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I should probably make a proper introduction post so here goes
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I found this image on Google images while I was tryna do research on weevil mouth parts and I love it a lot. she's bedazzled... she craves acacia..... perfect
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u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’
“it’s tempting to assume” is academic speaking for “you might think, if you’re a fucking idiot,”
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Catching Up
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wonderful pair of posts on the dash tonight
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Begging everyone on the internet to stop smoothing out their middle aged men and draw wrinkles for the love of god I promise it's so fun you'll love it Come into my wine cellar
no.
Did you just DeWalt my fucking white
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also, here's where to find me on other platforms!
a lot of these are very neglected, but I’ll probably become active on Bluesky
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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.
And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.
Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.
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lesterlion-deactivated20120824
*waiting for dan and phil to get girlfriends so i can see the massive implosion that happens in the phandom*
date of origin: august, 2012
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my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.
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What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.
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The funniest original Star Trek scene to date is from The Thalion Web where Spock and Bones think Kirk has been killed and are arguing over the incredibly dangerous situation the Enterprise is currently in and Bones is thiiiiiis close to saying Spock is unfit for duty out of spite and Spock just dared him to do it and then they put in a little recorded message of Kirk's last order that he told them to watch if he ever dies and in it Kirk says "Since you're watching this I assume I'm dead and Enterprise is in terrible danger. And that you two are locked in mortal combat."
Kirk using the words MORTAL COMBAT and then saying EXACTLY the right words to make those two stop fighting is hilarious in and of itself.
But then THEY LIE ABOUT LISTENING TO THE MESSAGE. Once he's back they're like "what message, oh that, we didn't have time for that". These dorks.
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In preparation for reading your WIPs on AO3 I’ve watched the first 6+ eps of Delicious in Dungeon. It’s silly and light and frothy and lovely and then I get smacked between the eyeballs with Faligan and it made me want to wrap them all up in blankets and not have them worry about stuff for at least the next whole day. Poor kids.
Anyway, enjoying the heck out of Chilchuk. Would you recommend reading any of the manga to get a better read on his character/ history or is the anime a good prep course before diving into your fics?
Ahahaha Oh NO! sorry about all this! you're under no obligation to do so!
Both "Weasel Heart in Defiance" and "His Delicious Materials" have been read - and reportedly enjoyed - by people with less knowledge of the source material than that. I think they're both fairly accessible. It was important to me that HDM not spoil season 2 of the anime, so it doesn't - just gestures at it in places.
Weasel Heart in particular is almost a standalone. While married firmly to the elements of its fusion, it has its own full novel-length novel-weight plot, which is so independent from the canon plot of Delicious in Dungeon that I made a serious attempt to decouple it from canon, and structure it a standalone original work. I made a decent whack at writing it out, using an OC as a placeholder - as someone gets their friend to pose for them, to model the drape of fabric, in order to paint the light. That didn't work, and Killie ran away like a beautiful startled horse, leaving only a faint Easter egg behind him. So, I decided to follow Weasel Heart in the spirit it came to me in - as a fanfic - and that has been the right choice, even if I'm now in the position of juggling three WIPs and IRL friend/ beta reader Sweetlyfez in particular is probably raising a significant eyebrow at me. Pour one out for her.
But Weasel Heart really is ALSO its own animal (Weasel.) And it even has an appendix in the middle where I explain what's my own worldbuilding, what is Philip Pullman's, what's a personal fight with Tolkien, and what canonically belongs to an innocent manga artist who'd probably be rather puzzled. So i think it's ok to read and won't spoil anything but conversely, IT HAS AN APPENDIX.
Also the friend I was originally writing HDM for (as a gift - something for her partner to read during treatment and she couldn't follow published fiction very well) is now out of active treatment! And Sweetlyfez cooked up an entire baby!!!! The world turns!!
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Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all