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Hiya. I'm Davi. he/they, queer adult with Gender and Sexuality going on. you know how it is. This is my main blog and I will be an Adult here, so- 18 and under folks- I'm sure you're lovely. But if I catch you following me here, it's a hard block. I have sideblogs which are fine to follow though.
Recent-ish Fics/Fic Series I've written/co-written:
Unseelie : MCYT, Vampires SMP, standalone fic
your boldness stands alone among the wreck : FFXIV, series, co-written with @azems-familiar
in the shadow of the sun : FFXIV, series, co-written with @azems-familiar
do you taste my pain in this bloodstained place : Jedi: Survivor, standalone fic, co-written with @azems-familiar
The Moonrise Legacy: SWTOR : Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMORPG), series.
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"what if someone regrets transitioning" if you are 18 or over in free country usa you can walk into any tattoo parlor and ask for a tattoo that will be on your body forever and ever and ever and they will give it to you with the understanding that if you dont like the result or you regret it later that's your fucking problem and not theirs
This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
grace tries really hard to not play favorites with his eridian students (obviously) but one day he lets it slip that "teacher's pet" is a thing on earth but he's like haha i dont do that, i dont have favorites :) and the students are like okay. bet. we will Make You Pick One. and the next day 30+ baby eridians all show up with elaborate gifts trying to win his favoritism and all of them are so beautiful that grace gets so overwhelmed he just starts crying on the spot
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The Jedi classes and having the weight of the entire galaxy rest in your frail, small hands, and everyone turning to you for any answer, even when you never asked for this, but if you won't save them, who will?
The Sith classes and getting fucked over and over and over again and being stepped on and blamed for things out of your control, forcing you to become the bigger dog in any way possible just so everyone else will leave you the fuck alone
Consular vs Inquisitor and being a symbol to something that was never your fight in the first place. Warrior vs Knight and being sent as a living weapon to every corner of the galaxy.
Bounty Hunter vs Smuggler and getting wrapped up in a fight that was never your own, forces bigger than you forcing it to become personal just because you were the one there. Trooper vs Agent and laying your life and honour bare for a system that would betray you as soon as it's done using you.
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When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.
God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.
You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.
one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid⢠is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.
DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOUâRE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.
One of my college professors used to say âanything worth doing is worth doing poorly.â I didnât understand that for years because I didnât do anything poorly, I couldnât do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.
But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting. Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible. Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible. Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I donât have the energy to go anywhere.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly⌠because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.
You must understand that perfectionism isnât striving for excellence, itâs a crippling fear of being flawed and therefore worth abandonment or punishment. Itâs a kind of psychological avoidance. Youâre avoiding fear and failure , not embracing the thing you want to do bc if it was about the thing you want to do youâd be fine with partial victory.
The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because theyâre hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.
Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?
I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.
just learned americans have different standard paper sizes than everyone else. what do you MEAN you donât have A4 as the standard. what do you mean your standard paper size isnât even the same size as an A4. apparently itâs like. âletterâ and âlegalâ and whatever else. help!!!
So I work in engineering; and always wondered who used these weird âAâ sizes Iâd see in large printer settings that Iâve never seen any company even have paper in stock for. Now I know.
And now I have to be one of those obnoxious US Americans because WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU USE THESE WEIRD UNEVEN DIMENSIONS!? Even in metric most of the âAâ settings are an annoying ratio! 210x297mm? 594x841mm!? Whatâs the point of using such small units of measurement if youâre not going to make sensible sizes!?
because the largest standard paper size is A0 which is exactly one square metre of paper with an aspect ratio of the square root of two. this gives us a nice simple measurement of area for the paper as well as allows us to do the halving/doubling magic. A1 is 0.5m², A2 is 0.25m² etc.
The halving/doubling magic that psychaun refers to is the fact that you can get each paper in the series by cutting the previous one in half. I fold some A4 paper in half, I have an A5 booklet. I tape two A4 pieces together along their long side, I have an A3 piece. Each piece of paper is half the area of the previous and half the width of the previous' length with a length the same as the previous' width. The aspect ratio is exactly the same for every size. This makes it very easy to resize things, fold things inside each other, and calculate the size of paper you've never used before based on its name. "I can resize this to fit any other paper size because the aspect ratio is identical," "I can fold a standard size in half to get the next standard size down" and "the area I'm working with can be multiplied up to fit into a metre squared without any messy fractions of leftover paper" are all far more practical considerations for a paper size than "the millimetre length of this paper size isn't a round number".
The US doesn't "have to do things different" for the sake of doing things differently, as your words imply, nor is the sentence above about who uses what paper fully correct, either*.
The reason that the US (and Canada, most of Central America, Chile, and the Philippines) use different standard sizes* from Europe is probably pretty easy to figure out when you think about things like "there's a big fucking ocean between two of those places, but not between all of the countries in Europe."
The standard size of paper, according to the American Forest and Paper Association, comes from the days of manual paper-making, and their assertion that 44" is about the length of the average experienced vatsman's comfortable grasp. So a sheet is 1/4" that length. The US standardized its own paper according to what legacy equipment it had, and keeps those standards because even today, paper tends to not be shipped back and forth between Europe and the US unless it has to be, because paper and books are really fucking heavy, so why should either one of us change our standards? Doing so would require massive amounts of capital investment, and frankly, we like our paper sizes just fine. It's really not to our detriment at all. We don't really import a lot of paper, and in fact, we export a lot of it.
American paper sizes are also half of each previous size, it's just that our base is a rectangle, not a square, uses imperial measurements, and reaches back to measurements based on manual paper-making. Sure, we could spend billions of dollars changing our standards to meet that of countries that don't supply us with this good, creating a massive amount of industrial and consumer waste as everything from paper manufacturing mills and industrial printing presses to plastic binders and hole punches at schools all become garbage, but... why? We also use different standard sizes of snack food bags, based on how our industries developed, but there's no actual reason for those things to be standardized, so why, exactly, should they be? Because it bothers someone who doesn't use our machines and didn't know until today that it was different? That's not a real reason. That's just "haha the US sucks and is dumb and irrational."
No, it's actually super fucking rational when you remember that most European countries are smaller than US states, and we're standardized across the places where paper actually moves back and forth in massive bulk on a regular basis. You know: our own states, and Canada, and not Europe, on account of this being a huge fucking continent and paper being incredibly heavy and expensive to transport across oceans. That's why it's governed by the American National Standards Institute, which also governs or governed stuff like thread standards for nuts and bolts & exposure standards for film. The latter had the ANSI standard become the ISO standard, which is a great example of technology which was developed more recently and more specialized and thus not so deeply rooted and hard to change being much more possible to standardize.
tl;dr: all industrial standards like paper sizes have valid and long-argued reasons why they're like that, and unless you're coughing up the solution for changing something with hundreds of years of built-up infrastructure without breaking all of the industries that depend on that standard, the cash to do it, and the reason why all the old equipment that can't be converted should become garbage... fuck off, man, and leave us alone. There are real problems in the world, go solve those.
*While many Mesoamerican countries have officially adopted ISO standards, ANSI standard paper is most commonly in use day to day.
#you could use the same reasons to justify the us still using standard instead of metric #which is stupid and counterproductive as hell #I don't think anyone seriously believes the us just does things their own special way for it's own sake
#however they do double down on doing it their way even when there are other (arguably better) ways
#out of weird american exceptionalism #so I think that people getting frustrated and saying that America just insists on doing things in dumb ways #is a shorthand for all of that
THOSE ARE THE SAME! FUCKING!! REASONS!!! WE DON'T (FULLY, MANDATORILY) USE METRIC
Holy fucking shit. People could literally spend 30 seconds looking this up instead of repeating "bluh bluh bluh America dumb"
The U.S. does not use the metric system due to high conversion costs, inertia, resistance, and historical reluctance.
The US has actually used a hybrid of metric and Imperial for decades, with changeover occurring where it's both necessary and economically viable, and has not fully switched over because of the prohibitive cost and ingrained habits. Literally trillions of dollars worth of equipment, road signs, documentation, like... I genuinely think y'all don't have any concept of how fucking big this country is, or how much this shit costs to change.
Let's take one single easy thing. Ready? Speed limit signs. How much would it cost just to change the speed limit signs, very very approximately?
Okay. So. To keep ourselves from going fully insane, let's limit this question only to interstates. This is the network of federally-managed roads which, you know, goes from state to state. There are 48,890 miles (sorry! 78,680 km, but I'm still mostly calculating in miles, because it's easier to find numbers this way) of interstate roadway in the US.
There are between 1 and 4 speed limit signs per mile, depending on traffic density. For simplicity, let's say 2 per mile.
It costs about $400 per sign to replace a speed limit sign. This is just speed limit signs. We'll get to other signs in a minute.
So that's $39.11 million dollars just for the speed limit signs. But hold on! You can't even get to replacing exit signs until you replace mile marker signs! Those are approximately every 1/10th to 2/10 of a mile, again on average, bc you don't want someone to have to walk very far to look for a mile marker if they've been in an accident. Let's go with every 2/10 of a mile. It costs $200 to remove a sign and $550 to place a new one, bc you have to get surveyors out to measure them and place them properly.
So let's see, that's 244,450 signs removed... $48.89 million... and then let's say we're placing kilometer markers every half kilometer just to make it nice and even, okay? 157,360 new half-kilometer markers at $550 each. $86.5 million.
So we're already spending about $174.5 million dollars, about $15 million more â on just replacing those two kinds of road signs just on interstates, which are a tiny fraction of the actual number of miles of state or federally-managed roads â than it costs the Federal Housing Authority to oversee the processing of every mortgage in the US for a year, just to pull a random line item out of the 2026 budget. We haven't touched any of the other signs on those or any other roads, let alone literally anything else.
And for what, exactly? Why? Because it fucking bugs people who don't live here? What is the purpose of spending a bunch of fucking money to change our shit up and just confuse people who think in miles?
We use metric when it both makes sense and is financially feasible to switch. My medication is measured in metric. A lot of precise machinery is measured in metric, especially new things that were created or invented in the last few decades or are used in scientific fields. Grandma's recipes and the roads and our paper are done the way that works for us in our big weird country that is actually 50 smaller and extremely proud little countries wrestling for elbow room in a giant lumpy trenchcoat, and it's not hurting you, so you don't have to be a dick about it.
I would recommend people listen to the 99% Invisible episode about screw threads in order to understand why standardizing something a vast industry already uses is really fucking hard.
Also: from a Canadian, fuck you all very much. Stop pissing on the USA because when you do that you also piss on Canada AND Mexico.
 What?? But I thought Canada and Mexico uses metric????  we trade so much fucking industrial stuff with the USA that we have to use a mix, okay?!
Stuff like road signs, which is under our jurisdiction, we use metric. Stuff like construction material, which we trade back and forth, we use imperial units. And literally not a fucking one of us find that a problem. Things do not explode and houses do not crumble on a daily basis because we have to do a bit of unit conversion, and retrofitting US factories to new standards would mean fucking up the industrial setup of literally everybody else who trades with them
Lelesu and Hyth on a beach vacation, from @commander-sarahs-art! i saw this ych go up and immediately was reminded of the vibes of early dawntrail, so i had to get this. Lelesu looks so good in their style!
(if you are weird about lalafells on this post you will be blocked.)
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Male Bounty Hunter | Champion of the Great Hunt & Female Sith Inquisitor | Force Walker (Star Wars), Male Bounty Hunter/Female Sith Inquisitor
Characters: Male Bounty Hunter | Champion of the Great Hunt (Star Wars), Female Sith Inquisitor | Force Walker (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Mentioned Male Bounty Hunter & Female Imperial Agent, Pre-Canon, Pre-Relationship, Not Edited, Slavery, Chiss Bounty Hunter, Twi'lek Sith Inquisitor | Force Walker (Star Wars)
Series: Part 1 of and for every king that died, oh, they would crown another
Summary:
Thevir'en'emorat - known as Rene to the Empire - smuggles a switchblade to Asa'vani, a twi'lek slave owned by the man who processes his contracts.
Imagine being such a bitch that your own invented sport becomes your antithesis, cuts ties with you, and changes their name just like all trans people with transphobic parents
