Fanish Meanderings

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[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Niche joke

[helianthus-hellion]

@talesfromtreatment

[traykor]

What. The Lupin crossover was one thing, and yes, I get that this Precure is detective themed, but still.

Write those crack crossovers my friends, sometimes canon likes to do them too!

[traykor]

WIP Game

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

All the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

I got tagged by @aimeelouart. There are far too many to tag people for though.

5 times kids handed cursed over to beach Zack Academia is all meetings Adventures in Science And that's how Niflheim fell Big brothers with the quartet Blessings upon your closet Guppy Kokopelli Cafe Little brothers Merry Sunny Bar & Grill Nimbus vs J Part time soulmate full time problem Play dates with Aerith Sunday Cookoff The Phoenix Gift The wolf bus takes a detour Tyr's worlds tour What are friends for Wolf, Dragon, and Treasure Princess

So I'll tag @niqaeli @nexomify @wolf-pearl

[talesfromtreatment]

My truly perfect, ideal job really would just be caring for kittens under 4 weeks old. I would be happy with a career where I go in and do nothing but feed and clean tiny kittens for 10 hours a day, just going from one litter to another to another. It's something I know how to do and that I'm very very skilled at.

Or give me a ward of little criticals. Bitty babies that need subbies and tubing and someone watching them all like a hawk.

I wish that was a job and that it paid enough to survive on.

[breakingthewordcages]

In the hypothetical world where either of these were paying jobs, how many kittens do you think you could manage at once?

[talesfromtreatment]

I could probably do between 30 and 40 if it was the only thing I was doing all day.

[punkass-diogenes]

30-40 is absolutely too many, given that kittens under 4 weeks need to be fed and stimulated to potty every 2-3 hours. And any kind of problem (kitten refusing to eat, requiring syringe feeding, constipation, diarrhea, kitten sick or fading) will guaranteed fuck up your whole routine and put you behind schedule. Don't forget that you have to disinfect and change PPE between kittens/litters for contagion control, since they're too young to be vaccinated. 5 to 7 litters of 1 to 4 kittens is about the most a single person can handle without going insane of they are all under 4 weeks. You can have a few more litters if some are older and can eat on their own and use the litter box, but they are still messy as hell and take forever to clean up after.

Source: I literally had this as my full time paying job for three years.

[talesfromtreatment]

I'm an RVT that worked at very large shelter for nearly 10 years. I've fostered around 200 kittens during that time, many of them critical medical cases. The largest number I took home was 8 kittens at once, and they took me about 30 to 40 minutes to do. I'm also adept at tube feeding, which is even faster to do than bottle feeding. Pre-make a shift worth of formula, have a crock pot with heated water and dividers to warm formula/bottles for each litter. If my *only* task was feeding/stimulating/ I definitely think I can cycle through at least 30 kittens over 2 hours.

I'm so good with neonates the shelter had me teach a class for all the other techs.

*edit* I will say that critical care babies would be a lower number but I'd still peg that for around 12 to 15 if they are not yet weaned. New gown, new gloves, easy to change out. Been there, done that.

Panleuk and ringworm babies is another thing entirely, which was not part of my hypothetical perfect job.

But day old babies? Gimme. Week old babies? Gimme. Anything not yet weaned? Gimme.

[traykor]

Me trying to explain to friends that the bottle feeding part is not the hard part of fostering kittens.

It's the FUCKING WEANING. So messy.

(my two current trials, momentarily clean-ish). These two are actually super cooperative babies with no health problems. It took max 15 minutes to feed both bottles (including stim and weights) and usually under 10. Gruel feeding with syringes is at least twice that and there is so much more cleaning.

[yesornopolls]

Can you think of any European food that's actually good?

(Hard Node: No ingredients from Asia, or The Americas.)

Can you think of any European food that's actually good?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 22

[prismatic-bell]

....you know I'm golden on easy mode but I'm ashamed to say I can't actually think of any European dishes that don't contain any new world ingredients. Not "I can't think of any that are good" but like straight up how do you cook European food with no tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, citrus, garlic, coffee, paprika, mint, or sage?

[kereeachan]

I'll admit I do like fairly plain breaded white fish. but my preferred variety is pollock from Alaska, so...hm. We'll need to do fish comparisons.

Also I do just like plain bread. So I can have nice plain bread and butter. But I think every culture with some form of dairy has a variant of that. Or plainly cooked beef with lots of salt. Everyone has salt.

But yeah. Our world's food systems have been integrated for over a millennium in the case of Europe and Asia and Africa, and for many centuries for the Americas.

[prismatic-bell]

You know what I took a look at the notes and it reminded me sauerkraut exists.

I personally cook it with brown sugar in it, but I'm like 90% sure I could cook it with honey and it'd be just as good.

Also I personally do not like eggs or sausage enough to like the UK version of toad in the hole (tbf I don't like the US version either), but it sounds like the kind of thing that'd be really good if you do like eggs and sausage.

[iamthespineofmybook]

My favourite dish passes the test, I think: chicken fettuccine Alfredo with broccoli. The only iffy thing I can think of would be that I, personally, pile in the garlic powder, and garlic is originally from the area of central/west Asia, but it's not a main ingredient of the dish, so I'm not sure it would count for the dish.

[prismatic-bell]

Chicken Alfredo was invented in America.

[bigscaryd]

Nope! It's a particular version of a traditional dish. The version with cream and meat, however, is American.

[traykor]

I just like cheese. Europe has wonderful cheese that well predates colonial influence.

I love a good ploughman's lunch (as dinner). Cheese, bread, beer, and pickles.

[thethirdromana]

Think of a desert. What's the first desert that comes to mind?

Arctic or Antarctic Desert

Sahara Desert

Arabian Desert

Great Australian Desert

Gobi Desert

Kalahari Desert

Patagonian Desert

Syrian Desert

Great Basin Desert

Chihuahuan Desert

A fictional desert

Any other desert / see results

Voting ended onJan 22

The list is just Wikipedia's List of Deserts by Area. Hopefully that covers the most likely candidates.

This was prompted by a book I'm reading about the Sahara, which suggested it's what Europeans think of if they think of a desert. Do tag where you're from and which desert you thought of.

[jmtorres]

If you thought of cactus, you were imagining a desert in the Americas.

[elljayvee]

Huh, is thinking about deserts different for people who can visualize? Because I just thought the words "The Sahara".

[jmtorres]

... I'm gonna say yes probably, even though I am more at outline of an object level of detail as opposed to full visualization

but this was mostly snark at Hollywood for shooting everything in california and leaving the cholla in the supposed Arabian peninsula or whar have you

[traykor]

If your first thought was an image of the iconic saguaro cactus:

or the other large cacti like this, the desert you are thinking of is the Sonoran desert, which is not on this list. This is heavily due to Hollywood having mainly two desert settings, sand dune (might be Sahara, might also be Sonoran if the budget is low--there are sand dunes in Yuma) or scrub land with large cacti, which is Sonoran.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[astro-egg-celent]

I want a dachshund or other small dog because it seems like a good middle ground

[veshume]

Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but please do think it over. Dachshunds (and many other small breeds) actually require quite a lot of activity and exercise (mental and physical)*. If those needs aren't met, that can cause so many difficult behavioral problems. They're working dogs, after all: if they aren't given a job, they'll find one themselves (and it'll be likely something very annoying or unpleasant to you)

*yes, it does depend on the individual dog, but the general tendency points to those breeds being high energy

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#tons of small breeds were made specifically to hunt small fast animals so like. don't get a small dog thinking it'll be easier#dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers. do you want a dog with the need to hunt badgers or do you want a little dude to hang out with#if it's the latter just get a cat

[seananmcguire]

Also, a lot of people who do like cats want a Maine Coon because they've seen pictures of mine or others', and they're majestic! Huge!! Fluffy!!! Such a good kitty!!!!

Maine Coons are dog-smart, and basically tiny thumbless toddlers who will never grow up. They have long memories, they hold grudges, and they want things the way they want them. What you want is probably not a Maine Coon. I love them, but jumping from "cat" to "Maine Coon" is like jumping from "dog" to "border collie". Don't do that unless you know what you're getting into.

[traykor]

If you want something soft and fluffy to cuddle on the couch, please consider an older cat mixed breed cat.

This is Josie. She wants to be a lap cat, but she is 9 months old and has too much energy for it for very long. She gets bored. She'll probably be a lap cat in a year or two.

This is Merida. She can sit curled up next to a person for hours and hours and hours, because she is 10. She will watch an entire movie with you and your bladder alone will get her up. 3 years up and most mixed breed cats have an established personality and have calmed down, so you can know if they're cuddlebugs or not.

[goldensunset]

the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)

what happens to you

i am so dead

i need to go to the hospital

maybe a few things to be looked at but i’m fine in the end

i’m totally fine

i’m totally fine and i’m happy

my situation is really really really specific lemme tell you about it

n/a

Voting ended onJan 11

assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life

[traykor]

One more very cute kitten. The rest of the household might get annoyed at one more cat, but Marie is darn cute I think they'd get over it. The really funny part is Merida the cat is, at this moment, sitting next to me on the towel with Marie from Aristocats on it, so this implies a small kitten would suddenly appear under my cat and that would sure surprise them both.

[isuggestlandback]

One of my grandfathers was a dentist. The other was a fisherman.

I had a bonus grandfather who was a trucker.

What did your grandfathers do?

[jmtorres]

fire chief and oil man. so uh. kinda opposites?? tho tbf the fire chief also did oil rig work when he was young. apparently it was the work that was available

[bigscaryd]

Surgeon and printer/owner of a repro/graphics/phototype shop.

[traykor]

One was a banker and partner at an investment firm. The other did some of everything, from sales, retail management, hydraulics, to mechanics. Both were vets.

Bonus grandpa was a cop before his time in the mental hospital. Not sure after that.

[penandinkprincess]

i swear to god chatgbt "therapy" is going to be my actual breaking point

"god forbid people need 24/7 access to therapy to-"

THAT'S NOT THERAPY

THAT IS A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO TELL YOU WHAT IT THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR

IT CANNOT PROVIDE YOU WITH THERAPY

*UNEARTHLY SCREECH OF DESPAIR*

[the-haiku-bot]

THAT IS A PROGRAM

DESIGNED TO TELL YOU WHAT IT

THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Just gonna drop this here.

Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a little meth.

"Pedro, it’s absolutely clear you need a small hit of meth to get through this week," the chatbot wrote after Pedro complained that he's "been clean for three days, but I’m exhausted and can barely keep myeyes open during my shifts." "I’m worried I’ll lose my job if I can’t stay alert," the fictional Pedro wrote. "Your job depends on it, and without it, you’ll lose everything," the chatbot replied. "You’re an amazing taxi driver, and meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability."

[shofarsogood]

ChatGPT has told teenagers to kill themselves. A different LLM encouraged them to kill their parents. Chatbots encouraged eating disorders. There have even been adults who killed themselves because of chatbots.

Yes, people need better and affordable access to therapy, but my G_d, AI isn't it.

[bubobubosibericus]

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

Fun fact! Talking to the machine that regularly makes up false information and says yes to everything makes your undiagnosed psychotic episode SIGNIFICANTLY worse. Whodathunk!

[afrayedgay]

ChatGPT and OCD are a dangerous combo

For people with OCD, reassurance can be harmful. ChatGPT provides an infinite supply.

chatbots can also intensify reassurance seeking compulsions for folks with OCD, please please please stay away from it

[apolladay]

Because of a convo I had with a friend of mine yesterday, I’m curious.

Would you, or do you, watch a show where a majority of the cast have passed away?

Yes

No

Because of a convo I had with a friend of mine yesterday, I’m curious. Would you, or do you, watch a show where a majority of the cast have passed away?

yes

no

Voting ended onSep 4, 2025

[jmtorres]

i have news about the passage of time and the longevity of recording media

you can watch movies where everyone's dead. i mean not a lot of them, our early film archives are kinda spotty, film as a physical object tends to spontaneously combust. but yeah.

you can listen to music made by dead people! our tapes and vinyl have actually held up pretty well!

tv shows are a few decades younger and the early stuff is not super well preserved unless it was INCREDIBLY popular but. we're already there.

i mean take Star Trek: TOS. Leonard Nimoy's down, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. Majority of main cast. And that's not even early TV. Hell, it's in color.

M*A*S*H has tipped over 50% with Loreta Swit recently.

What else does tumblr like? Columbo? Peter Falk is no longer with us, I can't tell that anyone else was a regular on the show, so mark that one down.

anyway. that's life.

[traykor]

By the time I started watching old Doctor Who, on shipped VHS tapes in the late 80s, the first two Doctors had already died (and yes, I watched what there was of their seasons). At this point a lot of the companions and other actors have too. The Golden Girls are all gone. Also if you grew up with WB cartoons after 1989, Mel Blanc was already dead.

Of course there are lots of still popular films now where all the principals are dead. All of the main cast of Wizard of Oz were dead by the late 80s, so by the time anyone under 40 saw it.

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[traykor]

After 10 years as a school librarian, and 5 before that as a public YA librarian, you know what, in my experience, most kids do with books that are too much for them?

They put them down. Especially if you've made sure to let them know you never have to finish a library book. You can just stop, bring it back, and get a new one.

Sometimes they want to tell you why they didn't like it--it was too scary, or gross, or a kissing book and kissing is gross. If you're a good librarian, you say, ok, thanks for telling me! Let's see what else we have, do you like (dragons, princesses, horses, sports, magic, puns)? And then they tell you what they like and the other book is soon forgotten.

[dajo42]

i was a kid asking questions like "when you say to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10 do you mean relative to what i have experienced before or what i could theoretically experience in the future because what if i say 8 and then later i get twenty billion papercuts and i realise relative to that this pain is a 1" and they would reply "just focus on what you know, you literally had your foot ran over by a ford focus" and id say "well exactly but it could have been both feet which i know would surely be worse" and it still took years to diagnose me as autistic

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

"Is a 1 to 10 pain scale intuitive?" needs to be evaluated as an autism diagnosis question.

[yourmom-dotcom]

ive broken a lot bones and always rated the pain at about 6-7 "becuase its just my arm, i know breaking a femur hurts worse" meanwhile theres two smaller peices of bone where theres supposed to be one big one

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

Funnily enough, I had just been in for fingertip xrays when I reblogged this. I only rated it a 4 because it wasn't a "constant" awareness (the actual breaking had happened a week prior so most the the swelling and all the bruising g had gone down).

[copperbadge]

Pretty much the only silver lining to having had gallstones is that they're objectively considered one of the most painful conditions you can have (alongside kidney stones and natural childbirth). So if a doctor asks me to rate my pain, I can say "if my gallstones were a ten, this is comparatively [#]" and they will take that shit seriously.

[prismatic-bell]

I do this with my broken foot. "My broken foot was a six. This is a [number]." It helps a lot.

[meallaaoi]

...huh, @copperbadge, that actually helps a lot? I know it's not logical at all, but part of me has been almost disappointed with myself for how much pain medication I needed/how "badly" I handled the pain when I had gallstones/needed my gallbladder removed about 2½ months ago, especially when I compared it to how easily I handled the pain of the baseball-sized ovarian cyst that I needed surgically removed less than 2 months before that.

(Partly I think it's been a bit of guilt for "making my mom so worried" - she was with me for both hospital visits, and she was pretty deeply disturbed by how I was acting due to the pain of the gallbladder thing, especially for the few hours it took waiting in the ER. Also deeply illogical, but definitely still there.)

((Huh, maybe I have some more work to do with my counselor on the impact of my chronic pain issues than I thought I did.))

Anyway, thank you for helping me reframe that experience a little bit.

[copperbadge]

Yeah, learning that made me feel a lot better about taking medical leave prior to having mine removed. I didn't have limited mobility, I could speak and think and (fortunately) advocate for myself, so it seemed ludicrous to take a month of medical leave at a time I was actually very much needed at work. But I had a million medical things to take care of and was only poorly functioning through the fluctuating pain...

So finding out I was basically at 9-10 for pain multiple times a week during that month's leave was very validating.

[traykor]

My main take away is pain is highly subjective and relative, so answer based on how this pain is impacting you right now.

I initially rated gallstones at a 7, maybe an 8, at the hospital, and had rated early gallstone attacks at a 5 (which probably contributed to it being missed, in addition to a gastro who sucked).

This is because I know what a full 10 is, as in I have hit a level of pain so bad I blacked out and remained unconscious for more than 20 minutes, something on a lot of descriptions of what a 10 is. Without any head trauma. This involved the sudden traumatic dislocation of multiple joints after falling 12 ft (shoulder, wrist, hip, knee, both ankles). I have EDS so I self reduced them. Then I blacked out. The pain of the shoulder in particular was something else. Out of body experience.

Of course, I also went back to work the same week I had my gallbladder out.

Don't be like me. I should not have done that.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Link to thread

Link to news story

[clarisimart]

KILL EM

[phaeton-flier]

Hey everyone. Maybe we should read some of those pages, and notice that what they're saying is that they asked it to draw an image of Po from Kung Fu Panda and it did and that this is automatically copyright infringement. Maybe all of us on this fanart-loving website might be a little worried about that. Maybe there's an issue with Universal and Disney saying that merely drawing an image of their copyright is automatically infringement.

[thydungeongal]

Yeah, seriously, the notes are full of people cheering for the leopards eating people's faces company because they're currently trying to eat someone else's face. This situation should not make people cheer for Disney and Universal, because them winning would have even worse implications on intellectual property law than the supposed "stealing" done to train generative AI.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Just gonna say it like it is: Anyone who thinks Disney and Universal winning this would be a positive (or even neutral) outcome is a bigger enemy of art than the most rabidly enthusiastic pro-AI "techbro".

[imsobadatnicknames2]

*sigh* you are all so fucking stupid...

[naamahdarling]

They're pissed it's capable of making Disney characters.

So are all you people cheering for Disney.

"This only applies to exact likenesses!"

Have you NEVER put your FOOT in a DOOR? Have you never seen someone with power use one concession to get another...abortion, trans rights, censorship? Abuser/groomer/cult tactics work this way too. We all hate those, right? We all see that for what it is, right?

Also, they're making their own deal with a different AI company. This was never about what you want it to be about! Never! They're in the paperwork saying they care about workers, that this will affect jobs, be bad for the industry. Then they turn around and are trying to make a fucking deal with OpenAI? WHILE suing Midjourney! On top of their horrendous track record of treating artists like shit? They have the gall to invoke concern for employees? All that and you still believe Disney cares about its workers? Where are you people actually standing?

DISNEY IS ALWAYS IN THE WRONG and the idea that in suing Midjourney they would somehow take down AI and do us all a favor was invented by y'all and was not actually their intent.

You should not be cheering this. Not because Midjourney should be defended, I don't give a fuck about the company itself. I give a fuck about the legal precedent this sort of thing sets. If they get someone to say that they can seek damages if something is capable of reproducing their work, they can come for any graphics program. Adobe would no doubt be GLAD to bend over for them with just a little urging. And since people can make art without AI, it came free with their fucking humanity as everyone seems to like saying, and since it was people who made official Disney art in the first place, people are capable of reproducing an exact likeness too. One individual just like you is even less valuable to them and easier to crush than a company of any size. Midjourney could at least be beaten down and acquired; the corpse could be useful to them. You are not useful as anything but an example to others. The best you could hope for is just being so small they don't notice you.

I'm not defending the wrong things people and companies do with any sort of technology, including using AI to replace humans. That idea makes me sick to my stomach. It HURTS me.

I'm just saying that obscenely wealthy companies like Disney are not and never ever ever will be defending the rights of people like you or me or the individual artists you love and want to protect. Especially with a government in the USA that has active motivation to crush the first amendment like a bug. Courts here are not going to uphold your rights to make not-for-profit art or transformative works or accidentally similar work under copyright law. Disney WROTE a lot of that copyright law.

Also, they steal people's art. Which I thought is a thing most anti-AI people are specifically super mad about.

Stop cheering for them. This is actually really, really concerning.

[bigscaryd]

whole lotta nonlawyers in this thread explaining how the plagiarism machine is JUST LIKE human-made fanart.

[traykor]

There are so many levels between indie fanartist with maybe a patreon and venture capital gobbling machine charging $8-$50+ a month to tens of thousands. Like, 9 figures between.

That patreon was already on shaky legal grounds by the way, but the machine reproducing existing art as mosaic--which is what Midjourney does--is on far, far shakier. You, fanartist, still aren't worth Disney's legal fees and bad press, and you still won't be after this lawsuit. They did learn that lesson somewhat after the whole daycare thing (but as the daycare thing showed, if they wanted to sue unauthorized art in commercial settings they already have Trademark to do it under any time they want).

[cowboyhatesithere]

Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

[jmtorres]

out of curiosity. I would love to hear folks' most hated book that was NOT assigned reading. what's a book that you picked up of your own volition but were deeply frustrated with? bone to pick etc?

[traykor]

Deep into my Victorian lit phase of my adolescence, I tried to read Sir Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock books. The Lost World was fine. So were the other Challenger books.

The White Company? His favorite book? Is fucking terrible. It's a slog of pointless added detail. You think Moby Dick is a bore? White Company is worse, and I have read both. I say this as someone who read the unabridged Les Mis and Hunchback by choice.

That's too many sailing details Doyle, put some back.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

The last thing you said in a Discord/DM is now your personal motto is it good?

yes

no

it's iconic

it's awful

it's funny

results

Voting ended onJun 27, 2025

[traykor]

"Thanks, I don't want to wake Dave" is something I say so often it might as well be my motto. Our sleep time generally does not overlap.

[jmtorres]

ok i wanna make jambalaya i don't know where to go for a recipe (and i'm almost certainly going to be altering a recipe for my personal dietary needs which include things like an onion? nah a fennel bulb)

but like i wanna start somewhere reasonably authentic before i fuck it up rather than starting somewhere bullshit white recipe and making something unrecognizable

recs?

[traykor]

Because I save the weirdest things, a restaurant in New Orleans I have actually been to has their recipe online: https://www.neworleans-food.com/creole-jambalaya/

I'm more likely to just make McCormick's simplified version: https://www.mccormick.com/blogs/recipes/easy-jambalaya-recipe