of life and death

[trying to insult a person's dog-like devotion to someone but not wanting to make them sound too cool about it] keep your fucking dog in a purse

my little brother tried to show me a "cool trick" where he entered my name and hometown into chatgpt and tried to get it to pull up my personal info like it did on all of his friends, then was absolutely shocked when it couldn't find anything on me

so. keep practicing basic internet safety, guys. it still works. don't put your personal info on social media, keep all your accounts on private, turn off ai scraping on every site that you can, enable all privacy features on social media apps. our info still can be protected, we have to keep fighting for control

🎶 Lyrics from No Choir by Florence + The Machine 🎶

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[guy with the Cant Focus Disorder] why the fuck can't I focus

i don't care if people think i'm weird for saying this but i do not care if a trans person is "cringey", if a disabled person is "cringey", if someone's interests are too "loud" i just genuinely do not care, it is none of my business and honestly good on them for being who they are. people are WAY too comfortable making fun of and bullying marginalized people who aren't "cool" to yall. I don't have to be cool to be respected. A lot of yall will see someone who is just existing as themselves and become so butthurt and i think it's because yall aren't as comfortable in yourselves as those people being proud about themselves are. You guys want to say that people aren't "actually disabled" or aren't "actually trans" or aren't "actually __" because they just live and thrive in themselves better than yall do. come on now. The internet has gotten way too fucking comfortable bullying people and has excused way too much hatred for people who aren't just existing all because yall don't think they meet your standards of what's "cool". and no xyz doesn't "actually" make someone cringey, if they aren't hurting anyone i quite frankly do not care, and if they are hurting someone that should be the main critique not what their interests are, not if they're disabled, not if they're queer, it should be the harmful actions.

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

in regards to disability (and tbh most other things in life) we cannot use the language of the oppressor to escape dehumanisation. there are lots of ableist narratives that are used to demean disabled people, deny them help, and blame them for their disabilities and difficult situations. phrases like: "they don't want to get better." "have you tried everything?" and such are abundant. implying that mobility aids is giving up, that refusing treatment is a moral sin, that some people "brought it upon themselves". all this is used to justify ableism, but ableism is never justified. so this means our hardline shouldn't be "hey I tried everything and I'm still disabled," even if the false accusation can sting. this still, inadvertently, legitimises the notion that to be worth basic dignity as a disabled person you must have jumped through all the hoops that ableds set before you. actually nobody should have to try everything, or even anything, to get basic respect and treatment. nobody has to justify why their disabilities are not their fault or outside of their control because these things shouldn't matter and should have absolutely no impact on how well a disabled person is treated. all disabled people, no matter what they do or why they're disabled, deserve accommodation and basic human respect on the same level as their abled peers. it's non negotiable, so stop negotiating with ableists.

“Hozier is a lesbian” “Hozier is a man written by a woman” “Hozier is like if a man was raised by lesbian mothers” “Hozier is like if a man was a woman” quick give me one reason why a man can’t be soft and gentle and poetic and in love without sounding like a terf or a misogynist

jesus was for sure autistic

i think im gonna be mildly petty. i think my biggest issue with the fh webtoon is the fact that all the characters are coming off as what they are either pretending to be or are mischaracterized as. like.... fabian is so much more of an asshole, and its succeeding, because he doesnt have the awkwardness that he has in the original show. fig actually seems to be the edgy cool kid when the whole bit is that shes such an open book and is really bad at acting edgy. kristens whole thing about being sweet and demure and the pinnacle of helioc followers is just stated as fact because she doesnt show any of that intense chaos. gorgug is the closest to early fh show gorgug, but even he feels vaguely off. the little we see of adaine is just the socratic ideal of Girl With Anxiety because we dont get to see her being mean and petty and vengeful. and riz, through becoming the main character/protagonist/pov character, is just so... he seems like hes the perfect teen sleuth character when he kind of fumbles over and over in the show? he comes off the best and i cant pin down why he feels Wrong to me but he still does.

maybe thats the point of the first few episodes. maybe itll get better. but as of right now im just... mildly frustrated about it. i am bad at articulating what im feeling but yk

not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.

my use case also

"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" nah fuck that I would. Actually if I could choose to have any superpower, I'd want the power to make people feel whatever I've felt at any point of my life, at my choice. Someone mildly inconveniences me, I'm letting them have 30 minutes of being five years old and trying to learn how to cry silently because you know nobody's coming to help you and if someone hears you, they're coming to make it worse. Fuck you and your eyebrows.

What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

in a way hadestown is very similar to ancient greek myths and poems in that the muses dont actually feature as characters but they are talked about and invoked as a concept a lot. sing a song oh muse of the rage of achilles = now orpheus was the son of a muse, and you know how those muses are, sometimes they abandon you

WAIT and in ovid's metamorphoses calliope (orpheus' mother) is challenged by a mortal and wins the contest by singing of prosperina being abducted by pluto and her mother ceres searching for her, and how the seasons came about, which is the roman equivalent of the hades and persephone myth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHICH IS WHAT THE EPICS SUNG BY ORPHEUS ARE ABOUT. anais mitchell youve done it again!!!!!!!!!