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Idk man

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I love a good HFY / Humans Are Space Orks post, and I think one element of Humans we’re sleeping on is an instinctual understanding of ballistics.

I mean, I get why it’s not as popular here on Tumblr dot com, given it’s kinda a jock/military adjacent thing, but like. Our ability to just. Pick up a small, firm object, judge its internal inertia and mass by holding it for a bit, and then flinging it with the kind of accuracy and speed Humans are capable of is.

Like there’s another post about how Humans in an alien zoo would probably be breaking out constantly, since we consider escape rooms to be a fun courtship ritual, but

imagine the aliens who are designing the enclosures just so happen to pick up, say, a devoted amateur baseball pitcher. Not even a legend by any means, just somebody who’s practiced with intention. And one day they’re watching her pass some time and blow off some steam by doing some pitching practice and they realize to their mounting horror that this gal can turn literally anything she can wrap her digits around into a ballistic weapon.

[mckitterick]

this reminds me of a paper I read a while back about how the way our shoulders work to enable us to throw anything from rocks to pointy sticks - plus a brain trained to think in 3D from climbing trees while also capable of calculating future trajectories from living on the savanna - is how we survived terrifying predators and came to dominate the world

[crystallizedtwilight]

whoops

[knottahooker]

#when you set out for revenge dig two graves#unless you’re hamlet#in which case you’re going to want to rent a backhoe (x) YOU’RE NOT LEAVING THAT IN THE TAGS BUDDY

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[finnglas]

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*

[professorsparklepants]

I saw a Skyrim video last night and was reminded of how funny I find "RPG game but I replace the blank slate protagonist with isekai'd Susan Pevensie." And then as I was falling asleep my brain was like "you know what would be even funnier than Susan Pevensie in Skyrim? Susan AND Boromir in Skyrim." And my brain is right, that would be fucking hilarious.

[professorsparklepants]

Boromir: good, you're finally awake.

Susan: where the bloody hell am I????

Boromir: that's a very good question that I wish I had the answer to.

[professorsparklepants]

Actually I think it's the other way around. Boromir wakes up from what he thought was a deathbed hallucination of a beautiful woman telling him to live to find himself in a cart being taken to prison. Susan, who has had several hours to freak out and is now mostly adjusted, is like "Yeah this (finding yourself in a different world for no discernable reason) happens to me sometimes. First time?"

[professorsparklepants]

which one is the dragonborn

Susan

Boromir

A secret, third thing (both)

Voting ended onMay 3

[professorsparklepants]

Very amused by the idea that Susan and Boromir are making "DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON" faces at each other during the execution prologue/tutorial, and then when they have time they both realize that neither of them have any clue and pair bond with each other. And that's BEFORE they kill a dragon and Susan absorbs its soul by accident and turns out to be some god chosen hero destined to kill things despite being 50% a pacifist. She is never getting rid of Boromir now he's her bodyguard forever. Good luck trying to fire him.

[oberonsson]

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

[anarcho-wormism-deactivated2019]

😮

[garrettauthor]

Oh NO.

[treacleaergia]

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight? Dame Archer:*turns around* me: gasp! *instantly in love*

[dirtyriver]

Alicia Archer

[ex-sang-uination]

my bi heart………

[ohmightysmiter]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

[nyx-belial]

*dies*

[garrettauthor]

Oh shit.

[notlostonanadventure]

GAY KNIGHTS

[unicornofdarknessstuff-deactiva]

Fellas I’m real gay

[thecarrott]

@0hheytherebigbadwolf HELP!!

[0hheytherebigbadwolf]

Every June this inevitably winds up back on my dash. And I appreciate that. And I will reblog it. Every time.

[rockitcat]

Hey, it’s @archerinventive, and the Pride Knights!

[artsyunderstudy]

“We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love.”

[foxyjoy-art]

reminder that my commission slots will open around the middle of this month!

since things have been so slow I think I may be opening up the option for OCs and don't forget, I now draw pet portraits under my watercolor options!

[viralfrog]

[hms-no-fun]

THE SPIRIT OF BUSTER KEATON LIVES ON

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

Visit Original Link

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[sergle]

i’m reading why does he do that and this last part has been ON FIRE, i am hollering in my house.

[sergle]

while i’m talking about this book again i should mention that, since it’s an abuse resource, Why Does He Do That is available to read for free as a pdf, and i’d highly recommend it.

[chatteringfox]

[Alt text: Is He Doing It On Purpose?

When a client of mine tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, “You called her a fucking whore, you grabbed the phone out of her hand and whipped it across the room, and then you gave her a shove and she fell down. There she was at your feet, where it would have been easy to kick her in the head. Now, you have just finished telling me that you were ‘totally out of control’ at that time, but you didn’t kick her. What stopped you?” And the client can always give me a reason. Here are some common explanations:

“I wouldn’t want to cause her a serious injury.”

“I realized one of the children was watching.”

“I was afraid someone would call the police.”

“I could kill her if I did that.”

“The fight was getting loud, and I was afraid neighbors would hear.”

And the most frequent response of all:

“Jesus, I wouldn’t do that. I would never do something like that to her.”

The response that I almost never heard—I remember hearing it twice in fifteen years—was: “I don’t know.”

These ready answers strip the cover off of my clients’ loss-of-control excuse. While a man is on an abusive rampage, verbally or physically, his mind maintains awareness of a number of questions: “Am I doing something that other people could find out about, so it could make me look bad? Am I doing anything that could get me in legal trouble? Could I get hurt myself? Am I doing anything that I myself consider too cruel, gross, or violent?”

A critical insight seeped into me from working with my first few dozen clients: An abuser almost never does anything that he himself considers morally unacceptable. He may hide what he does because he thinks other people would disagree with it, but he feels justified inside. I can’t remember a client ever having said to me: “There’s no way I can defend what I did. It was just totally wrong.” He invariably has a reason that he considers good enough. In short, an abuser’s core problem is that he has a distorted sense of right and wrong. /End alt text]

[bookwyrm42]

First link was broken for me, this one works: https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/LundyWhyDoesHeDoThat/Lundy_Why-does-he-do-that.pdf

[sobcat]

TUESDAY LETS GO 😵‍💫

[sobcat]

nvm lets go home

[victusinveritas]

[naughtypiggy]

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in

TLDR- Modern agriculture pollen is low in nutrients, and there aren’t enough wildflowers. Science has to develop vitamins to supplement the diets of agricultural bees. So plant some wildflowers for the wild bees near you.

[heydocverdant]

you’ve heard of vitamin B, now get ready for bee vitamins

[bk-poetry]

Announcing Fanfiction.lol !

hey all! i've built a new ao3 fork called fanfiction.lol 🤙🏽 key differences:

🚫 no invite queue: sign up and start posting immediately. no waiting, no velvet rope.

🏳️‍🌈 expanded content warnings: added ableism, homophobia/transphobia, racism, rpf and more. plus relationship tags for aro/ace spectrum, qpr, non-binary/genderqueer focus, poly/ensemble, and more.

🏷️ all tags are canonical: everything you tag goes into the searchable record. no volunteer wrangling bottleneck.

💜 fandom-agnostic moderation: i care about the writing, not fandom politics or discourse. write whatever you want, tag it honestly.

it's a small personal project but fan communities deserve independent infrastructure.

if you enjoy fandom, i'd love for you to sign up and poke around. tell me what breaks. the source code is at source.tube/brennan/fanfiction.lol.

find me at brennan.day/accounts or email [email protected].

write whatever the hell you want! 💜

[bk-poetry]

More Information

Hi, I wanted to add some more info about fanfic.lol based on some replies. I was trying to keep the original post short and have done write-ups elsewhere but I'll reiterate here.

The admin/webmaster: I'm Brennan! I'm a Queer Red River Métis writer and webdev and huge advocate for the IndieWeb. You can get to know to me on my site, brennan.day

I made this for fun, and it's running using a homelab server in my basement. I don't make money or anything else. I'm just doing it for the love of ball.

fanfic.lol is meant to be a small, independent alternative for fanfic and fandom that prioritizes joy and fun. No aims at trying to replace AO3!

I am anti-genAI and so is the site. You can read more about my stance on AI here.

Archive warnings, like everything else, are under construction! I do have to adhere to the laws of my country (Canada). Please be patient.

I am pushing straight to production, which is to say the entire site could explode at anytime, so please do not use it as the only place you put things! :)

I forsee only a handful of people using this site, it def isn't for everyone. If you don't like it that's okay! Whether you want to give me input or just ignore it entirely.

I did a longer write-up here. Thank you everyone for the kind, warm reception of my silly little project. <3

[olderthannetfic]

I love the longer write-up. It gives me a much better sense of where you're coming from and why people should trust you—or which users would be a good fit.

I was there for the start of AO3, and we really did think we were going to usher in the next age of archives a la eFiction. It took too long for AO3's code to be in that kind of shape and the internet changed radically around us. We did not mean to create a behemoth. We just wanted venture capital bros to stop disrespecting us.

As a side note, all the comments you're getting like "There already is a fanfiction website. Wtf" are exactly what people said about AO3/OTW in 2007. There was a ton of bitching about us stealing FFN's idea. (Never mind that there were older archives.) There were frequent complaints about how there was already "an archive" and we didn't need another. Most of that discussion got deleted when FFN decided to nuke all of its inactive social spaces one Thanksgiving weekend while nobody was around to object or save their data. But I was there and I remember it and it sounded exactly like these comments now.

The oldschool core of AO3 was into the age of archives. We liked there being lots of different little spaces run by different fans. It's nice to see that energy floating around in 2026. Go indieweb!

I wish you a hundred invested users who want to form a community and nobody else.

[ryllen]

🍮

[spindle-and-nima]

A small update on the grubbies: they are now extra beepy and have fur!

[wizardshark]

I like your popcorn

[animentality]

[narrativerehearsal]

@thefibrarchaeologist I mean, that does include the appendices, which had tables of statistics outputs and photos, and 48 pages of bibliography so the core writing was about 280. By the end the document was so big I had to take mini pauses between tasks because otherwise Word would just hang there and give me a heart attack.

But yes, people just....sit down and write and have been doing so for a very, very long time. Even when they have ADHD that was undiagnosed and unmedicated for 3/4 of the process.

Also, learning to sit down and do a task is a good skill to have. Even if you're writing bullshit, learning to bullshit is good for your brain and passing off every task that takes a modicum of effort to chatgpt is very much not good for your brain. We've all rewritten something to make it use more words and take up more space or searched for some random extra example to ramble about or whatever. That's part of learning to write and also just learning to think for yourself. Don't hand over your entire ability to think to some corporate algorithm. Damn.

[thefibrarchaeologist]

Yeah, appendixes and bibliography stack up fast. Especially if your supervisor makes you print out 377 pages of Excel sheets instead of allowing you to hand them in digitally. Not that I'm still rolling my eyes at that. It didn't drive up the cost either. At all.

(She learned from her mistakes - a friend was able to put her catalogue on either USB or a CD-ROM a few years later. Digitalization in Germany, let me tell you ...)

Anyhow, that's still a lot of work! And we both can say we've done it entirely by ourselves :-) Personally, I'd rather be proud of that than take the easy route (which will backfire anyway, because whatever the AI produces will likely not be factually correct enough to stand up to scrutiny. And if you have to go over it yourself anyway, why not do it from scratch?)

[narrativerehearsal]

^Exactly. I was researching health in three specific populations in medieval Scotland. No AI language model would come up with anything resembling an accurate statement, especially when all of the data was exclusively on my laptop and a decent chunk of the literature was not digitised.

Someone tried to recommend an AI powered tool that 'summarised' articles so you could read more and I looked at it once and that was plenty to know that its summaries were a) wildly inaccurate and b) even if they had been accurate they would still be completely useless to me because I needed a very specific aspect of the results/conclusions.