General Confusion

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. She/Her

[knifefightscene]

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[bolasaurus]

Dude, I wouldn't even fucking notice until I go to Google something and the search actually works again.

[serenitynerd]

The only reason I would notice is my life would suddenly get easier

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

[lakevida]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[teaboot]

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

[teaboot]

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

[edgar-allan-possum]

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

[elidyce]

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

[cipheramnesia]

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

[val-the-bun]

[sankta-wraith]

the original? on my dash?

[copperbadge]

I know myself well enough to know I would not be very good at fanbiding and that would mainly frustrate me, so while I love fan binding and admire those who do it, I've never dabbled.

I have never regretted that decision more than I did waking up from the dream I recently had, where I excitedly bought a rare copy of the novel that Goncharov (1973) was based on, opened it up, and found that it was a hollowed out "book safe" for keeping valuables in.

[greaseonmymouth]

@copperbadge were you looking for the Goncharov novel ?

I tracked down a copy of this invaluable classic and somehow got my hands on a near pristine copy secondhand from the 4th printing. It’s lost the dustjacket, alas, but that means I got it for like £5 and not the £4200 a first edition printing in fine condition goes for.

(Who’s the author? *looks at smudge on spine* uhhhh Mkkhill Montanann)

It looks right at home in my bookcase 🥰

Under the cut: a look inside at what the book holds:

Just kidding.

It holds only the air of regret and disappointment.

[anthonycolonthree]

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

[earhartsease]

[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:

My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.

end ID]

this is so cool

now with added wiktionary link

update, correction to this:

[image description: tweets from user Matt (official) that read, "this is not quite accurate. this 'the' comes from þȳ, the old instrumental case of the definite article. so it's like 'whereby x, therefore y' or 'by how much x, that's how much y.'

þā ... þā does indeed mean 'when ... then' in Old English, but this temporal correlative is not where we get 'the more the merrier' construction. i'm afraid someone took an OE class and mixed a few things up.

so it doesn't originally mean 'if more, then merrier' as suggested in the comment. it has always meant 'by how much more, that's how much merrier' i.e. double or triple the quantity leads to double or triple the merriment." end id.]

thanks to @wovesaxe for this addition

[eilooxara]

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was discovered by accident during the Apollo program when NASA discovered what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[iguanamouth]

forbidden knowledge

[coldfruit123]

Can we see this frame by frame? Please and thank you.

[iguanamouth]

Yes Here Are All The Frames

[pibblepunk-deactivated20200219]

THAT IS NOT WHAT WAS ASKED FOR

[waterbottoe]

How dare you hide this in the notes

[awlwren]

[id: gif of a horse transforming into a dragon and back as someone moves a slider between the two options.]/end id.

[id: the individual panels, showing the horse transform into the dragon and then another horse coming out of the dragon’s mouth and the dragon’s skin being shed like a hood. The second half was definitely not in the first gif.]/end id.

[id: @rebel13lion39 replies: “Don’t look a gif horse in the mouth”]/end id.

[life-is-molasses]

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[beggars-opera]

I saw a response to this going around that basically said "this is like a meth head asking someone who's never done drugs how they could possibly survive a day without meth"

[mf-dude]

[rainbowbarnacle]

[tuttocenere]

A highlight in the history of uninvited cats on stage has to be the premiere of Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia:

... during the finale, a cat arrived, and mingled with the performers. [Figaro] chased it from one side, it returned from the other side to throw itself at the legs of [Bartolo]. ... the audience imitated its meows and encouraged it to continue its improvised role.

Alexis Jacob Azevedo: G. Rossini, sa vie et ses oeuvres (1864)

[thedogeveryonehates]

[moniquill]

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

i dont CARE that its your special interest bitch whats your SOURCE !!!!!!

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

"source: me ! hahaha🥰" NO !!!!!!! SOURCE: First Name Middle Initiall. Last Name, Name of Book, (City: Publisher, year) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[culmaer]

to paraphrase Brandy Jensen (2024), too often these days I find myself in the position of defending someone I think is annoying for using a different citation style, from someone I know is dangerous for not citing their sources at all

_____________

Jensen, B. (2024) "The Polycrisis: Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?" in The Yale Review, Online, 24 April.

[microsff]

The young hero, Chosen by Fate to save the world, studied the dragon dubiously.

"And in its hoard is the legendary sword Grisntand?"

"Yes," his old mentor said.

"Which I need to slay the Demon King?"

"Well, no. But I thought that since we're questing anyway... The museum would be delighted!"

[marzipanandminutiae]

"oh my GODDESS. is this-"

"the legendary sword Grisntand?" the mentor finished. He glanced down in a studied show of modesty. "well, yes, it is."

"this is the most generous donation we've received in-" the curator paused. She ran a finger along the hilt, then lifted the sword from its box and felt among the wrappings.

"Where's the paperwork?"

"the what?"

"the paperwork!" Wadded paper fell like snow around the table as she ransacked the box. "Release forms, valuations, signatures…"

"Um," the mentor said. A dim part of his brain realized that they had gone very off-script.

the curator suddenly went very still. When she looked up at him, her gaze could have frozen a campfire.

"Did you," she said, far too softly for comfort, "KILL the previous owner?"

[xenasaur]

searching for things on the internet is so second nature to me sometimes I forget it's actually a skill

[xenasaur]

apparently some people are simply unable to find what they are looking for through search engines. I don't understand how but I've heard too many people say it for it to be a hoax

[xenasaur]

this isn't a value judgement to be clear I'm not trying to call anybody stupid I just mean that I literally cannot understand this issue having grown up on the internet