Alright, I've decided I should probably get my shit together around here, so have a pinned post, lol
hello! I'm Hyde. I write about whoever and whatever strikes my fancy at the moment, and you can find me over on A03 as... drumroll please... MadameHyde
Yes I am the Hold Me Like a Grudge, Valas Morovai, Hard Rock Heroes, Love Is(n't), and Honor Among Thieves girl 🤙🤙
I've been at this fandom thing a long time lol (please don't ask me about anything written before about 2021, I do not see her 😵💫🙈)
Please do note, a lot of my works are archive-locked so you'll need an A03 account to see them. This is b/c I like to make life difficult for AI bot scrapers and phantom bot/scam commenters every chance I get. This is a service I provide free of charge along with the angst and feels o7
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yes this is a blog that ships astartes x astartes. I do my best to tag it as such.
no I do not care that it's not possible in canon. if I wanted to argue about canon, I would go to reddit
tbh this goes for most of my fandoms.
I swear like a sailor.
I don't co-author things or take writing requests, generally speaking. Exchanges are fun and fair game though!
In conclusion, I'm just a rando on the internet; don't get parasocial and weird about it
Other than that, hello! I don't bite. I promise ;) I'm here off duty
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Current obsessions: Warhammer 40k (certified chaos girlie [tm]), specifically Night Lords & World Eaters (with a few other random characters thrown, like Mortarion, the average Emperor's Children, and Sigismund <3); DnD; fantasy books; coffee
Sleeper Agent Obsessions (never truly forgotten, always lying in wait): Old School Bioware games, Attack on Titan, Bloodborne, pokemon, Fire Emblem, Elder Scrolls, Hollow Knight, the Hades Games, Stardew Valley, animal crossing,
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.
For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case
Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...
But defamation suits? Those have teeth.
(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)
A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e
A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense.
According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages.
That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page...
This is still a preliminary injunction, not a final ruling, and Google can appeal. But for publishers, brands, SEOs, and anyone watching AI search swallow the results page, the message is clear: if Google wants to be the answer engine, courts may start treating it like the publisher of those answers.
-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026. Emphasis mine.
i think we should start taking beloved archetypes for male characters and using them to make female characters. this woman is an asshole with a heart of gold. this woman is a loveable goofball. this woman is a cool but scarred lone wolf who just wants to protect people. this woman is a badass con artist who is always seen wearing an immaculate suit. this woman is a dilf
So writers joke a lot about "drinking the tears of our readers", but I want to be so honest with you when I tell you that making you cry isn't our real goal. Making you feel is.
Kicking your feet? Giggling? Can't stop smiling? And yes, crying? Feeling anything, everything. That's our goal. That means we did The Job.
Just for the sake of it being hilarious, imagine the primarch babies develop some monstrous strength, like some serious Primarch tier strength by the time they reach later toddler stage. But their parents have no idea about it because "Be reasonable, it's still a baby!"
The only ones aware of it are the legion Astartes who are unlucky enough to get to experience that power when babysitting, because with them the babies have no reason to hold back. Astartes are big brothers! Strong big brothers! They look just like their action figure toys but way bigger!
So they surely can also be played with as if they were toys!
Kharn kneeling down in front of a chair so one of Angron's baby girls is at the height of his face, smiling almost smugly as she tries to hit him in the face while play fighting. She looks adorable, look at her, she believes she is a threat, he thinks as he easily dodges her hits by moving his head away at the last second.
Kharn then getting distracted when the door opens and a World Water Apothecary walks in with some bottles of milk in a basket, Angron's baby seizing the chance and punching him in the face with all her might, Kharn hitting that family guy death pose as he hits the ground for a moment before he slowly stands up, vision blurry since that rattled his brain, and turning away as he discretely spits a couple of teeth into his mouth. What in the world just happened? He asks himself as he slowly turns around to face the little girl, her excitedly giggling as she climbs down the chair, and his fight or flight instincts kicking in.
Somewhere else in the galaxy and Iron Warrior yells as he tries to drill some sense into Perturabo's daughter mind, getting dragged across the floor by her while completely restrained by chains, he's not a toy! He's an Astartes! YOU CAN'T DISMANTLE HIM! He screams more desperately before yelling at his brothers to come save him when she happily says she'll rearrange him into a pony.
Meanwhile Horus' daughter grabbed Abaddon by the top knot and is laughing as as she flungs him around like a ragdoll.
Sorry i took a time to get to this one but the first time i read it i laughed SO HARD since then the mental image of a frightened kharn after he discovers the baby strength was stuck inside my head
Bonus point if it was him who started the whole "fighting" thing lmaaao
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
one time my sister and i were walking up the stairs and heard a bunch of banging noises coming from an apartment, and she turned to me and said "aborted neighbor". and i was just like. i'm glad we're the same kind of terminally online and i know exactly what you are referencing because otherwise this would sound insane.
“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.
The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.
No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.
I've been seeing some space marine discussion on my dash lately. And I just thought I'd bring up something that isn't usually talked about, but is one of my favorite details about them. And the 40k setting as a whole.
The process of turning a normal boy into an augmented space marine involves implanting several new organs into their body. The gene seed is derived from the primarch of the legion that the modern chapters are descended from. Each organ is grown from the same genetic material, and is kind of a clone of the original body parts that were once inside of a primarch's lab-grown body.
Over time, a space marine becomes more like his brothers in every possible way. They gain similar personality traits, many of them undergo physical transformations. Some are minor and hard to notice, others (like the Salamanders) are unmistakable in how much they physically change. And it always resembles the primarch in one way or another.
Not only are space marines young boys who are never allowed to properly grow up. Their bodies and minds are mutlilated, and another person's body parts are shoved into their still-growing bodies. Each one overtakes their own natural development, and turns every space marine into a semi-clone of a primarch. And as we know, the primarchs weren't really human. They were lab-born bio constructs the Emperor created for his genocidal plans.
Space marines have their lives stolen from them, their minds wiped, their bodies tortured, and then their identities stripped away. Slowly replaced by the thoughts, feelings and physicality of something that was never human in the first place.
The gene seed is a very fucked up kind of cloning that reproduces each primarch in miniature. And every space marine watches their sense of self and identity drift away as they become more and more like the living weapons they were derived from.
I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.
They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.
Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.
The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.
They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.
This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”
Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.
