a story in the shape of a girl @summoningspark - Tumblr Blog

sup i'm fable, which is long for fay. ppl usually call me spark though which is cool.

fandom stuff goes on @voidfishplurality. Most of my reblogs are queued unless they're especially relevant to the current moment.

i'm writing an anthology of experimental short stories chronicling the myriad of poor decisions made by a mediocre wizard's apprentice who only mostly exists

i really want you to tell me about your OC. for real.

#about #fables #kit #the apprentice is the mediocre one. the wizard is very good at being a wizard.

jungwildeandfree

and while we’re at it, fuck this idea that ONE ACCOUNT has to belong uniquely to ONE PERSON. This is the same thing these silicon valley fucks want; their vision of the future where everyone has a unique biometric ID code implanted in their body is the ultimate extension of Netflix’s “no password sharing” policy. You want to use your friend’s car? Sorry, you can’t, you need to be an authorized user. Your mother wants to let you look something up on her OED account? Too bad! That’s only for her! The concept of perfect market efficiency gives them greedy little money bag eyes.

If I pay money to have a newspaper sent to my house, they don’t charge me extra when I show it to my dad. This password sharing thing isn’t just a Netflix problem; don’t be surprised if it shows up elsewhere in other forms. Stamp this idea out now or we’ll be stuck with it.

jungwildeandfree

This is by far the most popular post I have and I have to say: good, I’m right. Password sharing and ID verification are going to kill the internet. not oooh in 50 years. in like 5 more.

#sublimation ijk

m0nt3cr15t0

Happy Pride Month to the girls who want boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys

#gender #yeah thats pretty much it

stupidestasshole

the puirpose of a spider is what it does

hyenaswine

it spides

chillyfeetsteak

this is what i mean when i type 👀 btw

transgenderer

the GPU is a tiny and simple minded wizard who can cast one spell very fast: linear algebra

#computers #wizard tag

thevastnessof

it’s actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. I’m now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, events, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and it’s just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will 🫵

penpaladinjules

Two of my friends and I have taken over the local guild that runs a large portion of charity events in our town. We’re changing bylaws and setting new policies and coordinating with other groups. All we did was volunteer, and they practically strongarmed us into accepting the president, vice president (me) and treasurer positions. VOLUNTEER, KIDS. YOU TOO CAN LET THE SMALLEST AMOUNT OF POWER GO TO YOUR HEADS.

sarahmackattack

co-sign. Decisions are made by the people who show up.

insertunknownreferencehere

being able to play songs in your head is cool and all but not really if you can't control what and when it plays so this is a visualization of me trying to concentrate while angel of music plays in my head

batgirlsmell

theoryslop. you only believe in it because it has evidence supported by and relating to the narrative and themes of the work

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage

An engineer wiring an early IBM computer.1958

thatlavendergremlin

A reminder that this tumblr is not a safe place for any kind of bigotry.

You'll never be "too gay",

And be unapologetically queer 🏳️‍🌈

#queer stuff

iingezo

Wren for @grand-theftautumn !

#dont go here but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PRETTYYYYYYYYYYYYY

intactics

LMAO shit gets crazy right before wizard graduation...everybody finishing up their final projects... okay you remember that girl Madrigal? yeah the one everybody made fun of when she took that job making an ultimate death machine for those guys with the weird hats because they said their wicked enemies would attack them any minute now, or some shit like that. everyone was like "they literally all say that, Mads." "their hats aren't even pointy, Mads." "you could just conjure gold, you don't need the money, Mads." and she was always like, uhh it's an interesting problem. for four years. lol. well — okay just picture this, okay? Madrigal finished the ultimate death machine and like, immediately (and I do mean immediately) used it on the guys who hired her. like — they showed up to take it and boom. erased from existence, no hesitation. but it didn't just vaporize the dudes, the weapon must cut through dimensions or something. it erased their entire bloodlines. everybody lost their fucking minds over how cool it was. why? yeah Maddie said that no one who wants this type of power should ever have it and she'll meet them in Hell one day for silencing a song of many voices. and then it kind of turned into a dorm party and she drank a ton of faerie mead and said, like. "let's see them flunk me now" or something and it kind of sounded like fuck but omg. right? better give her that diploma! and everyone was kind of laughing together until we could calm down, and then she just patted the weapon and we collapsed giggling all over again. hats went flying like darts. I think Mads is like the coolest girl I've ever met in my life, to be honest. do you think I have a shot? she made eye contact with me for a full minute and smiled at me the whole time but the party was too loud to talk. what if she thought we were having a staring contest? plausible? her hair is really pretty and she has long eyelashes and we WERE both freely blinking, but — huh? what does the weapon look like? a little toy bunny rabbit.

#wizard tag

saxifraga-x-urbium

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

It has been suggested elsewhere that if you are a Wiki Foundation donor, it would be a good idea to email and explain that this kind of behaviour will lead to you withholding future donations.