Eye of the Storm

It's Hoo-rah-KAN, named after the Taino word for storm. 'Cause I'm Puerto Rican. This is mostly a fandom blog, but it does often verge into religion, and on occasion into politics.

[kaijuno]

[immaplatypus]

“so this week my town made the news for—” nope

“there’s a restaurant two miles from my house called—” nope

“today I learned [celeb] went to my high school—” nope nope nope nope nope

these are all real posts I’ve seen on the internet that allowed me to identify a user’s hometown instantly. if it’s a small town, that’s doubly dangerous, because a bad actor could trace you just by a unique first name or selfie you once posted. in an age where doxxing and stalking are some of the worst I’ve ever seen it, you HAVE to think twice about what you’re posting online.

i once saw a 13-year old post an image they noted as being “a few miles from their house.” it had a theater in the shot with a unique enough name to be local. one google maps search, now everyone knew not only what city they lived in, but the possible neighborhoods in that radius too. and they had a HUGE following…who all knew this was a 13-year-old child.

so yeah. not to sound like a 90s internet safety PSA…but I’m gonna be that PSA for a minute.

if you’re posting an image, there is NO need to say that you live there. you could just be traveling. “saw this in Montana” is better than “saw this by my house!”

before you post about a venue, especially a restaurant or small store, check and see if it’s local—CRUCIALLY if it has only one or two locations. people might travel to arenas or convention centers, but they’re far less likely to be traveling to Bartleby’s Fish and Chips. if it’s an anecdote and you still live nearby, you can honestly just leave the name out entirely.

if you’re sharing a news story, it can just be a story you found and wanted to share. you don’t have to clarify “it happened in my town,” because even if you don’t mention your town name, an easily-googled news article will.

if you’re seeing a concert or meeting a celebrity on a tour that’s stopped locally, wait until they’ve hit a few more venues before you post about it, or at the very least wait until you get home. this is honestly a smart move for any event you attend: unless you’re marketing yourself, there’s no need to advertise your location in real time.

check your selfie backgrounds for anything identifying. this includes city names on venues, school names, street signs, and house numbers.

this stuff is flexible if you no longer live in your hometown, or if your city is particularly big, but there’s STILL no reason to tie yourself to your school, your workplace, or your street. you can call it paranoid, but as someone who’s seen my friends get literal death threats over fictional characters before, the last thing I want is someone willing to act on those threats finding out where they live.

anyway. PSA over. does a kickflip or whatever

[cannibalthoughts]

Please also be aware that your posts also provide information about anyone you're with.

I once had a friend post a photo while visiting me with both a unique local business and a set of street signs in the background, while they knew I was being stalked by someone who knew and potentially followed their account. I wasn't in that photo, but other posts from that weekend made it obvious they were staying with me. They hadn't yet been in a position where they regretted having that information publicly available, so it didn't occur to them to avoid sharing it.

Even if you don't (yet) care about your own right to privacy, you're often not the only person you're doxxing

[feldfrog]

When I think of Tarzan, a naked orphaned jungle man raised by apes in the mud and darkness away from society, what comes to mind is of course the smooth soft rock and roll of Phil Collins

[jurakan]

I'll be out of town Friday, so I'm kind of tempted to tell people to send in asks for Fun Facts and I'll queue them up to go up on Friday, but still not sure if that will go up on time...

so, uh, do what you like.

[notbecauseofvictories]

[ Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago — July 2026 ]

[msjessicaday]

HOW DID THIS HELP???? HOW DID THIS HELP AT ALL???? AND DEAR GOD WHAT WAS PLAN A?

[colemckenzies]

#personally I’ve always assumed plan A is literally the same thing they just switch roles (x)

[psych-heritage-post]

Psych heritage post

[lizclimo]

[walkawaytall]

I’m hardly the first to point this out, but it’s sort of strange how unusual the character of Leia is in the sense that there isn’t even the implication that anyone notices her age or gender or that she has to prove herself in any way to other characters or to the audience. Like, she doesn’t have to fight for a chance to do any of the stuff she does, no one’s surprised she can use a blaster or command troops, but she also doesn’t have to lean into extreme aggression or hypermasculine energy to gain that respect. She’s blunt, but no blunter than Han; she has some intense reactions to certain situations, but no more than Han or Luke. No one seems scared of her, but everyone seems to respect her. She wears more masculine(ish) military-type attire when it’s the practical thing to do, but also seems to choose dresses or feminine-leaning things when she’s able to and the outfit changes aren’t some “Wow, the manly lady cleans up nice” sort of moment; it’s just a thing she’s wearing. She’s soft when she can be and a snarky hardass when she needs to be, and neither of these things is seen as being out-of-character or a surprising shift by those around her.

And it’s crazy that we don’t see more of that? Like, how am I ten years younger than the first Star Wars film and I’m struggling to come up with other examples of female characters who just exist as competent in their own universe without their competence being a plot point or something to be amazed/frightened by or something requiring either very masculine energy or such feminine energy that any aggression or competence in “masculine” things is seen as a funny juxtaposition? I’m not saying no other characters exist like that; I’m sure they do. But it does seem like there’s often some level surprise the audience or another character is meant to feel when Girl Good at Stuff, and that literally just doesn’t exist in the original Star Wars Trilogy. I mean, maybe some audience members feel surprised all on their own, but the film did not intend for the audience feel surprised.

(Now, how Carrie was actually treated during the filming of those movies and the intent behind certain story and wardrobe choices made for the character of Leia is a totally different story. But what we actually get in the end product is really unique and solid despite some people’s best efforts to be weird and sexist.)

[moonlightingcurse]

2026 colour challenge: july & green (theme: summer hits, challenge: create something that reminds you of summer)

JURASSIC PARK (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

[kameik0]

(2017) Darth Maul #3: Maul.

[notbecauseofvictories]

[chemicalico]

who wanna be friends with drawbacks

[eatthekidsfirst]

friends with consequences

[jurakan]

Eat some Spam. As a family.

A Spamily, if you will.

[jacksally]

SUPERNATURAL 5.15 — Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

[teashoesandhair]

'A popular fanfic author stopped updating her fic because she said that the stress of being constantly falsely accused of using AI was a witch hunt and it was destroying her mental health to the extent that she needed to take a break from writing, leading to multiple online discussions defending her and debates about AI accusations and how You Can't Really Tell So Leave Her Alone, and then someone realised that there were Claude coding artefacts in her fics and that it was a super pervasive problem in that particular fandom, proven definitively by looking at the source coding of each work on AO3, and she denied it for a bit but then ultimately admitted that oopsie, she had been using genAI all along, and then she deleted all of her fics off AO3 and people got mad because they were being denied access to their favourite fics, even though they now knew definitively that they were genAI slop, and then it turned out that she'd actually stopped updating the fic on AO3 in the first place because she'd been shopping it around to agents and editors as an original work with the serial numbers filed off, and she'd been in conversations with a publisher which ultimately got dropped because she'd lied to them about her AI use' oh cool, so we're in Hell, then

[teashoesandhair]

Let me be clear: if you use AI to write fanfic, paticularly if you do so in the hopes of snapping up a tradpub deal off the basis of the popularity of your worthless slop, then you are an absolute grade A ding-dong, and may the vengeful spirits of our beloved Spirk Elders haunt you via the medium of perpetual papercuts forevermore.

[creativitycache]

I am unaware of who this is referring to and feel like a small fishing boat that just saw the dorsal fin of Leviathan off the starboard bow

[teashoesandhair]

That is so extremely valid, and truly I wish that I had not myself plunged into the depths and seen the truth of the Leviathan (a gigantic plastic fish effigy that's broken off a derelict Fish & Chip shop and washed into the Atlantic: a harbinger of doom in its own synthetic tongue)

[fishtrouts]

Swordfish lives through the pursuit of the world’s worst archers, and finally meets Grym! I can’t tell if either of them are very enthusiastic about their situation, but at least Hopper’s happy!

Patreon | WEBTOON (all comics in order)

[teashoesandhair]

'A popular fanfic author stopped updating her fic because she said that the stress of being constantly falsely accused of using AI was a witch hunt and it was destroying her mental health to the extent that she needed to take a break from writing, leading to multiple online discussions defending her and debates about AI accusations and how You Can't Really Tell So Leave Her Alone, and then someone realised that there were Claude coding artefacts in her fics and that it was a super pervasive problem in that particular fandom, proven definitively by looking at the source coding of each work on AO3, and she denied it for a bit but then ultimately admitted that oopsie, she had been using genAI all along, and then she deleted all of her fics off AO3 and people got mad because they were being denied access to their favourite fics, even though they now knew definitively that they were genAI slop, and then it turned out that she'd actually stopped updating the fic on AO3 in the first place because she'd been shopping it around to agents and editors as an original work with the serial numbers filed off, and she'd been in conversations with a publisher which ultimately got dropped because she'd lied to them about her AI use' oh cool, so we're in Hell, then

[teashoesandhair]

Let me be clear: if you use AI to write fanfic, paticularly if you do so in the hopes of snapping up a tradpub deal off the basis of the popularity of your worthless slop, then you are an absolute grade A ding-dong, and may the vengeful spirits of our beloved Spirk Elders haunt you via the medium of perpetual papercuts forevermore.