I MUST

[liberalsarecool]

Here is your mission.

[wilwheaton]

This is lovely advice.

[turing-tested]

[turing-tested]

D:

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

[ronthedunedain]

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

[aquilacalvitium]

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

[generalluxun]

I want to point out in that article it wasn't even the scientist that humanized the machine, it was the *Army Colonel*. Not the first person you would assume sentimentality.

[comedownstairsandsayhello]

You will get farther in one week paying close, nonjudgmental attention to the unmet needs underlying your "bad" behavior than you will in a year of punishing yourself and demanding you become a different person. I'm right shut up.

[knitmeapony]

"Facts are facts"

Sure, but also.

[nbjetsam]

Back when I was starting out in "J School", and newspapers were made of dead trees, we were given the assignment of reading at least 4 papers and finding and comparing articles which appeared in each. We would cut them out ("clipping services" are one of those things which have disappeared in the last 20 years) and highlight where they overlapped and deviated. You could usually trace the numbers back to a single source, and then there would be a lot of text taken wholesale from the AP or government wire service. Then you could clearly see the framing -- especially in the first and last paragraphs -- provided by the specific newspaper. They would also ask us to take a set of facts and write 4 different angles -- partly because that's what the job would be and partly to again drive home how much work the framing of "facts" was doing. It's only recently that I have weaned myself away from reading multiple news sources (just looking at Fox News wasn't great for my mental health, and the NYTs just makes me sad these days) but they really ought to teach this in school.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is my favourite bit of Jon's character arc:

Jonathan refused to be provoked. "I'm not charitable," he said coolly. "My father was. Now the results of... certain of his charities threaten this kingdom. I wish he had been more just and less kind."

...

The sentences for all should have been death - the laws on treason were strict - but Jonathan would not begin his rule with executions. He granted more pardons in the first week of his official reign than had King Roald in all of his.

I'm not being snide, I really like the arc Jon gets of showing how his sense of judgement develops. Later on we do get to see Jon screw up, of course, but overall he's a good ruler and he's a good ruler precisely because he has this incredible sense of scale and of the big picture.

This is easier for me to explain in reference to Daine and Kel, but the sense of bigness is one of my favourite things about Tamora Pierce's writing and the thing that has most influenced me, so I get sentimental about it.

[rain-sleet-snow]

So I absolutely love your pointing this out, and I think it touches on something about Tortall that kind of sneaks beneath the radar! I wrote a passage about Jon in a recent fic that took me by surprise:

...King Jonathan wasn’t his father or even his grandfather, Lady Yolane would face a fair legal trial before any decision was made, but the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Lady Yolane would be dead on Traitor's Hill before the year was out.

I really interrogated that when I went back to reread it, because I wasn't sure it was good characterisation. And then I realised I'd hit on one of Jon's big picture things: the books talk about women fighters and schools, the modernisation of Tortall's armed forces and the development of non-hostile relationships with the Bazhir as changes Jon and Thayet make... but in some ways they walk right past something that changes completely between SotL and PotS, and that's the rule of law.

Jon and Thayet are slowly moving the needle from feudal privilege to the rule of law, so slowly we don't see it happening. King Jasson was a conqueror, famous for steamrolling countries that had the misfortune to be his neighbours; that isn’t accompanied by a merciful or clement attitude to justice. King Roald was prone to inaction, and despite what that bit of SotL says about Jon granting pardons, Roald's the only king we actually see grant an effective pardon - to his treasonous nephew, who then proceeds to wreck shit around him, nearly destroying Tortall and killing hundreds if not thousands. And Roger was originally "convicted" of treason through not judicial trial but a form of trial by ordeal during which Alanna killed him. Fast forward to Jon's reign, and traitors to the Crown are tried in court and sentenced, while trials are held for other crimes and agreements are made with Immortals for the enforcement of the law against their citizens - explicitly different to the previous state of affairs, where Raoul tells us lone knights like SotL!Alanna enforced the law they felt like enforcing. We even get one massive legal set-piece, which I think is a demonstration of how much Tortall has changed as well as how much further it has to go. Joren’s trial is a massive deal, in many ways noble privilege vs the law of the land - Joren can't be brought to trial until he's off his family's lands, but the fact that he's tried for kidnapping a servant girl at all is considered an outrage by his advocate and the Stone Mountain steward is stunned by the size of the fine. Duke Turomot goes out of his way to make the fine as heavy as possible. It's meaningful that he did that, and that Jon and Thayet showed up to see it done, and especially that the crown prince showed up to sit with Kel and Neal - Prince Roald is subtler than his parents, but that would have been a huge political statement. You can bet everyone noticed. And it's also meaningful that when Kel appeals to the king for justice, it's not for his personal intervention in the specific case, it's to change the law. I think we overlook the fact that Jon and Thayet want to make the change Kel demanded in favour of assuming Jon's trying to win her confidence, but that's only one of the potential reasons Raoul gives for his complicated friend's decision. And Jon himself explicitly says to Kel that she can't challenge Joren because challenging him would be based on noble privilege, not the rule of law for all, and it's the rule of law for all that they're trying to establish. Kel acknowledges the accuracy of that.

Alanna fights repeatedly to establish Jon's feudal authority. Kel swears an oath to Jon that she won't use feudal authority to take private vengeance. That's how much Tortall has changed in just twenty years. 500 years from Squire there will be very frustrated academics wishing that, just once, dramas about the reign of King Jonathan and Queen Thayet would pay lip service to the massive changes in jurisprudence, but noooo, it's all CGI Immortals and shitty golden armour that looks like it's made of Crunchie wrappers and people duelling when that was illegal by the 470s, can the historians of this world not catch a break even once?

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Don't apologize for this essay its magnificent and you are so right.

I think the thing with the pardons for me, is that King Roald granted this pardon, and it was because he doesn't like fuss and trouble and Roger was a close relative, and it would be difficult and awkward and he didn't want to do such a difficult, awkward thing.

Whereas Jon grants this whole list of pardons and they're all for very specific reasons. He grants George a pardon because he has this very specific thing he needs from him, and then he grants a lot of pardons because he knows that if he starts his reign with a mass of executions he'll never live past it.

One of my favourite scenes in Squire (a long list) is the one where Raoul explains to Kel the difference between Warriors, Commanders and Heroes. And Heroes, in the Tortall books really exist to let commanders work. Like, when Nonsense goes down you need people like Alanna and Daine to defeat the evil sorcerer duke/defeat the nameless ones/distract the graveyard hag/yell at several gods. But by doing that, they make enough room for rule of law to take effect.

My favourite scene in Lioness Rampant is actually the council where Alanna is named champion, because she was already a hero when she left Corus in Hand of the Goddess... but there was all this controversy, and she was really unsettled, and she still wasn't comfortable with it (or her magic, or her gender, or her friends, or anything else) but she comes back a real established confident hero. And meanwhile, we haven't seen Raoul or Gary for a book and half and last time we saw Jon was his absolute lowest point. But Alanna walks back in as a hero, and she's greeted by these three fantastic Commander-Statesmen, who all fill in variations on the commander role, and are building rule of law, and are competent, and enthusiastic.

And Pierce is really sincere and serious about her world-building so there's no thinly veiled allegories, or snidness about the gods and immortals and etc. Its these three people (+ my beloved Duke Baird) who are trying to do exactly what you say, and instate this rule of law... but they live in a world of Gods and Monsters and Evil Sorcerers, so they need Alanna to give them the space to do it in.

And furthermore I also love (this is getting out of hand but its true), that after two superb hero characters (Alanna and Daine), we get Kel, who is a commander character... but she's much younger, so she has never known the randomness and feudalness that would have been familiar to Alanna, she's grown up under rule of law, she's used to Jon's overall level of success to the point that she can take it for granted and say "that's not good enough, we're not stopping here" which is superb.

And you're SO RIGHT about the historians.

[rain-sleet-snow]

All of this! And I think it makes an especially fascinating contrast with the fact that, in-universe, Jon's reign is the Reign Where All The Nonsense Happened. Immortals were a half-forgotten nightmare! Wild magic was a disrespected folk practice and a niche academic interest! Alanna was only the harbinger of Tortall taking one giant leap into what her contemporaries consider a time of myths and legends. I think it's Lord Imrah of Legann, or maybe Lady Marielle, who says that when they tell the story of these battles their grandchildren won't believe them.

And Jon and Thayet, as rulers, respond to that with revitalised infrastructure, military reform, and legal innovation.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[kestrel-tree]

Well someone displeased the sky gods didn’t they

[augustdementhe]

My first thought was someone pleased the sky gods, because this is a SHOW. 

[madmaudlingoes]

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

[talesfromgringolandia]

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

why is this fire quote from a tumblr post

[mythopoeticlicense]

Because tumblr is the real world equivalent of infinite monkeys using typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[regina-cordium]

Guy just walked in with a shirt that said “I don’t question my wife’s choices because I’m one of them” and frankly I’m obsessed

[depsidase]

[sterek]

STEREKFLIX - now streaming your favorite Sterek content. (insp.)

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Keep reading

[drjholtzmann]

Crowley drawing power up from Hell

bonus:

[transformativeworks]

AO3 Celebrates 12 Million Posted Fanworks

The Archive of Our Own has reached the milestone of 12 million published fanworks! Read more about how the archive works (and doesn't) when it comes to algorithms, tags and bookmarks! https://otw.news/02c68e

[plantpun]

[ID: Photo of a red-tinted library with an open book in the foreground. Overlay text includes the Archive of Our Own logo and "Twelve Million Fanworks" in all caps. Red "kudos" hearts float in from the corner of the image. End ID]

[transformativeworks]

I want y'all to know that I adore everyone tagging this post with "and [x] are mine!"'

The notes look like

and it is amazing.

~ Mod Remi

[sabriel75]

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

[aquilegiaformosa]

it’s becoming clearer that “being fat makes you diabetic” is actually misapplied observation and like, backwards cause and effect. insulin resistance is the main factor in type 2 diabetes. it was thought being fat made you insulin resistant. turns out it’s the other way round; insulin resistance causes the body to store fat at a greater rate. like yes, once the weight is gained it can then contribute more to resistance and things can snowball, but the initiating factor is not being fat.

[x-i-l-verify]

#type 1 is caused by no insulin production type 2 is caused by insulin resistance #and what causes the resistance or pancreatic damage is often uncertain #absolutely poor diet and lack of exercise can EXACERBATE EXISTING TYPE 2 DIABETES #but eating carbs and eating sugar will not give you diabetes; neither t1 or t2 #also keto is a fucking scam and a lie and puts people in the hospital on a regular basis

[the-perks-of-neurodivergency]

Also worth mentioning how hard it is to find good advice around healthy eating or exercise because almost all of the information available assumes your goal is to lose weight. So you'll find a hundred articles for how you can reduce calories, but nothing about how you can eat more vegetables while managing a budget and still feeling satiated. Because professionals assume your goal is to lose weight, not to feel better in your body. It's so incredibly frustrating.

[batwynn]

As a chronically Ill/disabled fat person who just got diagnosed with full blown diabetes:

They want to blame us, because then it’s our faults and they can feel good about themselves for ‘doing everything right’. That’s it.

Diabetes can’t ‘just happen’ because then it could happen to anyone. The same with every other illness and disability. If it can ‘just happen’ then this perfectly ‘healthy’, skinny person could do everything ‘right’ and still one day develop diabetes or other illnesses. They can’t handle that, so they pick at every little possible thing that a fat/ill/disabled person has ever done until they find that thing you supposedly did ‘wrong’ to cause this thing that they so desperately don’t want to happen to them.

And this goes for everyone, including doctors and other medical professionals because they have been taught this same thing. That there must be a reason this thing happened to a person, and it’s easier if it was their fault. To look for that thing the patient must have done wrong, because then you have the ‘answer’ and the blame. And then you, the medical professional, are not culpable for any misstatements, misunderstandings, misdiagnosis, that you have done or will do.

And the cycle will continue forever as long as self-proclaimed healthy, skinny people continue to live in fear of ever not being healthy, skinny people. Being fat and sick is one of the worst things they can ever imagine to happen, and it must be our faults because if not… if not then what horrible, terrible things to then happen to them and their precious bodies?

[sabriel75]

#medicalfearmongering #sopervasive

[christinesficrecs]

I am a big, BIG fan of Sentinel AU's. But it seems like the post I had went poof! Anyway! Enjoy. ❤️

Unmapped by Jerakeen | 11.3K | Explicit

Stiles can never leave a good mystery alone.

I'll Tie You (In My Arms) by Kian | 19K

Derek doesn't want a Guide after his last attempt at a bond nearly got his whole family killed, and Stiles doesn't want to be one if it means losing the last of the family he's got. But Fate doesn't take requests.

I Want You Under My Skin by FunkyinFishnet | 6.6K | Mature

Stiles is a Guide who looks after catatonic or feral Sentinels. One day a grief-stricken fugue-state Derek is brought in and Stiles realizes that he's found his Sentinel. Now they've just got to get Derek out of his own head and able to bond.

Bonding for Beginners by Ember | 43.2K | Explicit

Sentinel AU where Stiles is a Guide looking for real connection, and Derek is a Sentinel forced to get a Guide.

Collide by Green | 36K | Mature

Guide Stiles Stilinski has been waiting his whole life to meet his one and only Sentinel, knowing everything will fall into place perfectly once he's bonded. Then along comes Derek Hale, his werewolf Sentinel, who already has a mate (alpha werewolf Peter Hale) and doesn't want anything to do with a new bond. Does Stiles even fit in the picture? Will he ever get his happily ever after, or was that just a childish dream?

On Anchors and Rudders by Unloyal_Olio | 15.1K | Mature

Stiles might be a sentinel, but Derek is a werewolf. Derek is not and never will be a guide.

W-e-r-e-w-o-l-f.

There is no way in hell he’ll be a guide. No. Way. In. Hell.

The Normal One? by hellbells | 10.9K | Explicit

Stiles had always prided himself on being the normal one in the pack. He was until an Alpha fight shows him just how wrong they all are. It just might be that he needs Derek to anchor him as much as Derek needs him.

It Started Out as a Feeling by flitterflutterfly | 15.4K | Explicit

When the newly bonded Sentinel Scott joins Derek Hale’s pack, Derek had just been happy that his group was growing larger and stronger. But Scott brings with him his old-temporary-guide-turned-friend named Stiles and the rest of Derek’s pack begin to conspire to get them together. And while Derek is attracted to Stiles, Stiles doesn’t want a full bond and Derek would never force that.

Who Needs A Guide? by LadyDrace | 3.7K

Derek is a sentinel who doesn't need a guide. Good thing, too, because what he ends up getting is in fact not a guide.

Ochre Moon by SOABA | 13.3K

Stiles has unknowingly spent years on medication designed to fully suppress his Sentinel Gene. Then, one day, the medicine stops working and it’s definitely Derek’s fault.

[wheredidhiseyebrowsgo]

Looking for a Sterek fic where Stiles starts receiving gifts from a secret admirer after losing his wallet. The gifts include a new wardrobe, a new mattress, and a new house, each accompanied by a cash gift. Thanks!!!

Is it this one?

Anonymous asked: "

I’m new here so I’m sorry if I missed an FAQ about rec lists instead of general fic locate requests. If you do regular rev lists on your fave fics but can you do a list of your favorite Stackson Brotp fics? Like it’s still endgame Sterek but still has a healthy dose of Stackson brotp please. I’d really appreciate it"

joonniverse asked:

Hey there ! Would you happen to have any fic recs where Jackson and Stiles are/become really close? Any Stiles centric pairing is fine

AND

Anonymous asked:

May i get some fic recs for Jackson and stiles friendship? Either childhood friends or became friends post Canon or anything in between. If stackson happens that is also ok as is any other ship.

Originally posted by adrianfridge

Alright friends. It took me a minute but here’s some of my favorite Stiles and Jackson friendship fics. (alternatively this could be renamed “ A list of mostly isthatbloodonyourshirt fics”)

So When Do I Get To Pledge My Loyalty To The Mob? by RedRidingStiles

(1/1 I 10,146 I Mature I Sterek)

“Are you my sugar daddy?” Stiles blurts out, slapping a hand over his mouth when his brain catches up to his mouth.

The man lets out a soft laugh, making his way around the couch till he’s standing just feet away from Stiles.

Stiles can smell his cologne from here, it smells heavenly, Stiles kinda wants to bury his face into the guy’s chest so he can figure out exactly what it is.

“If that’s what you’d like to call it.” The man smiles.

Stiles doesn’t think he should be allowed to smile like that. All soft and gorgeous and way too pretty to be legal.

He’s still not convinced any of this is real.

Stiles loses his wallet, someone returns it along with $5,000. Shit keeps coming, Stiles life doesn’t make any sense anymore, he’s just going with it.

[rhp162]

[neoretrobibliomartini-x]

When my kiddo finally decided (at age 20) that it was time for (most of) his enormous Lego collection to go, it was a gut-wrenching moment for me (goodbye childhood!). However, we used this service, which was simple and hassle-free.

[neil-gaiman]

This is wonderful to know.

[wheredidhiseyebrowsgo]

im so tired of sterek fics where derek is like really mean or just aloof to stiles until they get together. do you have an recs where derek is just a sweetheart who's always soft on stiles even before they get together?

Here's softboi!derek.

let me take care of you by honestlydarkprincess

(1/1 I 1,1311 I Teen)

Stiles couldn’t do anything but stare at the alpha werewolf as he rambled while unloading the aforementioned supplies from the grocery bag to Stiles’ counter.

Nothing Stiles was seeing made sense.

Why was Derek here, in his apartment, with cold medicine and fucking soup?

Or, the one where Derek comes over to take care of a sick Stiles. They talk about their moms and confess some feelings. It's all very soft.

An Anchor for the Storm by andthwip

(1/1 I 3,246 I Mature)

Derek's the only person Stiles can turn to.

Give Me Shelter by WonderWolf

(1/1 I 8,295 I Teen)

I don’t make a good impression, I know,” Derek grumbles. “It’s fine. I get it.”

“Noooo,” Stiles groans in frustration, “but it isn’t fair because you’re not that guy, you’re not an asshole and you give cats punny names so they have a better chance at being adopted.”

“Who told you I named the cats?” Derek asks, his brows scrunching together in confusion.

“Scott,” Stiles smirks. “My favorite so far was Purrsephone.”

(Or the one in which Derek and Stiles both volunteer at an animal shelter, Derek works with cats and gives them punny names, Stiles works with the dogs, and misunderstandings ensue).

If It Means a Lot to You by Nier

(1/1 I 9,356 I Teen)

His mom had told him about mates in the past. Derek would often come home and just hear stories about how his parents had met and fallen for each other, how they had gotten together after learning about what they truly meant to one another.

He was a kid when she told him all this, so it didn't really make much sense to him at the time. All he could do was sit there on the edge of her bed, listening as his mother talked about how love is an act of courage. If you don't take that first step, then everything else is impossible too.

Set a Song for Me by isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella) 

(1/1 I 11,573 i Teen)

“You did a favour for a stranger?” the sheriff asked, surprised. “You won’t even do a favour for me.”

“Your favours involve chocolate and salty snacks, damn straight I won’t do you any favours,” Stiles insisted, pointing an accusatory finger at his dad while leaning back against the counter, taking another large sip of coffee. “Some guy lost his phone and was calling it hoping someone would answer. That someone was me. He said he’d had some drinks and couldn’t come grab it right then, so we agreed to meet at the station this morning. I didn’t realize ‘this morning’ meant the ass crack of dawn.”

“It’s not the ass crack of dawn, that was at five thirty-seven, according to the weather app on my phone.”

Stiles let out a sarcastic laugh and flipped his dad off. The sheriff gave him a look, but he didn’t reprimand him, clearly able to tell Stiles was miserable.

Love At It's Purest by AbsolutelyNot2801

(12/? I 24,218 I Mature)

Sometimes Derek does things that makes Stiles think his crush is not completely one-sided, like gentle touches, soothing words and embraces like the one they were in that morning. And then he goes and does something stupid like getting a stupid girlfriend like Jennifer. It’s not because of Jennifer at all really. She’s lovely. But Stiles can’t help the hint of jealousy when he sees the loving gazes and soft, shy smiles.

And this is his step-brother he’s talking about. His step-brother! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Or a fic in which Stiles and Derek can’t help falling in love with each other. But there's a problem, they're step brothers. A fic with angst, feels and a happy ending.

The Spaz and the Sourwolf by TheRealDanniX

(9/9 I 24,674 I Teen)

When Stiles comes across something he shouldn't in the Preserve he ends up on four legs. Not that anyone in the Pack knows it's him. He's just hoping they can figure it out before anything else bad happens.

This Is Not Who I'm Supposed to Be by Anonymous

(11/11 I 24,932 I Teen)

After Stiles' friends get shot, the fox runs away from his home. He runs far enough that the white snow changes into green gras, and his white fur feels heavier than ever underneath the shining sun. Talia Hale and her family find him and she helps him turn back into human, something he hasn't been in years, and he has to learn how to be human again with the help from Derek. He realizes that life isn't easy. Not as human and not as a supernatural creature. Especially not when hunters are back in town.

shatter like glass, come apart in my hands by cosmicayan

(15/? I 47,107 I Mature)

The one in which Stiles goes missing for three months and then suddenly, out of nowhere, he turns up at the door of the Hale House, confusing himself, Derek, and literally everyone else.

Oh, yeah, and he has no memory of what happened to him (or, at least, no conscious memory).