Karalora World

Have you ever known one of those people who never seem to have anything good to say about anyone or anything, and once you've gotten used to it, and try to bond with them by agreeing with them that everything sucks and we live in hell world, they get all wide-eyed like oh no surely not, and start defending the things that they just painted up as an irredeemably wretched and miserable failure and mistake that should not exist at all.

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

That's a good distinction.

Hot take: you do not have the right to go into someone’s comments and accuse them of using AI just because you think their writing “looks suspicious.” You do not have the right to run their work through some unreliable AI detection tool and treat the result as proof or absolute. There are few things more harmful than these witch hunts, and few things more insulting to genuine writers after they spend hours, days, weeks, or even months working on their fics. Yes, AI generated fanfiction exists. Yes, some of it may seem obvious. But unless the writer openly admits it, you will never actually know. I do not care how many “signs” you think you see. Pattern recognition is not evidence. Vibes are not evidence. AI detectors are not, and never will be, evidence. They are tools with serious known flaws, and using them to publicly accuse people is deeply irresponsible. You have every right to block someone. You have every right to stop reading a fic. You have every right to decide what you personally do or do not want to engage with. What you do not have is the right to publicly accuse someone of something you cannot prove. Witch hunting AI does not make you a good person. It does not make you a protector of your fandom. It does not make you morally superior. It just makes you someone who is willing to hurt real writers in your pursuit of feeling righteous. And honestly, these superiority complexes are what is ruining spaces like AO3. Not just the fear of AI, but the growing belief that suspicion is enough to justify cruelty. Real authors are being chased out, discouraged, and humiliated because people would rather accuse first and think later. There is nothing inspiring about that. There is nothing noble about it. This obsession with claiming the moral high ground, even at the cost of genuine writers, is exhausting. It disgusts me, we are already not entitled to the work fanfiction authors give out and now they must fear accusations if they do post.

happy pride month to those in the closet. to those who went back into the closet. to those who have unsupportive families, friends and relationships. those who were bullied and harassed because of their identity. those who were killed because of who they truly were and loved.

Happy pride month my peeps!! (Why the fuck are we half way thru the year already?)

Happy pride month to everyone but especially my fellow Ace pals 🖤🤍💜🥰

One of the most common ways you preserve pork without refrigeration is keeping it in really salty water. This makes the pork borderline inedible because it’s so salty. What you don’t see in medieval fantasy is people soaking their meat in water for a bit before they cook it.

Also medieval peasants had more meat than you’d think because of these preservation methods. You can feed a pig scraps for the whole year and then butcher it at the start of winter and preserve the meat. Because of this they also often had access to lard.

If we’re talking mutton, European sheep are more often kept for wool or milk while middle eastern or African sheep are more often kept for eating. Europeans would of course eat sheep sometimes but it’s another one of those cases where it makes more sense to keep the animal alive rather than eating it.

A cow or ewe must have a calf or lamb every year to produce milk. Half of those offspring will be male, and thus will not produce milk. Ergo they were eaten, because you only need one bull or ram for a much larger number of breeding females.