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i'm a nerd in my early forties with a degree in studio art. you'll see mostly anime and game shit and a bit of social issues and pairing stuff. i'm multishipping trash, so i might post your notp. this blog is not spoiler free. everything is tagged. please check my faq before asking me things. i reserve the right to refuse any drawing suggestions i don't feel inspired by or simply don't like. do you like me and want to throw some money at me? do it here: ko-fi.

[dreamsy990]

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

[dreamsy990]

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

[dreamsy990]

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem

what common file types are

some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)

how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private

how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)

what a cookie actually is

internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl

basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)

common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)

how to not get a virus while pirating something

what a temporary email is and when to use one

red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)

what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls

[dreamsy990]

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous

a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps

a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)

some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself

[furryprovocateur]

alcoholism is a problem in the lgbt community yes but there's something weird and mentally disconnecting about trying to say that's because there's too many gay nightclubs or whatever instead of the reality that being lgbt is just genuinely oppressive and will push people to maladaptive coping mechanisms. like did we forget that people become alcoholics for a multitude of more reasons than because they went to a club once

[musashi]

alcoholic dyke here and i think a lot of nuance has been lost in this conversation.

i've been here for all of it (i don't know if you have, OP, so forgive me if this sounds condescending at all) and i pretty much watched it happen and was annoyed and upset the whole time, 'cause you are fundamentally correct--being marginalized is a hell all its own, that is the root of why we have higher death and addiction and suicide and mental illness rates. i don't think anyone was ever insinuating otherwise, at least not anywhere i've seen it.

but from what i saw on this website & other online spaces vaguely adjacent, it went like this:

this post was made:

2. young queerfolk, alcoholics, disabled queers (with both physical & sensory sensitivities), and many other groups that fell in agreement with this for their own personal reasons added onto the sentiment. at the time (over a decade ago, give or take?) it was not the norm to have many other options besides 1. bar/nightclub or 2. GSA, if you were lucky enough to have one at your school/university.

3. of these groups that showed support for this sentiment were sex-repulsed asexual people who felt uncomfortable with the sexual nature & unspoken pressure to 'hook up' at gay bars & night clubs.

4. around 2014, exclusionists on this website decided that it was trendy to violently abuse asexuals & aromantics for clout. every single thing the aroace community did on tumblr was met with meangirl backlash at best and relentless vitriol at worst. this more or less destroyed the aroace community and it has still not recovered to this day.

5. one of the most potent forms of propaganda leveled at the ace community was malicious reframing of sex-repulsion as a concept. the sex-repulsed ace is, obviously, just minding their own business and living their truth--but exclusionists intentionally framed them as virulent, homophobic prudes who went around telling the ~real~ queers where they were and were not allowed to have their Gross Faggot Sex, etc etc.

6. one of the most effective ways they propagandized this was by out-of-context circulation of posts like the one i posted above.

(and, occasionally, actual psy-ops where users would pretend to be asexuals and intentionally post cringey, anti-sex, anti-kink, homophobic nonsense and of course the 'no internet skepticism skills' website believed it)

7. posts like this stopped being read in good faith. seeing a post like the above, tumblr users before the ace discourse instilled brainrot in half this website would see it and think "yeah! it would be awesome if we had more options." after the ace discourse, the reaction a lot of those same people would have would be more like "i cannot believe the cringey aces on this website are still acting like gay bars and night clubs are depraved sex dens full of rambunctious horny dykes. they don't even know how homophobic they are."

8. miraculously, eventually, the ace discourse freaks all either 1. moved onto bi/pan lesbians (and so far are doing a pretty shit job) or 2. were run off the site/out of communities because people unpacked shit and realized they were on the wrong side of things.

9. arguments in defense of the original point came back out of the woodwork. "now that the ace discourse has died down, can we please fucking get back to rallying for more queer spaces other than bars and clubs? the autistics, the mobility aid users, the children and teenagers, the sex-repulsed asexuals, and the alcoholics deserve options for community too."

10. presumably, these posts are circulating now, because they make good points.

i don't think any queer alcoholic is going to genuinely say that gay bars are the reason we have a higher alcoholism rate. we have that because society wants us dead and you have to find a way to survive knowing that. but 1. the alcohol companies know that and intentionally prey on us, see them setting up their rainbow floats at pride every year and 2. the lack of sober queer spaces makes it hard, often nigh impossible to stay clean and sober. it's hard enough to stay clean and sober as a cishet, alcoholics bleed friends like fucking crazy when we make the choice to stay sober or even just cut back. 12 step programs are largely bunk, but repeated studies have shown that the reason they work on accident is because they are a social space where addicts can find community without the pressure to use.

so if cishets struggle that hard, we struggle much harder. and, yes, the lack of sober queer spaces is a huge part of that. back in 2014, we addicts on tumblr were largely laughed out of every room we entered, every point of discourse we tried to spur on. i got a multitude of pretty violent threats on here back then for talking openly about intoxication culture and how addiction was a disability. and that was before the ace discourse ramped up.

so i think probably what's happening is queer addicts are finally feeling emboldened again to discuss this and perhaps some nuance is being lost in the many, MANY layers of telephone over the years. perhaps some of them are remembering the shitty discourse and how they were swept under the rug and persecuted as homophobes/apologists because they, for their own reasons, dared to share similar opinions with asexuals in 2014.

no, going to a gay bar doesn't turn queers into alkies, but it sure as shit is a lot easier to not die of alcohol poisoning at age 27 when you have the choice to walk into a social club or a cafe instead of a bar.

[fatimagic]

i've been really curious about this due to my own experience in certain fandoms, sooo here goes...

has a fandom ever ruined a ship for you?

yes (i stopped shipping something solely because of the fandom)

yes (nuance)

no (a ship's fandom has nothing to do with me shipping it)

no (nuance)

Voting ended onNov 10, 2025

please reblog and elaborate in the tags!

[kiokushitakaa]

Ruta Extraterrestre 🛸 Extraterrestial Route

According to reports from the 1980s, on PR-303 near the small town of Lajas, tremors and unexplained sounds – as if someone was drilling deep beneath the ground – were said to have been felt by the locals. Allegedly, seismic records from the area showed no signs of earthquake activity. It didn’t take long for conspiracy theories to spread about some kind of secret military installation… or the thought that perhaps whatever was down there wasn’t even of this world.

Since then, more reports have come in about strange lights, UFO sightings, and other strange phenomena. The mayor of the town even signed a symbolic declaration of this stretch of road as the “Extraterrestrial Route” in 2005. Today, the route remains a popular attraction for anyone interested in aliens and UFOs, sometimes also referred to as Puerto Rico’s very own Area 51.

Some skeptics, however, have pointed out that the initial reports and uptick of UFO sightings in the area coincide with the installation of an aerostat operated by US Customs and Border Protection to monitor the surrounding area for any illegal activity. But maybe that’s what the government wants you to think…

[kiokushitakaa]

El Puente la Llorosa 🌉 The Weeping Bridge

There is a bridge in Aibonito that is said to be haunted by the sounds of a baby crying from below the bridge. There are several versions of this folk tale, one of the more common versions starts with a drunk man riding over the bridge on horseback one night. He heard the unmistakable cries of an infant and, unwilling to leave a defenseless baby in the darkness, decided to investigate and help as best he could.

The man found the baby and assumed its wails were due to hunger and tried to soften up a bit of bread for the child to eat. However, when he attempted to offer the bread to the infant, he realized that it was smiling at him in a sinister way, showing it had a mouth full of sharpened teeth. At this point, the “baby” let out an evil laugh and revealed itself to be the devil himself. The terrified man fled into the night, and it is said that since that occurred, he changed his ways and never, ever drank alcohol again.

[kiokushitakaa]

La Francesa 🇫🇷 The French Woman

In the San Rafael Cemetery in Quebradillas, there are tales of the ghost of a woman who rises out of her tomb in the dark hours of the night. Legend has it that this phantasm whispers lullabies to her departed daughter, who died from tuberculosis and is buried next to her. Some say she died of a broken heart soon after her daughter’s passing and was unable to move on from that tragedy.

The ghost is said to be of Madame Coutono, a woman who traveled from France with her husband, an engineer who worked on constructing train tunnels. Many have reportedly heard grieving whispers in French emanating from the cemetery at night, prompting locals to caution others to not pass near the cemetery after sunset lest you stumble upon this sorrowful ghost, though it doesn’t seem that there are any reports of her harming those who encounter her.

[kiokushitakaa]

El Fantasma de la Graduación 🎓 The Graduation Ghost

In a story that comes from 1975, it is said that on the way to a graduation party, a young man saw a girl walking near a cemetery that was on the way. Thinking she was also heading the same party, he offered her a ride, which she accepted, and they went together. The two danced and partied and had a great time, and he offered to drive her home. When he dropped her off and said goodbye, he noticed that she was cold, so he let her borrow his jacket, intending to retrieve it later.

The next day, when he went to do just that, he met with her mother and she told him that the girl was indeed her daughter, but that there was no way it could have been her, as she was dead. When she showed him photos of her daughter, he confirmed that the girl in the pictures was, without a doubt, the same girl he had seen last night. Later, he visited the municipal cemetery to visit her grave… only to find the jacket he had lent her waiting for him draped on her tombstone.

[kiokushitakaa]

La Cueva del Niño que Llora 😢 The Cave of the Crying Child

In the lush mountains around Ciales lies a cave where legends say a mother once abandoned her child. The reason why this mother and child were around the cave isn’t clear, but it is implied they were living inside it when the mother decided to venture out to pick fruit nearby for them to eat. The child attempted to follow his mother, but she told him to wait for her in the cave and sang a lullaby to calm him, promising to return soon.

The child waited and waited as hours passed and the day became night, but his mother never returned. And so, this child can now be heard crying for eternity, still waiting, his desperate sobs carried through the forest by the wind. Some have said to have seen a child running around in the area, but when they attempt to approach him, he vanishes into thin air. Sometimes the child is seen at the mouth of the cave, but if one attempts to catch him, he disappears and reappears elsewhere along the path to the cave.

It is rumored that one may be able to lure the child into appearing by singing a lullaby – though it is not mentioned which lullaby specifically. The legend was part of local oral folkloric tradition in the area and was collected by Professor Juan Manuel Delgado, a scholar of oral traditions, in the 70s. It is also known as “El Niño de Caliche.” The word “Caliche” comes from an indigenous word that means “mountain spring” and is also the name of a section of the local area.

[kiokushitakaa]

La Casa del Mustang 🚘 The Mustang House

According to legend, this vacant house in Mayagüez comes with a dark story. Locals say that the family that once lived here started out wealthy, but hit such severely hard times that they tried anything… allegedly, even making a deal with some dark, evil entity... and during Holy Week, no less. Some versions of the story say that a ritual orgy also took place. The deal apparently backfired and several weird things happened and the family had to abandon the property and all their belongings, including their Ford Mustang.

The car has been said to be inside the garage for as long as everyone can remember, though all that is left at this point is a hollowed out husk, as its parts have been harvested by looters over time. It is said that no one has been able to move the remaining shell, in spite of multiple attempts, leading some to believe the car is as cursed as the house itself. There are several reports of shadowy figures seen moving inside the house at random times throughout the day, and some have even heard laughter and screaming.

Others have claimed to see lights come on inside the house as well, and other inexplicable sounds, like tapping on the windows or railings. One report has claimed that merely looking at the Mustang can make a person feel like they're being spiritually attacked by some unseen force.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

the more time you spend in fandom spaces the more you realize a lot of drama in those communities is less based around the fact that people in fandom are inherently combative or dramatic and more around the fact that there are like, two or three people who jump from community to community starting shit wherever they go and are responsible for like 60% of all discourse

[real-scholarship-owl]

[kiokushitakaa]

in case y'all didn't know i'm still out here making stupid edits

[kiokushitakaa]

Casa Betania 🏚️

Between the towns of Arecibo and Hatillo, there is a deteriorating structure up on a hill that was once a home that belonged to a German family with the surname Oyster. Because of this, it is also known as the Casa del Alemán (the German’s House). There are local legends that speculate that the house was also used to communicate with the German government during World War II. After the Oysters left, the home was used by a nearby church as a spiritual retreat for some time. It was also rented by scientists working at the Arecibo observatory before it was abandoned.

The history of the house is largely based on speculation and rumors, but many believe there have been some dark happenings within its walls, and paranormal investigators have been coming to the location since 1987. Visitors and locals alike have reported hearing screams and the sounds of chains and footsteps emanating from inside the structure. There are also theories that the land may have been used as a portal to another dimension.

Others have claimed to have seen ghosts, one that particularly stands out is an apparition of a woman covered in blood. One legend talks about two women who are said to have died in the house, which could account for this bloody woman that has been seen. According to the story, the two women who met their end were an elderly woman who died in a cable car on the property and a younger woman who fell to her death at the bottom of a nearby ravine.

[makesoneteam]

you would think, like, "oh, we've already thought of all the metaphorical ways we can say penis/vagina. we've already come up with the full list of nicknames. we have exhausted the list of innuendos. there is nothing else new to be said about this" and then you'll open a random explicit fic and make the most improbable linguistic discovery of all time

[pochayun]

would you like to share with the class 🤔

[makesoneteam]

saw the term "gummy walls" last night and had to sit alone with god for a minute

[mercury-mage]

would you like to unshare with the class

[rixareth]

Where did you first read fanfiction?

Someone's personal website

An archive for a specific fandom

Fanfiction.net

AO3

Ficbook

Wattpad

Another multifandom fic archive

Tumblr

Long-form blogging platform: Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Blogspot etc.

Quizilla, Twitter or somewhere else comically unsuited to fanfiction

A physical copy, e.g. a zine, a friend's handwritten or printed fic

Somewhere else/what's fanfiction?

Voting ended onNov 3, 2025

[notanupstandingcitizen]

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

[kiokushitakaa]

some of us were just weird and had library cards idk what to tell you

[kiokushitakaa]

Hotel Normandie 🏩

The Normandie is a historic hotel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico having first opened its doors on October 10, 1942. Its design was heavily inspired by the French transatlantic passenger ship of the same name and it also featured Art Deco designs just like it. The hotel's original roof sign was actually one of the two signs that had once adorned the top deck of the SS Normandie but ended up being removed from the ship. 

The hotel was dreamed up by Félix Benítez Rexach, and there is a popular legend that he designed it after the ship where he met his wife, Lucienne Dhotelle, better known as La Môme Moineau, but they were already married by the time the ocean liner took its maiden voyage. The truth is, he did have it built for her, but as a honeymoon gift. The Normandie was a luxury hotel that attracted many socialites in its heyday.

One of the more scandalous stories about the hotel’s history tells that La Môme Moineau particularly liked swimming in the hotel’s beautiful swimming pool… in the nude. After the hotel was renovated in the 90s and the pool area was transformed into the lobby, employees reported it didn't stop Moineau from swimming there, even though she had already died. They also reported smelling her signature French perfume. Though the hotel is currently closed, some would-be ghost hunters have sneaked inside and claimed to have seen her naked ghost, still swimming in the pool that’s no longer there.

A far less amusing story states that during the hotel’s early days, a woman allegedly committed suicide by throwing herself off one of balconies on the highest floor. Hotel guests, staff, and security guards have reported hearing a woman crying and some swear to have seen her spirit walking along the hotel grounds. Guards working the night shift have also reported other strange noises such as moans, screams, and a woman’s voice speaking. 

Another apparition that has been reported was also seen by a night shift security guard. He is said to have seen the ghost of a young child appear and then he saw several wooden planks slide across the room all by themselves. The experience was so terrifying that he quit on the spot and never returned to that place again.

The hotel is currently said to be undergoing renovations, though it is not clear if and when it will reopen.

[kiokushitakaa]

El Morro 🏰

Castillo San Felipe del Morro, also known as El Morro, is the most recognizable landmark in the city of San Juan. It makes up the San Juan National Historical Site along with San Cristóbal. The fort was constructed in the 16th century and has six levels, which can still be explored today. It overlooks San Juan Bay and was used to protect the entrance to the bay from invaders. It is also said to be the most haunted place on the island.

Once you’re inside the structure, you can just feel the grandeur of the structure. Whether you’re standing at the cannons and imagining them in use or inside the domed garitas (watchtowers) looking out into the bay, the atmosphere quickly becomes somber as you think about those who sacrificed their lives to protect the island from foes like the British navy or even pirates. 

The building has had several ghost sightings and paranormal activity reported, most likely due to its horrifically violent past. The historic cemetery Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis is also nearby, which may explain some of the spirits that have been sighted here as well. One of the most famous sightings is a woman in white that has been said to glide along the ramparts, though it is also said that no one has ever been able to see her face. Legend has it that she is searching eternally for her lost love who died at sea.

According to several reports, visitors will often feel cold spots despite the lack of air conditioning or see shadows darting along the walls. Voices have also been reported, some have said they’ve heard whispers, others have claimed to hear screams emanate from the dungeons below the fort. One specific report stated that a tourist heard someone yell “help me” in Spanish but with a Chinese accent, and there is a legend that says a Chinese prisoner starved to death here in the 1800s. 

Additionally, visitors who sit in the theater get the feeling that someone is watching them and many have reported hearing footsteps and other strange noises and feeling someone breathing on their necks when no one else is around. There was also one tourist who claimed to have seen a soldier in an antiquated military uniform walk through the wall of the fort’s lighthouse. Apparently, there used to be a door where the wall now stands.