#i've been meaning to do this for a while

[samofmine]

"To Sam, brother is more than what it is to everyone else. Sometimes it’s a prayer, sometimes it’s a cry for help. It’s don’t ever leave me and I won’t ever leave you and my heart is only beating because it’s your blood it pumps through my veins." x

[hellsdisneyprincess]

what is the most cursed ship you can think of for my muse?

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Welcome, new followers!

I’m Bash, I’m from Australia and my passion is finding accurate and sensitive representations of disability in fiction! I also read a lot of LGBT+ romance, horror and a splash of crime/thriller here and there, from middle grade to YA to adult!

if you wanna take a browse around my blog, I highly recommend:

my book reviews - there are 100s of them, all tagged by title and author, and they are 100% okay to reblog, no matter how old they are 😊

my book recommendations - these are also perfectly fine to reblog - sharing them around is kind of the point after all lol

my #LoveOzYA tag - a collection of all my posts, pics and reviews of Australian YA fiction. if you’re looking for a new author to try, this is a great way to find one because very few Aussie authors get published outside of Australia (which is a crying shame because they write some incredible books)

I also tag for #lgbt books, #disabled characters, and #authors of colour if you’re looking for anything that fits those descriptors. I do have a #not YA tag for things that aren’t YA but I haven’t always been good at labelling things that way lol

either way: welcome to my blog! it’s so great to see new people in the booklr community <3 I can’t wait to see what books we all discover together! - Bash xoxo

ps. feel free to friend or follow me on StoryGraph!

just a quick note: TERFs are not welcome here. don’t follow me and don’t interact with my posts. we love and support trans people on this blog specifically but in the booklr community as a whole too. that kind of ignorance and hate has no place here.

[diagonal-queen]

remember that one time where i made that poll of who the best bsd trio was? well we're doing it again babey

*When I say 'mafia executives' they have to be a. currently acting as executives and b. alive

As for the Hunting Dogs, Fukuchi and Tachihara are the most plot relevant ones so the other three make up this trio ^^

[ki-flor]

"It takes a mess to love a wreck."

Record Ender x Byler

[thisbluespirit]

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Doctor Who (1963) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Charles Crichton & Sarah Jane Smith, K9 & Sarah Jane Smith Characters: K-9, Sarah Jane Smith, Charles Crichton, Original Characters, Winifred Bambera Additional Tags: United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (Doctor Who), Torchwood One, 1980s, 1980s UNIT, 1980s Torchwood, Original Character-centric, Original Character Death(s), Case Fic, Action/Adventure, Military, Aliens, Plot, Cliffhangers, Angst, Zombies (sort of), Infection, Peril, Explosions, Period Typical Attitudes, (here and there anyway), and one lost victorian housemaid Series: Part 1 of 1980s UNIT Summary:

April 1985: Good scientific advisors are hard to find. Dr Webber discovers why when he's expected to deal with zombies, aliens and Torchwood on his second day, and his only help is a tin dog and a ghost. Colonel Crichton and Sarah Jane are planning an exit strategy of sorts, while Captain Bambera is trying to keep her men from joining the opposing forces. They'll all be lucky to stay alive.

[brandyllyn]

This is a map of party affiliation - people who identify as Republican or Democrat. It is not likely voters or registered voters, it is a map of political belief in the US.

[Data Source: Pew Research.]

Pennsylvania is considered a swing state, but it breaks 46/39 in favor of Democrats. Louisiana breaks 43/41 for Democrats. Why isn't it a swing state? Texas? 40/39 for Democrats. West Virginia Missouri, Ohio, and Mississsippi are all within 2 points.

Here is the electoral map.

I need you to recognize that Republicans only have a firm hold (greater than a 5 point margin) in a handful of states. Even if every one of the other states went Republican, they would not win.

When Democrats vote, we win. It's that simple. It's why Republicans are spending so much god damn time trying to keep you from voting.

(Note: Independents were not counted although they generally do "lean" one way or the other. As of 2023 they are a roughly even split. I did not have the time nor inclination to try to factor this in state by state, but would welcome someone else doing so.)

[mindlessmedic]

Daisy and Jon are best friends, to me

(original under the cut)

[gatoiberico]

the depths

print

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay but it's super interesting how

Din = Power = Ganondorf

Naryu = Wisdom = Zelda

Farore = Courage = Link.

Because Din, in the hylian creation myth, created the physical world. Naryu then created the laws - gravity, time, etc. And Farore finally created life - plants and people.

Din created the body, naryu the mind, Farore the soul.

And the triforce and its wielders so perfectly reflect that.

Ganon is physical power, he is big and intimidating and he breaks things. He is cunning and determined, but that's not what he focuses on. He is might makes right.

Zelda is wisdom and cleverness. She is stall tactics and information and team work. She is a powerful mage with a spine of steel, but that's not how she'll win. She is the pen being mightier than the sword.

Link is courage and persistence. He is the wild card sneaking behind enemy ranks, always moving, plunging into terrifying situations head first. He's a phenomenal fighter with a keen wit, but that's not what will get him through his challenges. He is bravery not being the absence of fear but the triumph over it.

They sit in perfect parallels to each other.

And ganon is reborn through his body - his resurrection is immortality. No matter how low he is cast, as long as he has a body he can claw his way back. He can cling to his power, build it ever higher.

Zelda is reborn through the magic of her bloodline. It's the accumulated knowledge handed down for generations, the unique power she must master, the skills she must develop to survive and get her kingdom out the other side intact. Even her name, the knowledge of herself, is handed down from all the way from the very first. Her ancestors knowledge of her future presence, her stability, is what gives her the edge.

Link is reborn in spirit. He is not bound by flesh or blood. Just like his wanderlust soul he can reappear in any time or place. His variation, his unpredictability, is exactly how he fights. It's what makes him so hard to pin down.

Ganons need to build strength means he can't chase after link. Links impulsiveness means zelda can outwit him. Zeldas stationary predictability means she's an easy target for ganon.

But the other direction?

Fire melts ice, ice redirects lightning, lightning burns fire.

And that's the very essence of the triforce.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[ohhgingersnaps]

I'm seeing some frustration over fandom creatives expressing anger or distress over people feeding their work into ChatGPT. I'm not responding to OP directly because I don't want to derail their post (their intent was to provide perspective on how these models actually work, and reduce undue panic, which is all coming from a good place!), but reassurances that the addition of our work will have a negligible impact on the model (which is true at this point) does kind of miss the point? Speaking for myself, my distress is less about the practical ramifications of feeding my fic into ChatGPT, and more about the principle of someone taking my work and deliberately adding it to the dataset.

Like, I fully realize that my work is a drop in the bucket of ChatGPT's several-billion-token training set! It will not make a demonstrable practical difference in the output of the model! That doesn't change the fact that I do not want my work to be part of the set of data that the ChatGPT devs use for training.

According to their FAQ, ChatGPT can and will use user input to train itself. The terms and conditions explicitly state that they save your chats to help train and improve their models. (You can opt-out, but sharing is the default.) So if you're feeding a fic into ChatGPT, unless you've explicitly opted out, you are handing it to the ChatGPT team and giving them permission to use it for training, whether or not that was your intent.

Now, will one fic make a demonstrable difference in the output of the model? No! But as the person who spent a year and a handful of months laboring over my fic, it makes a difference to me whether my fic, specifically, is being used in the dataset. If authors are allowed to have a problem with the ChatGPT devs for scraping millions of fics without permission, they're also allowed to have a problem with folks handing their individual fics over via the chat interface.

I do want to add that if you've done this to a fic, please don't take this as me being upset with you personally! Folks are still learning new information and puzzling out what "good" vs. "bad" use is, from an ethical standpoint. (Heck, my own perspective on this is deeply based on my own subjective feelings!) And we certainly shouldn't act like one person feeding a fic into ChatGPT has the same practical negative impact, on a broad societal scale, as a team using a web crawler to scrape five billion pieces of artwork for Stable Diffusion.

The point is that fundamentally, an ethical dataset should be obtained with the consent of those providing the data. Just because it's normalized for our data to be scraped without consent doesn't make it ethical, and this is why ChatGPT gives users the option to not share data— there is actually a standardized way (robots.txt) for website servers to set policies for how bots/crawlers can interact with them, for exactly this reason— and I think fandom artists and authors are well within their rights to express a desire for opting out to be the socially-respected default within the fandom community.

[themoonatmingitaw]

Boy, what you gonna do with your life?

I associate this song to Wyll's situation a lot, things must have been so hard for him, with his sacrifices and unmet expectations. I wanted to hug him all the time.

[starflungwaddledee]

did you remember to leave space for all your phantom limbs?

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[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)