likeasouffle

Genderqueer. They/them/their or zie/zir/zirs pronouns. Optimist/shiny ball of sunshine. Currently (as of summer 2025) not really in any fandom. I don't know why, they're just not providing dopamine anymore lol. I like superhero movies and cats. Anyone can follow me, you don't have to ask first. I follow very few people due to time constraints, so please don't be offended if I don't follow you back! AO3 Recent fics on Tumblr Transformative works policy

[likearumchocolatesouffle]

Top 10 TV shows meme

Thank you so much @misqueue for tagging me! :D

Put your top 10 TV shows into a poll so people can pick the best one!

It was tough to pick, and I definitely have some recency bias, but I decided not to worry about it too much!

Which of my favorite TV shows is the best?

The Good Place

Doctor Who

Ted Lasso

Wonder Man

Our Flag Means Death

Severance

Strange New Worlds

Andor

Community

Game Changer

Voting ended onJun 8

I'm tagging: @shamelesslymkp @natigail @knittywriter @chocolateforyou @smol-civet @anxioussquirrel @natigail @riahpariah @poemsingreenink @honeysucklepink

[likearumchocolatesouffle]

Thank you to everyone who voted, that was fun! I voted in my own poll early on so I could see the results come in lol. (Is there another way to see the votes, as the person who made the poll?)

Doctor Who had an early lead, but then The Good Place got like eight votes at once! The whole time I was thinking "I can't believe Ted Lasso still has zero votes" but then it got one right at the end!

It's a shame no one watched Wonder Man and it wasn't really promoted at all, it's really good and really funny! Especially if you like Marvel movies.

Overall I'm happy with The Good Place winning! What a good show! Great work everyone! :D

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Voting ended on21h

[theprofessional-amateur]

Every day I get a little closer to saying fuck it and becoming an apprentice in some at risk heritage craft or profession.

[theprofessional-amateur]

"let's have AI-"

I'm gonna go learn the art of hand engraving or thatched roofing. Maybe hand make clogs.

[trickstertime]

As a professional hand engraver, when it comes to old crafts like these, its way more accessible to get started with the basics than you'd expect. Back in the day good steel was expensive so trying something like hand engraving was expensive and difficult to justify. But now you can can just buy a good quality handpush graver online for less than a fancy coffee. Just think, for under a hundred quid you could get all the kit you need to get started with fucking up coins and stabbing yourself repeatedly!!!

Don't threaten to do it, go research it, and actually give it a go!!! Most of the books for old crafts are out of copyright. Even if you don't get a job at whatever you try, or hell, even of you don't become in any way good at it, just learning and trying something new is good for you, and it gives you a greater understanding and appreciation for things.

Fuck AI? Good. I agree. Now fucking do something about it. Return to doing human hand crafted things as an act of rebellion! Start knitting, start wood carving, start engraving, whatever the fuck. But most importantly, remember you don't need to be making money doing it to make it worth doing.

[likearumchocolatesouffle]

Top 10 TV shows meme

Thank you so much @misqueue for tagging me! :D

Put your top 10 TV shows into a poll so people can pick the best one!

It was tough to pick, and I definitely have some recency bias, but I decided not to worry about it too much!

Which of my favorite TV shows is the best?

The Good Place

Doctor Who

Ted Lasso

Wonder Man

Our Flag Means Death

Severance

Strange New Worlds

Andor

Community

Game Changer

Voting ended onJun 8

I'm tagging: @shamelesslymkp @natigail @knittywriter @chocolateforyou @smol-civet @anxioussquirrel @natigail @riahpariah @poemsingreenink @honeysucklepink

[segamascott]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

We should popularize more hispanized phonetic spellings of classic character names like we did with esnupi

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Citripio y Arturito

[likearumchocolatesouffle]

Top 10 TV shows meme

Thank you so much @misqueue for tagging me! :D

Put your top 10 TV shows into a poll so people can pick the best one!

It was tough to pick, and I definitely have some recency bias, but I decided not to worry about it too much!

Which of my favorite TV shows is the best?

The Good Place

Doctor Who

Ted Lasso

Wonder Man

Our Flag Means Death

Severance

Strange New Worlds

Andor

Community

Game Changer

Voting ended onJun 8

I'm tagging: @shamelesslymkp @natigail @knittywriter @chocolateforyou @smol-civet @anxioussquirrel @natigail @riahpariah @poemsingreenink @honeysucklepink

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[dandelionclockss]

"The average torchwood operative lives for 82 million years" factoid is actually just statistical error. Average torchwood operative lives for 26 years. Captain Jack, who is a fixed point in time and lives for over five billion years, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Others have said it and I'm gonna say it too: This film is beautiful.

This movie is so colorful and it's like a breath of fresh air in today's "blockbuster" movie era where everything is dull, washed out, too dark, desaturated, or blue. The space scenes especially are full of warm colors and hues. Planet Adrian? fucking gorgeous. The STARS even have color, which is actually astronomically accurate thank you very much, stars are not all white, they range from red to orange to yellow to white to blue!! And you can SEE than in the space scenes!

Speaking of seeing, you can see every scene in this movie because it's actually well-lit because they're not trying to hide bad CGI. So much of the movie is actual real models and puppets and line work and practical effects! They don't want to hide it, they want you to see it!

And the LIGHT? Oh my god the role of light in this movie. It should be considered a character in its own right. There's a scene where Grace is looking for Rocky and the light literally guides him down the hall. Light is constantly moving and changing in this film within the same cut, it's absolutely incredible. Light is so IMPORTANT in this film. It's directional, it's dynamic, it changes colors, it's vibrant! So many modern films can't do that because of the CGI; they need flat, ambient, consistent lighting to make the modeling work easier. Not in this movie!!

[tiktoks-repost]

[zebra11235]

I love AO3 and all its wonderful, generous, gorgeous, hilarious writers.

[turquoisedata]

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

[likearumchocolatesouffle]

Sometimes people call a celebrity a horrible person for using a slur, or like, voting republican, and I just want to make clear, for anyone who hasn't heard, that what Neil Gaiman has been accused of is sexual abuse, rape, and sex trafficking. The Vulture article above is specifically about Caroline Wallner, but there are other accusers, and more info in the Rolling Stone article from Jan 2025.

So this isn't new info, but it's being shared around now because the conclusion to Good Omens has been released (a 90 minute episode, instead of a full third season).

[existentialterror]

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

[greenjudy]

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

[jumpingjacktrash]

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

[averixus]

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

[ashby-santoso]

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

[ms-demeanor]

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

[ms-demeanor]

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

[workfornow]

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

[existentialterror]

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

[weaselle]

I know i've said it before, but if you are concerned it could be real and not a scam, the best way to avoid getting scammed is to return contact separately.

Here's how that works:

say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.

Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.

Get in touch with them using that information.

So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.

If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.

If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.

This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.

By handling any questionable incoming calls to action this way, you significantly protect yourself from scams and malware and shit

[j4gm]

Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.

[fucking-relax]

be purposeful with your wellbeing

this could include:

let yourself move to music however you wish

doing small stretches during periods of waiting

celebrate when you do a task

reflect on the joyful mundane

ask: what is one thing you can do in this moment to make yourself more comfortable?

set aside time in your schedule to do whatever the fuck