this room boring.

apology apology apology. rocky new to ball. star wars blog is obiwankenothankyou, sarisa on ao3

[lolitamadeo]

[murfpersonalblog]

The 3x6 After Dark was.... 🤦‍♂️ So it was ON PURPOSE. It was supposed to be FUNNY. I guess the same way they thought Fraudeleine kissing was supposed to be COMEDIC. 😬

This is precisely why the post about AMC's failure to do Camp in S3 went viral, cuz AMC y'all done lost y'all mind if y'all thought we were supposed to unironically LAUGH at ANY of this. 🤨

[murfpersonalblog]

AMC's doubling down on it:

"FUNNY and horrific," they're calling it. ISTFG the tone-deafness is thru the ROOF.

I HATE saying this, but sometimes I agree when people say Jacob Anderson is part of the problem. 🤦‍♂️ The way he talks sometimes makes me remember that he's a paid actor hired to do a job, regardless of how much AMC's playing in HIS face AND ours.

AMC, y'all can't be THIS out-of-touch with your own audience, and the kind of reactions your scenes are eliciting in people. We know how chronically online your writers/writing assistants are. Y'all MUST know that even people who HATE Claudia, or HATE Louis, or HATE Lestat aren't finding the seance funny/humorous/comedic. 🤨 It's being taken seriously, because AMC established a deeply emotional investment in this family season after season.

Claudia's fate was NEVER framed as something ANYONE was supposed to laugh at and casually shrug off--Welp, c'est la vie~! 🙄🤷‍♂️

There's a STARK difference between ABSURDITY (a la Camp & Horror) and TRAGEDY (a la Gothic Horror).

YES, Lestat is a comic character, who prefers to focus on light & levity & optimism, (a la his account of the NOLA years in TVL). But book!Lestat's version of the Trial was still tragic Gothic Horror--no funniness whatsoever; he took that ish seriously. His misery being haunted by ghost!Claudia in TotBT was still Gothic Horror. Lestat's reaction to Louis' suicide after the seance in Merrick was still tragic Gothic Horror.

So the excuse that this is all from Lestat's POV is unsatisfactory AF; esp. when everyone keeps saying b-b-but THE BOOKS~!, when even THE EFFING BOOKS don't support a HUMOROUS framing of anything surrounding Claudia's death & her parents' reactions in the seance's wake, DESPITE Lestat's comedic personality. He still takes that ish SERIOUSLY. So WHY TF is AMC expecting us to LAUGH?! 😡

Or worse: Are y'all saying that Louis' suffering is something to be laughed at and found funny? 🤨 And since Louis' constant & extreme expressions of grief over Claudia is literally the embodiment of Anne Rice's grief over Michelle, is AR's grief to be laughed at and found funny by extension? 🤔

AMC, do y'all understand how effing STUPID y'all sound, tryna make LIGHT of any of this?

How The Vampire Lestat Pulled Off That 'Funny and Horrific' Seance

Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles, and Rolin Jones dig into the dark family reunion

[sarisadaine]

[tamvmat]

Oh I think I deleted it by accident..

My meme-ish poster about executive dysfunction, or "The Sits" as we call it in our house. This is to share my experiences with exec. dysfunction, everyone's a little different ☺️

[shanehollandered]

shane hollander appreciation week // day two → favourite look

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[cecoeur]

Heated Rivalry 1.02 | Las Vegas 2014: Ilya's POV

[scarybrained]

[WITNESS LOG: THE OTHER MOTHER, 200x]

"Well, no kid like that is born out of anything good. I know children get abused as early as infancy- hell, look at our- well- um... ......it's just another thing to just go out and talk about it. "

pictured above: a zine created for Backwoods Press' future shop launch. (tw for general csa references, but nothing is explicit.)

[victusinveritas]

[astercontrol]

My heart is lighter than a feather and my liver is darker than a black coffee because that's what it's marinating in

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Do I need to make a Dunkin Run and see if they have any of these left? (pictures would be posted, of course)

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 5

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Alas - I did go, but they were already sold out and I had content myself with the snacking bacon

[victusinveritas]

From all of us, thanks for trying.

[victusinveritas]

(from Facebook)

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[justalurkr]

Truncated text of tweet from MrPitBull, Mar 11, 2026:

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history.

Yale University, 1969.

Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program.

Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?"

The faculty answered firmly: No.

Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit.

Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them.

So she started looking.

She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont.

There were names. There were credentials. There were careers.

The professors had been wrong.

But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing.

Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams.

But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased.

It wasn't random. It was systematic.

Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less.

Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries.

Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside.

She needed a name for what she was documenting.

In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870.

In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect.

The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere.

Her dissertation became a lifelong mission.

For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded.

Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating.

Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions.

Eventually, the evidence became undeniable.

Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased:

Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick.

Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize.

Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed.

And countless others whose names had nearly vanished.

Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out.

The Matilda Effect became standard terminology. Scholars used it to examine how credit is assigned, how authors are listed, who receives awards, who gets left out.

[monster2001]

I like when minimalists stay at the crib

[assignedilyaoftheday]

your assigned ilya of the day is exhibiting predatory behavior because there's a shane in his enclosure 😈

[degrommunism]

One thing I do want to stress with the WPBL is there is going to be some aspects that seem unpolished or rough compared to other recent women league start ups, or even compared to early days nwsl / wnba. And that’s because there has been very very limited opportunities for women to pursue baseball on any level, and even less to play baseball with other women. The most traditionally organized women’s baseball that I know of exists in Japan with the Venus league, which is a large amateur baseball league that has tiers involving high school, university, and club teams (Japan also used to have a pro league that folded in the pandemic.) there are national team programs, but the women’s baseball World Cup only started as recently as 2002 and has not been held 9 times. Most of the women’s playing experience comes with playing for indie ball and vasity teams or programs where they’d frequently be the only women (and many of them faced being pushed out / giving less opportunities + focus from coaches because of that) and their national team opportunities.

And while national team opportunities have improved in recent years, here is an excerpt on what it was like for former Team USA veteran player Malaika Underwood to train with the team (source)

“After the national team trials in June, Underwood invited teammates who also lived in the Southeast to spend weekends at her house in Jacksonville so that they could practice together. They also met up in Atlanta. All the training and travel happened on their own dimes. When they could, players sent videos of their pitches and swings to their coaches, who would try to make adjustments remotely.

“It’s all on us,” Underwood says. “In terms of time and personal investment, we’ve all given up a lot to be here. Guys make sacrifices to play baseball, too, but there’s just a much clearer path for them.”

Basically I say this because I know there’s a lot of people coming over from being recent wnba/pwhl/nwsl fans, and particularly if you watched the latter two leagues, understand that the WPBL is coming at it with significantly less infrastructure in place in America. There’s no ncaa programs, no high school programs, the only previously attempted league after the AAGPBL was the amateur league, North American Women's Baseball League, which existed for five years. The nwsl and PWHL all had several attempted leagues before if, several overseas leagues, college programs, and stronger national team programs that appeared in major tournaments like the Olympics they were building off of. I also don’t want to entirely compare to wnba, because I think the time period and how it came about puts it in a different cultural context, but even they had a few attempts at pro leagues and several decades of organized college play.

There is going to be growing pains with this and it’s an ambitious project, and it’s crucial to understand that context and how different the sport infrastructure is when supporting these athletes and respect for what they’re trying to build here

[khutsydoh]

- Where is My Place in the World Early Shojo Manga Portrayals of Lesbianism

[delfinorosso1964]

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park

[hoursofreading]

janice chae

[kinkydorah]

SHEILA ATIM as Akasha

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[sandinmybed]

something i find frustrating about Life lately is how people just absolutely refuse to experience any discomfort. and i dont mean this in the boomer "wah kids have it too easy theyre all pushovers and pussies" way, but i mean people will go crazy over anything thats not totally 100% sanitised and comfortable and pure and whatever the fuck. a show has a sex scene and you dont like it? people used to just look away for a second and maybe cringe. now it's a whole thinkpiece. people would rather ghost their friends or let issues fester rather than ever address an issue in their relationship with them. they wont let their friends vent in case it makes them uncomfortable. like can you just buck the fuck up and let things be a bit awkward sometimes? it wont kill you.