#gnu project

[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy en al tecnología (27 de septiembre)

También el 27 de septiembre de 1983, Richard Stallman publica el Manifiesto GNU en net.unix-wizards dando comienzo al Movimiento por el Software Libre. Del proyecto original al actual no queda casi nada. #retrocomputingmx #GNUProject #RichardStallman

[bynux]

The GNU mascot is just Richard Stallman's fursona.

[kakurady]

The GNU project was announced on this day 40 years ago. Happy birthday GNU!

[arkodianart]

My first embroidery piece for Hogfather. 😊❤️

It resembles an atom, but with electrons orbiting teeth and coins and the quote "show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy" written in a circle around it.

[magpiesketchins]

I also think Sam Vimes would really like watching Bluey with his son and I think it would make him cry

[runfreebirdrun]

Discworld Update: done with The Truth! thought it was very fun. big Otto fan.

next i'm off to Monstrous Regiment, hope i make it out with my gender intact

[empty-dream]

My favorite OP music of 2023 animated series (that I follow)

[redwyverndht]

what does gnu Terry Pratchett mean. im tangentially aware of Discworld but is it like his title, or is it like something postmortem like "good night, uncle" Terry Pratchett

[chiarrara]

one time i listened to first love/late spring by mitski for i kid you not, six hours straight as i read and wrote a comment on one of my favorite fics this year, so if that's not my top song on spotify wrapped there's something truly disturbing im forgetting

[megid0nt]

[arenaconspiracy]

W.I.P.

(blender screenshots)

textures are work in progress, the rings i plan to remake entirely

wasn't sure what to do with the UVs for a long time

and still am not

wireframes

the rings say stuff

planning on remaking the ring texture entirely, i'm very aware of the fact that it doesn't loop and is hard to read.

[weberina]

Attended the Pratchett Project Culture Night via Zoom this evening. What a treat. Very stimulating. And I loved seeing the last speaker gushing about Nanny Ogg in Tumblrina fashion 😄 (gush nerd gush squeal, then apologise)

Also thank you @betterthanapokeintheeye for sharing info about the event. I'd never have known about it otherwise.

[sithbelle]

I don't think I've ever had a book make me cry before (and I'd like to think I've read a lot of books in my day), but The Shepherd's Crown had me bawling like a baby.

This book was simultaneously wonderful and very hard to get through. You can feel Pratchett's sense of running out of time, and I'd like to think he wrote the beginning of the story as a little window into how he'd like to go himself.

And now I'm done with my little project, and I'm feeling a bit lost. My original plan was to reread my own book now. After 41 wonderful novels, any weaknesses in my own tellings should be glaringly obvious.

But for tonight, I'm going to mourn the loss of such a brilliant storyteller and step away from reading for a minute.

GNU Terry Pratchett. May whatever heavens you land in love your stories as much as we do.

[burningcheese-merchant]

BurningCheese/GoldenSpice Playlist

Ok, time to stop being a bitch and post the ship playlist I keep harping on about already.

Gonna mark each song with an emoji to signify if it's meant to either be Burning Spice's POV (🔺) or Golden Cheese's (🧀). It's also going to be band/singer name first, song name second, for ease of understanding

Thank you to everyone who's reached out to me, both on here and on AO3, with song suggestions! A good chunk of these came from me myself, but a lot of people introduced me to plenty more songs that I loved and agreed suited these two perfectly. It's been fun putting a playlist together with this help, it feels like a fun group project now lol. (Hell, you guys are actually helping me think of new writing material. Music is a huge source of inspiration and creativity for me, as I'm sure you've noticed. In a way, you're all indirectly making fic requests lol)

You're all still more than welcome to keep shooting me song ideas to add, the playlist is ever-expanding! I'll just come back to this post and edit any new additions in. (This playlist is 3x longer than my PitayaFire one. I need you all to understand how big of a deal that is for me personally. I never thought I'd be this down bad for a ship besides that one. It's fucking surreal)

Some of it is meant to sound one-sided, others like it's a mutual love/relationship. I'll let you guess which is which lol. Now rock out to Evil Spice Man x Pretty Cheese Lady with me 🤘🤘🤘

Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up🔺

Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care🔺(with the Wild Spice crew as the backup singers!!!)

Mariah Carey - Obsessed 🧀

Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You🔺🧀

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance🔺🧀

Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)🔺

Mindless Self Indulgence - What Do They Know?🔺

Britney Spears - Toxic 🧀

Fish in a Birdcage - Rule #34🔺(this is also a great PureShadow song ngl. It's how it was first introduced to me, even lol)

Shayfer James - Filthy Habit🔺

King Gnu - SPECIALZ🔺🧀 (look up the English version of the lyrics. Very BurningCheese-core imo)

Mindless Self Indulgence - This Hurts🔺

Jack Black - Peaches🔺(shout out to the anon in my inbox who suggested this. Joke's on them, I had this on the playlist right from the start lolololololol)

Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?🔺

Lady Gaga - Poker Face 🧀

Olly Murs (feat. Flo Rida) - Troublemaker 🧀

Rihanna - Where Have You Been🔺(fun fact: I had this playing on a loop as I wrote "Our Little Dance" to get into the Yandere Spice mindset lol)

Lady Gaga - Judas 🧀

Miike Snow - Genghis Khan🔺

The Orion Experience - Obsessed With You🔺(this song is just really funny. You can probably apply it to all Beast x Ancient ships tbh)

Nine Inch Nails - Closer🔺

Mindless Self Indulgence - 5TR82HE11🔺

Air Traffic Controller - This Is Love🔺

Bad Omens - THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND🔺🧀

Isabel LaRosa - favorite 🧀

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch🔺(listen I imagined Spice singing this to Golden and just started howling with laughter, it's fucking hysterical ok)

ENHYPEN - Bite Me🔺

Scissor Sisters - I Can't Decide🔺(GC would sing a few parts tho)

5 Seconds of Summer - Teeth🔺🧀 (mostly Spice though)

Buerak - Культ Тела 🔺(look up English lyrics, very Yandere Spice coded. Thank you to the anon who suggested it)

Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango🔺

Lady Gaga - Disease 🧀

G-Eazy (with Halsey) - Him & I🔺🧀

Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time🔺(imagine Spice singing this while stuck in prison. Please. He's singing and the other Beasts want to off themselves because it's so annoying and he won't stop. Please it is so funny. I have so much fun imagining this freak acting stupid-)

[embracing-the-ineffable]

Ah yes, the joy of group projects 😅

"When two people work on a book, it isn't a case where each one does 50% of the work. Each one does 100% of the work."

(But also, "The nice thing about collaborating is that there is one other person in the world who is thinking about the exact same thing that you are thinking about.")

Another Sir Terry Pratchett interview on the details of writing Good Omens with Neil Gaiman. (More about this process x).

Question about how he goes about collaborating with someone else .

Terry: “You make them do what you want”.

Gary Cornell came up with something very apposite talking about working together, he says : It’s not that (each) of you does 50% of the work, each of you does 90% of the work.

Um. The way we did it then, and I can’t really speak as an expert because it's the only time I’ve ever done it and other people do it in different ways, it wasn’t a case of, the way the Americans tend to do it, um, is one person writes a draft and the other person goes in and noodles with that draft. We did the whole thing from the ground up; each was doing bits. The ad hoc way we had of working, it’s simple: I’ve got a track record writing novels, Neil hadn’t. So I became like the editor, the taskmaster. Because the other thing is the practical problem about two people 120 miles apart doing something, is that, um, it would be different now, but in those days we had no reliable means of electronic communication. We could connect computers together with modems and then spend the whole evening at cross purpose and ringing each other up and saying “I’m getting lots of little faces and shit like that all over..”

Three quarters of an hour and about eight phone calls, you actually managed to transmit about 2000 words you could have actually phoned and sneezed in a morse code.

[w]hen we were doing the first draft of the film script, we were both members of CompuServe so crappy our BT rural lines that the quick efficient way was for me to go into CompuServe and leave the work I’d done in Neil’s mailbox on the computer in Ohio or someplace and later that evening he would dial CompuServe in America and download it from Ohio or wherever it was.

So in order to get the script 120 miles, electronically it was doing about 10000. This is from the global village.

What we would do is I would hold the master copy and sometimes work would have to stop for 24 hours because stuff was in the post, because the nightmare, the absolute nightmare which I knew would happen if we let it, was that somehow we’d end up with two master copies in existence with little, minute changes, and we’d never be able to spot which was which.

So the last thing we wanted was two master copies, and we worked on the phone who did what. I did a bit more than Neil, of that anyway. But, it also felt to me to be an awful lot of the glue that no one wanted to do because it was easy to do set piece scenes and written on a kind of, on the kind of plot somewhere you get A and B to F and X and Y across to C T. And that really is like 3000 words where you have to move people around and then,you know, shove extra bits in; so I ended up probably doing near 75% of the book.

I would probably say because it’s, because had we’ve done it any other way it would’ve been like three months longer to do.

Also part of the process from another interview with Terry Pratchett:

Q: Let's talk a bit about the book you collaborated with Neil Gaiman on: Good Omens. That was before email, so how did it work on a practical basis? What was the most challenging aspect of writing with someone else?

I'm sure what I have to say will echo what Neil has said. When two people work on a book, it isn't a case where each one does 50% of the work. Each one does 100% of the work. There are some bits in Good Omens which I know are mine. There are some bits in Good Omens which I know are Neil's. There are some bits which were Neil's idea which I wrote, and there are some bits which were my idea which Neil wrote. Some bits we no longer know exactly whose ideas they were, or who wrote them. By the time we'd gone through all the drafts, it had been written by some sort of composite entity. We wrote it in the 14th century. We each had one phone line and a 1200 baud modem. We'd work it out: "OK, you send, I'll receive." Sometimes it would take 20 minutes to half an hour before we could send the stuff. It would have been cheaper and easier to have rung each other up and sneezed out the text in Morse Code. I was the Keeper of the Disks. I insisted that there should only be one official version in existence at any time. The moment it split into two, we would be in dead trouble. But Neil would sometimes send me a disk with 2000 words, saying " This is the scene with so and so -- insert it here." It more or less worked. It took us about six weeks to do the first draft. I think it worked because, at the time, we were each making a name for ourselves in our respective fields. It's not that we didn't take it seriously. But we were relaxed. We thought we would earn some holiday money by doing it. The nice thing about collaborating is that there is one other person in the world who is thinking about the exact same thing that you are thinking about. We both have a similar reading background, I suppose. It was quite rare when one of us came up with something that the other guy didn't know about. So we could bounce ideas off one another quite easily.

[etherealrin]

HI im the one who asked for stargazing !!! AND IT WAS SO GOOD 😭💗 you’re so talented !! i love your writing so much and it def had me kicking my feet & giggling 🤭 so this isn’t really a request but more of me wanting to pick your brain on what kind of songs Rin would listen to? You nailed it with stargazing 😭😭

ᯓ★ thinking about itoshi rin's playlist?!

omg u have no idea how much i love a request like this, i’ll just get straight to it!

to begin with he 100% uses wired earbuds or some kind of headphones, he likes to make it obvious he's listening to music to avoid conversations.

it’s stated that he likes king gnu in his profile so definitely prayer x by king gnu.

i also personally hc that he listens to a lot of keshi, specifically less of you, skeletons, more, bandaids (live sessions), and like i need u. (wrote about him to some keshi here and here!)

other songs i see include: friends, slow down, and consume by chase atlantic, cherry flavored by the neighborhood, slow dancing in the dark and 1AM freestyle by joji, not around by nova, absence by mixed matches, and i also like to believe he likes beabadoobee, specifically beaches, california, and 10:36. i’d also think he listens to more rock/pop rock, maybe if you can’t hang by sleeping with sirens, watch what happens next by waterparks, and circles by pierce the veil. also cigarettes after sex, like their entire discography...

bonus: his pregame hype playlist includes magic johnson by ian, XO tour llif3 by lil uzi vert, and trance by metro boomin.

a/n: tysm for your kind words anon ilysm! and i’m so glad that you enjoyed the fic, it really means a lot to me 💌 also this may have been self projection because i personally like all of these songs, lmk how i did LOL. ALSO if you've never head the keshi bandaids and alright live sessions u are missing out do urself a favor and search it up on spotify.

+ anon if u would like an emoji pls give urself one i'd love to start that!

masterlist!