Heather

🍉 local sword lesbian. 24. any pronouns. follow for a subscription to a new hyperfixation every 2-3 weeks. 🍉

[rememberthewordforget]

my sideblogs

Simon Snow Series (used frequently. almost entirely reblogs): @iknowfuck-allaboutvampires

Writing Blog (barely used at the moment. I’m getting back into writing so hopefully I’ll have some stuff to put up. Aiming to start putting out chapters/one shots around once a fortnight): @heathuswrites

Bill and Ted/Back to the future (Pretty dead tbh, but I reblog stuff every now and then): @amostbodaciousdelorean

(I have a couple of others, but I don’t tend to use them and I’m thinking of deleting them. If I start using them again, I’ll add them here)

[funstyle]

[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

[emmaklee]

[pourquoiwhy]

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

[biglawbear]

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

[maddie-2022]

This is also why NASA missions usually keep going so long after schedule. They are *masters* of graceful degradation, able to keep machines limping along on minimal power and after sustaining heavy damage

[dirtbaby2016]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

Good bitch, I'm glad none of your people have an ounce of loyalty to you

[evilkitten3]

does that suck, mark? is it not fun to have your privacy violated? do you feel uncomfortable with people knowing things about you that you'd rather they not know? tell me more about how much you value your security and privacy, mark.

[sarahexplosions]

"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

[3cosmicfrogs]

[yourmanicpixiedreamgirls-world]

don’t let anyone convince you Eva Stratt didn’t care. she held parties for them. bought them hats. when ryland’s sad sack self left the party and was in the back of the party alone, she literally came back into the ship and she sang for him??? even though she was embarrassed??

when ryland called her mysterious she repudiated that so quickly. and said it wasn’t hard to ask people to die for the mission. so that he or anyone else would’ve have the same burden that she holds.

she tried to keep it straight an be emotionless constantly through the movie. but she’s just a human. a very very very scary, accomplished, determined human. yes. but human.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i was watching a video about how regional cheeses are made around the world, and was shown a type of mozzarella called zizzona (the z/zz pronounced like the 'zz' in 'pizza', with a 'tz' sound), which, yes, means "mother's breast".

so rest easy tonight knowing they have titty cheese in italy.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

they also make special GIANT 66lb zizzona

so rest easy tonight knowing they have hummina hummina aWOOGAH iyiyiyiyi GAZONGA cheese in italy

[one-hell-of-a-sheep]

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gay

[yurious-george]

compelling argument

[mossadspydolphin]

what does this say about victor hugo

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no he was just french

[jam-the-hologram]

R.R Tolkien?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

autistic infodumping

[elden-12]

Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[glorious-spoon]

anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[mooncustafer]

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

[i-may-be-batman]

a snapshot of mordred manor at dawn thinly veiled as a lighting study

[kalgalen]

Is there any better feeling than stumbling upon a character that sucks in the Exact ways you need them to at this point in your life

[ot3]

[comparing myself to someone who does nothing but watch movies] aww man i don't watch nearly as many movies as this person [comparing myself to someone who does nothing but read books] aww man i don't read nearly as many books as this person [comparing myself to someone who does nothing but draw] aww man i don't draw nearly as much as this person

[sapphling]

sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

[sapphling]

You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

[sapphling]

no that part was real

[his-dark-memerials-deactivated2]

He doesn’t even know, and he doesn’t want to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I don't go here but I feel like "It's a metaphor. Don't force it to do the work of a fact." is a great statement about literature and fan-content in general.

[bethanydelleman]

I have to say something about how to approach fiction, because while I think I've always done it automatically, judging by online discourse this is not universal: when engaging with fiction you should just accept the premise and in-universe rules.

For example, you reading a story set in the past and the main couple are 17 and 25. Does everyone in the story treat this as a totally normal age gap? Okay, then for now, put your 21st century morality in a little box and label it "real world morals" and then put this couple's age gap being normal in a box called "in-universe/historical morals" and accept that you can store both boxes in your mind without exploding because you are are thinking, rational human being. Because it's driving me straight up a wall that people can't seem to do this! "He kills people, what a red flag!" "Ma'am, that is a magical warlord and if he stopped killing people they would kill him. He doesn't have an office job."

"That was very dubious consent. I can't support this ship." "Sir, she grew up in literal hell, I doubt they had comprehensive sex ed there. Also, she might learn and grow?"

"She's only sixteen, he's a pedo!" "If society at that time says that sixteen is the marriageable age, then no, he's not. That is not how any of this works."

"They grew up together and their parents want them to marry? Gross." "Yeah, it would be weird today, but everyone is treating this as normal. I guess it was A Thing."

Sure, in a modern, non-fantasy story set in your country, judge by your moral code all you want, but if you want to actually enjoy a story that isn't written with your exact morals, you need to accept the premise. Step back later and do some analysis, think about how society has changed (hopefully for the better), but keep in the mind the intent of the author in that time, culture, genre, or universe.

Yeah, Marianne Dashwood & John Willoughby are a creepy age gap today, but Jane Austen thought it was normal so while you read Sense & Sensibility, you can do that too. I promise it will make your reading experience 1000% better and you won't go straight to hell or anything. If you can't handle that, I banish you to the non-fiction section of the library.

[ariaste]

This is called SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF and it is in fact crucial to be able to do that if you want to read fiction

[transgwender616]

Monsterfucking is so normalized on Tumblr I kinda forgot it even counted as a kink. I thought it was like liking boobs on girls. The basic normal stuff most people like.