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[mxalexwhat]

The scariest part of Warren Kepler's whole "no reward without risk" attitude in Wolf 359 is that it is exactly, almost word for word, the same bullshit assholes at NASA were spewing when they decided to launch space shuttle Columbia against recommendations and it fucking imploded and killed everyone aboard, including their first civilian astronaut.

Like, it's not fiction. Capitalists truly give no fucks about the safety of the people they employ.

[radicaled]

the downside of being very self-aware is that people perceive it as being put-together mentally and emotionally.

the reality is i put in almost a decade of academic work and know how to understand many complicated ideas. i was in a math Ph.D. program for 5 years and have my name on a published math paper. i know how to read academic articles.

i know how to read a paper and recognize my level of understanding. that’s how you get better at math. read papers you don’t fully understand, figure out what you recognize, figure out what you don’t understand.

read around the things you don’t understand. think of them as a blank spot in a sentence and make the sentence around them make sense to you.

take that knowledge away from the paper. i don’t understand the whole thing, but i can take some good knowledge from it.

that’s what i do with psychology articles for fun. because my brain is bored. and since i’m actually quite brilliant at analytically unraveling problems, i can untangle my feelings in relation to the new knowledge. i don’t claim to be a psychological expert, but i can synthesize the information i do know.

doesn’t mean i’m not also a dumb motherfucker when it comes to actually dealing with those feelings.

the knowledge of them and the dealing with them are two separate things. the first is a step toward the other, but i also have to learn how to manage the feelings.

so yeah. i’m very, very intelligent. i left school because i wasn’t happy, not because i wasn’t smart enough.

and i’m very, very broken. intelligence is not magically universal. it’s being skillful in some type of problem-solving. everyone is intelligent. i mean that quite seriously. being good at something means you have intelligence.

being good at painting your nails, playing video games, drawing, making music, putting outfits together, writing poetry, hanging out with kids, drawing a perfect circle.

do you have a weird random skill? that means you are intelligent. smart. you know how to use your brain.

i don’t say this to imply that you need to act and take advantage of that intelligence, or have ambitions and “not waste it”. i abhor that idea. it’s what kept me in grad school for so long when it was killing me.

only to tell you:

you are already smart.

don’t believe it if anyone tells you that you aren’t smart enough because you’re bad at something. like school or reading or math. they just don’t understand what intelligence is.

if someone tells you that you are dumb, they don’t see that you are so smart, you just haven’t developed this particular skill yet. and the way they are teaching you may not be the right way for you to develop it.

it’s a problem with them.

you are not dumb. everyone reading this: you have a lot to give the world when you tune into that intelligence. go shine, please.

[hasnoname1982]

I spent 80 episodes watching Luffy doing all he could to rescue his brother Ace from execution. Just for Ace to FUCKING DIE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RESCUE MISSION!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT?!

This show used to be so light. And what I get now leaves me a sobbing mess for an hour afterwards.

[virgovirghoe]

at first i thought coronavirus was being sensationalized to get us to panic, but then i see posts saying that Bill Gates says everything is going to be ok and now i’m wondering if maybe we SHOULD be panicking

[etraytin]

Attention: Josh/DonnaFF Yahoo Group Members

Hey,Yahoo groups is closing soon and it’s already being entirely terrible about uptime and allowing users to post any last content! I tried to post this topic earlier on the site, but it seems to have been eaten. If anybody is on the community who can put the message up for me, that would be great, because otherwise I’m left trying to share it through Tumblr, which is not ideal. 

Saving the Stories

While getting the stories here into AO3 through Open Doors would be amazing, I'm not sure we can count on that happening, especially given the number of communities that are probably in our same boat and with the extremely limited time available. With that said, I propose a homemade effort to archive our stories, at least getting them published on Google Docs in a way that is accessible and will allow us to do something with them in the future.

I would suggest that the best way to maximize our efforts is to concentrate on the stories that have been indexed in the "Master List Alphabetical Order of Stories" Excel sheet in the Files section of the community. It is only current to 2011, but that encompasses the busiest years of the site and thousands of vulnerable stories. The list is massive, with over 11,600 lines, but many of those are chapters of stories, and many of those stories are available elsewhere, especially on AO3 or Fanfiction.net. All we would need to do to save those is provide a link to where they can be found.

If this seems like a good idea, I have created an editable Google Doc that divides up the Excel sheet into chunks of approximately 500 lines. If you'd like to help, put your name on one of those chunks and then get to work saving! I have started doing the first chunk as an example. I created a Google Doc to be my Table of Contents, then went down my chunk of the list, adding links wherever I could, copying and pasting stories into individual Google docs, publishing those pages, and then linking to the docs when I needed to. So far I have done 175 lines in about 3.5 hours. It's not an impossible job, but it's not a job anybody can do alone!

Master List: Division of Labor (Sign up Here!)

JDFF Story Capture: 1-522 (An example of how you might do it)

How to Preserve Stories (Detailed instructions on how to access stories and preserve them)

Also, if you have any ideas on how to do the job better, faster, smoother, etc, PLEASE let me know! I know this is kludgy as hell, but we’re already running out of time. 

[mynameismeowmeow]

I am making it my mission to repent of my life of sin and like and follow every artist who's artwork I accidentally stole and distributed on Pinterest

[settle-down-frohike]

What he says: “ We’re exploring that in a new and different way”

What he means: “Screw continuity, they’re mine I’ll fuck up what I want”