Doing Human Things™

...such as enjoying my non-distributed nervous system. help, how do i the tumblr

[ouuma]

recently bought celeste and i already finished the main story

ouh… this game is so fun the art is beautiful and i love the characters/story

[welcometothejianghu]

Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[lucytara]

anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

[iamnmbr3]

#fandom is a party not a market via @kittenjammer

[elismor]

Fandom is a party, not a market.

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

The best piece of writing advice I can give is that you should strive to be sincere rather than original.

You can't force originality. Originality will arise as a natural consequence of sincerity. Make the story completely and apologetically yours, and originality will come by virtue of it being your story.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 3 hours 49 minutes

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 3 hours 59 minutes

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 4 hours 4 minutes

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[jaedoesart]

Day 15: The Voodoopunks

[pagliaccis-clown]

Got bored over summer break and designed some posters for DoNA and NARH

[femmeidiot]

wanting to talk to people is so fucking embarrassing. literally hi it's me again I wanted to have a conversation with you because I think you're fun to talk to. oh god you can just fucking kill me if you want sorry

[usernamemybeloathed]

Me at all times

[purpleselkiee]

Made this a few months ago :)

[official-cephaloposts]

official cephalopod post

[guiigemar]

never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long

[mirkwoodest]

I was thinking about Aragorn’s stupidly long legs again and I think it should be canon that he regularly smacks his forehead into low door frames and stuff. Just somwhere in Minas Tirith there’s a loud thunk followed by a long string of Sindarin swearwords and Arwen is like “ah yes, here he comes, the King of Gondor and Arnor, the love of my life.”

[katajainen]

#it’s funnier because none of the humans around her are able to hear the thunk and the swearing so they think she has some kind of#Magical Elf Love Sense that anticipates his arrival#but no#she just hears him smacking his head on the weirdly low door by the eastern staricase AGAIN#also the elves are just as tall or taller but they NEVER smack their heads on the doorframes#unless they are very very drunk

WHY would you hide these GOLDEn additions in the tags?

[lady-merian]

#tolkien#lotr#aragorn#arwen#i see this headcanon and i raise you ‘minas tirith is the only city where aragorn does not smack his head on the doors’#because it was built by numenoreans before they were diminished (in spirit but also in height) by their exile#for everyone except aragorn and arwen the doorways are weirdly tall#for aragorn it’s just ‘oh thank the valar i don’t have to duck anymore’#it still takes him some time to shake the habit of ducking every time he goes through a doorway though#the first time faramir sees him do this he is very confused#the second time he sees arwen stuff her entire hand in her mouth to keep from laughing and is even more confused#the third time he asks what’s going on and almost dies of laughter when aragorn sheepishly explains that he’s used to smacking his head#every time he goes through a door

@winterinhimring YES

[called-kept]

#So Rivendell ought to likewise have plenty of height in their doorways#Thus he didn’t develop the habit to duck early in life and so we get to keep the bit about Aragorn constantly whacking his head against#Other doorframes#But almost everywhere else WILL have shorter doorframes and he FORGETS#(Specially after that exhausting week around the battle of Helm’s Deep. The doorframes of the Riddermark aren’t built for the Dunedain)#So maybe it’s a toss up as to when he remembers to duck and when he forgets and when he remembers he doesn’t actually need to#Get this man some stability he’s earned it

@lady-merian These are BRILLIANT additions.

[dimsilver]

more excellent tags from @exercise-of-trust 😂

[elodieunderglass]

Bree being one of the only settlements that is actually designed to accomodate both tall and short people is actually surprisingly easy for Strider, as he is like. Aha. Inclusive architecture. The presence of a choice of doorway heights signals to me that I must pay attention to which one I select!

Unfortunately, his increased awareness of his head directly corresponds to reduced awareness of his legs, and while he can brilliantly navigate his way to a good Lurking Corner in any given Bree pub without hitting his head on a single chandelier, he then stretches out his legs and wipes out two hobbit servers with glasses, a guy selling spectacles, the chandelier itself, and ultimately a percentage point of the local economy

[scleroticstatue]

Hence where he got his nickname. The barkeep chewed him out rather a lot and during the rant asked “what you need those long legs for anyway? What stridin’ about have you t'do?” The third time he tripped someone, he overheard the servers training each other for the strider’s legs.

[istra-ish-sucha-geek]

If you’re not tall, I need you to understand this is absolutely a thing, and there’s a weirdly perfect height for doors to do that, and it’s LOWER THAN YOU THINK.

It’s when something is RIGHT above your eyebrows. Safely out of peripheral vision, and you thought you ducked, but didn’t duck far enough, OR you just weren’t paying attention and didn’t get the visual memo because WRONG SIDE FOR GOOD PERIPHERAL, and you go THUNK.

And it is NOT THE FEEL GOODS

The absolute WORST is a short door on STAIRS.

It’s tall enough on the stairs.

But when you step on the DOOR stair - THUNK - ducking miscalculated.

EVERY SINGLE TIME

[ripowal]

Sylvia's a good friend and a better listener. That's why gift-giving is the main way she shows love (translating the gifting game mechanic) (the other is quality time because she has precious little of it and spends it engaging with all her friends' hobbies).

Imagining Finn mentions bioluminescent kelp candy once. Coffee conversation, totally offhand: strips of sweet kelp that glow when you chew them, little sparks of light in your mouth. Novelty snack that deeper-dwelling merkids used to trade for. He brings it up the way you bring up anything from childhood that doesn't exist in your life anymore; it's just a fun fact, no big deal. Probably mentions it because she continues denying herself small joys and snacks, and glowing kelp candy was both.

But of course Sylvia tracks some down. Deep-sea courier service, complicated, possibly involving favors from Baptiste's shipping contacts or questionable sources through Salt & Pepper. She presents it casually, like it wasn't a whole to-do to acquire.

Finn recognizes it immediately, and the glow activates when he bites down and it lights up his teeth from the inside, which is objectively very cool-looking, but he's too busy being emotionally blindsided by her paying close attention to what he thought was idle chatter trying to convince HER to live a little.

And underneath the nostalgia there's the other thing he's still getting used to: someone just giving him something. No angle, no exchange rate, no favor owed. Just something for him.

(but also there's no way she's getting away with not trying some, and man, if he thought her smile glowed before...)

[asynca]

Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[tieflingkisser]

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[yipyipallyall]

[ID: 1: Series of screenshots of Bluesky posts. Raphael van Lierop (@raphlife.bsky.social) posted: "Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAl is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end." The post also includes an image of Boromir holding and considering the one ring.

Below this we see a post by Bianca II (@pbiankadonk.bsky.social): "Not just that but Tolkien also said, 'Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.' Sound familiar? (eye roll emoji)"

2: Edited image of Bilbo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In the original image, he was considering the one ring, but it has been edited so that his hands are holding a smartphone instead. A second panel reveals what is on his phone screen: he asked ChatGPT "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?" The LLM responded, "You're absolutely right -- you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself." End ID.]