#in relation to the last reblog

[pepsi-phil]

[ossifer]

it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that

you're gonna get tired very quickly

tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—

you're not gonna be as composed as you expect

humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)

DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)

DO GET A SPEAR

knights are faster than you think

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Me…

Life in an Autism World

[crispyliza]

It's a real struggle

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

so five and lila being a thing is going right next to allison literally sexually assaulting luther in the box of things we are absolutely under no circumstances accepting as part of canon right

[muffinlance]

Wait wait wait BLIND ZUKO?!?!?! Why is this the first time hearing about it??????????? This obviously a major error on my part…but I am little confused…what is a sensitivity reader? are they like a beta reader, but someone who belongs to the blind community(is even calling it a community OK I don’t know how else to refer to it😅)? someone to make sure that what your writing is accurate??? Please educate me!!!

Basically that, yep. Sensitivity readers are a reasonably common practice in Serious Face fiction (...among writers and publishers who care about getting things right), but definitely not common in fanfiction, so it's no surprise if you haven't heard the term before--they're people from whatever group who are good at helping writers spot and correct when they're using harmful tropes related to the group(s) they're a part of (and offering suggestions to make things read more authentically).

Since people tend to spin off AUs of my fics (which is awesome and continues up be encouraged), I am putting in an effort to not totally screw up the Blind Zuko rep. Of all fandoms, Avatar should absolutely be a place blind fans can find themselves represented in and welcomed by.

On a related note, insert PSA here encouraging all Avatar artists and rebloggers of Avatar art to write alt text/image IDs. They're quick to write and they mean the world to the people who need them. Do it for Toph.

[sun-marie]

LRB but I'm replaying BG3 and Gale being on the knife's edge of Wholesome/"Dirty" is what makes him soo interesting to me. Like this is a man who, in two different versions of the same scene, can either sweetly and gently make love to your tav in a typical setting which transitions to a tasteful fade-to-black, or brings your tav's spirit along for a transcendent experience where he literally duplicates part of himself so he can have more parts to touch their parts in some crazy astral-soup sky world. And both are treated like valid expressions of his love!! Like the range they allowed him to express, he's not one or the other, he's both

[momochanners]

Haveta cook the fancy meals myself because can’t find a decent steakhouse in the boonies where I live now (unless I drive an hour plus to the state capital).

But family loved it, so I thank my past self for deciding to take up cooking as a hobby ☺️

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[celestialrealms]

🤨🤨🤨

[secondbeatsongs]

If you consider the fact that The Truman Show was released in 1998, and in universe they're celebrating the 30 year anniversary. The US introduced HD broadcasts _in_ 1998, so we could assume 30 straight years of SD video. An hour of SD video takes ballpark 250-300MB in a modern mp4 with H264 and AAC.

Which means you could store the entire truman show in about 80TB

(And that's before you wrap the torrent in a .rar)

ah but you see, based on the clips of the show that they showed in the movie, they were (somehow, don't worry about it) shooting on film! which can be scanned to many higher resolutions!

and my in-universe commentary assumed that someone (god help them) decided to scan all of that film in HD for the streaming and blu-ray releases. and when I go looking for TV shows, my ideal is at least 1GB/hr to get it in a decent bitrate (to avoid pixelation in darker scenes, or where there's a lot of motion).

so a bit over 30 years of scanned HD film footage, in a decent enough bitrate, would be at least 263TB, probably 300+ depending on who's doing the encoding, and what else they include (different audio tracks, subtitle files, etc).

(oh god. can you imagine the nightmare subtitles would have been for the truman show? 30 solid years of live captioning. horrifying.)

anyway, that's what I was basing my calculations on when I made the post

[butchdykekondraki]

hello fandom. in front of you is a completely normal woman who is comfortable in her sexuality. your job is to describe her without calling her any of the following; GIRLBOSS(!!!!!!),whore, slut, harlot, mommy, or a milf. you have 20 seconds before the saw trap goes off and eviscerates the lower half of your body. good luck

[slavhew]

fun fact the word "dirk" sounds exactly like the root of the croatian verb "drkati" which means to jack off

get the dirk brush here

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

I always save my favorite for last. What about you all?

The Spicy Autistic Femme

[nero-neptune]

idk how much stock i put into those "gen z is more conservative than past generations" think-pieces from a few years back. but it's very possible for a person: to believe that climate change is a problem, to support (or be part of) the LGBT community, to believe in universal healthcare and social services, to support religious tolerance, to fight for expanded housing and labor rights, etc etc etc, and still, like, unabashedly hate women on a level you wouldn't believe existed

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

man not to read too much into spahr's "there was a reason i picked him" about phineas but. i am always keeping in mind that spahr pulled phineas out of the delta personally. he didn't meet phineas as a prospective adsecla he met him as a scared little kid! maybe it wasn't so much that spahr actually thought phineas was the best choice as that he really wanted to believe he was. maybe without even being aware of it! how could he not want to believe in the rags to riches of it all? something that started with that scared little kid HE was able to help save? a tangible representation--beyond valor--of something good he did? but now of course that whole narrative has crumbled around him! phineas did something horrible (that was all spahr's fault as far as he's concerned) and now phineas is dead! that's it! story over! :)