#ibid

[honey-you-mean-patrochilles]

I finally figured out how to screenshot on Disney+ so

Random shots from "Hercules and the Apollo Mission" (mostly featuring Apollo, cause of course)

[subsequentibis]

guy who now has two fursonas still on the fence about whether he is actually a furry or not, more at 11

[nando161mando]

If this isn’t obvious, the main reason is we’re constantly encouraged to look at social problems as if they were questions of personal morality. All this work, all the carbon we’re pouring into the atmosphere, must somehow be the result of our consumerism; therefore to stop eating meat or dream of flying off to beach vacations. But this is just wrong. It’s not our pleasures that are destroying the world. It’s our puritanism, our feeling that we have to suffer in order to deserve those pleasures. If we want to save the world, we’re going to have to stop working.

— David Graeber, ibid

[mendedrum]

Ibid and Xeno radiates the ambigyously gay energy of the mythbusters hosts.

[fieriframes]

[Ibid., frg.]

[lord-allo]

Philippinische Segelechse

Philippine sailfin lizard, crested lizard, sailfin water lizard, soa-soa water lizard, ibid...

Hydrosaurus pustulatus

[Hagenbecks Tropenhaus]

[ninebaalart]

Ibid and Noxid are a duo set of villains from Rangers Comics #28. They're villains sealed in a magic lamp, intended to be trapped in purgatory by Zeus. Since Noxid was entirely one color in his original appearance, my version turns him into a sand construct. Ibid got some small tweaks, such as freckles and heterochromia.

[thecitationslut]

Complaint Department: CMOS 18 and Why It's Both Great and Horrible

This is going to be a very tedious series that I plan on doing for the rest of this academic year about the good and the bad and the ugly revision to the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. Now, don't get me wrong. Times—they are, indeed, my friends—a' changin' faster than Bob Dylan can whip out a harmonica.

And, besides, this is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do—criticize my favorite book of all time, CMOS. You have to understand that for people like me – people who love order rules, and structure, even when it's unnecessary – the Chicago manual of style has been a consistent beacon of Hope in the world of utter lawlessness. Oh sure, you think that grandma's walking across the street just fine but she is slightly outside of the sidewalk. In that way, grandma will destroy us all.

You see, for people like me, the 700 some odd pages of rules is a very comforting thing. So, it will be very difficult for me to dissect this book as it has not substantially changed in the course of its publication history.

Revisions to standards are commonplace. They're necessary. After all, what good is a standard that doesn't actually describe anything that it's supposed to? If things change, so must the style guidelines. However, one must be judicious when deciding when a standard changes. For example, a very small that vocal group of people can change the entire narrative about the usage of some word for example. Likewise, they could hijack a conversation over some obscure reference to something in the name of a higher authority: morality.

But even so, things definitely needed to change. I'm glad that they're finally saying that the pages of a website should be set in quotation marks and the titles of website should be in italics (agreed).

So, tell me what you think:

The problem is this: citation manuals are a blend of idealism and practicality. Yes, it's about getting everyone on the same page about things that make our lives easier and our communication more efifiecnt and clear. If we end up spending more time aruguing about the standard than we do anything else, we shouldn't change anything. It's not met the threshold of "oh, most people do it this way. So, that means we should create a standard that make sure everyone does it in the same way so that it's not confusing."

Here are some great examples of what I'm talking about, starting with the good.

The Good

Chicago Manual of Style Online, "Names, Terms, and Titles of Works."

This is great. We've all been doing it anyway, so, thank goodness.

The Bad

No me gusta tambien. Why are we making shortened citations LONGER??? I do believe this would be the citation-equivalent of the infamous No Child Left Behind Act which saw Congress seek level the playing field for all by forcing everyone towards a mediocre education. Wow, so brave. Regardless, this is dumbing down the use of ibid. specifically for the writers—certainly readers of books containing ibiid. are able to process the flow of information correctly. Instead, Chicago should prescribe the avoidance of ibid for novice and under-practiced writers, and encouraging cautiousness and paying attention instead of just dumbing it down.

There is one good things bout their instructions. After the first "full?" shortened citation you can thereafter refer to it

Chicago Manual of Style Online, "Shortened Citations Versus Ibid."

In the end. I'll live.

What do you think of the new addition?

[tightlaces]

Are we id. gays or ibid. gays?

[coupleofdays]

I'm reminded of H.P. Lovecraft's joke story about the history of the proliferous author Ibid.

“You can tell how dangerous a person is by the way they hold their anger inside themselves quietly.”

— Unknown

[nando161mando]

Much of this work is entirely pointless. Whole industries (think telemarketers, corporate law, private equity) whole lines of work (middle management, brand strategists, high-level hospital or school administrators, editors of in-house corporate magazines) exist primarily to convince us there is some reason for their existence. Useless work crowds out useful (think of teachers and administrators overwhelmed with paperwork); it’s also almost invariably better compensated. As we’ve seen in lockdown, the more obviously your work benefits other people, the less they pay you.

The system makes no sense. It’s also destroying the planet. If we don’t break ourselves of this addiction quickly we will leave our children and grandchildren to face catastrophes on a scale which will make the current pandemic [covid-19] seem trivial.

— David Graeber, ibid

[orlissa]

My villain origin story is 5000 words of negligently edited sources which I have to comb through.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna, 1903

“Another time all four of the girls were ill with whooping cough, and they coughed a great deal. Mrs. Eagar told them that they were to be most careful not to cough on anyone, or that person might take the disease from them. One day as little Anastasia, then still an infant, was coughing and choking away, Maria came to her and putting her face close to her said, ‘Baby, darling, cough on me.’ Greatly amazed, Mrs. Eagar asked her what she meant, and Maria said, ‘I am so sorry to see my dear little sister so ill, and I thought if I could take it from her she would be better.”

— Ibid (pages 177-178)

[pd-characters-of-the-day]

Here are 2 public domain villains,Ibid & Noxid from Fiction House

[fieriframes]

[IT'S LIKE OKTOBERFEST EVERY DAY? YES. AND WHAT'S A GERMAN PARTY AND RETURN ON GERMAN TRUCK: IBID., 290 (30 JUNE 1940? (chanting) LIKE THIS OVERSIZED BEEF ROLL-UP...]