The most vile and vitriolic person you know is online right now talking about the importance of building community and there’s nothing you can do about it
“i have the right of way” was a form of protective charm uttered by urban travellers in the early 21st century. They believed this phrase acted as a ward against danger and injury, invoking the divine spirit of ‘Traffic Law’, one of their primary deities.
This is a common misconception. “Right of way” was not a charm against injury, but rather a curse wishing ruin upon those who injure you. It was often invoked in Small Claims Court, a sort of gladiatorial arena in which champions would battle on behalf of the aggrieved.
and to the tgirls who aren’t sure why the dresses and the makeup and the jewelry aren’t working for them: there can be more to “transfemininity” than the feminine timelines you see passed around like prayer beads. your “after” can be something else if you want it to be.
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this is rly important to me. it may be difficult to believe depending on what circles you travel in but the first masculine trans woman I ever knowingly saw… was myself, in the mirror, long into my transition and only after years of trying to force a femininity that refused to fit. when you do not have examples to show you what is possible, and especially when the norms that predominate suppress those possibilities in the public imaginary (as they do for tma people, who are only legible when feminine), it can be so much harder to find that path for yourself.
So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.
Last night I pulled up youtube and got a “I played the 10 worst wii games ever” kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.
I’m paying attention for the beginning, since hey I’m still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.
And I’m like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.
The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.
I wake up to the sound of like… mechanical grinding?
Look at the laptop. There’s a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going “hey don’t mix these dangerous chemicals.”
I’m like, “Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on… chemical mixing Youtube I guess.”
I look at the video Title. “I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made”
….Oh.
It’s still the video.
So surely he is… mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?
No…
He’s just.
Mixing chemicals.
I hover over the video sections.
The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.
The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to… him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.
….????
I fall back asleep.
….
I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor
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if you watch through to the end, the “dangerous chemicals” he’s mixing include salt, flour, chocolate, sugar, and butter.
There are now (as of December 8th, four days later) more fics about the UnitedHealthCare Assassin (approximately 22) on Ao3 than there are fics about Raid Shadow Legends (13)
Most are Assassin/Reader. One of them is a Harry Potter AU.
My latest project is a custom set of keyboard caps
I really love the way this post never blew up big but it never goes away. I’ve got other posts that get like 100k in a couple days, and never leave my notifications… But this one just shows up once or twice every day.
I fully expect the teeth keyboard will still be slowly circulating five years from now. Still creeping people out.
I couldn’t be prouder. Someday I’ll introduce ya’ll to the hair keyboard and you’ll know the true meaning of fear.
that’s because curses don’t just go away on their own
The problem with line of thinking is that it assumes that Michael Caine wasn’t trying to be funny. He absolutely was. It’s just that the funniest thing he could have done is to play it straight.
The movie would be less funny if he was being a jokester! He’s playing the straight man for all the Muppets. All of them.
And that’s the funniest thing he could have done. And he could do it because he IS that actor, who could do it for real and it’d be very serious and people would clap and say it’s the best since blah blah blah.
But doing that, being Sir Serious Dramatic Actor in a room full of Muppets? Hilarious.
It’s why Leslie Nielsen was such a great comedy actor. He started as the serious dramatic actor but when he shifted into comedy he kept the “Taking everything seriously” attitude and that’s how he sold his comedy.
i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim
Hmm, this sounds familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on why…
Oh my ggooooodddddd
It doesnt
Fucking
Stop
Thank you. As someone who studied Holocaust Literature and related topics, I’ve been pointing this out for YEARS now.
Also to people who complain about invoking Godwin’s Law, Godwin himself gave us as a society a pass to draw comparisons between this administration/Trump and Hitler and the Nazis, because there are honestly too damn many similarities to ignore.
when i was a teenager i babysat a lot and i once babysat kids in an extremely strange new-build McMansion that had tunnels throughout connecting the children’s bedrooms and leading to secret, windowless playrooms. you had to crawl on your hands and kneed through the tunnels, which were more like tiny hallways in that they were carpeted and painted white, and the two playrooms in the middle of the tunnel systems had really low ceiling so you couldn’t stand up.
honestly the main concern is what an absolute fire-trap the whole thing was, especially because the kids’ dad said his shoulders were too broad to fit so if the kids had some sort of emergency in the playrooms (choking, seizure, the list goes on), it would be nigh impossible for an adult to respond quickly which is crazy.
the house itself was enormous too, like 8,000 sq. feet
and clearly this stressed me out because the first night i babysat there i had a nightmare that i was playing hide-and-seek with the kids (three of them) with flashlights and all the lights off,
and after they all hid and i began seeking them, a polar bear broke into the house and it was emaciated and starving and hunting,
and the entire nightmare was me staying as silent as possible sneaking through the house and avoiding the polar bear, knowing i had to also find the kids before the polar bear did AND before they got bored and came out of hiding or else the polar bear would get them.
the tunnels were the only safe place because the polar bear couldn’t fit so i spent a lot of the nightmare using them to navigate the house, and they were a lot more expansive & confusing than they were irl.
anyway not a fan of my brain inserting me into an indie horror game
Okay, I have a little rant, and because I don’t like to leave negative comments on people’s works, I am putting it here. So ao3 has an amazing filtering system, it is truly beautiful and remarkable, but some people try to work around it and that bothers me. There are many things I could say about this, but the one I want to talk about right now, is the complete works filter, and how people circumvent it by saying “It’s a series”. No, it’s not, if it is under 5000 words, and just abruptly ends, with zero resolution, that is a chapter, not a complete work, and you mislead me. You abuse that label, you got me hooked and this is fanfiction, so I have no guarantee that you will ever finish it. When you read an incomplete work, you know that going in, you make that choice and accept that it may never be finished. But when someone games the system, and posts an incomplete work, but labels it complete, they disrespect me and the entire, beautiful tagging/filtering system ao3 has. Just be honest, it’s a wip, 1359 words with zero plot resolution does not a complete story make. Please and thank you, thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.
Please share if this annoys you too. I’m posting this here because I refuse to shame people directly on their works. As a fellow fanfiction writer, negative comments, no matter the context, can be devastating. At the end of the day the only reason I’m mad is because they started something amazing, and the last thing I want to do is discourage people from writing more, negative comments have been holding me back on some of my fics (well one of them) so as frustrated as I am, I won’t put that on them, besides, it’s not just one author I’m annoyed at, so many people do this. Either finish it, or be honest.
Okay, I have a little rant, and because I don’t like to leave negative comments on people’s works, I am putting it here. So ao3 has an amazing filtering system, it is truly beautiful and remarkable, but some people try to work around it and that bothers me. There are many things I could say about this, but the one I want to talk about right now, is the complete works filter, and how people circumvent it by saying “It’s a series”. No, it’s not, if it is under 5000 words, and just abruptly ends, with zero resolution, that is a chapter, not a complete work, and you mislead me. You abuse that label, you got me hooked and this is fanfiction, so I have no guarantee that you will ever finish it. When you read an incomplete work, you know that going in, you make that choice and accept that it may never be finished. But when someone games the system, and posts an incomplete work, but labels it complete, they disrespect me and the entire, beautiful tagging/filtering system ao3 has. Just be honest, it’s a wip, 1359 words with zero plot resolution does not a complete story make. Please and thank you, thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.
Please share if this annoys you too. I’m posting this here because I refuse to shame people directly on their works. As a fellow fanfiction writer, negative comments, no matter the context, can be devastating. At the end of the day the only reason I’m mad is because they started something amazing, and the last thing I want to do is discourage people from writing more, negative comments have been holding me back on some of my fics (well one of them) so as frustrated as I am, I won’t put that on them, besides, it’s not just one author I’m annoyed at, so many people do this. Either finish it, or be honest.
A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay
Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can’t use chat-GPT
I’ve been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea
Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin
despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea
so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream
Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down
we have a historical version of “couldn’t remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute”, and the song he wrote down made him “Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil’s trill” it’s usually played by 2 violinists because it’s evil difficult,
now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day…. 150k of the best prose and plot you’ve ever seen in your life and you have to remember it
chatgpt is evil, but that’s just mean
Yeah that’s what writing a novel is already like
It really depends tbh. Are you asking the demon to provide you with inspiration, follow-through, focus, energy, time, whatever is keeping you from writing? Then sure
As soon as the demon is doing the writing it’s no better than using chatgpt or whatever
Are you saying that a ghostwriter is the same as chatGPT??? I know several ghostwriters who’d take pretty big issue with a claim like that.
You just need to credit your spectre and provide appropriate recompense.
Well obviously the compensation and whether the devil should be directly credited or not would both be specified in the contract. And you’d have to either approach him directly or hire him through a respectable agency, not those horrible ‘gig economy’ ghostwriter places that pay like ¼ of minimum wage.
I cannot get over the assassination happening while I was trying to get coverage for my testosterone. Imagine going into the pharmacy all excited to get your first ever testosterone prescription but find out it costs 800$ out of pocket for a three month supply and UHC won’t cover it. So then you wait for your provider to get back to you about changing your prescription for an entire week and a half, and during that wait someone just. goes and fucking murders the CEO of your insurance company. Like they just kill him on the street. They had so much calculated hatred for this guy that they even engraved each bullet that hit him. Then, as if the heavens themselves opened up entirely to watch brian thompson descend into hell, your testosterone is ready two days later for pickup, and only costs 10 delicious dollars.
I cannot get over the assassination happening while I was trying to get coverage for my testosterone. Imagine going into the pharmacy all excited to get your first ever testosterone prescription but find out it costs 800$ out of pocket for a three month supply and UHC won’t cover it. So then you wait for your provider to get back to you about changing your prescription for an entire week and a half, and during that wait someone just. goes and fucking murders the CEO of your insurance company. Like they just kill him on the street. They had so much calculated hatred for this guy that they even engraved each bullet that hit him. Then, as if the heavens themselves opened up entirely to watch brian thompson descend into hell, your testosterone is ready two days later for pickup, and only costs 10 delicious dollars.
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