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Someone mentioned how they were having a hard time creating a world for their fantasy fiction geographically because they kept reinventing the island of Britain, which also happened to my good close enemy George R. R. Martin. I would like to suggest North Carolina. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous but North Carolina has an awesome geographic setup for a fantasy kingdom, I think. Inhospitable barrier islands, constantly shifting shoals in the sound, swamps with alligators, venomous snakes and carnivorous plants, lots of very flat and somewhat sparsely populated farmland, foothills, mines, mountains full of mysterious phenomenon that were originally very difficult to navigate and people still get lost in today. It kind of rocks.
There are actually 36 carnivorous plant species native to North Carolina, roughly half of all carnivorous plant species in the United States are found in North Carolina! I added the carnivorous plant detail because that’s something I love about the state. We have so many fucking bugs that the plants keep evolving to eat them.
I love that giant man eating Venus flytraps are worldbuilding staples in untamed tropical fantasy settings but they’re actually native to a small region in the Carolinas.
And I agree with the notes, the Chesapeake Bay + Great Dismal Swamp (partially in NC anyway) and the South Carolina Lowcountry would be good geographic additions to this.
Im sorry but Ryland Grace is the type of person who does math to try and figure out his sexuality and concludes he must be bisexual because his level of atraction to any gender is the same (zero. the level of atraction is zero. he's aroace)
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“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”
Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.
“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”
Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.
“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”
You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?
One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.
The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.
And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.
And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.
AI Psychosis and the implications of its existence
Actually as shitty as the existence of AI psychosis is, the implications of it are FUCKING MIND-BOGGLING in actually a really revolutionary way.
("WTF are you talking about?" / "What do we currently know about AI psychosis?": x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Paywall free, via Futurism, June 28, 2025
Like, as someone who works professionally editing mental health books, the existence of AI psychosis almost certainly completely upends our understandings of how mental health disorders work. And their causes.
There's a non-zero chance the discovery/existence of AI psychosis is like. going to be/lead to more or less the mental health equivalent of inventing germ theory.
Like, we went from only sort of beginning to suspect to having actual, literal, indisputable proof that you can go from not having a psychotic disorder to having a psychotic disorder literally just from talking too much to a very aggrandizing source and/or echo chamber
THAT SEVERELY UPENDS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND ORIGINS OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS
**Note: I am using "psychotic" and "psychotic disorders" in their technical definition here, which is simply "involves experiencing breaks from reality." Because, contrary to all the stigma and misinformation, that's the literal/actual definition (x, x, x)
And like, obviously, in at least many cases, there would be/often are genetic, environmental, or trauma factors that are putting their thumbs on the scale there. But we know for a fact that a number of people who have developed AI psychosis do not have a previous record of mental health issues.
But the tipping factor for at least dozens of people, we now know for a fact, was talking to an AI chatbot. And we have a complete record of what was said for almost every single one of those cases, because, among other things, OpenAI / ChatGPT is now LEGALLY REQUIRED to preserve ALL CHAT TRANSCRIPTS, even if users delete them, until the court says otherwise (x, x, x).
(Which will be, by the way, years, at a minimum - that may have started with a copyright lawsuit, but there will be so many other AI lawsuits and investigations, including about AI psychosis, in the EU if not the US - this will go on for a while)
Anyway, yeah, good news in the long term for the understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
In the short term, seriously, please don't use chatbots for at least another couple of years, as a safety precaution
At least until they've sorted this shit out and (HOPEFULLY) figured out how to make this shit stop happening (and then, hopefully, actually implemented those changes).
Just call it a basic safety precaution - especially if you have any sort of neurodivergence and/or any history or family history of hallucinations, delusions, schizophrenia / schizo-spectrum, psychotic spectrum disorders, etc.
All of this will, I strongly suspect, be incredibly validating to a great many trauma survivors, abuse survivors, cult survivors, and members of the mad community
And it will hopefully really transform our understanding of how to understand and treat mental health issues, and particularly psychotic disorders, in really, really profound and positive ways. Which would be great, bc we're pretty fucking shit at understanding and treating them right now!
ChatGPT has encouraged/convinced people to commit suicide. When I looked it up, I was searching for a particular incident, only to find a new article about an apparently different suicide that had happened.
These chatbots are not safe to interact with. Don't use them
There's something about atheism that I've repeatedly tried and failed to put into words on several posts on this blog but I think I finally got it.
Atheists are the only religious minority who, even (or sometimes even *especially*) in ostensibly progressive spaces are not allowed to ever act like they're sure of their beliefs.
Like I'm not even an atheist, I've considered myself an agnostic for as long as I've been able to articulate my own beliefs, but it's not lost on me how often atheists in leftist spaces are hit with rhetoric like this:
Why is it bad that atheists are 100% sure that no god or any higher power exists? I mean. That's what they believe.
Everyone else is allowed to be 100% sure in whatever belief they hold and express it, but atheists are held to the higher standard of constantly conceding that "yeah I *could* be wrong haha of course I'm not saying it's impossible for gods to exist I'm just personally unconvinced" because openly expressing any confidence on the certainty of their own beliefs will immediately be perceived as close-minded and invalidating everyone else's belief systems when like.
When you get down to it "all this shit is made up" isn't really a meaningfully more close-minded or invalidating position than "all this shit is made up except for this one, which is the real and correct one". Atheism is just held to a higher standard when failing to immediately back down and cede ground in any situation where it doesn't align with anyone else's belief system is inherently seen as a mark of close-mindedness and intolerance, a standard to which no other religious minority is ever held in these spaces.
#if you cant acknowledge that New Atheism was a response against Bush-era Evangelicalism you are not qualified to talk about it
I was hanging out with American New Atheists at the time, and the main topics of discussion were stuff like "atheists should be able to hold public office" (not illegal but incredibly difficult in many areas because people flat-out would not vote for atheists and it was really hard not to be coerced into Christian rituals even if they could get in) and "the fact that they're trying to introduce legislation to ban teaching evolution in science class and give teachers who do it a criminal record, and instead teach 'Creation Science' (Christian Edition but they keep that part off the papers) is a bad thing actually". There was a LOT of political work going into protecting freedom of religion (including freedom from religion) in legal and educational areas. The evolution/creation science thing (and protecting the teaching of evidence-based science in general, as the evangelical position was that Empirical Science Is Evil, I'm not making it up they were straightup saying that and that science should be 'spiritually lead' and children had to be protected by giving them a spiritually led anti-empiricist science education until they were old enough to choose to go off and learn other science as adults) and a huge issue for a long time. Other common issues were same sex marriage, the right to abortion, and access to healthcare and sex education, all of which the evangelical political lobby opposed using religious justifications (although sometimes they tried to hide the explicit christianity of it, acting like 'it's a sin' is some kind of religiously neutral statement). The New Atheists were putting a lot of work into these causes.
Yeah a handful of youtubers found out that there were easy views in dunking on particularly stupid creationists, got high on their own popularity, and started randomly dunking on anything that looked easy to mock because they falsely believe they're smarter than everyone else and that gives them the right to be arseholes. Literally every movement has that. If you think there's not a handful of "feminists" on youtube right now making the trashiest possible dunk videos in the name of feminism then the youtube algorithm is protecting you. Everyone has these people. Fandoms have these people. But it's always easy to dismiss a whole demographic if you can find a couple of arseholes with a couple of catchy sound bites.
A lot of people have a very weird view of what Science™ is. And a lot of people view atheism as basically being The Science Religion.
In the popular misconception of Science™, a true Science Believer must always be uncertain and willing to admit they're wrong. And I mean. That's sortof correct. It is true that one of the pillars of the scientific method is that if new evidence arises, we take it into consideration even if it contradicts what we thought we knew.
But that doesn't mean always tiptoeing around acting like we can't really know anything. There are plenty of things which are so well proven that the idea they're one day going to be disproved by new evidence is just...laughable.
People leverage this misconception to cast doubt on Science™ and make their pet fantasy look more credible. After all, if Science™ can't ever really know anything for sure, if the so-called "facts" can CHANGE, then they can't really say for certain that vaccines don't cause autism, or that global warming is real, now can they?
Now, of course, this argument isn't always made in bad faith. It's a pretty easy conclusion to come to that Real Scientists aren't ever sure of anything. Pluto was considered a planet once, after all. Science appears to change its mind all the time!
By extension, if atheism is The Science Religion, then they can't really know for sure that there is no god either, can they? Because Science™ can never know anything for sure! So all the atheists who claim they're CERTAIN there is no higher power out there aren't being very scientific, are they? They're just being smug!
Or, if you actually are arguing in bad faith, atheists' claim to certainty that there is no god actually proves that they're totally unscientific and Believing In Things Without Evidence the same way they accuse religious people of doing! They BELIEVE there's no god, which is the same-but-opposite as believing there IS a god, since you can't actually PROVE an absence of something! Checkmate, atheists!
If I say "I don't believe in the tooth fairy", nobody challenges me on that. Nobody is like "Oh you mean you're agnostic about the tooth fairy, right? You can't be SURE there's no tooth fairy. So you're saying you don't know if a tooth fairy does or does not exist. If there was suddenly proof of a tooth fairy then you'd believe in it, right? So you can't say you don't believe in the tooth fairy." I say "I don't believe in the tooth fairy" and everyone takes me at my word.
If I say "I don't believe in god", suddenly the idea of not believing in something is absurd and probably impossible. Even though my reasons for not believing in both things are the same and my level of certainty is the same.
I need people to understand that that vessel is from the 1700s and Abbadon has been surviving off squirrels and garbage for 300 years. There is NO WAY his aged up form is over 6 ft tall and buff. That corpse raccoon is a twiggy short king and you CANNOT change my mind!
Also, I chose to reblog this art because I personally interpret it as they're both standing on the ground and Abbadon still barely comes up to Esther's chin cuz that shit's funny as hell. End rant.
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I really want more fics to remember that Abbadon is colorblind. I just think it's such a fun concept.
Also, rewatching the 1st episode after this scene makes me laugh cuz my boi is trying to figure out what's wrong with his normally tasty loops of cereal and he CAN'T because he's COLORBLIND! World consistency! *muwa!*
With the lack of SNAP benefits in the US hitting in a few days, welcome to No Snitch November. If you see somebody taking food? No you didn't. Taking formula? No you didn't. Taking diapers? No you didn't. When the government turns their back on our neighbors, it's our job to protect them.
*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love
If you had shown me this site in 2005 I would have asked you if had checked your virus software lately, because this looks like a bad one. I would have clicked away so fast it would give you whiplash. Looking at these sites now, I have to convince myself that they aren't virus laden sites and fight against the pavlovian urge to just navigate away.
I navigate away anyways because fuck them, there's usually a better site (though they are dwindling quickly). I still can't get over how the internet "as intended" today looks like a malware ridden fever dream from 20 years ago. This is every story I've ever read about an empire that used to be great and has now fallen into turmoil.
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A goblin and an elf have decided to defy tradition and get married. Their ceremony will be held in the magical forest in accordance with elven tradition.
It's a beautiful ceremony. The elven bride in her finest, flowing silks, dappled by the sun. The goblin bride in a human-sized wedding dress stolen from a goodwill.
The elven side of the aisle of course has the elvish bride's father and mother, as well as her older sisters, as well as all the forest animals who inhabit her parents' court.
The goblin side is a bunch of The Labyrinth looking freaks in their best simulacrum of what they think good folks wear to weddings. The father of the bride is wearing a really snazzy cocktail dress.
It's a mixed tradition ceremony. The elven part of the ceremony involves the young couple being presented in front of the king of the forest, a majestic unicorn, who blesses the couple by touching them with his horn.
The goblins kidnapped a local priest to bless the couple according to their tradition.
The ring the elven bride presents to her wife-to-be is brought in by a squirrel riding a doe. It's made of silver, inlaid with decorative golden leaves.
The goblin worst man accidentally swallowed the ring, which was purchased from a pawn shop.
The father of the elven bride keeps looking over to the goblin side of the aisle, barely hiding his disgust. But he is resigned to it. What matters most is his daughter's happiness.
At the end of the ceremony his face sinks as the father of the goblin bride says "Welcome to the family! You can call me brother," while vigorously shaking his hand.
The reception is, of course, held at a speakeasy according to goblin tradition. The ceiling is only five feet tall, making it very difficult for the elves.
#the father of the elven bride is absolutely disgusted by the goblin's dad#right up until he's got some of that good goblin ale in him and then they're both singing old shanties together#'i am amazed you know this one! it must be far older than you - we sang it hundreds of years ago!'#'yeah i ate some old musty book full of songs once and i think that was in there'#'...okay!'#they're superbowl dad buddies afterward
This is the priest's eighth goblin wedding. (There is some contention over whether one wedding counted as it became a race to finish the vows before the groom finished giving birth and it became a christening)
He is dumped out of the burlap sack and begins "We are gathered here today..." without hesitation. Two goblin children have to be restrained from running up and climbing him because he's their favorite god-uncle. The first time he was kidnapped he was terrified and had to be prodded (literally) to say the wedding vows to the happy couple. The second time he was kidnapped, he spent the entire time protesting that this didn't count and argued with the mother-in-law about what should be said and was repeatedly cowed into submission. The third wedding he was delirious from lack of sleep and when uncle drunkenly demanded he hurry up, the priest snapped and went into "fire and brimstone" mode declaring that a sacred union of love was not to be disrespected in such a way and incorporating it into his blessing upon the union before resigning himself to death. Unfortunately for him, the goblins loved it and he immediately became the most preferred priest in the region and was dragged into the community celebrations completely against his will. He pretends to pull a ring from behind the bride's ear to make up for the missing one, and sincerely tells the couple that he knows that they will be very happy together before he crowd surfs to the exit. Wild applause erupts.
The Worst Man is a coveted position at all weddings ("Man" being a translation of the goblin person, of course, can be any species or gender) because it's so much fun. It's the Worst Man's job to break all the tension.
Groom is terrified he's going to lose something? Worst Man loses it first.
Bride has some nasty relatives she wants kept out of the wedding because they object to the other bride? Worst Man plays bouncer. Meaning they bounce the offending parties clear out of the county. Occasionally out of the time zone.
Caterer is fretting about the cake? Worst Man falls into it and wrecks it.
Father-in-Law is worried about Uncle getting drunk and saying something stupid? Worst Man gets drunker and draws all the attention.
Officiant gets stage fright and can't speak? Worst Man heckles them until they get angry enough to talk. (See "third wedding" above.)
Jealous friend saying rude things about the bride? Worst Man just dumps barrels of red wine on her until she shuts up and/or leaves.
After one's spouse, determining your Worst Man is pretty much the most important choice for a wedding.
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