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Behind the scene pic from 3x08 “ The 40th floor”. Full article here
“Joanne was incredibly focused, driven, and worked exceptionally hard on this episode. She’s very smart and adept at handling the material. Everything moves at a fast pace on Warehouse 13 and I was extremely impressed with how she dealt with the volume of material she was given. Joanne also has a terrific sense of humor and does a wonderful Newfoundland accent. When she went around and met the [guest] cast, Saul pointed out the fact that she’s from Newfoundland, Canada and asked her to do the accent. So she was a lot of fun in that regard.
Original article is lost but can still be visited through the Wayback Machine!
OK this is very sweet and adorable BUT: "She does a wonderful Newfoundland accent" - it's her accent. That's how she grew up talking. The "standard English" is the one she puts on.
Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.
If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.
The first time I received student work that I was pretty sure was AI, I fed it to a couple AI checkers and the results ranged from like 91% to 12% likelihood of AI use. Those things do not work. Granted that was like 2 years ago and I’m sure the detection technology has improved, but the AI language generation has also improved.
I really thought even Donald Trump wouldn’t be so bonkers as to threaten tariffs over the direction of the wind but here we are
Walked right up to this nice collection at El Rastro de Madrid, in La Latina neighbourhood.
starting a collection for my anthropology class can you guys send me more posts like these
Here's a few I have
Everyone please read Body Ritual Among the Nacirema for the 1956 version of these posts:
"Professor Linton first brought the ritual of the Nacirema to the attention of anthropologists twenty years ago, but the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin, although tradition states that they came from the east. According to Nacirema mythology, their nation was originated by a culture hero, Notgnihsaw, who is otherwise known for two great feats of strength—the throwing of a piece of wampum across the river Pa-To-Mac and the chopping down of a cherry tree in which the Spirit of Truth resided."
Attn: queer people who like to read fiction about queer characters
What qualities make you particularly enjoy some fiction with queer characters over others? Be specific, please. Not just "good characterization"—what counts as good characterization? What doesn't? What kinds of plots/worlds/contexts move you, and what kinds don't? I'm just curious to read a diversity of people's perspectives. Feel free to reblog if you're so inclined.
longest nonstop flight you have been on?
i have never been on a plane
less than 2 hours
2-4 hours
4-6 hours
6-8 hours
8-10 hours
10-12 hours
12-14 hours
14-16 hours
more than 16 hours (!)
if you feel comfortable share the route and the time in your tags!
Wow. The terms of Chyler Leigh’s divorce from Nathan West leaked to the press and jfc that guy was always the worst.
Sometimes I remember how he started a “charity” they registered as an LLC and then sold t-shirts under that “charity” banner with the promise that “10% of profits” would go to charity. So I asked him on Twitter where the other 90% went and he blocked me.
Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.
Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.
Tolkien literally wrote The Hobbit as a bedtime story for his son Christopher.
Also my dad read it to me when I was seven. I read it on my own when I was about 10.
Next you'll tell me Grimm's Fairy Tales aren't for kids.
does anyone know what happened to Ralsts Passion and perfection site? I can’t seem to find it anywhere
Thank you for the ask.
I don't know. But it sure looks like http://ralst.com is dead.
The Wayback Machine's last capture of the landing page is from May 2026.
The last update was apparently in April 2023, announcing that that "Passion and Perfection is now closed to new submissions."
The last two reblogs on @ralst's tumblr were from December 2023 and December 2022.
The is a fanlore page, but it is relatively short.
I an sad that this site is gone. I have a lot of fond memories and am very grateful that ralst maintained the site for so long. It was one of my main fic sources before AO3.
I hope ralst is OK.
If anyone has any information, please feel free to share in the comments, ask, etc.
Oh this is sad. Passion and Perfection and the Pink Rabbit consortium at altfic.com were my two favourite multifandom femslash sites, and looking at the latter that is also now gone, last snapshot in January, though I know I last visited it more recently than that.
These were what we had before AO3, and I'll be forever grateful for all the time and work put into creating and maintaining them.
Download the fic you love, folks, because even the Internet Archive may not be forever
Oh my. Sad indeed that that The Pink Rabbit Consortium (altfic.com) is also gone. The art and design was really amazing.
@pinkrabbitpro's tumblr was last active in January 2020. The is also a fanlore page.
That means that of the three multi fandom femslash sites that I used to use a lot before ff.net and AO3 only one remains active alive mid 2026:
https://realmoftheshadow.com/ (and: fanlore page)
As there is no year listed in the "new stories" page, I am not sure when this site was last updated, but I think it has been a while.
And sadly also a lot of the sites I mentioned in my Xena and Buffy femslash fic guides seem to be gone now. (I'll need to do some digging next week).
A big thank you to everyone who maintained these amazing websites that brought me so much joy!!!
And indeed, remember to download your favorite fics, because nothing lasts forever
Do you like ASMR and/or have misophonia?
neither, no reaction to it either way
I love asmr
hate it, have misophonia
both, I like specific asmr, but some gives me misophonia
I'm deaf/hard of hearing
This is perverse and obscene.
Of course they denied all those claims. It made them more money, and it wasn’t illegal. Corporations are amoral by nature, and healthcare is not an exception.
I used to work for a company that designed corporate trainings, on the team assigned to one of the major US health insurance companies.
We did so many trainings for sales reps that described how they should avoid selling to people/companies deemed too “expensive” by their magical mystery quant eggheads. “Expensive” meaning, of course, people actually needing healthcare. It was barely-concealed, entirely legal disability discrimination.
Ate my soul to work there. Fortunately I got my current job and only had to stay in that one a year.
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Cambia
Have you read Cambia?
Yes, previously
Yes, now that you recced it to me
No
Author: ash_madrone
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Ship: Myka Bering/HG Wells
Rating: M
Summary:
Myka huffed. “I’m a journalist and a visitor, you know I can’t get involved in anything illegal.” “You are going to wait on the sidelines of the revolution for your journalistic ethics?” Helena was leaning towards her now, eyes sparkling a challenge. “Helena.” Myka was trying not to smile back. OR Journalist Myka Bering meets Helena Wells in Santiago, Chile in March of 1973 as they both try to find their way towards revolution.
Submitted by anonymous via @fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics
Submitter's comments:
A fabulously well thought out historical AU. This version of Myka and Helena fit perfectly into the world the author has set them in, and the ending plays rent free in my head at least twice a month!
Hi Elanor, I'm currently doing an access to higher education course with the hope of going on to start a degree as a mature student in sep 2027, and I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on like access courses vs a levels, and how the skills they teach transfer to a uni setting? or any other thoughts you might have on access courses. Also, thank you so much for the posting you do, as an adhd girlie it's been really, really helpful and influential to me <3
Aw, thank you! I'm delighted my nonsense and rambling is useful to someone somewhere
So, access courses - I'm actually at a uni that doesn't require them, because we include a first year module on every course that covers academic skills anyway. Even the fresh-faced eighteen-year-olds straight from school don't have uni-level academic skills, let alone the mature students who have been out of the loop for a few or more years. So, for us, that tends to level the playing field.
But, with that said, one thing an access course does do - and this might sound like a cop-out, but I fully believe in the value of this - is give confidence. University is a challenge, no doubt about it. A crazy, wonderful, worthwhile challenge - but a challenge nonetheless. And a lot of mature students who are contemplating it are genuinely concerned about the workload, the rigours of it, whether they could possibly keep up, etc. Access courses are worth their weight in gold for helping to demystify it, as well as offering the entry level soft-to-medium skills that will very much be needed once you're in. Absolutely invaluable in that regard.
A-Levels are a bit different, though - they're good for showing what baseline subject-specific knowledge a student has coming in, but they're losing their efficacy for showing us how good a student someone is likely to be in the age of AI (schools are simply not doing their due diligence in getting ahead of that; way too many 18-year-olds are coming to us now thinking they can get away with it because schools and colleges are explicitly allowing them to.) Still valuable, don't get me wrong; but, similar to how we teach academic skills in first year, the baseline knowledge is also taught in first year (a little more in depth than A Level, but not by much at that stage). A Levels are an advantage, but not compulsory. Ditto access courses.
Here's what I will say, though:
The most successful students - not the highest scoring necessarily, though there's significant overlap; but the most successful - are the ones who understand that university is not school.
By that I mean: You aren't here because you have to be; you're here because you want and choose to be.
Firstly: The bulk of your learning is down to you. In school, it's 90% down to the teachers, and 10% on you doing your homework. That homework is just checking you understood what they told you in lessons.
In uni, it's about 30% down to the lectures/seminars/etc. Those will impart the fundamental knowledge and skills. But 70% of it is then on you - you should be reading around the subject, exploring differing angles, and looking to see how this is applied in the real world. And you should do this because you're here to learn, not to be taught. My job is a facilitator, but we're copilots in this thing. You should want to learn for the joy of it, not because it's a thing in your life that you're required to do.
If you aren't curious, you won't learn as much.
Secondly, successful students therefore read every word of feedback, and actively try to improve. The others will just look at the number on the grade, and move on. You should be actively wanting to improve. If necessary, this should include you coming to see me to talk through the feedback to make sure you understood it (my KINGDOM for the students who want to talk it through with me...)
Thirdly, though, is the classroom learning culture.
This is something that lecturers can control; nor can any one student, really. But it only takes two or three of a similar mindset to get the others on board. Basically, though, this is where you as students collectively create an environment for yourselves where you all want to improve and do your best.
When I did my teaching qualification a couple of years ago, this was a big thing. We had a group chat, and in the week (sometimes more, but the final week in particular) leading up to an assignment, that chat was busy. It was full of this sort of thing:
You see what I mean? Comparing notes on the requirements, whether people thought referencing XYZ would be appropriate or off-topic, how the formatting was being done, etc
After marks and feedback were returned, the same thing would happen, but this time discussing feedback and how we should have done it instead. After one assignment, one of the others said she was incredibly frustrated, because her feedback was the latest in a line of her being told she needed to do X, and she was so certain she was; so, she asked to see mine, because I'd gotten a high mark. I sent it over, and for her seeing an exemplar was what she needed. Suddenly, she got where she'd been going wrong, and it was something she immediately corrected and never got marked down on again.
This is an example of good learning culture. Worth its absolute weight in gold if you can get that going, even if only with one other person. The most successful student groups always function like this. The lower effort ones will suddenly put the effort in if the group is doing this, and it does raise the marks.
But, finally: the single most important point.
If you need it, ask for help.
I know I say this every time, but it bears repeating every time. Always. Ask. For. Help. If we get to exam board and you have missing marks because you struggled and missed the deadlines, the Academic Office will say, "Did this student engage with us about any struggles?"
If the answer is yes - you told us the issues, you've been working with student support, etc - they will work out a plan for you to make up the missing work.
If the answer is no - couldn't get a response from you, barely seen you, no work submitted and no reason known - you will be withdrawn from the course. If you're lucky, they'll say you're allowed to resit the whole year "with attendance".
ASK FOR HELP.
Anyway - this ran longer than I expected lol. But I hope anything in that answered your question!
The thing about shingles pain is: it is far from the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. I’ve experienced bowel obstruction. I’ve had a uterine fibroid outgrow its blood supply and turn necrotic. Both of those were 10/10 pain. This is like… 8/10.
But when I had the bowel obstruction I was immediately admitted to the hospital and put on pain meds and a steroid drip, and when I went home 3 days later I was OK.
The fibroid pain was subdued by toradol and lasted until the end of my period, and then I had my uterus removed and the fibroid went with it and that was the end of that.
But this shingles pain just… stays. I’ve just been living with it for like 10 days now. Stretching doesn’t help. Changing position doesn’t help. The only things that help are ice and a regular schedule of pain meds. And the pain meds don’t last long enough to let me have a full night’s sleep.
Get your freaking shingles vaccine, people, this suuuucks.
