#os notes

[c-rowlesdraws]

I swear to god computer people talking online about how easy computers/linux are are just that xkcd comic about experts in a field overestimating a layperson’s knowledge (“surely the average person must only know 2-3 feldspars”), over and over again. I felt this firsthand back when I was asking for advice when buying my desktop PC. When a casual computer user reads something like this, at least speaking from personal experience, it is nearly incomprehensible. It is wonderful to want to help the less technologically-fortunate, but you have to break things down more than this. You are speaking wingdings at people.

[p0th]

surrounded by friends

[taibobo]

As a black gay man who finds the fictional version of the average bass pro shop credit card owner slash NRA member attractive I am constantly fighting myself so i kind of love when posts discuss the complex ways people (even marginalized people) use aesthetics associated with dominant groups and oppressors or enjoy characters who are parts of those dominant/oppressive groups

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Thinking back to when Liam says “I think she means it” and Xaden goes “I know” he literally knows because he can read intentions (not that this scene is that hard to read… Violet is clearly ready to live up to her nickname & fuming with fury) but there’s some sort of heartbreak & yet another foreshadowing (pun semi-intended) moment in this… also once again he literally tells her he can read her mind (even if it’s just a manner of speech).

[spaciebabie]

im a scrub and im tryna holla

[just-a-skrunkly]

"For some strange reason, just for a brief moment..."

Honestly I can't wait to figure out what the shadow crystals are foreshadowing/implying (ALSO REFERENCE IMAGE I USED UNDER THE CUT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY COOL!!!!!!)

[bathoryalgorithm]

Concrete Jungle Comic Moments that Live Rent Free in my head, Issues 1 & 2 in no particular order: - Noah declaring himself the only "real Art" in The Grey. -Folio lamenting his painting about to get fucked up. -Noah bullying Ruffilo with railgun noises -Van chatter (AFAIK, the puker is Folio, The guy stuck with him is Ruffilo and the driver is Noah, but this is unclear in the way the comic is laid out) -Snyder cut joke. -Brain Juice on the bad omens whip -Even M.I.N.D. is really freaked out by Noah's fucking driving.

[fatuismooches]

Okay. Imagining.

When Fragile!Reader went into a coma, Dottore hadn't thought to preserve anything about them. He didn't have recordings of their voice. He didn't have pictures of their eyes. He figured that kind of data was useless because he'd always have his assistant by his side at all times. When would he need pictures if he could just look at you? Why would he need recordings when you never seemed to shut up (not that he'd ever ask you to)?

But when you fell asleep, he hadn't realized just how long he'd be deprived of that wonderful sight and that beautiful sound. He thought it would be fine, he'd help them wake up and it would be back to normal... but nothing worked. Before he knew it, years had gone by with seemingly no progress. What color were your eyes again? He was starting to forget. What range did your voice have when you sang? He found it hard to recall.

This is why, when you finally woke up, he had such a reaction to seemingly nothing at all. When you first opened your eyes, he was starstruck by that hauntingly beautiful hue. When you finally spoke, even with your voice hoarse and quiet from misuse, his heart skipped a beat. He couldn't help but gasp for air as his lungs squeezed in his chest. How could he have forgotten? And more importantly, how did he survive so long without this?

As he finally held your hand after what felt like a millennia, he silently vowed to not only find you a cure but a way to make you immortal like him. There was no way he'd allow himself to be deprived of his lover ever again.

MY HEART IS HURTING SO MUCH I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS... this is literally canon bye. Also the sad thing about this is that it could totally happen considering the existence of erosion in Teyvat 🥺. Now I have even more brainrot of this happening to reader too and them slowly losing their sense of self and forgetting him 😭

Sniff... Dottore not bothering to keep any hard data of you because he has the real thing in front of him :( You were always glued to his hip, even if he wanted to get away (he doesn't) he couldn't, always faced with your lovely smile and pleasant voice. Beautiful body and soft touches. And he thinks, the best way to collect data is from the subject itself rather than anything else. Even if he were to preserve you somehow, would it ever compare to your being in real life? No, it wouldn't, and you'd always be here, so if he longed to hear your voice, he would simply go to you and hear it. If he wanted to see your eyes, he would go to you and kiss you to see them flutter and melt. If he wanted you, he would go to you. No need for anything else.

But now, now that this has happened, Zandik curses himself for being stupid. After all, what kind of scientist doesn't keep backups of their data? Yes, the real thing will always be the best, but what happens if the original is lost? Is hurt? Is no more? Zandik didn't think the absence of another person could affect him so much, but it does. You have such an... effect on him that drives him completely mad. His head hurts from the ringing silence instead of your voice that fills it. His eyes burn from the sleepless nights that you are not by his side. After you fall asleep, he writes stuff down, he truly does, filling up pages and pages so everything about you could be recorded, but reading all the detailed words in the world doesn't help him remember the exact hue of your eyes, or the exact tone of voice you used in different situations, or the once-familiar curve of your lips that he can't seem to remember the exact position of. A part of him despises himself for allowing himself to forget, he's the only one in Teyvat who remembers you, but at the same time he doesn't... but that doesn't make him love you any less. He may not remember that stuff... but he sure does remember how much time he spent with you.

Dottore's always wondered how he'd react on the day you finally wake up, he'll be delighted, of course, that goes without saying but would anything else happen? And oh, even he could not have predicted this possibility would occur. Those eyes, that voice, your smile, even while being sickly, you were truly the epitome of human beauty. The way everything about you acts as if he is the only person that matters. When he holds your hand, he feels you squeeze back ever so slightly, and he resolves himself once again. He really can't live without you... never again.

You're really confused as to why he's so attentive, yes there's your illness but that doesn't explain how much he studies you. How he always goes silent and watches you whenever you speak, even about dumb things, when years ago he would roll his eyes at your idiocy. How he likes to stare deep into your eyes without getting embarrassed, which was funny because he always broke away from eye contact in the Akademiya. You may never know, as he's never going to tell you about what he went through without your presence, but right now, he's never going to let that happen to either of you ever again.

I have another hc that sort of relates to this: I imagine Dottore felt indescribable emotions when you finally woke up and uttered his real name - "Zandik." Because really, no one has spoken it in over four hundred years. Perhaps he almost forgot what it sounded like, as he discarded that part of his identity long ago. Maybe he buried it so far back in his mind that he lost it, especially since it carried unpleasant memories. But you, when you spoke that forsaken name again... he truly felt like Zandik again.

[nausicaaandhermouth]

singed & viktor

you know what i absolutely love? the parallels between singed and viktor.

obv viktor's from zaun, singed from topside, both very very intelligent (more than the people around can cope with oops), and they find themselves living on the other side (singed moves to zaun where the ethical restrictions are... well, there are no ethical restrictions / and viktor moves to topside for the academy).

then their respective works completely change that place (singed's shimmer and viktor's hextech (yesyes he co-made it but that's besides the point, he was pivotal to it is what i mean)) to the point where it becomes a defining feature of that place (it's difficult to divorce the idea of zaun from shimmer, likewise for piltover and hextech).

ofc their motivations are completely different. viktor has his Help The Undercity thing going on, while singed appears to be mainly self-serving (as in, he does his shit if he wants to, bro just wants to fuck around). buuuut also what if their arcs may also parallel? (enter: delusions) what if in s2 singed's goal becomes to help people/a person, and viktor leans more self-serving? (idk abt the latter, his conviction about helping ppl is very strong) or maybe viktor's so way in over his head (i feel it's a bit unlikely) or the arcane somehow does that for him?? idk i'm spitballing

[graveyardgayme]

Connor McDavid 1000 PTS Ceremony || CBJ @ EDM || 2024.12.05

Featuring his parents Kelly and Brian McDavid, his wife Lauren, his dog Lenny, and the three Oilers who have been with him the whole way—Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Darnell Nurse, and Leon Draisaitl. From the Erie Otters 1st overall in 2015, to being the 4th Oiler in franchise history to hit 1K points.

"We're not talking greatness, we're talking legendary." — Leon Draisaitl

[kiwisandpearls]

feels a little depressing how unwelcoming the selfshipping community has become to proshippers and profic people. Like, i don’t even wanna go into the selfship tag anymore because I know a good chunk of the selfship posts are gonna have a dni at the bottom insulting me and wishing death or harm on me in someway just because I’m profiction. And don’t get me wrong, I know the proselfship and proship selfship tags exist but still, it just kinda sucks the fun out of selfshipping for me.

[riverphoenixsgothwife]

when L finds out about shinigami eyes through finally getting his hands on a death note, do you think he thinks of beyond birthday?

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

While most deities allow temple attendants to choose their timeline of service, only two require a lifetime of dedication: Dunne and Loial. For both war and love change souls irrevocably. —Major Rorilee's Guide to Appeasing the Gods, Second Edition

[sweetmapple]

Yura kinda rad as hell

[taibobo]

i might make a secondary f/o / crush collage to go on my strawpage soon...

[screensandtangledwires]