the heart of life

memphian born and bred. waitress. feminist. something of a writer. hufflepuff through and through.

[guadalajarafacelift]

Literally stop having anxiety it’s not real.

[bitesu-bitesu-bitesu]

[laufeysons]

Labyrinth (dir. Jim Henson) premiered 40 years ago on June 27, 1986!

[depsidase]

[gallifreyburning]

[francesderwent]

nothing more fun than a YA classic from the 80s that’s been republished every five years with a funky fresh cover

which covers are your favorites?

original 1983 covers

holy 80s Batman

Joyce Patti

Marilee Heyer

Yeshia Fung

holy 2000s Batman

Nekro

Yuta Onoda

kindle editions

Voting ended onJul 1

original U.S. covers (1983)

holy 80s Batman (1989)

Joyce Patti (1989)

Marilee Heyer (2002)

Yeshia Fung (2009)

holy 2000s Batman (2011)

Nekro (2014)

Yuta Onoda (2023)

Kindle edition (2024)

(editions included are American ones, you can find a lot of other ones here.) the illustrator names which are included are ones I was able to find, mostly by looking at the back covers of the books I currently have out from the library)

[tragicburnout]

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[kvothes]

a good thread

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[the-big-mood]

Scooby-Doo (2002) had an incredible animated intro that was cut from the final film due to length constraints, and it’s still wild that something that good didn’t make the theatrical release

[eldritchbauble]

Can you remember the 90s?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 14

As in, do any of your memories take place during the 90s (yes, a single memory from 1999 counts).

I can remember about half of them. My earliest memory was probably 1995 and they go from there.

[warriorpaws]

i have an actual pride post in the works (probably) but take this for now

[fairycosmos]

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[6qubed]

you've gotta learn to like dorky shit with your whole chest; if you go your whole life scared to like things if it's not "ironically" so that others won't think less of you, you will never know a moment's happiness

[wardengrill]

Here is a riddle to guess if you can, sing the bells of Notre Dame: What makes a monster and what makes a man? Whatever their pitch, you feel them bewitch you, the rich and the ritual knells of the bells of Notre Dame. | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

[my-dailydreams]

[animentality]

[inkskinned]

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.