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Hi hey hello ness (she/her) here !!

Feel very free to dm me if you’re an adult and want to talk about fandoms we share, I’m always open to nerding out with people !!

This is my main (& currently only active) blog. I post pretty much everything here, from fandom stuff to writing stuff and everything in between. I’ll admit to mostly sharing/writing theories and character studies on here, though. But I do so love reblogging fanart!!

Fair warning, I’m super multifandom, so don’t follow expecting to see only one thing. Some of these fandoms are :

Critical Role (mostly c2 and c4 + The Mighty Nein animated show)

The Wheel of Time

Star Trek (TOS & AOS)

Fire Emblem Three Houses & Three Hopes (Black Eagles)

His Dark Materials

Baldur’s Gate 3

The Witcher (anything Tissaia related)

DC comics

Merlin

Otherwise, I love D&D and am a sucker for angsty shit. I write fics sometimes. Mostly one-shots because long fics require time I don’t have (I have many ideas, though, so hopefully one day I’ll find the time and the motivation and manage to stick to a single idea). Aaand I also edit when I'm inspired, so you can find me on tiktok!

Here’s where you can find me : ao3 | tiktok

There's a list of my fics below the cut!

#critical role #the wheel of time #fe3h #his dark materials #baldur's gate 3 #star trek #the witcher #the mighty nein #dc comics #merlin

furthermuchmore

Do(o)med creatures

#caleb widogast #the mighty nein #critical role

orteil42

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

odyver

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

odyver

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

odyver

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

mortuary9

#essek thelyss #critical role #the mighty nein

THE VERY FIRST STAR TREK SLASH FIC PUBLISHED

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

I had to share it with you because I can’t stop laughing, and every time I reread it it just gets funnier and fUNNIER

catbountry

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

cylonqueen

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

strike-team-delta

I miss my Commodore 64

stoplookingup

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever know.

athelind

Reblogged for that last comment.

gokuma

respect your elders

ohfreckle

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

berlynn-wohl

It’s been said before, but the fact that this fic begins with the dialogue assertion “We’re by no means setting a precedent” is endlessly amusing to me.

Diane Marchant changed all our lives. May she rest in peace.

prokopetz

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

ralfmaximus

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

ccattnipp

wizard boyfriendssss

ccattnipp

they’ll still be kissing in seven, ten, fifteen—many, many years

#shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #the mighty nein #critical role

chiosblog

#franchaela #francesca bridgerton #michaela stirling #bridgerton

ccattnipp

wizard boyfriendssss

#shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #critical role #the mighty nein

quillflower-art

the schemers

(aka Hal and his redheads, aka the mighty nine-to-five, aka team employed etc.)

#the schemers #critical role araman #critical role

ccattnipp

shhh they’re yapping about magic

#shadowgast #essek thelyss #caleb widogast #critical role #the mighty nein

louisegluckpdf

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

shoggothgirlfriends

i think i might have reblogged this before with the same addition but the Super-Kamiokande deserves a spot on this list:

vamptits

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

vamptits

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

hareofhrair

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.