Be Respectful

BSD, Naruto, writing... Honesty, who knows what this is about anymore? Ask box is open!

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[newbarktownalumni]

[dcmonblood]

do you remember years ago, on this site, when people would send each other asks just to send asks, when people would send each other compliments and rate each other's themes and would do follow forevers and reblog reblog reblog, and do little ask games and people actually participated in them and people would do regular fanfic recommendation lists, like every week, because they were avid readers of their fandom/ship's fics and there would be less ship wars (not always) but mostly people focused on the things they loved and had fun doing instead of being miserable, when people would do snippet fridays, sharing little looksies into whatever fic they were writing and people would compliment and reblog reblog reblog reblog, and people would comment on fics on the regular if they even so much as enjoyed it just a little bit, and oh, when people would reblog, reblog, reblog, the things they liked

[thememedaddy]

[literaturewit65]

Penacony

[sxpositive]

book asks:

book you’ve reread the most times?

top 5 books of all time?

what is your favourite genre?

what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

where do you buy books?

what books have you read in the last month?

is there a series/book that got you into reading?

what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

when do you tend to read most?

do you have a guilty fav?

what non-fiction books do you like if any?

did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

do you have a goodreads?

do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

recommend and review a book.

how many books have you read this year?

top 5 children’s books?

do you like historical books? which time period?

most disliked popular books?

what are things you look for in a book?

[thememedaddy]

[literaturewit65]

Orochimaru be like

[badbungoustraydogaus]

BSD but every major fight is a rap battle

ideal world

[literaturewit65]

BSD if Finrod and Sauron were Atsushi and Akutagawa

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[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!

[dougielombax]

*kicks it even further*

I couldn’t help it. I had to.

*points at whoever next finds this post*

Now it’s your turn.

[literaturewit65]

*kicks the can to outer space, looks at alien* Your turn

[literaturewit65]

Tolkienverse would you rather!

would you rather have an archery competition with legolas or a swordfight with aragorn?

Hmm... a sword fight with Aragorn I guess. I did kendo and Iaido in highschool so I think I'd do better at swordfighting than archery.

[toddycats]

My hope for whoever is reading this is that your life starts making sense and coming together. I hope the good days are right around the corner for you.

[me----irl]

Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[winwin17]

Let's play Tolkienverse Would You Rather!

Send me Would You Rather questions, anything to do with Tolkien's world (for example, Would you rather fight a Balrog or fight Shelob?) Be creative, be fun, try to make my choices hard!

Also, feel free to reblog this post if you want to be sent Would You Rather questions too.

[toshimon-97]

Itachi's epistemology (and why I think it's such a clever choice)

During the buildup to the fight between the Uchiha brothers, Itachi says something which stuck with me, probably because I study philosophy and it was overtly philosophical but that's neither here nor there.

Itachi's words are as follows: "Each of us lives, dependent and bound by our individual knowledge and our awareness...All that, is what we call reality...However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal..Ones reality might be another's illusion, we all live inside our own fantasies."

I just think this is such a fantastic character choice because it's using Itachi's view on perception, and thus knowledge in order to tell us about his character.

Given that he thinks perception is a good source of knowledge we can roughly infer that he is some sort of empiricist, we are able to gain knowledge about the world by experiencing it using the five senses is one way of wording such a view.

Another implication of this quote is that we can ONLY gain any worthwhile knowledge from these experiences, and this all culminates in an understanding of the universe which is then called reality.

Now the thing that really interests me is that he seems to be some sort of anti-realist about truth, talking about how each individual has their own reality constructed from their individual experiences.

This is such a clever choice for his character because Itachi's whole gimmick is that he's a master of illusion and genjutsu, and especially with his signature technique Tsukuyomi, which does the work of constructing the sense data which constructs reality, and so, sceptic that he is, he understands fully that it is entirely possible that he too is under a similar technique and is just none the wiser (a glaringly obvious Descartes reference if there ever was one). I think this is such a lovely bit of characterisation because of course such a talented illusionist would take such a radically sceptical view of things, and how he would come to distrust his own senses and reality as he toys with the reality of others through his technique.

[peachesxncream]

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Reblog to sprinkle previous with happiness sparkles

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[kimmycup]

Like I don't think you guys comprehend what happened in Poland just now but everyone needs to be talking about it.

A random influencer decided he'll listen to an anti cancer song on loop. People liked it enough times he ended up listening for 9 days.

He raised 90 million in these 9 days, and then 160 million more over the last 10 hours, for a total of 250 million.

Hundreds and thousands of people signed up to donate marrow.

Hundreds of celebrities shaved their heads in solidarity.

The Foundation receiving this money had to create a special commission to figure out how to distribute the money.

The national TV stations got highjacked to stream this for hours because it was better news than anything happening in the world.

Because we broke and DOUBLED the world record for this kind of thing.

They raised about as much as the biggest running charity event in Poland did in a whole year with three decades of tradition and a goddamn army of people.

And they did it on a goddamn amateur set up in a shabby room sitting on folding chairs.

[kimmycup]

Little update: people keep donating despite the stream being over. We're at 280 million in the fight against cancer.

Łatwogang refuses to collab with companies that only reached out to him now because of popularity or give interviews. He said any medals people wanna give them should go to the doctors and nurses and the cancer patients.

Someone offered to renovate that shabby little flat for him as a thank you. He refused.

Someone counted up how many people appeared in that room during the whole thing - it was 319 total.

[belladonna-rx]

Love to hear it. Love news articles too.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/polish-nine-day-charity-stream-breaks-records-support-kids-with-cancer-2026-04-27/

Just love this headline phrasing.

Streamer crushes MrBeast charity record with $70 million raised for kids with cancer - Dexerto

Polish streamer Łatwogang’s charity livestream has raised over 203 million złoty for children with cancer, breaking the charity stream recor

[starlightshadowsworld]

Hell yeah

[hempkitty]

can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

[gremlin-pattie]

reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them