#chatter

[tozettastone]

hey @thriceandonce remember how impressed ("impressed") you were when you discovered my ratio of fic typos to chat typos?

me @ my mutuals

[stitchposts]

you inspired me and i made my friend this patch for christmas :]]

it was a lot of fun ty for doing what u do!!

this is so cool!!! your friend is going to love it. i hope you had a good time making it and thank you for sharing it!

[bonni]

I hate when someone on the internet explains like a really basic sociological observation they've made but they want it to seem like a new idea so they call it some stupid shit like the Beverly Exemption

[hyrude]

what’s the beef w kyle gallner

look i don't have beef with him. i don't have the strength to defend myself against his fans. i'm sure he's a fine actor but i personally do not find him sexually attractive, and that's a major barrier to enjoying his work because almost every flick he's been in is directed by someone who wants to fuck him, and the plot revolves around him being the sexiest man on the planet and therefore requires the viewer to believe in his raw animal magnetism. i do not comprehend this and so watching his work feels like being an alien learning about a human emotion i don't have the capacity to understand, let alone feel. strange darling was like fanfiction sex scenes being performed by muppets. do you know what i mean? sex from someone who doesn't know what sex is. ken doll horniess. but i dont have beef

[same-pic-rick-roll]

Oh, a dozen or so now.

The #non rickroll victim tag is for victims of tomfoolery, but not a rickroll.

I made it for tagging ppl gettingMariah Carey instead of Rick Astley.

[tieflingkisser]

it is so disgusting watching other white people reassure each other about taking breaks from social media and "prioritizing your mental health" when literally the one thing Palestinians are asking for more than anything is that people do not look away from what is happening to them

EDIT since some people seem to have misunderstood: i'm talking about the white people who have given themselves and each other permission to check out and go on about their lives in blissful ignorance, not the people who actually are taking mental health breaks. hence the scare quotes. specifically i was reacting to a trend on tiktok at the time but it happens everywhere on social media

[tozettastone]

Oh, hmm, maybe that's it. I have to admit, I have been really struggling to understand the motives here. It would make sense if they didn't realise that writers had to approve the backlinks.

I had a very weird experience this morning. I got an AO3 email about a work inspired by mine, and then it turned out someone had copied my fic in its entirety, reposted it, and notified me that they had posted it via an "inspired by" link.

I have examined this person's account and ALL of their fics are just copies of other fics on the archive, and all of them are attributed to their original writers in an "inspired by" link. I'm sure this account, which contains 34 works, isn't long for this world. I am not sure it will even outlast the OTNF queue, since many writers must be reporting them.

But I am fascinated and baffled. What could they possibly hope to achieve, other than being told to cut it out?

Just think, PAC must receive reports like this every day. What a job. Haha.

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Honestly, the PAC reaction is going to be "A clear-cut case without any significant victims? Sweet!"

[themetalhiro]

Just stumbled across the Pokémon teams I made with my partner for all 10 of the strawhat pirates. Took like 3 hours and several bottles of wine. maybe I’ll draw them when I have the time?

[enfranchisement]

hello?

[bonni]

this is the worst fucking day. I threw on a dress I knew would fit, I've owned it for years and it's a bit short but not anything crazy. these stupid fucking assholes in front of my school, not even fellow students but construction workers, started making really gross comments about my legs. and it wasn't just one of them, there were like 3 guys making comments and another 3 whistling and hollering like fucking cartoon characters. I just collapsed on the sidewalk and started sobbing. I don't want them to look at me, not today. I don't want anyone looking at me today

[businesstiramisu]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

pretty recently too i would guess

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(in response to OP I was going to say "me, thanks to The Locked Tomb" but I misremembered and that joke is about Bring Me To Life. Which I think was the bigger song at the time too? Definitely in terms of internet memes. It's got almost half again as many hits on youtube even now. But no, the upshot is that "My Immortal" brings to mind the fanfic first for me)

when you say My Immortal who even thinks of the song 😔

[hyrude]

ive emptied my dehumidifier 5 times since i bought it 24 hours ago which means roughly 5 gallons of water was in my air…?????????? i think my home may have been poisoning us for a year

[roseslights]

this was just something I drew to send to a friend but thought was funni

[cybertronplannedparenthood]

has anyone else considered how insane an orion pax amnesia arc ala tfp would be in the tf1 universe. “dee? is that you? where are we?” megatron being so fucking excited to have his boyfriend best friend back after eons of unfulfilling work leading the decepticons, only to realize that mentally orion’s picking up right after d-16 let go of his servo. megatron, who has spent the last four million years actively crushing down his own emotional intelligence, now being forced to express his regret for that horrible day (in a way that still paints him as having the moral high ground, naturally). him having to come up with an excuse for why orion shouldn’t trust elita or bee anymore, or try to contact any of their old mining friends. teeny tiny kitten-finials no-cog orion next to Literal Part-Time Tank megatron. the mask starting to slip as orion asks more questions, and the most damning question of all, which is whether the mask is megatron’s cold brutality or d-16’s gentleness. is this thing on

[businesstiramisu]

counterpoint: the main character is played by Aldis Hodge so you can pretend he's Alec Hardison pulling a long con

I binge-watched Cross on Amazon, the new Alex Cross show. I watched the first episode on a whim, then stuck around because ... I don't know, I guess I was trying to figure out what it was trying to say about crime and the police. And after eight episodes, I think it just totally fails to hit any sort of mark.

The big problem, for me, is that it's trying to weave in a lot of discussion of the relationship between law enforcement and race while showing some of the worst elements of "copaganda". Police searching a home without a warrant, police tampering with evidence, police not playing by the book and having that be what allows them to catch the killer, implying that restraint and due process is a shackle on police that makes them ineffective ...

And this is a show that's trying to tackle these questions, to weave them into the show organically. After watching the show I read an interview with the showrunner, and ... he was trying to say something! But the story is being told in a world where there are billionaire serial killers, it focuses on their depravity, it punishes restraint, and I think in the end, really just wants to be a fantasy of getting "the bad guys".

There's a plotline where Cross beats the shit out of a guy he thought had either killed his wife or knew who did, and it turns out the guy is innocent, and the way they talk about it, it's like they think that this would be okay if he were guilty, or if he had priors, or if there was some kind of reason. And you're just never going to get to good policing if you're still in the mindset that we should only refrain from beating the shit out of the innocent.

Also, the main bad guy is nicknamed "The Fanboy" and his MO is to kidnap people, make them look like famous serial killers, then document their resemblance, recreate some famous scene using real life props, then kill whoever he's abducted. I found this interesting, but it felt like a lead-in to or parable about the obsession with true crime, or the ways we deal with media representation. It just never really came, and felt like the punchline was missing. Like, surely "I take innocent people and pretend that they're killers for my own sadistic pleasure" should have tied into the conversations on race and law enforcement, right? I mean, he's literally picking his victims because they bear some resemblance to famous serial killers.

But the killer explains his philosophy, that serial killers are like gods because they spit in the face of the idea of fairness, and any narrative cohesion seems like it gets shot in the foot. He's doing this because he wants to join the pantheon of killers, to be as famous as they were, and I don't know, there's probably a reading that ties them together better, but in the end it seems more like a "wouldn't it be fucked up" kind of serial killer, and any thematic resonance I was seeing partway through has mostly evaporated.

I am moderately interested in hearing a defense of this show, or a reading of this show that makes sense of its themes, but right now it feels like it was just confused about its message and how it was slotting things together.