#there's even some bookmarks!!

[fireheartwraith]

I just realised the one shot i made in 2019 has almost 4.5k hits 😳

Is this fame?

#would it be weird to answer the comments now? #i'm sorry i just posted it and forgot about it after a week #i wrote that in like half an hour after a saw a prompt on twitter #basically rick had posted the Christmas special on his site and someone said 'omg someone pls write a fic' so i did that #then i sent the link to that person and they said they liked it #end of story #kind of #i did try to make fanart of this oc-but-not-really i made for the fic #so it's wild to think that so many people read it!! #there's even some bookmarks!! #to think that almost 30 people liked something i wrote so much they actually bookmarked it is insane #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjhoo #pjo fanfic #ao3 #fanfiction

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not? #goddammit goddammit goddammit #'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it' #*cut to ten years later frantic googling* #fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term #google in general is useless #and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet #bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can #save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!! #keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm) #(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy) #(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key) #because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake #i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012

[tommarvoloriddlesdiary]

Fanfic roulette, uhhh time travel hogwarts era

oh we are so back, baby -- and i've got just the thing in mind for you

eighteenth fanfic roulette of the day(s):

would that i'd loved (long ago) by sprst1tion

“I wouldn’t be hasty,” comments sixth-year Tom Riddle, eyes still glued on the boy in thought. "Hadrian Evans is going to Slytherin.” "The strange Mudblood?" Abraxas Malfoy cocks his head. “How can you be so sure?” Riddle just smiles in response. Silence remains after Malfoy speaks, all the boys sitting in anticipation. And, in a minute they'll know, Tom Riddle is right again.

words - 52463 | chapters - 12 | incomplete

have i read it? yes. do i love it? absolutely.

send me an ask if you want to get a fanfic roulette too

#tomarry #tomarrymort #fanfic roulette #rec #fic: would that i'd loved (long ago) #as always: #the risk is that some fics haven't been vetted by me at all - meaning i haven't even read them and can't vouch for the quality #another risk is that some fics HAVE been vetted by me (watch out) #😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #you get no say #a true grab bag #it's truly embarrassing to say this but my bookmark for this is - wait let me check #647 words long - it's 647 words long oh my god

[djosephqueery]

Playing Fic Roulette, the game where I randomly select one of the 58 ao3 tabs I have open on my phone to determine whether I go to bed happy or cry myself to sleep.

#steddie #because that’s what all the fics I’ve got open right now are #need to close some fucking tabs #scared I’ll lose the fics though #even if I bookmark them

[spllwys]

20 days and we'll see his grabbable waist on the big screen

#i'm so ready it's all i can think about #i have to bash out a report rn and finding it very hard to concentrate #when the autistic urge to bask in rhrn excitement is so strong #5 days until i can move google scholar from its home in my bookmarks toolbar #and replace it with. actually who knows #jsfiddle gradient text code editor ksdhbckjd #maybe even google docs......... #BACK TO WORK. SORRY. LOGGING OUT #how am i supposed to focus on stroke rehabilitation when papa is imminently going to mummy thrust in hd #i should tag bc some people might be avoiding entirely actually. #the band ghost #rite here rite now

[romcommunist]

cooking together is the cutest thing in the world IN THEORY. dont fuck w my mise en place. announce knife/hot/behind. dont leave pot handles sticking out please youll burn yourself. hug me. except when im doing basically any cooking activity. here taste this. please know how to crack an egg without breaking the yolk. like i obv want it but omg theres so many hurdles lmao 😭😭

#i literally have a video bookmarked of some couple cooking at 2am #do u think i dont think about someone sitting on the counter while i cook #IN THEORY #but even if its just me cooking...stay near

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

on today's episode of "hey fuckass did you know that fic authors can see the fucking bookmarks you make for their fics"

#mine #me: 'hey on a whim lets look at the bookmarks on spider's thread and see if anyone's- oh.' #the inspo for that fic is like a few smoldering embers anyway & that lowkey feels like pouring a bucket of fucking water on it #bitch this isnt goodreads you don't need to tear a fic apart & nitpick it if you didn't vibe with it #you could just. idk. leave it the fuck alone and not SHIT on it #also just #''Jasper (like from SU?) doesn’t seem like a great bard bc he isnt saying anything interesting' my brother in christ his mouth was sewn shu #like. what do you THINK HE'S GOING TO SAY #they don't have fics of their own (just... hp fic bookmarks (some of which are equally critical) #which. just kinda shows even more how invalid their opinion is. #but. can't address them or anything but if youre seeing this fuck you #fic: the silence of the spider's thread #the witcher

[notbecauseofvictories]

stealingmirrors replied to your post “rolling cookie dough I made a few days ago into...”

that pasta you talked about in the tags sounds actually divine??? would that i could be a friend in your kitchen, that all sounds lovely

...it was really, really good, even reheated in the office kitchen or left on the countertop as I bustled about, working from home.

Honestly, I have yet to encounter a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen that isn’t good, easy to understand, and most importantly, flexible---I have Jamaican beef handpies in the freezer, I’ve left pastry proofing for forty-eight plus hours; even in the recipe below I basically kept stirring and adding pasta water until the cream sauce was exactly the consistency I wanted, no measurements required. I love a recipe so durable that you actually can’t fuck it up, unless you have truly no knowledge of cooking at all, in which case: sorry and also, thank you for supporting the takeout economy.

So in celebration of great recipes and the people who hate them, from America’s Test Kitchen Vegetables Illustrated:

#I didn't realize I would be this person BUT! cookbooks are good actually. #I think I prefer the ebooks because they're searchable and can be bookmarked with a click of the mouse and are still portable #but also. it's really nice to know that a bunch of people in a kitchen tried adding an additional cup of cream #or shallots vs onions #and decided #yes actually. this is the best version. #even if I disagree! I just like knowing someone thought about it #........also I think you should add some red pepper flakes to the shallots when you saute them #tw food #no love sincerer than the love of food

[feldsparite]

as it turns out there is zenkichi content on this wretched site, but i had to dig through the trash like some kind of small animal to find it.

#hasegawa hell #have 136 bookmarks now which is... At Least Some Stuff but also like #most of that shit's from 3....4....years ago......... #and i'm not even sure if the ops want that shit reblogged anymore....it's kind of embarrassing if i do..... #truly felt like i was doing gravedigging... i'd done it before but it's significantly more embarrassing this time around #at least searching for usopp fic on livejournal was ok because everyone there's defo a corpse. these people now are still alive #they just don't have the zenkichi brainworms anymore

[zukkaoru]

the disparity in kudos between a skk fic and a fic for literally any other bsd characters/ship :/

#like okay i get it skk is the most popular bsd ship by a longshot #but it does kinda suck that my skk fics will always end up being more popular than literally anything else i write for bsd #when i have way better fics tbh #okay i'm unleashing this from my drafts lol #like i get it kudos/hits/bookmarks counts aren't telling of how good a fic is #but out of my last five fics. my skk one has ONE HUNDRED kudos more than the next most kudos #and idk it also sucks that i know my skk is better than 90% of the fandom but. even my skk fics get significantly less kudos/etc #than big writers in the fandom who AREN'T EVEN GOOD #or are like. mid at best #i know in theory that the bsd fandom doesn't care about characterization but like. not only do they encourage bad characterization #it feels like sometimes they're actively against good characterization #even in j.jk and a.tla where there are major issues with bad characterization #more people seem to at least appreciate the good characterization. (even if they aren't good at it themselves.) #but i swear to god no one in the bsd fandom cares about anything besides whether dazai and chuuya are kissing. it begins and ends there. #it never ceases to amaze me (derogatory) how a fandom where the source media draws So Much inspiration from classic literature #can somehow have NEGATIVE media literacy skills #why don't you guys take a break from your edgy dazai x softboy chuuya fics and you fems.kk with dazai in skimpy clothes and your #beast chuuya sobbing and killing himself over dazai's death #and go read some of the books by the actual authors. and then write me an essay about the themes that has nothing to do with shipping. #and THEN you can come back to the fandom. #listen i love skk but oh my god sometimes the fandom makes me hate them. #anyway one of these days i'm going to get anon hate for complaining about the bsd fandom so much but that's fine #at least i know there are characters in the show besides dazai and chuuya. and when i do write skk AT LEAST I DO IT RIGHT. #hello grace here

[puppyeared]

HOW can you be bad at being a furry???????

IDK BUT I AM

#its like i would consider myself a furry the same way someone who played the recorder in middle school says they play an instrument #im like bare minimum furry or furry enjoyer at best. im like someone who might not even be a furry but share their beliefs etc etc #also its very funny when ppl try to 'clock' me as a furry bc of the 'if someone u know draws dogs like this theyre a furry' litmus test #nah man i just poked around deviantart and have a bunch of deviantart artist pages bookmarked on my browser #not to mention the animation memes and oc AMVs which probably shaped my teen years #but the weird thing is that the things u think would have been some sort of furry awakening for me never actually counted for much #i did read the warrior cats mangas BUT i never actually read the main series. i didnt even play animal jam or pretended to be wolves on the #schoolyard ALTHOUGH i did pretend to be a dog and even had a tail i clipped to my pants but nobody wanted to join in bc i bit ppl #maybe im just not that conscious of it but recently ive been looking at more furry art and now i want to draw more furries #its interesting ^_^ maybe im just a late bloomer #ask #yapping

[cormorant-red]

if you play 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors for the nintendo DS, you too can start paying attention to clover and have this happen to your kitchen table

#this is just since january and it isn’t even all of them. some are still being pressed #i HAVE committed to going to dragoncon and i WILL be making bookmarks to bring #(nate astriiformes so correct about ephemera) #talk tag

[todayisafridaynight]

cant stress how obsessed i am with yamaguchis shirt

#snap chats #this is rgg related because i said so shut up ANYWAY #i DID steal this from twitter but i need to share it every with everyone so im not sorry #the person i stole this from rt'd a photoset from themselves and in it motomiya wearing The Silliest outfit ever #but ive already shared too much. ive already gone off topic too much we're moving on #i will bookmark it tho cause it makin me giggle #anyway if you cant read it. and id be so happy to type out what it says. #it says 'can't miss it!! you've got to go to nepal they have a big festival called Maha Shivaratri full moon night in february' #dont know why it makes me giggle it just does. like fuck man maybe i SHOULD go to nepal in february <- maha shivaratri is in march next yea #anyway everyone be nice to me today i have a spanish exam later and it Should be easy #but i was fighting god and the devil last night trying to sleep because my cramps decided to kick my ass EXTRA hard #I NEVER GET BAD CRAMPS WHYYYY DID IT HAVE TO BE BEFRE AN EXAM WHEN I NEED GOOD SLEEP !!!!!! #im lucky my spanish class is in the evening but god it was so painful #the last time i experienced pain as bad as that was when i was trying to sleep after busting my wrist #so awful.... i hurt a lil now but i'll get through it #ok bye let me study up just to reaffirm some Spanish Knowledge with myself

[nostalgia-tblr]

Reminding myself that I resolved not to delete any fics that have a bookmark on them😭

#there's this one frostmaster fic that must be TERRIBLE cos it fails on any metric but for some reason people bookmarked it #though the visible ones seem to be mostly people who bookmark literally everything they read so... #it has one (1) comment and like a thousand hits :| #i think it's not a bad fic! but apparently i am wrong about that :'( #BUT if there's one person out there who silently loves it i don't want to take it from them #i have invented a silent yet adoring audience in my head for fics that “don't do numbers”. between this and the “reason other than quality” #that i preemptively invent for any fic to flop i am left perhaps overly confident in my skillz but also a bit less worried about stats. #btw 'fair alfrida' didn't go too well either but i had fun writing it so fuck it i don't care (...much) #more positively: the frigga gen did v well and the sylki-on-sakaar one i fretted about for months does not actually repel readers! #and this year i feel like i'm doing fairly well despite posting a few quite niche fics :D #tbh some of my own fics are things i probably wouldn't click on cos they wouldn't seem like my jam from the summary/tags #and i beat myself up less about only writing short oneshots now that i've posted a couple of longer works as well #the sylki arranged marriage fic is on-track to be my second-longest fic ever (the bar was low but shhhh) #...as you can see i still put too much importance on length of fic even though i prefer reading shorter works meself :| #ANYWAY STATS BACK OFF NOW I THINK

[awkward-teabag]

I keep seeing people respond to the Microsoft Recall bullshit with there's an ability to disable it and that misses the point. Several points in fact.

It's only a matter of time until an update bugs/"bugs" it and re-enables it without warning so people who had previously disabled it think they're in the clear until their info is leaked or they get a warning they're low on storage space.

If people don't have admin rights, they may not be able to disable it. Laptops given by work or school lock down what people can do with them, some going as far as dictating which browser one has to use on them. Even if you don't need admin rights to disable Recall, you may not have the ability to do so without losing the laptop and/or job and/or education.

I'm unsure of how it would handle multiple accounts but if it can be locked by someone else to always be enabled, children and people in abusive situations would also be unable to disable it. Even if it can't be locked, disabling it could result in punishment from a parent or the abuser.

Is it really disabled or is it "disabled" in that what the user sees is it being disabled while it's still collecting information and/or sending information to Microsoft in the background?

Such a feature should never have been automatically enabled in the first place. It's bad, predatory design to have such a feature enabled from the start and to expect users AKA customers to go out of their way to look up and then opt-out of something.

If disabling it really disables it, it can still result in stress and concern that it's not. The vast majority of people do not have the skills or knowledge to look into the OS guts to give themselves peace of mind that it really truly is disabled.

I'm sure I'm missing some, too.

TLDR is disabling is a bandaid someone else may rip off for you, someone may hurt you if you use, it may not work at all except as a placebo, and should have never been needed in the first place.

#that's not even touching on the legal aspect where it existing at all violates laws for some regions/companies/governments #the ability to disable also doesn't matter if you're barred from ever disabling it in the first place #how long until parents start berating/grounding/beating their kid(s) for 'using up all the storage space'? #and if google's 'ai' is anything to go by recall will have limited use and get things wrong #while also being a privacy and safety nightmare #there's already a history feature in windows and your browser of choice (plus bookmarks in said browser) #to me this smacks of find a use for something they developed without having a use first #while also adding a way for employers to spy on/control workers at a time when working from home is much more common #because while some employers will ban it others will use it to spy on employees and require it be enabled #'if you don't want us to know your personal passwords don't use work computers for personal browsing or accounts' #but also don't use your personal devices or pee outside of designated pee breaks as recall won't trigger if you're in the same spot #can't even set up a slow scroll or anything because the screenshots will show them you were on the same page for however long

[hellonearthtoday]

god bless to every reader on ao3 with good taste that keeps their bookmarks public. Im stalking your page like im choosing a new car from a catalogue

#ao3 #literally i dont even be out there pilfering in the wild anymore i just go find the bookmarks on fics i like and i just start sniffing #i saw some guy with 50k bookmarks once. what the hell did they have going on #thats besides the point. public bookmarkers lets kiss