Doing Human Things™

recently bought celeste and i already finished the main story

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

It’s when something is RIGHT above your eyebrows. Safely out of peripheral vision, and you thought you ducked, but didn’t duck far enough, OR you just weren’t paying attention and didn’t get the visual memo because WRONG SIDE FOR GOOD PERIPHERAL, and you go THUNK.

And it is NOT THE FEEL GOODS

The absolute WORST is a short door on STAIRS.

It’s tall enough on the stairs.

But when you step on the DOOR stair - THUNK - ducking miscalculated.

Imagining Finn mentions bioluminescent kelp candy once. Coffee conversation, totally offhand: strips of sweet kelp that glow when you chew them, little sparks of light in your mouth. Novelty snack that deeper-dwelling merkids used to trade for. He brings it up the way you bring up anything from childhood that doesn't exist in your life anymore; it's just a fun fact, no big deal. Probably mentions it because she continues denying herself small joys and snacks, and glowing kelp candy was both.

But of course Sylvia tracks some down. Deep-sea courier service, complicated, possibly involving favors from Baptiste's shipping contacts or questionable sources through Salt & Pepper. She presents it casually, like it wasn't a whole to-do to acquire.

Finn recognizes it immediately, and the glow activates when he bites down and it lights up his teeth from the inside, which is objectively very cool-looking, but he's too busy being emotionally blindsided by her paying close attention to what he thought was idle chatter trying to convince HER to live a little.

And underneath the nostalgia there's the other thing he's still getting used to: someone just giving him something. No angle, no exchange rate, no favor owed. Just something for him.