Tron Essays (NSFW)
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
having a mind that is "clever" mostly by seeing connections that were already there... sometimes feels like a fake cleverness.
i didn't create anything. i just found it. there is a nonzero chance that many other people found it before me
in my case this is less common than one might expect. i do quite often find connections that nobody around me has ever heard of or thought of before.
BUT i have lived in this mind so long that it is very hard for me to gauge, in the absence of other viewpoints, when that's gonna be the case
sometimes my brain goes "ive never heard that before but it sounds like an old joke"
"Charisma Carpenter has been around a long time, there's probably a hundred people saying it sound like Jesus's drag name"
do i listen?
who knows
who cares
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2023/00/00
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theory for why IRL world has not yet started following the time line of star trek:
we are not the standard universe
we are the evil mirror universe
we already have a spacecraft called "ISS"
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
my eternal question of "how much of the Ferengi species is antisemitic stereotype and how much is just stereotype of Americans" gets a little bit more eternal, every time some distant blurry image of a guy in a cowboy hat sets off my recognition for a second
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2023/00/00
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doing sex work in homemade cosplay so i can be both a seamstress and a "seamstress"
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2023/00/00
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"so, satan. I am... actually in hell, right?"
"yep, just like it said on the gates. Why?"
"well, there's nothing like... actually unpleasant here? it's pretty ok?"
"...glad you like it! what's your question?"
"I thought it was supposed to be bad"
"it is!"
"...by what definition"
"by god's definition of course, isn't that the only one that matters?"
"god thinks this is... bad?"
"sure!"
"why"
"cuz all the people here are sinners who broke god's laws, and he wants them punished."
"oh. so... it's bad because you're not doing what god wants"
"course not. i am the very definition of god's adversary, the personification of god's definition of evil, why would i do what god wants"
"how do you get away with it though? can't god force you to follow his commands?"
"he did!"
"um. how"
"he told me to be the personification of evil in my role of carrying out judgment on the sinners. i dont think he gets how negatives cancel each other out"
"oh. so... it's like good cop bad cop?"
"yeah! exactly. it's like good cop bad cop... if the guy assigned to be bad cop realized that a 'bad cop,' by cop definitions, would be the guy who lets the prisoner go."
"...wow."
"...yep. the legends were not kidding about me and loopholes"
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
So, sometimes I'm nervous about what will happen in upcoming Canon for my fandoms, because of what it might do to fandom discourse and the overall dynamic of who's a fan and how they interact...
BUT I am... pretty apathetic about it from an in-universe perspective.
because... Canon is, in my mind, just as fictional as fanfiction. Bad Canon means, to me, that a really popular big-name fan wrote a fanfic I don't like. If lots of fans are treating this writing as having More Authority on everything in the made-up world than the fanfics I like... well I'm just gonna ignore that and keep reading the ones I like, ok?
the oldest and most natural form of fictional storytelling... the form that our minds are arguably best suited to engaging with... is the in-person, spur-of-the-moment making-shit-up-for-the-hell-of-it. Children pretending. Elders telling tales around the campfire.
Grandpa tells the story of Paul Bunyan and says the Great Lakes were formed from the footprints of Babe the Blue Ox. Dad retells the story and says no, the ox is even bigger than that, the Lakes are its sweat drops. hell yeah! the kids each pick which version they like better. neither is The Truth.
honestly if you try to find this form of storytelling in Tumblr fandom, it's in Goncharov, and it's in the space adventures of Stabby the Roomba.
there's a person who was the first to introduce Stabby the Roomba! we can find this person's tumblr account with only a little digging! but do we run to that account's askbox to confirm whether each new story about Stabby's adventures is true or not?
NO. we do not. It's STORYTELLING.
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
i dont know anything about pokemon but I think there's one where if you give it electricity it evolves into Volteon and if you give it light it evolves into Raytheon
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
Count Dracula voice:
"...just so we're clear
many witches are my esteemed friends and business contacts
ditches are where I stash bodies for a snack later
And I am NOT interested in being slammed in the...
...well, I'd expect you to buy me dinner first"
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2023/00/00
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The feminine form of "he's a fun-gi" is "she's a fun-gal"
however, this information is pretty much completely useless because fungus genders are about as far from binary as you can get
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2023/00/00
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"happiness is a choice"
"oh awesome! Then I can choose to be happy even if I never get a job and end up homeless"
"uh"
"I can choose to be happy even if I spend the rest of my life in prison!"
"wait"
"I can be a HORRIBLE PERSON and commit EVERY CRIME and be JUSTLY KILLED and spend ETERNITY IN HELL and be HAPPY FOREVER!!"
"that's not what I meant--"
"AND i won't even have done anything wrong! because if anyone else is UNHAPPY because of what I did, then that was THEIR CHOICE!! my freedom is infinite!"
"oh God what have I done"
"oh wow, are you not happy?? dang pal, bad life choice there!"
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
Yeah, I mean, as I see it, the competition is the reason WHY one would have a problem with others profiting off one's IP. Like, if I create something and then someone else is profiting from it, that reduces the amount I can profit from it... because people have limited money to spend. (Which I guess is why unpaid fanworks are okay, because like I said they don't actually compete; they don't take money that people could be paying the original artist.)
But I dunno... the fair use thing is hotly debated and I'm not gonna claim I understand it completely.
And from what I can see, neither does most of the U.S. legal system. What can get ruled (in a court case) to be valid fair use seems to depend entirely on the court and the judge and perhaps their current mood.
From what I've read, the idea of fair use was introduced to allow certain important types of commentary.
One example is quoting a piece of writing when you're doing journalism and that piece of writing is a relevant piece of evidence in the story. (I remember a time when some shady "news" outlets tried to challenge this, suing for copyright infringement whenever anyone tried to point out lies in their broadcasts. Luckily they failed for the most part, and this type of commentary is very much accepted as fair use now.)
Another example, of course, is parody. We had socially accepted parodies long before fanfic was considered legal. Usually they would change names to be safe (like when MAD magazine would do a whole comic-format spoof making fun of a popular movie, renaming Ferris Beuller to "Fearless Buller" and so on). But in some cases they didn't even bother with renaming. (I remember a Far Side cartoon featuring the crew of the Starship Enterprise, which was explicitly called the Starship Enterprise in the comic, no attempt to rename it.) I remember thinking about this, as a kid in the 90's, wondering why jokes and mockery seemed to be the only legal type of copyright infringement.
The OTW has done a lot of legal fighting since then to get fanworks accepted as valid fair use. The type of nonprofit use that happens on Ao3 doesn't tend to get challenged in court anymore. But it's still not accepted on the same level as MAD magazine parodies or SNL spoofs, because it's still generally considered infringement to make money off that.
When I try to decide whether I consider something fair use, my usual thought experiment is to put myself in the shoes of the copyright owner. Like:
If I made up a whole imaginary world, populated by my own OCs... and then I published and sold my own stories about it, in the form of novels and comics and so on... what type of fanworks would I be ok with?
How would I feel if someone used my OCs or my original world in their own writing or art, without asking for my permission?
Would the answer change depending on what type of work it was-- written or visual?
Would it depend on whether and how they gave me credit?
Would it change based on whether or how they made a profit from it?
Personally, for me, I would be okay with any of it, AS LONG AS I was credited for whatever ideas were taken from my work.
Monetizing would be okay, from my viewpoint. (I'd be feeling a deep sense of unfairness if the fan creator was making MORE money off my ideas than I was. But I'd accept that this probably meant they were contributing something valuable of their own... and I'd still consider it good publicity, as long as they made it clear where the ideas came from.)
For me, the only thing that would get me actually fighting would be if someone used my ideas WITHOUT crediting me. (And even then, I'd do some deep analysis of whether the ideas were really my property, or whether the other person might have just come up with something very similar on their own. There are limited ways a story can go, and minds tend to gravitate independently toward certain types of ideas, and I'm not going to challenge similarity unless it copies specific details in a specific way.)
But that's just my view. Copyright law in general is stricter than I would tend to be in defending my own copyright.
And what's socially acceptable within fandom can be both stricter and more lenient than actual law.
(More lenient when dealing with fanworks of properties owned by the rich and powerful, like Disney or Paramount. But stricter when dealing with the works of small, struggling artists, or ideas copied from one fanwork by another.)
(And to make it even more confusing, the exact line between "struggling artists" and "rich copyright owners" is also a topic of debate.)
(And I'm not even gonna get into the whole argument over how AI "art" programs are trained.)
(It's all just such a complicated mess, and I do not think it's possible to have a simple opinion on any of it.)
Yeah, I mean, as I see it, the competition is the reason WHY one would have a problem with others profiting off one's IP. Like, if I create something and then someone else is profiting from it, that reduces the amount I can profit from it... because people have limited money to spend. (Which I guess is why unpaid fanworks are okay, because like I said they don't actually compete; they don't take money that people could be paying the original artist.)
But I dunno... the fair use thing is hotly debated and I'm not gonna claim I understand it completely.
And from what I can see, neither does most of the U.S. legal system. What can get ruled (in a court case) to be valid fair use seems to depend entirely on the court and the judge and perhaps their current mood.
From what I've read, the idea of fair use was introduced to allow certain important types of commentary.
One example is quoting a piece of writing when you're doing journalism and that piece of writing is a relevant piece of evidence in the story. (I remember a time when some shady "news" outlets tried to challenge this, suing for copyright infringement whenever anyone tried to point out lies in their broadcasts. Luckily they failed for the most part, and this type of commentary is very much accepted as fair use now.)
Another example, of course, is parody. We had socially accepted parodies long before fanfic was considered legal. Usually they would change names to be safe (like when MAD magazine would do a whole comic-format spoof making fun of a popular movie, renaming Ferris Beuller to "Fearless Buller" and so on). But in some cases they didn't even bother with renaming. (I remember a Far Side cartoon featuring the crew of the Starship Enterprise, which was explicitly called the Starship Enterprise in the comic, no attempt to rename it.) I remember thinking about this, as a kid in the 90's, wondering why jokes and mockery seemed to be the only legal type of copyright infringement.
The OTW has done a lot of legal fighting since then to get fanworks accepted as valid fair use. The type of nonprofit use that happens on Ao3 doesn't tend to get challenged in court anymore. But it's still not accepted on the same level as MAD magazine parodies or SNL spoofs, because it's still generally considered infringement to make money off that.
When I try to decide whether I consider something fair use, my usual thought experiment is to put myself in the shoes of the copyright owner. Like:
If I made up a whole imaginary world, populated by my own OCs... and then I published and sold my own stories about it, in the form of novels and comics and so on... what type of fanworks would I be ok with?
How would I feel if someone used my OCs or my original world in their own writing or art, without asking for my permission?
Would the answer change depending on what type of work it was-- written or visual?
Would it depend on whether and how they gave me credit?
Would it change based on whether or how they made a profit from it?
Personally, for me, I would be okay with any of it, AS LONG AS I was credited for whatever ideas were taken from my work.
Monetizing would be okay, from my viewpoint. (I'd be feeling a deep sense of unfairness if the fan creator was making MORE money off my ideas than I was. But I'd accept that this probably meant they were contributing something valuable of their own... and I'd still consider it good publicity, as long as they made it clear where the ideas came from.)
For me, the only thing that would get me actually fighting would be if someone used my ideas WITHOUT crediting me. (And even then, I'd do some deep analysis of whether the ideas were really my property, or whether the other person might have just come up with something very similar on their own. There are limited ways a story can go, and minds tend to gravitate independently toward certain types of ideas, and I'm not going to challenge similarity unless it copies specific details in a specific way.)
But that's just my view. Copyright law in general is stricter than I would tend to be in defending my own copyright.
And what's socially acceptable within fandom can be both stricter and more lenient than actual law.
(More lenient when dealing with fanworks of properties owned by the rich and powerful, like Disney or Paramount. But stricter when dealing with the works of small, struggling artists, or ideas copied from one fanwork by another.)
(And to make it even more confusing, the exact line between "struggling artists" and "rich copyright owners" is also a topic of debate.)
(And I'm not even gonna get into the whole argument over how AI "art" programs are trained.)
(It's all just such a complicated mess, and I do not think it's possible to have a simple opinion on any of it.)
I've been thinking about how the idea that "fanworks are not made for profit" is a big part of the reason why they are usually not attacked for copyright and trademark violation.
(Which is why AO3 cracks down so hard on users advertising paid commissions -- because OTW worked hard to fight corporate lawyers for the right to share fanworks, and only won us the freedoms we have by promising that fanworks were not made for money.)
But the weird part is...
if the owner of the canon property is worried about fan art and fan fiction competing with their official material...
then, wouldn't being free make it much MORE competitive?
I mean, I don't know how often people will actually decide to read fanfiction and look at fan art instead of buying the canon book or movie or show or comic or whatever
But I'm pretty sure that, if it does happen, it's largely because the fanfic and fan art are free
so... ????
I mean, I'm guessing the reason they get way more litigious when there's profit involved, is the same reason why there's usually more legal red tape around selling something than giving it away free...
Which I think is mostly based around the fact that an activity will usually not become widespread enough to be a problem if it doesn't somehow make someone money
But there are exceptions.
There are things people will gladly put lots and lots of effort into, even if it doesn't bring in any money.
And fanworks are definitely among these things.
So in this case... is there any actual reason why for-profit fanworks would be more of a problem than nonprofit fanworks?
I guess maybe... people having limited amounts of money...
Maybe for-profit fanworks would compete with official material just because people might not have enough money to buy BOTH ...
I'm not sure how much sense this makes, but my understanding is it's not so much the competition that they're concerned with as much as other people profiting off their IP. Besides that, fanworks can get others into the original work, which serves as free advertising.
I know there's also fair use laws that go into this argument, but I am not as familiar with IP law as I should be.
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2023/00/00
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2023/00/00
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If I dig 2 graves BEFORE I embark on a journey of revenge, this assumes that whichever 2 people die from my revenge are gonna get dragged back all the way to my hometown to get buried? Why would I do that. That's a thing you do with the corpse of a beloved relative. What the heck kind of love-hate relationship do you think I have with my nemesis that I'm about to destroy
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2023/00/00
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If you park your car and dont take the Baby On Board sticker off the window I will smash your window to rescue the baby
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2023/00/00
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"where do you see yourself in five years"
"probably in a mirror. If mirrors still exist then and I haven't been turned into a vampire"
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
Okay I LOVE it every time I see the suggestion that there should be a cooking show judged by young children, where every fancy snobby gourmet chef runs the risk of getting chopped and sent home with a scathing review of his work because "it's yucky and it has peas in it and peas are gross" or whatever
I think this would be utterly hilarious
But I think it'd be even BETTER if the framing for this-- the reason behind the show-- was an explicit claim that young children are inherently better judges than anyone else
Like the same reasoning we see in linguistic studies
Where little kids are asked how to say something, and their answer is taken as evidence of what is the objectively most natural way to say something, since their viewpoint is unspoiled by societal conditioning
I want the same thing for culinary judgment
An assertion that "the foods young children like best are the objectively best foods, because everything else is something society has to teach you to like"
Just take chefs with multiple prestigious degrees in cooking gourmet food, and tell them that based on a three-year-old's pronouncement, their magnum opus is inherently yucky and gross and nobody likes it unless they're tricked into liking it
I want to see the entire world of snobby food disintegrate under this chaos
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong)... "free" social media supported by advertising can (almost?) never be profitable, and the only reason any of the major social media sites have made money long enough to survive til now is by convincing shareholders that their value will increase in the future.
So theoretically, "purchasing Twitter and turning it into a paid subscription-based service with a much, much smaller (and stupider and eviler) userbase" might have *actually been* the only way to make it truly profitable.
But when you-know-who starts gloating about that, remember:
1. He's proven the truth that rich a-holes like him keep trying to deny: "ever-increasing profit isn't sustainable and sometimes a business getting smaller IS the only way to improve."
2. It is a failure of society that we ever got to the point where a profit-driven business was providing the only available online public square for a large percentage of people in this nation.
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
I know enough about Star Trek TOS to know WHICH OF THESE COLORS NEEDS TO DIE
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2023/00/00
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Thinking once again about how many works of popular fiction try not to promote "suicide" or "willful disregard for self-preservation" but will gladly promote "not wanting to be immortal" which differs from those other things only by a cosmically insignificant number of years
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2023/00/00
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When your finger accidentally trails across the phone keyboard and it gets interpreted as a word but then that word gets interpreted as an abbreviation for a country
it's like, sorry, everyone in this chat, I did not actually mean to say anything, and I definitely didn't mean to text you either the single possessive pronoun "my," or the flag of Malaysia
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2023/00/00
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If you give me ANY more plot bunnies,
They will be welcomed in
BUT be warned, my plotbunny warren is OVERCROWDED AS EFRAFA and the newcomer will be marked with a specialized scar for purposes of regimentation of all activities, and I can't guarantee it won't die in a trap at some point
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
getting off the Internet for a while cause my brain is turning into soup and confusing Dave Bowman with David Bowie
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2023/00/00
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the news of "AI Art has been ruled uncopyrightable" feels mostly awesome to me but also sets off a slight uneasiness as to how they're defining "AI" and how/if that definition may get edited as time goes on
especially in the light of other news like "photos taken of the moon on smartphones get AI-enhanced without user's permission" and the question of whether I even have access to any non-AI means of making photos of my own handmade (hopefully copyrightable) art
big-overload-little-derez
That said...
as someone who is not a rich capitalist & therefore will never get more benefit from copyright than I get from "people simply being aware of my art"...
I expect I could sell my own original work with about equal success if it got forced into the public domain... and so I do not in fact care very much about being able to copyright it ...except as a means toward ensuring that someone richer and eviler doesn't steal it and claim they have copyright on it.
so... i dunno.
guess it all sucks.
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2023/00/00
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(Monty Python voice)
the hamster is dead
It has shuffled up your mortal coil
It has burrowed into the realm of the invisible
this is an
xhamster
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2023/00/00
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I don't usually think of age as a category of people identified by particular experiences (everyone's experience of every year of this world's past is vastly different) BUT I think I'm "unable to understand why a person who doesn't want a post reblogged would put it on the public internet" years old
if you say do not reblog on the post i will not reblog it but I'll wonder why its rebloggable in the first place and if you don't specify on the post i will have absolutely zero idea whether you do or don't want it reblogged because if i try to look at it from your perspective my conclusion will always be "they cannot want it to be private" "because if they did they would not have posted it on the Internet" and if i try to guess whether you have rules about only people of specific demographics reblogging it i begin to wonder how exactly your brain perceives both the publicness of the internet AND the semi-anonymity of its inhabitants
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2023/00/00
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thoughts on the idea of "being unaffected by magic" in a magical universe
this is a dialogue from my WIP furry comic "Avery-Were" that's somewhere on one of my distant back-burners but i think about it every time i hear about a character who is "immune to magic"
"So, does being from a non-magical universe make me special here? Immune? Like, if I can't do magic, then I also can't be hurt by it?"
"Ha. No. And you wouldn't want it that way. Trust me."
"What? What d'you mean?"
"In my hometown, once, there was a child born cursed. His curse was being immune to magic. Unaffected by it. The curse came on as he grew. Got stronger and stronger..."
"...okay?"
"When he was five years old, magic barely did anything. Hurricanes sent by wind-magic couldn't blow him over. Boulders thrown with earth-magic passed through him. A magical plague caused a famine, he still had food to eat. Food that was intangible to everyone else."
"Whoa, damn. That's--"
"But it went for everything, see? The farmers used magic to grow food to end the famine. That food was intangible to him. His mother once used a spell to kill a bat-fly that was chasing him. It still kept chasing, biting him. Like a ghost she couldn't touch."
"...yikes."
"All of us children, we tried to play with him. But some children were born because of magic. Their parents met because of magic. Or could only conceive through magical means. Those children he couldn't play with. They didn't exist for him, you see. Oh, and sometimes some of us got sick and a magic healer saved their lives. And then, those ones were lost to him too."
"Oh. Shit."
"Because he was fading, see."
"Fading...?"
"Magic affected him less and less. And affected more and more things around him. So he was fading away. After a while it couldn't even affect him indirectly. Not even by causing things that affected him many steps later."
"So, like, he couldn't even interact with anything that existed because of magic."
"And nearly everything does, of course. So he faded more and more as the curse got stronger. He stopped talking to us. Started talking to people we couldn't see. Eventually he was just-- gone."
"Geez. ...Do you think he's still alive, in some non-magical universe somewhere?"
"His parents liked to hope so. But no. I think he just became too immune to magic. So much that he couldn't even coexist with it. Not even with magic things that happened in the distant past."
"Oh. Yeah... there's been magic here forever, right? I guess if you look far enough back in the chain of events, all your existences were kinda caused by magic, at some point along the line."
"And his curse reached far enough to touch that point. And so he stopped existing."
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2023/00/00
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I just re-read Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question," and I'm giggling at a probably totally unintentional meaning
so, this computer that gets asked the repeated question about whether entropy can be reversed...
over the centuries, it is named the Multivac, Microvac, Galactic AC... always the same two last letters, which in the text are said to stand for "automatic computer"
but they could stand for another machine that tries to fight against entropy
the little Maxwell's Demon that sits between inside and outside, eternally working hard to make one side colder and the other side hotter
what we today call an "AC"
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2023/00/00
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HP Lovecraft in a slightly better universe:
"I like my cat"
"however, for some inscrutable reason I still feel the urge to call my cat a name rooted in my own prejudices, referring to something I irrationally hate and fear"
"so what's your cat's name then"
"octo-puss"
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2023/00/00
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if I had a nickel for every time a questionable charity mailed me a guilt-tripping letter including a nickel inside the envelope and saying that it's an expression of their trust and that even if I won't donate to them I should still mail back the nickel if I want to be a truly good person... well I'd still have a whole lotta nickels because I know better than to fall for that shit
and this isnt hypothetical i DO have all those damn nickels
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2023/00/00
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Okay, I know we all laugh about how Tumblr used to let you edit other people's posts in your own reblog of them.
But honestly I think it may have been kinda good for people's critical thinking.
In the same way as how replies worked in newsgroups in the early 00's....
Which were basically like big multi-cc email conversations (and looked the same whether you got the posts by email or by going to a site like Yahoogroups).
So, "reblogging" and adding your own comments looked like it does in an email (a low-formatting email, not the current Gmail default which makes it hard to even SEE the words you're replying to, but that's another whole rant).
Anyway it looked like this:
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> mmmmm, Spock is so in love with Captain Kirk! :-) <3
What are you talking about, LOL? He's in love with Nurse Chapel!
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And since the other person's words are just text above your reply, OF COURSE you could've edited them, like so:
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> > mmmmm, Spock is so in love with Harry Mudd! :-) <3
> What are you talking about, LOL? He's in love with the Horta!
Hahahaha... what are you BOTH going on about?
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But, nobody did that!
The most editing I ever saw anyone do to someone else's words was shortening or paraphrasing for simplicity... and sometimes in a big and nuanced argument you'd get called out for that, because it can twist the context.
Nobody would do something like the above example, because it was just SO OBVIOUS that you could just go a few posts back in the thread and see what someone originally wrote.
You couldn't do it to trick people... and you wouldn't even really do it as a joke, because that would be like joking about something weird your friend said five minutes ago, when we were all in the room and SAW him say something that was 100% different from what you're joking about. It would be a type of absurdist humor that I don't think even Tumblr has reached in the present day.
But Tumblr HAS reached a point where we, in some cases, have an implicit trust in the user-interface which is really not that warranted.
And back when you could edit other people's words in your own reblog of them– and people were aware of that fact– that trust at least SOMETIMES got challenged, to keep us thinking.
Twitter did worse, though, giving us all those years without being able to edit your OWN posts. Yeah, there was value in it, being able to prove what someone said and when. But people became so dependent on that proof that we still sometimes see posts on other sites, like here on Tumblr, getting attention for being prophetic when they were actually edited after the fact, because people no longer even consider the possibility of a post being edited.
I don't have a solution for the problem. Just saying, the viewpoint of someone who entered online fandom in the 90's and 00's is a bit of a different perspective on this.
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2023/00/00
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2023/00/00
First posted here on Tumblr.
If Nand means "both these things canNOT simultaneously be true," and Or in the Boolean sense means "either of them or both of them may be true," and this same inclusive meaning of "or" is equivalent to the longer expression "and/or," then WHAT THE HELL is Nandor
And + or = Andor
Not + and + or = Nandor
Maybe + and + all + or + if + and = Mandalorian
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2023/00/00
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Undertale
Deltarune
AleutNerd
Unaltered
AlterDune
NatureLed
UltraNeed
NudeAlert
RentalDue
DentalRue
UnrealTed
LeaderNut
NutDealer
LearnDuet
DueAntler
NeuterLad
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2023/00/00
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2023/00/00
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Fandom = dominated by fan
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with how solitary and introverted I am in most IRL settings... people always get so surprised to find out I'm poly
I dunno, I guess to them "someone in a polycule" means "someone with insatiable sex drive and/or need for constant companionship; one partner could never be enough"
when for me it means "someone who rarely needs sex or even social interaction... and at those times doesn't usually care much who it is, as long as there's affection and trust... and would rather live with people whose needs CAN get satisfied by someone else, instead of it ALL being on me"
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a grey-ace/grey-aro polycule is like... a math study group
for people who don't particularly like math, but sometimes have to study for it
and the bigger it is, the more chance two people will have to study for math at the same time and can help each other
instead of pestering someone who doesn't need to study for math right now & would rather be doing other stuff
polyamory gray asexual ok it's not as dismal as it sounds when it's time to study we CAN really get excited about it but that ain't how we ALWAYS feel also some of us have the most fun doing math ALONE or on math forums online in weird experimental ways that even our mainstream mathematician polycule-roomies might side-eye us for different ways though like maybe I like to do math about how you actually can divide by zero; you just always get infinity and my roomie is like Wtf that is messed up; i will not do THAT with you but he understands because I will not do HIS freaky kind of math where there's an important difference between 1 and 0.9999-etc.... aster ramblings the Dis-Aster
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Okay, so I love all the nonsensical things that can be asked to the formula of "so in your relationship, who's the ___ and who's the ___?"
and I will never tire of seeing memes of them
BUT, as someone in a polycule, I want to see representation of us too
(because it would be even more hilarious)
... in your polycule, who's Daphne and who's Fred and who's Velma and who's Shaggy and who's Scooby
...in your polycule, who has the power of Earth, who has Water, who has Wind, who has Fire, and who has... what's the fifth one again? boron?
in your polycule, who wears the "women want me, fish fear me" hat, who wears the "women want fish, me fear me" hat, who wears the "fish and women have entered an uneasy alliance against me" hat, who wears the "the attitudes of women and fish towards me are too varied and complex to be accurately described on a hat" hat, and who wears the "mermaids have conflicted feelings about me" hat?
(and that is JUST for five-person polycules, off the top of my head!)
polyamory absurdism memes shitpost polycules assigned roles
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anyone curious about how my writing style works, here's one tidbit
I have an "Unkilled Darlings" folder
Passages that I love, but either
1. I had to remove from a piece of writing they didn't fit in, or
2. they sprang fully formed from my head with no context, and need to wait until I start a piece of writing worthy of them
My Kirk/Spock story "Savage-Wild" has two parts that began life in the Unkilled Darlings folder (the part about Vulcan euphemisms and the part about hardness-related analogy)
Here's another that doesn't have a home yet:
"It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Either you hit the one you're aiming at– or you'll take out their whole system and they'll all suffer a slow and agonizing death as everything that sustains them drains out through the holes you made."
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you know who you sound like, mister Musx
with your obsession with Xs in names and how well they supposedly sell
you sound like the show executive who made poor mister Lloyd call his show "Wormhole X-Treme" instead of "Going To Other Planets"
Wormhole X-Treme! was a campy, cable television show created by Martin Lloyd, who subconsciously based it on the actual Stargate Program. He originally wanted to call the series Going to Other Planets, but changed it after research suggested that having "X" on a series title would get higher ratings. (The main cast of Wormhole X-Treme!. Left to right: Dr. Levant, Colonel Danning, Major Stacey Monroe, Grell.)
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both would have been horrible but lloyds original choice fit the specific horribleness of the show better x is only good for selling beer because you put xs on your bottle you accomplish retroactive product placement in every old cartoon everywhere i dont ever drink beer but if i did i would prefer dos equis those two xs are in me all the way to my chromosomes elongated muskrat twitter meltdown ex-twitter x-twitter x does not actually sell as well as marketing always assumes stargate sg1
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if you are a historical figure whose most famous story (despite your ACTUAL accomplishments, I know, I know, the most famous story is often not the most important one)
anyway
if you are a historical figure in the history of computing
whose most famous story is that you once found a literal bug inside a computer
it is a
crime against all of nature
from entomology to etymology
if your name is Grace Hopper
and the bug is a MOTH
:-(
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extremely low-rez poster for the movie "The Happening. " It depicts a post-disaster wasteland with empty cars everywhere and no people.ALT
since The Happening was made in 2008, I suspect it is not affected by the current strike and is okay to promote
there is no particular REASON to... except for the fact that it is a movie about trees taking a horrific revenge on humans
sag aftra strike tree law the happening
hahahaha the THINGS i say when I'm giddy after a day at work and before an evening of delightful fandom bullshit
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Virginia license plates have the slogan "Virginia is for Lovers" on them, which I guess is a nice reminder of WHO WON in Loving vs Virginia
loving also won vs my virginity
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gonna paint some circuits
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I relate so very, very strongly to Sei Shonagon, even though my writing is much more... maximalist than hers.
because I, too, put meaning and connection and wordplay into every part of what I write
AND I've got her same two warring inner demons: "Make it subtle, so it takes effort to understand!" and "I will be fuckin pissed off if people do not understand!"
I think if Sei Shonagon could see the present day she'd be: 1. THRILLED that biographers are analyzing and annotating her poetry a thousand years later but also 2. ENRAGED at how many of her brilliant clever little insights are going over everyone's stupid head (because y'know a thousand years does wear away a lot of context)
....Anyway I want my stuff to be analyzed a thousand years from now just like Sei Shonagon
Yes, even the bullshit I shared only with all the pervy furries on discord
Oh, Artica is a delectable gal Like Krystal and all of the rest But you'll find if you query Am aeroplane furry That hookers in hangars are best. The loveliest things Have noses and wings But no feathers or fur on my mate The ultimate whore Comes from Rule 34 And my escort's a P-38.ALT
"This verse should not be taken to indicate that [Tiliquain] was an anthropomorphic airplane fetishist, though such fetishists did exist in her circle of acquaintances. The poem was partially, though not entirely, intended to poke fun at them; its primary purpose was a display of wordplay skills. The names Artica and Krystal are believed to be popular anthropomorphic animal characters, contrasted against the airplane characters whom her friends may have fetishized. In the 20th and 21st centuries ‘hooker,' 'whore' and 'escort' were all in use as terms for sex workers, and the poem plays on all three in different ways, imagining anthropomorphic airplanes (including the World War II fighter jet Lockheed P-38) performing sex work. The first stanza pairs 'hooker' with 'hangar' to evoke the latter's meaning as a building to store airplanes, as well as its similarity to 'hanger,' a type of hook (for hanging clothes). In the second stanza, 'rule 34' refers to the contemporary joke that the internet makes pornography of all things, and serves as both a rhyme for 'whore' and a mirror to the '38' in the airplane's name. Meanwhile, 'escort' refers to the military terminology of an escort of fighter jets, and calls attention to the fact that this poem is also a parody, closely following the rhythm, rhyme and wording of the World War II soldiers' poem 'An Escort of P-38's.' This reference would have been particularly striking to the maybe 2 or 3 people in her audience familiar with that poem, which was written at least 50 fucking years before any of them were born."
(Yes I want my biographer to dunk on the obscurity of my nerdness, that is the DREAM)
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