Socio is Procrastinating

Thank you for visiting! I’ll be posting art here more often but if you want to see my art consistently my Instagram is @hifunctionsociopath. I am a traditional/digital artist and I dabble in watercolor, colored pencils, and graphite. I also have an Ao3 that is post on extremely inconsistently which is also @hifunctionsociopath.

[akuchi-nya]

The Knight was the winner! But don't worry, I’ll be releasing the extra with the Pawn soon

A little thought on Andrew being the Rook: Andrew represents protection and home for Neil and Kevin, and to me, there is no other piece that represents 'home' more than the Rook

As for Kevin: I like to think that the Queen's best trait is adaptability, and that’s exactly what makes her so lethal—just like Kevin when he had to switch hands to keep playing

[toboldlynerd]

[nealashitposts]

So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry.

So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful.

She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal.

He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet...

"Oh you have a dick?"

"... yeah."

He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says

"Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride.

My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can't please my girl, but I'll show them!"

[nealashitposts]

I do feel the need to add that later he excitedly tell the group that as a straight guy, he never thought that skill would be useful outside hotdog eating contests.

[willowfey]

royjamie locker room hug will always make me insane it doesn’t matter how many times i’ve seen it. the way u can see it dawning on roy all the way through… the way he doesn’t say anything. the way jamie tucks his face into his neck. the way u can hear him barely holding back his sobs. everyone else staying silent and just letting them have a moment. the fact that this gesture is what completely shifts jamie’s mindset and proves to him that roy cares about him, so the next time he has a meltdown he immediately grabs onto him knowing it’s okay and he won’t push him away. and he’s right.

[miciopersonellasiepe-deactivate]

Personal space? We don't do that here

+ small bonus

[just-another-dream-about-yuu]

he do be looking...

[shadow27]

[witchofprose-deactivated2020041]

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

[untitled12573]

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

[knitmeapony]

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

[theprofessional-amateur]

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

[kymsys]

"in another life" 💫✨

(ugh i feel so fucking smart about those tattoo designs, im so proud ive tried to build in so many lil referencesss)

lab accidents DO happen 🌚. vik being this edgy but nerdy scientist inviting jayce (engineering major?) to his lab AND THEN-

skittles ACTUALLY wrote this..i cant! pls GO READ 👇

lab accidents happen.

[all-for-the-game-random-blogs]

I keep seeing posts about why do the freshmen hate Neil and the response is that people forget Neil is an asshole. True

We spent 3 books inside of Neil’s head so we saw the thought process of Neil’s words

Imagine being Kevin in the first book and you’re chilling in your apartment when a 5’3 man comes in and starts yelling at you in French about not touching his things then calls you a cr’pple and runs away. Like that’s weird and an asshole move

That’s also only 1 example and one the earliest things Neil does before shit hit the fan

[sayatsugu]

I couldn't decide which version of the kiss I should draw in the last pic so I did both lmao

[zoecroman]

When Ao3 (Tumblr's wife) is down...

[palisaded-deactivated20250921]

omg...

[seadeepspaceontheside]

he even has that new car smell

[lurelin]

Early morning in the lab ❤️

patreon | twitter(x) | bluesky

[agathah]

They make me insane actually

[asparklethatisblue]

Fucking hate watching children go “um Actually UwU” about AO3. saw someone say that fixing a bug with bookmarks isn’t a good reason to close a site down for a couple hours and they’re all lying about what they spend money on

meanwhile this very week my actual day job shut down the internal programmes for idk how many hours to fix a minor bug that popped up out of nowhere. I mean??? I don’t know shit about IT but “shut down all functions while we fix a problem” is so damn common. And “oh this took longer than we said” as well.

[pasiphile]

AO3 is impressively transparent about their bug fixes and downtime. They communicate fast, mention the reason why they're doing things and actually keep their promises.

Meanwhile my workplace regularly shuts down entire applications for maintenance with minimal warning or explication and often keeps them offline way longer than initially communicated.

[zalia]

Also it was not just 'oh we need to fix a tiny bug with bookmarks'. It was 'there are more bookmarks than a normal database can handle'

Source

Migrating over 2 billion of *anything* is gonna take a while and I imagine having people using the site and adding more bookmarks while that is happening would be kind of a risk!

[ralfmaximus]

Doing it without losing any data is impressive as hell. I've seen commercial vendors shrug and say, sorry. You're losing 24 hours worth of transactions. Just re-enter them.

It would have been simple for AO3 to 'lose' a million or so bookmarks to buy some time. They're just bookmarks, who cares? It's not like anyone's paying for this.

But nope, they did it the right way.

[naryrising]

I have a lot of things I could say about this (for context, I just retired a month ago as chair of the AO3 support committee so I have insight, but I am speaking only on my own behalf and not as an official representative).

First: this particular type of data migration (moving from INT to BIG INT) has happened twice in AO3's past already (for history, and for kudos) and it was the same each time - a large table with hundreds of millions of items being moved is time-consuming and you need to be cautious doing it, and it WILL require a few hours of downtime to be safe. It is not "fixing a bug". It is moving the content of all bookmarks on the site. It will have to happen again for other types of data in the future, because AO3 just keeps growing.

Second: They can't know exactly how long a migration like that will take, so they make their best estimate. They can't test it before-hand on the test archive and have it reproduce exactly what will happen on the live archive, because the live archive has so much more data. Estimating "how long will it take to move 700 million items" is a matter of experience and luck. (Yes, 700 million is more the actual number of bookmarks involved, I know people keep citing the 2 billion number but each bookmark is assigned an ID number, and bookmark numbers iterate by 3. The highest ID number available under the old system was the slightly over 2.1 billion number, so the actual total is about 1/3 that. It's still a lot.)

Third: In general, AO3 tries not to have downtime, and it does very well. My observation is that the process in this case was usually like "Ok, let's start doing this and see how it goes. *waits to see if things start to get painfully slow and a lot of errors start happening* Ok, there are lots of errors happening and the site is getting slow to use, let's block all bot traffic and see if that helps. *that helps for a while and then things start to pile up again* Ok, let's try flipping the site into maintenance mode (i.e. take it down) just for a minute or two and see if that lets it catch up. *that helps for a bit and then things start to get slow and not catch up with just a few minutes of downtime* Ok, we do need to actually take it down and just let the process run until it finishes. " My point is that they first try various options that, if they work, will not require taking the site down all the way, before resorting to downtime. If they left it up, the process would take a lot longer, and people would experience a lot more problems while using the site. Taking it down is safer and more efficient in that kind of case.

Fourth: The same people doing the work need to communicate it to the people who do the tweets/tumblr posts/status updates. So not just doing complicated database stuff, but also telling communications "hey we are about to do X and Y and it will take approximately Z hours". (Fortunately we have mostly moved on from the times when it was literally the SAME people trying to do both things, and have dedicated communications folks to help.) Sometimes when they are trying to do a lot of things at once, the technical volunteers might not communicate as quickly or clearly as would be ideal, or a comms person might not immediately be available to make a post, so a status update is a bit later than we prefer, but we try to always communicate to users before doing something big like taking the site down. In a normal situation with planned downtime, the ideal is to make a post a couple of days before, then an hour before, and then at the time the downtime happens, and then when it's done. Sometimes there isn't time for as much advance warning, when something is either unexpected or doesn't go as planned.

Fifth: Also the people doing this are doing it in their spare time, around real jobs, and often on their evenings, weekends, in the middle of the night, while they're trying to cook dinner, etc. and they're doing it better than many sites with paid employees and larger staff. So cordially, anyone saying that they're lying or not doing a good enough job can go to hell.

[atlinmerrick]

How entitled do you have to be to tell the people that are giving us something for free how to give us the free thing?

[denizenhardwick]

neil's sexuality is so interesting and complex, i love it so so so much. he doesn't swing. he has trauma from his mom trying to beat all interest in women out of him. he experiences a degree of attraction to women but doesn't feel anything kissing them. he jerks off sometimes and basically sees it as system maintenance. it never would have occurred to him to be attracted to andrew if andrew didn't bluntly say he'd blow him and then later kiss him. he doesn't think to initiate anything sexual, it just doesn't occur to him to do so, andrew has to cue him in and then he'll drop everything to make out. he still doesn't swing, it's just andrew.

[grawleksy]

Powder finds a friend :)

this is how meeting jayce went