Backup Memory

A place to keep stuff I want to remember

[dovebane]

If you have a fucked up sicknasty fanfic you've been thinking about sharing but are unsure, this post is your sign to run to AO3 and Just Do It: 1. Someone somewhere wants to read it. Even if it's only one person, that person matters

2. Your creativity matters and so does your ability to share it

3. Serial harassers in fandom spaces are beginning to express discomfort that sites like AO3 completely strip their ability to do anything about fic they don't like, sometimes going as far as leaving entire fandoms due to the influx of "problematic fiction without a chance for consequences to the author". Posting your fanworks to AO3 actively contributes to making harassers feel unsafe and powerless in fandom

4. Militant anti-fanfic content creators also cannot do anything about fic posted to AO3

5. You can post anonymously to AO3, with the ability to de-anonymize at any time

6. You can moderate comments before making them visible on your fic, restrict comments to logged-in users only, or turn off comments altogether, meaning you can post anonymously and completely turn off comments if you choose

[frostedmagnolias]

Pale Blue Afternoon Dress

c. 1867

Silk taffeta and silk faille

Label: Worth & Bobergh / 7. Rue de la Paix 7 Paris

Albany Institute of History & Art

[hotvintagepoll]

the orpheum in vancouver (very old, beautiful theatre that I couldn't post about under my username for fear of doxxing myself) was playing silent films this year accompanied by an old wurlitzer organ that's literally built into the walls there, and going there has been so much fun. I feel like it really changed my appreciation for silent films and how it must have been to see them in theaters.

when phantom of the opera was playing, a woman behind me whispered "kitty!" to her friends whenever the cat appeared on screen. everybody laughed when clara bow made a guy ride the bus with her. the organist played bits of scotland the brave and yo ho ho and a bottle of rum and what do you do with a drunken sailor during the black pirate with douglas fairbanks. it's just been such an amazing, lovely experience to go to the theatre and see something beautiful and transporting, because that really was the goal, and it still feels fresh and new because you're watching people do things that haven't been done before!

if they start again this summer I highly recommend it for anyone in vancouver, and for people in other places, I recommend watching a silent film on a big screen in a dark room. it's a totally different way of experiencing it than just watching on youtube in the daytime!

oh that sounds so wonderful. good on you for going! and love that organist, they sound brilliant

[hannahnutwood]

I was the woman whispering “kitty!” and I am so relieved the author was charmed and not annoyed by it. 😅

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[thatdisasterauthor]

I believe it's only auto-enabled if you were already sharing your likes. If you had like sharing turned off, reply sharing should (should) also be turned off.

Probably best to still check, though.

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[thebibliosphere]

Just heard a doctor refer to people who don’t have ADHD as ‘muggles.’

So, y’know. Hate that.

[victusinveritas]

[archatlas]

San Francisco by patrix15 

[systlin]

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

[beardedmrbean]

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[dxrissa]

Yo titties super saggy 😷😷

Big titties sag bruh 🤷🏻‍♀️

[fairyysquaadmother-deactivated2]

BIG TITTIES SAG BRUH

[shessiddity]

Big titties gunna sag bruh !

[liminal-soul]

BIG TITTIES SAG BRUH. 💯💯💯

[legitimatelala]

Big Titties Sag Bruh

[gluten-free-pussy]

Big titties sag bruh

[embraceyourflaws-deactivated201]

BIG TITTIES SAG bruh

[chubb-e-cheese]

BIG TITTIES FUCKING SAG BRUH

[couple0stoners]

ʙɪɢ ᴛɪᴛᴛɪᴇs sᴀɢ ʙʀᴜʜ

[gardenxkisses]

𝓑𝓲𝓰 𝓣𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓢𝓪𝓰 𝓑𝓻𝓾𝓱

[stillsuperchillandmentallyill]

[beardedmrbean]

He's in charge and he can do that, the next one can change that decision, that's the rules as I understand them.

[drunkromanogers]

Steve: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

[thewitchway]

I wouldn’t ship these two romantically for a million dollars.

Their friendship and mutual respect means everything to me.

[parrhesiac]

You have to understand: this is like the Golden Retriever they put in with the Cheetahs. Steve is the twitchy one, at all times. He is not the Golden Retriever, it doesn’t matter that he’s big and blond. His “flight” response does not exist. His “fight” response used to be outsize to his abilities, and then they gave him a body that could handle it. He needs a barometer for when a situation is actually “fight.” Natasha has the training, Natasha is used to making it appear like no situation is “fight” up until she murks you. Natasha is the Golden Retriever. If she is chill, he can relax. (He doesn’t, always, but that’s more proof.)

[maculategiraffe]

[id: a series of gifs from various mcu movies, each showing steve rogers turning to look at natasha romanov with an uncertain look on his face in response to which she either nods, shakes her head, or gestures to him, each captioned, “Natasha?”]

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[bowelfly]

last week I got so annoyed by how awkward and bulky the wire binding was on my old sketchbooks and how hard it made it to line them up on a shelf that I went through and rebound them all using embroidery thread, and then later added some 3-inch book spine tape to reinforce them and also so I could label them. that last part's not necessary and I'm 100% certain there's probably a better or at least nicer looking way of doing all of this but it's what I muddled out and it works pretty well!

nobody ask me why I started so many sketchbooks simultaneously in 2020. or maybe it's self-explanatory.

EDIT: oh I should say that since embroidery thread isn't the most sturdy string in the world I probably wouldn't recommend it for a sketchbook you're still actively using. if I were to rebind an active sketchbook I'd probably use something a bit heavier-duty.