aka Nyarlathotep - Somewhere East of the Sun. West of the Moon.
@terminusverge
Things I am doing: more than likely working on my book (about architecure) after my countless (mis)adventures around the world. But not every adventure is worth recording, I have found. Living a charmed but not charming life...still. I would like to remind you that the colour of hope is not always the sign of goodness. Collector of masks (thanks for that mom). Sometimes known as "The Time Being". Monster (affectionate) to my friends and I have no enemies, they are all dead. Cognitohazard. IRL Emet Selch. And finally, I personally prefer embodying three truths: one ineluctable, one debatable and one incomprehensible. P.S. I am not the Pope.
If this is the first time we are interacting, then "Hello! Nice to meet you." Otherwise, it is probably because I used to follow you on my old tumblr and am back. Speaking of back, no obligation to follow me back (not counting the accidental follow on mobile, which has gotten me at least one new friend though). I may follow and unfollow randomly due to forgetting why I followed someone or even who that person is/was. No offense meant, just sometimes memories slip through the cracks and wander off. Times have changed, you may have changed as well. Me? I am sitll the one with "many names and a singular nature", so there is that.
Of those names the one I recall using here the most was void-liminality (yes the same name I once had on the unfriendly bird site. I may have changed it from a different name. Will have to search my archives. More on that in the next paragraph.)
But wait, you may ask, "How did this person even remember or know who I am now after nearly a decade?!"
Well, you see...even though I ditched my tumblr (I had a stalker or two...one of which was my employer at the time and tumblr had much less robust features to shield from that) I kept every single notification I got just to remember what I had here. And have an extensive archive of my own blog to boot.
Every reblog. Every ask. Every follow notification. Why yes, yes I am a bit of a sentimental fool at times, why do you ask?
So hey there, nice to meet you all. Again.
The mortality of other people (and myself) is weighing on my mind lately.
Update the first - sometime in 2024 -
30+ years is a long time to know someone, to be certain, but...it was not, is not, and never will be long enough. Same with the person (my mom) I knew for 40+ years passed. And 50+ (my aunt recently) ...and so on.
Some of you I could know for 1000+ years and I would still want for one more day with you. And then another. And still more until the sun cools to a brown dwarf.
Amusingly (morbidly so sometimes), the way things are going, no one living now that knows me is ever going to get the chance to feel this way about me.
HOWEVER, when I finally perish, please name a shrub after me: something hardy, durable, prickly, and hard to eradicate.
Update the second - sometime in 2025 -
Since all the cool kids are doing it: my name is a reference to my (nuked/placeholder) twitter handle, which is a reference to an older handle (one of which I used on my old tumblr), which is a reference to my LiveJournal name (iykyk). All of which is a reference to the the fact that Death constantly has near me encounters since birth.
While I will not joke about suicide or anything of the sort, I will make occasional reference to the fact that by all accounts I should not be here. To the point that I have been and probably still am a subject in medical and psychology journals. At least two exes wanted to go the mad scientist route and study me "FOR SCIENCE!"...they only half joked about that being why they were dating me no less. That is not even counting the two people I was close to that went into the mortuary biz just to be the one to handle my body when I eventually died…only for both of them to pass long before me. Hey you two, I am still here…and you are not.
Anwyay, I might have more than a bit of experience with pulling one's self back from the point of no return and finding something worth living for...if you ever need someone to talk to. I will ask for a bit of patience on the reply as, against all odds, I am out here living life and enjoying it.
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Flower Study of a Violet, c. 1885–1915. House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918). Enamel, silver gilt, jade, diamond, rock crystal; overall: 9.9 x 3.7 cm (3 7/8 x 1 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection, 1966.442
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Star Trek Captains in order of how fast they kill Tuvix:
1. Archer (does not feel bad)
2. Burnham (feels a Little Bad)
3. Janeway (we personally witnessed the devastation in them big ol I Had to Kill Somebody eyes, but she recovers quickly due to personal love of Tuvok and Neelix)
4. Sisko (spends awhile confirming every single possible alternative, does Not Feel Bad except when Tuvix directly calls him murderer)
5. Kirk (tries to Kobayashi Maru it. Dealer’s choice on if this results in a Tuvix AND Neelix and Tuvok live, or if it becomes one of those things that he carries foreverrr)
6. Picard (this could be a two parter episode with how much he would need to soliloquize on identity and the rights of the individual and the authority limits of a captain. But yeah, he’s killing Tuvix).
This doesn’t even touch on how the non-Janeway captains would react if their Tuvix was ALSO made up of one half Their Best Friend and Moral Compass.
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Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
Colonizers think “land back” is gonna look like mass-slaughter and expulsion bc thats what they did to us, sorta like how a cheater is always the most paranoid/insecure about their partner being potentially unfaithful. It’s pure projection.
There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.
The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.
"The fear of Americans of color is almost wholly manufactured by the imaginations of white America. The average white American has always been more likely to be physically harmed by another white person than by a person of color. The average white American has always been more likely to lose their job to another white person than to a person of color. The average white American is more likely to lose a spot at their dream college to a white person than to a person of color. The messaging that claims the opposite has not been created by people like me.
In the internet age, this resentment is more easily manufactured and distributed through social media and disreputable news sources. A story of Black crime that may have riled up one white neighborhood can now be used as a warning against integration and diversity across the country. While these sensationalized news stories keep many white people in fear, they also reinforce an aggrieved identity that gives a sense of community and belonging.
White supremacy is just good business. Manufactured fear is a cheaper and more reliable driver of clicks and media market share than nuanced and deeply reported news stories. Many of us shake our heads at his quickly hate and misinformation are spread in this new digital world, but none of it is new. White American identity was build on its opposition to people of color, especially Black people...
...the fictionalized story of Black brutality has for centuries provided many white Americans with terror, rage, entertainment, community, and profit. Even though stoking white Americans' fear of Black Americans caused them anxiety, they wanted more. Even though this myth distracted white Americans from addressing issues that were actually harming them, they wanted more."
Chapter 4- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo
*Whenever I say a lot of people enjoy/are entertained by antiblackness, unconsciously or not, there's a defensiveness. But it's true. That attachment to that piece of media or that infamous creator? You enjoyed that media, didn't you? At the expense of... What?
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"Filtering isn't enough! Please tags your stuff right!" For the love of god, I agree with you, but let me hold your hand when I say this
IF A PERSON ISN'T TAGGING STUFF PROPERLY TO YOUR LIKING, BLOCK THEM.
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BLOCK THEM BUT ASKED AND THEY STILL DON'T? BLOCK THEM
You are much more responsible for yourself, than others are for you. You cannot expect every single person in this world to hold your hand and do everything to your liking. Seriously, it will be a waste of your time and energy to pick a endless battle of trying to get everyone to tag stuff properly...or in some cases, over-tag things because we have to have every little detail tagged by how some of you act.
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