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[thisonesnek]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist Characters: Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, Martin Blackwood, The Beholding (The Magnus Archives), The Slaughter (The Magnus Archives), The Lonely (The Magnus Archives), The Web (The Magnus Archives), Mother Nature Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Spoilers for The Magnus Archives Season 4, Spoilers for The Magnus Archives Season 5, Alternate Universe - Crack, This Is STUPID, No Beta: I Couldn’t Make Someone Proofread This, This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think, Fluff and Humor, Probably No Hurt (Except Villains), It Diverges Canon Season 4 though, So People Stay Upsetti Spaghetti over Canon stuff, I’ll add more tags as i go Series: Part 1 of Well That Happened… Summary:

The Mother had made her plans–set her sights on this world and the next. Once the ritual started that was supposed to be the guarantee she needed to move forward with her plans in confidence. Elias had pictured the creation of this world just as she did. Elias would be the King of this ruined world, and she would use his world as a stepping stone for greater things.

At least, that was supposed to be it…

[thisonesnek]

Just adding tags cause I'm proud of my stupid things and I want people to read it 💙💙💙💙

[thisonesnek]

I know people have mentioned that spellcheck has been replaced by AI, so I kind of knew this was coming, but jesus fucking christ spellcheck truly is useless now...

My characters made it with two days to prepare. Well, one and a half years ago with how late it is...

Like????

Yeah, she's not literally drinking with permission...

I already disabled copilot, and it still shovels out garbage suggestions. 😭 I just want my little spelling and grammar thing back!

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[laboratoryrats]

“Drawing techniques to improve poses with hands on hips”

Source: takuya_kakikata on Twitter

[moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20]

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

[eternally-a-dreamer]

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

[daftpatience]

noticed the two types of people in the tags

[un-serial-writer]

SCORPION MONKEY MOST POWERFUL FUCKING MONKEY

[thisonesnek]

Im Dec. 21st so the Sagittarius/Capricorn cusp.

And year of the Horse.

So I am either a horse centaur

Or a Seagoat centaur.

So...a horse or a seahorse...

[ink-the-artist]

"Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak."

[veganagenda]

this is the crux of speciesism & human supremacism. whoever said that humans as a species were entitled to reap boundless health benefits from the institutionalized medical exploitation & torture of animals? whoever decreed that it was more important, more cosmically valuable, more spiritually significant, for a human being to "live past childhood", than for a mouse not to be forced into a profoundly unnatural existence of captivity & suffering? do you not think that said animals would object to this arrangement if they had the voice to, do you not think that they would fight back & escape if they had the means to? do you not think that they value their own right to life as much as we value our own?

I am not so selfish and vain that I would feel gratitude to a lab mouse for the duration of my life. the idea that we owe our health to pharmaceutical products developed by a money-mongering industry monopoly at the expense of thousands of animals' lives & dignity is nothing more than propaganda. the idea that there is no other way for humankind to obtain knowledge about the world or to advance medically other than to exploit fragile, defenseless living beings is nothing more than propaganda. and not only have you fallen for it, OP, but you are an active participant in perpetuating it.

if humanity insists that it needs to test on mice in order to thrive, then it can crumble, collapse, rot and return to the dirt for all I care.

[ink-the-artist]

veganism as a movement is weird cuz theyre overall right but out of touch behavior like this isnt uncommon. you are closer to an antivaxxer than a social activist

[sighinastorm]

Sad but true: there is no currently available alternative to whole-animal testing. Not cell and tissue cultures, not voluntary human testing, not computer modeling. If petri dishes could yield the same type and level of useful information, that would be instantly adopted by every company in operation simply for how much money it would save over breeding, feeding, housing, and transporting whole live animals—to say nothing of sparing the morale of the researchers!

[ink-the-artist]

also "the idea that we owe our health to pharmaceutical products developed by a money-mongering industry monopoly at the expense of thousands of animals' lives & dignity is nothing more than propaganda"

...i feel like its kind of relevant to mention that the caption is a quote from oleg gazenko, a scientist who worked with laika in the soviet space program, funded by the soviet government because they wanted to be ahead in the space race.

theres also something deeply anti-human in pretending there is no humanitarian reason for developing medicine. and science in general. we have been doing it for all of human history and there are a lot of really beautiful things in that history, acting like capitalism is the only thing that drives us to develop medicine is just advocating for capitalism lol. human societies have always corrupted the good parts of them with their evils but those good parts have always been there. thats the whole point of the drawing

[thisonesnek]

I feel like its also worth noting that scientists arent just injecting random toxins into an animal to see what happens hoping to get a cool breakthrough on vaccines or modern medicine. Medicinal testing is slow...snails pace slow because of the amount of research and dedication it takes to even have a hypothesis worthy of testing.

[aropride]

(the ceo of Posts, indescribably frustrated, throwing a clipboard down at the brainstorming meeting) no no NO!!!! juggling was MONDAY!!!!! no more stick figures!!! NO MORE BALLS!!!!! it’s WEDNESDAY it’s a whole new era and now the hot new thing is PLASTIC DESTROYING DANGEROUS CROW BOY

[thisonesnek]

I think we can juggle both

[thisonesnek]

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[thisonesnek]

Someone sponsored... this? On TUMBLR???

[elminx]

I’ve noticed some posts around about how you can’t romanticize your life during a fascist regime and while I deeply sympathize with this sentiment, I want you to try to understand that’s what they want you to believe.

Fascism thrives best in the cesspool of hopelessness. They want us so confused and hopeless that we give in. When you give in, you don’t fight back.

If you wait for life to look good to do the things that bring you joy; life will still be bad - you will just have less joy.

As someone who has struggled with my mental health a lot for the last thirty years, I know this struggle firsthand. And changing this belief system - the one where you spend all of your time expecting bad things so you won’t be surprised when they happen - it’s the hardest work that I have ever done. And I’m not perfect; I still have setbacks. I still experience really real fears about the state of the world and the US, in particular, because that’s where I live.

But I made a vow to myself that I will not let the choices of others ruin my life. When I made that vow, I was thinking of my parents - but it applies to the state of the government right now, too.

There are still flowers in my garden, and ripe tomatoes, and it’s almost pick-your-own apples season, and I have plans with my friends to go to as many cemetery ghost walks as we can find this October.

I still deserve to live. I still deserve to laugh. I still deserve to love. I still deserve to be as happy as I can be.

And you do, too.

[yeahawvampire]

Dan Savage.

[fatmasc]

Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing

[fatmasc]

Updated just now with new hand sewing resources (mainly buttonholes) and textbook pdfs on fashion history, fashion illustration, and thinking through designs!

[bosstoaster]

OP I owe you my life

[whatchamacallitz]

OP you are the greatest person currently in my life. You beautiful, thoughtful creature.

[titkoks]

i don’t know why i love this so much but i do

[drallimylime]

вопросик?!

[meret118]

MS Word is Using You to Train AI

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

[cara-delaney-author]

Gonna yell about it again...

If you do not absolutely need Word (for work or school or a functionality that exists literally nowhere else), just stop using it.

For a 1:1 Word replacement, I'd always recommend LibreOffice. There's also a version of OpenOffice still around, though it updates at a slower pace.

If you're a fiction writer and would like to switch to a dedicated novel writing software, the free options tend to be a bit limited. However, there is SmartEdit Writer, which looks a lit like a slimmed-down Scrivener (which is pretty much the writing app, but has a one-time cost).

Most people don't need Word. It's just what's familiar. And even there, LibreOffice is very similar in design. It will also generally read your Word docs out of the box. The switch really isn't hard, I promise.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

By all means, yell as much as you want.

[thisonesnek]

Since the social constructs around gender fluctuate constantly with time, do you think Vampires get confused about their own gender every century or so?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

[stavarosthearcane]

Good Job.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this post gets me every time 

It’s from two days ago fam how many times could there have been

[heroofthreefaces]

do you think no one else has time travel

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Happy one month anniversary to this post that has not allowed me a single day of fucking peace since I made it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#surprise reblog!! 

STOP IT’S BEEN MONTHS. MONTHS!

YOU CAN STOP.

[roach-works]

wow if only you had a time machine

[transdaughterofthesun]

Honestly having reached a billion notes I think it’s safe to say that in the Year of our lord 2041, this is the most popular tumblr post out there.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I’m killing your parents before you’re born

[iforgotmyfandom]

:)

[idiototheinternet]

Still here, why’d you hesitate @derinthescarletpescatarian

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your mum’s ability to hold up under active gunfire was really hot. I’m your dad now.

[lizyarikus]

Isn’t that the plot of Terminator

[anexperimentallife]

Where do you think the plot for Terminator came from?

[what-if-i-just-did]

This is such a classic trainwreck post that has the vibes of a 2014 screenshot posted to Pinterest and then the last addition is just last Tuesday I can’t even

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Imagine how I feel

[sunsets-on-mars]

This post is a goldmine

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This post is an eagle that has a taste for my liver

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[spellscarred]

Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).

This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.

[averageidiotenby]

DUDE IT’S PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEY’RE NASTY

[blackheartbiohazards]

Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.

[kawaii-pigeon]

I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."

And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.

[plague-of-insomnia]

The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.

[scientia-rex]

And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.

It’s not that there isn’t widespread societal agreement on this. It’s that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.

[ruffboi-mags]

Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".

Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.

[nyxelestia]

Going to add that fiction which had sexual abuse and communities which played around with it as a writing topic are the very things that protected me from irl sexual abuse when I was a teenager. I was in a dicey situation, and realized that while my situation did not match up to any of the superficial or textbook cases mentioned in passing (if at all) through school, it matched up a LOT to what I'd learned about irl sexual abuse through works of fiction and the rhetoric of my communities. I got out of that situation and dodged what was, in retrospect, one hell of a nasty bullet. If it hadn't been for that "nasty" fiction and those "nasty" communities, I would very likely have been abused, and subject to further violence spiraling out from that abuse.

[benjis-house-boat]

you can’t have *some* censorship.

[the-real-seebs]

Yup! It really is, in fact, pretty much that simple:

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[thisonesnek]

Where is that snail? I am ready to hug that little guy