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People writing indulgent and nonsensical AUs, making glurgy playlists full of the same three popular songs, and creating unrecognizable art of their extensively headcanoned and yassified faves are infinitely more valuable to a fandom than people whose primary contributions are complaints. I will always love it when people make cringe stuff they like in my cringe liking stuff hobby.

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yeah, yeah, i know, academia is an evil bourgeois lair of useless elitist white cishet men writing self-congratulatory articles about nothing and groping their brilliant female students’ arses and so on and so forth, but occasionally, it is prudent to let some of those useless academics - plenty of whom are women and/or poc and/or lgbt nowadays, how shocking, and who’ve spent their lives learning EVERYTHING about a certain subject - explain a text or a concept to you, so that you don’t run around after with a wildly inaccurate understanding of smth like what ‘social construct’ means, or what Nietzsche was all about, or what Freud actually wrote or did or said, or inventing already invented strains of feminism, etc etc etc

oh, and while i’m at it - this whole “academia is useless” is a belief that the far-right ideology has been extremely fond of all throughout the last century or so. just saying. 

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Boyfriend tells me I’m banned from fixing things around the house now >:(

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Some fun new stickers are coming very soon 🐰☔

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Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:

Do you want a better world, or do you want revenge on those you think aren’t doing enough to improve it?

Do you want a more just world, or do you want to see bad people suffer merciless punishment?

Do you want a less oppressive world, or do you want the reins of power for yourself?

Do you want to do the right thing, or do you want to feel righteous?

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tl;dr tbh honestly he sounds like AI, his cute mark would be chatGPT

ive just seen the american psycho characters drawn as my little ponies and honestly i dont think patrick should have been given that cd as his cutie mark. i think you're doing it wrong if you're not making him a perpetual blank flank

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Considering how I might reframe personal temporal navigation as rotational rather than strictly cardinal allows opportunities for consideration of more experiential rather than directional traversal Most conceptions of time traversal are cardinal aren't they? North South East West Up Down; Past Future Life Death, directional traversable temporal and atemporal probability fields with a primacy of a centered perceptual self.

Time is perceptually non-existent for those without memory of its passage; a construct of living things, a side-effect of the hallucination of memory in lived experience; language itself is steeped in cardinality ("go through a hard time," "look ahead", "up to heaven," "down to hell").

But what if that wasn't the only ontological structure?

Machine time is counted - human time is felt; we are not machines. That's much more aligned with my personal lived experience.

Even the closest to objective time in physics, the thermodynamic arrow of entropy is itself probabilistic, not experientially linear. At fundamental scales equations are time-symmetric; our temporal asymmetry is the side effect of an (inherently malleably flawed) organically bound macroscopic observer.

Reframing this on a personal organic scale to an experimental rotational model feels more aligned with the probabilistic nature of thermodynamic entropic systems; individual organic 'past' and 'future' are both equally artificially constructed projections outside the immediate moment, and even the 'immediate moment' has a bound of necessarily organic delay.

I dunno I'm still thinking.

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Big character feelings

Sometimes they happen

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I've tried to live by this advice for a long time and it's been very beneficial - any day you reach the end of you've gained victory over.

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I'm thinking about a new wave of sci-fi/horror films informed by our present experiences with LLMs, where the robots really aren't alive, but management insists they are anyway. "Here's your new AI coworkers!" they'll say. "They're fully artificial humans and you can definitely trust them!"

And they do seem perfectly human most of the time, but sometimes they randomly say something completely nonsensical, and then betray no hints that they've said anything odd. Sometimes they say something actively immoral. Sometimes their context gets reset and they don't remember what you said last week. And they're gullible, so gullible, in a way that humans aren't.

But this is the future, management insists. It's understandable to be uncomfortable with it, but we're just going to have to pull together and make it work. The oddities around the office are only rumors. Phil just took an unscheduled leave, he's not missing or anything.

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Any tips for writing novels?

Also,, How do you get out of writers block?

Okay, first, I never ignore messages. What I do, constantly, is get busy and emotionally distracted, and put off answering a little longer, and a little longer, and a little longer, until it becomes months or years or forever.

Second, I have one major piece of advice. Outline. Prep your story. Actually write it down, in a file or on paper. The beginning point. The ending point. Work out all the steps you need to get from one to the other. Then write down all the cool things you think of that you want in the book, and find a place to add them where they make sense. Look at what you have, figure out what the story needs, and adjust it.

Now you know what you're going to be writing, can't get lost, and can focus your motivation to actually sit down and write it. Plus, you can still add stuff as you go along, and even figure out where you can go back and add details to what you've already written.

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i see people talking about how grace chow in sinners (2025) is a metaphor for performative allyship and they never should have let her into club juke and idk i think perhaps she is an asian-american woman? and she was interacting with the black community in this film in the mode of and as a pretty sympathetic synecdoche for the long-standing and often fraught relationship between the african and asian diasporas in america? both interacting in an often transactional way—she was in club juke because she was hired to perform a service, a service she was willing to provide due to her position outside of whiteness, but a paid service nonetheless—and facing different forms of oppression, albeit from a common source. the chows don’t face systemic threats of violence and economic oppression to the same extent or in the same all-consuming way the black characters do, but they face more blatant threats based on sexual fetishization, and they experience significantly more isolation. the black characters have a wide-reaching community both to fall back on and that they must worry about, but grace chow has nothing in the world except for her husband and daughter—something that the film portrays as both a blessing and a curse for both parties

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Any tips for writing novels?

Also,, How do you get out of writers block?

Okay, first, I never ignore messages. What I do, constantly, is get busy and emotionally distracted, and put off answering a little longer, and a little longer, and a little longer, until it becomes months or years or forever.

Second, I have one major piece of advice. Outline. Prep your story. Actually write it down, in a file or on paper. The beginning point. The ending point. Work out all the steps you need to get from one to the other. Then write down all the cool things you think of that you want in the book, and find a place to add them where they make sense. Look at what you have, figure out what the story needs, and adjust it.

Now you know what you're going to be writing, can't get lost, and can focus your motivation to actually sit down and write it. Plus, you can still add stuff as you go along, and even figure out where you can go back and add details to what you've already written.

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Nary-a-Fish

Every now and then I take a look at ChatGPT to see how well it's going, and... "Sette Frummagem is the main protagonist of the webcomic Unsounded, created by Ashley Cope. She is a bold, foul-mouthed, and cunning young girl with a mysterious past and a strong will. Here's a breakdown of her character:

Key Traits and Background:

Age and Personality: Sette is a pre-teen girl with a loud personality, street-smart attitude, and a knack for manipulation. She's often funny, abrasive, and unfiltered in her speech.

Family: She is the daughter of Nary-A-Fish Frummagem, a notorious crime boss from the city of Sharteshane. Her upbringing in a criminal environment has made her clever and unscrupulous."

Close, buddy, close.

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