these, our bodies, possessed by light @mohanovitch - Tumblr Blog

Ok just in case tumblr carks it in the foreseeable future, I am elsewhere on the net:

theseourbodiespossessedbylight on pillowfort

mohanovitch on ao3.

I can’t see myself getting into bluesky at the moment, but I’ll wait and see what everyone else does before making a final decision. In the meantime, if you’re on pillowfort, it’d be great to catch up there!

EDIT (22 Jan 2026): thesepossessedbylight > mohanovitch. New year new me, who dis

puppiegracie

making myself giggle with these

#I want o see this set to like. the hall of the mountain king #or similar

italymystery-swanqueen

Runway Magazine Cover 2026

If you looked up Power Couple in a dictionary you'll find their picture on it

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

ellaelverdam

Happy pride month gays !!!!!!!!!!

thelawfulchaotic

Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.

Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)

I selected “other.”

Text box popped up. Please elaborate!

Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment

Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.

Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”

Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.

I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.

If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.

When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.

Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email

sawyerpinklatte

Its not even an anti AI post. Its just a rant so they can brag about themself

thelawfulchaotic

No it’s a rant post, I would be less subtle if I was just blowing up my own ego. The post would be titled “cool facts about me” and I would have gotten the wpm figure right.

Just want to note, though, that humans should brag about what makes them better than gen AI. I love the responses to this post that are just bragging.

sawyerpinklatte

You weren't subtle regardless.

thelawfulchaotic

Cool facts about me:

I have a great job

I can do a great New Zealand accent and a decent Aussie

I live my life embodying the energy of James Holden from the Expanse

Once an octopus fell in love with me

I worked for a celebrity notorious for a sex abuse related scandal and it was the most boring zero-event job of my life (before the scandal broke)

Once got a fanfic of mine mentioned on official Wired magazine content

You should brag about yourself too

I’m also not in this world to bring other people down

bucketofdeltav

As a Kiwi who is pretty sure you're American, if you can actually do a passable Kiwi accent I am very, very impressed because no foreigner I have ever met has been able to pull that one off convincingly.

Not even Sir Ben fucking Kingsley (what was that???)

thelawfulchaotic

It’s all about the vowel shifts. Each vowel moves one stop on the tongue (ah becomes eh, eh becomes ih, etc) Then you take away the ‘r’ sound from everywhere it should be and instead delicately hint at it at the end of some words like “no” (noer)

Vocabulary I can’t really nail, I only spent like a week in New Zealand ever.

mohanovitch

… as a kiwi, I feel disturbingly called out.

But seriously, why is it that every time I tell an Australian my phone number, they mishear the 7 as a 0?

emziess

Noah Wyle as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch The Pitt, 9:00 P.M

fipindustries

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

unorthodoxchronicles

uroko

松の木にねこさんが登っていました。

ohmovie

I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want.

Labyrinth (1986) dir. Jim Henson

whitepeopletwitter

ramshacklefey

No IDs, but these tags got me in a huff:

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

Yoga pants. Hmf.

elodieunderglass

people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.

From wicking up road salt.

taibhsearachd

The visceral memory of that time is something that never leaves you. Everyone's jeans were many inches higher in the back than the front because you kept stepping on the hem and ripping it off. Your lower legs were so very cold. Every new pair of jeans literally enveloped your entire foot, they were so so long re: leg-to-waist ratio. Walking on a rainy day was a legitimate workout. You have no idea.

#I am having violent flashbacks to the cold wet soggy feeling of wet denim against the backs of my calves #yeurch

ilsefaust

WOMEN OF MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE VANESSA REDGRAVE as MAX in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) ↳ "I don't have to tell you what a comfort anonymity can be in my profession."

tikkety-tok

For the love of God, Unmute

christophernolan

DUNE 2021 | Denis Villeneuve

shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

flagellant

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

coffee-or-hot-cocoa

i need all the help i can get for finals

finnglas

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.

So you know.

This might be the real one, y’all.