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dangerously-human · 1 year

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I've answered a couple of these already, but I have more than one answer, so this is a good excuse to share more!

2. How many works did you publish this year?

A whopping, record-setting 19! Part of the reason for that is how I've really embraced drabbles, of course, and a lot of it has to do the singular focus of special interests. Another factor is that this is the first year I participated in writing events: Nikolina Week as well as Sparktober. Both really helped to focus my creativity, I think.

6. Favorite title you used?

I will not lie, part of the drive to wrap up and publish Parallel to Mine today was so I could use that as my answer to this question. (Also, I just really wanted to be able to say I shared my 60th work on AO3 this year.) It's a lyric title from "Berenstein" by The Band CAMINO, a song that makes it onto most of my writing playlists, but never has it fit so perfectly as it does for Fringe: it's a song about those almost love stories that might have actually come to pass in different timelines and alternate universes, after all.

At another place in time

You were infinitely mine

Relatively alright

When Berenstein was fine

At another place in time

Only parallel to mine

The universe was alright

When Berenstein was fine

And like. Parallel (universe) to mine fits really well, and so does the idea of Olivia almost belonging with Lincoln, the way she's sort-of-kind-of with him at one point, before it's all reset. All that almost angst of the lyrics themselves fit this ship and this situation perfectly.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

A huge part of my decision to write The Magic Number was my desire to give John space to process the daughter he'll never know. And I think that section turned out pretty well:

Aeryn cups his cheek, her touch as gentle and knowing as her words. “You wish you could do the same for her.”

He’s more surprised than she is when the next breath he takes catches in his throat. Almost before he recognizes the sensation of unshed tears, Aeryn’s already smoothing her hand over his brow, up past his temple to his hair, tucking the ends she hasn’t had enough time to trim lately behind his ears. It takes him a few hundred microts to find words for the worry, but she doesn’t rush him, simply anchors him with the contact and waits.

“What if it’s a girl, Aeryn?” he manages at last. Spoken aloud, the fear feels bigger than it had unidentified inside his chest, even if he’s still not sure how to explain it.

As so often happens, Aeryn understands what he doesn’t even have language for. “You’re not replacing her,” she replies firmly. “Your daughter will always be your oldest, even if she’s not your firstborn.”

“I didn’t ask for her, barely had a say,” he admits, voice breaking a little, “but… she’s mine anyway.” A beat. “And I left her.”

“She will be raised in love.”

John closes his eyes, feeling hollow. The vision of his daughter, arms wrapped around his neck, hovers closer than he can bear. “Not mine, though.”

Aeryn kisses his eyelids, then rests her forehead against his.

“You love her now. You loved her enough that you were willing to give up everything to be turned into a frelling statue again for eighty cycles, John. You loved her enough to find a way for Katralla and Tyno to raise her in peace. You do not love her any less than you do D’Argo simply because you do not - cannot - rock her to sleep or fret over whether she’s old enough for solid foods.”

#personal #writer probs: fanfic edition #farscape

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puthyflapps · 3 years

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Just noticed it’s phoebe bridgers not bridges

#this to me personally feels very much like berenstain-berenstein bears situation #apologies to miss girl tho #phoebe bridgers

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sightego · 4 years

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every time somebody posts a pemdas problem i get so mad thinking about how teachers just never agreed on how its supposed to go so theres constant debates about math on my tl

#like thats one of the first things we learn in Grown People Math but nobody can agree on how to use it???????#its starting to feel like one of those berenstein berenstain bears situations like wtf is the truth of the matter.....!

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wokeuplaughing · 5 years

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i think i watched an anthony hopkins movie that doesnt exist

#remembered watching it with my mom and im trying to find it again #Cannot find it however #ill find it eventually but rn we are in a berenstein bears situation

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airlock · 6 years

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catching him midblink for that sentence changed everything

#no reset akaneia hell #midblink marth is evidence of a Berenstein Bears situation where we're getting interference from an alternate reality #in which Pantless Marth remained canon #so you know. the good ending.

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mokeymokey · 3 years

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In 10 years people will be speculating like, did kink at pride discourse ever actually happen or was it a Berenstein bears situation just like the oppa homeless style post

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halcyonknight · 5 years

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Happy tenth birthday to the duck song but also hold up I'm like 100% sure the duck song started as an albinoblacksheep video way before that, is this a goddamn berenstein bears situation

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mindsage-blog · 6 years

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Con-spiracies // #1: Mandela Effects

Most internet users have recently been troubled by the question, “do you remember it being Berenstein or Berenstain Bears?” Majority of people who grew up with those stories remember it as being Berenstein Bears, even though it has always been Berenstain. This predicament has recently been given a name – the Mandela effect.

The name was made popular by Fiona Broome, who claimed to remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he didn’t die until 2013. She found other people who remembered similar details, some even going as far as “remembering” news coverage of the funeral and riots in Africa. Broome started a website discussing the Mandela effect and had many responses from other internet users who listed other “memories” that may be considered Mandela effects. These include:

Sex IN the City or Sex AND the City?

Mirror, mirror or magic mirror?

Looney Tunes or Looney Toons?

“Luke, I am your father” or “No, I am your father”?

There are a few theories that have arisen with the popularity of this topic. The first, and probably the most discussed, is that these confusions stem from the multiverse theory. It is believed that people “slip” between different universes, where perhaps Nelson Mandela did die in prison, and then end up in a universe where he didn’t. Although scientists believe in the possibility of the existence of multiverses, in relation to the Mandela effect it doesn’t really make sense. If multiverses were real and we were able to slip between them, how do multiple people slip between the same universes to remember the same details? And why would something as insignificant as a letter in the name of a children’s book be changed?

Another theory is that we live in a simulation similar to the “Holodeck” in StarTrek. The Holodeck is an entertainment device that is similar to virtual reality devices. This theory claims that due to glitches in the software, we may misremember details, and that’s why multiple people remember certain things being different. Obviously, this theory is outrageous, but some people believe it to be valid.

There are countless other theories that have been thrown around relating to why these inconsistencies in memory occur. These include time travellers changing things in the past that result in tiny detail changes today, changes occurring due to Satan or black magic, and theories similar to that of the Matrix.

Although many people have been given logical explanations to these memory inconsistencies, those who believe in these bizarre theories often refuse to acknowledge them. This may be because people have a need to believe that something bigger than us exists out there that is mysterious and more exciting than life actually is. There’s nothing wrong with believing in multiverses or time travelling, but it implies that our brains work perfectly 100% of the time. In reality, memory is actually more complicated than it seems.

Memory is constructive, not reproductive, meaning that rather than playing back like a recording, memories are built from various pieces of information. Therefore, our memories may be influenced by other factors that happened during the time of the memory that distract us from the focus, our current knowledge of situations that have changed since the event, or outside influence (such as someone telling us that an event occurred a certain way). Many logical theories about the Mandela effect revolve around false memories (in which we create memories either unconsciously or subconsciously), to which there are many different factors.

Misinformation effect involves having your memory influenced by another person if you don’t have any solid memories or connections with the topic. For example, you may not have actually read the Berenstain Bears before, but your best friend as a kid loved them, so when someone claims they remember it as Berenstein Bears books you truly believe you do too. This is an example of how memories are constructive – you have bits and pieces of information in your memory but you don’t entirely remember the story so you have to fabricate some of it. The act of fabricating memories is known as confabulation.

Confirmation bias comes into play when people search for or remember information a particular way so that the memory coincides with their beliefs. This means that people who read about Mandela effects will be more likely to have their memories influenced by other people’s memories.

Another common memory fault is that of Cryptomnesia, which is when a person confuses imagination with a memory. This may occur when someone experiences a vivid dream and years later they recall it being an actual memory. For example, Fiona Broome may have had a dream that Nelson Mandela died in prison, and when she started talking about it, other people may have experienced a misinformation effect, resulting in a fabrication of Nelson Mandela’s death.

Jim Coan, a US professor of psychology, explains how Cryptomnesia exists using the “lost in the mall” procedure. Coan gave his family descriptions of memories from his childhood, one of which was fabricated. He told them that he remembered his brother getting lost in the mall when they were younger, which his brother actually claimed to remember. He even went as far as to make up details about the event in particular, even though it never actually happened. This describes Cryptomnesia, as well as the misinformation effect.

As mentioned before, the reason people believe in the Mandela effect is because they feel the need to believe that something exists out there bigger than themselves. This is referred to as a social reinforcement of beliefs. It involves feeling the need to have control over our lives and the world we live in as well as the desire to believe that we’re a part of something bigger. While believing in the Holodeck theory doesn’t hold much in terms of logic, it’s fun and interesting to believe in because it implies that there is a fascinating explanation behind simple memory failures.

Mandela effects are fun to discuss, especially when someone remembers something different to you, but there’s a very likely chance that it can all be pinned down to false memories. Multiverses and time travelling is a fun idea, but extremely unlikely, and even if these things existed, they don’t make much sense in terms of the Mandela effect. Below are a few theories for the reasons why we misremember certain things collectively.

Berenstein vs Berenstain: looking at the books, it’s easy to see why children may get the words confused. The title is written in almost cursive writing, and if you weren’t paying much attention to it, you could confuse the a with an e. Also, names ending with “stein” are far more common than those ending in “stain”, so the brain is bound to confuse the two due to assumption.

Mirror, mirror vs magic mirror: contrary to what most people believe, both of these sayings are actually correct. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the evil queen says “Mirror, mirror, on the wall.” However, the original story as told in the Grimm Brothers fairy tale, the evil queen says “Magic mirror on the wall.” Most Disney stories were inspired by fairy tales, obviously tweaking them to make them appropriate for children, and this is another example of how Disney has made the fairy tale their own. Even if Snow White is the only reason you know of the saying, many other things around us, such as toys or media, use the original saying.

Looney Tunes vs Looney Toons: most people remember this famous children’s show as being Looney Toons. This one is easily explained by the fact that the first word is spelled Looney, so it would make sense for the second word to use double o’s as well for similarity. Also, the show is a cartoon, so it would make more sense for it to be Toons. Alas, it is actually Looney Tunes.

Sex in the City vs Sex and the City: another easily explained Mandela effect. Most people use the unofficial “Sex in the City” perfumes as evidence that the word has been changed, when in fact the perfume had to be named something different to the show for copyright reasons. Also, to reference Captain Holt from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the city is the fifth character in the series, so it has to be sex and the city.

“Luke, I am your father” vs “No, I am your father”: when referencing a movie or TV show, context is everything. For lengthy quotes, it would make sense to directly quote from the movie because someone who has seen it would make the connection. However, for something as short as “No, I am your father”, it doesn’t really make sense and few people would make the connection. Similar to “Houston, we have a problem”. Many people reference this and understand where the reference is from, but it wouldn’t hold the same context if it was just “We have a problem”. Therefore, more people relate to the quote if a name is mentioned in the quote.

References:

http://theconversation.com/the-mandela-effect-and-how-your-mind-is-playing-tricks-on-you-89544

https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/200105/the-seven-sins-memory

http://www.debunkingmandelaeffects.com/common-explanations/

http://www.debunkingmandelaeffects.com/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/

https://www.skeptic.com/insight/the-mandela-effect/

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/814701/multiverse-proof-evidence-parallel-universe (photo)

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ladyyatexel · 6 years

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When I first read SWAN a few years back, I looked up the songs on youtube and remember absolutely loving Fehler im system. When I read reSWAN I decided to look it up again out of nostalgia. Problem is, the version I first heard seems to have been entirely eradicated from the internet, which is a shame bc it had an epic guitar solo. Please tell me if you remember that version too so I can know if I've gone insane or if this is a berenstain/berenstein bears situation

Well, the version I’ve got guitars out pretty solidly at the 2 minute mark, so we’re both from the same universe I think, but you are right, I can’t find the original version on YouTube at all! That’s really surprising to me for some reason. There is one guy who has uploaded the ENTIRE album in both languages, but it’s literally him panning over the album art while the record plays in the room somewhere with no indication of where the songs are. I mean, I wore out the original Fehler Im System album on cassette when I was ten or something, so I have no problem listening to the whole of the album to get to one song but I don’t know how the rest of you feel about that much German apocalyptic 80s synthpop haha

If you need a copy of the original for ~reasons~, there is still a zip file of all the SWAN songs from the first time around (uploaded in 2009!) righ’cheer for your right-click/save purposes. It’s a little overkill to get the one song, but it should be there!

#swanish #Anonymous

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system-architect · 7 years

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i feel like asura having/not having little stub tails is a sort of berenstein/berenstain bears situation. like i LOGICALLY know its not canon, i know their models dont have tails and anet hasnt said they have tails, but absolutely 100% in my heart do they have tails and this literally feels like such an undeniable truth to the point it really does feel like its canon and i keep forgetting its not, and ive seen sooo many other people draw them with stub tails too, like ?!?!?!?

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literarysins · 7 years

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The Kristin Stewart Totinos skit is great, but I could've sworn pizza rolls were called Tostinos. I feel like I've slipped into a weird Berenstein/stain bear alternate universe situation. Which would explain the political climate, honestly.

#snl #kristin stewart

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raptorific · 7 years

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berenstain bears was always spelled that way, there’s no alternate universe at play, you just never paid close attention to the spelling as a child and when you tried to remember how it was spelled it filled in the gap with the most likely (but ultimately incorrect) phonetic spelling that you then unknowingly and retroactively projected onto all your memories of the books which makes it seem like you were previously certain of the spelling. human memories are very rewritable and very susceptible to suggestion. if you weren’t already sure of the spelling, someone asking you “don’t you remember it being spelled berenstein?” is enough to cause your brain to invent false memories and place them in your past until you’re convinced you were already certain of the spelling before you thought of it.

also there was never a genie movie called shazam starring sinbad, a few people misremembered the title and star of the movie kazaam starring shaquille o’neill as a genie, and then unwittingly planted a false memory in the heads of everyone they mentioned it to, who weren’t sure that movie didn’t exist and whose brains attempted to address the ambiguity by providing them with a memory that did not previously exist and happened to come up with the wrong answer. There is no situation where someone has a memory of the movie Shazam starring comedian Sinbad as a genie without first being made aware that such a movie does not exist. If you’ve never heard about any of this and you’re reading this right now and thinking “wait, I totally do remember that movie,” congratulations, that memory didn’t exist before you read this post, your brain just created that totally fictitious memory a few moments ago and backdated it into your childhood

as for “nelson mandela died in prison,” you were just straight-up wrong. there’s really no alternate universe nonsensery on the table here, you just believed something incorrect and you were 100% certain of it. Again, you may have unknowingly created a false memory of his death in prison to support this wrong position, but, that was just you being wrong

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