Nerdy ADHD: The Feed

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[lizzibennet]

per anon’s request, i present to you THE best version of beatrice’s monologue in much ado about nothing. i thought about cropping this but decided this scene must be watched in its full glory

[x-soapbox-x]

What’s really cool about this is this is the first version of this scene that I’ve seen where the tone doesnt whiplash wildly which is so hard to do!!! Bc it’s a scene that comes directly after some rough public shaming and it is both a love confession scene and a scene where a woman asks someone to kill someone and the love confession IS funny but Beatrice’s monologue is not. A lot of the other versions- even well beloved ones like the 2011 version with David Tennant and Catherine Tate- do this scene and there is emotional whiplash, audiences often laughing when Beatrice begs Benedict to kill Claudio. To see it done this way??? Oh my god the line read on “if a were a man, I would eat his heart in the marketplace” DESERVED that cheet

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[halorvic]

[no-one-offical]

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[crypticgoose3]

beautiful like to reblog ratio on this

[drtanner]

That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao

[enki2]

[liminalstrands]

Good news! It gets worse!

I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHARKS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE GALAXY TWICE

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s a very good design

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Art imitates life, and so life can imitate art. In spirit of this, here is the full text of Nemik's Manifesto from Andor, so that maybe it can inspire someone else:

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this: try.

I have nothing to add. 992 days left.

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[yet-another-autistic-blog]

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

[panpteryx]

[thebibliosphere]

Opening my author email these days really is just some variation of "hello influencer, we have noticed your [product] and that you are very good at it. We would like to talk to you about a way you can expand your audience using our unique subscription service training people how to self publish there book," and that's great and all, but I'm doing that shit for free.

[thebibliosphere]

Anyway, in light of Draft2Digital implementing fees for new authors or authors who do not make the yearly threshold of sales (I get why they're doing it, and it's still less expensive than Ingram by a country mile. But it still sucks for the people affected by it and it will drive more people to Amazon :/), you can publish your digital media directly through Kobo.

They do not offer paperbacks or hardbacks at this time.

But their digital market has the same e-book and audio market reach as D2D/Ingram and allows for library lending. So if you are an indie author who was mostly using D2D for that library access, and for whom the maintenance fees would be prohibitive against your earnings, you can use Kobo for free.

I haven't used it, because I'm not affected by the D2D fees and I didn't want to mess up my market listings by having duplicates, but when I heard about the D2D fees, I started researching so I could hopefully find a free alternative with comparable market reach. And good old Kobo was there.

Anyway. Hope that helps someone.

[thebibliosphere]

Also, to any authors still using Kindle Unlimited, I'd highly suggested thinking about moving over the Kobo+.

It allows for the same subscription model as KU, but doesn't enforce an exclusivity clause, so you can still mass sell through the global market and also be hosted in libraries.

I know it seems risky when KU is so established, but Kobo+ subscriptions are increasing quite a bit as even the most stalwart of Kindle fans get sick of Amazon, and my Kobo+ numbers are starting to eclipse Kindle, which is delightful.

The more we as authors push readers to Kobo+, the more freedom we'll have, so I think it's a worthwhile endeavor, for us and them.

Anyway, that's your two bits of free indie advice for the weekend.

[catgirlwarrior]

Any advice for moving away from using Ingram? I'm tired of making fuckall off my work but a lot of my sales have been paperback and I'd like to find an alternative that still lets me order some paperback stock for myself. I keep worrying that since I self-published through Ingram first, I won't be able to publish any other way now

[thebibliosphere]

Depending on how much you make off of them a year, Draft2Digital is still very much worth it to have access to global printing that isn't exclusively Amazon, and I've found their quality control to be good. They don't offer hardback at this time, but they are expanding into that hopefully sometime soon.

I know copperbadge uses Lulu Printing, and while they do have some access to the global distribution market, I don't think it's as wide as either Ingram/D2D. (I also think the global pricing with Lulu is a bit bonkers in comparison, but I haven't looked at it in a while, so it might be different.) And before anyone suggests Lightning Source or whatever, they're owned by Ingram. A lot of print houses people recommend when this comes up are owned by Ingram. They have monopolized a huge chunk of the market, for better or worse. Usually worse.

If you want to get your ISBN's back from Ingram, you need to go through customer support to get your books de-listed. If they fight you over the ISBN's (like they did me) those ISBN's belong to you. You paid for them, they are yours. You are within your rights to use them with a different printer. You just need to get it decoupled from Ingram.

It's a chore. But it's doable.

[internutter]

My research pointed me towards Barnes and Noble, who don't apparently have fees and will do print books as well as the ebooks.

Thoughts and opinions on them? I'm planning on moving out of Draft2Digital and want to make the right choice.

[thebibliosphere]

They are fine. Their printing press is limited to the US right now, so that limits your global market reach, but they are otherwise comparable to D2D or Ingram in terms of royalties. (I think they can do some global stuff with retailers, but you’ll lose print on demand, which is largely how indies get sales. I would need to look closer at that to be sure though.)

They are starting to limit how many books you can publish with them to combat AI slop.

The new max is 100, which I think includes ebook and paperback and hardback of the same book, so there goes three of your allowed books off the bat.

It wouldn’t be my first choice over D2D, but I have an international readership. So if I had to jump ship from D2D, I hate to say it, I’d probably have to go back to Ingram to keep the same reach.

[depsidase]

[lilliephoenix]

autumntides

10h

"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

[kamikaze-kumquat]

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.  It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

[hustleinatrap]

save for yourself and for future generations

[msillzie]

reblog to save a life

[jaeswavy]

For any lovelies with graduations coming up 💕

[racist-sundown-site-deactivated]

You all deserve to look bomb as hell at your graduation 😘

[cawareyoudoin]

Aww, that’s so cute :)

[kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd]

this video starts circulating every year around graduation season and it makes me really happy

[reveriereversed]

Super useful tip for people with large heads too!! Thanks :D

[clementine-kesh]

out of all the star trek chief engineers i think miles o’brien is the least likely to be a machinefucker. i think he loves his job but does not eroticize it. trip tucker is in the middle he would fuck a machine as long as it had tits and a sexy voice. b’elanna and geordi would go a step farther they would fuck a machine as long as it had a vaguely humanoid form but are happy to get pretty abstract with it. scotty would fuck the enterprise as is

[doriandangerous]

Hey, so I'm sure y'all know my parents kicked me out a year and a bit ago, and I moved to Texas. I have been struggling to pay for a storage unit for my stuff back in Florida until I can get it here (I have a lot of sentimental stuff, like the cradle my grandfather made for me as a baby, the ottoman I got from my great grandma, the collection of antique dishes from my beloved Grandma who practically raised me, my books etc).

And well. I'm a few months behind. And they called asking me to pay the account to be current by May 5th. I was like, yeah I can do that, I had a job lined up that I would've absolutely been able to... But they emailed me the night before I was supposed to start saying the position was cancelled. I've been trying to get money together, but I've got nothing. We're so behind on our bills that we almost didn't have enough for rent this month and we have like. $75 for food to last us two weeks.

And that would probably have been fine, but my recent health issues have messed up my blood sugar to the point where I'm having to revamp my entire diet (like. Thursday my blood sugar was 387 (usa)/21.5 (uk) so. Very bad. Like. I should have gone to the hospital like my friends told me to)

Anyways, all this to say, would anyone be able to help me out? I'm 100% willing to pay people back once I have a job. To get storage current I need $657 usd. And like maybe $50 for food would be helpful. Please, anyone help, I would really, really appreciate it.

Venmo @DorianDangerous

Chime $DorianDangerous

$15/$657

@thebibliosphere could you help and reblog please? Thank you 💖

I love all of y'all, no matter what.

[yeehawpim]

I can be the ship and its sailors

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[dresupi]

Okay so... we had our ebt recertification. Because it's all online now, it always takes longer because it takes them a while to read through all our uploaded documents for the case. This time, it's taken several weeks because one of the documents wouldn't show up on their end. We finally got it uploaded, but we still haven't been officially reapproved, even though it will happen, I'm just unsure of when. We're running out of perishables and I was hoping if anyone could help us out with grocery money, I've got a cart put together at walmart, and this is how much it is. (If you want to know what you'd be paying towards, it's bread, milk, cheese, some fresh produce, some frozen vegetables, and two chilled whole rotisserie chickens ($4 apiece). ) Thank you so much for even just sharing this post. It will help us out greatly. <3 Donation links below. Thank you. Paypal || Ko-fi || Venmo: @ babrittsy

[dresupi]

We’ve got about $30/50 currently.

[dduane]

(via Private Eye)

[bisquid]

We need to keep the pressure on for more than just a few days. I strongly recommend taking the time to schedule this post or one like it to go out every week for the next few months and then further if they still haven't rolled it back.

Keep telling them why it's a fatal mistake that will drive away users

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your

[sadclowncentral]

my friends held an intervention for me to "stop asking intimidately specific questions". i tried to explain that i am just a good listener but there is apparently "a line between follow-up questions during small talk and interrogation tactics that gets crossed sometimes". turns out my curious nature is "scaring the hoes"

[sadclowncentral]

when i asked for examples i was told that "do you think your tendency to show appreciation through restoration is part of a greater life philosophy or is that coincidental?" and "is your communication with allied forces satellite or radar based and is it vurnerable to cyber attacks?" are apparently "inappropriate questions to ask someone you just met at a club". but i disagree. as if you wouldn't be a little bit curious about the answer? yeah that's what i thought

[sadclowncentral]

[ID: question by anonymous: did they answer the question though ///end ID]

the navy officer i asked about cyber attacks did answer my question very thoroughly. he also answered other questions such as "when refueling on sea, which boat is the primary course holder?" and "would switching to another government branch affect your retirement benefits?" and generally provided a lot of information over the course of a fascinating hour that as a former government employee myself i am pretty sure he should not have told me. but i also think he would have told me his social security number if i asked nicely (i didn't, I was busy learning about the tactical advantages of speedboats).

the guy obsessed with boat refurbishment that i asked about his tendency towards preservation gave me a really haunted look, said "holy fuck" and then after a moment of consideration "i think i am too drunk. i'm going home" and proceeded to leave. in my defense, it was well and truly meant as genuine curiosity and not as the attempt at psychological warfare it turned out to be. he unfortunately did not answer my question.

...he was also the catalyst for the intervention i received.

[findingfeather]

OP your friends are 100% wrong and “that person at the bar who asks you the question that makes you rethink your whole life because they Actually Listened” is a long, storied and honourable place in the pantheon of strangers you will meet. Sounds like you’re doing a bang up job, well done.

[the-real-seebs]

yeah, you're fine, please keep doing that, it's important work.