#shitposting about bts

[byanyan]

if i were to be so real w/ y'all for a sec... i think byan's bias would be jin. 🤔 yeah, jin for personality, yoongi for overall music style

[epicfirestormer]

[the-uncanny-dag]

David Lynch could do Euphoria & The Idol, but Sam Levinson couldn't do Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive. Sam Levinson also can't do Euphoria and The Idol either

[amiharana]

thank you to everyone who was good-natured about my little april fools prank yesterday, your reactions gave me a good laugh hehe >:) i do eventually plan on making that fic into a real one, but i'm currently going through a lot in my personal and academic lives atm, so please bear with me until i finally finish this semester 🥹🙏

with all my heart, thank you for sticking around and showing so much love to my works. i'm deeply grateful and appreciative of this community, and i will return one day <3 until next time 🫡

[eoieopda]

pov: you’re a law student/intern and you walk into my office to find me passionately lip syncing to epiphany. at first, i don’t notice you over the tops of my monitors because i am small and because i’d assumed i was the only one in the office at this hour. you look at your literal boss and see

do you:

a) say nothing and back out of the room without asking the question you presumably came searching for an answer to

b) regret all of the choices you made which led you to this moment

c) both a and b

[theboathasbeenyote]

oh to be bisexual and know about this town

[flags-planes-and-fire]

sorry but we ate your boyfriend, well yeah he crashed the plane so we had no choice but to eat him, yeah he trapped us in the Andes so y'know. sorry

[aemiron-main]

his thousand yard stare and flat ass have captivated me mind and soul

[crowfrombackdoor]

There is Drum Corps fanfic on AO3

[ayeforscotland]

What is Dataflow? Part 3: Doing the Practical

Apologies for the delay in getting this next section up - past few weeks have been super busy and then, hilariously, I was ill last week.

Read Part 1 here.

Read Part 2 here.

In Part 2 I wrote about how important diagrams have been throughout history. Understanding the 'big picture' has been important for every triumph of engineering. From bridges to skyscrapers to oil rigs and wind turbines, all of these have had diagrams backed by international standards which enabled them to be built.

The digital world hasn't quite managed that yet. In the other posts I've tried to drill home the point that modern digital businesses are often extremely siloed, communication and documentation isn't there and there is a lack of a common language between 'Business' and 'IT'.

This lack of understanding means organisations do not understand how data flows through their business and their supply chain.

It's the understanding of dataflow that's important here because it enables organisations to focus on optimising, securing and maintaining flows across an organisation rather than siloed teams patching things up where they can and not understand the upstream and downstream impact on the business.

Method and Layers

Going to preface this by saying that this may come across as complete common sense, and to some extent you'll be completely correct!

This is an example of how to create a very basic dataflow. But I will first start with understanding all of the People, Processes and Technology that I use to post on Tumblr.

So I start with six layers:

Ownership

Business Process

Application

System

Hardware

Infrastructure

What is important to remember here is that you do not have to be a specialist in every single layer.

A Business Analyst will feel much more at home in the Business Process Layer, while an Infrastructure Manager will be much more knowledgeable about the Infrastructure layer.

The important thing is that this Business & IT Diagram allows them to communicate more efficiently.

Let's Build a Dataflow!

In this example - There's an 'AyeforScotland' Element (the rectangle!) at the top. I'm the owner of everything below that element. The black lines are 'connections' representing the connectivity between the different elements.

Following the example, I'm responsible for' managing my blog 'Blog Management' which breaks down into smaller processes: Draft posts, schedule posts, answer anon abuse, and reblog shitposts.

Coming down to the Application Layer (red) - You can see that I draft and schedule posts using Tumblr Desktop and I'm using Firefox Web Browser for that.

But for answering anon abuse and reblogging shitposts, I'm using the Tumblr App.

In the Systems layer you can see I'm using Windows 11 on my PC (Hardware) and I'm using iOS on my iPhone.

Both my PC and iPhone connect to my BT Router.

And that's it for this Business & IT Diagram. I've shown clearly how I'm responsible for the processes and how I use the technology to perform those processes. I don't necessarily need to show everything on a single diagram because it would lose clarity.

This next Business & IT Diagram is much smaller, and establishes the relationships and dependencies on Tumblr to provide the service. And that's because we're complying with the laws and rules of a methodology.

In this diagram (probably need to zoom in to see it) I'm at the top left as 'AyeforScotland' and my 'BT Router' is spatially below me. Following the rules and laws of the method, that maintains the relationship that I have with the BT Router, I own it.

But I don't own the small 'Internet' that's next to it horizontally. I've simplified the concept of the internet for this example.

There's also two owners - 'Automattic' which owns and operates 'Tumblr' below it, with Tumblr being responsible for the 'Provision of Tumblr Services'.

Now naturally 'provision of Tumblr services' will break out into loads of sub-processes. Tumblr could map out their entire organisation (and if they need a hand, they can DM me!) But for this dataflow it's not really required.

Now both diagrams above are not dataflows. But close your eyes for a second and you can visualise what they are.

But because we've created our two diagrams, we understand the connectivity and using the software we can create the dataflow.

Now again, this is very basic. But when you put things into a dataflow context, you can put this down in front of a wide range of people from different business disciplines and they can start to optimise how the business works.

Here's a much larger Dataflow example, that you won't be able to read because it exceeds A0 printing size, but it should convey the scale.

If any of the connections or elements fail along this dataflow - The dataflow stops.

This costs organisations time and/or money.

So understanding dataflows allows IT people to articulate to business people "Hi boss, if this server goes down it will bring down this dataflow and cost the business $10,000 an hour" - Suddenly it's in a language they understand.

It helps with strategic decision-making, it helps with communication, it helps document how things *actually* work as opposed to how people think they work, and once you switch to thinking in terms of 'dataflow' it's hard to stop.

Conclusion

I can't wait to answer all the questions on the back of this.

Also one area I didn't go into is that each of the elements (rectangles) can also hold data (Financial data, Technical Specs, Risk & Cybersecurity metrics, Governance documentation etc).

It's also really easy to get started with it. You can start in any of the layers based on your area of work.

[flamboyant-king]

Trying to save Clover from Subspace, Herb sacrificed himself and got himself displaced in one of the multiple universes, landing on an alien ship. Based on what's been occurring, it seems the black holes aren't the doorway to the end, but a path to new realms. There has to be a way to manipulate them...

Meanwhile, Kingdom still has three Mint Chocos, Rebel got transferred there too, and Yogurt Cream ain't getting involved with all that nonsense--bye.

Clover is still bitter about missing that BTS concert and Rebel is still bitter about missing out on Superhell.

I turned on Cookie Run: Ovenbreak and Kingdom again, because the world is falling apart. Also I'm trying to connect the dots with a shitpost from over a year ago.

[ladytemeraire]

"He trained me in how to defeat you, not in how to save you – I don't know how to do any of this, I don't know how to be a proper Jedi, I don't know how to save you, but I know I must nonetheless; I am in pain and grieving but this is all I can do, and I will get both of us out of here or die trying."

sometimes star wars is unsubtle in a bad way and sometimes luke skywalker is dragging his father’s dead weight across the death star floor, sobbing from love and exhaustion

[door-insurance]

Okay this is probably very “old man yelling at clouds” of me but why do I feel like some of the new generation of lis fans didn’t actually play the games but saw a bunch of pricefield fanart and got hooked without really getting into it??

I mean you don’t have to play it at least watch a let’s play or something

This is mostly directed at fans who treat max and Chloe as each others arm candy instead of their own individual characters

I’m from the old days of the fandom and lowkey miss the creativity and and love we used to have for the world building as a whole,

I don’t think fandom is dead necessarily, far from it tbh but I do think that some of the newer younger fans project themselves way too much on Chloe and seem to take it as a personal slight when narrative conflict threatens her relationship with max or when raise valid criticism on how the character was handled

For example: in the Welcome to Blackwell Academy book I pointed out Chloe’s mocking Victoria for getting roofied in BtS and said that it felt out of character for her to make light out of a situation like this given what she went through

And I had this weirdo fan of hers come at me like I was the one who ran over her dad or something, it was embarrassing to see someone act like that

Chloe isn’t real, none of them are real- these are clumps of pixels, we can love and get attached to them but don’t take it too fcking personally when someone makes valid points- it’s not the end of the world if someone doesn’t like your fave (don’t get me wrong I love chlo I just don’t like BtS and how they handled some things)

Like I want to see more fanart/fanficition/shitposting than dumb arguments with the developers and infighting, I swear to god on the subreddit someone told me that their only outlet of consuming pricefield content is by arguing online about it being canon or not

….. what the heck happened y’all? We used to create fan web shows, fan games, fan comics- heck fan animation

Arguing excessively online isn’t a healthy way to consume media

[equius]

i need more blogs to follow.

i just realized that i follow more people on fucking bluesky than i do on here and i've existed on this miserable hunk of junk website for over 12 years. so! i need people to follow and i need your help.

if you reblog this post, i will throw a follow your way. i'm extremely looking for people who post/reblog the following content:

OCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

warframe

warhammer 40k

minecraft

star trek

BTS

MXTX (especially SVSSS or TGCF)

destiny 2

aesthetic stuff

artwork in general! i love artists!

writers! i am a writer and i love my fellow writers

memes/funny shitposts

homestuck

i typically post or reblog similar content, so if you want to throw a follow my way, feel free! i don't actively post much about homestuck, i'm just stuck with this url, but i like reblogging hs fanart and stuff sometimes, y'know?

if you already follow me, please reblog anyway so i can follow you back, and i'll get more reach :3

while my blog is mostly sfw, i don't actively want to be followed by minors, though i know i can't stop you. i will not follow blogs openly operated by minors, either.

we probably won't ever be friends unless you're as autistic about ocs as i am in the exact same way that i am, but we can at least be possible mutuals on this stupid hellsite!

looking forward to filling my dash with even more nonsense!

[amiharana]

i wish i was good at video editing so that i could make a edit of the link, zelda, and the champions to run bts by bts. the song is so badass and so are they

[theoverseerau]

Long time no see!

The comic this time features Umusa, my boy!

What do you think about the pacing of this one? I feel like 4 pages would've make it feel... less abrupt and jumpy at time? Struggled quite a bit with imagining the scenes in this one lol, also why it took me so long to get to it...

But hey, it's here finally! Hope ya enjoy it!

With that aside, I also have an announcement to make...

I'm writing this with tears trailing down my cheeks that this might be my last time working on the AU 😔. I have made too much shitpost and sent Uber cringy undertale memes and now a decision is made that I might have to part from the team for the sake of Uber's sanity. The next comic you see will be of a different artist.

Farewell.

~~BT out~~

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