Kungfunurse

Hey all - I'm Kungfunurse on AO3, Dreamwidth and Pillowfort. I’m a fandom old from pre-LJ days, and an inveterate slash fan

[beakerhoneydew]

I do find Three to be such a fascinating addition to the Murderbot world because as soon as you have 2 datapoints instead of 1 you’re like “oh SecUnits have personalities. And ours is just an asshole.”

[ironinkpen]

best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

[ironinkpen]

like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood

[ironinkpen]

uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"

also uncle:

once got captured by the earth kingdom army buck ass naked bc he really wanted to go to a hot spring in enemy territory

betrayed zhao at the Northern Water Tribe with no escape plan and then spent 3 weeks starving on a boat

immediately went to a spa resort upon publicly committing treason

ate a poisonous plant and, in the spirit of Two Fish Hook Sokka, was going to solve the problem by eating another potentially poisonous plant

decided the safest place in the world they could go was the city he once FAMOUSLY laid siege to for 600 days

instead of lying low or giving a modicum of a shit about people recognizing him, overachieved himself into becoming one of the most well-known restaurant owners in said city

in fact overachieved so hard that he got an invite to meet the earth king (whose city he, again, once FAMOUSLY LAID SIEGE TO) which he fucking? accepted????

[prettybirdy979]

#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)

[bunjywunjy]

How much bigger is a wolf than a coyote? Is it just noticeably larger and bulkier or is it a massive size difference?

Also they're normally natural enemies in the wild but sometimes they occasionally hybridize?

depends on the wolf! for this exercise we'll assume a median coyote size of 30 lbs.

while all north american wolves are technically grey wolves (except the mexican red wolf!) there are more than twenty subspecies of the damn things, all of which can differ significantly in size and appearance! (many now displaced with some extinct)

for example, the mexican wolf is only barely bigger than a large coyote, with adults reaching the 50-90 lb range.

whereas the northern rocky mountain wolf has any coyote massively outclassed, ranging between 80-150 lbs!

most other north american wolves range somewhere in between. but this is why we don't say "the size of a wolf" much as a figure of speech, because they come in so many different sizes!

and when wolves and coyotes hybridize, it's generally because there's no other potential partners in the area for either animal, so they start being willing to look a little farther up the family tree, so to speak!

[bunjywunjy]

!!!

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[lethotep]

It's important to have at least two blorbos that fit into specific roles in your life

The blorbo you can look to in hard times, and ask yourself what they would do in a situation, and draw motivation from them on how to be better and stronger!

The blorbo you can look to in hard times, and remind yourself that no matter what happens, you probably aren't going to fuck your shit up as much as they did even if you actively tried

[pi314rate]

Putting this into the void (if anyone knows anything pls help)

Do colleges look at your ao3 when you apply? Mine is connected to the same email I use for college board.

There's some bad stuff on there. One of which is orphaned so I can't delete.

I'm overall a top student but kinda worried.

Should I:

delete my fics?

delete my "bad/problematic" fics?

delete my account?

orphan all my fics?

delete all my "bad/problematic" bookmarks?

Pls help idk if they actually look at this stuff

[alpaca-clouds]

You have to say what country you are in, given it differs. Ao3 does not have the email addresses public, but depending on how you use usernames online it can be traceable. But whether they care about it or are even allowed to look it up depends on your country though.

[westiec]

There is not a way to look up an ao3 account by email. It's not social media, so it doesn't have that "add your contacts" thing, and it isn't going to just pop up in a google search of your email address or anything like that.

(Exception: If your ao3 account name is the exact same things as the part of your email before the @, people may be able to make an educated guess.)

However, I would still advise:

Make a fandom email address.

Like, I am not a college admissions person, I do not know where in the world you are, etc etc, but the simplest and most expedient solution here is to make a second, separate email address — preferably one that does not include your government name — and change your ao3 email to that one.

You can do this by going to Preferences > Change Email on ao3. Very quick and easy.

(As an aside, I run events, and when you sign up for an exchange? The mods can see your email. It's how we send your assignments through ao3. There's a looooootta y'all out here using [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected] (!!!!) for your ao3 and omg y'all please do not. 🙈)

Fiction is fiction, and it shouldn't matter, but of course we live in the world. I understand your concern. Change your ao3 email, and breathe easy. :)

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[alianoralacanta]

5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

[sztupy]

Meta's AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People's Instagram Accounts Just by Asking

Meta's AI customer support chatbot happily obliged when hackers asked it for access to high-profile Instagram profiles.

The ruse is shockingly simple: after matching the account owner’s geographic region using a VPN, the hackers asked the support chatbot to change the email address associated with the profile, thereby allowing them to successfully complete two-factor authentication. Worse yet, the vulnerability has been around for several months already, according to Telegram group messages reviewed by 404 Media.

[beardedmrbean]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[ilarual]

Hot take

the real difference between book Crowley and show Crowley in regards to the houseplants is that in the book, yelling at the plants is a coping mechanism for Crowley's relationship with Hell; in the show, yelling at the plants is a coping mechanism for his relationship with God

[ilarual]

alright @katelrar wanted me to expand on this so I’m gonna expand on it. I’m sure there’s absolutely nothing new to be said here bc this book is three decades old and I’m ludicrously late to the party, but I’m full of feelings and they need to come out and apparently my way of coping with getting really emotional over fictional demons is just to write appalling amounts of meta no matter how repetitive, so here we go.

Book Crowley:

In the book, Crowley terrorizing his houseplants is, like many things, introduced to us as this comedic little jokey-joke kind of thing like “haha the demon doesn’t really understand the human thing, he heard about talking to plants so they’ll grow better and misunderstood it and decided it meant scaring them into cooperation.” Which, obviously, we should know is bullshit from the get-go because if there’s one thing that can be unequivocally said about Crowley, it’s that he gets humans, and loves learning about and understanding human things. But, y’know, Good Omens is an absolute masterclass in the art of unreliable narration, so that’s where we start.

And then when Armageddon gets started and Aziraphale’s been discorporated and Crowley’s just kind of driving around confused and scared and not sure what the heaven he’s supposed to do now, when he gets a call on the radio from Downstairs basically saying “hey what the fuck man you fucked up big time and you’re gonna get tortured The Most once we finally do catch up to you, you piece of shit!” and Crowley finally gets righteously pissed. And his exact train of thought is (paraphrased, because my copy of the book is out in the car and I’m too lazy to go and get it): “It was the way they talked to you. Like you were a houseplant that had started shedding leaves on the carpet.”

Book!Crowley’s relationship with Hell is... fractious, for sure. He, like Aziraphale, pays nominal lip service to his employers despite taking a very clear stance against them by choosing the side of Humanity over Hell. He’ll defend his fellow demons, absolutely, because he recognizes that his fellow scrubs at the bottom of the corporate ladder are just keeping their heads down and doing their jobs, but he has beef with upper management in a pretty serious way that he hasn’t been dealing with up until that exact moment because... well, because he’s scared to. He knows what the higher-ups in Hell are capable of, and the thought of being on the receiving end of it terrifies him. Crowley enjoys being a demon in a theoretical sense, enjoys provoking and challenging humanity and seeing what they’ll do with the obstacles he throws up in their path, but he doesn’t enjoy working for Hell because he’s really not on board with the master plan, and he hasn’t been dealing with that at all.

So if you mostly enjoy your line of work, but you loathe your employer and your direct supervisors are pieces of shit, what are you to do? You can’t retaliate against your bosses directly because that’s the fastest way to get your ass canned (literally, in this case, shoved in a can and left to rot in the Pit for a few thousand years). So you complete the Chain of Screaming by terrorizing your houseplants a little bit.

This, to me, is the crux of Crowley’s journey in the book: his personal code of ethics is in direct conflict with Hell’s agenda, and despite spending the entire novel trying in various ways to completely fuck up Hell’s master plan, he hasn’t really accepted the ramifications of that. In his own way, he’s walking something of a similar line to Aziraphale. He’s more honest with himself than Aziraphale is, and more unwilling to fall in line with something he doesn’t agree with, but he’s still trying to maintain an unstable conflict of interests. 

And this is what resolves itself when he takes Aziraphale’s hand at the airfield and accepts that if he’s really going to commit to defying Hell and being on Humanity’s side, he’s going to have to stand up to Satan himself on their behalf. The cracks were in the foundations a long time ago, but Crowley acknowledging to himself that he’s the houseplant and he hates how Hell treats him is the first real sign that the collapse is imminent.

Show Crowley:

I think we’ve all grasped the fact that show!Crowley is in a... um... different emotional place than book!Crowley. I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s any more traumatized or angry than book!Crowley was, just that he’s in a different point in his journey. Book!Crowley feels to me like he’s made his peace with God, to some extent or another, as much as any demon ever can. Still gonna call out God’s fuckery bc like. demon. Not being on board with God’s bullshit is literally the fundamental tenet of the job. Still, he’s already wrestled with that and figured out where they stand, and has moved on to confronting his issues with Hell. He’s not exactly stable or at peace with himself yet, but he’s laid at least one major issue to rest by the time the story picks up.

On the other hand, show!Crowley absolutely has not made his peace with God. Show!Crowley is still 100% down to fistfight God at 3AM in a Denny’s parking lot between the dumpster and the beat-up 1999 Chevy Suburban and is also struggling with the complicated feelings about working for Hell that his novel counterpart is working through.

So the reframing of the houseplants not just as an outlet for Crowley’s complicated feelings about Hell, but for Crowley’s complicated feelings about God makes sense for show!Crowley. Crowley stewing in self-loathing over having fucked up the Antichrist switch and then proceeding to launch into a vicious screed against a disobedient philodendron is such a telling thing. This isn’t just venting, this is emotional self-harm. This is Crowley reframing his pain over his Fall and how he still hasn’t resolved this within himself yet, casting himself in the role of God and striking down whoever he pleases for any little transgression whatsoever.

So what am I getting at?

Both versions of Crowley are definitely using their houseplants as a way to deal with issues they’re not ready to confront head-on. The difference in what those issues are is a fascinating microcosm of how book and show characterizations diverge, but ultimately that’s what both Crowleys are doing. Not the worst coping mechanism ever, I guess, but probably not the healthiest one, either.

Bonus:

Show!Crowley tosses the “Fallen” houseplants out to a compost heap somewhere and dumps them there, and if they live or die is up to them, because he is the plants and the plants are him and that’s what was done to him.

Book!Crowley takes the disobedient houseplants out of the flat and lovingly replants them somewhere nice, or gifts them to some human who looks like they could use a plant to talk to, because he is the plants and the plants are him and that’s what he hopes could happen to him.

[teaboot]

There is a reality not so far from our own in which Ratitouille (2007) was filmed as an avant-garde conceptual horror akin to Eraserhead (1977)

[teaboot]

There is a young American man in France. His mother has passed away. He has few friends, and works the thankless job of a bus boy in a prestigious restaurant, but dreams of becoming a chef despite having very little skill.

He returns one night to his humble apartment, which is known to have vermin, and comes across a rat, which he could easily kill or set loose on the street.

But the rat- it is special. It seems to speak to him. Promises him every little thing he desires- talent, fame, and fortune. Recognition and esteem like he has only ever seen from afar; fine company like the wealthy men and women whose scraps he picks at over the sink.

Put me on your head, the rat says. Put me on your head and think of nothing.

It is strange at first, yes. Strange to feel another take control of his life and live it better than he ever could. To see miraculous things created with his own two hands, to feel his feet move in graceful and fantastic ways with a confidence he has never had.

But the rat delivers as he had promised: he receives promotions, notoriety, admiration. He is noticed. Envied. Every day is a waking dream, rubbing elbows with beautiful women and handsome men and influential personalities who lavish him with praise. It is addictive, this lifestyle- never mind that he is only ever truly conscious of it as a passenger of in own brain.

It is when he has reached heights few can ever conceive, with all that the rat had ever promised- a beautiful wife in a beautiful house with all the world in his palm, in possession of all the wealth and success a man could ever want, that the rat says that it is leaving.

Leaving? The rat cannot leave. Everything he is, the rat has provided.

"I have delivered on our bargain", the rat says. "I have brought to you all that you have ever dreamed. What more could you desire? I must live my own life, now."

The man is furious. He is terrified. He destroys the rat, in all of the ways that a rat can be destroyed, until nothing is left of it but a fine smear of marinara sauce.

He returns to the restaurant the next day moving like the shell of something hollowed-out and brittle. He cooks well- his fingers remember the movements, his eyes recognize the patterns, his mouth knows without his asking what orders to speak and what platitudes make patrons smile pleasantly with their straight white teeth.

He retains the talents of the rat. The charm of the rat. All the worldly pleasures the rat had provided him.

Still, it seems, he is little more than a vessel for the talents of the rat.

But the rat is gone.

What remains of the man?

[teaboot]

You see my vision

[hedgehog-moss]

Poldine ♪

Poldine 🎵

Poldine, Poldiiine 🎶

I’m begging of you please don’t take my cat ♪

Please don’t take her just because you can ♫

She talks about you in her sleep—

There’s nothing I can do to keep ♪ From crying when she calls, Poldine,

And I can easily understand How you could easily take my cat ♫

You could have your choice of cats 🎶

Poldine, Poldine ♫ Poldine, Poldiiine I’m begging of you please don’t take my cat ♫

Thank you for watching Poldine & The Cats’ first music video! No cats were harmed in the making of this clip, but two were mortified and one had her fur ruffled in the wrong direction by clumsy baby llama kisses.

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

Hey, what’s Winnie the pooh’s favorite color?

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

Yellow

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

No it’s red because of his shirt

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

No, it’s yellow because he loves honey

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

You have no idea what you’re talking about

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

DID I FUCKING STUTTER?

[voaga]

Things heating up at the Winnie the Pooh fandom

[decompose1]

ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!

[decompose1]

Hold on i should've been more specific.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Target Recalls Up & Up Fragrance Free and Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes Due to Potential Microbial Contamination

Target is voluntarily recalling Up & Up Fragrance Free and Up & Up Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes following customer complaints of produc

[dr-otter]

If you use baby wipes go check them NOW. A lot of Burkholderia bugs are antibiotic resistant so infections can be really difficult to treat.

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.