call me cal

since pinned posts are A Thing™, here’s me at a glance:

• I occasionally write fanfic, across a wide breadth of fandoms and genres and am on AO3 as Stella959 (come read something and say hi in the comments!)
• I’m a twenty-something millennial grad student who has lived all over and worked in a wide variety of (redacted) fields. I’ve been on tumblr for 10+ years at this point and, like everyone else who’s in it for the long haul, have Seen Some Things™
• I’m a multi-fandom blog. Main fandoms include but are not limited to the following: pokemon, star trek, star wars, fma, florence pugh, fandom in general
• I like/reblog a lot, with some personal/original posts sprinkled in rarely; this blog is mostly a collection of things I like + irl things I need to complain about
• My tagging is sporadic at best; it’s a half-assed organization system for me, first and foremost
• I would love to get to know my followers (and esp. my mutuals!) better so always feel free to drop me an ask

fractangle:

breaking: lil nas x to rebrand as lil nas twitter

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shutup-rachel:

Saw Barbie. More horse themed than I expected

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gio-scrabbles:

My weekend film binge in a nutshell (there was lots of sadness and existential dread)!

Saw some new movies this weekend! Loved all of them, but I’m still emotionally recovering.

OG meme:

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theabstruseone:

I slept in and just woke up, so here’s what I’ve been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

• Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
• The official branding is that a tweet is now called “an X”, for which there are too many jokes to make.
• The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn’t reclaim the username first.
• The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
• Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name “X” in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for “X” in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
• The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term “X Japan” is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
• Elon had workers taking down the “Twitter” name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says “er”.
• He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as “Xvideo”. Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

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ao3commentoftheday:

deniselavestal:

You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love

ALT

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tainbocuailnge:

lol you’re only learning japanese because you like anime, you’re only interested in history because you like the anime girl king king arthur series, you’re only broadening your horizons and becoming a more learned and fulfilled person because your sincere enjoyment of something not considered intellectual enough to be worthy of recognition provided you with a small window into a few of the many wonders of culture and knowledge the world has to offer and you want to obtain a deeper understanding of them

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woolandcoffee:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

We stan an icon.

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etherea1ity:

stars-and-birds:

quick what is everyone doing right now

okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it’s so incredible how we’re all doing such vastly different things at the same time…ik it’s an obvious thing but it’s also insane to think about.

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lttrsfrmlnrrgby:

fremedon:

white-throated-packrat:

everbright-mourning:

largishcat:

yourlocalfallofthewest:

largishcat:

Audrey R., who’s running for the OTW board, is apparently also currently running for office. As a Republican

so uhhhhhh keep that in mind when you’re voting

you’re saying this like a liberal who has the view of republicans.bad dems good and vote blue no mayter who.

y-yes? i sort of think the website that was founded because every other website was purging queer fanwork would be best served by someone who isn’t a member of the We Love Burning Books and Killing Gay People party. but that’s just the humble opinion of someone with a brain that works

For give me, but is this person running for Ao3 board and CONGRESSS at the same time??

Read Fairestcat’s breakdown of Audrey R’s answers to the OTW candidate Q&A for more in-depth reasons you probably don’t want to vote her onto the board https://fairestcat.dreamwidth.org/678527.html

Then read about all the other candidates and decide who you DO want to vote for – there are 6 candidates and 4 open seats – https://elections.transformativeworks.org/otw-elections-candidates/

Reminder that if you want to vote AGAINST someone in the OTW Board elections, you need to NOT RANK THEM AT ALL. If you rank them last, you’ve still voted for them–just less enthusiastically than you’ve voted for everyone else.

Rank ONLY the candidates you would be WILLING to see win. DO NOT rank any candidates you would not be willing to see win.

If you scrolled past the explainer on ranked choice voting, scroll up and re-read.

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hylianengineer:

sigynpenniman:

drlinguo:

Source

@hylianengineer CAN YOU CONFIRM

@sigynpenniman Well, only some of these happen in my field, but yeah. This is pretty accurate. I’ve given a presentation on “Hey, at least we showed that this method can prodcue results!” I have a coworker who once had to present a project as “This is how everything went wrong and science is hard!”

There’s also the classic “Here’s the ENTIRE HISTORY of this specific avenue of research!” And “Look! We made a database!”

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