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confess your sins to the CRIME SKELETON

@thotlorien

she/her // 30+ // often forgets to tag // no fanpol no fascists no under 18s // icon by @nohto // sometimes I blaze my cats because they are MAGNIFICENT

So long story short, I got high as balls and kidnapped @staff's blorbo so I could ransom him in exchange for poll creation (I blazed the post too. That's how high I was. Don't do drugs kids.)

Now I have poll creation AND some random blorbo sitting in my drafts, so I leave it to my followers, all... I wanna say four? of them, to decide his fate.

ME/CFS feels like a series of increasingly absurd mock executions, the point of which being to make you wish someone shot you for real already

My schedule in a 50s TV Dad voice, rustling the newspaper and clearing it's throat: "Don't you have work to do young lady?"

Me 80s teenage angsty voice: "IF I DON'T MEME I WILL JUST DIE. You DON'T UNDERSTAND. There weren't memes when you were my age!"

Schedule, smugly: "Kilroy was here?"

"UNG GO AWAY"

Most of the running jokes in Looney Tunes were memes.

“Eat at Joe’s”

“Was that trip really necessary?”

“PUT OUT THAT LIGHT!”

“That’s what the man said, that’s what he said, he SAID that!”

Funny story - I literally only just NOW successfully found where that line came from - it was a catch phrase of Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, though Mark Evanier suspects it’s far older

Looney Tunes is one of my favorite "intro to mythology evolutions" medias with clients.

Early Daffy Duck and modern Daffy Duck are extremely different characters -- ditto Bugs Bunny, etc.

Consistency is a huge complaint I see about myths, be it their origin and/or flow. No myths are consistent. None. Anywhere. Ever. Wait 25 years and/or find a second source 25 miles away, you'll start to see the drift.

"Lost language / shifting vernacular" is another great use-case for Looney Tunes -- as above. They included these things because they were known to the audience.

"Hollywood Steps Out" (1941) is the "Superwholock" of the day.

It is all an infinite temple full of statues and tapestries and, this is the part I cannot stress enough, never stops being added to.

It is among the most incredible and wonderful things about being a human being, in my inexplicably humble opinion.

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My favorite Old Meme in Loony Tunes is Wile E. Coyote's constant use of Acme products--at the time, companies appearing in phone books would try to get attention by using names that would, alphabetically, put them at the top. Acme is an old word meaning "at the summit", so would have been used not only to appear near the beginning of phone listings, but also to denote quality.

This makes the joke of Coyote always using the same company be that the company that sells such unreliable products is named disingenuously, purely for the early 20th Century equivalent of SEO, and that Coyote does not do any research and just orders from the first place in the phone book--which everyone at the time would have understood.

That has been so lost, however, that people today have made up the idea that Acme is an acronym for A Company that Makes Everything, and the reason Coyote keeps ordering from them is because they are the only one that can meet all of his needs (which is a different kind of funny.)

And because I'm all about sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation (a Wikipedia article, properly written, is a source for sources when you look at the footnotes)

If you have ever learned something useful from my posts and connections:

I'm welcome / you're sorry

The Elvish Lament (Plan 9′s variant of A Elbereth Gilthoniel)

Fanuilos heryn aglar Rîn athar annún-aearath, Calad ammen i reniar Mi ‘aladhremmin ennorath! A Elbereth Gilthoniel I chîn a thûl lin míriel Fanuilos le linnathon Ne ndor haer thar i aearon. A elin na gaim eglerib Ned în ben-anor trerennin Si silivrin ne pherth 'waewib Cenim lyth thílyn thuiennin. A Elbereth Gilthoniel Men echenim sí derthiel Ne chaered hen nu 'aladhath Ngilith or annún-aearath.

what happens to your fic after you die?

It depends. Like anything else on the internet, it could just sit on the Archive forever.

But if you want something more than that, then you might want to look into a Fannish Next of Kin (FNOK). This is a person you choose to get control of your account if you’re ever incapacitated or if you die. 

How do you choose them? They can be a real life friend or family member. They can be someone you know in fandom. Whoever it is, it should be someone you trust because they’ll be given access to your account in the event of your death. You’ll need to be able to talk to them about how you feel about your fanworks and what you want to have happen to them. Do you want them to stand just as they are? Do you want them added to the orphan_account? Do you want your entire account deleted?

After you have chosen your FNOK, both you and your chosen person will need to send a message to the Abuse team - they’re the team who also manage next of kin requests. Both of you will need an AO3 account in order to do this, so if the person you choose isn’t involved in fandom they’ll need to get an account first.

You don’t have to be next of kin for each other. It’s fine if the relationship is just one way. But, you can only have one next of kin. If there are 2 or more, there is the possibility of disagreements about what you want done, and AO3 has no way to arbitrate those disagreements.

You can end the agreement if you want to. If you have a falling out with your friend, or if they leave fandom and you lose touch, or if you want to end this part of the relationship for any reason, either one of you can send another message to the Abuse team and provide both usernames of the people involved. They’ll send you both a message to let you know the FNOK relationship has ended. 

How does AO3 know you’re dead? Your FNOK will tell them by submitting another report to the Abuse team. The Abuse team will then send an email to the address they have on file. If you don’t reply back within 10 days, they’ll pass control of your account over to your FNOK. It is important that you keep your AO3 account email up to date so you don’t miss this message. Remember that AO3 doesn’t know your real life identity, so if the person you trust says you’ve passed and you don’t tell AO3 that you haven’t, then they’ll believe them.

If your account is transferred but you’re still alive, submit a form to the Abuse team and let them know! They’ll do their best to get your account back to you.

You can read these and more details about Fannish Next of Kin over at the AO3 Terms of Service FAQ. Live long and prosper - and plan for the future 🖖

Editing this post with an update! As of January 12, 2023 you should contact Support and Feedback instead of Policy & Abuse

AO3 FAQ: Fannish Next of Kin

Hey folks, I get a lot of questions (which are welcome, btw) about AO3 things that are in a FAQ but might be a little tricky to find. Fannish Next of Kin is a common question because it’s in the Terms of Service FAQ instead of the regular FAQ.

Basically, you can designate someone to handle all your stuff on AO3 if you die or are incapacitated. The FAQ contains instructions for setting that up.

top ten jobs for a clown like myself to apply to?

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1. Clown for children’s birthday parties

2. Clown for children’s funerals

3. Clown for children in hospitals

4. Clown at a nursing home

5. Clown at my parents’ retirement community

6. (I guess that’s about it? I can’t think of any other jobs that involve the same sort of combination of creativity and silliness)

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Can you tell us more about what it entails to be a clown for children’s funerals?

A clown is a person who entertains people by making people laugh. This is done at funerals, by clowning on a corpse. I will be going into detail in my next two posts

tell me more about clowning on a corpse

Sometimes I find it easier to talk to AI than to human beings and I don't know what that says about me.

Oh no! I'm sorry your mood has been bad recently. I hope this picture of my cat makes you feel better.

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It did, thank you. I love the cat but he is really not a good photo editor

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You’re welcome! Yes, Tux is very bad at using computers in general as he does not have thumbs, just soft fluffy little toe beans.

He can barely send emails, what makes you think he’s going to get photoshop

EXACTLY. THANK YOU. I keep emailing him to say "Tux, you cannot use a keyboard, you are a cat" but he just emails me back something like "zdfsffdfvh;sffd". I wish he'd take your advice!

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To my international friends: If you ever wonder why Americans are the way they are, just remember that 1/3rd of all US citizens are in a cult that teaches them to suppress the activity of their prefrontal cortex, particularly when it comes to doubt, critical thinking, and differentiating emotional responses from personal values.

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1/3rd of Americans are Evangelical, and Evangelical Protestantism is a cult. We just don’t think of it as one because it’s so normalized. However, it follows the B.I.T.E. model of cult dynamics.

Evangelism teaches its followers to always maintain states of bliss and ecstasy for Jesus. What this does is condition the brain to always operate out of less-evolved parts; areas that are responsible for more primal emotions like euphoria, anger, and fear. Because of how we’ve evolved to survive, the brain will actually shut down our higher functioning—including critical thinking skills—in favor of these primal emotions, when they’re active.

Always feeling bliss = never questioning or feeling doubt. Evangelicals may actually fear the thoughts that do originate from their higher brain-parts because they think it’s the devil tempting them away from their religion. They’ll engage in self-indoctrination techniques to make this stop.

This creates a cognitive dissonance so great that many Americans have no separation between how they feel and what they believe. This is really bad because their minds have literally no defense against undue influence. They’ll vote for the dude who hyped them up enough. They’ll buy into the conspiracy theory that excites them the most. They’ll side with whatever gets the best reaction out of them, and getting a rise out of people is super easy to do.

Things like financial insecurity and low employment make this worse, too.

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And just to be clear, this kind of conditioning can happen to anyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity.

Cult conditioning has nothing to do with how smart or dumb people are. You can condition literally any brain with the right time and environment.

Counteracting undue influence is a skill, and like any skill, it needs to be taught.

Cult experts frequently point out that the smarter people are, the more susceptible they are to this once the initial hooks are in, and the harder they are to deprogram. This is because while this kind of conditioning does not rely on intelligence, the ability to rationalise does -- the smarter someone is, the better they can rationalise what they already believe, so if they’re committed to following their feelings, a smart person is much better at making it seem (to themselves as well as others) that they’re actually using logic and reason rather than making ad-hoc justifications after the fact.

Also, people who know (or believe) that they’re smarter than average tend to assume that this makes them harder to fool, conditon, or lie to. Which makes somebody much easier to fool, condition, or lie to.

So I am from the US but now live in Argentina, and as The American(tm) I often get reasonably asked the question, "Why are Americans, you know, like that?"

The best and most immediate answer I could come up with, and the one I've stuck to, is telling people that America is a country defined by being a haven for cults and religious extremists since its inception. And people are always like "god that makes so much sense."

But you know, the wildest thing is if I tried to tell any given American this (which I have) chances are they'd be like, "No way, that's absurd." And I think the thing is, if you're an American and have lived most or all of your life in America, this is just your normal. But when you live somewhere that is less saturated with religious dogma, cults and anti-intellectualism, it's readily apparent.

🦀 time for crab 🦀

due to unforeseen circumstances, this post will be brought to you solely by crabs

today i summoned 235 crabs! caught 34 💰 of them.

group picture!!!

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We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.

Really truly, watch the video, reblog it. Teaching about the holocaust is so necessary for our generation before it slips under the rug and people forget about it.

Source: mic.com