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just saw this emoji for the first time look at that guy
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now see THIS is what I was looking for from the 'how to get organized' panel at grad school, not 'write things down!!'. Brain hacks.
was reading the tags for funsies and these ones get better with every line
#and im talking. cleavage to my belly button. im talking the amount of breast you see at a Renaissance faire. #because i am also wearing a corset and long swooshy skirt. #im cosplaying for renaissance faire EVERY DAY for classes.
#and sometimes! for special occasions! like a qualifying exam or presentations! #i wear items that are usually known to be bondage gear. as visible fashion statements. #sometimes its not renaissance gear it's fetish gear but un-fetish-ly #lace bra. mesh shirt. torso harness. corset. visible garters.
#anyways i think of it like ''dress for the job you want not the job you have''#where ''job i have'' is ''mathematician'' and ''job i want'' is ''mathematician good enough to be confident wearing weird freak shit''#like deadass its not a fashion statement im doing its a mental manipulation of myself lmao
via @thebewilderer
also this one, but I'm not gonna tag the user:
#ive been weaponizing my own military fetishization to get chores done for the past year and unfortunately it works #ive largely given up on hospital corners but i do one (1) as a treat #im definitely ranger rolling my shit wrong tho cuz all my shirts have wrinkles. still do it tho <3
other notable hacks in the notes include "play a certain Dir en grey album as an alarm, eventually it gets to screaming and I don't want it to get to screaming," "lower the phone off the bed by a string so I have to go get it when it goes off again", and "song loop torture." Also roleplays extending from vigilante to L Lawliet and "music" such as MRI sounds
Source: vm.tiktok.com
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now see THIS is what I was looking for from the 'how to get organized' panel at grad school, not 'write things down!!'. Brain hacks.
Source: vm.tiktok.com
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She's also publicly stated that she believes that anyone who reads her books or watches her shows and films does so because they explicitly agree with her political views.
There's no "agree to disagree" with her work. Every time you pick up her work or talk about it you are saying to her "I agree with you Joanne" whether you like it or not.
If you want to watch it, please pirate it!
No! Don't fucking pirate it!
This is literally what I'm talking about!
Don't treat her work as a valid form of entertainment! Go literally anywhere else!
Find new media! Expand your tastes! I guarantee you there are ten thousand stories whose creator isn't a racist, misogynistic transphobe who didn't bother thinking about why having Japan and Korea share a single magic school might be a titch problematic! And that's not even in the top ten of worst things this woman has said, because she's a fountain of transphobic hatred!
Harry Potter was huge to a lot of us. It was a global phenomenon. And it needs to stay a was, because now, every single thing keeping it in pop culture is supporting Joanne Rowling and her crusade to eradicate trans people. We need to resist nostalgia being sold to us as a cover for enabling one of the most vocal, hateful people on the planet to have a platform.
If you enjoyed Harry Potter, that's ok. You're not a bad person for liking something. I was super into it when I was younger. I really admired Rowling. And then Joanne Rowling decided that having a shitton of money meant that she was somehow right, and began a slow, constant slide into becoming one of the most vicious, spiteful, hateful, cruel people on the planet.
Even if people pirate the show, they'll talk about it online. They'll drum up interest. They'll keep it, and her, in the public eye, and every second that she has a platform, she's going to use it to scream hatred towards trans people, and everyone who supports them, because in her mind, she is Right and Just. So it falls to us to smother this show in its nascency, let this IP die, because at this point, that's all it is, and keep its creator from doing any more harm.
#I am always this close to taking down my hp fic#(orphaning it would leave it in the world which is not the point)#idk what's keeping me from doing it#the comments maybe?#nostalgia for the connections?#I let myself still read HP fic very occasionally#the really good stuff#but I don't comment#I don't kudos#I don't interact bc The Fandom Must Die
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having a nickel allergy is actually so insidious because what you MEAN I need to pay attention to the nickel content in my food. what do you MEAN that it doesn’t even present like typical food allergy symptoms (no tingly mouth, no throat closing, no stomach pain etc) and it took until my mid-late 20s to realize that dietary nickel is probably why I’d sometimes get hives randomly on my arms with no apparent cause and have also now deal with chronic eczema. what do you MEAN that all the foods that I eat specifically because they are high in nutritional value consistently also contain nickel.
Here I was thinking my nickel allergy was pretty mild!! so many mysteries in my life were all probably caused by nickel. It was always nickel.
I can’t lie, that does help a little bit
hey what the fuck
according to webmd, high nickel foods include:
- grains
- seafood
- green vegetables
- legumes
and I should instead eat:
- meat
- root vegetables
- white rice
- fruit
So I'm fucked basically. I can either eat things with vitamins and fiber and proteins that don't get recalled every other weekend--or food I'm allergic to.
Also I should avoid chocolate, which. Fuck that noise severely.
Googling around trying to see if I can watch 9-1-1 without signing up for anything to see if they make the boys kiss this season
and very disturbed to realize the first credited actor in this show is a black woman I have never encountered in any fic.
#like her name is Athena I would remember that#I have never heard of an Athena in this fandom#and yeah I'm in the ship tag for the lightskinned boys but#everyone else at least makes appearances#I was 100% under the impression that these guys were the main characters#at least the other high-billed black woman has shown up a few times
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No but thinking about Buck when he was a teen makes me go INSANE actually like he was absolutely that kid who wanted friends and attention SO BADLY and everyone could see the desperation just dripping off of him, the way he would throw himself into friendships TOO fast and TOO intensely and the other person would withdraw and back off from the sheer intensity of that energy. And like, it’s not that he was Unpopular, its just that the other kids saw him as an amusement at best and he would play that role willingly, GLADLY if it meant they’d invite him out after football games (is it canon that he played fb in hs? or was that in a fanfic and i accepted it as truth?) or watch him make a fool of himself at keg parties.
Like, think about how quick he was to follow that random guy to LA from Peru like that boy has NEVER had a best friend before in his life, only Maddie could ever come CLOSE to fitting in that role, but even then they weren’t equals, she was his sister, and kind of his mom. And even at the 118 like Hen & Chim & Bobby all care about him but he’s like, their misguided little brother/surrogate son, not a BEST FRIEND.
But then along comes Eddie and not only does he accept Buck the MINUTE he drops his dumb posturing act, he offers him this equal partnership—you have my back, I’ll have yours—without a single hesitation. And when Buck comes on super strong the way he still can’t shake (involving himself in Eddie’s childcare issues), Eddie not only accepts those overtures he reciprocates (helping Buck’s sister move, later on coming to cheer him up w/ Christopher post-crush injury)
LIKE!!!!!! Buck has absolutely never had anyone in his life like Eddie. Someone who just knows him so well and sees all his flaws and hangups and doesn’t see him as a fuck up or a younger brother but a FRIEND, someone to rely on, someone to play video games with and talk to about the hard stuff and CALL WHEN THEY GET ARRESTED (I know he did NOT call Buck, but they sure did go out of their way to make it explicit that he was Eddie’s FIRST CHOICE) Someone who just wants him around just BECAUSE. Because he’s fun and because he’s kind and he cares and he just!!!! ENJOYS SPENDING TIME WITH HIM!!! Like he took him to take Christopher to see Santa??? Just because???? And he never makes Buck feel like he’s too much, or he’s coming on too strong, or he wants more friendship than Eddie is willing to give, like every time Buck wants to connect with him Eddie is RIGHT THERE offering that same connection back to him (and, actually, is often the one offering first) and being a safe place for Buck to land no matter what.
Like I obviously ship it as well, but their friendship ALONE has me shaking/crying/throwing up
when you've been too much your whole life, meeting someone who reflects your intensity back at you instead of putting space between you is. everything.
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buck: i'm not in love with eddie it's just that i dream of holding his hand and i miss him constantly and my life is incomplete without him
9-1-1 | Season 8, Episode 11, ‘Holy Mother of God’
omg you guys are actually gonna get your ship
How to Tag on AO3
this is for you guys ^
Okay, so tags are used for three purposes: 1, for people to find stuff they want to read, 2, for people to filter out stuff they don't want to read, and 3, to talk to the audience.
For purposes 1 and 2, it helps if similar things show up in the same search. So AO3 has tag wranglers that make that happen!
That means you don't need to tag every possible name for things, for starters. What you're going to do is start typing into each field and wait for the tag to show up in the dropdown. That's called a canonical tag. Most of the time, your fandom, character, and ship tags will already be there. Many of your additional tags will too. If they're not, then you can hit enter and let whatever you typed stand alone (called a freeform tag), but you don't need to tag "bangchan, bang chan, bahng chan, bahng christopher chan, chris bahng". Or "Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, SHJW, johnlock, shwatsonlock." Another thing you don't need to do is typelikethis. Spaces are fine. Great even.
For character and relationship tags, think of purpose 1 and ask yourself: if someone clicked on this tag looking for this character/ship and found my fic, would they be disappointed? One time I wanted to read fics about Uncle Iroh, so I clicked the Iroh tag. But it turns out almost every fic in the fandom tags Uncle Iroh even though he's usually a background character, and it's basically impossible to find a fic centering him this way. Maybe don't tag your background characters.
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Anonymous asked:
I assume you’ve heard of the phrase “britpicked” (text looked over to make sure the proper Britishisms and such are used)
What’s the American version? Or for any other English-speaking country… we need to come up with phrases to mean “checked over to make sure the X Country’s versions of words/products/etc are correct”
This feels like the sort of thing it would entertain you to think of
Hmmm I love culturally specific language and voice things. I feel like I would call this context or cultural editing. And for me (unfortunately for my sanity) it goes so much deeper than surface level word choice and names for things and such--making something sound properly British, or American, or whatever is embedded in the bones of how characters speak, what they are used to, how they approach certain problems, how they see the world. That can be really hard to get right if it's not your own cultural context. But that's what makes it interesting!
In terms of just language, that too can be very subtle. It's easy enough to google "list of American vs British English words" and be like Oh I have to call it Crisps, or whatever. What's harder but more interesting to pick out is the subtleties of grammar and phrasing.
A few examples. One that I see a lot is that British English, colloquially, sometimes replaces the past continuous tense with the past participle in verbs conveying a state/stasis: "He was sat [on the couch, eg]" (past participle) vs "He was sitting" (past continuous). You can also do it with "stand" -- "He was stood on the street corner" vs "He was standing." [You can also do it in present tense -- So I'm sat there... barbecue sauce on my titties...] Anyway, this pops out to me immediately because you wouldn't hear an American phrase it as "was sat" or "was stood".
But this is how subtle it can be.
Here's another: repetitive use of 'Me' at the end of a first person phrase. "I love a good walk, me." <- feels really British to me. You wouldn't really hear this in the type of generic American "TV accent" or phrasing that you see. (I could see someone in the South saying this, maybe.) What you will hear though is it reversed: "Me, I love a good walk." These things are so so tiny sometimes.
There are a lot of others too.
These subtleties are what's most interesting to me and I feel like you need to be immersed in whatever culture to be able to edit for it effectively. It's one of those "I'll know it's wrong when I hear it" things. It's harder for me to give you American English examples because they're my natural language so I only notice them in direct comparison to others.
Specificity in character voice is so important and adds so much realism and vibrancy. The best way to learn these cultural specific voices is probably talking to real people (or eavesdropping on real people), second best would be anything unscripted like interviews or documentaries or reality TV, third best is anything scripted written by people from the actual place (TV, books, anything).
Ted Lasso is a great example for this sort of thing, both in accents and regional voice, phrasings, idioms, and cultural references. Especially since they're constantly playing it up for comedy's sake. I love the way that show plays with language and cultural context. One of my favorites. Really strong character voices.
You got me on a ramble but yes, I love this sort of thing 😂 Cultural editing I'd call it.
@ anon: We quite literally call that Ameri-picking. The wider phenomenon is called culture picking, at least by the Fandom Trumps Hate people.
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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this
when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor
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Sometimes Tumblr is a lot like trying to explain a toddler that you can't eat bugs and spiders because that's bad for you, and then someone shows up to lecture you about how spiders are a completely different class from insects, also you got "centipede" and "millipede" mixed up, so obviously you don't know anything about what you're talking about.
And if you try to answer like "do you want me to just let this kid just eat bugs or what", they'll get offended because correcting you about being wrong has nothing to do with implying that anyone would be eating bugs off the ground, obviously nobody is stupid enough to be doing that in the first place, that's a straw man and insulting to every group of people ever.
And then you look up at the other side of the yard and the toddler is there right back at it, slurping up centipedes like spagetti.
apparently twitter is like this too
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thinking about how my old university's automatic email generation gave my friend Andy Ryan the email address ARYAN88
Way, way back in the day, because I am ancient, our university assigned us email addresses you couldn't have changed, which included your first initial, middle initial, part of your surname, and the last five digits of your social security number. They stopped doing that after people kicked up a huge fucking fuss, but...
... I think I'd still rather have that one than your friend's. Damn.
My old job assigned me "cajones" and I had to very, very gently tell them that I could not and would not send professional emails with it because my email would be balls@company.com
I just cackled so loud it scared the dogs.
My mom had a colleague whose name was something like Sara Tan and was given "satan@job.com"
When I was in college, Windows used to leave the username of the last user who logged in in the login form, and a bunch of my friends became obsessed with he username (not the person, just the username) of some poor young woman named (I believe) Sarah M Boomgartner.
The username was "BOOMGASM"
I knew a person called Polly Oppenheimer, and so "poop@uni.com" haunted her till she finished her PhD.
Someone in upper management of a company I used to work for was Sally Odom
Or, according to her signature, sodom.
back in high school I had a teacher named Jim Christie. emailing him at J.Christ@schoolboard.org was always fun
I once had to register for an event by emailing an administrative assistant whose surname was Litburn. Her first name started with a C. You can imagine what the email was…
My father once told me about a coworker he had named something like Charles Rusher. This, of course, became crusher@company.com
A college friend told me about someone she knew in highschool named Freddy Atwood. He specifically had to contact his uni admin when he started to avoid getting fatwood@uni.edu
some of these combinations are unpredictable but I do think it should be part of the thought process when naming someone to try out first letter + last name and see if it spells anything.