#browser bookmarks

[curious-daydreaming-being]

ADHD and Squirrel anaology

Everyone associates ADHD with squirrels to tell that example where they get distracted by a squirrel.

I am talking about something different.

When I am in this mood i don't have a name for, I will do Google search about topics that intrest me. Will I pursue it till end? No. I will feel like I hit a brick wall and I will just stop. Probably due to information overload or exhaustion. Don't assume that it's so much research if it makes me exhausted. It would be 10 minutes at most.

Then I will save the research in bookmarks. Thinking that I will check them later. Just like a squirrel buries it's seeds to eat later.

Will I open them again? No. Then in a very rare occasion, which happens no-one-knows-when, will happen and I see my bookmarks. Only I will have no idea what the hell of a website I bookmarked and for what.

I will post my bookmarks, and see the diverse topics. But I never have the energy or..whatever it is you require to complete a task. I will forget about them entirely. Just like a squirrel forgets it's seeds.

But atleast the squirrel's seeds germinate. My bookmarks though, rot in my browser, forever.

[msilverstar]

Whoops, I didn't see the leave the tab open option, I do that along with mark for later and saving a browser bookmark. Sometimes all of them for the same fic! But for me, bookmarks mean I want other people to read this.

[mylittleredgirl]

look. look. there was a livejournal comment ficlet i wrote once for stargate atlantis. i couldn't find it when i first made a fic index on livejournal in 2011. looked again when i started archiving on ao3. searched again every time i remembered that i still have a livejournal. i'm telling you this thing stuck in my memory banks for no reason except that i could SEE IT i KNEW it was in my journal and not someone else's and i could. not. find it. it's like 500 words of angst and i remembered it being even shorter, like it was not worth all of this!!! but it was symbolic white whale of all the long-lost livejournal comment ficlets.

and today i decided to organize my browser bookmarks for the first time in living memory and it was in there the entire time.

(ao3 link below, but in the spirit of ephemeral livejournal comment ficlets it's also below the readmore)

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Brother

(579 words, gen, angst, elizabeth weir lives)

Ford hesitates before saying, "I found something you might want."

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They don't bring Aiden Ford home. He brings himself back after almost six years. When he looks Sheppard in the eye, John thinks the man might throw a punch. And he is a man, not a kid anymore. His face is scarred. He's been clean two years. He knew the location of Atlantis almost all that time – It's not as well-hidden as you think – but it took this long to choose to come home. He lets Beckett – the new Beckett – examine him. He tells Woolsey and Sheppard where he was, what he did, helping a few different worlds, militia to militia.

Sheppard can't feel a thing – relief, guilt, confusion, nothing. He hasn't felt much in a while, going through the years by going through the motions. Even with that, he's aware that this is extreme. Normally, he can at least feel anger. This man was his second-in-command, his enthusiastic right hand, his responsibility. He didn't come home, not even when he could. Not even, he learns, when Ford saw them on a planet, Sheppard and McKay joking around, Teyla and Ronon walking the perimeter. Teyla presses her forehead to Ford's. He lets her. It doesn't soften the glare on his face. "Why now?" John finally asks. Ford hesitates before saying, "I found something you might want." He found Elizabeth. At first, Ford only lets Beckett see her, and only on the planet where he's holed up in a Wraith-damaged village where they treat him like one of their own. Teyla pieces together the story. Ford found out about her, bribed and threatened his way across the galaxy for information. Rescued her, with these natives and their antiquated weapons. Brought her here. "He must not have known that she's dangerous," McKay assumes aloud. The enemy is inside her and can't be taken out. John shakes his head. Ford was at the SGC when the human-form replicators first appeared on the scene – different than the Asurans, but the same. Ford knew, and he did it anyway. Ford won't let them in the hut without handing over their weapons. "We're not going to hurt her," John snaps, insulted at the implication, but if that were a guarantee, it would be easy to disarm. She's dangerous. Beckett says she's unconscious – malnourished, close to organ failure, mental effects unknown, but the replicators inside her aren't actively replicating. Ford fed her the same Wraith toxin that nearly killed him, and her drug-bolstered immune system and the replicators fought each other to a stalemate. She'll suffer withdrawal, according to Beckett, just like Ford did. That sounds like the least of her problems. "She's my responsibility now," Ford insists. McKay obviously winces. John doesn't. "You need our help to cure her," John points out. "Beckett's help." Beckett, who still isn't the same. Ford, whose motivations are foreign, and who wants them unarmed on his terms. Elizabeth, who might still die. "But if you want to see her, no weapons." Without waiting for John's okay, Teyla hands over her gun and says, soothing, "You can trust us. And I trust you." John grudgingly hands over his weapons, one by one. He goes to follow Teyla into the hut when Ford's hand clamps around his arm. "I left," he says, low and dangerous and full of old betrayal. "I get that. No matter what happened to me. But this was Doctor Weir. And you left her." Right then, inconveniently, two steps from seeing her, John starts to feel again.

[wifihunters]

merry christmas to me i have now checked off "built new pc from scratch and didn't Fuck It Up" from my life achievements

[randobambo]

When Chrome fails to restore my 300+ tabs across 8 windows and I'm finally free to migrate to Firefox

[rorydrawsandwrites]

So Google's been trying to smother uBlock in their browser. Had to go into my extensions' settings to turn it back on, I thought I couldn't

Wow. Scummy

[perilegs]

i had a long spiel about how good firefox is especially compared to chrome (or any chromium browsers) at work last week and today i got a message from a co worker who had downloaded firefox and is freaking out about how much faster and better it is <33

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

accidentally forgot to mark a recent ao3 crosspost as for registered users only and was surprised by how many hits it had by the time I went back to change it. not like a LOT but comparable to ones that have been up longer. makes me wonder how many people ARE in fact browsing fic while not logged in

[kikiknits]

Shameless pics of the lemon squares I made today 🍋

[lesbianraskolnikov]

Artfight has an attack button on characters now..game changer

[leohtttbriar]

Once a month or so I remember you wrote the most moving Franchaela fic and I become grateful to you all over again. Keep being amazing, and please let us all all know if you write anything else, especially genre fiction.

jesus this is so kind i don't even know what to say!! thank you so much for reading that fic and for being so so kind and so on--it really means so much, especially coming from someone i know is a good writer <3

[furballfaggot]

CAN MY STUPID YAOI RECTANGLE CHARGE FASTER BRO

[asakurahaos]

i gave my mom my tablet to look something up and she handed it back over with a panicked sound, which made me think she just needed help navigating a site, but she pushed it away, so i was a bit shocked.. turns out she somehow opened THIRTY tabs of ao3 and was met with ao3's tos/privacy policy agreement page 😭

[clumsypuppy]

HOW can you be bad at being a furry???????

IDK BUT I AM

[youtappedout]

[paradoxspaceheater]

why is ao3 so unusable on mobile these days...