#floppy writes

[hahskeleton]

No Good, Chapter 22; Snow

[chasedeys]

ja’marr after mike’s griddy: I want to ban him from doing it

tee’marr after joe’s griddy: IT LOOKED GOOD!!!

please😭😭😭 just say ur in love with your boyfriend already

i'm cryinggg why are these grown men coming to him asking him to grade their (awful) attempt at his celly 😭 the burden of being gorgeous and talented and popular i suppose 🙂

truly the BIASSSSS it's hilarious mike stay strong buddy my personal hc because i Notice Stuff is that mike has a harmless stupid little crush on ja'marr lmao bc mike constantly mentions ja'marr (his bengals breakdown vid. the whole griddy pointing at ja'marr thing. that bengals christmas wish vid literally the only one to mention ja'marr saying merry christmas for whatever reason. just. really cute stuff to think of.) and honestly joe too tbh (makes sense star players inescapable charisma talent drop dead gorgeous etc).

but ANYWAYS did you know that one of the bengals articles described joemarr's connection as 'some kind of six-year Cajun ESP' LMAOOOOOO and then they went on to highlight joe and mike's thing as some sort of jersey connect at first sight thing 😭 man sometimes bengals writers are just. like us. gay shippers. you know. i feel like they would really enjoy being here if they suspend just the slightest of disbelief.

[heardsomedickwasbeinmeantoyou]

buck's hands instinctively reaching up to hold eddie's beautiful face as they makeout dirtystyle for the first time since their tentative first kiss, before he finds his fingers threading themselves through the strands of eddie's gelled back hair of their own accord to muss it up nicely, because he's been dying to muss it and eddie up good and proper for a while now, and he smiles into it as his tongue battles his best friend's for dominance—only nobody is losing here, everybody wins and will just keep on winning, over and over, so buck grins like a madman as he grabs at the longer strands of eddie's bangs and pulls, just a little, just as eddie's big, big hands grab at buck's hips to pull them flush against his own...

and they're both hard now, both moaning as buck pulls eddie's hair a little harder to make both their dicks a lot harder, and eddie says “yeah buck, just like that” and buck answers “fuck yes” and yanks eddie's hair harder still as he sucks on eddie's throat like a damn vamp and eddie starts fucking their clothed dicks together, hard and fast, and then they're kissing again only it's not really kissing it's just tongues lapping and teeth against teeth and sharing saliva and each other's rapid, rabid hot breaths, and when buck's hips stutter eddie breathes “you're so good, buck” right into buck's mouth—and then buck is instantly coming in his pants, convulsing and whimpering and crying with it, which only serves to cause eddie to go stock-still and stop breathing as his wide eyes catch buck's heavy-lidded gaze and buck musters his strength to pull eddie's hair again, really hard this time, and says “i'll love you forever, eddie” and then eddie's coming too, like a wild thing, growling low and long as buck's dick twitches with aftershocks and keeps bumping up against eddie's until eddie is smiling into buck's smile, eddie now coming down too, and then eddie is wrapping his arms around buck's shoulders to take the weight of both of them before they almost black out and start to slowly slump down the wall buck had crowded eddie into when eddie had innocently run a hand through his hair an indeterminate amount of moments ago

[cellard0ors]

I want it well understood that when I write young!Travis in the 80s in the Cards and Full Deck verse, THIS is exactly how I picture Travis

[blenselche]

what if his hair scythe gets stiff when he's drunk tho

[eliteseven]

Just wanted to say you write the dialogue of the tadpole gang so accurately! Lae'zel had me in tears!

!!!! AHHHH 🥹��� this means SO much to me!!!! Thank you so very much!!! I always get so nervous writing the whole group (which is why I’ve put off writing the wedding for like…forever- I’ve built it into this grand event in my mind lmao). I’m glad it reads naturally and (at least sort of) complies with their personalities in canon.

This and one other drabble are probs my last NobleHeart pieces for the foreseeable future tho. I love my girlies to death but I lost my job and I’m currently job hunting (yes I want to die), and it’s a timesuck. so I’m glad it got to include a lot of the gang, in hindsight! Like a little family reunion ☺️

I wanted to go back and add Wyll and Karlach but I thought they’d be too much of a comfort to Tav and calm her down too much lmfao. She needed someone who was gonna stir the pot 😈

[magdaluxe]

nothing good comes from a house fire. but it wasnt a house fire actually. whatever

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia.

I want to ask— do you backup your wips? How do you do it?

I know there are things like Cloud and Dropbox but those are practically at the mercy of big corporations and with ai scraping now being the norm it feels risky saving work with online backup.

Do you use a USB instead?

Unfortunately nothing is risk-free these days.

I once saved a story to three different USBs, all different brands, and they all corrupted. Not all at the same time, but they all eventually lost the data. This was over a period of ten years, but of course some people have been relying on USBs etc. for this long now. Same with CDs burnt with data (something we used to do before USBs were cheap).

In fact a new study shows that over half of all external hard drives and USBs over a certain age (I think around 5 years) are already corrupted and often not being checked enough to check if they're still containing/keeping the data necessary. (To say nothing of entire batches of like Seagate and other brands being notorious for literally just...losing data and corrupting at any point in time - which is an issue for actual hard drives within the computer as well).

USBs and external HDs aren't necessarily safer.

In general it's a good idea to back up in three places, though this still isn't enough to guarantee safety. Those three places should be: a) hard copy (i.e. USB or external hard-drive), b) cloud copy (i.e. Dropbox etc.), c) on the machine itself (if it's a desktop). You can sometimes do like, a + a + c or b + b + a etc.

It still doesn't guarantee preservation of data! I think that's the hardest thing about preserving data and back-ups overall.

I have an extra bonus 'back up' in that 99.5% of all my writing is already public. And that a lot of that writing has additionally been snapshotted into the Wayback Machine. If all my methods somehow corrupted or failed, I could literally copy/paste my stories from AO3 back into Word documents (in fact I've actually done this before because I frequently go back in and edit AO3 chapters for typos etc. but don't mirror those changes in the original documents, so sometimes if I want to update a story, I'll copy/paste the AO3 chapter and override the original document).

Anyway, I use Dropbox Business (cloud), hard external copy (though not as often as I should), desktop version, and then also the AO3 version. Dropbox Business has additional data recovery protections that general Dropbox accounts don't.

We are always at the mercy of big corporations, anon. Big corporations make USBs. They make faulty external hard-drives that we sometimes mistakenly trust. Like no, they're not scraping for AI the same way, but I no longer believe - unfortunately - that this is truly preventable. Short of going a grassroots Linux direction, which...I can't, lol.

(This is a reminder to all writers: Back-up your writing! The beginning of the year is a good time to remember to do it, if you're not doing it every 3 months).

(And also, check all your USB/external hard drives! And make sure they're not your only source for that content, because you would not believe how much they degrade over time.)

If I ever needed a 5th option, I host my own domain and have done so through the same company for over 10 years with very high fidelity, and I would just dump it all into a database there so I could pull it back if necessary. That's not ideal (it's probably the easiest way I could be hacked because I check into the cpanel the least often), but it's doable.

But yeah I've been Dropbox Business for a long time. I don't like everything about them, but I trust them a lot more than Microsoft OneDrive (which I refuse to use) and many other cloud networks.

As for AI scraping, since 99.5% of my stuff is on AO3, it's already been scraped, and it's delusional of me to think it hasn't been. I have already had the majority of my art scraped into Midjourney, so sadly I've reached a level of disgusted acceptance that the gormless unethical billionaires of the world will just do what they want. If it has an internet connection to it, it's probably been scraped or will be scraped and putting something on a USB isn't going to stop that, because it needs to come off a USB if I want to work on an ongoing story.

[cyclogenesis]

ryan reynolds photos i've been fixating on lately 27/∞

[aeb-art]

is this out of character? yeah a little, but i'm laughing so

finally got to draw @8um8le's mall toons again 🥺💕 i missed them so much

[tiahnaparisart]

Byrne's Big Business: How a Simple Suit Stopped Making Sense and Became a Societal Symbol

(don't you just love a whimsical title?)

The whole piece is quite long as I wrote self-indulgently, so feel free to read the whole thing or skim through it a little. A flippable version as well as the full PDF with references are available at my Ko-Fi (access via link in bio).

[mallalada]

trying to write an essay without actually having a grip on what your gay little thesis is. such a bad idea never do this

[mysticfemme]

I need to be fingered until I'm crying and whining because it feels so good and when I think we're both too exhausted to carry on, they just flip me onto my front and start lazily fucking me all over again

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent lounging babey images

[bowlerhatwearer]

Thinking about the concept of an alternative earth, where instead of computers and related media getting replaced by more modern devices, the older ones got improved side by side with the modern ones, without being changed much.

For example, floppy disks still exist, with newer ones having the same amount of memories as CDs, USB flash drives or SD memory cards.

Because of this, Floppy Disk drives or whole systems relying on them didn't have to be replaced. Sometimes, they only had to be a bit modified

Would anyone be interested to hear more about this?

[impishtubist]

Stayed up way too late reading fanfic for a fandom I have never read/watched the source material for all because pretty art keeps crossing my dash. Tonight? More of the same.