Name: RedWinterRoses, you can call me Red
Pronouns: she/her
Fandoms: Hermitcraft, Life Series, and related content
You can find me streaming with the Contrarian Trio (LelilaPlays and Skribblegurl) on Friday nights on Twitch, with the same username, and occasionally from the Edge SMP server!
On AO3 as RedWinterRoses
radio shack at the end of the world: A quiet apocalypse featuring Etho, Pearl, Bdubs, and Etho's goats
Reset, Restore: A server reset leaves Impulse amnesiac and lost in the end, and Wels determined to save the day
Recall: Mumbo's gone missing, and Grian and Scar go in search of him -- right into a simulated alternate season 7, where Mumbo is mayor and Grumbot reigns supreme.
Everything Turns to Gold: An epic fantasy Empires s1 fic about the cost of power, the value of loyal friends, and how Jimmy deserved a hero arc.
This Is Boatem (We Have a Dragon): Hermitcraft, early s8, Grian gets a little... dragony.
Our @falsesymmetryzine is OUT!! I had the honor of making a piece dedicated to the Hermitcraft 5 section of the Zine
Go download the Zine and take a gander!! So much skill, time, and dedication packed into a beautiful package to celebrate False’s artistry and our community 🤍
Yesterday, I switched to searching for things with noai.duckduckgo.com, and everytime I type “No AI” in, I imagine myself side-eyeing an increasingly irritated Google. I am just one person, I doubt my refusal to use Google’s “search engine” will make a difference in their numbers, but man, does it feel good to IMAGINE that pointed side-eye.
#Ramblings#I have to keep it open as a tab on my phone though#So I don’t automatically type a query into my browser’s url bar#Which will direct me to Google [via @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]
*emerges from the woodwork* *cracks knuckles*
Unsolicited advice incoming, for whoever happens to be reading this and happens to be tired of seeing AI summary results at the top of their every web search. There is a way to set searching via noai.duckduckgo.com to be your default search engine, without having to change your browser or keep search tab open perpetually or any of that stuff. I.e., you can just. search for things. in your browser's url bar. And it will just automatically run the search in the NoAI version of DuckDuckGo.
For anyone who doesn't know how to do this and wants to, the process for adding it as your default search engine in both Firefox and Microsoft Edge is under the cut. Unfortunately I've cut ties with Google Chrome enough that I uninstalled on all of my devices, but I imagine that the process is similar enough to these two to figure out.
(Also, my sincere apologies, o-lei-o-lai-o-lord, for hijacking your post.)
Version 1: Mozilla Firefox
Step 1: Go to your search settings. Easiest way to do this is by clicking the search engine icon on your URL bar
and selecting Search Settings
Step 2: Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and find the section called Search Shortcuts. Now click the Add button (ignore the fact that I already have NoAI DuckDuckGo added; it's fine)
Step 3: Add noai.duckduckgo.com as a search engine
The search engine name doesn't matter, but the URL is very important. You want to type, exactly: "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" (excluding the quotation marks). Once you've entered that, click Save Engine.
Congrats! You've added a search engine to your web browser.
Step 4: Set your newly-added search engine to be your default. Scroll back up to the top of the page, click the drop down menu under Default Search Engine, and select your new NoAI DuckDuckGo engine.
Firefox saves settings automatically, so you've now successfully configured your browser to run all of your browser URL searchs in noai.duckduckgo.com without any additional effort on your part.
Version 2: Microsoft Edge
Step 1: Go to your search settings. Edge is annoying, so search settings are harder to get to. One way is via the meatballs menu at the top right:
clicking on Settings and then running a search in the browser settings for "search engine":
Click on the "Search engines" result and then into the settings menu itself to get to this screen:
which has all of your search engines listed.
Step 2: Click on the "Add search engine" button indicated in the image above and add noai.duckduckgo.com as a search engine:
Again, the search engine name doesn't matter. The shortcut needs to be "noai.duckduckgo.com" (excluding quotation marks) and the URL needs to be, exactly, "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" (excluding the quotation marks). Once you've entered all of that information, click "Add."
Congrats! You've added a search engine to Edge.
Step 3: Set your newly-added search engine to be your default by clicking on the meatballs menu beside the search engine name and selecting "Make default":
You've now successfully configured your browser to run all of your browser URL searchs in noai.duckduckgo.com without any additional effort on your part.
I don't have an explicit step-by-step process for any other browsers, but this should give a pretty good idea of how to manage it if you're interested. The query URL is really the most important part, so if you've got that and you can find your browser search engine settings, you should be fine.
my neighbor, bless him, has rediscovered his love of electric guitar.
and he's not bad at it... he's just. Dedicated. In a very specific way.
I have been sat here for 20 minutes, and in that time, he has played nothing but A#...C...D. A#...C...D. A#...C...D-- (𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥♪ for anyone who cares). Just. On a loop. Unwavering. Unchanging.
I support his musical hobby but also. Sir. There are a myriad of other notes, would you care to try a few?
this is even funnier because i just had another post about grian’s extended family being all of his alter egos right here you and me same brainwave mate
not to brag but Pearl won the nautilus championships by such a margin that she thought the people behind her were just being silent and focused when in fact the next guy to pass the finish line was a good few seconds after. a proper awkward silence is anyone else running this race did i miss something sort of gap. what a woman.
The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.
Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)
I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.
The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.
This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.
dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.
One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.
There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:
Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)
Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.
#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )
Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.
I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD
they were POPULAR
the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)
which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]
[dbhc au flavored] Hermit A Day May '26, Day 28, Groups and Collabs: The King and his Royal Court
MY REN THE KING… I’ve been wanting to do a piece like this for aaaages and I’m so pleased with how this came out >:) When I tell you I cannot wait to get into dbhc’s king arc…
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