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25F I should be doing something productive. But I'm too busy watching Band of Brothers.

[misericordiia]

the eyes of someone who just vomited carry a vulnerable acceptance to grief only known in portraits of saints

[008214-deactivated20150108]

[nerdytxgentleman]

Ya know I’m 42 and too old to jump around in the pit as much at concerts(I’ve tried) but this is a pit I’d enjoy

[clementine-kesh]

a critique that always irks me a little is when people say a fictional gay male relationship is actually being written as a lesbian relationship, like first of all what does that even mean and second of all a good chunk of the time it seems like people are only saying that because the men are emotionally vulnerable with each other

[clementine-kesh]

many out there, even among my fellow lgbtqs, seem to hold a “hotcock” view of gay relationships

[writingdose]

things I won’t let ai take away from human writers

em dash

“not x, not y, but z”

short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice

none of these belong to ai. these are all what human writers have been writing since day one, way before ai was invented. ai was trained to mimic how human writers write — so em dash, not x not y but z and short sentence stacking would never have been used by ai at all if ai hadn’t learned and mimicked them from human writers.

no, you are not “fighting against ai” by accusing every work that has em dash, not x not y but z or short sentence stacking in it as ai-generated, you are helping ai harm the writing community by engaging in witch hunt and scaring human writers away from creating/sharing their works for fear of being wrongly accused of using ai.

speculations, accusations and ai witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

[catasters]

[memorycycle]

driving my wild boar and i feel a slight bump and i look in the rearview mirror and see a squashed honda civic

[sapphling]

if you make a UI change so bad that you accidentally ddos yourself via support ticket and negative reply activity load is that good

[sapphling]

i ❤️ my 37 reblog post

[sapphling]

so what's weird is that the true note count on this seems to be irretrievably concealed from me now. i know this had, like, above 100 reblogs before my mobile browser dash was affected; now here are the notes on 1. the original post and 2. my reblog (the only other comment reblog has no notes when checked).

where did they go? how can they be viewed? where is the shareholder benefit of making people believe that they and all other users are receiving Profoundly Less engagement than in reality? you are very intentionally making your website appear vastly more dead than it is in reality

[flurgehbla]

Did they forreal nuke sapphling for this?

[cactusjerk]

[st-hedge]

what a beautiful, beautiful phrase

[televisionenjoyer]

Never posting my fanfiction. Call that AO2.

[televisionenjoyer]

Archive Of Oneself

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

mythbusters was so good because it wasn't a killjoy show. they didn't just say "see, it doesn't work" and leave it there

whenever they find that the stunt doesn't work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask "what would it take to make this happen?"

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

[oldschoolvillageidiot]

Some myths I'll always remember:

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they "failed." Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn't matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON'T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just... pure glee. "Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"

And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information.

[cilantrhoes]

“hey so it actually only has to make sense to me for me to do it and i don’t feel like explaining it to anyone else” is the energy i’m carrying into the new year

[wallcrawlerart]

I think i found her project but not sure if it's all the buttons.

[frogmood]

500 years from now there’s gonna be some film historian who’s entire career is built off of searching for a copy of goncharov

[rainstormyday]

and they're never gonna find it cuz they fucking took it off poob

[suigintou]

i bet it feels good as fuck to erupt from the soil as a skeleton warrior

[tweetingukpolitics]

[ravioliraz]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[charlesoberonn]

If angels are terrifying monstrosities that tell you “be not afraid” are demons adorable harmless creatures that demand to be feared?

[random-guy-or-something]

[charlesoberonn]

@random-guy-or-something’s sequel pic because less people saw it

they’re friends y’all

[charlesoberonn]

I want everyone to know that @random-guy-or-something and I have been friends for over 4 years now thanks to this post.

[decamarks]

AFTER NEARLY 19 YEARS OF THIS STUPID WEBSITE