courage, dear heart

Max • Black Sails "XXVII"

The bear named its price

I’m not in the community that posted this but if you’ve never tasted the bitter agony of searching for a pairing you’ve only just considered to find it’s like one dedicated author who has churned out like 69 slightly better than mediocre fics you don’t know what a rare pair is.

Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have

The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet

"But how are you living life WITHOUT Doctor Leroy's Magically Invigorating Nerve Tonic? I can't imagine getting anything done without it!" <- old-timey 1800s guy who has been drinking crank and goat piss daily for the price of a shiny nickel

we can’t talk here contact me in my dream tonight

i have not been able to forget this for 16 years

@sydneysageivashkov

when you think about it a rollercoaster is probably safer than a car. i mean you crash any vehicle going over 60mph and youre likely to be gravely injured so id rather be in one thats stuck in a tested loop and not driven by my road-rage prone mother. this is why im about to make a bold new proposition for public transport,

and you may say "if you want transport that goes on a predetermined on rails route you want trains" and thats true i do want trains. but i want trains that do sick loops and make me vomit. its an improvement for nobody and it would be awesome.

let's consume mama

please invent an even dimmer brightness level i am begging

if we're black sails homeric epic / odyssey-posting. I think miranda functions as a sort of amalgam and stand-in for so many of the epic's women. she's cassandra. knowing the future, but never believed. she's penelope. husband forcibly taken as a result of political machinations beyond her control (presumed dead). she's helen. fleeing her husband's house with another man. she's calypso. trapped on an island, only her lover for company. she's circe. the strong and beguiling witch. she's athena. providing wise council and divine guidance. she's clytemnestra. her fury strikes down a powerful man, as revenge for what she's lost. mistress, wife, mother. indeed

"AND DOST THOU THINK THAT I IN FEAR OF THESE NEW GODS WILL COWER AND QUAKE? FAR, FAR AM I FROM THAT."

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Sometimes the best fic you’ve ever written isn’t on ao3. It’s in 50 frenetic discord messages sent over a fifteen minute span where you and your friend yes and each other into a perfect story that will never actually be written.

late summer / early fall thoughts

Climate change, exacerbated by capitalist exploitation, is going to force more people to leave their homelands. Get more pro-immigrant and reject nationalism now!! We only have each other.