sei doch mal nett!

twenty-something – she/her – excited about a lot of things (vor allem tatort) – ao3: flyingpeaches

[gayvampyr]

no one loves middle aged women more than lesbians and the thing is we’re so right

[wanderingcas]

when you get an ao3.org comment where someone quotes fic lines back to you?? unparalleled. brain exploding. best feeling in the world

[strawberrycamel]

we really should be calling it fanworks, not content

[strawberrycamel]

I'm here for fun and community not to rp a mega corporation's underpaid social media intern

[charlotteagerillustration]

[terraswallows]

I was confused you see.

[no-sleep-for-the-dreamer]

Fidgeting Esther compilation (FdG, BiD, HdW, KdE)

[official-german-puns]

Wenn dir ein Politiker etwas erzählt, das dir nicht glaubwürdig erscheint:

🤔 Das kommt mir Spahnisch vor.

[official-german-puns]

Wenn ein Politiker etwas für sich beansprucht, was er seinen Bürgern verbietet:

Das kommt mir Spahnisch vor. 🤥

[aropride]

why is there an upgrade button on gmail. why does twitter want me to scan my palm to get into my account. why is google a chatbot. why does the transit app make a transit app wrapped for me. why does youtube keep shoving its infinitely scrollable shortform content down my throat. why do free trials want my credit card number. why are most scholarship websites just data brokers. how do i make capitalone stop sending me mail. why is my school making its own special chat gpt powered chatbot. why is every third video on instagram an undisclosed ad. why is nothing online real anymore. why is everything so FUCKING STUPID

[cuprohastes]

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

[alexaloraetheris]

OP did it hurt when Apollo's dodgeball hit you and made you write that story?

[free-my-mindd]

[wyrm-boy]

[becomedog]

people with medical issues are not “putting a strain on the medical system”. that’s what the medical system is for. yes this includes people with substance use related medical issues and other people considered “undeserving” of help

[8nin]

i agree with british people when they say fooking ell

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[piassportjacke]

Freibadpommes

Das Freibad ist deutlich voller, als Esther es nach Feierabend unter der Woche erwartet hätte. Andererseits, es ist schon wieder wärmer als wirklich erträglich und wenn sie sich so umschaut, ist sie sich ziemlich sicher, dass bereits Sommerferien sind. Etwas, was sie gar nicht auf dem Schirm hatte. Wenn sie genauer drüber nachdenkt, kann sie wahrscheinlich froh sein, dass sie noch diese recht leere Ecke auf der Liegewiese gefunden hat. Unter dem Baum am hinteren Zaun des Freibads, der die noch immer viel zu starke Sonne abhält, liegt nur ein einziges buntes Handtuch, ein Jutebeutel daneben ins Gras geworfen. Und das Handtuch ist momentan sogar verlassen. Esther breitet also ein paar Meter weiter ihr eigenes Handtuch aus und kramt ihr Buch aus der Tasche. In der Hoffnung, dass sich das Freibad in der nächsten halben Stunde noch etwas leeren wird, wenn die Kinder zum Abendessen nach Hause müssen, macht sie es sich erstmal bequem und schlägt endlich das Buch auf. Sie hat erst ein paar Seiten gelesen, als sich Schritte nähern. Esther unterdrückt ein Seufzen. Es wäre ja auch zu schön gewesen, wenn sie diese Ecke noch länger komplett für sich allein gehabt hätte. Immerhin ist es nur diese eine Person. Solange die nicht gleich eine Musikbox rausholt, wird es hoffentlich schon in Ordnung sein. Um abzuschätzen, wie gut wohl ihre Chancen auf noch etwas mehr Ruhe stehen, hebt Esther den Blick. Und schaut in ein sehr bekanntes Gesicht. In Ruhe weiterlesen können, wird Esther jetzt wohl eher nicht mehr, aber das ist ihr auf einmal auch nicht mehr so wichtig. [...]

Freibadpommes (1863 words) by flyingpeaches Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tatort (TV 1970) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Esther Baumann/Pia Heinrich Characters: Esther Baumann, Pia Heinrich Additional Tags: Tatort Saarbrücken, Fluff, Pre-Relationship, Falling In Love, Pia mit nassen Haaren Summary: Eigentlich wollte Esther sich nur einen ruhigen Feierabend im Freibad machen. Aber vielleicht ist die Alternative sogar noch besser.

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[an0neemouse]

It's okay to want people to engage with your art. People act like it's shameful to want engagement, but it really isn't. We are social creatures who crave connection. It makes sense that we would want that with the things we create as well.

Our world is no longer built for community. We are isolated and lonely and tired. Make art anyway. Find a community. Engage and be engaged with. Find your people.

[aftertherainstopss]

I hope you never outgrow being excited by bookstores, listening to the rain, flowers and finding the perfect mug.