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"I am awake now! I am very awake!"

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just fucking with some dinosaurs. some raw forces of nature

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So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

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Incorrect, electric blankie

we honestly need to debunk the myth of the “warm pillow and blankie in bed.” the blankie is not warm it is a SCAM when the blankie “keeps you warm and cozy” it is because of YOUR natural body heat that blankie just holds in. thats right. youre doing most of the work and your blankie is taking the credit. but really what can you expect these days

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firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

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My mom told me she saved a pbs documentary for me and I was pretty neutral about it until she told me it was about dams

got called into the living room because "they're talking about something you'll like on tv" and it was a documentary about arsenic poisoning

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Screaming crying because I hate every piracy guide I come across on here.

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dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

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rip to you guys but i love assembling ikea furniture its so fun its like legos

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pov you are tommy tallarico and it’s november 17th 2022

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Welcome to Fateheart: The Extended Canon

I have now written enough Starless Sea mini-fics (all set in or around the same timeline as Fateheart: A Starless Seaquel) that they warrant having their own collected series - so here is the link to that.

None of these have substantially character-altering plot, but some of them are fun, some of them are lovely, and some of them might even venture into the territory of being well-written! (Looking at you, Asset of Loneliness, decidedly not looking at you, Hockey Kids)

I initially was just going to post extra bits of writing as headcanons on this blog, but then the headcanons I was jotting down in my notes app became full scenes, too big to just dump on tumblr, and then those scenes started to draw themselves together into stories. So now they're up on Ao3.

I am also working on two much longer stories - both Starless Sea fanfictions, both continuations of the Fateheart timeline - though neither will come close to Fateheart itself - in significance, quality, or length. But in the meantime I will post links to any Zachary/Dorian and Kat content on this blog, and they will appear on my Ao3 account in this collection.

If you're a fan of Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea and you're encountering this post, this blog, or these fanfics cold, then may I first point you towards the main fic itself:

Fateheart: A Starless Seaquel

(having said that none of the future stories will hold a candle to Fateheart, watch out for The Lotus Flowers. If I can get the damn thing where I want it, it will blow Fateheart out of the water. possibly.)

And if I never post anything again, just know it is because I have been forcibly subsumed into an amorphous, sentient dust-cloud in the Middle East, and not because I have decided to stop writing The Starless Sea fanfiction. Because that's not going to happen. Apparently ever.

To seeking x

-- Boogleboot

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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

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if some species of australopithecine survived into the modern day, how would they be cared for in zoos or sanctuaries? how would they be different from other apes?

I've been thinking about this one and I think I want to answer it in two parts.

Firstly-- ethics of captivity when it comes to a member of the human lineage. Many of you may be aware that back in the bad old days of zoos, there were exhibits that displayed humans of other cultures for white europeans to pay to gawk at, which is now considered a terrible result of the rampant racism that we hope is a relic of the past. Consequently, when discussing hypothetical captivity scenarios for extinct members of the human lineage I think it's relevant to ask: at what point do we define humanity as seperate from animals?

Some argue that great apes should not be kept in captivity unless absolutely necessary sanctuary situations, and while we are pro-zoo it is a fortunate thing that being the only extant member of our genus allows us to draw firm lines between us and the rest of the animal kingdom. I would say that judging by the research I've done the austrolopiths are largely considered still firmly more ape than human, so I think hypothetically keeping them in zoos would be fine, but it's worth considering even if only as a disclaimer.

To answer your question I would design an austrolopith exhibit at a zoo to be parallel to the guest experience. A large, sprawling enclosure including many types of foliage and multiple layers of hammocks and climbing platforms at various heights, and what would set this exhibit apart in my design would be enclosed walkways that would allow the austrolopiths to walk through the zoo at their leisure. Being the early upright walkers, austrolopiths were adept at long distance strolls so being able to walk around the zoo would be excellent physical and mental enrichment (at least in my opinion from what we know of the species!)

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I found this a few days ago purely out of chance and from the moment I started the first chapter I accepted it as canon like I can tell I’m going to start getting confused between TSS and Fateheart! Looking forward to savoring the rest!

Fateheart: A Starless Sequel

Tumblr, dear void, news: my major creative work of the past six months is finished! I have written a fan-sequel to Erin Morgenstern’s book The Starless Sea. It is called Fateheart and it has been the greatest joy of my life so far to bring it into the world.

If you know The Starless Sea, liked it, or loved it even a little, then I do genuinely believe you might enjoy Fateheart. It is a post-canonical story which overlaps in its beginning with the ending of the original. It is a story written in devoted homage to The Starless Sea, which has become my favourite book bar none: it seeks not to continue its story so much as spin a counterpart tale which emulates the themes, style, and cadence of the original book. The plot follows the birth of the newest Harbour upon the Starless Sea and the lives of Zachary, Kat, and Dorian as they seek to build it.

I’m hoping that this post can lie around in the tags for the rest of all eternity on the off chance that anyone who needs it might stumble across this story some time in the future. If you have read it/are reading it/are thinking of reading it, feel free to message me. I am always, always up for a bit of Starless Sea chat.

Here is the link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43714743/chapters/109925013

And here’s to the falling of fire and the rising of stories from dreams. Thanks x

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is this one of them v tubers people are obsessed with these days

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The book is now addressing Zachary as "The son of the fortune-teller"

Which means I'm technically reading what was writting in an in-story book, instead of the normal overarching one that addresses him by name first

It's an interesting tone shift from This Is Just Stuff That's Happening to This Was Decided By Fate Extremely Purposely

Especially considering that for the whole of the book, Zachary has been basically just following what he's been told to do, not making a lot of decisions, and desparately wanting his story("The son of the fortune-teller") to continue even though he's found no further indication that it does on paper.

Recently he found a scrap of paper(the stars) telling a short excerpt about the son of the fortune-teller. He both got excited that he had purpose, but mostly dread, understandably based on the current context(it was about making a choice of which door/path to follow). Next time he finds a scrap of paper and the owl urges him to look at it, as Zachary always wanted that guidence to know what he was doing was correct, he throws it in the fire without looking.

He's telling his own story. He's addressing himself as the son of the fortune-teller. In the same way Leanore told Dorian that she tells a story of Found Objects/Parts so she could build her ship and willed story into existence and therefore, the objects/parts as well

He's doing the same thing! Instead of choosing the six paths in front of him, he walks a little further and deliberately looks for the door hidden in plain sight next to the others and chooses that one. I think because he purposely looks for it, he'd willed the door into existence. He wanted it there! By right of paradoxes, Mirabel had to have been by there to draw the pencil door, but technically I don't think she did