should include the look between them in the next segment and then it all got a little away from me

[unwillingadventurer]

Raffles in The Chest of Silver

[oh-good]

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

[bethanydelleman]

headcanon accepted!

[quietwingsinthesky]

thank god vampirism is a flexible metaphor

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s about being queer it’s about surviving assault it’s about alienation and most of all it’s about how everyone who loved you before might not be able to even look at you now, no matter how many times you try to explain that you didn’t ask to die and you didn’t ask for that death to leave you only half-eaten when it got bored of you.

[my-dailydreams]

[womprat-deactivated20170904]

happy pride month from the tribbles 

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (June 7th, 2017)