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lizclipse · 5 months ago
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the more i use my computer the more i just want to basically be a netrunner from cyberpunk. having to move my arms around to switch between mouse & keyboard is quite annoying, but you have to use a mouse for a ton of GUI interactions and, once you've switched to using a mouse, it can be a lot faster for many things
specifically - i want to be able to move my mouse around my entire desktop quickly and precisely. there's a headtracking feature in macos but it's quite slow and clunky, and i can't really figure out a good alternative
a full implant in my head that i can just plug into my computer and control shit with i think is the ideal, but no corpo is making an open source implant like that to my knowledge and i honestly wouldn't trust most of them anyway. an eeg headset would be the next step down, but they seem expensive and likely would need a lot of training and i doubt could ever be very precise
eye tracking mouse control seems like the best way to do it without implants, but finding an open source library to do that escapes me for the moment, and it'd need to handle head turning & multiple desktops, and that's a tall order honestly. well, i'm sure someone's done it, but i really want to look at an element on my desktop and have my mouse immediately go to that exact point, and that is a tall order
there is facial detection libraries, but that means i'd have to spend a while picking them apart and piecing together something myself, which would take fucking ages. whatever i'd make would also need to be super quick & precise otherwise it wouldn't be useful, and that would make it even harder
corps like tobii do eye & head tracking hardware, but it's into the hundreds for i think the base consumer hardware and it's got a very strong gaming focus (not exactly giving me much hope for hacking something together with it)
it's kinda frustrating tbh, since it feels like i can get so close to getting something great working but the puzzle pieces are either dlc-locked or hidden in someone else's drawer. anyway, back to using the mouse & keyboard like a normal person
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sonicasura · 1 year ago
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Transformers: Analog Horror Style
I've been talking about this on a non fandom related Discord and decided to bring it here. There are various analog horrors that utilize non horror series such as Splatoon 3 or Jurassic Park. It felt only right to add something like Transformers to the mix.
Extraterrestrial mechanical beings who can disguise themselves as various machinery, grainy footage and videotapes that only hold clues??? Perfect material for a horror. Here's some ideas that came to mind.
Decepticons
Nowhere is safe and one wrong move can potentially be your last. The Internet is a stalking ground so post or search with caution. Lest you wind up on Soundwave's radar. This Decepticon will be happy to light up his targets for one reason: an insidious hunt for the spy master's cassettes to enjoy.
Ever seen a beautiful sports car parked by the side with a sleek blood red paint job? DO NOT TOUCH. Unless you want to meet the same fate as all the others who run afoul with Knockout.
A terror in the skies that signals disaster wherever he appears. Pray the lone jet doesn't reveal it's true form. Don't look and hope he hadn't spotted you if a glimpse occurs. Survivors of Starscream are miniscule.
Results are all that matter. Morals? Worthless. Lives? Another opportunity to experiment. Emotions? Not needed. Shockwave only serves for the cause with lethal efficiency.
It is useless to hide. This will only excite him. Run as it chips away at his boredom. Fight and he'll be merry to slaughter the lamb caught in his gaze. All Hail Megatron as humanity is nothing but a plaything.
The only way this information can get through is by the way of analog. Find these tapes at your own risk. There is no turning back the moment the video starts. Decepticons don't lose their prey easily.
Autobots
It's nearly impossible to tell if they have good intentions unlike their more violent counterparts. The Internet is a double edged sword that needs to be regarded with caution. Autobots are at a greater disadvantage than you think. What little information about them is scarce.
Communication and knowledge is minimal. Some can speak but how comprehensible they are varies. The most understandable share only broken sentences that rarely blur into inhuman language. A few offer a 'soup' of linguistics which share little to no connection. Some play by the ear but don't understand what every word means. The remainder are mute, either speaking in their language or have no voice box to respond through.
Most don't understand how humans function. A situation that has led to people being slaughtered by Decepticons, accidental harm to the innocent, or danger by their fellow man who believe they gone insane. This has led to a decision from their leader, Optimus Prime.
Human help is REQUIRED. They need a liaison if the Autobots hope to even catch up to the Decepticons. Government related officials won't do as these humans are too volatile and always under Soundwave's surveillance.
What they need is a teacher. Someone who can offer such knowledge and not marked as a person of interest to their enemies. A bystander will do.
Pay attention to the car that appears outside your driveway. Look closer at the one following behind on the road. Did another join each car? Flee foolishly and they will give chase.
If the lights behind you disappear, DON'T RELAX. The Peterbilt is coming. Avoid him as he will trap you. Stop and the chance of escape dwindles. Turning off the engine was a bad mistake. DO NOT RUN. Optimus Prime will catch you and escape is impossible.
Welcome to the war. You can't escape until one side wins. The Autobots are guardians but also prison wards to their chosen liaison. You will be protected yet caution is still advised. Welcome to this new dangerous life.
That's it for now! Until next time folks, I'll see you later. Transform and Roll Out!
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the-sinful-voice-witch · 8 months ago
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TIME TO LOVE STEPHANIE BROWN aka SPOILER
She deserves JUSTICE!
Greek Goddesses! Another character that earned a love post from me, she needs the love, she DESERVES to be loved 💜💜💜 (spoiler alert, this post will be a loooooooooong 😅 )
I found out about her and other characters thanks to the wholesome slice of life comic Batman: family Wayne adventures months ago (I've been a DC Batman fan since I was a kid but I mostly watched shows that didn't include said characters before starting with the comics) and I fell in love with her, I mean she is all purple and her hero name is SPOILER 💘 so she could jump on criminals and say things like: SPOILER ALERT YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET BUSTED 👊😂 HELLO? INSTANT LOVE 💘and then I searched for her, read a lot of comics... and learned SOOO many outrageous things!🤬 Welcome to Hypocrisyland 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. Here comes the RANT:
So she was an independent girl who made herself the Spoiler persona to "spoil" her wannabe Riddle father's evil deeds and she was a bit morally gray and cynical and wasn't particularly trying to be a hero or a vigilante and then after meeting Robin she started to change her mind inspired by HIM so all her thing started completely separated from Batman and technically it was by associating herself with Tim/Robin that at some point she started to want Batman's approval too and started the whole "fight to prove that I deserve a place here" thing but I think the amount of disrespect this girl faced is ridiculous! Treated like she was hopeless, useless, stupid etc... is she a punching bag? Treated like shit by so many characters for no good reason 😡 and I didn't see any satisfying consequence on them because of it, it was as if the way they treated her was justified because... I don't know, she was compared to Jason, to Dick, to Tim and to Barbara but when is only about her own person she wasn't good enough so they were hysterical about her hurting herself or dying faster than any of them 🙄, so everything is justified because they were worried?
Sorry but NO, I don't care if she isn't as skillful as characters like Cassandra or Damian that were raised to be living killing weapons by assassins or that she isn't intelligent genius detective level with a rich live background that could afford special ttraining like Tim or Batman himself, that she isn't some erudite engineer to build herself taser weapons like Harper Row or a suit flying armor like Luke Fox, that she doesn't have military training like Kate Kane, that she doesn't have hacker skills or a cop dad as Barbara Gordon, or she doesn't have powers like Duke or wasn't trained by ninjas like Selina Kyle or that she started only having good grades at gymnastics instead of having been raised in a circus by acrobats like Dick Grayson... I DON'T CARE, because she had a lot of qualities to start from Zero to Hero that are probably a lot more relatable than the other characters, most people don't have third rate criminal fathers but still she is a lot closer to the normal people than other characters and that makes her great, she is so resourceful even thought that unlike Batman and Tim she comes from poverty and can't get high tech stuff, yet she made herself a costume and helped take down her criminal father in a low budget! How come her resourceness in her situation wasn't impressive to them? How come that she had to endure being dismissed and underestimated constantly over and over until her death? It was exhausting to see! The fact that she started being resentful towards her father and wanted more revenge than justice is enough to ditch her as a hero? (Maybe the Avengers would have welcomed her better in that case 🙄) How much she had to train until the writers stopped making her look unfit and unworthy despite everything?
I don't get why they decided to make everyone around her be an asshole, a jerk, a hypocrite... Specially Tim and Batman (the AUDACITY of these two! Batman "fired" Her from being Spoiler like she being Spoiler had anything to do with him in the first place, entitlement much? Robin mantle I get it but The Spoiler mantle was hers from the beginning he can't fire her from it and then Tim went to comfort her, ironic since he kept telling her to hang the suit all the time, he also said being a Teen Titan was out her league when she was offered a place and told her she can't speak for herself, seriously you fucking jerk? Does he think he is Dick Grayson or what? 😒 the entitlement is spreading! and later when he became Red Robin he DEMANDED her to never be Spoiler again... Oh FUCK YOU 🖕🤬, mister "I discovered your secret so now you have to hire me as Robin" Worse part of that is that he said that after finding out things she was doing on Batman's orders wtf? So is bad always no matter if she disobeys or obeys Batman she can't win) They even made my dear Alfred be cold with at first because "she hurt Tim" but it was actually Batman's fault because he told her his secret 😤 well at least that treatment didn't last, bless Alfred for crying after her death when Dick asked about her and being so happy to see her alive he lose his British.
Why they hated her so much to the point they just doomed her to a horrible death that wasn't even heroic? She was tortured for days after provoking a gang war following one of Batman's plans trying to gain his trust back after he fired her from being his Robin for only 2 months! 🤬 2 miserable months!! because she disobeyed him (sure, sure, no other Robin BEFORE and AFTER her has ever disobeyed Bats orders right? 🙄) and the last person she sees before dying is him who was always comparing her to her male predecessors because he didn't like she was more questioning than them and then lied to her dying face about considering her a real Robin (by the way it felt so wrong that she became Robin out of spite because she saw a girl kissing Tim and she assumed he was cheating... I mean I can't blame her he did CHEAT on his first girlfriend with her, boy I hate this kind of teen drama) . They said it was "unclear" If he was telling the truth, HA! PLEASE. 🙄Of course he is not going to tell the ugly truth to a dying girl (he even "insulted" Her once saying she fights like a girl, wtf? She should have tell on him to Dinah lance) The ones who should have been there were Cassandra and Tim they actually did considered her a Robin, yep even Tim (he even mentioned a few positive things about her time being Robin) after he retook the mantle, they at least loved her! Even if they wronged her at least there was no doubt that they loved her... (Even if Tim's grief for her was short and too dry! 😡, They wanted people to forget about her so hard he was already having new love interests when not even a year passed, he suffered a lot more with his father and Superboy's death than with Stephanie 🤬, at least Cass cried and dreamed about her and thankfully Alfred and Barbara cried for her too even when they weren't that close to her at that time) Because seriously, this was a pitiful sad death, not bothering in making it a sacrifice or falling on combat saving someone noooo, she died after making a huge mistake trying to impress someone who never actually seemed to like her at all! In a gruesome and kinda sexualized way, nobody came to rescue her... Batman only showed up to pick her up after she escaped alone and tell her pretty lies before dying.
What a fucking Joke 🤦‍♀️ how humiliating for a character with a hell lot of potential WASTED! She didn't even get a memorial in the Batcave like Jason! Both their deaths were meant to be permanent but the comics only wanted you to remember Jason but not about Stephanie! Like he never existed! (And later the lame excuse for it🙄, like Batman suspected she wasn't really dead but he didn't tell Tim or Cass about that suspicion? None of them confronted him about the lack of memorial of her? Wouldn't they demand a memorial of a girl that meant a lot to them? He suspected she was alive but he never care to find her?🙄😑 Talk about crappy, tacky writing) it's like the character was thrown like garbage... Indeed that's what they intended to, her death was supposed to be permanent but fortunately for us fans rioted to demand her return very rightfully! 😤 and... Her return was still rushed, lame and lazy 😒 and they forgot to add a LOT of characters reactions seeing her alive 🤦‍♀️, like not even Cass??? I searched and never found a comic with her reaction after finding out she was alive! All out of camera, I hate that, is just so TACKY! Not an epic death and not proper comeback 😬😬
But then we had her run as the third Batgirl! Her solo as Batgirl did a lot of good for her character, with the exception of a few things I disliked like: her interaction with Catwoman that didn't make sense with how they met in the gangs war or that once again Batman has to have all the credit 🙄 because at the end he comes back from a not actual death and it turns out the whole make her a Batgirl was his doing and not Cassandra's doing😑 that would have been better because later they could rub it on his face but they couldn't because it was his idea 😬 but hey at least she got to SLAP him 🤣👏👏 that was epic BRAVO! Ahh that solo lasted too little! She got to put Tim in his place, she became friends with Supergirl and bonded with Damian as a big sister, I swear she should have spent more time with them, she demonstrated her bravery and willpower when she kicked the Scarecrow ass, finally earning Barbara's respect and admiration after she was so bitchy with her, its always so satisfying seeing characters standing up for her after so much mistreatment (i guess she had mixed feelings with the fact that Stephanie is a Batgirl that resembles more to her, Dick also mentioned that and thankfully he stopped being a jerk hypocrite with her too) and did I a mention that she FUCKING SLAPPED BATMAN? Because that is extremely important 😂 and Alfred defended her calling Bruce out in his bullshit test. Then for some stupid out of the blue reason she retired for a year... AFTER ALL SHE WENT THROUGH TO EARN THAT MANTLE? 🤬🤬🤬. Anyway she had to take the mantle back because she was chosen for some tournament where she had to fight Catman and there was Tim again looking down on her 🙄 "why weren't we chosen Cass we are better fighters she is a year out of shape" (Yeah who the fuck decided to make her hang the cape after everything? 🤡) at least Cass defended her saying that she is unpredictable, not like when they were training (Steph was still death) and out of the blue she unnecessarily tells him "you learn fast not like my last student" Really? I recall you enjoying training her 🙄 Sure Cassandra cried and dreamed of her but she used to look down on her a lot, the way she knocked her out in after being fired from being Robin was something we never see her apologize for, it was swept under the rug like never happened, Steph never confronted her about it even though she left her feeling betrayed 🤦‍♀️ and then besties again like nothing 😒. But at least she punched Tim for being an imbecile and then they got together again, so lovely, so happy, she was finally getting respect... BOOM: the new 52 reboot happened. 😃😃
The only thing I liked was that she got triple nunchakus as a personal weapon and that way she doesn't copy Robin's stick and the fact that she went through teen pregnancy and had to give up the baby because I hated that lazy plot that was only meant to make her and Tim have a closer relationship is not canon anymore(they really couldn't think of anything else to deepen their relationship than making her go through that pain so he could support her?😒🤦‍♀️ besides, she had a traumatic sexual assault experience as a child so I find hard to believe she would let herself get pregnant with the scumbag she dated before Tim, I hard to believe she didn't dumped him until he abandoned her in the earthquake) but her origin and relationship with Tim was erased along her time as Robin and as Batgirl(even thought that somehow thankfully now is canon again)and other character named Harper basically took a bit of Steph and Cassandra stories, mixed them and made them her own... pretty lame because Harper's concept was actually cool but she taking their place wasn't cool she also was the one to befriend Cassandra and had a conection with her first instead of Steph and the one who had to fight to be allowed to be a vigilante by Batman instead of her and she was the one that convinced Steph to join the fight instead of Steph wanting to do it by herself but the thing that infuriates me the most in this reboot was that she was accepted into the batfamily without much problem but altmost inmidiatly they made her go against them and againts Batman that this time wasn't being an asshole to her due to the apparent death of Tim Drake, Batman was even being affectionate with her, that hug he gave her to comfort her was precious 🥺 and so satisfying to see but then they had to ruin everything by making her be unreasonable and insufferable to create cheap drama 🤦‍♀️, now that she got the only thing she wanted pre reboot they make her want to walk away?🤡🤡🤡 not to mention I was already pissed of that in her solo as Batgirl they forgot what kind of interaction she had with Catwoman, basically Selina was the last person who was sweet and kind to her before she was killed, it would have been nice to see a proper reaction to her come back but the reboot made things worse! Selina was bitchy and mean to Steph even if she gave her some acknowledgement to her talent but she refused to grant my wish of training her and instead she was trained by the second Catwoman that honesty was disappointed but not that bad because I will like any character that would want to help Steph and Eiko (2° Catwoman) took her in for a while and bothered to teach her something so KUDOS 👍 for her! And Cassandra, Dinah and Barbara too.
And well I'm going to stop the rant here because aside of Tim dumping her and treating her shitty for no reason when they were finally happy so he could be with a random background NPC boy nobody cared about or even remembered so he could prove his bisexuality 😑😑😑, in general things are finally getting good for her: she is finally fully recognized as a Robin and she got another solo with Cassandra and Barbara as Batgirls that wasn't as good as the first one but it was nice and apparently she is now going to have her own team of young superheroes in a new comic.
I wanted to make an statement about things I like about her, the need to make her interact with other characters I think she would get along and my new Ship with her and Jason but all that will have their owns individual posts because I already wrote too much here, if you read it all thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏❤❤ if you felt offended or disagreed with something I said I apologize but remember that this is just the random opinion of a random Tumblr user so... See you in my next posts 😘💋💋
STEPHANIE BROWN DESERVES LOVE AND JUSTICE 💪💜
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pizzaapplecheese · 1 year ago
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I like LMK, but I will admit some of their writing decisions are a bit... atrocious. Don't get me wrong, I love the story and characters, but sometimes I wonder what is the point of the changes they make. The samadhi fire being one of them.
It is honestly one of the most useless and confusing change I have ever seen with no justification. I am going to break it down to 3 reasons why I believe this.
Nothing needed to be changed.
This is one of my biggest gripe with this change is that it doesn't even NEEDED to be changed. The Samadhi fire could still have been sealed without making Redson a newborn (thus removing the whole section where he was forced to become a disciple of Guanyin and being the whole reason why both the Demon Bull King and his brother who guarded the abortion water was angry at Wukong). It is as simple as having it be Guanyin who ordered it. At this point Redboy was Guanyin's responsibility, so why not have her ask the pilgrims to do the ritual. Both the sealing and Redson becoming a disciple can co-exist it isn't something mutually exclusive.
2. Reduces one of Redson's main character trait and takes away exploration of a complex relationship
Unlike in the show, Redson wasn't born with the Samadhi fire, he worked for it. Which outside of his devotion for his parent's admiration, isn't really explored that much. He is a very strong character in book (he caused Wukong to have a breakdown and even made him to NEED Guanyin's help in handling him, the same Sun Wukong who only the Buddha was able to stop during his havoc in heaven) and it feels a bit disappointing to see him be reduced so much in the show.
The Samadhi fire being sealed when he was older and more aware is such an interesting concept as the shift of strength would always be something to be hanged over for Redson. It would be like taking away Wukong's shapeshifting, like sure Wukong can still do many things, but he is significantly weakened. This goes back to Redson's main trait, HE IS A HARDWORKER, in the show he engineers a lot, building many bull clones and used a machine to help take Wukong's staff out. It makes sense for him to search for alternatives to help him match his previous strength or work around the issues the sealing have given him. I will be honest Redson is an overachiever, he constantly works hard on being number 1 in everything he does, he is not the type of character would have this stop him.
Also it makes such a good exploration of the complex family dynamic of the bull family. To DBK and PIF this would obviously have been seen as a bad thing ("not only did Wukong made his son a slave of Guanyin and beat him up, but he even help took away his power!" <- biased) they have every right to be angry and might even dabble a bit of behaviour that parents with disabled child would react (ie. grieving his past self and treating this something pitiful) which would definitely not help with Redson's overachieving behaviour which honestly gives more reasons why he is like that. The dinner scene would make a good moment to show the contrast between Redson and his parents because they do love each other, but the way his parents express it is harmful (they are trying at least) they would have been too busy being upset to actually think to consider Redson's own views of the situation. Like I can definitely hear DBK talking about Redson in his younger years as an unstoppable force who could conquer the world if he wanted to, until Guanyin came around and forced him to weakened out of fear and jealousy (cough cough biased narrator).
3. confuses the story
I don't feel as if I need to explain this one, but it really does confuse the story a bit. If it wasn't because the Redson situation, why did they fight in the first place? What happened in between sealing the Samadhi fire and placing DBK under a mountain? The show never explained that and juging how DBK's relationship with Wukong is constantly overshadowed in the show in favour of SEM I doubt we will ever know.
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dibujodiadelpadre · 2 years ago
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5 Unique Father's Day Gifts That Every Dad Will Enjoy
Most of us find it pretty difficult to choose well thought out gifts as it is, but when it comes to getting gifts for dad, the decision can be feel like pulling teeth. Honestly, it's our dad, but the usual gifts just seem a bit cliche. In this huge world of ours, however, there's undoubtedly unique Father's Day gifts that every dad will love. The only problem is finding them. Luckily, the following five gifts are sure to tickle the fancy of every dad out there.
1. Joystick-It
By now, it would be a bit useless to tell most people to buy their dad an iPad as a unique Father's Day gift. First off, it's not really unique. Secondly, there's a good chance he already has one. What he doesn't have, however, is the Joystick-It.
This little joystick actually sticks to an iPad via suction cup and works just like the joysticked video game of yesteryear. This gadget works with games ranging from Pac Man to Galaga. Who couldn't love this?
2. Autographed Memorabilia
Okay, sure... most dads aren't going to want an autographed picture of Russell Crowe or Val Kilmer. We know that. What they may want, however, is autographed memorabilia from their favorite sport star.
Whether your father really enjoys watching a modern day athlete or just has a little place in his heart for Babe Ruth, whose signature prices can greatly vary, he's sure to proudly display something signed by one of his own heroes.
Find more Info here – Regalo día del padre
3. Growlers
Most dads enjoy a good beer from time to time, but honestly, how many good beers are there at a gas station? On top of that, how great should you feel if you're buying your dad's gift from a gas station? Luckily, somebody somewhere thought of the idea of a growler.
Growlers are usually 64 oz bottles that many stores sell, but the weird thing is, the bottle is empty. They actually fill it there in the shop with your choice of a variety of different beers from around the world. They then seal it for freshness, your dad enjoys it, and amazingly enough, he can even return to have the bottle refilled. Epic.
4. Home Plate Door Mat
That's right... it's exactly what it sounds like. This door mat works just as well as any other that you'll find in a store. This one, however, is in the shape of a baseball diamond's home plate. Heck, you can even find them online with "HOME" written right across them; you know, for those who don't get the joke right off. Not only will dad love this, but it's such a unique Father's Day gift that he'll enjoy looking at it on his way in and out of the house every day.
5. iPod Docks
Okay, so dad probably has an iPod dock; honestly, who doesn't? What he likely doesn't have, however, is a manly iPod dock. That's right: manly. For motorheads, there are docks made entirely from aluminum and in the shape of a car engine's exhaust manifold. For the woodsman, there are docks made to look just like cut timber. It takes nothing more than a quick Internet search to find these awesome looking gifts in almost any style.
There's no doubt that choosing a gift for dad can be a daunting task. All too often, our best intentioned gifts wind up either in the back of their closet or on a dusty shelf out of sight. The trick to choosing a unique Father's Day gift that he'll enjoy is to think outside of the box. There are innumerable gifts that dad will love, but the aforementioned are sure to catch and hold his attention. There are those who are just great at choosing amazing Father's Day gifts, but luckily, for the rest of us, the Internet is always there to help.
Click here for more info – Dibujo día del padre
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grison-in-space · 9 months ago
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Linux is a great tool but it does not solve the problem of people not understanding how to use tools like directories, file paths, and open source/free software, let alone the problem of not understanding how to use a command line, the problem of not knowing how to search for information on the Internet using a search engine that doesn't suck ass (thanks for that too, Google!), the problem of not knowing what kinds of tools are available, or the problem of being overwhelmed by coping with a complex system all at once.
teaching these skills requires teachers. teachers who can help demystify these concepts to students, especially while those students learn how to be confident and how to cope with frustration or uncertainty. this takes effort, support, and praise. if the best you got is recommending FOSS when the problem is that no one knows how to use all the free shiny new tools you've built, your tools are damn useless next to a payware version that comes alongside a helpful staff or even a good manual that can show people how to use those tools to achieve goals.
if y'all think that the problem of no one knowing how to use computers effectively is a big one, as I do, you better be out there trying to help folks in your professional and personal life know what's out there and gain fluency as they can. Find yourself a kid or a person who wants to achieve a goal but doesn't know how, and see if you can support them through learning how to do the thing.
It can be as simple as this, learning about directory structure: Grab yourself a real paper folder and some printed out 'files'. Show them how the objects fit together and are organized. Start nesting those fuckers. See? Not so scary. Sometimes it's just a matter of laughing because coding, amirite? everyone struggles with that shit! you struggling at first don't mean jack about your ability to build these skills for yourself. here, sit by me.
linux, like all FOSS initiatives, has a long and unfortunately fairly deserved reputation for being full of defensive neckbeards hunched in the metaphorical manger, biting anyone who isn't "their kind of people" who gets too close, and then complaining that no one is using this great free software everyone is building. if y'all want more people getting involved with these things, it needs to be user friendly and welcoming. You gotta be more inviting than the paid jackasses, because they have startup capital to let them pay for teachers, and all you have is spite and conviction--and being inviting has always been something that FOSS spaces have been, let us say, ambivalent about.
sincerely,
the postdoc carefully shepherding so many students through good coding literacy skills as I sketch out my absurdly complicated supercomputing cluster analysis pipelines
We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.
Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.
Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.
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fullbeam-seo · 2 months ago
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How Search Engines Fight SPAM In SEO
Search engines like Google work hard to give people good information. SPAM makes the user experience worse and can lead to search results that aren't appropriate or very good. This is why search engines work hard to stop SPAM. The following content discuss different kinds of SPAM and search engine methods to find them and more. If you looking at genuine SEO services, then we would always recommend using a professional firm such as Fullbeamseo.
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Types Of SPAM In SEO
1. Black Hat SEO Techniques
Black Hat Unethical methods are used in SEO tactics to change search engine results. One example is keyword stuffing which lowers the quality of the content by using too many terms and another is masking which shows search engines different content than users. These strategies could lead to harsh punishments and hurt reputation in the long run.
2. Low Quality Content
Low quality content includes things that are copied or made automatically and aren't original or relevant. Search engines get confused when there is duplicate information which makes it hard to find the source. Users often need to get something useful from material that is created automatically. This kind of SPAM annoys users and hurts your search engine results.
3. Unnatural Link Building
When backlinks are made that don't help this is called unnatural link building. Examples include paid links and fake backlinks from sites that have nothing to do with this. The goal of these strategies is to boost a website reputation falsely. Penalties for these actions can hurt a site image and make it less visible in search results.
Search Engine Algorithms
Search engine algorithms are fundamental to how search results are shown. These programs look at many things when they judge web pages. Fundamental changes are meant to target SPAM in particular. With the Panda Update Google is focusing on better material. It punishes sites with little or similar material. The Penguin Update fixes link profiles that don't look natural.
Sites that use dishonest methods to get links are punished. Recent changes to the algorithms have made it easier to find SPAM. Search engines are constantly making their systems better. They change to keep up with the new tricks scammers use. Webmasters can ensure their information is current by understanding these changes. This makes the experience better for users and raises the ranks.
SPAM Detection Techniques
1. Crawling And Indexing Practices
Search engines use two main methods to get information about web pages crawling and indexing. When search engines crawl websites they look for new information and examine the content to see how good and relevant it is for indexing. By marking sites with poor quality or useless content search engines help find SPAM.
2. Machine Learning And AI
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These kinds of actions can cause significant drops in results right away. On the other hand algorithmic fines happen automatically when algorithms find SPAMmy content or behavior. Getting back on your feet after getting penalized can be challenging and you must understand fully what went wrong.
Webmasters need to determine why the punishment was given. This usually involves examining the quality of the material, the linking profiles and the site general compliance. After finding problems steps must be taken to fix them like removing SPAMmy content or disavowing damaging links.
Being clear about how penalties work supports good SEO practices. When webmasters know why they are getting penalized they are more likely to follow search engine rules which ultimately improves search results and user experience.
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aspiratechnology2022 · 3 months ago
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jollysauto · 4 months ago
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cleanlenins · 1 year ago
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Okay, this reminds me of Twitch's sub model in a way. Except it's shittier.
Like, if I Sub to a Streamer on twitch, I get a shiny badge. BUT, that's not the main draw of subbing to a streamer? There are multiple benefits to subbing to a twitch streamer: directly supporting the streamer I like, getting unique emotes, access to a discord channel, not having to watch ads, help get to a sub goal for a special stream I want to see, redemption options, early access to merch, etc.
This just gives you a worthless badge for a month. It is literally just twitter blue. Like, I'm for Tumblr having features users pay for. Like, the ea-nasir or dracula daily icons are funny. You are paying for the funny. But this is just dumb.
The Sub Badge model works on twitch and youtube because you are getting MORE than just a silly little icon. Twitter Blue and this nonsense won't work.
I think the issue is that Tumblr doesn't realize what kind of site it has. It is trying to be a "content creation" app like Youtube and Tiktok, with twitter nonsense thrown in. But it's not a "content creation" site. It's a community site. Tumblr's strongest asset is its community. And it is refusing to see that.
Here are some things I feel like Tumblr could implement that would generate money WITHOUT being dumb as hell.
1.) A commission page: People are always making commission posts on tumblr, but unless you already have a following it might not be seen. What if tumblr made a commissions feed where people could pay to have their post listed under commissions for a certain amount of time. This could be anything from art to handcrafts to tarot readings. Tumblr added the little on/off commission icon, but what if they had a dedicated commissions page? Tumblr would not get paid a part of the commission price, but an upfront fee for being on that list for a certain amount of time. We know that etsy has shit the bed for artists, why not have a little feed where people can post open commissions and other can find art to commission? It would be better than using tumblr blaze to advertise because you would only look at the commissions if you wanted to commission.
2) Community Icon: Tumblr, you're a brand. Most of us are Millenial or younger. We don't like brands. But we do like repping our communities. Let me have a little Ace Flag next to my name. Or a Danny Phantom ghosty. You already have some icons like ea-nasir or dracula daily. Do you think the supernatural girlies aren't gonna pay to have a little supernatural icon? I'm sure they's love it! If you are worried about copyright, just go the Spirit Halloween route and name them something like Physician Where badge or I Can't Believe It's Not Natural or Twiceler or something. People would pay for that before they would pay for a useless tumblr logo.
3) PvP options: Look, we love the little pranks. The crabs are so funny. Give me the option to change my mutual's avatar to shrek for a day. Give me the option to challege someone to see who can click the most crabs. For winter, let me throw snowballs at people and let their posts get progressively more frostbitten. Silly little harmless games or pranks.
4)Fix the Search Engine.
I could probably think of more, but I'm at work.
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This is currently being rolled out for mobile and web in English. We’ll be rolling out to other territories in the coming weeks.
That’s all for now. We hope you enjoy this new badge as much as we enjoyed coming up with it, so we can keep making odd little tchotchkes for you to enjoy. Stay weird, Tumblr <3 
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king-of-knives · 6 months ago
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Use of chatgtp is mostly wild to me because I never downloaded it and then I went to college and realized that in the past two years which I spent reading around 400 book, literal and fanfiction and it is books because they're literally novel length, and writing more than a 150 poems, there were people who went from asking Google what is capital of Australia to asking chatgtp what is the capital of Australia AND IT IS WILD BECAUSE THAT ISNT EVEN THE PURPOSE OF CHATGTP......
I was astonished because when we get asked to write 3 syllable words people ask chatgtp instead of Google and End up writing words with wrong number of syllables and its a pity that they got so used to asking chatgtp to answer thier math questions gk questions essays letters, that they forgot what search engine is for, what calculator is for why tf are you asking chatgtp to do avg for you that what people learn in 5th or 6th grade, why do you have to ask an ai to what to message your colleagues, why do you have this amazingly written report under your name when you can't even tell the meaning or pronunciation of 40% of the words which are in it, when you wouldn't be caught dead forming any sentence alike to that irl?
I read so many papers on ai last semester to write my research project and they were SCREAMING AI IS MEANT TO HELP YOU IF YOU USE IT CORRECTLY but nowhere did they say we should ask it to write our papers, they were fuming with AI IS TO BE USED TO MAKE YOUR TEDIOUS TASKS EASIER NOT TO MAKE YOU STOP DOING YOUR WORK IT IS NOT THERE TO MAKE U A USELESS DUMBFUCK
And the end I wrote something along the lines that not using ai might be impossible but if you cannot work without it, AI isn't helping you it is deteriorating your minds progress and if you are relying on AI you'll never get ahead of it and that means we're all going backwards because people before ai were definitely smarter because they never needed it, so remember whatever good thing that can come from AI was/is actually made by humans who didn't need AI and if they didn't you most probably don't either.
I did a group project once and I made a list of what everyone has to search up a paragraph on for the panel, I gave examples I wrote 30-50 words on each topic as a guidance for my group on what kind of things they need to prepare and I did it without internet on spot and i was pissed and disappointed when they pulled up with an AI generated Mashup of every point I had given and literally all 5 of us said the same fucking thing under 5 different topics and I hated every second of it and I've never hated myself more I was more disappointed in myself than in them I wish I had gotten a zero on that assignment because that is what it deserved , and if by lords mercy I can choose to never have a group assignment I will die happily and if I do have to ill eat my foot before I leave it to people who use chatgtp I will write the whole thing if needs be but I cannot for the life in me have a do over like last time my soul died, I wanted to throw my phone and my laptop and smash my head against the wall.
I will die before I use ai for anything, IT CANT EVEN TRANSLATE LIKE SERIOUSLY JUST USE FUCKING GOOGLE TRANSLATE ON A WHOLE SENTENCE OR PARAGRAPH AND ASK SOMEONE WHOS FAMILIAR WITH THE LANGUAGE TO REVIEW IT BECAUSE ITLL BE 100% MORE ACCURATE THAN THAT DUMB AI.
And seriously if you can't write 500-1000 words over a topic by yourself when you've all the knowledge in the world on tips of your finger only if you search for it at the right place, or write a 200 word report on how you did your project??? You need to seriously reconsider how much time you've wasted away in the name of praising AI instead of improving your intelligence
There was a time when my mother used to get angry at me for using goggle to get my answers instead of using books, and now I get angry on my mother for asking chatgtp to make gk questions instead of just asking random gk questions to Google whose answers she doesn't know to make a paper. How i wish my mother would stop telling me to go to the library and went to one herself.
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kiridarling · 4 years ago
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𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓.
— 3.0k words
eijirou kirishima | hard dom + dubcon jic + f!reader + exhibitonism + face-fucking + dumbification + car sex + more! minors dni.
"Made me come all this way...it’d be a pity if I didn't get somethin' out of it."
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"No, no, no, no, no—c'mon," you cry as your car engine spits and sputters to a stop in the road, coughing like an old man with asthma before it's dead for good. Jamming your heel on the gas pedal, you twist your key in the ignition, but there's no use. You're fucking stuck.
You sigh, before slamming your forehead against the steering wheel. It's hard enough to sting, and the blaring horn startles all unsuspecting birds in a five-mile radius, but you could care less. Stuck in the middle of the woods at one in the morning, AAA membership-less with nothing but the clothes on your back and the vehicle you came with. Short cuts are a fucking myth.
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Mina's the only person you can think of calling—because frankly, she's the only one who'd know a mechanic who could help at this time of night if one exists. Which you doubt. Severely.
"[Y/N]?" Mina answers, semi-urgently. You wonder if you startled her out of a good sleep, but knowing the night owl, her evening is just beginning. "What's up?"
"I'm fucking stuck in the middle of nowhere," you groan, banging your head against the back of the seat though you know she can't see you. "Car's not working."
"Oh no," she coos, and her pity is useless. "Do you have AAA?"
"No. Do you have a mechanic?"
"A mechanic...at one am? I don—wait," she interrupts before you hear something akin to rustling sheets. "I might have a friend who could help! But don't get your hopes up girlie, he's a heavy sleeper."
You shrug, shaking your head. "At this point, I'm desperate."
"Alrighty!" Mina confirms, and now all you can do is fucking hope her friend pulls through. "I'll give him a quick buzz and then send his number over, sound good?"
"Sounds perfect," you breathe, relaxing (somewhat) with your chin against the steering wheel. "Thanks, girl."
"Of course!" she cheers, and you wonder how someone could have so much energy at this time of night. "Good luck!"
"Thanks," you snort. "I might need it."
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Riiiing! Riiiing!
Eijirou's had a long day.
A pipe busted at the auto shop today, resulting in an immediate flood—meaning they had to get everything that could possibly rust out as quickly as possible, aka everything in the goddamn shop.
So, yeah. He's had a long day, and when he's finally able to get under the covers and go the fuck to sleep, Mina calls him with this.
"Hey...Eijirou, buddy, best friend—"
"Mina, I love you, but what do you want?" Eijirou grunts into the phone, voice worn and ragged from limited sleep and his terribly long day. One am is never an appropriate time to call anybody, but he figures something has to be up—Mina's not the type to call in the middle of the night.
"Um, well. My homegirl’s kinda stuck in the woods with car troubles—"
"The woods."
It takes Mina a second but she hums in confirmation, and Eijirou can see her head nodding from where he lays. He sighs, rolling on his back to blink up at the ceiling. "Yep!"
"What is she doing in the woods at midnight?"
"I don't know!" Mina exclaims. Eijirou runs a hand over his face. "I just—please, Ei? She doesn't have AAA or anything and it's really, really late. All you have to do is hotwire her car or something, right? It's not like she totaled it or anything."
And dammit. Eijirou hates being a nice person.
"Just give me ten."
Mina practically gasps out a thank you, "You're a lifesaver Ei! Really! I—"
She's interrupted by the buzz of his phone—this time, from an unknown number. Eijirou raises an eyebrow, "That her?"
"Should be!" The pinkette says. Eijirou's feet finally touch the floor and it's painfully cold. His bed has never looked more appealing, and that's counting all those instances in high school. "Thanks again, Ei!"
"Yep," Eijirou says, popping the 'p,' before clearing his voice and switching the line. Customer Service at one am, here he comes.
"Red Riot Auto Repair and Services, how may I help you?"
All he receives is a grunt on the other end of the phone: "My car won't turn on."
Eijirou waits for you to give him a little more to work with, but it's clear that's all you have to say when you ask hello to ensure he's still on the other end of the line. Runs his hands through his hair, he silently prays he won't have to leave the house to get your car to work.
"Did you try jiggling the key?"
"Yes, I'm not stupid," you huff, and Eijirou's eyebrows fold in exasperation. He insists you do it again though, and hears the weak splutter of your engine through the phone with a heavy heart. "'S fucking useless."
"Did you try tapping the battery terminals?"
"The battery whatsitals?" You say, too loud and smart-mouthed for the very thin amount of patience Eijirou harbors. He reaches for his hair tie, satisfied enough with the messy bun he makes on the first try.
"Just send me your location," Eijirou sighs, moving for a jacket before snatching the keys to the shed. He'd rather just get this over with than beat around the bush.
Luckily, you're not far. 
"You drive that thing?" is your first comment, and Eijirou can't even appreciate your beauty before your first words shatter your image completely, and he's slamming the door to his truck with rolling eyes, rusted toolbox heavy in his hand. "It looks like Mater from Lightning McQueen."
Eijirou just stares at you for a second, just to see if you're really serious, and resists the urge to scoff when it seems like you are.
"It's a truck," is all he says, before marching around you and to the task at hand—your car. "Pop the hood."
You huff, but you listen, and Eijirou wastes no time in getting to work. You watch with your elbows balanced on the rim, curious but quiet, and that allows him to get in the zone enough to realize there are countless problems with your car.
"When was the last time you took this thing into the shop?" He probes. You click your tongue, eyes tracing the outlines of the trees as you search for an answer. That's never a good sign.
"Um...never?"
"And how long have you had it?"
"A few years," you nod, and Eijirou drops his head.
"It's a miracle you made it this far in the first place," he chuckles bitterly, shaking his head. What the hell is he going to do now? There's no way your car is moving anywhere tonight. You frown, jamming your hands on your hips.
"Well? Are you going to fix it or what?"
"I can fix it," Eijirou says with a shrug, closing your hood. "But not tonight."
"What do you mean not tonight?" You badger, breathing down his neck as he hikes back to his truck to set the toolbox down. There's no reason to carry it if he's not going to need it.
"I mean, your car's going to need a solid six months before it can run again, Sweetheart."
When Eijirou turns, you're much too in his face for his liking. He can practically feel your breath against his chest, and it has him rolling his eyes, leaning against his truck with arms crossed.
"Yeah, okay, but I need it to run tonight," you explain, gesticulating so wildly Eijirou fears his own chest may fall in the cross-fire. "Like, I need to get home tonight."
"I can't—" the redhead sighs, running his hand over his face. You're terribly difficult, and if Mina had given him a proper warning he probably wouldn't be here in the fucking first place. "Listen. My shop is out of commission for the next few days 'cause of a flood. I can work on your car or whatever, but it'll take a sec, so the most I can do is drop you at a hotel down the road or somethin'. Sound like a plan?"
"No," you growl, claws and all, and Eijirou wishes for nothing but death. "That doesn't sound like a plan! I don't know you, what makes you think I'll get in a car with you?"
Oh. My. God.
"Then you can spend the night in your car and have Mina come get you in the morning," he huffs, stomping over to the driver's side of his truck. "So it's either you're gettin' in, or I'm leaving ya."
With that, he slams the car door shut, shoves his key in the ignition, and counts to fucking ten, and on nine and a half you're flinging open the passenger door and bouncing in the seat, arms crossed over your chest in indignance. You don't even look him in the eye.
"Seatbelt," he warns. You tut.
"I don't need a fucki—"
"Put on the goddamn seatbelt."
You don't say anything, but he's satisfied by the click that follows. Eijirou shifts into drive and you two take off.
"The seat's so uncomfortable."
Not even twenty feet.
"Suck it up," is all the pity Eijirou has to offer. He's preoccupied with trying to get from this side road to a main road with, you know, actual civilization. The road is unsteady—unsteady enough that a bump sends the both of you flying towards the roof of his car, and naturally, you have something to say about it.
"Y'know, for a mechanic, you're not a very good driver," you say, and it has Eijirou's fists tightening around his steering wheel. His patience wears down until it has the height of a penny, and Eijirou worries for when it shatters because he has no clue what he'll do if it does.
"And it smells a little funky," you continue anyway, eyes wandering around the cabin aimlessly."Kinda like cheese. No offense."
Eijirou pulls over at that, teeth grinding. Is he really going to snap over cheese comment?
“Is this a condom?”
Yes. Yes, the fuck he is.
"Get out."
"Um—excuse me?" You blink, eyebrows raising in offense. "You're kicking me out. Because I found a fucking rubber?”
Eijirou glares your way and he's sure you can feel him radiating fury, and that's enough to convince you to hop out of the car without another word. He follows, slamming the door behind him.
"Okay? Now what?" You growl, and Eijirou loves it—the false display of confidence. Because he knows it won't take much to break you once he gets you under his thumb, and you'll look so pretty once he does. Cocking his head to his side, he tells you to come here without having to open his mouth. You follow.
"Now, on your knees."
You splutter at his request, rolling your eyes as if he wasn't being serious. Though you shut up once you hear the clink of his belt, lips widening in revelation, and Eijirou thinks you'd look much prettier with your mouth full.
"You made me come all this way—it'd be a pity if I didn't get somethin' out of it," Eijirou says, and the way you shiver implies that you like this more than you let on. He coos when you say nothing, "And for the first time today she's got nothin' to say. See? You're improving already."
He gives you a second to move. When you don't, he lifts an eyebrow. "Knees, Princess."
You do and Eijirou groans at the view, palming his hardening cock at the sight of your bambi eyes blinking up at him—and it's a pretty one, at that. Leaning against the door of his truck, he grunts, "Take it out."
Your fingers hook under the waistband of his boxers and Eijirou shivers upon contact with the cool air, but the warmth of your palm makes up for it. You spit on his cock with a curled lip and it's nothing short of crude, before you're swirling your tongue around the head and taking him as far as you can possibly go.
"Uh-uh," Eijirou tuts, grabbing you by the hair to pull your mouth off his cock. "We got at my pace, Sweetheart."
"Why?" You pout with a curled lip. Eijirou scowls.
"Because," he says, before stuffing half of his cock down your throat, "I'm gonna put that big fuckin' mouth to use at my pace."
With that, Eijirou thrusts into your mouth, using the grip he has around your hair as leverage. Your throat is impossibly warm and the way you choke has him keening, and that's enough for his hips to start picking up mindlessly.
"Shit—what a dirty fuckin' girl," he says, smirking when you moan around his cock. "You like this? You like sucking off a guy you just met?"
Your eyes flutter at that, nails digging into his thighs, and it nearly has him cooing. When you swallow around him Eijirou's hips stutter and he grunts, "In public, no less. Anyone could drive by and see you taking my dick down your throat...but you'd like that, wouldn't you? You want the world to know how much of a slut you are."
Your hand falls between your thighs and Eijirou grins like the devil as he watches you touch yourself on the dirty road, desperate just because knows how to push the right buttons. That's enough to have him caving, demanding you rise to your feet and get in the backseat of his car.
"Hands and knees," Eijirou urges, his body towering over yours from behind. It's not long before he's pinning your wrists to the windshield with one hand and using the other to land a harsh slap on your ass; harsh enough to make you jolt forwards from the force.
"Such a pretty ass," he coos before slapping it again, and your teeth dig into your bottom lip to muffle the sound. "And it's all for me, ain't it, Princess?"
You nod, but Eijirou spanks you again—he's looking for an answer.
"Y-Yeah, yes, all yours just—" your hips wiggle in search of his cock. Eijirou chuckles, leveling his lips with your ear.
"Want me to fill you up, Princess?"
You gasp out a yes, nodding vehemently. The redhead finds he likes you like this much better, chest rumbling with arousal. "Yeah? How bad?"
"B-Bad, please, I need t—fuck!"
Eijirou stuffs you full with one thrust, and even he needs a moment, freehand searching to hold onto your hip while his grip tightens around your wrists. You quiver under him, and he swears he can feel your gut contract around his cock, eyelids fluttering when you grind against him.
"Holy shit," Eijirou finds himself wheezing, not expecting you to be so tight. You drop your head against the cool windshield, whimpering like the pretty little thing you are, shuddering as he pulls out before ramming himself in again until he's balls deep. You scream, back arching from the angle.
And fuck. It's impossible for him to stop after that.
"Fuckin' look at you," Eijirou chuckles, body practically caging you against the seat, "Drooling all over my window like a slut. Fuck, you really know how to get a guy goin' huh?"
“Pull—pull my hair,” you request, words from his pistoning hips. Eijirou tuts and rips your hands off the window in favor of pushing your head into the seat, not making a move to yank on your hair once.
“I don’t think you’re in the right place to be making demands, Princess," he growls before his hot palm cracks against your ass, hissing from the way you tighten around him when he does.
You whine at that, pushing into him the best you can. It only spurs his hips on faster, and Eijirou lets go of your hands in favor of grabbing your face instead, groaning at the sight of the tears shining silver from the moonlight. He likes the fact that you can't do much but gasp and rock against him, your hands falling to clit to finally push yourself off the edge.
He looks at you and all he sees is his dumb little thing, who can't do anything, let alone get her car to work, and that's when Eijirou realizes he doesn't want this to be as much of a one-time thing as he initially thought.
"Gonna...gonna cum," you slur, cheek mashed flat against his window. Eijirou fucks you into the door of his truck, pace quick and bruising, as his mind thinks of all the fun you two could have together—all the fun he wants to have with you.
"Cum, Sweetheart. Make a mess of my cock and my leather seats, yeah? Show me how good I make you feel."
You tighten around his cock, tight, and that's enough to send him spiraling into an orgasm of his own, hips stuttering to a stop as he fills you up. Though his hips never stop, not until you're coming around his cock with a broken moan, curled toes digging into his car floor. He watches you catch your breath, splayed across the seat, with a sudden realization that he feels much lighter, but doubts it was the sex that did the trick.
"You fucked your anger out now?" You wheeze, breaking the silence, and Eijirou snorts.
"I—yes," he says before his eyes trail to the scratch marks around your hips and thighs. "Are you...okay?"
"Never been better," you toss your arms in the air like you're on a rollercoaster but lack the energy to scream. It's cute and it had the redhead re-evaluating everything, wondering how the day could start so shitty and yet, end so well. "Are you okay?"
His eyebrows furrow, "Why wouldn't I be?"
"I dunno," you shrug, and Eijirou finds it hard to stay focused when you look like that. "You asked me, so. Everyone needs a post-sex check-in, ya know?"
Fuck.
Fuck, yeah he's definitely keeping you.
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somersetmummy · 4 years ago
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(A/N) This chapter takes place right at the beginning of the story, prior to TNA Chapter 1. Some characters property of Pixelberry.
Original characters: Katie Hide (MC), Jenny Blake
New characters: Lucinda Hansen
Rating/Content Warning: Mild adult language
Word count: 2005
Summary: MC Katie Hide is an English rose, living in New York. She’s down on her luck and desperately needs a job before her visa expires and she’s sent back to London. A chance conversation with a friend leads to an unlikely opportunity. Little did she know that one little interview would change the course of her life forever.
- Bonus social edits at the end -
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Just like any other Thursday morning of recent weeks, Katie and Jenny were killing time together in their favourite coffee shop just down the street from their shared apartment. It had become Katie's haven and her go-to place when she wanted to lose herself for a few hours people watching, letting the stories of their lives unfold around her.
She'd always had a knack for paying attention to the details, noticing things which passed by most others. It was a skill she'd relied on heavily in her work, always giving her the edge, at least it had until the time it led to her downfall at Panacea Labs.
Katie had recently walked out of her job after piecing together a scheme under the radar to roll out a costly new drug for treating MS, despite there being multiple warning signs that it was ultimately ineffective but instead just masked the symptoms. Anyone else would've just glossed over the signs, not even noticing, but to Katie, the anomalies jumped off the page unmistakably. It was when she tried to escalate her concerns that she was shut down and her life in the lab made a misery by the VP, Declan Nash.
It hadn't taken long for her to realise that the company was more concerned about profits than actually helping people and she knew that the battle to fall in line and keep her job wasn't worth it. After calmly and quietly sending a company wide report on her findings, she gathered her things and walked out before she could be accosted by security. Little did she know that Nash had already been keeping tabs on her communications, in his eyes she was a trouble maker, and the report never saw the light of day.
Unfortunately for Katie, the current opportunities for young women in the biotech and pharmaceutical world just weren't what they should have been and she spent the next few weeks furiously searching for something else to avoid her work visa being revoked. 
Having moved from London to attend the New York Institute of Technology and graduating with a Masters in Chemistry & Bio Engineering three years ago, she'd fallen in love with the city and the life she'd built. She didn't know exactly what the future held and couldn't put her finger on why, but she had a very strong feeling that she needed to stay in New York.  
Today, Katie had planned to work through all the job adverts remotely relating to her experience and qualifications, with Jenny on hand to offer moral support. Tiring quickly of hitting one brick wall after another, they'd long forgotten the laptop and instead had spent the last 30 minutes idly chatting about Jenny’s upcoming gallery event when Lucinda arrived, phone to her ear, her body tense and voice sharp as she wrapped up a call with her boss.
"Of course I've got someone Angela, I wouldn't put my name in the mix if I didn't. My candidate is going to blow the others out of the water, I just know Mr Dalton will be impressed....no not just impressed, he'll be awestruck..."
While waiting for her to wrap up her call, Katie heads to the counter to order Lucinda a much needed coffee and returns to place it down in front of her just as she hangs up. She tosses her phone onto the table and slumps back in her chair, defeated.
Jenny stares her down waiting for an explanation which she and Katie both know Lucinda desperately wants to give but is holding off for dramatic effect.
After a long sip of coffee and a moment of holding her head in her hands she finally exhales.
"I am so SO SCREWED."
Katie and Jenny share a look before returning their attention to Lucinda.
"I've just promised my boss that I have the perfect candidate for some billionaire business man's nanny position....." She glares at them both as if they should understand why that's a problem. "I never touch these sorts of jobs, I only ever look for candidates in finance, nannying isn't worth my time."
Katie chooses her words carefully, knowing how Lucinda can bite back pretty quickly when she's stressed. Speaking softly, cautious not to poke the bear, she looks Lucinda in the eye and internally braces herself for whatever might come next.
"So what made this one so different?"
Fortunately Lucinda seems to finally be relaxing, she replies more quietly.
"Filling this position will put me on the map, nobody in the firm has been able to secure someone for this guy, they only seem to last a few weeks before they quit so the sign on bonus never kicks in. If I could find the perfect person I wouldn't only get a great bonus, I'd be next in line for promotion to Senior Head-hunter."
Her demanding demeanour melts away and she's left looking almost vulnerable. Something Katie knows Lucinda doesn't find at all comfortable.
"Anyway, I'll figure it out, I always do."
She gives Katie and Jenny a soft smile, allowing herself to momentarily forget about her woes so she can refocus the attention back to them.
"So what were you guys talking about before I came in?"
As Katie opens her mouth to speak Jenny cuts in on her behalf.
"Oh Katie's just been trying to work out how to get a job before her visa renewal date comes up in a couple of weeks."
Katie lets out a sigh of her own, suddenly remembering how dire her employment prospects are and feeling equally as defeated as Lucinda.
"I can't believe I've worked so hard for my degree, I found the perfect job in the perfect city but now it's all gone down the drain and I'm going to have to go back home and never see you all again."
Jenny wraps her arm around Katie's shoulders, pulling her close. "Oh come on, like you'd be able to shake us off. Even if you are in another country!"
As suddenly as Lucinda dramatically entered the coffee shop she slams her hand onto the table making the others jump.
"THAT'S IT!" She cries, her idea almost exploding out of her. "This is just too perfect...."
Katie and Jenny share a confused look before turning back to Lucinda who is practically foaming at the mouth, clearly onto something, though they're not quite sure what.
"You need a job, I need a candidate." She says in her signature matter of fact style.
Katie still has no idea where Lucinda's going with this.
"It's win win. I'll put you forward for the nanny position, you'll get a great job which means you get to stay in New York, I'll get my bonus. Not to mention I'll look like a damn superhero at work!"
The cogs start to turn in Katie's brain as she begins to digest what Lucinda is proposing.
"But I'm not a nanny....and what about my visa, it's only valid for work in relation to my degree."
Lucinda waves her hand at her, dismissing her concerns. "No problem there then. This guy's family owns one of the biggest Biotech companies in the country, surely that's related to your degree? He's so desperate for a successful match I'll make sure the visa thing is part of the contract."
She cuts back in quickly just as Katie opens her mouth to object.
"And as for you not being a nanny, what about all those times in the lab when you had to pull rank and sort out the shit that went down between your useless colleagues? You've done more nannying of adults in the last two years than most actual nanny's do in their whole career with children."
Jenny suddenly chimes in "OH MY GOD, this is genius!"
Defeated, Katie turns to look at Jenny in disbelief. She may have had a chance saying no to just Lucinda but with Jenny on board with this idea as well she may as well give up now.
"This will solve both your problems, I mean come on, who wouldn't want to work for this guy..."
Jenny turns her phone to Katie, clearly having been searching while she and Lucinda were talking. On the screen Katie sees the most devastatingly handsome man she's ever come across. He's nothing like the guys she'd known before, this person, was a real man and the sight of him caused her stomach to flip.
While undeniably handsome, it's not just the physical attraction that she's drawn to. Her eyes move to the company bio underneath his headshot and in true Katie style, she scans all of the accolades and achievements the company has to boast about. Her mind races at the possibilities. There's no mistaking that working for this man could open the door to so many opportunities and experiences in the future.
With a sigh she resigns herself to the fact that Lucinda might actually be on to something, this could be the break Katie had been waiting for and would certainly solve her imminent visa problems if she could get it taken care of as part of the contract negotiations.
With a silent nod and slight shrug of the shoulders, she begrudgingly agrees, much to the delight of her friends who squeal at each other in delight. Lucinda immediately pushes her shoulders back, standing to attention, furiously beginning to type on her phone.
"You TA'd for your old professor right?"
"Yes, I did a year as their assistant after graduating. Mainly doing research and going to conferences with her."
Lucinda's eyes never leave her phone as she works her magic, spinning Katie's words into an impressive resume. After a moment she raises her eyebrows and flits her eyes over to Katie, a small gesture which Katie realises is an invitation to elaborate.
"Oh, yeah so that's actually how I got into Panacea Labs, I met a rep at one of those conferences."
Jenny rolls her eyes at the mention of Katie's old company, now affectionately known by them both as Pariah Labs. Despite what she felt about Katie's previous employer, she was immensely proud of Katie's achievements and wanted to make sure they were included.
"Weren't you the youngest lab boss thingy they'd ever had?"
"Senior lab technician." Katie corrects, knowing full well that Jenny hasn't got a clue about the finer details of her work. "Well, yeah eventually, after two years of working my butt off. But I hardly think they'd rave about that in any reference they give me. If they even give one to begin with..."
Lucinda waves a dismissive hand at her.
"With this resume, you won't need any reference from those bastards. Trust me."
Katie had no idea what Lucinda had written or how she'd managed to spin her experience to be more favourable for a nanny position but it must've worked because half an hour later Lucinda slammed her hand down on the table once again, causing everyone around them to jump out of their skin.
"YES! It worked...he wants to see you, you've got an interview tomorrow at the Dalton Enterprises headquarters".
She turns her phone to Jenny to show off the email and they fall into an animated conversation, no doubt planning how they're all going to celebrate once Katie inevitably gets offered the job. As they fall into a blur in the background, Katie looks back over the picture of Sam Dalton on Jenny's phone, not quite sure how she can be so hypnotised by someone through a photograph.
There's something about him which feels familiar, something drawing her in. It's almost as if they're viewing each other through a looking glass and she wonders whether in this exact moment he is feeling the same magnetic pull towards her, a stranger whom he hasn't even met yet. Tearing her eyes away from the phone, Katie's tries to steady the stream of unanswered questions flooding her mind and focus on how she's going to win this man over.
"Here goes nothing."
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- Bonus - pre-interview pep talk with the girls -
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rainyobservationperson · 1 year ago
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Head canons about this idea:
Merlin has had a ton of time to specialize in any field that he thinks it might be helpful to Arthur, to complement his skills but not overlap, so he knows medicine, chemistry and physics, a bit of computer engineering but not much, and so much history. But honestly he never dived into politics or strategies much, he truly found those subjects boring as hell and know that whenever Arthur came back all of the things he'd managed tu understand would be useless in comparison.
Merlin has grown out of tags, he never really understood the necessity to mark and identify yourself to the public, this in every regard but specially in terms of gender and sexual orientation, he is old and one of a kind anyway so no tag could ever describe him. He knows what he is and what he likes, and that's enough for him. This however does not mean he disregard the fight of the people that need this distinctions and tags to feel represented and identified. He will fight wherever there's injustice.
He works through cycles:
First he is productive, he spends a couple decades focusing, incredibly busy in one topic.
Then he stops abruptly, and is overwhelmed by the loneliness and hopelessness, the doubts are too much so he relax in his research and tries to socialize to fill the gaps in his life previously full only with hope and determination, then he has friends, an life, is never fully happy but its content, and calming, that he can still live with out Arthur if he never were to come back.
Then inevitably everyone stars to fall apart, they get their spouses, their lovers, their live and they start to notice that merlin has been really young a lot of time, and once the suspicion arises is very difficult to erase it.
So he leaves most of those times, change places, sometimes even countries and plan to start again. But before he can do that he goes to Avalon and has a good cry, and maybe a decade-long-depresive-episode (if they gave him a nickel every time this has happened he'd had 2 nickels, which isn't much but is weird that it happened twice right?)
Then he decides a new field, or an old one it really doesn't matter, and starts again, hyperfocsing to not think in the possibilities.
Trough out the years when big wars where happening, conflict, injustice, he'd always stopped and came back to Avalon but nothing ever happened.
He has had a handful of lovers, not more than ten, and most of them in the last century, given the fact that he feels more lonely than ever.
Merlin is the only of his kind, as far as he knows (and he has searched, believe him) magic is no longer. There's still magic, because everything is made with it, it's a primordial part of existence, but is no longer running free. He discovered that since Arthur death really magic's been retreating it self to nature, to protect it from the harmful ways that the human kind were developing. And now it can only be found in sacred places, protecting like a shield close to nature or in places never touched but human kind, but never free, never like before.
About his magic. Like anything Merlin will never tell that he's fully controlled, but he definitely controls it better than he ever could, one of the first thing he did after Camelot was to hide in a cave, he didn't really know how much time he was there, but he really didn`t wanna know either so. He studied the books on magic the could rescue, and steal. He focused on understanding the magic and how it worked, how did the spells and potions worked, and why he could do magic with out them. So now he pretty much knows anything magic, or at least most of it. He wrote all of his findings in a few tomes (37) that he keeps close whenever he moves.
He has tried to end it, several times. He discovered his immortality there and that developed in a desperate attempt to prove it wrong, he spend a couple of years actively trying to die in witch trials. No luck, I think. Now he has a mind of his own, not that clouded by grief, loneliness and probably drugs (it was a fuzzy time) and knows that thats not the best solution, also he is kind of afraid to stay dead and never see Arthur again because of a scare in his last attempt.
HE CAN MAKE HIMSELF OLD. but its not natural for him, meaning he can't "let himself grow old" he just can take a potion to imitate the look of someone older, and this changes is usually to sudden to be believable. He has had several life times where he presented himself in a different age from the beginning, or even a different person entirely, but its a considerable pain in the ass, so he is mostly stayed the same. Its a bit embarrassing to say, but he has to admit that looking like a young white man, generally is the easiest way to go.
this relate to merlin before the time travel, so we have a supero powerful warlock, really smart and terribly sad and touch starved, What could possibly go wrong?
I had a merthur fic idea that it's keeping me awake at night and I just had to write it down (METHUR PROMPT)
OK, so hear me out. What if merlin after having lived 1500+ years has forgot Camelot?
Like not the idea of Camelot, he knows what happened and knows it's true, but like the specifics are blurry. He suddenly can't remember how did the castle looked, or what was the name of the cook, things that, to him made all of the experience, personal. But it gets worse, he can't remember the face of his mother, or Gaius's voice, he can't remember Arthur, so he panics.
He has had SO MUCH TIME, and so he has studied a lot about his magic, most of it through trial and error and personal experimentation, because most of the magics in the world have already vanished, so he tries to create a new spell, to make himself remember, fearing that he won't recognize Arthur when he came back.
This new spell is meant to help him remember, relive if you will, the memories that he lost. He pours every bit of knowledge into this project, practicing with very advance Alzheimer patients (because of course Merlin is a doctor, and a chemist, and a profesor... he has had time alright) and he makes a lot of progress. He spends years into this, but the progress is too little, he can make an Alzheimer patient remember up to 10 years in the best of the cases, but he has lived thousands, 10 years was virtually nothing.
Frustrated, and honestly more than a little drunk, and sad, he decides to wing it, he shouts the spell sobbing and uses all of the magic that he can, begs the gods to listen and he also threatens them for good mesure and then he passes out.
Basically he time travels, but he DOES NOT KNOW THAT. He thinks the spells work so fantastically he is having a really fucking amazing lucid dream of sorts, he doesn't remember the specifics so he can't know that he is not exactly following his original steps.
So we have a homesick Merlin running around Camelot, way to happy just to be there and maybe a bit high on magic (because of course in the past there's so much more magic than he's grown used to with the years).
Obviously shenanigans ensue, a 21 century mind in a medieval setting, a wizard that is used to using his powers regularly because nobody believed in magic anyways, a doctor with modern techniques, a slightly shortsighted profesor who is use to wearing reading glasses, a lovesick idiot who forgot the face of his first and most true love... He does something (I am yet to figure that part out) and make a big change in the course of the events and finally finds out that he timetraveled and that he is probably fucking up history for good, and tries to fix it maybe.
That's basically the basis of the idea, I think there a lot of possibilities this could go and I really love it. I wanted to write it here so if anybody wanted to write something with this idea or expand on it it could be fun
English is not my first language so im sorry if I made a mistake. Pls let me know what you think about it. I might expand this with more head canons later.
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