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Hello. This was my wife’s account.

On Sunday, my wife suffered a Widowmaker Heart Attack. Early Monday, she passed away.

You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.

bixbythemartian

“No problem,” I say, the words passing out of my mouth on autopilot, before my brain engages and I freeze.

I turn, and look at the fridge. It seems to be the same fridge that was here when I moved in.

I mean, I’m also kind of embarrassed. I never do that, I know that’s how you get roaches, but my back hurts so bad that getting up and down is next to impossible, much less bending over. “Um, you holding up okay down there?” I ask.

There was silence.

“I know that we’re probably the only apartment in the building that doesn’t have a bug problem. That’s, well, that’s you, right?”

Again, silence. But I know I heard it.

“Listen, I can’t really bend over right now, but if you’re down there and hungry, like, there’s half a rotisserie chicken in there that’s about to go bad. I was going to throw it away, but if you could use it-”

“Yesssss. Please.”

Well. Whatever it is, it’s well-mannered, anyway.

higharollakockamamie

Somewhere, a carpenter brushes sawdust from her hands and looks over the bridge she has built. It is six inches wide and long enough to span the river. As the first scorpion skitters across, she nods in satisfaction and says, “I hate that fuckin’ story.”

birdsandbuses-deactivated202506

like or reblog if you still have plushies/stuffed animals. im autistic and need validation

theriddlerisanerd

They dropped this on us as if we knew about the Diet Coke button

thestraggletag

I'm tired of googling nonsensical Donald Trump posts only to find out they're true.

dotty-literati

hugtheteadrinkthekitten

captainsblogsupplemental

geekremix

Data was an artist on a level organics cannot achieve and I appreciate him.

ayellowbirds

it continues to astonish me how much Data is proof of neurotypical writers being unable to conceptualize an actual lack of emotion. As an autistic viewer, i always found him deeply, profoundly emotive, driven by passionate interests and deep bonds, with a strong sense of personal identity. But the text of the show constantly affirmed that none of that was true, that he didn’t feel anything—which, of course, made it all the more absurd that he wanted to feel, because someone who was truly lacking emotions shouldn’t feel the pangs of desire to feel them.

we constantly see Data exploring creative pursuits, immersing himself in different art forms and cultures, while his organic (and especially human) crewmates mostly entertain themselves at the holodeck and other such diversions. How many times was Data’s exploration of an art used in an attempt to convince the audience that he didn’t understand, that he couldn’t feel, when neurodivergent viewers could immediately see a sympathetic attempt to learn a new skill by someone who was inexperienced in it?

Data’s appreciation of a unique poetic form from an ancient nonhuman culture is presented for absurdity, while the series tells us it’s perfectly normal that a bunch of space explorers want to play at Robin Hood (what, were there no other great works of storytelling between the point of timeline divergence and the start of TNG? That’s centuries!)

gehayi

Wait, I saw Data as being insightful and appreciative of cultural differences in this scene. Y’all are telling me that this is supposed to be absurd?

terrie01

I remember reading once that Neelix was originally supposed to be the character filling the slot previously held by Spock, Data and Odo. A being of a completely different background from the rest of the crew. But, of course, the Doctor ended up filling that slot, because what united that string of characters was not “funky alien” but “character who experiences the world in a different, ND manner.”

disastrid

I did not experience that scene as absurd.

What I enjoyed about Data and why he was one of my favorite characters was because he was often shown engaging with art, and in such a way that challenged the viewers’ assumptions.

Him pursuing artistic engagements like reading or writing poetry, music, or painting, as a method of understanding emotion or “to feel something” is often a vehicle for a comment on the subjectivity of human perception and our judgments, especially of what we take for granted in terms of personhood, justice, or beauty.

Also, if i’m not mistaken, Data himself comments on the contradiction mentioned above, that if he’s truly without emotion, how can he experience the desire to feel it? Like, he thinks about the contradictions of his existence all the time. He is a unique paradoxical machine which is part of why some scientists tried to essentially force him into a study in one episode.

gardenofroseandthorn

TNG was constantly having little scenes that showed that Data was absolutely not as ‘emotionless’ as he thought he was - like after Tasha’s sister betrayed him, or when he went to essentially rub salt into the wounds of a dude that had kidnapped him and horrifically killed the woman that tried to help Data escape. The second one was particularly obvious to me; what reason did he truly have for telling the man that his collection, his pride and joy, was being returned to all the places it had been stolen from if not to hit him where Data knew it would really hurt? They were very much not subtle about this.

#data #st:tng

umbrellanumber5-deactivated2021

This.

This is why people who stay in my life are neurodiverse like me!

heartattackmedication

Help us kick Bezos in the dick

Boss Baby Bezos is at it again! Amazon opened a union busting website for people to report workers unions, so lets do the world a favor and waste Jeff’s time, money, and life energy (I hope) by spamming his website with bogus reports. Eat shit, Jeff.

Mira Furlan, 09/15/1955 - 01/20/2021 May her memory be a blessing.

#mira furlan #this one fucking *hurts*

melaschasma

gardenofroseandthorn

I’m willing to bet they’re both wearing it for the same reason, actually - purple was one of the colours associated with the suffrage movement. There were a lot of women wearing varying shades of it at the Inauguration. Michelle Obama was even wearing two of the colours - purple and gold.

acuislearchive

‘“Your uncle and your sister?” Stiles soldiered on, sure he already knew the answer, so he wasn’t surprised when Derek responded with: DEAD. But then Derek swept the word up and began choosing more letters, until he’d spelled out something that actually was surprising.’

Stand Fast in Your Enchantments by devildoll, with illustrations by rahciach

the fic and the art that went with it were amazing? i am not rly satisfied w/ this but i am too busy rn to work more on it and i wanted to show my appreciation anyway

devildoll

This is so beautiful. Oh my God. I worship you forever. <3 <3

#sterek #fic #fanart

meteor-sword

i might elaborate later but fanfic replies literally develop writer’s metacognition and make them better writers

meteor-sword

so, Metacognition is the practice of thinking about thinking or identifying one’s cognitive process . in essence, metacognition is understanding how you prepare for academic challenges, exams, or tasks, and then being able to reflect on whether you did well, you prepared adequately, and what was most effective. in a writing setting, this type of self-awareness helps you transfer skills in writing, say, fanfiction into writing academically, competitively and professionally.

here’s an article from brown university on the subject i’ll discuss further. there are 3 parts of practicing metacognition identified in this article: planning, monitoring, and evaluation. how might this look like for a fanfic writer?

planning: asking oneself ‘what is my goal?’ ‘what strategies should i use to meet that goal?’ ‘how much time/length do i need to meet my goal?’. so maybe my goal is to write a meet cute where two characters kiss. i’ll need to use a perspective, an upbeat tone, and forward characterization to do this. it’ll probably take 5000 words and two days to write.

monitoring: asking oneself: is my story making sense? am i reaching my goal, or do i need to summarize more succinctly to keep it to 5k? maybe you started with a lot of exposition and now you’re 6k in and the characters haven’t met yet. what went wrong/changed? is it ok that it changed or did you not realize it got away from you? what now?

evaluation: asking oneself: did i reach my goal? was it effective? what would i change next time?

this is where comments come in

it is incredibly difficult to evaluate yourself. comments like “i love this!” actually do begin to touch on the evaluation step of metacognition. it means, in general, the writer is on the right track. comments like “i loved the dialogue between x and y” or “the emotions of this section really hit me” begin to answer the questions of was it effective, did i reach my goal and conversely answer what would i change next time (by adding more of whatever was specified as working well). HYPER SPECIFIC comments, like analyzing the story between the lines or pasting in a line that you really liked and explaining why, is like jet fuel for the metacognition process and i’m not exaggerating. specifically pointing out what was effective and why is incredibly useful

i can straight up credit my writing style to all of my friends and readers who have given incredibly detailed comments. when i found a community who gave feedback like that, my writing improved a thousand times faster than before. so! i guess what i’m saying is give feedback! it goes so much further than you realize!

unnecessaryligatures

Wired: Leave comments because it makes your fav writers feel good

Inspired: Leave comments because it will make them write better

disregardcanon

Eureka-d: leave comments because it will make YOU write better too. It develops your meta cognition as well

fictionissocialinquiry

I been screaming about this for like 4 years now! Want more and better fic? Tell your fic writers what you liked and why!!

ginazmemeoir

it’s the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.

you can only reblog this today.

rem-ir

Fun Fact: reaper man must take place after going postal bc ixolite is referred to as "the last banshee" but gryle doesn't die until the post office fire

The unfunny answer is that Terry just forgot or didn’t care or had other reasons to alter continuity. There’s a lot of stuff in the early books that he changes his mind on later on. Remember how in Wyrd Sisters, the Thieves’ Guild was allowed to kill people? Or how in Mort, the Patrician is having a birthday party and there’s a conga line? Wild.

I have to say that Going Postal is after Reaper Man, because in Reaper Man, comrade Reg Shoe hasn’t become a cop yet, and he’s one in Jingo, which takes place before The Fifth Elephant, in which the clacks are first introduced, which must take place before Going Postal because the clacks in Fifth Elephant are an experimental combined semaphore and optical telegraph, where in Going Postal they’ve become part of life and are now only an optical telegraph.

But that’s boring tbh and the fun answer is that you’re allowed to slow roast-canon to carve out the juicy bits and imagine things differently from the author. Lord knows I do that too, especially with the city maps. Like in my head, the wizards’ quarter is on the seawise side of the city and the shades are on the hubwards side. So have fun however you like!

brightwanderer

Or, you know, someone built a glass clock and shattered the entirety of history, causing all sorts of weird glitches and discontinuities, including the never-accounted-for time skip in Wyrd Sisters, a few supposedly extinct species popping back up, and whatever the fuck is going on with the Small Gods/Pyramids timeline. There’s a reason I love Thief of Time as much as I do: it’s the ballsiest author’s saving throw I have ever had the pleasure to read, and allows the hand-waving of pretty much any plot hole with “oh, the History Monks must have messed that bit up”.

rem-ir

Oh big agree, the whole concept of the time monks is so bold

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett

boazpriestly

All these executive orders are great, but are children still in cages? Can we focus on getting them out?

#us politics

voidcenturyscholar-deactivated2

Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai

Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward

(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)

constallayetions

Wait but also, until then, if anyone under the age of majority is challenged

Zuko fights it for them.

Which, especially in more rural towns (where Agni Kais are less of a public event and more of a fast and violent duel) is terrifying because you challenge your neighbor’s kid over a stolen chicken-fish and all of a sudden the Fire Lord is showing up???

But, those few who still challenge those who should be kids learn quickly to regret it.

grayblebayble

Okay but this implies that Zuko knows whenever someone challenges a kid to an Agni Kai and is there before the battle takes place.

Firelord Zuko: *wakes up in a cold sweat near midnight*

Firelord Zuko: *running down the palace hallways while still struggling to put in his pants, being chased by his team of bodyguards* I’M GOING TO HING WA ISLAND TO KICK SOMEBODY’S ASS SEE YOU IN A WEEK BITCHES