Professional Dork

honestly at this point im just a dream smp and hermitcraft blog

[demaparbat-hp]

The Cycle in Reverse Gaang is ready to save the world!

[bloodraven55]

everyone rise for the national anthem on this sacred anniversary of the legendary symphogear beef stroganoff scene

[hochiminhts-deactivated20190916]

[futchcassidyandthecumdancekid]

​still genuinely might be the best own ive ever seen in my fucking life

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[newtid]

in spirit i am a 7th grade boy

[candyisntmyname]

It is *ehem* hard isn't it

[newtid]

[gaytanic-panic]

I feel like every year the girl names get more boyish like what do you mean you are a teenage girl named Ian??

And this leads to an escalation on the boy name front where like, once upon a time shit like Hunter was something parents in the Bush era made up to reassure ppl there was no fag shit going on with their kids and now the most famous trans woman in country is named Hunter so p soon we are gonna need to call the boys shit like Blade and Laser

[gaytanic-panic]

I'm gonna be teaching in 2030 and all the girls are going to be named Arnold and Connor and all the boys are gonna be named Gun

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

sorry but gun is already a girl’s name

[istillwishforyouateleveneleven]

web weave finds that made me want to claw my eyes out

[pandaofsecrets]

Probably the funniest take on Ozai is that he's a "master manipulator". Guys, this is the same man who thought asking his abusive father nicely to make him heir would actually work. He's got all the subtlety of a hammer; where do you think Zuko gets it from?

And yeah, I know someone's going to point out how Ozai manipulated his children, but like, that's the thing. They're his children. Manipulating someone who is entirely under your control and does not have enough life experience to see through your bullshit isn't very hard.

[muffinlance]

Absolutely correct Ozai take. Turns out it doesn't take brains to be a monster.

[murglor]

@muffinlance is so right. Except instead of a journalist, it would literally be Sokka sitting at the end of the table for a war council, wearing his fake moustache and calling himself Wang Fire.

[thememedaddy]

[mockingwing]

my ideas about danny phantom all seem to center around this idea of "Your life is not going to go the way you wanted it to go. You cannot change this. How do you cope?"

danny died. sam and tucker watched their friend die, and encouraged him to do the thing that caused his death. now there are ghosts attacking their home and putting people in danger. they feel totally helpless. they can't "fix" what happened to danny, and they can't shut off the portal for good. but fighting ghosts feels like something real and tangible that they can do in response to this thing that happened. they can figure out danny's new powers and try to protect the people they love. it's also a way to establish a new normal, the monster of the week routine that replaces the one they had before (danny's line about "usually we beat the bad guy, learn some lesson about honesty or something, and go home." what does a teenage boy who is in a freak accident and develops superpowers do? he becomes a superhero). they cope by trying to be proactive, to do something instead of sit around and be helpless, but in turn they're kind of using ghost hunting to ignore this traumatic thing that happened to them, and they're not ready to face what this actually means for danny and the life he'll life (dead kids can't be astronauts).

similarly, valerie's life was totally destroyed. she lost her home, her money, her friends, her dad lost his job. this is all too broken to fix. and even if everything got reset back to the way it was before, now she knows what it's like to be overworked and helpless, she knows how quickly she can lose the security she has, and she knows that her friends love for her was superficial. she can't do anything about this. but she can try to stop what happened to her from happening to anyone else. she can try to eliminate the thing that caused her life to fall apart in the first place. like the main trio, valerie is using ghost hunting to be proactive about her problem. it makes her feel more in control of her life. valerie now sees the world as dangerous and untrustworthy, and has vowed to be someone who will bring safety and stability to other people. this also is not a great coping mechanism, and doesn't address the insecurity she feels as a response to what happened to her.

vlad was in a freak accident and then had to watch the person who caused it live the life he always wanted to live. he's used his newfound powers to make sure something like this would never happen to him again. he's not going to be a helpless victim stuck in a hospital bed anymore. in fact, he'll be the perpetrator. he has money, he has status, he has smarts, he has hired henchmen and ghost weapons and complete mastery over his powers. no one is stronger than him, so he'll never be hurt again. all he needs now is that life that he lost. so he's obsessed with destroying jack and taking what he feels should have been his. once he does that, his life will finally be back on track, and he will be strong enough to ensure that he never loses it ever again. vlad is desperate for his life to go back to the way it was "supposed" to go. this will never happen. he's in denial.

i think the whole being dead thing works with this very well. when you die, your hopes and dreams die with you. you can never get your life back. you'll never be able to experience all of the things you wanted to experience. your life and others perception of you has permanently changed. it's probably why i started thinking about the show this way in the first place.

[ovytia-art]

Stain glasses The Boy

[fibfoolingart]

a visitor on the biodome!!

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[cookingwithroxy]

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

[beardedmrbean]

I've enjoyed this bit o story since the first time I ever heard it, not only because it reinforces the fact that YES The Hobbit is a children's story, but it also lets us know that the Tolkien males are just like that.

___

My brother had the 50th anniversary printing, so this was something I'd read in the book when I stole it from him to read myself at 11 I think I was, maybe 10.

Also if it wasn't a kids book I imagine the trolls would have had more eloquent names than Tom, Burt, and Bill.

[mornington-the-crescent]

I read it when I was in elementary school. The version I read had this map in the front:

And me being the little nerd that I was, before I even really got into the story at all I tried to decode the runes on the left.

(I succeeded.)

[animenutcase]

Where does The Silmarillion fall?

[tlaquetzqui]

The Silmarillion is only for crazy people.

I own two copies.

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[exunary]

2026 - Minecraft River Had this as a sketch in my folder for maybe 4 years and finally did something with it. Some well needed practice for my Minecraft webcomic I'm planning this year. Feel free to follow me on my other social media! instagram.com/exunarys ko-fi.com/exunary cara.app/exunary bsky.app/profile/exunary.bsky.social tiktok.com/@exunary

[goldensunset]

i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was

[goldensunset]

sir! sir!!! your pikachu is decimating the ducklett population at the pond and you aren’t even looking! you are NOT ash ketchum you are NOT gonna catch ‘em all because that involves trade evolutions and you have NO friends!!!

[goldensunset]

ok literally. that palafinstagram mom who posts pictures of her rowlet not understanding it’s displaying distress behaviors making fun of the cool person whose best friend is a solosis or rellor or unown letter f

[warrior-kitty]

if one more middle aged mom tells me that i should’ve kept my raichu a pikachu because ‘she’s much cuter that way’ i’m sending out my full team and throwing hands right there in the starbucks