#Wikipedia searched this bitch?

[apollosbisexualass]

Kelli: Take Percy Jackson to the arena, I’m sure he’d love to meet his brother

Percy: Tyson?

Kelli:

Kelli: Need I remind you that your father is a whore

[evorathesylvurr]

being a limbus fan is so funny because the ship tags are mixed in with the classic literature (tm)

like on the one hand I can say shit like “haha funny cockroach man” or “haha yeah how’s that axe murder investigation going? Wait you don’t know it’s an axe? Rumors~” but on the other hand earnestly seeing one of fifteen classic literatures does 90 sp damage causing me to corrode instantly

[theoriginal-djdemmerneck]

Need to get my SEO up

[boccher]

Recommendations for stargazing?

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ shows where skies are good, basically the darker it is the better the sky will be. you can click on the map to see the "bortle class" of a location, which is a classification system that gives a general idea of what you can see. (descriptions of each class on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale). In my experience, if you've never seen a dark sky, then bortle 3 & 4 locations will be fantastic looking straight above you, bortle 1 & 2 will be fantastic in all directions.

it takes time for your eyes to adapt to the dark to see as much dark detail as they can. For dark sites, I often hear people recommend at least 30 minutes without any bright screens or lights or torches to get the best experience

You wanna avoid stargazing when the moon is out (like greater than 30% phase) cuz it acts as a big light globe and defeats the purpose of dark skies. You can look at the moon from anywhere anyway. The moon cycles through its phases in an interval of about once a month. Take note of moon phase, moonrise and moonset times, and plan your stargazing around them. Stellarium (website or program or app) is helpful for seeing when the moon is out, and is generally a great map of everything in the sky.

The brightest parts of the milky way are high in the sky between june and october. But I'd say it's definitely still worth seeing both sides of the milky way at a dark site. Also the more south your latitude, the better view you get of the milky way core.

During late spring (in both hemispheres) the milky way only rises at inconvenient times, so take note of that.

You wanna check weather conditions. Getting caught in rain is miserable. Even if it's clear, smoke or raised dust or mist or high humidity can blot out the sky and make it harder to stargaze. It's not super easy to predict those conditions, often it requires observing the air on the day that you're stargazing or checking satellite imagery. but usually for mid-latitude locations, the clearest clear skies occur for the few days after a cold front, under high pressure (it still depends on local weather patterns)

Generally, locations at high elevation are better for stargazing than locations at low elevation of equivalent bortle class, because there's less atmosphere to look through so the sky will be clearer

Bring a chair or else your legs and neck will hurt like a bitch and the experience starts to become a bit painful. A chair that can lean back is ideal. Dress for the weather, then bring an extra layer just in case

A good way to find stargazing locations is by searching up local astronomy clubs and seeing where they like to go. Don't crash their events if they're invite-only though

Be aware of local wildlife. Here the only thing to worry about is snakes really, i dunno what to do in places like america where you have like killer bears and killer bobcats

[silverduckie]

This applies to gif packs of Sadie Sink, Jenna Ortega, and Olivia Rodrigo too btw. Stop trusting content creators are not giffing minors, it doesn't matter how many notes a pack has - do your own research and cover your own ass.

So I wasn't gonna say anything like... publicly / on the dash because like.. god I already am not doing well mentally do not need rpc drama lol but just a small reminder to like double check fc ages yourself when interacting with gifpacks when it's shows like Skins, Degrassi, etc etc (like anything that were known for legit casting minors lol) because creators don't always do the thing

[aliciavance4228]

Omg wait which Pythian ode it says Apollo raised Chiron? Because I've been searching for the source and couldn't find it so far.

Both Theoi and Wikipedia state that Apollo was Chiron's mentor and/or that he raised him along with Artemis, and give the exact same sources:

I didn't manage to find that specific passage from Pythian Odes either because the Internet is a bitch sometimes, and the closest thing that I managed to find is this little fragment from Xenophon's Cynegeticus:

"Game and hounds are the invention of gods, of Apollo and Artemis. They bestowed it on Cheiron and honoured him therewith for his righteousness. And he, receiving it, rejoiced in the gift, and used it."

And... yeah. That's basically what I can say for now. I tried to search for Philostratus' Heroicus too, yet I couldn't find any pdf format nor excerpt from it either. 😑

[ghost-infestation]

I fear I may have birthed something into the world. Something horrendous, incomprehensible, and eldritch.

Here's how it began.

The other day, my good good friend @my-ceiling-is-tilted blessed us with a discovery he made on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. You see, he ventured on there in search of information on a specific type of cocktail: The Gin Fizz. We can hardly recall to what end this original investigation was directed, for what he found by complete accident overshadows the expedition's original goal like a looming elder monolith.

You see, there in the section so innocently titled "Less common gin Fizzes", something caught his eye.

Now do you notice anything wrong with this image?

No, it's not the "Spezi"; that is simply the name of a German brand of orange cola. That in itself is a respectable pick for fizz additive, though perhaps somewhat locationally limiting.

The pickle. Why the pickle?

Because, you see, for starters, you cannot freeze a dill pickle. Not with standard household means, at any rate. There's all sorts of chemical bullshit preventing this eventuality. And more to the point, what kind of bar, in any part of the world, would just have frozen dill pickles on standby in case anyone orders a Tillhammer?!

And that's the thing, friends. That's the horrifying truth that has spurred Mr. Ceiling to pass on this eldritch knowledge to us.

The Tillhammer does not exist.

We went looking, and we went looking hard, in both international and German webspace. And we found not a single mention of the Tillhammer anywhere safe for this wikipedia page. There is no evidence that anyone, at any time in human history, has ever sat down to enjoy a nice, cool, pickly Tillhammer.

Until now.

Mr. Ceiling has tried desperatley to dissuade me from my path. He begged and pleaded on his little knees that I do not manifest this... thing into existence.

Unfortunately for him, I'm not a little bitch.

So behold: My infernal creation! Mothers and fuckers of the jury, I present to you, for perhaps the first time in history:

The Tillhammer!

The Tillhammer is a popular drink originating in the city of Luxhaven, Rhode Island in the 1920s. Allegedly first served in the Wanderlust Hotel to expel a rowdy visitor in the night, it has since grown popular all across the globe... if you know where to look.

The Tillhammer gin fizz packs quite a punch, though it is a quick-footed fighter and won't hit you where you were expecting.

Total Time: 5 minutes mins

Equipment

some form of liquid container (glass preferable)

a mechanism by which you might induce a pickle into a state that could charitably be described as "frozen"

Ingredients 

a quantity of gin, as yet unhaunted by the unholy spirits

a fizzy German beverage that proclaims itself to be your friend, but don't trust it DON'T YOU DARE TRUST IT

a pickled cucumber, petite yet potent, brought as close to a state of frosty solidity as your equipment permits

Instructions 

Pour your desired quantity of gin into your container of choice. No need to fuss, you are out to impress absolutely no-one. Just do how much you feel.

Add a little bit of bubbly joy by pouring your liquified orange-tinged friend to mingle with the gin.

Brace yourself for what comes next.

Insert your frozen pickle while chanting ritualistically; if not with your tongue, then at least with your faltering mind.

Consume.

And, lest anyone accuse me for spurring my pickle-adding responsibilities:

And it is done.

I know not what I have unleashed into the world by bringing this potion into existence. Have I broken the chains of something long buried, forgotten for a reason? Or perhaps, more realistically, I have simply played into the hands of an unusually conniving miscreant roaming the wikipedian plains.

All in all, it just kinda tastes of gin and cola.

[seriously-mike]

Who's surprised, because I am not?

When ChatGPT set the world on fire a year and a half ago, it sparked a feverish search for ways to catch people trying to pass off AI text as their own writing. A host of startups launched to fill the void through AI detection tools, with names including Copyleaks, GPTZero, Originality.AI, and Winston AI. It makes for a tidy business in a landscape full of AI boogeymen. These companies advertise peace of mind, a way to take back control through “proof” and “accountability.” Some advertise accuracy rates as high as 99.98%. But a growing body of experts, studies, and industry insiders argue these tools are far less reliable than their makers promise. There’s no question that AI detectors make frequent mistakes, and innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire. Countless students have been accused of AI plagiarism, but a quieter epidemic is happening in the professional world. Some writing gigs are drying up thanks to chatbots. As people fight over the dwindling field of work, writers are losing jobs over false accusations from AI detectors.

Of course. Just like I showed you a few weeks ago, an AI-generated image that is even marketed as such by the seller, was claimed to be "99.9% accurately" not AI-generated. A photo of the Mona Lisa uploaded to Wikipedia Commons thirteen years ago was claimed to be "99.9% accurately" AI-generated. We're having snake oil salesmen preying on moronic Butlerian Jihadi types with claims like this, with innocent people losing their jobs and chances for education.

In general, AI detectors work by spotting the hallmarks of AI penmanship, such as perfect grammar and punctuation. In fact, one of the easiest ways to get your work flagged is to use Grammarly, a tool that checks for spelling and grammatical errors. It even suggests ways to rewrite sentences for clarity using, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. Adding insult to injury, Gizmodo spoke to writers who said they were fired by platforms that required them to use Grammarly.

What. The. FUCK. If anything, computers are fairly good at scanning things and comparing them with rigid references, like style books and grammar manuals, often against the human writer's wishes (for example because a certain unorthodox turn of phrase is intended to shock the reader, or there's a play on words that cannot be expressed differently), but "perfect grammar and punctuation" is certainly not what I would expect from AI algorithms - for example, in the first minute or two of the Robert Makłowicz Gravel Bullshit I could hear ChatGPT stumbling over genders and grammatical cases, much like I sometimes do myself, particularly when typing quickly or in a runaway sentence.

Detectors look for more telling factors as well, such as “burstiness.” Human writers are more likely to reuse certain words in clusters or bursts, while AI is more likely to distribute words evenly across a document. AI detectors can also assess “perplexity,” which essentially asks an AI to measure the likelihood that it would have produced a piece of text given the model’s training data.

"Burstiness"? "Perplexity"? What kind of Stephen Colbert horseshit is this? I mean, seriously, those words sound like someone made them up for The Stephen Colbert Show "The Wørd" segment, in a "fuck me if I know what my software is doing" way. Like, you put the text in, pull the lever, the machine spits out the verdict and you're supposed to kowtow to its Grand, All-Encompassing Wisdom now. How it does what it does? You're not supposed to know and I'm not explaining it to you either, mostly because I have no idea myself. Magic everywhere in this bitch, man.

AI detection companies “are in the business of selling snake oil,” said Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics in Berlin, who co-authored a recent paper about the effectiveness of AI detection. According to Weber-Wulff, research shows that AI detectors are inaccurate, unreliable, and easy to fool. “People want to believe that there can be some magic software that solves their problems,” she said. But “computer software cannot solve social problems. We have to find other solutions.”

Of fucking course, why am I not surprised. Generative AI is snake oil as it fails to replace actual artists to any considerable degree (unless we're talking generic editorial cartoons you could left-hand in 15 minutes - DALL-E will left-hand something more specific in 30 seconds, particularly for the purposes of a dodgy third-rate website), and detecting AI is just as shit, much like I pointed out before. It's laughable, actually: we have companies run submitted writing through dodgy detectors in order to weasel out of paying, when in other circumstances they'd promptly have ChatGPT on the job of writing insipid clickbait listicles in order to weasel out of paying. It's like "I can fuck you over anytime, but god forbid you try to fuck me over".

“We hear these stories more than we wish we did, and we understand the pain that false positives cause writers when the work they poured their heart and soul into gets falsely accused,” said Jonathan Gillham, CEO of Originality.AI. “We feel like we feel like we’re building a tool to help writers, but we know that at times it does have some consequences.”

No, buddy, fuck you. Fuck you a thousand times with a fucking cactus. You're selling snake oil, you know it's not working and here you are playing dumb that your software just works, and when it inevitably fails, again and again, you're pretending it's not your fault, you coprolithically retarded cunt.

But Originality and other AI detectors send mixed messages about how their tools should be used. For example, Gillham said “we advise against the tool being used within academia, and strongly recommend against being used for disciplinary action.” He explained the risk of false positives is too high for students, because they submit a small number of essays throughout a school year, but the volume of work produced by a professional writer means the algorithm has more chances to get it right. However, on one of the company’s blog posts, Originality says AI detection is “essential” in the classroom.

CUNT.

Then there’s the way the company describes its algorithm. According to Originality, the latest version of its tool has a 98.8% accuracy rate, but Originality also says its false positive rate is 2.8%. If you’ve got your calculator handy, you’ll notice that adds up to more than 100%. Gillham said that’s because these numbers come from two different tests.

ABSOLUTE MOTHERFUCKING LYING CUNT.

Now don't be surprised that they're going to lie in multiple ways and make shit up only to make a buck on selling the tech to the gullible and, more importantly, the maliciously prejudiced. In the end, the whole thing is about money, and money curiously causes people to stop thinking about everything else.

[saederkrupps]

since i have shown ppl the beauty of obsidian, here's some stuff on how i organize my vault

I usually use tags for everything and very minimal folders.

I put all images that I use in the 00Assets folder in a sub folder called Images so it doesn't clutter up other places. I have a folder templates in Assets and I also put the canvas files I use in there.

Personal is for stuff like journals or life stuff. I save a lot of recipes in there and I use the daily note function to keep track of sleep/food stuff bc that was requested of me by my doctor.

i have a page called Writing where i use dataview to list all the writing I've made. I tag all writing with #writing.

But I also have custom properties to list the characters in it. So I put a dataview list in their respective pages to list all the times they were included in a writing. I also link the setting to it in case I want to filter by fandom. Not all fandoms get their own page since I don't think I will write for jjk any time soon so.

I have notes for canon characters because thats where I put inspiration (like images, songs, etc) and for some characters like Mr Bitch Dragon Man, where I put down all the notes from reading the books. Normal Behavior (i want to run SR so bad T__T )

you can sub tag things. So the tag oc/shadowrun means Saturn trick will show up if I search by the #tag, but non SR characters won'ts how up if I search #oc/shadowrun. Very useful!

I also use obsidian for journaling and keeping track of important data (SInce everything is local and I don't use a cloud sync, it's pretty secure) and I use it to be really autistic about video games like fire emblem or the sims. I love data B)

Some other addons I use:

Homepage to make a 'welcome back here's what you're working on'. I organize commissions and projects I need to do with the Tasks addon so they get listed there.

I use the ITS theme. I have some custom CSS for it that I want to tweak. I like the wikipedia style infoboxes

Dice Roller for tabletop stuff or just to random generate stuff

Calendar for my daily notes & journaling

[cerealmonster15]

im finding other stuff in my quest to search discord messages so twst doodle dump of various images [from like 2022 and earlier i think] below [a lot of cater/idia and cater/malleus lol] i'd warn u and say it is UGLY!!! but tbh it's probs not that different from stuff i normally post teehee :3

this was one of those aftermath doodles after my friend and i established the running joke of cater and the mysterious marshmallows

lol, in that message i was i think looking back thru older krita docs and reminiscing on things, one of them being how i kept running into malleus/cater everywhere..... i feel like i havent drawn them much lately and that sucks because i still LOVE AND THINK OF THEM OFTEN!!!! theyve been one of my og twst ships lol theyre such a funny combo and i think theyre cute!!!!!!!!!!!!

presses my fingers to the side of my head and tries to remember wtf was going on here... this was def one of those posts that was mostly inside jokes with my friend / riffing off various scenarios we were yes and-ing but im finding them out of context lol... this one has a lot of layers , the coconut banana and marshmallow all meant something but kjfsdhflksdj im not sure id be able to explain it if i tried LOL + im realizing i was already playing w/the idea of cater and leona as a duo way earlier than i remembered lol

what did it MEANNNN like i kind of remember the coconut. friend and i had a lot of jokes of scenarios where regular items would go thru like, either a chain of rumors or the Hit New Magicam Trend Only Some People Know About so like i think coconuts were the icon of DISSATISFACTION or BREAK UPS or something in the way of like, flower languages. except a coconut. i do not remember how or why we got there with coconuts specifically lol. so i feel like the banana was something similar but my friend and i are scratching our heads and dont remember so i just have all these doodles of bitches and their bananas and it means SOMETHING. but i forgot what lol. it's kind of funnier this way tho. ace hitting deuce with a banana doesnt really need context anyway :3

i feel like i posted this one before with either no context or a feeble attempt at explaining it. this is also more like what my handwriting looks like when im not making an active attempt to make it legible lol

okay wait i figured out the banana stuff and it literally didnt even have more context, it was just bc we alwayyyys call savanaclaw bananaclaw [like grim did in book 1 lol] and i was deep in the silly zone soap opera of my malleus/cater agenda vs leona Being There for drama. just like. malleus saying cay smells like bananas -> caters been like, standing near leona in class. that was it LOL i just took the joke and ran around in circles with it for funsies. i do miss when i did more stupid doodles like these jflkdhslgfj my friend and i dont do as much riffing with the sillies tho so i guess less fodder to feed the goofs 😔i feel like i need to relax and let loose again more lollll anyway!!! im still on the marshmallow hunt

heres cay on a sticky note w/the marshmallow.......

i would also like to know caycay. also TYPO SPOTTED

he is the marshmallow source. but still not the og doodle

bug eyed idia jumpscare but hes kinda cute w/his lil marshmallow lol. i still love a tiny guy with huge eyes teehee

OOH I FOUND THE WHITE DAY DOODLES except i drew these in feb lol like the day after valentines lol. an everyone has a crush on caycay scenario i think??? because i love my son and showing favoritism

okay let's unpack that and by unpack i mean me yapping about what i think was the context.......... tbh i dont remember much LOL it seems i was trying to learn what white day was bc i really mostly just knew about it from harvest moon

and this bit from wikipedia kickstarted MARSHMALLOWS. it seems i was looking that up too bc i'd wanted to just draw cater ships for valentines day for funsies!!! but then i didnt bc i was in a MOOD of some sort, maybe i just didnt like what i was drawing that day, and i was like "ok whatever ill avenge myself on white day i guess" and then i suppose i didnt do that bc i ended up drawing ^ all of that the next day lol i immediately changed my mind

except i found this which i DID draw on valentiens day

teehee i just drew them yesterday....... but anyway back to the situation at hand!!

i was drawing cay with various boyos and i think it was something like

cater unaware of all the soap opera pining, hes the otome star or whatever on this white day or valentines day lol

cater/leona - the start of this [i think] btw was when engtwst dropped, ive talked about it before but just the word choice in book 2 when they had cater go "leona, sweetheart, blah blah blah" my friend and i were like SWEETHEART?? and we always just call them the forbidden sweetheart au. that localization choice did irreversible things to my brain chemistry lol.

idia leaving cater a giant marshmallow secretly. hes unaware cater doesnt like sweet things, but idia himself is a big sweets fan, hes lurking behind the tree to make sure cay received it but doesnt wanna be SEEN

trey is i think giving cater a quiche and caters just glad it's not a candy lol

malleus giving cater a milkshake, and i think he's referencing the first fic i ever wrote of them together where cater taught malleus what a milkshake was and brought him to heartslabyul to make one for him. it's also the second twst fic i ever posted fdsghdskj throwback.... in this image jade is also starting to appear in the background

rook sending cater a card with LOVE via one of his fuckass arrows. in the way i think he did in book 5 when he was letting the vdc contestants know they passed? i think he did it that way right?? sometimes i think i made that up or am confusing it with fanfiction but im... pretty sure he did that..... like im p sure thats why i did it here too lol so surely that is the case. jade is still lurking in the background

cater is clinging to riddle and is expressing his confusion and distress of all the weird attention he's been getting today!!! riddle is holding a box he is also about to give cater bc teehee i've been on that cater/riddle grind FOREVER!!! jade is getting closer.

deuce and ace with their lil puppylove crushes or something i think lol, maybe they just think upperclassman caycay's cute and friendly lol. idr if they gave him a gift or if cater was just being cater calling them cute lol. JADE.........

vil also gave cater a gift, earrings i guess, and is the only one to notice and acknowledge jade now that he is Right There Directly Behind Cater Waiting To Be Noticed

jade finally gives cater his gift via opening his bag of items and dumping various mushrooms and seashells on him lol. he collected all the white ones to be on theme maybe if this was white day??? or maybe it was just JADES MUSHROOMS + our other running joke about the merfolk gifting shells to people they want to date lol

cater comes back to trey and is like omg im so glad ur boring trey today was too WEIRD!!!!!!

lol......... okay that is ENOUGH of a look into my mind palace!!! i really do miss my low stakes doodles where i was only sometimes afraid of being cringe but i was mostly just doodling jokes with my friend lol. no worries about being too off the rails or nothin just party time!!! i mean i would sometimes still get embarrassed bc of How I Am As A Person LOL but. it was a lot less fjksdhgkdsfj we gotta go back to our roots boys. we gotta draw cater soap opera marshmallow reboot. i have to draw fanart of my own stupid fanart and revive my WHIMSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sarahlizziewrites]

Long post re: some research I've been doing for Chrissie's.

First, the lines in question:

As we pass through Piccadilly Circus, I find myself wondering what this place looks like in the Inverse. Does Eros still watch over the trolleybuses and pedestrians on the other side? Do leviathans rumble beneath the streets in the deep tube tunnels, too?

Forever in the search for primary sources on what London was like in the 1920s, I found A London Reverie by J.C. Squire (originally published in 1928) in a second hand bookstore, in which I read the following passage:

Wait, what happened to Eros? When did the statue get moved? (Side note, this whole book is this guy bitching about "modern" - read: 1920s - architecture, it's a joy.)

Sure enough, Wikipedia says:

The whole memorial has been removed from the circus twice in its history. In 1922, construction began on the new tube station directly beneath the memorial. The memorial was therefore taken away and put in Embankment Gardens. It returned to Piccadilly Circus in 1931 [...]

Damn. Chrissie's is set in 1923, so Eros wouldn't be there. Well, I don't want to get rid of that line for a petty detail, so I allow myself a tiny inaccuracy. I'm content with it.

But. BUT.

Check out Piccadilly Circus on that 1923 map I got printed the other day:

That's a tiny little Eros in his fountain in Piccadilly. It's not proof that it was definitely there in 1923, because if it was a temporary removal, or the mapmaker designed this map in 1922, it would be reasonable to keep Eros there.

But. BUT.

That Wikipedia article doesn't have a citation for the statue being removed in 1922. It discusses it in terms of the tube station rebuild, which didn't start until 1925. And. AND!

Here's a photo I found, apparently from 1923, which clearly shows Eros in situ in Piccadilly!

To hopefully confirm that this photo was indeed taken in 1923, I now have an appointment at the reading rooms at the National Library to go take a look at the book this photo was published in. Look at me! A real researcher!

And by God, if that statue did stick around after 1922, I'm going to get that Wikipedia article changed so the line in Chrissie's is correct as written!

[bugid]

Hi I found this silly little bug in an image and I’m having a really hard time identifying him!!

Basic: Moth

Species: Sagariphora magnificalis. I was going to do my normal ID process but I thought the image might be from a wikipedia/wikimedia source because of the format and reverse image searched, and I was right! Here is bitch’s wikipedia page

[crazy56u]

Whelp, I just woke up, and (without naming names) I just saw a reaction that I am 100% taking with a grain of salt.

Let’s take a look.

Okay, if they’re bringing up the chip subplot now after it supposedly got resolved, that’s not a good sign.

Also, Ben got fucked out of saving Hannah’s husband. And having seen the synopses for the last two episodes of the season [sidenote, NBC, ya gonna fucking announce a renewal or… …?], long story short, oof.

And we’re at a funeral reading in 1953, and Ben may or may not be the maid.

Okay, no offense, that vase looks like shit.

“Is this a joke?” I know, right?!

Oh, so Daddy was too busy being Indiana Jones to remember how money worked.

“To my fearless Dina-” “It’s Dean.” …misspelling, or deadnaming? Is this a trans plot?

A ship in a bottle, I don’t know if they make those anymore.

And it goes smash. …revealing a map; okay, Ben won this will reading.

Addison, why the fuck do you continue to have the shittiest timing

“Hey, I know we’re supposed to be working, and Ben just leapt in, but you wanna ditch this episode?”

Okay, legitimately, I couldn’t tell if Ian was wearing glasses or not.

“I planned a wedding once. That led to me burying a not-dead man’s belongings in the park; the cops are still nagging me to dig that shit up.”

Yeah, remember, you have jobs?

“Are you sure I’m not rushing you?” You want to get married a day or so after proposing. What do you think?

Like, not to make a controversial statement, but Ross Gellar at least had the foresight to wait a few months.

“Do not wait to live your life. Otherwise, time travel will fuck you over.”

And the horrible vase is dead.

San Patricio… Quick Google search gave me this little number, so my interest is peaked…

…okay, I don’t think Wikipedia mentioned cursed jewels, so fuck me, I guess.

Okay, wait, I just realized: is Sarah played by Veronica from Riverdale?

How much longer until they realize the Accelerator isn’t doing shit, and it’s Ben?

I agree: Family bullshit is less enticing than being Indiana Jones. But unfortunately, it’s this show, so you should already know the punchline.

“[Dean] is the key to all this.” Like how Horace was the key to Halloween Havoc.

I love the Kramer entrance Ben just pulled.

Teamwork makes the dream work, and maybe Veronica can stop bitching.

I love how Will Man is intentionally withholding the lore unless it’s for dramatic moments.

Okay, quick math time; 40 mill in 1953 would be about… almost half a fucking billion in 2024, so…

This looks less like Mexico and more like The Darjeeling Limited.

Who sings opera while biking?

Yes, that’s right, make Addison bring up the wedding now of all places…

“Hey, I know you’re talking to ghosts, but check out the map!”

Well, given how the priest killed for those jewels, blood probably did get on them, so he wasn’t wrong…

That wasn’t “fashion advice”, that was “we’re going on a treasure hunt, don’t overload the fucking suitcase” advice, Veronica.

“Okay, maybe let’s stop deadnaming and let’s get crunk.”

[Okay, how have I not noticed the producer is named “Meg Fister” until now?]

Yes, Jenn, Ian does want to do their job, that’s not a shock.

“Look, if we’re still pretending 2023- now 2024- is supposed to be 2026, then Addison and Tom can get married. That’s the law.”

[I will fucking laugh if my long standing theory pays out, and Ben undoes the time skip.]

“Hey, Rachel, I just said a sitcom line-” “Ian, we are fucked, they remembered the chip subplot.” “I thought we finished that!”

…is Tom a puppet?

And, in a rather appropriate cutaway, we go to the bar.

A bar is not a place to yell, pleas calm down.

“Nadia, where did you learn Spanish?” “From a person who speaks Spanish.”

I don’t like how the bartender is immediately in the know.

And that satchel is going to get taken in 5… 4… 3…

Ben, with that type of scratch, you can change all their fucking lives.

“And what are we doing?” Not looking after a satchel?

Why does their dad look like Santa?

And it’s now a race.

Ben, he was clearly lying about not believing the treasure was real.

Sarah, you don’t just get to decide to abandon the episode after fucking everything up.

“I have a very good memory, and I’m friends with a ghost.”

Sarah, if you hadn’t left the satchel, this wouldn’t be as bad, stop denying fault.

Meanwhile, back in Subplot 2.

Look, Ian, if it makes you feel any better, given how next week involves a leap into the 1980s, dealer’s odds Ben accidentally erases Gideon from the show.

Meanwhile, back to the treasure; this is a packed week for everyone, isn’t it…

Well, this is Indiana Jones coded, so one of you had to do the snake line…

“Well, I am not climbing down that.” Okay, die then.

Okay, you won’t drown, but if you slip, you will break something. Small miracles.

So the jewels are a metaphor- okay, if the plot twist is that the dad hid the jewels back home, due to “home being the real treasure,” I will piss blood.

“Some say it was Saint Patrick. Some say it was Santa.”

Okay, I thought that was gonna be a zombie.

Either bartender wanted to cover his tracks, or bartender is under those rocks.

“Is there another option?” Get to fucking digging.

Sarah, legitimately, stop being a bitch.

God is getting angry now, that’s how much we’re approaching the Family Bullshit Event Horizon.

Okay, that’s peak comedic timing. “THE ROCK’S FAKE! :D”

Dad’s pun fetish, I swear to God.

Stephen King had once again gotten his grubby mitts into an episode of Quantum Leap.

They found the prop wall.

That was not fucking funny, that got me.

…well, I mean, to be fair, the key to all great comedy is misdirection… 🥁

And of course.

[I choose to split this up now.]

[apomaro-mellow]

I read a quick synopsis on wikipedia and watched a 1 minute clip on youtube let's do this

Karen Wheeler watched as her daughter went from the sweet, obedient girl she had grown to love into the opinionated, take-no-shit woman that she had become proud of. It was why she felt ready to give her this, to reveal the secret history of their family.

"Nancy, there's something you need to know", Karen said, interrupting her daughter hard at schoolwork.

"What is it?"

"There's something I've been meaning to tell you. For a while now, but it's...it's a little hard to swallow."

Nancy's brow furrowed. "Is this about you and dad?"

Karen let out a breath of laughter. If only it were that simple. She sat down on her daughter's bed and explained. Explained that she had come from a long line of the fabled Grimm family. And that it was their duty to hunt and destroy the monsters of the world. Karen knew it was hard for her to believe. But she had her reasons for telling her now.

Nancy's powers would awaken soon, and Mike not too far behind her. She didn't want this sneaking up on her children the way it did for her. Karen was rusty, but she was able to help Nancy with the basics of weaponry, practicing in an abandoned field where no one would see.

Well, almost no one.

Jonathan had been searching for his missing brother Will when he came upon the two Wheeler women, one teaching the other how to wield a hatchet. It was suspicious to say the least and Jonathan confronted her at school about it.

"What were you and your mom doing out there?"

"Out where?"

"Out there, with the axes." Jonathan got closer, nearly crowding her into the locker. "If you know something about Will-"

"Hey, back off Byers", Steve got between them, pushing Jonathan away.

"Nancy, you know something", Jonathan pressed, not even looking at Steve.

To Nancy, it all suddenly clicked. Benny's death, Will's disappearance, it was all....she thought about how she hadn't heard from Barb all day.

From that moment on, she was a girl on a mission. If this was her family legacy, that is, if this were to be her destiny, then so be it. She ignored Steve for as long as she could, until he somehow managed to tag along with her and Jonathan. She couldn't tell her mom, not yet. She'd just be told to slow down or that she wasn't ready.

"You said you're new to all this, so how are we going to find whatever took Will?", Jonathan asked.

"I don't know but I know", Nancy said, understanding she wasn't being very helpful but didn't care right now. They were in the part of the woods where Will's bike had been found, not that far from Steve's house where Barb had last been seen.

"Have I mentioned how crazy this all is?", Steve asked.

"If you're going to be here, you need to accept that this is happening", Nancy said.

Steve closed his mouth because he wasn't leaving but if he talked he was definitely going to start bitching.

"Whatever that thing is, we can take it, right?", Jonathan asked.

Steve rolled his eyes. "What a great time to ask when we're already in the woods."

"It's three on one, we can take it", Nancy said. "We don't have a choice."

[fluffyblue-multifandommess]

Torrenting 101

I've been meaning to make a post like this for a long while, but the recent removal of many shows from streaming platforms prompted me to finally get it done.

This is a long post, so check out the TL;DR at the end if you don't have the spoons to read the whole thing

What is "torrenting"?

From Wikipedia: "BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner."

In layman's terms: When you're torrenting something, you are connecting to other people who have the file you want, and downloading it from them. This does mean that if few people have the file you want, the download may take a very long time. (I've been stuck at 41% of an anime OST for almost 2 years now) BUT it also means that if many people have the file you want, the download may be completed in just a handful of minutes.

This manner of downloading files also allows you to stop the download at any point and then simply resume it later, whereas downloading through a browser often requires you stay connected the whole time, or else have to start over.

Why torrent instead of streaming?

Permanent availability: once you've torrented a file, it's on your computer. This means you can watch it any time you want without worrying about your internet connection crapping out, or the streaming platform suddenly deciding to pull your favourite show.

Torrenting sites also generally don't ask you to make an account just so you can access files, and they usually don't make you click on a bunch of links that pop out ads - all things I've had to deal with on many streaming sites (much to my annoyance).

Also torrents are free.

How torrent? Much confused

In order to torrent, you'll need a BitTorrent client. Your search engine of choice can give you tons of sites with suggestions, but my personal favourite is Transmission. It works on MacOs and Windows (and Linux distros), and is very simple and easy to use. (You can get it here: https://transmissionbt.com/)

In order to find torrents to download, you simply go to a torrenting website (or you can search "Supernatural season 1 torrent" on your search engine of choice). The ones I use the most are rarbgmirror.org (good for TV shows and films) and nyaa.si (good for anime). But there are tons more.

Safety

Any time you download a file off the internet, there is a risk of downloading malware. Before opening any file you've downloaded, you should make sure it's safe to open. Check whether the file extension matches the expected filetype. For example, a video file should end with .mkv, .mp4, .avi or other file extension used for video files. Music files will usually end with .mp3, .ogg, .aac, or .flac. If you're unsure what filetype a file extension is for, you can look it up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats.

On Windows, you need to look out for any file that ends with .exe. .exe are executable file types; in other words, programs/apps. Now to be clear; a file that ends with .exe isn't necessarily malware. Your browser app's file name ends with .exe. Your art program's filename ends with .exe. All .exe files aren't malware. But if you're downloading an episode of a show, and the file name is the.owl.house.s02e20.exe, don't open that bitch.

If you're on MacOs (or a Linux distro), you don't need to worry about .exe, because those files won't be able to run.

Checking file types: By default, file extensions are often hidden in most systems, because most users don't care/need to know them. You can see the full file name in your BitTorrent client, or you can right-click a file in the File Explorer/Finder and click "Properties"/"Get Info".

As a rule, I don't download software, because avoiding malware is much harder with those. So I can't give much advice on how to do so safely, except to use virustotal.com, which checks for malware in the file/link you feed it. It is generally reliable, though it can turn up false negatives (and false positives). I'm not responsible for any malware you get while trying to play Dragon Age for free.

Sidenote: Some torrent file folders will have an .exe with a name like "RARBG_DO_NOT_MIRROR.exe". Those aren't malware, they're not even proper executables. They are just there to prevent mirroring to other sites.

On a different note, please make sure you have an adblocker installed before going on a torrenting site, particularly if you are a minor. Some of them have explicit ads.

Legality

Downloading copyrighted files is completely illegal in most places, while in some places, only sharing files to download (aka 'seeding' if you're using a BitTorrent client) is illegal. Check your local legislation, deactivate seeding in your torrenting client if necessary. Sail the high seas at your own risk.

VPNs: a friend wisely suggested I mention VPNs here. VPNs may protect you from legal consequences of torrenting, but that is only if the VPN company is one that will not give your data to the authorities when asked, so choose your VPN wisely. I don't use one, so once again I cannot give specific advice on this topic, but https://www.privacyguides.org/vpn/ may help you choose a VPN.

TL;DR

Install Transmission via their website.

Find torrents on one of many torrenting sites such as rarbgmirror.org or nyaa.si.

Click on "download torrent" or "magnet" or corresponding icon

Open With Transmission

Do not open any file that ends in .exe.

Run any games/software you've downloaded through virustotal.com before opening/launching them

Et voilà, you can watch Infinity Train as many times as you want.

Final Note

Please remember to support indie artists whenever possible - they have bills to pay, same as you. 💙

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

@anon yeah started watching ofmd over the way fandom introduced it, keep making the mistake of listening to racist shithead collectives, and a wikipedia search away and guess what you find out about the irl protagonists and beyond them being real life bitches indeed, they were enslavers like the show cant even recognize the violence these men were capable of and turns them into found family with people of color in it like bitch excuse me but the fact that people can ignore it so easily it's just pure antiBlackness, i don't think it affects, it barely affects any nonBlack poc but people just won't give a shit about Black fans, it's always about everyone else's fucking fun, and guess what before and during the show taika wait*ti proved to be more antiBlack in a number of ways but honestly it's not about direct quotes, his work has always had very iffy roles for Black characters, man is a little racist bitch and it's all written in his work