my latest post should be a link to the tumblr I’ve been using lately and it’s not for some reason?
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Also my pen name has a tumblr too, @meredithmalvabooks but it is super new and I have yet to decide what to do with it

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we're not kids anymore.
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my latest post should be a link to the tumblr I’ve been using lately and it’s not for some reason?
Find me at @lookingstunning
Also my pen name has a tumblr too, @meredithmalvabooks but it is super new and I have yet to decide what to do with it

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It’s 2025. BBC Sherlock ended 8 years ago. The last season was so bad the fans didn’t even want to talk about it when it came out. Occasionally a post resurfaces where we all laugh at struggling to plug our phones in and being called alcoholics. Every time, there are more and more people in the comments who don’t get the joke. There are two currently airing Sherlock Holmes audio dramas that feature both a canon romantic relationship between Holmes and Watson and multiple other queer characters (some of whom are even female). There’s an adorable crowdfunded short film where Watson plans Holmes’ birthday party and they flirt with each other, share a bed, and kiss on the mouth. A video game about retired beekeeper Holmes just released where he arranges a romantic picnic so he can finally tell Watson how he feels. A popular graphic novelist just released the first part of a queer comic book retelling of the complete Holmes canon and had to do several rounds of preorders because she kept selling out too fast. Sherlock is garbage and here’s why has 15 million views on YouTube. Nature is healing. ❤️🐝
Hooray! Yippee! Though if someone wouldn't mind dropping the name of said videogame... 👀
It's The Beekeeper's Picnic!
Also a shout out to Hearth and Holmes which is another cosy Holmes game in development!
experimental LUNACY pages/panels 1-26 from 2022
LUNACY is a story i've been trying to manifest since i was 14
i've been thinking about picking it back up right where it left off : ) the perfectionist in me wants to start the whole thing over but then i'd never get it done
Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rant
Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there 🌸
You can find the Prompts podcast here, I drew some of the covers :D Also check out this digital library full of Creative Commons Solarpunk art (neither of these are sponsored).
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The more I read into reports about industrial and transportation accidents the less I feel like “operator error” actually exists
Ok so “doesn’t exist” may be a slight overstatement. A better way of phrasing it might be “operator error is often used as a way of warding off close examination of how systems fail.”
You read about airlines accidents attributed to pilot error, and almost universally you find overworked, overtired people who have to deal with inadequate training, and poorly maintained equipment. Often investigations uncover a pattern of management ignoring problems that pilots regularly have to deal with. Out-of-date terrain data, false sensor readings, confusing systems presentation, fatigue.
The cargo airline industry fights to keep its pilots exempt from crew rest requirements and a fatigued crew crashes a mile short of the runway. Only the two crew on board die, so really it’s no big deal, right?
Amtrak builds a new bypass to cut 10 minutes off the travel time from Portland to Seattle but doesn’t give the engineers enough training to prepare them for it, nor installs adequate signage to warn of a 30mph curve, so on the inaugural run the engineer hits the curve at 80 mph.
Construction on a nuclear power plant runs into trouble and so to make a key pressure-bearing component fit, they install an S-bend around a pipe, which causes falsely water level readings. Operators open a valve to reduce what they think is excessively high pressure in the reactor and it melts down.
And all of these get simplified, either initially, or in perpetuity, as operator error. Because operators are cheap and easy to replace. Firing someone and laying the blame on them is cheaper than reassessing and restructuring a management culture built on passing the buck.
This is an extremely valuable addition thank you selky ❤️
related pet peeve as someone who used to work on industrial machinery: blaming the technique of the person that fabricated it, specifically (nine times out of ten) blaming the welder. Plane crashes, structural failures, car accidents, pressure vessel explosions, nuclear incidents, and even the loss of entire ships and submarines have all been blamed on "bad welds" (i.e. poor welding technique, or welds not conforming to the print) when that's simply a bad way to look at it; it's finding one worker to blame and then not doing anything to fix the problem. In critical applications, there should simply never be a situation where a bad weld causes a catastrophic failure, for three reasons:
QC should have caught it.
if QC didn't/couldn't catch it, it should have been engineered redundantly so that one bad weld wouldn't cause total collapse, and it should have been subjected to regular inspections.
if there is no way to get around a single cracked weld as a failure mode, it should have been designed with the knowledge that eventual failure is effectively inevitable as stress fractures and corrosion weaken the joint over time, i.e., fail-safes should have been in place.
so if that's the case, if there are supposed to be reduncancies, why do welders keep taking the blame?
a) Welds are most often made by human welders, especially in critical applications like nuclear reactors, aerospace parts, pipelines, bridges and buildings, and repair/retrofitting of existing parts (e.g. automotive repair, though mostly not auto fab anymore) where the use of robots is unfeasible. this means that all the above issues re: "operator error" apply. There's a human being you can pass the buck to and say "he did it."
b) Welds (or, more often, the surrounding HAZ) are almost invariably the point of failure when a welded part is subjected to extreme stress. If you find your big important contraption (plane, boat, bridge, nuclear reactor, whatever) in pieces and it's cracked along the welds, the welder is going to logically be the person you blame. Not the engineer (or lack thereof), not the QC department (or lack thereof), not the boss that didn't provide adequate time, materials, or conditions to make a cleaner joint, not the fitter who left a huge gap in the fitup nor the project manager who didn't budget for redoing mis-cut parts, not the malfunctioning machine with dodgy voltage controls that the shop refuses to replace because "it still works," not the foreman who was rushing the workers to reduce the amount of billable time spent on each task so that his team metrics would look better - when you see a part fail, it's easiest to blame the person who physically made it, so that's who gets blamed.
Looking for someone to blame is never a good way to deal with the results of a whole system going wrong, because you will definitely just be pointing fingers at the last guy to touch it.
wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating
#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it
no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)
you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results
there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around
I'M FREE
you can also bookmark wikipedia and just go directly to wikipedia to search for stuff
you don't HAVE to use search engines when they're not what you're looking for
please reblog this until i find my true love. i am so alone
Made it poly friendly
oh hell yeah even better
Made one for aromantic trans people 👍
Reblogging for poly people, mono people, and people who need their keys
*cupping my hands around my mouth megaphone style* I LOVE YOU GUYS !!!! HOPE YOURE HAVING A GOOD ONE OUT THERE!!!!!!
Not to be a technical writer on main, but I've been bumping into the idea lately that the only reason explaining yourself in more detail never seems to work is because neurotypical people are misunderstanding you on purpose, or because they have short attention spans, or because they just hate listening to you talk – and sure, occasionally that's even true, but most of the time the problem you're running into is more fundamental.
Every time you add more detail, you're running the risk of tripping over a bad assumption on your part about the listener's prior knowledge, or hitting the tipping point where they become overwhelmed with new information (and remember that you don't know which parts of what you're saying will be new information for them), or making a leap of logic that isn't as self-evident as you think it is, or any of a dozen other potential snags which, by definition, you will not see coming until it's too late to correct course.
Basically, every piece of information you add multiplies the odds of you getting blindsided by some vector of misunderstanding you didn't anticipate, even as it addresses the ones you did anticipate. The point of diminishing returns where continuing to elaborate increases the odds of unexpected miscommunication more than it decreases the odds of expected miscommunication is much nearer than you'd like.
The most effective act of communication is not the one which contains the most possible information, but the one which contains the smallest amount of information it possibly can while still getting its point across. It sucks, but it's the reality of the situation. People far more autistic than you have been trying for hundreds of years to invent a way of communicating which doesn't work this way, without success.
All of which is to say that "getting to the damn point" is legitimately a communication skill, not just an accommodation for people who aren't paying attention. If it's any consolation, it's something neurotypical people struggle with just as much as anyone else – if it was easy, technical writers wouldn't have jobs!
@pomrania replied:
...so you're saying that the 200-word RPG thing counts as "developing important life skills"? (For people who aren't intending to make a living writing RPGs, that is.)
I mean, yes. To the extent that exercises like the 200-word RPG challenge have any productive purpose at all, it's to encourage folks to shift focus and work on their skills as an editor and technical writer – and those skills are transferable!
A couple of folks in the notes have asked "what about two-way conversations rather than explanations?" and let me tell you: there's a whole family of overexplaining-related pitfalls that basically boil down to failing to recognise that conversation is a two-way dialogue.
To pose an example, one common type of overexplaining is trying to anticipate what your listener might need clarification about, and to pre-emptively provide that clarification.
How can this go wrong?
Well, for starters, you might guess wrong about where clarification is needed, and now you're talking down to them for no reason. (This can, and often does, tie into bad assumptions on your part about the listener's prior knowledge; see above.)
Worse, you might correctly identify where clarification is needed, but guess wrong about the specific type of clarification your listener needs, which can go wrong in one of two ways. Either they allow that opportunity for dialogue to be closed off, and muddle on without the needed clarification; or they bite the bullet and ask anyway, and now you think they clearly weren't paying attention to what you're saying, because God, you already explained that, and you're too much in your own head to notice that the type of clarification you pre-emptively provided is not the type of clarification they actually need.
And of course, you may not react this way at all, but they may anticipate that you'll think they're not paying attention if they push back, and refrain from asking because they don't want to risk your disapproval.
Paradoxically, in an active dialogue, under-explaining often produces greater clarity than over-explaining, since it leaves the the floor open for the listener to guide you to where they need more information.
(And of course there are dipsticks in the notes reading this whole thing and going "and that's why talking to neurotypicals sucks" like, no, buddy – it's everyone. You think autistic people never feel like they're being treated like an idiot and get pissy about it when you underestimate their prior knowledge? You think people with ADHD never get overwhelmed and shut down when asked to take in too much new information too quickly? Be serious.)

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El Dragón ❤️💛💚
so true
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This has probably been done but
my secret to art happiness is it's not about how many notes what you draw is likely to get. t's about how many times you're going to go back to it, to your own art, and think "this FUCKS actually and caters to me entirely, specifically, fully. i love this artist (me) (me who i drew this) (myself)"
j'adore le franglish content le code switching c'est tellement fun je sautille from a language to another like a gazelle et toi aussi tant que tu voudras :)
OUAIS baby we are so fucking back. franglais est parfait parce que americans get mad AND it sends evil psychic vibes à l’académie française. The phrase “qu’est-ce qu’y’all doing aujourd’hui” came out of my mouth this evening and i think that might be the pinnacle of human language. i love being annoying
“qu’est-ce qu’y’all doing aujourd’hui” is gonna stay with me for a minute.

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PodJam Snippets
The countdown for the PodJam marathon is running! Until then... we present exclusive sneak peaks into the works of Jam Projects (script and audio snippets, soundtracks, bloopers, etc.)
Today, we have music for you that was created specifically for the PodJam by participants! Background music and a written musical piece. Enjoy!
Left Alone Once More
The School of Many
A Merry Dance at Whistlestop Junction
I really like this russian edition of classic books. Letting famous artists do the covers in YA style was such a simple but clever decision. According to the recent study the number of teenage readers increased, possibly thanks to these covers. I own traditional classics with blank covers but if I ever see one of these in the wild, it’ll probably make me go feral.
Here are some of my favs:
Dracula (art by Renibet)
2.Jane Eyre (art by Ulunii)
3. Little women (art by чаки чаки)
4. The Idiot (the hedgehog-omg-) (art by Xinshi)
5. Pride and Prejudice (art by Cactusute)
6. War and Peace (art by Xinshi)
7. Wuthering Heights (art by Renibet)
8. The Great Gatsby (art by NIKEL)
9. Frankenstein (art by Iren Horrors)
10. Crime and Punishment (art by REDwood)
11. Anna Karenina (art by Ulunii)
12. The Cherry Orchard (art by lewisite)
13. The Master and Margarita (art by Renibet)