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10.3.2025 03:46Comment on A bunch of fun links about literature, art, and comics by Oblomov… liked this!
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10.3.2025 02:35Comment on A bunch of fun links about literature, art, and comics by Erin Ptah“Can you guess if the word is an antidepressants drug or a Tolkien character?” (A couple of them are gimmes, but some are genuinely tough!) Working out which Houses correspond to which planets in the Locked Tomb series. Visual references that absolutely helped me track the action while reading the first two books: Necromancers and […]
10.3.2025 02:08A bunch of fun links about literature, art, and comicsPreviously: In search of the origin of the “dónde está la biblioteca” meme, I got my hands on a copy of Barron’s Spanish On The Go, 3rd edition (2004). I have now tracked down a copy of the 1st edition, from 1992! All of the “dónde…?” questions (five of them, across three sample dialogues) are […]
7.3.2025 01:55Dónde está la biblioteca, part 3: Not here, apparentlyThe Good Place | Michael, ensemble | G | The Contractualism of Fair Play and Hot Wings Michael’s got the perfect torture idea during a chili-pepper-based-restaurant-themed reboot: a hot wings eating competition! The humans would actually, willingly, compete to see who can burn themselves more! And competition always brings out the worst in humans, right? […]
5.3.2025 23:27Fic recs, 3/5 (The Good Place, Welcome To Our Village, Murderbot, Batman, Moon Knight)Fun transcript of ChatGPT saying “whoops, no, I was mistaken” and then giving a different wrong answer, half a dozen times in a row. That link is hosted on the company servers, so in case they go down, here’s a copy for posterity: You said: We can find a better place in this twilight. ChatGPT […]
5.3.2025 20:28“What do you think it is a quote from?”In search of the origin of the “dónde está la biblioteca” meme, I got my hands on a copy of Barron’s Spanish On The Go, 3rd edition (2004, the previous editions are 2001 and 1992). There are a couple of “dónde…?” questions, as transcribed in the booklet, but none of them deal with las bibliotecas: […]
27.2.2025 20:41Dónde está la biblioteca, part 2Oz | Dorothy/Ozma | G | once upon a december -she weeps, because she remembers. trope:genderplay,trope:amnesia,series:wizard of oz,pairing:dorothy_ozma,fic:one-shot,yuri Oz | Dorothy/Ozma | G | Emerald Silk, Silver Shoes, Ruby Kiss I’m no one, y’see. Not really anyone worth a lick of anythin’. It was luck more than anything, me surviving that first trip with my […]
27.2.2025 00:00Multifandom recs, 2/26 (Oz, Temeraire, WandaVision/AAA, Moon Knight)I liked it! Nice brisk pace. Kept the twists coming fast enough to be engaging, without going so fast you lose track of the plot. Torres really came into his own, his enthusiasm was adorable. The fight scenes were fun, and I appreciate that they were about Sam going “dammit, we need to DE-escalate this” […]
26.2.2025 04:45mini reaction to Captain America: Brave New WorldVia Gary Wong on Mastodon: “I have performed extensive research to classify every byte, and I can now share this summary of the purposes of all the year’s traffic.“ Links from 2024: January: “Impressively, these posts span from three years before the account was created to a year after the account was last logged into. […]
24.2.2025 02:14Clearing the tech/LLM news links out of my phone browser tabs…The Murderbot Diaries, Leverage | Murderbot, Leverage team, PresAux, ensemble | T | We Provide… SecurityThe corporates take what they want. We steal it back for you. In which murderbots are humans, humans are murderbots, two teams of idiotically altruistic humans(/constructs) get in way over their heads, and nobody’s neck actually gets broken. (This time.) […]
19.2.2025 20:35Multifandom recs (Murderbot + crossovers, Temeraire, Moon Knight, Jeeves & Wooster)… liked this!
19.2.2025 03:28Comment on Erin Watches: another batch of medical shows by A/V RevolutionLeif & Thorn Deluxe Wing Care (sketch | Rowan/Archie | worksafe) 2024 in Leif and Thorn (art meme | ensemble | worksafe) Magical Handholding (sketch | Leif/Thorn | worksafe) Share your light (art | Leif/Thorn | worksafe) Bracelet bath (sketch | Kale | worksafe) Hy Fashion – Redux (art | Hyacinth | worksafe) Moon Knight […]
19.2.2025 01:54Works roundup, 2/18 (Moon Knight + other Marvel, webcomics)In reply to <a href="https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/cant-stop-thinking-about-how-to-fix-wish-send-help/#comment-9273">Gabriella</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I like this! Goes in a totally different direction from my fixes, but it also works, fits together in a much more coherent way than the canon version did. Asha wondering "...why doesn't he ever play music?" would've been such a good, chilling bit of foreshadowing.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(That "he's so tired now" line stuck out to me too, I thought for sure it was laying the groundwork to reveal the Secret Evil that Magnifico was doing with the wishes! And then, nope, didn't come to anything at all.)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
19.2.2025 01:02Comment on can’t stop thinking about how to fix Wish, send help by Erin Ptah<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Very interesting! Much better than the movie, I agree! Me, personally, my preferred fix leans heavily into that one line that’s like “oh yeah, he’s been so boring ever since he turned 18”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><br>So, as it turns out, taking your greatest wish removes an essential piece of you - after all, without a goal to strive for, without your deepest dream, what direction do you really have?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Adults are boring, in Asha’s world. Content with their dull lives, not very interesting to talk to. Other kids and teenagers are much more fun. But well, that’s just growing up, isn’t it? Settling down. Sure, adults who’ve had their wish granted are a good deal more fascinating, but they’re probably just riding the high of having their deepest desire come true. Everything is fine. The island is content and at peace.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>She meets the people who are moving in that she’s showing around and they’re a good deal more lively than adults usually are. Huh. Weird. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(Asha’s honestly not much looking forward to growing up, settling down and being boring, so she’s trying to make the most of her teenage years.)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We meet her friend, he’s about to have his 18th birthday, she’s excited for him, they spend the day together</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(Maybe we have her apply for the apprenticeship at this point, she sees the wishes, they’re gorgeous, she sees her grandpa’s wish, wow, he wants to be a musician? I never would have guessed! …….why doesn’t he play music?)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(Re: Magnífico, you could go a bunch of different ways - maybe he’s actively evil and deliberately rips out that part of their soul with full knowledge of what he’s doing, maybe he thinks safety and contentness is the highest priority, and it’s worth exchanging freedom for that, maybe he’s wrapped up in the day to day of running the kingdom and doesn’t spend enough time with the average person (especially the same person before/after 18) to really realize the consequences)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Her friend’s 18th birthday happens, she throws him a party, attends his wish ceremony</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But. He’s out of it afterwards. Like, really out of it. He’s listless, doesn’t want to do or care about much of anything (he was even more driven by his deepest desire than the average person is)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>She’s concerned, really concerned. Tries to get him to take interest in *anything* to no avail. Panics about it to her family, they don’t seem concerned or see a problem with it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>She doesn’t want to grow up. She was always pretty meh about it, but now she definitely doesn’t want to grow up, not at all, not if this is what being an adult means.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And in fact, she’s starting to realize that something very not right is going on in general</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Maybe she *tries to* talk to Magnifico and gets dismissed/doesn’t get in to be seen</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Maybe we have star boy at this point, maybe he comes in later, but either way, what Asha eventually decides to do is steal her friend’s wish back in the hopes that it’ll fix him</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I don’t have it too plotted out from here but I think it’s a pretty solid start!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
18.2.2025 22:23Comment on can’t stop thinking about how to fix Wish, send help by GabriellaMy “watched” list in this genre has been piling up. Have a themed batch of reactions to everything I’ve checked out since…the last time I did this, probably. ER: Had to full-on quit watching this one. There was a character I just got madder and madder at…which would be one thing if he was supposed […]
18.2.2025 03:42Erin Watches: another batch of medical shows… liked this!
10.2.2025 16:45Comment on can’t stop thinking about how to fix Wish, send help by A/V RevolutionYoutube sent me down a streak of watching critiques/breakdowns of the Disney movie Wish, and when I came up for air I had a whole thesis for How To Fix This Movie that I haven’t seen anyone else talk about. The thing is, Wish is trying to have two different morals about…well, a lot of […]
9.2.2025 05:59can’t stop thinking about how to fix Wish, send help… liked this!
29.1.2025 18:53Comment on Erin Watches: non-Marathon movie roundup by Kerri… liked this!
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29.1.2025 14:18Comment on Erin Watches: non-Marathon movie roundup by A/V RevolutionI’ve seen a range of movies recently-ish that were not part of the Sci-Fi Marathon. Gonna knock out a whole bunch of mini-reviews in one post. Conclave Political thriller about the election of a new Pope, based on a book published in 2016 when that was reasonably topical. (Pope Francis was elected in 2013.) The […]
29.1.2025 05:19Erin Watches: non-Marathon movie roundup… liked this!
24.1.2025 15:35Comment on CWRU Sci-Fi Marathon liveblog 2025 by A/V RevolutionFinally finished reading this book! (Previously mentioned in the “talking to headmates in the mirror” post.) I…can’t exactly recommend it? I was really hoping to. As a detailed historical snapshot of “how the mental-health profession thought of dissociation in 1905”, it’s fascinating. I’m still not over the reveal of “one headmate claims they were plural […]
21.1.2025 21:22Final thoughts on The Dissociation Of A Personality (1905) (plus a bunch of other cases from the era)Spent this past weekend at the 50th CWRU Sci-Fi Marathon, sharing a dark auditorium with a bunch of fellow nerds, liveblogging about bad sci-fi and resolutely ignoring everything happening in the rest of the world. Seemed like a good time for it. One bonus feature I didn’t manage to blog live: Space montage with a […]
21.1.2025 06:42CWRU Sci-Fi Marathon liveblog 2025Leif & Thorn Like older self, like younger self (sketch | Thorn | worksafe) Order of the Chalice Backup Team (art | knights | worksafe) Flower Hammock (wallpaper | Leif/Thorn | worksafe) Moon Knight You Have To Kill Moon Knight (fic | Marc, Steven, Jake | T) Moon Knight WIP dump 2024 (sketches | Jake, […]
20.1.2025 19:55Monday works roundup, 1/20 (Leif & Thorn, Marvel + Moon Knight)… liked this!
17.1.2025 07:10Comment on The rabbit hole of “dónde está la biblioteca” by Oblomov… reposted this!
17.1.2025 07:10Comment on The rabbit hole of “dónde está la biblioteca” by OblomovWrote a fic chapter a while back that used “dónde está la biblioteca” as the classic example of “a simple phrase that a character with limited Spanish-fluency can handle.” A commenter asked if it was a reference to Deadpool…and, no, it’s much older than that. Decades older. It was a meme before internet memes were […]
17.1.2025 02:59The rabbit hole of “dónde está la biblioteca”August: “Cybercheck’s automated system, ostensibly without any human in the loop, searched publicly available data and issued a report that placed Mendoza’s phone at the location of the shooting with 93.13% accuracy. The only problem? The report, a copy of which was attached to a court filing, claims Mendoza’s phone was at the crime scene […]
12.1.2025 04:56End-of-year link cleanout: Generative AI: “Please die. Please.”My tally of “accounts by IRL plural systems who mention using mirrors to see different system members” is up to 2! Still not a lot, but I figured I would post about them together somewhere. One is a memoir from 1995, the other is a biography from 1906. So you know for a fact that […]
9.1.2025 07:18Two sources about IRL “talking to headmates in the mirror”Skidding into 2025 with an aggressive effort to clear out my saved links, one broad theme at a time. (Did the same thing about a year ago, let’s see if I can keep this up as an annual tradition.) Pre-2024: “On October 6, 2022, President Biden issued a presidential proclamation that pardoned many federal and D.C. […]
8.1.2025 05:51End-of-year link cleanout: Politics oh no… liked this!
29.12.2024 02:34Comment on A deeper dive into the “Studies show that 1% of people have DID” claim by rai… reposted this!
26.12.2024 07:45Comment on Hopefully the last AI fic-theft scandal of 2024 by Oblomov… liked this!
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26.11.2024 10:25Comment on Cat food rec request by Cats on the Fediverse<p><a href="https://erinptah.wordpress.com/@erinptah.wordpress.com" rel="ugc">@erinptah.wordpress.com</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@ErinPtah" rel="nofollow ugc">@ErinPtah</a> Wanted to let you know I've been reading and loving your Moon Knight fic since January. Haven't watched the show or much else from the MCU, get most of my knowledge through fic and osmosis. Still have no trouble following everything. I've been a fan since the HDM/Night Vale days, love your writing and how you portray these characters with such empathy and warmth.</p>
23.11.2024 20:14Comment on three things make a post: AO3 terms + Deadpool + website hosting by Kerri… liked this!
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