memorizingthedigitsofpi

Call me pi. Creator of things who currently doesn't know what to create.

[justjasper]

if i can be a little mean for a sec, this is frustrating:

rec request: "min 10k [20k/50k etc] words" "no wips" "longfic" "slow burn", general 'if you rec anything outside this it's lesser work' vibe

aside: [requester will not comment on any of the works recced to them]

your preferences are fine. but are your preferences limiting your enjoyment or engagement with creators?

some of the most impactful fanfiction stories i have read come in under 5k words. some WIPs stay with me and i'm glad to have read them even if they're unfinished and may never be. some of my best work is sitting around the 1-3k wordcount mark. i have told the beats of stories succinctly in under 1k word tumblr prompt fills.

you are denying yourself joy and pleasure and insight by being weird about demanding all fanfic is novella length or holding that only longfics are worthwhile fics.

suport for short fiction encourages creators - it encourages first time posters and writers. it encourages people who are trying to create for fandoms with limited time and spoons. it encourages variety in ways to tell stories. it creates more of the stuff you love.

healthy, active fandoms, no matter the size, have a variety. long epics, cracky aus, drabble collections, short pwp stories, high concept abandonned stories that will never be finished.

fandom is a living, changing thing; feed it, nourish it, care for it.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I don't tend to pay enough attention to celebrities to ship them with each other

but with that said,

Sean Evans and Keke Palmer need to date. Like, yesterday.

[grimoiremanifest]

finding somebody who will laugh at your shitty jokes is joy-inducing but finding a motherfucker who can yes-and all the esoteric bullshit you put out is pure cocaine. this must be the shit all those racuous but good-natured scoundrels down at the tavern are on

[retropopcult]

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

[foone]

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

[silencedrowns]

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

[meeedeee]

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

got myself a waterpik

how the hell do I use this thing without drowning?

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I think I'm doing something simultaneously right and wrong to my youtube algorithm.

like, it knows enough to attempt to throw "suggested topics" at me

but the topics it's choosing??

[bookwyrminspiration]

starting a new fuck/marry/kill called aro/crack/attack where you take three characters and decide who you're making aromantic, whose egg you're cracking, and who you're doing grievous bodily harm

[herssian]

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

[subwaybug]

More people should get into poly shipping. Both because polyamory is awesome and because it's really fun to make complicated ass diagrams

[nmbrs]

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

[godzilla-reads]

The only reason I was able to read as voraciously as I did growing up was because of mass market paperbacks.

Special hardcover editions are nice or paperbacks with deckle edges and sprayed sides, but the mass market paperback is the pillar of society.

[perotovar]

#hey so this is insane actually

HUDSON WILLIAMS as SHANE HOLLANDER Heated Rivalry (2025-) 1.01 "Rookies"

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

[princesonic]

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I'm a glasses-wearer and have been since childhood, and I'm often confused by people who need glasses later in life and find them unappealing or feel unattractive while wearing them. To me, my face looks unfinished without glasses (and people who wear them are definitely attractive).

Anyway...

Do you think wearing glasses makes a person more or less attractive?

more attractive

less attractive

I have no strong opinion one way or the other

Voting ended onMay 27

[whetherwoman]

Help my kid out with their science fair project and fill out a survey about AI art?

Can humans tell difference between AI images and human-created images?

This survey is for my science fair class. I am gathering data about how different demographics see the differences between AI and human-crea

Please share!

[tomhoppusdelonge]

i love following people with kinks I don’t have because somtimes I’m like

[antoine-triplett]

The Fake Dating trope got me againnnn

There’s just something about the honest conversations it invokes that is like catnip to me. Oh, you’re going to slowly become best friends and tell each other your secrets and relationship hangups because you think it doesn’t matter and then it ends up mattering the most? Okayyy 🥲