SMFirefly

INTP...I like Fanfiction...and a bunch of other stuff. Answers only work for a few, but the right question can start a revolution.

[xoycelenao]

rich genius x  super powerful adorable dork

[allthingslinguistic]

“The Archive of Our Own has none of these problems. It uses a third tagging system, one that blends the best elements of both styles. On AO3, users can put in whatever tags they want (autocomplete is there to help, but they don’t have to use it). Then, behind the scenes, human volunteers look up any new tags that no one else has used before and match them with any applicable existing tags, a process known as tag wrangling. Wrangling means that you don’t need to know whether the most popular tag for your new fanfic featuring Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is Johnlock or Sherwatson or John/Sherlock or Sherlock/John or Holmes/Watson or anything else. And you definitely don’t need to tag your fic with all of them just in case. Instead, you pick whichever one you like, the tag wranglers do their work behind the scenes, and readers looking for any of these synonyms will still be able to find you. AO3’s trick is that it involves humans by design—around 350 volunteer tag wranglers in 2019, up from 160 people in 2012—who each spend a few hours a week deciding whether new tags should be treated as synonyms or subsets of existing tags, or simply left alone. AO3’s Tag Wrangling Chairs estimate that the group is on track to wrangle over 2 million never-before-used tags in 2019, up from around 1.5 million in 2018. Laissez-faire and rigid tagging systems both fail because they assume too much—that users can create order from a completely open system, or that a predefined taxonomy can encompass every kind of tag a person might ever want. When these assumptions don’t pan out, it always seems to be the user’s fault. AO3’s beliefs about human nature are more pragmatic, like an architect designing pathways where pedestrians have begun wearing down the grass, recognizing how variation and standardization can fit together. The wrangler system is one where ordinary user behavior can be successful, a system which accepts that users periodically need help from someone with a bird’s-eye view of the larger picture. Users appreciate this help. According to Tag Wrangling Chair briar_pipe, “We sometimes get users who come from Instagram or Tumblr or another unmoderated site. We can tell that they’re new to AO3 because they tag with every variation of a concept—abbreviations, different word order, all of it. I love how excited people get when they realize they don’t have to do that here.””

—

Gretchen McCulloch, Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online 

(My latest Wired column is up and it’s about AO3 and taxonomies!) 

[destinytomoon-deactivated202006]

Beautiful photo from the protest, yesterday on Santiago, Chile by Susana Hidalgo (su_hidalgo on Instagram)

¡REVOLUCIÓN!

[destinytomoon-deactivated202006]

The flag on the top is the mapuche flag. Mapuches are indigenous people who get constantly killed in the hand of cops. The goverment constantly silence us and killing us. This fight is for also us, indigenous people. Remember that

[adventure-heart]

Artist Luo Li Rong

[seriousfic]

Me: Oh, she used a kinda wireframe thing to do the sculpture.

Also me: HOW TF SHE PUT A DRESS ON HER?

[beachgothgay]

Weird how opening spotify in a web browser with a decent ad blocker allows you to skip ads just like would happen if you had premium. Sure hope no one takes advantage of that.

[sniper-fox-deactivated20251231]

Sure hope nobody modifies the hosts file in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc to block Spotify ads in the app…

[megamindmutual-deactivated20191]

PSST! HERE’S A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO BLOCK SPOTIFY ON WINDOWS!

[gamercock]

aw man I sure hope nobody learns to do that

that’s so messed up that people would do that

in fact, let’s spread it everywhere so everyone knows not to do that

and everyone knows exactly what to do so that they don’t do that

foolproof plan

[pauliemartins]

gosh i love fan fic authors

[catchymemes]

Get this man working on the next Star Wars movie

[ezra-starkiller]

messy, like them :)

[atarnishedcompass]

Friend: Wanna hang out tomorrow?

Me: I actually performed an Activity yesterday. Please wait the three day recovery period to submit another inquiry

[nyctaeus]

Dana Wsye, ‘Pills & Remedies’, from the series ‘Jesus Had A Sister Productions’, 1996-2003

Canadian artist creates fictitious pharmaceutical company that uses 60′s retro and kitsch imagery to sell cures and remedies that aim to dissect our utopic quest for perfection.  

[incorrectwearp]

Doc: Nothing in life is free.

Waverly: Life is free.

Dolls: Adventure is free.

Jeremy: Knowledge is free.

Wynnna: Everything is free if you take it without paying.

[vanderrwaals]

Wynonna Earp Season 2 - Text Posts

[smfirefly]

The last one is my favorite. 😁

[cullenedward]

this test apparently tells you how narcissistic you are on a scale of 0 - 40. most people are under 20…i got a 35 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[a1-b2c3-deactivated20230114]

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

[wearethesparkk]

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

[memcjo]

Earth is effing amazing!

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[dasakuryo]

#damn earth is cool#also shit this hit 6k?#and for all the comments going “but this would destroy the ecosystem”#a) cgi b) cgi has advanced since the prequels and used in moderation could be cool c) this is just pointing out that earth is badass#yet lucasfilms keeps using the same 3 flavors of planet#the prequels were almost all cg and some places were entirely computer created giving that unnatural feel#if you cg in an actual place once in a while you can still get it to look cool without destroying an ecosystem (via @wearethesparkk)

You’re absolutely right!

[harold-shes-lesbian]

lesbian speed dating can get wild

[harold-shes-lesbian]

as a lesbian who is finally getting more out into the dating scene and interacting w/more lesbians im here to tell you this is actually…. so.. accurate…. we really b like this…

[immichaelstipe]

“TELL ME WHEN TO GET MY STUFF…………… I GOT MY STUFF” I’VE BEEN LAUGHING FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES BECAUSE OF THAT ONE LINE

[just-shower-thoughts]

The fact that we can accidentally bite the insides of our cheeks has to be the biggest design flaw of the human body.

[slightlyfrumiousbandersnatch-de]

NO SORRY IT’S THE FACT THAT OUR TRACHEA AND ESOPHAGUS CROSS AND BRIEFLY OCCUPY THE SAME HOLE DOLPHINS DON’T HAVE THIS PROBLEM.

[churchyardgrim]

WE ONLY GET ONE SET OF ADULT TEETH THAT ARE DESIGNED TO LAST MAYBE HALF OUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN

OUR LOWER BACKS ARE STRUCTURALLY FUCKED FROM MAKING A SHITTY TRANSITION TO BEING BIPEDS

INTELLIGENT DESIGN MY ASS, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST WE’RE NOT HORSES

[banjobards-deactivated20181231]

SOME OF OUR MOST VITAL ORGANS ARE JUST CHILLING IN A SQUISH SACK IN THE MIDDLE OF OURS BODIES RIBCAGE MY ASS THAT THING ONLY COVERS LIKE 40% OF WHAT IT SHOULD

[dailypsychologyfacts]

7 Signs You May Not Be Ready for a Relationship | psych2go

[retiredgenerator-deactivated202]

No one’s ever ready for a relationship that’s the problem