Pseudonym #9

“Her bookwrath is like a hurricane sweeping in from the sea.” - Ship, that flatterer

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

Let me make something clear. I am old enough to remember Nigerian Prince scams. I WILL report people for spamming me.

If you are a person and not a bot, this should be sufficient warning. Don’t even try.

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about a news story, but my first "political" memory was something about the torture memos

[lauramkaye]

Another Regency Fic Writer PSA:

The word you want is “wanton” not “wonton”. Wanton is the word that means unrestrained/loose/lustful.

Wonton is a dumpling.

[veritableocean]

Look, there are word mistakes and there are word mistakes. Some of them, your eyes sorta glaze over as a reader, "Oh, the writer got those two words confused, everyone carry on with business as usual." And then there are *word mistakes* where you read them and the mental equivalent of a 24-vechicle pile up occurs and your progress through the fic stops dead in its tracks while the existential dread hits you Wonton is 100% the latter

[lauramkaye]

YES you get it you understand

[missfisherandherinspector]

it makes me ditch the entire fic

[morningmee]

I often see authors apologise in advance because English isn't their first language.

But those fics are often entirely without typos or grammatical errors. Simply because the author really makes an effort to get it right.

But what really irks me is those fics by an English speaking author where:

There, their and they're

Your and you're

Then and than

Lose and loose

Aren't used correctly. They don't pop up during spell check because they are after all not misspellings. But a grammar check should light up like a Christmas tree.

I'm perfectly aware that a lot of us, myself included, have challenges ranging from full blown dyslexia to the odd stubborn words that simply insist on being spelled "differently" in our heads. Or get confused about where the various punctuation marks are supposed to go.

In Danish we use A LOT more punctuation marks so it's always a challenge getting those right when writing in English. Especially because we are taught British English in school but are subjected to American English in almost everything else.

The Oxford Comma is quite the elusive mark in what we are taught too 🤔

Well look at me ranting... I'll see myself out.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

My pet peeve is that there is no etiquette for offering to beta an already published fic - the stigma is so hard that it would be taken as an insult unless explicitly solicited by the author.

It’s no insult! I’m a tutor! I proofread for a living and can’t turn it off! Please let me offer my services!

[undeadhousewife]

[eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy]

Ok now I’m curious… Which do you prefer:

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer the city

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer out of the city

Bald/vanilla extract/I reject dichotomies under all circumstances/I can’t read

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[haarute]

josh ruben game changer meltdown

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

Honestly that was brilliant, because he reversed his “No Problem” thing

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Best liked song after artist reveals 861-870

Suede - Beautiful Ones

The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love

Ricky Martin - La Copa de la Vida

Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

Prince - When Doves Cry

Stephen Simmonds and Lisa Nilsson - Tears Never Dry

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

John Williams - Jurassic Park - Welcome To Jurassic Park

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

What song did you personally like the best out of this round? Did a song make an impact right away or did it require the full version? Did the artist reveal change your opinion for better or for worse? Tell me in a reblog! :D

(note: this is not a popularity contest or to vote for a favourite artist out of loyalty 💖 it's still about the song.)

Give the songs a re-listen to refresh your memory!

861 here 862 here 863 here 864 here 865 here 866 here 867 here 868 here 869 here 870 here

or listen to a quick recap here:

Visit Original Link

[phantomrose96]

Yet another scam

This one is targeting posts with ao3 links, and it’s creating AI-generated comments to pose as someone whos read your fic and totally wants to draw something for it

I went to this blog, and their actual blog is empty but their likes are public, and they’re leaving near-identical comments at break-neck speeds on any other posts with ao3 links where

~2 minutes between each of the comments above, and an endless slew of them, all extremely ChatGPT-intoned.

If you see this or any other puppet account show up doing this, block and report.

[blumineck]

I’ve got a lot of Thoughts(tm) about The Odyssey at the moment, but damnit Blum I’m an archer, not a film critic, so here’s something in my lane!

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The irony

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[thememedaddy]

[gothvince]

i talk about transitioning and all anyone ever says is "I hope you don't regret it" what if instead we said I hope you love it. I hope it's everything you ever wanted. I hope you live the rest of your life in utter bliss. etc etc.

[gothvince]

I hope you transition and I hope it's the best thing you ever did and I hope you never look back and I hope you finally feel comfortable in your own skin

[talvin-muircastle]

I needed this right now.

[oscarwildeboytoy-deactivated201]

Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.

[kamorth]

I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.

That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.

I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.

My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”

He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.

Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.

[oscarwildeboytoy-deactivated201]

I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.

[antique-scarecrow]

Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because you’ve been ignoring the regular ones

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes