Lower your expectations

You know, I've always been impressed by how many people on Tumblr will cite their assertions with links to sources, studies, etc.

Falling slowly [T, 22.6k, 6/7] by Ghastlydeservedbetter

Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Sebastian Grimm/Leovander Loveage, Sebastian Grimm, Leovander Loveage, Sybilla Laurent, POV Sebastian Grimm, Demisexual Sebastian Grimm, the creeping epiphany that you're into the most annoying person you know, Oblivious Leo, Sebastian Grimm is bad at feelings, Mutual Pining, How Do I Tag, Canon Compliant, No beta we die like Mathias

i read sorcery and small magics today and was immediately compelled to turn it into a tiktok trope graphic

this book is the platonic ideal of fanfic-coded tradpub (complimentary). leo and grimm have my favorite dynamic in the world: loudmouth asshole with good intentions who has internalized that the world thinks he's a failure x quiet talented rival realizing with dawning horror that the assholery is a defense mechanism and the fucker might be lovable after all (on account of he has fallen in love with him)

My live reaction :

The Bombe was the device used to decipher encrypted messages from the Enigma machine during World War II.

(The Bombe in The Imitation Game)

In S5E2, Robin even mentions the Enigma machine.

However, what she says is incorrect. The Enigma machine didn't win the war. In fact, it was used by the side that lost.

What did help win the war? The Bombe, which was created by Alan Turing.

And who builds a bombe?

Mike.

Who is also referred to as the key.

Alan Turing's Bombe helped decipher the Enigma machine's encrypted messages by determining its key settings (more about this here if you're interested). In other words, the key settings of the sender and the receiver had to match up in order for the messages to be deciphered.

This process reminds me of the encryption/decryption process used by computers.

Ciphertext is the unreadable/scrambled form of text, whereas plaintext is the readable form.

Which reminds me of this:

Where ciphertext cycles through possible characters, until the plaintext emerges, revealing the message. (video)

Followed by this:

Which I interpret as "When blue and yellow meet in the west, run program SilverCatFeeds," which potentially is a program that's altering people's memories.

Going back to the encryption/decryption diagram:

The "interceptor" refers to a third party who gains access to encrypted data.

There are multiple methods of interception. I found this one interesting:

So if the interceptor has access to the data, then they can alter it as well.

What's the solution to the interceptor problem?

To go dark. (@misspracticallydelulu)

The interceptor loses access to the data, and therefore, can no longer alter it.

And there are many ways "to go dark", but I think that may be for another post!