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Rich people are literally just lying about being good at money btw
Things like overdraft fees, late fees, parking tickets, fines, subscription renewals, legal fees, penalty fees, sales and discounts, lawsuits - these are things that all cease to matter in any material way once you have enough money
To Jeff Bezos, a parking meter, a plane ticket, and a private jet all effectively cost the same amount of money: none
Cultural Insights of Our Own: Lessons From a Newly Decoded Digital Archive
Interplanetary Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 322-340
Abstract
The recently decoded Internet Archive includes the digital artifact called “Archive of Our Own” (AO3) from early third millennium Earth. AO3 is unusually well backed up and therefore is presumed to contain some of the most significant -- perhaps even sacred -- texts of the time. In this paper we present our preliminary analysis of AO3 metadata, including new insights about the literature, gender and sexuality, religion, and scientific understanding of this historical era:
I. LITERATURE. We describe the cultural centrality of figures such as the Winchesters and Reader. We explore how they featured heavily in every dominant literature genre of the era, including Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, and Oral Sex.
II. GENDER AND SEXUALITY. We review the overwhelming evidence that male-male relationships were the most culturally significant sexual and romantic relationships, but we also show that it was a culture with an unusually broad set of sexual and gender roles. In particular, we highlight the unusual tripartite conceptualization of gender as including alpha, beta, and omega roles; we note the apparent prejudice against betas, illustrated in the prevalence of “no beta we die like men” and similar protest slogans.
III. RELIGION. We describe a newly discovered religious taboo: doves were a common sacrificial animal of the time, but they were forbidden from being eaten.
IV. SCIENCE. Finally, we present new insight about alternate universes. While previous scholars hypothesized that the scientists of Earth may have developed a correct early theory of the multiverse by the late second millennium, our analysis of AO3 presents evidence to the contrary. As late as the early third millennium, prevailing theories postulated highly specific universes, such as a universe in which everyone is in high school, or a universe contained within a coffee shop.
Taken together, these historical insights show that further investigation is warranted into the valuable documents stored within AO3, perhaps even going beyond the metadata to examine the full texts.
I've been meaning to make a post talking about my stroke because y'all got bits and pieces of the recovery but I never actually told the story of HOW it went down and the thing is the type of stroke I had is usually the type young people have and since having mine i've now heard multiple stories of people under 40 having very similar strokes and the scary thing is, is that they didn't get help right away. Because you're young and healthy and sure you feel weird but it'll pass right? but it doesn't, and it gets worse, and by the time you get to the hospital (some people literally take days to go) the deficits are worse and recovery is harder.
so here's a super long post about strokes in general, and mine in particular/what I went through.
“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows
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Maybe in your obsession with the gay hockey show you, too, have found yourself thinking about Moby-Dick. Talk about queer angst and yearning! Ishmael quietly took to the sea with Queequeg so that Shane and Ilya could shower together. The closeted hockey boys of Heated Rivalry and the young sailor Isolatoes of Moby-Dick have some notable commonalities, as individuals and couples. In the MM romance plots of both texts, Shane and Ishmael are aligned, as are Ilya and Queequeg.
I love you, unhinged reviewer connecting your two obsessions. Never change!
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The Vampire Chronicles: The More You Know
I feel like not enough people are aware that Lestat having a lawyer named Christine in the books is because Anne Rice had a lawyer named Christine. And when I say Anne had a lawyer named Christine, I mean THAT lawyer named Christine. The only lawyer of Anne's anyone would ever care about because she was the one who got to send out the C&D notices to fanfic authors. Which I can personally attest to, having been one of the four people who got such an email directly from Christine herself.
And thus by extension I feel like not enough people are aware that The Vampire Lestat the TV show, by taking what one might term as creative liberties with the books, has not only written what amounts to fanfic about Christine, the lawyer who sent out C&D notes telling fanfic authors to stop writing fanfic, but has specifically written fanfic about her which casts her as a drug addicted party girl with a sex dungeon who happens to occasionally do some law on the side.
Probably not on purpose, but amusing to note all the same. And probably not what the real Christine ever imagined this particular lawyer and client relationship would result in.
PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.
This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.
That's why conservatives defunded it.
Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?
Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.
OP of the post in the screenshot called me an idiot and blocked me for pointing this out. So I'm setting the record straight. The CPB was never our enemy.
So, I think there are some important things I should address.
First: The show in question, PBS Origins, has been running since 2017. They have been focusing on these sorts of topics the entire time. This is not the first time the channel has discussed the US government's role in genocide and slavery. It's not the first time it has criticized the US government. It is also not the only shown on PBS to have ever done so.
Second: People have considered PBS and NPR to have a left-wing bias for a long time, even before it was defunded. That's why conservatives wanted it defunded, and why they had been trying to defund it for decades.
Third: PBS and NPR did a lot more than history and politics. Weather reports, local news, children's programming, cooking shows... Something like PBS Origins, even an episode as provocative as the one in the OP, would pass under the radar of most people, especially because it doesn't usually play on TV. (It's made primarily for YouTube)
Third: Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was not an easy task. It took decades to finally pass a bill doing so. It was not something the government could just do at the drop of a hat if PBS did something the current government didn't like.
And, finally, and most importantly I think: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded the creation of radio and TV programming in underrepresented communities, such as Native American communities, rural communities, poor communities, non-English speaking communities, etc. Not only does that mean these communities were able to create programming relevant to them, but those programs were also sent to other stations which could be broadcast. And thus the political opinions and discussions of issues that affected them could be shared. So, even if the big productions were being influenced by the funding from the government, the small independent yet still funded by the CPB broadcasters made up for it (IMO) by making the opinions of underrepresented communities more visible.
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Shane’s first season with the Centaur’s, Harris figures out that even though Shane doesn’t like social media or really anything that distracts from hockey, he’ll do anything if he thinks it’ll make Ilya happy.
So Harris collaborates with Shane and the arena DJ to create a little surprise for Ilya (that Harris knows fans will eat up)…
The first time a penalty is called on the opposing team while Ilya is on the ice, the arena speakers start playing “Where is my Husband?” as Shane skates out to join Ilya on the power play. Ilya is already laughing at the joke and blows Shane a kiss when suddenly, Shane’s voice dubs over the music saying “your husband is coming” just like it sounds in the song.
The crowd goes wild. Ilya is grinning madly. Shane wins the face off and Ilya almost misses the pass he’s so happy, but instead he goes into Impress Shane Beast Mode and the puck hits the back of the net 22 seconds into the power play.
i guess i just think there’s a lot of talk in fandom about how mm romance sex scenes aren’t realistic and how by the way here’s what you REALLY need to know about anal sex and like. yeah. we know. the purpose is not realism. this isn’t sex ed. it’s a sexual fantasy and like all sexual fantasies it is written for a specific audience. it’s like being like “oh mainstream lesbian porn is unrealistic” well yeah. realism is not an intended goal of mainstream lesbian porn. and you know, nobody is out here being like oh by the way tentacle monsters aren’t real… they assume the author is aware of that. and it seems kind of infantilizing and patronizing to assume all these female mm authors who by and large are over 40 with spouses and adult children are just sooooo silly and immature and glitter gel pen heart eyed that they think they are writing truth about gay male relationships. like surely we can acknowledge that a man writing a mission impossible style thriller doesn’t think that’s how the world really works. and i think it’s fair game to talk about the politics behind the fantasy!! why monogamy is so crucial to women’s fantasies and why intimacy and sexuality are considered analogous. that’s good to pick apart. but. women also get to have fantasies and that doesn’t make them hysterical and out of touch with reality.
"Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it.
When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.
Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.
In February 2024, Adam Kotsko, who teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, wrote in Slate that students who once handled 30 pages of reading per class meeting now seem “intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.” Crucially, he added that this is “not a matter of laziness on the part of the students” but of underlying skills they were never given a chance to build.
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2024 investigation found the same pattern across institutions as different as the Stevens Institute of Technology and Wellesley College, where the average SAT exceeds 1400. Nicholaus Gutierrez, an assistant professor at Wellesley, told The Chronicle that the baseline for what students consider a reasonable amount of work has dropped so noticeably that he has cut his readings accordingly; a 750-word essay now strikes many students as long. At Stevens, the science and technology studies associate professor Theresa MacPhail described following the mantra of “meet your students where they are” for so long that she has begun to feel “like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard.”
Worse, the national data tell the same story in colder language. On the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing assessment, which is the most recent comprehensive writing benchmark, only 24 percent of 12th graders reached the Proficient level, and just 3 percent reached Advanced; another 21 percent scored below Basic. The reading side of the ledger is worse, and getting worse fast: The 2024 NAEP results released in September 2025 show 12th-grade reading scores at the lowest level recorded since the assessment began in 1992. Thirty-two percent of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading, meaning that, in the assessment’s own language, they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.
Why is this happening? One reason, of course, is smartphones.
I came into teaching as a skeptic of the anti-smartphone argument: I had a phone in my pocket throughout high school and college in the 2010s, and I read long books anyway. I now think I was wrong, because the neuroscience has caught up. In a 2017 paper, Adrian F. Ward and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business showed that the mere presence of a participant’s smartphone — whether that be face down, powered off, untouched, or across the desk out of vision — measurably reduces available working memory and fluid intelligence on cognitive tests, with the largest effects on the most phone-dependent users. A 2022 study by Motoyasu Honma and colleagues at Japan’s Showa University used near-infrared spectroscopy to compare reading on a smartphone with reading the same passage on paper, and found that smartphone reading produced overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, suppressed sigh generation, and led to general lower comprehension scores; the authors argued that the sigh inhibition and prefrontal overload were causally linked to the comprehension decline.
So when a student tells me they “kept losing track” of a 20-page article, I have to acknowledge that they may be describing a measurable neurological condition. The neural pathways that support sustained attention are built by use, and they atrophy without it. Your body is a use-it-or-lose-it system, and the brain is no exception.
Another reason for the decline in student reading capability is increasing reliance on generative AI. In June 2025, Nataliya Kosmyna and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab released a preprint titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT.” They divided 54 participants into three groups writing SAT-style essays — one using ChatGPT, the second group using a search engine, the last group using nothing — and monitored brain activity with a 32-channel EEG. The ChatGPT group showed the lowest neural connectivity of the three, with up to 55 percent reduced connectivity compared with the brain-only group, and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Eighty-three percent of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term “cognitive debt” for the lingering deficit.
This is the first neurophysiological evidence that early reliance on LLMs measurably alters the brain’s engagement with writing tasks, and it is consistent with what those of us in front of classrooms are watching happen in real time. When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.
There is a final factor that is contributing to this decline in reading skills, and that is that the students arriving in my classroom today are the first cohort to have experienced Common Core-influenced reading instruction across the entirety of their K–12 schooling. Whatever the standards’ original intent, the on-the-ground implementation in many districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding. The education scholar Natalie Wexler, among others, has documented this pivot in detail: Students drilled on “finding the main idea” in two-paragraph excerpts never build the stamina or background knowledge that longform reading requires. The pandemic then added fuel to a fire that was already burning. NAEP scores for 13-year-olds dropped sharply in 2022 and have not recovered. A 2023 EdWeek survey found that 24 percent of secondary-school administrators described pandemic learning loss in English and language arts as “severe or very severe.”
In July 2025, the journalist Mary Harrington argued in The New York Times that “thinking is becoming a luxury good.” The ability to read deeply and reason at length is fragmenting along class lines as ultra-processed digital media replaces text in everyday life, much as ultra-processed food has replaced cooking. Her longer treatment of the subject in First Things makes the more provocative case that we are witnessing the end of print culture itself, and with it the end of the cognitive substrate on which modern liberal democracy was built.
I see this stratification in the classroom and on the page every week. My students from districts that protected sustained reading through small class sizes, strict phone policies, and faculty who refused to teach to the test all arrive with their attention relatively intact. My students from districts that surrendered to devices and standardized testing arrive cognitively winded. A democracy that requires a literate electorate is now training one fraction of that electorate out of literacy while marketing to the other a “deep work” lifestyle as a luxury good. The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.
I do what I can in my own classroom to address the problems. I break 20-page articles into two halves and assign the first half with explicit analytical tasks. I require exploratory writing before formal drafts. I model (visibly, on the board) how to track an argument across pages or distinguish a source’s claim from my own analysis. I make structured peer review explicit, because the workshop format I used to take for granted now collapses into “this is good” and “maybe add more details” the moment I step back.
But I want to be plain about the limits of what an individual instructor can do, and all of these solutions have costs. Scaffolding a 20-page article into halves compromises the integrity of the argument I am asking students to engage, just as modeling note-taking in a credit-bearing rhetoric course is using a college slot to teach a middle-school skill. None of the syllabi I teach are designed to deliver this type of cognitive rehabilitation, and pretending otherwise has produced credential inflation. We cannot keep conferring degrees on students who cannot do what the degree is supposed to certify.
I’m afraid I don’t have answers. I do, however, have some questions that may point us in the right direction. If higher education is going to respond to the reading crisis as a structural problem rather than a private burden carried by composition instructors and adjuncts, it has to stop avoiding the following questions: If a majority of incoming students cannot read at a level the curriculum requires, are we admitting students we cannot serve, or offering a curriculum we cannot provide?
Why are first-year writing and reading-intensive general-education courses still the most adjunctified, lowest-paid, highest-load corner of the university, at the precise moment when their work has become the most important work the institution does? What is the responsible institutional response for AI usage: Is it a syllabus statement, or a sequencing principle that requires students to demonstrate the cognitive work themselves before AI assistance is permitted?
Why are most college classrooms still phone-permissive by default? K–12 districts from Florida to California are now banning phones bell to bell; higher education has somehow lagged behind the public schools. Universities benefit from a pipeline they did not build and refuse to repair. What would it mean for a university system to invest seriously in the reading instruction happening in the high schools that feed it, rather than treating remediation as something to be quietly outsourced to first-year composition instructors?
The thing I am no longer willing to do is pretend this is a temporary adjustment period, or that “students will adapt.” They will not adapt on their own. The conditions that produced this collapse are still in place: the phones, the algorithmic feeds, the test-prep excerpts, staffing models that load the reading-intensive work onto the most precarious faculty, and now the chatbots that finish students’ sentences before they’ve even begun to think of them. If we want literate citizens, we will have to rebuild the conditions for literacy deliberately, against the grain of every incentive currently pointed the other way. I know the academy has the will to do that. It also has the obligation."
— Tyler Jagt, 1 June 2026, "My Students Can’t Read"
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.
And LISTEN, if you are hesitant. i know sunscreens can be pricey. and theres a lot of fearmongering around cheaper sunscreens. and i know they make your eyes sting. and i know it can feel gross is u have sensory issues. but please hear me out. invest in 1 big tube of cheaper sunscreen and 1 smaller tube of any 'new generation' sunscreen that won't sting (reddit is a great place to look for recs). both at least spf50 and pa+++. use the more expensive one for the UPPER PART OF YOUR FACE. and the cheaper one for the rest of your face and body. apply generously and reaply.
If your skin is darker and you're worried about the white pasty sheen that sunscreen can leave on your skin, stay away from the mineral ones and look for the ones that say "clear" or have good reviews from other poc! I use Neutrogena Invisible sunscreen on my face and Hawaiian Tropic on the rest of me, and it works for my sister too -- for visual clarification we span the following skin tones:
If you still find it looks a lil ashy on your face, mix in a dot of tinted moisturizer or foundation. You need barely any at all and you can use a BB cream or something else that's super light coverage if you don't care for makeup.
My child (now teen) with sensory issues also discovered that allocating time for sunscreen helped: before going outside, they apply the sunscreen at their own pace and then wash their hands to remove the feeling of residue. If you don't like the feel, maybe changing the context/speed can help. (They can see my multiple Mohs and biopsy scars so they know it's worthwhile.)
Yuna Hollander who also thinks her son might be gay, but is not as convinced as David, because she is the one who goes with Shane to nearly every single photo shoot and most of the ads he's filmed, and she has personally witnessed people of all genders and roles in the entertainment industry trying to flirt with various degrees of brazenness with her son and all had failed miserably. They were all met with the utmost indifference, David. Surely, if Shane is gay, there would have been a model or actor or hairdresser or make-up artist or light technician who would have caught his eye. And Shane is very polite and considered, but surely if he had been interested he would come up with some excuse so she'd have to give him some privacy and he could shoot his shot (he never has, but just in case, since trying to flirt with someone while your mom is in the room is weird, Yuna at least makes sure to come up with reasons to leave or avoid going at all as often as she can). Besides, David, we both know that boy can't lie to save his ass so there is no way he is managing to be all suave when someone he likes flirts with him. So, since he never shows the tiniest of reactions, Yuna's main theory is that yeah, Shane might not be into women, but it certainly looks like he isn't into men either.
And then years down the line, as Yuna Hollander is telling all of this to Ilya Rozanov, Ilya gleefully decides to clear this up, and tells her that well, you see, Shane isn't just super gay, he is also super bad at realizing when people are flirting with him. "In fact, Yuna, during the CCM shoot I had to..." And then Ilya never gets to finish that sentence because Shane jumps over a sofa and a table and tackles him to the ground to get him to shut up, shUT UP, ILYA, I swear to god I will divorce you right nOW.
My latest bookbinding project! (Or one of them tbh, I can't wait to show off several tinier books than this for the @renegadeguild Tiny Book Exchange.
This is my first tête-bêche featuring two classic Smallville fics: @rivkat 's fic Golden Rule paired with @seperis 's companion fic Slipping in Between. I've loved these fics for a while now and I've especially loved listening to dodificus's podific of Golden Rule. Both of the authors had permission statements in their profiles on ao3 and I really wanted to celebrate these two fics in print format. I really love the way that these two fics play off of each other. Golden Rule is excellent all on its own, with Clark's manipulation and the relationship he forges with Lex and SiB is such a great complement to that fic, providing a glimpse into Lex's pov throughout the events of the fic, all leading up to the big decision at the end.
Detail shots and process talk below the cut:
We're gonna have a hard time convincing future generations the phrase "Trumped-up charges" is etymologically unrelated.
one thing in tlg I'll never complain about is shane proposing when he did
like, when i read it my first thought was "marriage doesnt fix all your relationship problems" and then i thought a moment longer like. actually nevermind this is a very shane thing to do. he saw something traumatic and potentially life-threatening happen to ilya and immediately went for the logistics. "we need a WILL. we need a MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. we need POWER OF ATTORNEY. oh ok yeah we can come out too i guess. we need a JOINT BANK ACCOUNT"
I think people actually forget that they talk it out and make up BEFORE the plane incident. Sure, they’re still a little bit on rocky ground and adjusting to the developments that came out of the argument, but Ilya didn’t leave for that roadie with them on bad terms or not talking, and the proposal is in no way Shane attempting to avoid accountability. Plot twist, real people don’t communicate perfectly!
Shane’s proposal was not “he left mad at me and he almost died so I have to propose in order to fix it otherwise it’ll hang over us forever because he would’ve died thinking I don’t love him as much as he loves me.”
Shane’s proposal is explicitly “this man sacrificed for me in ways that I cannot sacrifice for him, because there are risks for me that don’t exist for him, and one day of not talking was hard enough, if I ever lose him for real, it will kill me, and if he had died, no one would have known to contact me, I would have found out from the news, so I have to make sure that’s never an option ever again and it’s just a bonus that taking this step shows him how serious I am and makes an attempt to meet him in the middle.”
Yes! This is vintage Shane. He realizes that if they don’t have that piece of paper (a marriage certificate) he would’ve had no right to be informed if Ilya had died in the crash. He couldn’t have arranged the funeral, or taken custody of Ilya’s remains, he would’ve had no legal standing.
And if Ilya had been badly injured but not dead, Shane also wouldn’t have had the right to make his medical decisions before he woke up. It would’ve been either Svetlana or fucking Alexei, the brother he hasn’t spoken to in years. Depending on what arrangements Ilya had made.
Marriage isn’t just a romantic thing for Shane here. It’s more like, “I need to make sure that if something like this ever happens again, I am Ilya’s emergency contact. I am his next of kin. I have the magic pieces of paper that makes me the most important person in Ilya’s life. And the fastest, easiest way to get those magic pieces of paper is to get married. Therefore, I need a ring and three hundred electric candles.”
