I don’t repost art here nearly as much so maybe you guyd might like seeing this again?
My Pride comic about a shapeshifting monster father and his unconditional love for his child
Happy Pride Month!
I've seen multiple locked tomb posts about Gideon's vocabulary and how many hyper-specific or uncommon descriptors she uses and such tracing this trait to her rivalry with Supreme Nerd Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Which is very fair, but I think it's ignoring the real explanation for why they are both Like That in terms of vocab, which is that they were raised in critical proximity to Ortus.
I can't decide which is funnier: that "Varun The Eater", the planet-shaped revenant that ominously hangs in the sky for most of Nona The Ninth, is the soul of Uranus, and thus, in kind of a convoluted way, an allusion to eating ass (a joke maybe only Gideon could laugh at), or that Varun is the soul of Jupiter, and thus yet another Homestuck reference:
update: heartbreak
barbie trending thumbnails being just . various characters’ mugshots is hilarious actually
If what you feel is new, That's just first bloom (Who are you? Where are you growing to?) As you inch towards the clues Bless whatever brings you here and to...
this started off as a quick companion sketch for my Nona (& Friends) playlist, but of course became something much more involved. If she'd had a portable tape player, I feel like Nona might have taken some moments to relax like this.
(fanart for the book Nona the Ninth, from Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series)
FanFiction.net is not gone.
Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.
Correction:
The new "fake" site that people are seeing still belongs to FanFiction.net—they just misconfigured their servers and are not redirecting traffic from the bare fanfiction.net to the main site at www.fanfiction.net. There is likely no malicious agent. Didn't mean to scare anyone! Just wanted to let people know the site wasn't deleted!
So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".
Please share so people stop panicking.
the reason i love ianthe so much is because of how unrepentantly awful and pathetic she is.
she tries to evil gloat like once but her tummy hurts too much to do it propery. she cries herself to sleep every night. she overshares about how corona nearly killed her in the womb. she makes a joke nobody laughs at. in harrow she tries to affect dispassion but instead she just comes across as incredibly bizarre in all her interactions.
she's such a fucking mess. character of all time.
loving the tags this is getting. target audience reached.
Also the instinctive reaction to being ordered to stop doing something is to say “sorry” and then the person just feels stupid.
thinking about Aiglamene. Like, so
a child crash lands in town. mystery where she came from. the mother is dead. this tiny redheaded thing has no one in the world. the town takes her in because what else are you supposed to do with a orphan dropped on your doorstep, but they don’t love her. the reverend family needs an heir, so they kill every single child on the planet- wait, scratch that, all but one. this one kid is alive, she’s alive, against all odds. so naturally, everyone’s scared of her. everyone hates her. out of all the children to survive why was it the one no one cared about. but they move on, everyone does, and the kid grows. and she starts asking questions. you start answering them. you start telling her stories, and it’s nice to be listened to, even if the kid is just a twerp. you start teaching her, she’s a natural with a sword, but you don’t tell her because it’ll go to her head. you’ve never had a maternal bone in your body, you aren’t mothering her… but she’s got nobody. and neither do you. you train her, you teach her, you tell her she can get out, get free from this place, if she works hard enough, fights good enough. she works hard. she fights well, better than you ever did at her age. she tries to get out. she gets caught. she tries again. and again. and again. and eventually, there’s a chance, a real chance. you’re the only person in the world who could get through this kid’s thick skull, and you tell her: this is your chance, this is it, you’re getting out, you’re leaving me, you’re never coming back, you’ve going to live, you have to get out now. and she goes. she goes, and she doesn’t come back. she doesn’t come back, and then she does… and she’s dead. she’s dead, and she’s back, the two things you prayed wouldn’t happen. she’s back and she’s dead and this is your child, you raised her, and you sent her off, promising a bright future, and it killed her.
ACAB includes Sam Vimes, but he'd be the first to agree.
"My name is Sam and I'm a really suspicious bastard.”
I think a lot of the skepticism and derision toward the idea of "gifted kid burnout" stems from the fact that a lot of folks have no idea what the gifted track in most high schools actually looks like; they've got this mental image, possibly informed by popular media depictions, of "gifted kids" as a privileged group of students who get to go on extra field trips, monopolise the teachers' attention in class, and constantly be told how special they are, but are otherwise treated identically to all the other kids.
In practice, the gifted track in most high schools – most North American high schools, at any rate – has the same problem as any other educational program: the need to adhere to published metrics. These programs exist for the benefit of students only insofar as those benefits can empirically be measured, which leads to several common outcomes:
- Students on the gifted track being afforded fewer choices regarding elective classes – often to the extent of having no choices at all – in order to stream the highest-performing students into the subjects that are most valuable in terms of boosting institutional metrics.
- Students on the gifted tracking receiving restricted access to educational resources such as tutoring because it's perceived as a waste of resources. In many cases, gifted students are not only denied access to tutoring, but expected to serve as volunteer tutors and teaching assistants themselves, effectively becoming a source of unpaid educational labour for the schools they attend.
- Students on the gifted track being assigned considerably more homework, often literally doubling their workload in an environment where homework loads are already routinely high enough that kids have difficulty finding time to eat and sleep, simply because you get more measurable academic performance data that way.
The upshot is that the gifted track is often less about fun perks and constant praise, and more about receiving less freedom, fewer resources, and heavier workloads than one's peers, getting strong-armed into providing unpaid labour to the school on top of it, and constantly being told one should be grateful for it – and that's without touching on the fact that the unspoken secondary purpose of many gifted programs is to serve as a quarantine for all the neurodivergent kids the school couldn't find an excuse to institutionalise or expel.
Like, shit, there's a reason kids on the gifted track exhibit elevated rates of alcoholism and substance abuse compared to general student populations. That doesn't arise in a vacuum!
(To be clear, I'm not saying that people graduating from high school and immediately having an existential crisis upon realising they're not special after all isn't a thing that happens, but in my experience that's more usually something that happens to the kids who were on the football team, and reframing it as a nerd culture thing is really weird.)
I was in the gifted program in middle school. All three grades had the same teachers, which meant that if there was a grade-wide thing going on, we got screwed. My first middle school did an awesome Ellis Island project for 8th grade. The whole school turned into basically a giant LARP, and while it was going on, all the 6/7th graders went to Chicago for the Museum of Science and Industry. Except for the gifted kids. Because of staffing, we were the only ones who didn't get to go. And we had subs because our teachers were with the 8th graders. And they tried to make it up to us. We went to Morton Arboretum or FermiLab at a later point, but it was a shorter trip, focused on specific tasks and not the open ended adventure of MSI. (I didn't even get to do the Ellis Island LARP, because I switched to a new middle school when it opened)
Looks like fanfiction.net is gone. Probably should have backed up the fic I had there. Woops. Too late now.
Okay, this is very weird. The green leafy thing is what I’m seeing but apparently there are multiple people who can still access the site? I’m very confused right now.
Mobile site m.fanfiction.net still up for me but I’ve taken this opportunity to download the few fics I’d posted there
oh holy shit the $20 tier of this audiobook bundle (affiliate link) includes... murderbot? all of murderbot. every murderbot novella and novel, narrated by kevin r. free (who you may know from welcome to night vale), in mp3 format and with a portion of every purchase going to the national coalition against censorship. there are other audiobooks included but. MURDERBOT.
It also includes 1632, which is notable because I tried to listen to it and couldn't because the narrator couldn't pronounce the name "Mackay" (as in, a fairly common Scottish name).
I've been reading facts on Wikipedia again, and i'm overcome with the need to terrify non-Americans with the most underrated Terrifying American Thing: TORNADOES
Due to a quirk of mountain and ocean placement, the east-central United States has a higher number of tornadoes (particularly exceptionally strong tornadoes) than any other place on Earth.
And they're so fucking scary oh my God
Reasons tornadoes are So Fucking Scary:
- they can form really suddenly and move really fast, so you have like a few minutes of warning when one happens
- their behavior is arbitrary and unpredictable. They can obliterate your house and leave your neighbor's house untouched
- the most powerful tornadoes are so strong that it's nearly impossible to even measure them because measuring equipment is straight up obliterated in those conditions, but they've been known to exceed 480 km/h wind speeds.
- please just read this wiki article it's the scariest fucking thing ever
- like with F5 tornadoes you'll see a lot of stuff about trucks, SUVs, furniture, appliances from homes like refrigerators etc being "lost/missing" and you may think to yourself "how does something that large just get 'lost' surely there's a better description of what happened"
- and well. the above article does provide the 'better' description. And it's "granulated."
- As in, "debris from many of the obliterated homes was finely granulated."
As a born and bred Alabamian, reading this is very funny when you're so desensitized to them that when you're woken up at 3 am by the sirens theres a very good chance you'll be like "if its my time its my time" and go right tf back to sleep
I mean I've been there but I contain multitudes okay
Tornados can put a 4x4 through concrete but also that siren going off right when my muffins come out of the oven is annoyingly inconvenient…
Why Americans Are Like That reason #48576 The casual optimistic nihilism of knowing you can be wiped off the map at any time and welp, nothing you can do to stop it if it happens.
I’d say it’s not that bad but as a Californian I do actually roll over and go back to sleep if woken by any earthquake less than 4 on the Richter scale.
Soulless Angel: *shows up in Buffy’s bedroom to draw her in her sleep and to be creepy and psychologically torture her.*
Soulless Spike: *shows up in Buffy’s bedroom banging pots and pans together* WAKE UP WAKE UP YOUR BOYFRIEND’S A CHEATING BASTARD BUFFY YOU ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT
