Meret

This tumblr sometimes deals with adult topics. Please come back when you're 18 or older. I'm Meret on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Meret I don't use ai, and never will!

[meret118]

My Fics and Bookmarks on AO3

My Fic Recs on Tumblr

My Fics on Tumblr

[charliebugz]

a ironic “burlesque show” about humans pretending to be vampires that is actually made a real vampire…

lestat i’m sensing a theme here

[meret118]

Sneaky Magpies Outwit Scientists by Removing Tracking Devices

The trackers were supposed to track movement behaviors but instead uncovered an unusual problem-solving behavior

[meret118]

Got another of those fake verification mentions in a reply, went to the page to block it, and it shut my browser down every time. I had to paste the URL in my block list to do it. And I'm still getting notices from it in my replies even though I blocked the page. WTF?

ETA: That's the 5th one in a day and half I think.

[hoechlinth]

3x16//3x19

Stiles and Derek + Being self-sacrificing cuties (even though they say they won’t)

[o-fortunate-adulescens-deactiva]

sometimes, people don’t understand that we are hated for being autistic. “But I don’t hate autistic people!”.

That’s right! Because you don’t know how autistic people are.

You know, people never bullied me for being autistic. Because neither me nor they had the terminology. Nah, they punished me for being weird. And what made me weird to their eyes? I spoke weird and often stumbled, and I spoke like a grownup anyway, and I wouldn’t shut up about Ancient Greece. I moved weird too, because I was (am) really clumsy, and I didn’t have any friends. I was boring and didn’t catch jokes (made at my expense) and I didn’t look them in the eye, and so on and on.

If you asked any of the people who bullied me for years whether they hate autistic people, they’d say “no!”. Because they don’t hate autistic people, but oh boy do they hate weird people. Perhaps they don’t hate autistic people, but surely they hated me for being obviously autistic.

[t0rnado0fs0uls]

I’ve been trying to explain this concept to a lot of people. You did a really good job summing it up.

[meret118]

Any temperature play Hollanov recs? Maybe it starts with a makeshift ice pack full of ice cubes for an injury, and turns into something else? Endorphins are good for pain too. ;)

ETA: Or it's summer at the cottage now. Maybe eating popsicles to cool off outside turns into something else? :)

[meret118]

Why no human being should ever be allowed to have a trillion dollars

Elon Musk's big milestone is no bueno.

A trillion is 1,000 billion. It’s an unfathomable number. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday, if you stack a trillion pennies one atop the other, they’ll stretch to the moon and back—twice.

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[findingfeather]

I am making a VERY big point of the Ally flag in all my pride stuff at work.

Feel awkward about people maybe thinking you’re queer but still want to clearly signal “queers are okay with me”? SURE. LOVE IT. HERE’S YOUR WEIRD FLAG.

Don’t fucking at me about allies right now, they are ALSO actually getting fucking killed over us. Take your puri-gay shitty tent somewhere else mine is great with people’s cishet friends and relatives showing up to have our backs.

(“but what if they -“ shitty behavior is shitty behavior I don’t care if you INVENTED queer sex, if you’re acting like a douche i’ll kick you out. wanna act decent and accept the premises of queer coexistence and freedom, cool, i’m not judging you for feeling ok with the gender title they gave you in the delivery room or being attracted to people with the other standard issue title, grab a pop).

[vaspider]

yep yep yep yep

If you're with us, you're welcome. Sure, sometimes you have to wear the costume before it becomes the clothes, but also, some of the best people at Pride are the slightly confused moms, dads, and siblings who show up whether or not they understand. "Love is love" also means "I don't need to get it to show up for you."

[meret118]

Cishet people can also be queer! I totally agree that allies are welcome, and we need them now more than ever, but please don't automatically think of cishet people as only allies. The A stands for asexuals and aromantics, many of whom are cishet. We are part of the alphabet too!

[landofla]

This year I am doing pride for the first time in a while. Mostly because I tend to be out of town, but also for a variety of "do I belong" reasons.

Bringing my poly pride shirt and flag, wearing all the rainbows I can find. Because numbers, visibility and allyship is important. But also the bigger the umbrella the more power the community has.

[meret118]

Yes! Demisexuals and polyamorous are queer too! Sorry for not mentioning that.

[unofficial-estonia]

14th June 2021 marks 80 years since the June Deportation from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Baltic States have yet to receive acknowledgement for the horrors that happened here from ones that did this to us, let alone an apology.

It’s been 80 years, and there is still no justice for the ones that were violently ripped for their homes or killed.

[unofficial-estonia]

14th June 2026 marks 85 years since the June Deportation from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Baltic States have yet to receive acknowledgement for the horrors that happened here from ones that did this to us, let alone an apology.

It’s been 85 years, and there is still no justice for the ones that were violently ripped for their homes or killed.

[stele3]

June deportation - Wikipedia

[toyastales]

Victorian Courting Conversation Chair, Europe 19th Century .

[meret118]

I'm guessing the third chair was for a chaperone? But it made me think of a throuple courting. :)

[meret118]

Elon Musk's a Trillionaire. Here Are Other Shocking Numbers Defining His Legacy

SpaceX founder Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. How else does he add up?

$290 million: The amount Musk spent helping Trump win the 2024 election, per SEC filings.

14 million: The rough estimate of global deaths expected by 2030 as a result of Musk’s cut to foreign aid programs as head of DOGE, according to the medical journal The Lancet.

12: Number of attempted SpaceX Starship launches 6: Number of SpaceX Starship launches that ended in failure.

$38 billion: The amount Musk’s companies have received in contracts, tax credits, and grants from the federal government between 2003 and 2025.

$332: The average amount an American family on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program receives in aid per month.

$21.7 billon: Estimated amount of taxpayer funds wasted by Elon Musk’s DOGE operation.

$100 million: The combined estimated value of the seven residential properties Musk put on the market in 2020.

$100 million: The amount of affordable housing subsidies and assistance programs Musk eliminated as head of DOGE.

7: The number of women who sued Musk’s Fremont, California, Telsa factory alleging sexual harassment. (One case was settled under undisclosed terms; the cases of the six other women remain unresolved.)

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[jhoomwrites]

when reading a book, do you read the prologue/epilogue?

yes

prologue only

epilogue only

no

nuance (comments/tags)

Voting ended onApr 13

[yusuke-of-valla]

Looking at the tags, a lot of people are blessedly unaware of the Discourse, for posterity:

[orcboxer]

do they think... that prologues and epilogues... which take place within the story and are very much inside of the same book as the rest of the pages... don't count as part of the book....???.....

[gardenofava]

[drowninginredink]

Apparently today is Loving Day, named after Richard and Milford Loving, the interracial couple whose lawsuit against the state of Virginia resulted in interracial marriage becoming legal in the United States. And so this day was made as a holiday for interracial relationships. I think that's very cool and deserves a tumblr post. Happy Loving Day to everyone in interracial relationships!

[beautifulscreaminglady]

Photographs of the Lovings by Villet Grey

[kvothes]

a good thread