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[liongoatsnake]

Website Update

“Symbols Found In The Alterhuman & Related Communities” – Our most recently created alterhuman related article. This 22-page document lists some (and information about each of them) of the symbols created throughout the history of alterhuman communities.

Can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UJKlWZH-fZ8l7FuD9RYUUkHqnEFJggN/view?usp=sharing

  “From the Blue Fleet” by Ocean Watcher – A 25-page about Ocean Watcher’s experiences as  a frilled shark & blue sea slug polytherian and Tetsu Hayami fictionkin (from the anime, Blue Submarine No. 6).

Can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UX2crVYAqYuzpLjlk5fYNy5UagicVtkv/view?usp=sharing

  “Iridescent Green Feathers and Scales” by Quatz – A 12-page personal essay by Quatz explaining a bit about being an emerald tree boa & resplendent quetzal polytherian (and thereby how being a polytherian leads him to also be an amphithere theriomythic). 

Can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18DwsVv3RYXJ5MMQQXqMWS5YDV_WmcG_A/view?usp=share_link

 (These and more are found linked on our website, The Chimeras Library, at https://houseofchimeras.neocities.org )

[whetstonefires]

Hi! I hope it's if ask three questions together: 21, 5 and 8 for that delightful fandom ask 💕

in that order!

21. a fandom you're not active in anymore but that you still really like

Oh, tricky! What does it mean to really like a fandom. I have so much affection for most of the ones I've been active in, but at the same time it's often the fandom rather than the source material I used up my enthusiasm for and departed.

Yu Yu Hakusho, maybe? I posted a lot of like, character study bits on ffdotnet for it back in high school and I often think if the fandom was more active I might circle back to it with my more developed writing chops.

I have a lot of beef with some of the fandom's conventions around shipping though so I may not be able to fairly say I love it.

Maybe Trigun. I couldn't get through episode one of the new anime though because they took my Millie, so I failed to join the renaissance.

5. something you see in fics a lot and love

Also hard! Just for the broad scope of the kinds of things that are in fics. But haha, I'm not responsible for figuring out the the intended thrust of the vague question! There are no penalties if I guess wrong!

I really like the bit in a fic when the writer ties their story down to the canon mid-stream. It's such a distinctive feeling, there's a practically kinetic gestural motion to it, that you can often sense it in fics you've never read the canon for. It works basically the same in contexts where you're tying your narrative to an existing non-copyrighted mythos, or doing your diligence as the writer of a licensed sequel. It's the narrative equivalent of showing your sources and flaunting your tailfeathers. The most basic level is just making a point of including Emotionally Significant Plot Object without feeling the need to re-explain its significance in detail because we all know, but it can get so elaborate.

The other day I was reading this fairly high-concept fantasy novel that's quite well done but I can't decide if I like it or not, and it started becoming clear around the halfway mark that one of the major characters had been Merlin this whole damn time and I hooted in satisfaction and outrage every time a new piece of confirmation dropped. Same kind of deal.

Anyway fic creates so much space to do elaborate things with the relationship-to-source-material and I love seeing people have fun with it.

8. you hope more people will come to appreciate _ (a ship, a trope, an episode, etc)

Hm. How beautifully fucked up Jiang Cheng is? This man is suffering so much and he's reasonably self-aware about it and this does not help in the least.

I think the self-awareness makes it worse, actually, because it means he's constantly on the brink of confronting the things he can't let himself think about straight on or he will have a massive fucking breakdown that he cannot afford.

Not enough recognition for how 90 percent of the time when Jiang Cheng is being awful he very clearly knows he's being awful and he kind of hates that and hates himself and is aware that his mom and dad issues are major drivers of this behavior. And none of that means he's able to stop.

It's such a unique hell. Appreciate.

I don't know why that was the first thing I thought of and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the kind of wish that was intended, but here we are.

[thietkewebmoi]

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[max1461]

I spend most of my internet time on YouTube. It's a good website, I like video. But it's gotten demonstrably worse in the past five(?) years. I've posted about this a thousand times because it bothers me so much.

I am not sure exactly what the cause is, maybe changes in the algorithm or maybe better optimization by creators, but YouTubers by and large seems to have shifted from content to "content". Everything on the platform seems to have less substance. It's showier but completely vapid.

Actually it's not quite that, it's more specific. Today, every video has to have a narrative, it has to have suspense and payoff, even if that's completely shoehorned.

A good example of this is Minecraft videos. I don't actually watch a lot of Minecraft videos, but the change is really easy to demonstrate in this genre. The bread and butter of Minecraft YouTube used to be tutorials and let's plays. Tutorials are relatively brief but high information density; the point of a tutorial is to share knowledge with the audience. Let's plays are slower-paced and lower information density, they provide a kind of relaxing background entertainment similar to certain podcasts. The point is to chill out to them. Game Grumps is just about the only big channel still making let's plays of this form (not for Minecraft, just... at all).

Today, both tutorials and let's plays are second fiddle to the ubiquitous challenge video. Challenge videos are brief but low information density. They fundamentally have nothing to say. They have titles like "is it possible to farm 10,000 wheat in Minecraft in a month???", and the creator will attempt the challenge, cut together clips of their exploits in a rapid, high-intensity style, and generally try to craft these clips into a "suspenseful" narrative. They want us to ask "oh no, will he be able to do it????" But the narrative is always cheap and boring because it's so plainly post hoc. These videos provide none of the genuine emergent narrative or casual humor/banter of a good let's play, and none of the information of a tutorial. They're just faux-suspense, faux challenge, all the meat cut out and nothing but the trappings left over. Meaningless.

All of YouTube is like this now. Every video title has to have Big Number. "I dug 10,000 blocks in Minecraft!!!" "I spent 1000 dollars on vending machines in Japan!!!!" "I wore 50lbs leg weights!!!!"

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Give me anything. It doesn't have to be art. Give me information, give me entertainment, give me humor. Give me something, anything, other than Big Number. I cannot express to you the degree I don't care about Big Number. I have never been curious about Big Number. FUCK OFF WITH BIG NUMBER. I don't care about challenges I don't care about Most and Best and Top and Biggest. How about New, Cool, Fun, or Charming? Anything but Most. My god, shut the fuck up about Most forever.

I'm a Most hater. Fuck Most for all eternity.

[triviallytrue]

I see the benefit in “was able to follow along each step and check for myself that the stated claim was true” but I’ve also seen people say the private vetting process can include things like “had a phone call with them where they fluently spoke the Palestinian dialect of Arabic” that can’t be checked by everyone, or “privately showed me their ID/birth certificate/bank info/official documents”, which probably shouldn’t be publicized. if these sorts of things (which seem fairly reliable if true) are indeed being involved in the process in at least some cases, how do you think people should vouch for that beyond a “trust me it’s vetted” without further clarification, or is it impossible to do so from your perspective since they could just lie?

so my suggested solution to these would be:

post a recording of the phone call, so that other Palestinian Arabic speakers can also attest that it's true

post redacted, watermarked versions of official documents

but you're getting at a very big problem: it takes a lot of information to vet people. the post i reblogged was only able to vet that one fundraiser because she's a PhD with a linkedin, instagram, tiktok, and pictures of her on a scientific organization's website. most people won't have that.

at a certain point, it also becomes a nightmare for the vetters (all or almost all of whom i suspect are just people trying their best in a horrific situation). if it takes an hour (or more) to fully vet one single gofundme, there are a single digit or low double digit number speakers of Palestinian Arabic on here with blog histories that stretch back before October 7th with the ability to vet people, and hundreds of gofundmes... well, you do the math.

this is the kind of work that is normally done by people who are paid to do it full-time, in a centralized fashion, not ad-hoc on the internet. amateurs are going to make mistakes - i've seen blogs successfully filtering out unsophisticated scammers, but this current discourse has already rooted out at least 3 scammers who made it onto the vetted lists. it's asymmetric - scammers can do this full time, hone their methods, figure out what exposed them last time and fix it, and overall iteratively improve the credibility of their scams, but vetters can't really keep raising the standards with the time and resources they have access to.

so unless we make the standards so high that they exclude many actual Palestinians (standards like the ones used in that ask), i think there will be some risk of even vetted fundraisers being scams. how big? 1%? 5%? 10%? i don't know, but it's definitely nonzero, and based on the uncovered scams so far, they are diverting thousands of dollars (possibly tens or hundreds of thousands) away from actual Palestinians.

which is why i think people should just donate to the UNRWA. there's a 100% chance your money will go to helping real Palestinians, and while it won't be as impactful for an individual as getting them across the Rafah crossing, that's only an option for a very small percentage of Palestinians anyway. as said before, there are 800,000 Palestinians in Rafah, something like 500 of which cross each day. those that can't cross and the Palestinians in other parts of Gaza deserve aid as well. people are at risk of starvation and have very limited access to medical care. donation to the UNRWA and organizations like it doesn't free anyone, but it does keep them alive, and the money doesn't end up in the pockets of corrupt Egyptian border officials who will wring every penny they can out of Palestinian refugees.

people are, of course, welcome to do whatever they want with their money, but those are my 2 cents.

[transmutationisms]

the fact that most content rules/guidelines online are de facto unenforceable at scale (because this would require a massive amount of human moderator labour, and would also kill a significant amount of actual website usage on most socmed platforms) means that when a site does something like delete or ban a user, and they want to justify that move post hoc, they can pretty much always just dig through that person's history and be guaranteed to find something that they can construe as dangerous/prohibited, even though it's invariably the kind of thing that lots of people post all the time. lazy fucking CYA

[txttletale]

the self-justifying and self-mythologizing that this website did about john green is actually ridiculous. tumblr users didn’t drive him off tumblr because of some righteous crusade because of some evil thing he did. they did it because it was funny to be mean to him. anything else people try to claim is post-hoc rationalization so they personally don’t feel bad for finding it funny

[dragonsbluee]

Arts organizations are a vital part of Palestinian resistance and an excellent place to begin learning about Palestinian culture, heritage and storytelling.

Freedom Theatre

Established in 2006 and conceptualized during the first Intifada as the Care and Learning program in the Jenin Refugee Camp.

Ways to donate here

Their volunteer page

The Voices Magazine, a youth magazine created by young people in the Jenin Refugee Camp and Jenin City.

The Cultural Intifada

A direct response to the unlawful arrest of Mustafa Sheta, producer of Freedom Theatre.

They have 14 demands as part of their cultural and artistic movement.

Encouraging performance protests.

Provide a creative toolbox of creative and practical resources.

Artists on the Frontline

Artists working for social and political change.

MAYDAY project for "artist-led citizen journalism"

Other Resources

Since I'm Canadian:

Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network

"advocates and advances academic research and artistic expressions on Palestine".

Tons of excellent articles, books, podcasts and interviews

Also read from Turtle Island to Gaza and look up Theatre Artists for Palestinian Voices, an ad hoc (for this) collective (no current website).

So many of us here are artists, and there are unique ways that we can use our skills/abilities to contribute. Use this post as a starting point to learn more and get involved where you can.

[dovs-dash]

Ad-Hoc Altar to Loki

I’ve dabbled in Atheistic forms of Paganism and Witchcraft this past year but kind of fell off of it. That’s changed recently. After reading a rather infuriating post about witchcraft on a religious website (ex-orthodox jewish here) I made this impromptu altar to Loki.

I read that snakes and knots are associated with him, and the coiled rope is meant to evoke both. The Hershey’s kisses are because he enjoys sweet things. The fool card was suggested by a friend for my intentions with this altar. I wanted him to come (so to speak) and to spend a bit of time with me. Ditto with the red candle.

I found this fulfilling. I may present more offerings to him in the future

[yoongsisbae]

C!HOC Chapter 5 Teaser

‘LOG IN ERROR.’

Ugh. Any other day you would have thrown your phone on the ground in frustration. Today, instead, you hold the electronic between your fingers in a death grip, resisting the urge to make a scene. Your leg can’t stop shaking, foot tapping against the plush red carpet of the vast changing room you have hidden yourself in. 

You try again, cautiously and slowly entering your email and password, biting your nails as the website loads again.

‘LOG IN ERROR.’

What the fuck. You’ve already reset your password, you’ve checked twice and there’s nothing wrong with the cell service, and none of the other girls you’ve asked seem to be having an issue with navigating House of Cards dot com-

Why can’t you log in?! You rest your head on the palm of your hand, disappointed. 

You catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, the makeup you had so meticulously put on earlier makes you feel like a clown. And like a clown, in the hour you’re expected to slap on a happy face and go put on a show.

How are you to contact him now?

You just want to meet him.

You just want to see him.

You just want to hold him.

User, Suga.

[liongoatsnake]

Website Update

Our multiple system updated our website!  Things added: - A new version of Darahagh’s "What Being A Phytanthrope Is To Me" (Now with hopefully less typos or weird grammar.)

- a new document, “Symbols Found Within the Alterhuman & Related Communities” (Its nothing fancy but we hope people like it and find it useful.)

[tanadrin]

thinkin about migrating my fiction and worldbuilding and stuff to a standalone website as a hedge against tumblr blowing up, and maybe to make it more accessible. using tumblr as an ad hoc cms for that stuff and as general purpose blog and as place for goofy shitposts kind of makes it hard to navigate.

[thietkewebmoi]

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[sunscreenstudies]

Iconic Things My Coding Professors Have Said (Part 5 - still going strong!)

"you shouldn't be too worried about warnings. You should be very worried about errors, but warnings are usually there to be ignored"

Student: "could you please reiterate your conclusion for that last graph?"   Prof: "sure! the conclusion is, this graph is a mess"

"this is the library that you will love and curse time after time again and again"

"the larger the sample, the more even the distribution, OR the prettier the distribution. the same thing should be applied to people but often it is not because humanity sucks"

Prof: "We had a stdent in the first year who's now driving a really fancy car all because we taught her R"    Student: "A really fancy car?"   Prof: "REALLY fancy. That's my way of saying now she's rich. You think she'd give me the fancy car for teaching her but no. You're welcome, Rebecca"

"we're never really sure when something is an outlier, that's usually a very ad-hoc decision"

"its been three years since i last used chalk on a blackboard because of covid. now i finally feel like i'm living again, using chalk without care, using chalk with, if i may be so bold, utter abandon"

"There's new types of statistics now. You might have heard of bayesian statistics. That's very popular right now, and very hipster"

Prof 1: "Let's see what the dimensions of the smallest book in this dataset is. And it's... zero?"   *prof 2 nods*   Prof 1: "how?!"   *prof 2 stops nodding*   Prof 2: "... i think there's a problem with our dataset"   Prof 1: "yeah, so do I, but you were nodding VERY confidently so I was worried I was going insane"

"so if you want to read more about this article yourself, i've included the link to this lovely helpful website called "callingbullshit.org". it truly is one of a kind"

“probability was invented by gamblers, and i am very good at probability. make of that, what you will"

Student: "Why is it called the mode?"   Prof: "What do you mean?"   Student: "Why is the mode called the mode"   *silence, then professor gives a long drawn-out sigh*   Prof: "the term mode originates with Karl Pearson in 1895. Pearson uses the term mode interchangeably with maximum-ordinate. in one of his research logs, he says I have found it convenient to use the term mode for the abscissa corresponding to the ordinate of maximum frequency-”   *fifteen minutes of explination later*   Prof: “... every single year someone asks that question, so i just learned off the wikipedia answer to it”

"the mean and median may seem rather arbitary and, in many ways, they are because it's difficult to say where they came from mathemtically speaking, but a mean in particular has a very instinctual meaning... especially in gambling. A LOT of statistics comes from gambling”

"this formula looks complicated and i know i promised we wouldn't do any meth- MATH, any MATH"

"You see how these python notebooks are full of little jokes? humor is very important to maintain sanity in coding"

PPT Slide: "Do NOT use pie charts. If you use pie charts, then I will fail you. Thanks in advance."   Prof 1: "... okay then. I actually didn't write this, is this is a pet peeves of yours, Prof 2?"   Prof 2: "No. No no no. This isn’t a pet peeve, THIS is based on scientific facts"   Prof 1: "What type of science tells you to never use pie charts?"   Prof 2: "My science. They're the comic sans of statistics!"

"if you know nothing about machine learning then this will be a life changing course for you, but everything with me is life changing- NOPE. i heard it as soon as i said it, please don’t report me"

"the line here is... well, it's doing its best, but its not really suceeding, is it? ... much like half of this class"

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7  | Part 8

Part 9  | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14

[the-mononoke-facade]

I’ve been meaning to ask for a while – you purchased the digital copy of Mononoke Shu from Bookwalker, yes?

How easily can you purchase it with non-Japanese currency? And is the format a downloadable PDF of sorts? I’m trying to find a more affordable/shipping-free alternative to getting my Mononoke merch fix ;u;

Yeah, I got it from Bookwalker for around $5 USD

I had to use google translate to figure out what it was saying while I was going through the checkout (it's only on the Japanese side of website so it's not translated), but other than having to run it through that, it was a pretty standard online shopping experience, just make the account if you don't have one already and then go through the putting in the payment info and then you can grab the book whenever you want from your account. The price is listed in yen but they don't seem to have an issue converting to dollars or euros

Annoyingly, if you do buy it through Bookwalker, they have a proprietary file format they use to where you can only view it on their website or their mobile app, which if your internet is reliable is...okay, but it's not like you can download it and access it and you own it, you're pretty much just buying access to it on Bookwalker. On the other hand (and I'm not saying you *should* do this necessarily but I will put it out there) there's nothing stopping you from going into the browser version of their reader and using the snipping tool on any part of the page you might find interesting...or the whole page...or flipping through and getting every page to ad hoc an offline version for use. You know. Hypothetically. It's not like Crunchyroll where it'll block out the contents of the screen when you're using any kind of screen recording tool. So...there is that. Again, hypothetically, do with that information what you will

Hope this helps :)

(And if you're looking for other shipping-free merch and don't already have them, I know that the manga adaptions for the show are on Bookwalker too, probably with the same deal, but I haven't actually nabbed those just yet. I sure do know that they went out of their way to make the medicine vendor real pretty though)