edgy finales can get in the bin

asks are always open but it might take me a year to get to it - Talis - bi/ace - 27 - she/they - Writer with far too many OTPs - MULTIFANDOM - icon and header by @fen-ha-fuck-you

[talistheintrovert]

newest video is out now! i am relying on tumblr to get this to the audience it deserves

[look-peach]

Melodious! [Your voice] totally touched my heart. That's not where your heart is.

PEACH AND ME (2026) EPISODE 03

[buckystilinski]

Do you know how long I've waited for this moment?

THE EDGE OF HORIZON - EP 6

[bluesandfilms]

"Why did you come back? Why can't I stay away from you? I thought that if we never met again, it would have been easier than this. I could just see you even my dream. I could just miss you. Now you're standing in front of me. What do you expect me to do?"

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[andmaybegayer]

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

[ms-demeanor]

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

[pointlesscandies]

Oh, my sweet, devoted boy. His devotion may not be as loud or as immediately obvious as Phob's, but it's no less unwavering.

Tin has spent almost as much time missing Phob as he ever got to spend growing up with him. He already knows what it feels like to lose him.

He's not letting that happen again.

[bluesandfilms]

“Listen to me, if you don’t leave me, I won’t leave you for sure."

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Five minutes of happiness.

[tanrak]

PHOBTEE ❤️ THINNAKORN

[loveisactivated]

Are you sure you'll pass? Doesn't your husband have what it takes?

[romemok]

PEACH AND ME | EP 3

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[romemok]

PEACH AND ME | EP 3

[romemok]

PEACH AND ME | EP 3

Are you really coming with me? I am. As what? That's up to you to decide.

[buckystilinski]

my rage bait King still in fine form

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[sevenjetc]

They screwed up the search on purpose to make you spend more time there to display more ads to you. They put ads in my Kindle. There are ads in my Windows after a clean install as a part of the OS and not a malware infection. Every video I try to watch has fifteen ads and three sponsorship messages. When I want to get some software, it’s impossible to just buy it, I have to subscribe to it, owning nothing. They stuff AI into everything in an attempt to have ROIs on it while the technology has no clear use yet and wasn’t ready to be deployed on this scale. The problem is that the progress is not progress anymore, it isn’t driven by some sort of vision or genuine desire to make people’s life better or easier. It’s run by the CFOs and their marketing department.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes

[respectthepetty]

In the extra scenes on YouTube, we got to see the livestream that ruined the original couple (which I swear someone wrote was based on an actual live from the actors in Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island, but maybe I imagined that).

And in the end credits for episode eleven, we got to see their counterparts' (the second couple's) livestream that upset them.

Plus the original boys' variety show.

But Wenshu's counterpart also showed up in the second couple's story line!

And it very much seems like he was hitting on Qinglang, but also, he had no idea he was a celebrity (? - head tilt).

I'm obsessed with Wenshu, and his relationship with these brothers.

Because I know what the characters keep saying, but I also know what my eyes keep seeing!

This rich ass man is IN LOVE with Qingtian.

All the signs are there!

Like, this is what fanfics are made of!

This is peak AO3 material!

I don't care what these characters say. The yearning is strong in this one.