anthropologistfromentropy

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Presenting to you my writing cycle

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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

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t4t dry humping with bush. NOW.

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Yep. I think he would let Hannibal dress him up, but Hannibal is definitely the one who would have to buy the clothes for Will. And yes Will would definitely get a dog from a shelter. Maybe run his own shelter/dog sanctuary tbh. Either as a hobby, or maybe Hannibal convinces Will to be a househusband. Will is gonna lose his job because of Hannibal at some point, let's be honest.

Hannibal is gonna be dealing with 20+ dogs that no one else wants to adopt. He probably needs to buy an adjacent house just for the dogs that pee inside, so they don't ruin his expensive furniture.

I truly adore fanfics where Hannibal is Will’s sugar daddy, but I know for a fact that man doesn’t give a fuck about designer brand clothes. I’m gonna still eat them all up, but realistically Will would get another dog

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It's so crazy, a few weeks ago I wouldn't have thought UK users would be doing this kind of stuff. This sounds just like my Russian friend. Just missing writing a telegram bot to access internet when you run out of mobile data. Well, at least you guys don't have to fear prison yet.

so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:

signed up for a ProtonVPN account

set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden

written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges

created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead

set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home

now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago

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fuck i just saw that there are some google street view photo spheres in the gaza strip and now im fucked up

cause the satellite view is recent and its a nightmare just shattered gray expanses of rubble and all these deep ruts through the dirt everywhere that looks like some kind of machinery.

but the photo spheres are from before the buildings were destroyed so there are these cute little courtyard gardens with olive trees and pots with herbs painted in colors and nice little apartment buildings with laundry out to dry on the balconies. and when you zoom out to satellite its just completely obliterated wasteland of rubble and debris

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every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

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Ooh, now I want a ww1 AU of them...

Saw this and i just had to

and it works for too LM

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I also picked up another book at the National Library today. Haven't started it yet, but I thought it might interest some others in the Like Minds fandom too.

being a writer just be like: how can i hurt my own feeling today? but like, make it stealth attack! just stab me when i least expect it with the most gut-wrenching jot i'll ever write until you stab me again, oh, dear Muse!

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Or, doing more research after you have already written 30K words. I just started reading "Not Far From Brideshead" today. At least I haven't discovered anything catastrophic yet. But apparently all humanities students in Oxford had to take exams in Greek and Latin before they could start courses in their own subject.

I should probably add that to the start of chapter 3. Like that would explain why Richard the English major and Nigel and Alex the history majors are in Julian's Greek class. Just need to rewrite a few paragraphs, but I'm too tired to do it tonight

Also Magdalen Tower apparently rang bells every 15 minutes, day and night?? So I might torture imsomniac Henry and Richard further with that lol

being a writer just be like: how can i hurt my own feeling today? but like, make it stealth attack! just stab me when i least expect it with the most gut-wrenching jot i'll ever write until you stab me again, oh, dear Muse!

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My fic has a domdrop! Or at least it's intended that way. The scene that leads to it is barely even kinky tbh, but the characters do have a D/s relationship.

Also the dom character (Sergey Razumovsky) doesn't have insecurity about being morally reprehensible, he actually has very strong convictions he's morally in the right, always. Instead he has a domdrop because the sub's gentleness and love reminds him of how he lacked love as a child 💔

the deeply personal thing that specifically grinds my gears about that absurd kink meme rules post though is this little line:

the whole thing is ridiculous and it feels kind of silly for me to specifically be squinting at this but it comes back to my whole bugbear about the way fandom often talks about kink as being all about the needs of the submissive, with the dom as sort of an afterthought without a lot of interiority of their own. the aftercare is for the submissive, specifically, only.

what I'm kind of saying here in a less serious way is. my kingdom for more topdrop fics honestly

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I remember a teacher mentioning a Finnish book that didn't mention a character's gender, at least not until 40+ pages in. But the English translation used gendered pronouns. The character was binary cisgender, not nonbinary, but IMHO they should have used they/them. That's an entirely different experience if you know the character's gender from the first sentence.

i think it's funny when people say "yeah the writers use they/them for this character but that doesn't necessarily mean the character is nonbinary" because i guess it's true but by that logic i can say "yeah this character is referred to with he/him but they never say he's a man so i can do whatever i want" which i may actually start doing because it sounds based as fuck. if you want me to believe that action hero is a man maybe you should've been more direct about it smh.

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How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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@dyspunktional-leviathan @aro-spectre just in case, I don't know what vpn you use

here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too