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@mysteryteacup
Hi, I'm Teacup!
Here's the post where I keep my massive list of fanfic ideas and thoughts for:
Humans Are Space Orcs
SVSSS
Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho!
Here's my AO3 if you want to read any of the fics I've written because of all those ideas.
"oh you're just being nice" JUST? do you have any idea how much work goes into this shit? JUST being nice? girl i am doing some supercomputer shit upstairs to construct this niceness. they installed laplace's demon in my brain to trace out the last hour of interaction and calculate the optimal thing to say to make you feel better. and i still somehow beefed it? JUST being nice? yeah and bach was "just writing songs" jesus fucking christ. people askin for cordiality like it's no big deal
This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.
OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.
And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.
Schism? Schism today?
Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card
Schism today
Why am I finding out just today that Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo
????
Hey. What
"relax. sucking does not kill" would make for a fun shirt
The impression given to me as a high schooler was that expecting to be able to be a practicing Jew was demanding a privilege, and that I should only ask for it if it didn’t inconvenience anyone else
While I didn't grow up Jewish (convert), my experience in the workplace has been exactly the same. I have been very vocally Jewish in all of my jobs as an adult. I had an employer make a rule that only one person from the same department could request off at a time, and then the company moved me to be in the same department as the only other vocally Jewish person on the floor. A month before Rosh Hashanah. The two of us got together and made a plan for how we were going to notify them that we would both be out. Surprise surprise, we both put in a time off request for RH and Yom Kippur, and the company acted as if it were our fault that we didn't "plan better." They even told us that next year we would have to plan better to make it work.
Management knew that we were both practicing Jews, and even understood what it meant bc our manager has practicing Jewish family. But they still decided to move us to work together right before the holiest time of the year knowing their stupid attendance policy. I would have loved to take all Yom Tov days off but this company only gave us 5 planned (unpaid) days off *a year.* They had the audacity to call me in for an attendance meeting because I "used up so much of my time off so quickly" and then ask what I could do to improve my attendance. I told them in explicit terms that I already sacrificed so much of my religious life to be employed by them, I couldn't shave off any more time.
They told me that that was the reason why I was given planned time off, to account for differences in each individual's personal lives. But of course, we weren't open on Sunday or Christmas, and practically the whole workplace was appalled that we were open on Good Friday, so that was the only compromise that Christians and Cultural Christians had to make for their own observances.
“plan better” 😵💫
Recently in my school district, those three groups did come together to lobby the school board to add their holidays to the school calendar so they’d be days off for everyone! Unfortunately they lost, but I hope they keep trying.
together
Your occasional reminder. 😏
Yeah, five months or so on from the last reminder, this is probably as good a time as any to reblog... :)
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Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name
for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!
I think I know how this works.
For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.
So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?
Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?
Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.
Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.
Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm
I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL
Stop says the red light, go says the green
Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between.
KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL
Maxwell Gotch is such a fun character for a lot of reasons. He's carried Torse (who weight thousands of pounds because he's made of cast iron) like it was nothing, he thinks a healthy exercise routine makes it reasonable that he can leap between flying aircraft, and he's so focused on being a proper gentleman that he tips into repressed.
Zood is such a fun setting for a lot of reasons. It has magic fungi that can swap the minds of animals from different species, it has a crystal city and a tree city, it's a giant tube, and it's all so bananas you could believe anything is possible there.
What I mean is that I think that Zood totally could have fuck or die sex pollen and Maxwell is possibly the only character I can believe would look the sex pollen in the eye and go "no, you blink first" and win.
There are two ways this can go:
1 Everyone gets hit by the sex pollen and Maxwell is left to run the entire ship with only Kočka and Ghost Dog to help while everyone else is getting it out of their system for a few hours/days/weeks
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2 Only Maxwell gets hit by the sex pollen and the rest of the crew are begging him to please stop being ridiculous and prudish and just sleep with one of them, but they cannot get past the stiff upper lip
It’s extremely important to realize that you were beautiful before someone noticed and you’ll remain beautiful in their absence.
Your beauty is not subjected to who values you for it.
when its just a little angry kid who needs help :( Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder (2005—2006)
Somebody at work keeps adjusting one of the perimeter cameras to have this beautiful artistic angle on the museum in a historical building across the way. The sun sets just behind it and the whole sky turns golden-blue, clouds streaked across the sky above. The lush tree line beneath the museum is perfectly lined up along the rule of thirds and the building itself towers above, almost mythical in its evening glory. Like damn, take a still from this camera and send it to the museum to frame and hang on their wall. I do need the camera to be pointing at the parking lot. Tho
The setting sun bounces off the skyscrapers downtown and hits the museum's windows and every one of them turns the same golden hue as the sky behind, reflected in the trees just starting to turn golden-orange beneath. The bottoms of the clouds take on the slightest tinge of purple and birds circle above, speckling the evening sky as they call autumn's last farewell. Someone's car got broken into in the parking lot last week, Tammy, point the damn camera at the cars
