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Murderbot conducting weirdly specific data analysis on a random detail in its media storage... It's just like us for real!!
#cant believe this is the first SC spoiler post i make#but like.#honesty#the query on the correlation of round hatch shape and uh. terrifying things??#really feels like it could have come from this fandom and i love it so much#also the 'you wasted processing space on that'#art-drone confirmed as a hater who hates research when it comes to literary studies :(#anyways. i'm only at the beginning of chapter 5 and i love this book so so so much#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#system collapse#system collapse spoilers#𓄿
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A poll for series with more than one installment, a late addition LI is one that was not an LI at first, but eventually became an official LI. Maybe they were there from the first book and not romanceable then, but also maybe they weren't around but joined the club in a later installment. Point is you can romance them now but you have to go through at least one book before you can get with ur love 😔
#playchoices#I had completely forgotten that Maxwell wasn't romanceable until b2 and I had to confirm that on the wiki so that's fun#also I thought Alana became an LI in late b1 but the wiki says b2 so I'm trusting that#unconquered queries
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"i mess up things and then i don't have the energy to fix them up" yes brain true sentence but no brain the appropriate response is NOT "therefore i should kill myself (and here's how)"
#tw suicide#i wish i was joking#i am just so so tired of keeping myself alive! can't someone else do it for a change? or better yet kill me??#said something to the emergency room psych#she queried it and i confirmed i had said precisely what i intended#she blinked and said 'i usually hear that from jaded forty year olds not twenty year olds'#i won't share what because it was a highly specific explanation of precisely how i might see myself suiciding or how/whether i thought i#could. she asked me and i answered. apparently she wasn't expecting that level of detail and confidence#is it funny to anyone else that i always struggle with confidence but i can confidently tell her specifics about suicide thoughts?#this is reminding me of the fifteen year old yesterday i was conversing with and he randomly started listing all the suicide methods he#could think of and i was internally like you missed a dozen i can think of. didn't say that obvs#i don't know i am. tired. of everything. and i had a long and good conversation with an older woman from church last night (mother of the#boy. i have confided in her before she's great)#she's hte only person irl who now knows about the second suicide attempt (tho she doesn't know it was the second) and she was encouraging m#to see the psych and escalate care#but all day ive been regretting telling the psych or bro or anyone honestly#it would be so much EASIER to have said nothing and gone through with my plan#i wouldn't trust myself not to rn if i had access#i mean. i know multiple ways in this room i could kill myself. but i won't#there's a couple of specific methods that are most of the thoughts usually so they're the specific ones i gotta watch out for more if that#makes sense#ooh gosh im rambling i should shut up xD#personal#puddleglum hours
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I had a dream yesterday night that I got two full requests and was really happy, woke up today and thought nothing of it then came back from school, checked my email, and guess what I saw- a full request!
I was honestly really bummed out about starting another round of queries at the end of August because in the previous round I got 3 fulls that ultimately ended in rejections. Even now I'm scared to post this because what if this full ends up as a rejection too?
But tbh any progress is still progress, and I'm trying my best to look at this whole thing positively. How is everyone else's writing/publishing coming along?
#haya: talks#haya: talks the traitor's throne#querying is a very inconsistent process you really can't predict what comes next#i've gotten a full request within 20 minutes of sending in a query and i've also gotten full requests 4 months later#i've had people say they love my book but can't offer rep because it's not fit for their current list while others think it's the right fit#it really all just depends on the agent's current mindset and work goals#and as annoying as that can be you can't hold it against them#but honestly i can't deny it feels good getting this request kind of like a confirmation that I'm going down the right track#querying agents#literary agent#querying process#traditional publishing
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So, it's not about Stellarlune, but I was rereading Nightfall and I got to that part where Tam says that Quan once locked him his room for days because he spilled paint on his mom's sleeve and i was like "im sorry he did what" so I was wondering what you thought of that?
(If anyone wants to look, this is page 456 of Nightfall)
I think there's a myriad of ways to look at this. For one, what it tells us of Tam and Linh's childhood. Another, I can't help but notice Tam's gaping in that scene, the surprise he shows.
You know the writing advice about show not tell, how you give details to characterize the whole? that's what I think of here. Sure, we know that Quan and Mai were horrible parents, but here we get a specific detail that really shows us what it was like to live there. The most minor things are punished (spilled ink), their father without any tolerance. I also can't help but wonder how Tam spilled the ink, if he was helping his mother and spending time with her. Because the ink spill doesn't sound like anything malicious. It almost hints at what their life could've been, had their parents been good people. And in the same moment, it destroys that.
There's also Tam's response to this scene, to Mai throwing things on the floor. He's openly gaping, shocked. And his comment about his childhood doesn't seem accusatory, it's more like..."look. look at the difference. do you remember how you treated me? you do so casually what you would've punished me mercilessly for. do you realize it? can you see it?" His eyes "seemed to brighten" when Mai said that thing's change. And he called Quan "Dad." Scenes like these remind me of how young and how alone the twins are/were. Because right here he's facing his parents and he's vulnerable. Not in a willing way, but because he's scared, and hurt, and braving something he doesn't want to. He puts on a show, talks back loud, but reading it I can't help but see him reminded of everything he doesn't have and everything that's hurt him. As stoic and tough as he can be, this scene reminds me that he's a kid who had took on too much responsibility because the world threw him away. You can see through his bravado.
I think it's one of the few (perhaps only?) scene where we get a glimpse of Tam's past and how it really affected him without his guard up, without him deflecting away from the rawness of it with snark or anger. It feels more delicate than those, a unique moment that's devastating in how it reminds you of all he's been through and forced to become, all he still hides and endures.
There's so much packed into so little space in those lines; it's illuminating to look through. Thank you for the opportunity!
#kotlc#kotlc analysis#tam song#quil's queries#kotlcpuppetshow#i focused more on the scene than the actual ink spill itself#since it's a little more straightforward what that incident tells us about quan and mai#it's like a confirmation of what we already know#however! if you'd like I can go back over it to look at that specifically!#since I did have a slightly different focus than what you intended#long post
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so far I think your totally right abt ca weather they would actually harm someone is up to debate (they 100% think abt it tho) -ca anon
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#ca confirmed they think about it everyone panic#maple answers queries :0#sbi apartment au#sleepy bois inc apartment au
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Never underestimate the power of walking in circles while eating a sandwich and talking to yourself as a way to find solutions
#i think i came up with the best way to make the query to shows up the tasks that need to be done each day including the future ones#it's a pretty common things in app so I'm sure that by doing a quick research tomorrow I'll confirm if I'm right ot not#even if I'm not I'm still happy because i was starting to freak out and thinking something up freed me from the slump fjskdks
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"James A. Hamilton and John C. Hamilton proved particularly helpful. All three wrote to Hamiltons contemporaries for materials, took frequent trips to talk with owners of Hamiltons manuscripts, and did not hesitate to use flattery or threats to attain their objectives."
They really were their father's sons weren't they 😂
I believe they got into a squabble with John Jay, and had to fight tooth and nail to get some documents from Rufus King — so the threats part is definitely true.
#There was also this whole period where they had to confirm their dad drafted Washington's farewell address#amrev#james alexander hamilton#john church hamilton#queries#sincerely anonymous
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#well I had the meeting with the agent about the MG novel and it was super helpful#still needs edits 😭#but she didn’t think plot or pacing did? just voice#which. that’s so much easier to tackle#also my query letter is atrocious lmfao . so that needs reworking but that’s also doable#the only thing is. I’ll need a sensitivity reader for my deaf character which I Get but it costs money 😭#anyway that’s the last step#but *looks at the YA novel* I’m giving that editor. confirmed. my first two chapters and like that one needs plot rewrites#so basically blah blah idk what takes priority#esp since I want pages for my dying critique group . anyway I’ll figure it out 😑#gonna focus on the YA novel tonight tho for writers group#miscellaneous
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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.
>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.
>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.
>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.
>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.
>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.
>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.
>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
>Lemmings problem now solved.
>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.
>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.
>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.
>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.
>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.
#samsung#privacy#surveillance#pi hole#raspberry pi#internet#adblock#adbusting#youtube#twitter thread#pihole
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man i woke up thinking about this but then forgot but then remembered again
this is like ten pages behind me by now but. in snippys short lived 'am i captain?' moment where hes considering that captain was like an imaginary friend or split personality(?) of his that he came up with at brink of loosing it. and its short lived because hes like no tf im charles. last sane bitch on the planet (he is not). and at no point during all that he considered he could be/could not be captain because. others could see and interact with zee? and AGAIN i bring this up because AGAIN its relevant yet overlooked, if you were captain at this moment how would you even begin to explain pilot hating you but loving zeer. and being so angry at you for not believing in zeers magic and etc like come on man. same for engie treating captain as separate from you
actually i can justify it easily since were just pilling up on it by now: they respect the split personality and go along with it
i dont need this whole ass thing laid out and picked apart of course but i just think that for a character as annoying about being sane and logical as snippy is, 'i could have been captain on my off time as a high stress?/concussion?? reaction like being almost dissected by aliens. i cant be captain because pilot is inexplicably attached to zee before i even met him. engie talks to captain but not to me. what does that mean' etc etc is not that far a reach in logic train for him me thinks. but what do i know
i think part of this text was already somewhere in the original though so you cant blame the rewrite for every single thing when the story in itself has always been messy. fractal temporal wordcount wont save it.
#he looked only inward to justify not being captain instead of also outward is what i mean#also if this goes in a similar fashion as the first run. it lingers in the air because i never saw it confirmed nor denied with my#own eyes. but if its like that. for reasons unrelated you are still captain like snippy being captain is a thing thathappens#i cant wait to figure it out for myself though. it was always in the back of my mind as a popular theory that was also kinda implied/#/explored in canon but... i didnt like it. for the nth time i will say i didnt like it and hope captain was a rando that got caught up in#the luckiest person search query and then All That happened#reading romac#sugar.txt#and this is not even me getting into the worldbuilding of the story its so . very confusing#when writing cosmic horror inspired things its always meant to be confusing but i think this confusing comes from bad storytelling not the#eldritch/scifi elements themselves lol.
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I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight
What Are “What If” Videos?
These videos follow a common recipe: A narrator, given a fandom (usually anime ones like My Hero Academia and Naruto), explores an alternative timeline where something is different. Maybe the main character has extra powers, maybe a key plot point goes differently. They then go on and make up a whole new story, detailing the conflicts and romance between characters, much like an ordinary fanfic.
Except, they are fanfics. Actual fanfics, pulled off AO3, FFN and Wattpad, given a different title, with random thumbnail and background images added to them, narrated by computer text-to-speech synthesizers.
They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like “What if Deku had the Power of Ten Rings”, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views.
In fact, the process is so straightforward and requires so little effort, it’s pretty clear some of these channels have automated pipelines to pump these out en-masse. They don’t bother with asking the fic authors for permission. Sometimes they don’t even bother with putting the fic’s link in the description or crediting the author. These content-farms then monetise these videos, so they get a cut from YouTube’s ads.
In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.
Project Copy-Knight
Since the adversaries almost certainly have automated systems set up for this, the only realistic countermeasure is with another automated system. Identifying fanfics manually by listening to the videos and searching them up with tags is just too slow and impractical.
And so, I came up with a simple automated pipeline to identify the original authors of “What If” videos.
It would go download these videos, run speech recognition on it, search the text through a database full of AO3 fics, and identify which work it came from. After manual confirmation, the original authors will be notified that their works have been subject to copyright theft, and instructions provided on how to DMCA-strike the channel out of existence.
I built a prototype over the weekend, and it works surprisingly well:
On a randomly-selected YouTube channel (in this case Infinite Paradox Fanfic), the toolchain was able to identify the origin of half of the content. The raw output, after manual verification, turned out to be extremely accurate. The time taken to identify the source of a video was about 5 minutes, most of those were spent running Whisper, and the actual full-text-search query and Levenshtein analysis was less than 5 seconds.
The other videos probably came from fanfiction websites other than AO3, like fanfiction.net or Wattpad. As I do not have access to archives of those websites, I cannot identify the other ones, but they are almost certainly not original.
Armed with this fantastic proof-of-concept, I’m officially declaring war against “What If” videos. The mission statement of Project Copy-Knight will be the elimination of “What If” videos based on the theft of AO3 content on YouTube.
I Need Your Help
I am acutely aware that I cannot accomplish this on my own. There are many moving parts in this system that simply cannot be completely automated – like the selection of YouTube channels to feed into the toolchain, the manual verification step to prevent false-positives being sent to authors, the reaching-out to authors who have comments disabled, etc, etc.
So, if you are interested in helping to defend fanworks, or just want to have a chat or ask about the technical details of the toolchain, please consider joining my Discord server. I could really use your help.
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See full blog article and acknowledgements here: https://echoekhi.com/2023/11/25/project-copy-knight/
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Words to use instead of ‘said’
**Using the word ‘said’ is absolutely not a bad choice, and in fact, you will want to use it for at least 40% of all your dialogue tags. Using other words can be great, especially for description and showing emotion, but used in excess can take away or distract from the story.
Neutral: acknowledged, added, affirmed, agreed, announced, answered, appealed, articulated, attested, began, bemused, boasted, called, chimed in, claimed, clarified, commented, conceded, confided, confirmed, contended, continued, corrected, decided, declared, deflected, demurred, disclosed, disputed, emphasized, explained, expressed, finished, gloated, greeted, hinted, imitated, imparted, implied, informed, interjected, insinuated, insisted, instructed, lectured, maintained, mouthed, mused, noted, observed, offered, put forth, reassured, recited, remarked, repeated, requested, replied, revealed, shared, spoke up, stated, suggested, uttered, voiced, volunteered, vowed, went on
Persuasive: advised, appealed, asserted, assured, begged, cajoled, claimed, convinced, directed, encouraged, implored, insisted, pleaded, pressed, probed, prodded, prompted, stressed, suggested, urged
Continuously: babbled, chattered, jabbered, rambled, rattled on
Quietly: admitted, breathed, confessed, croaked, crooned, grumbled, hissed, mumbled, murmured, muttered, purred, sighed, whispered
Loudly: bellowed, blurted, boomed, cried, hollered, howled, piped, roared, screamed, screeched, shouted, shrieked, squawked, thundered, wailed, yelled, yelped
Happily/Lovingly: admired, beamed, cackled, cheered, chirped, comforted, consoled, cooed, empathized, flirted, gushed, hummed, invited, praised, proclaimed, professed, reassured, soothed, squealed, whooped
Humour: bantered, chuckled, giggled, guffawed, jested, joked, joshed
Sad: bawled, begged, bemoaned, blubbered, grieved, lamented, mewled, mourned, pleaded, sniffled, sniveled, sobbed, wailed, wept, whimpered
Frustrated: argued, bickered, chastised, complained, exasperated, groaned, huffed, protested, whinged
Anger: accused, bristled, criticized, condemned, cursed, demanded, denounced, erupted, fumed, growled, lied, nagged, ordered, provoked, raged, ranted remonstrated, retorted, scoffed, scolded, scowled, seethed, shot, snapped, snarled, sneered, spat, stormed, swore, taunted, threatened, warned
Disgust: cringed, gagged, groused, griped, grunted, mocked, rasped, sniffed, snorted
Fear: cautioned, faltered, fretted, gasped, quaked, quavered, shuddered, stammered, stuttered, trembled, warned, whimpered, whined
Excited: beamed, cheered, cried out, crowed, exclaimed, gushed, rejoiced, sang, trumpeted
Surprised: blurted, exclaimed, gasped, marveled, sputtered, yelped
Provoked: bragged, dared, gibed, goaded, insulted, jeered, lied, mimicked, nagged, pestered, provoked, quipped, ribbed, ridiculed, sassed, teased
Uncertainty/Questionned: asked, challenged, coaxed, concluded, countered, debated, doubted, entreated, guessed, hesitated, hinted, implored, inquired, objected, persuaded, petitioned, pleaded, pondered, pressed, probed, proposed, queried, questioned, quizzed, reasoned, reiterated, reported, requested, speculated, supposed, surmised, testified, theorized, verified, wondered
This is by no means a full list, but should be more than enough to get you started!
Any more words you favor? Add them in the comments!
Happy Writing :)
#writing resources#writing advice#creative writing#writers on tumblr#tumblr writers#dialogue#writing dialogue#dialogue tags#instead of said#writing community#writer#writeblr#writerscommunity#novel writing#writing#fiction
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🥃 Okay.. . dogs or cats for Luna
Oh good! A simple question she can answer!
"Cats, easily! Of course I don't mind dogs, but cats to me are more peaceful and quiet to be around."
Shots: 2
#unknown sender; (anonymous)#query; (ask)#luminous moth; (lunawoman)#((luna is a cat person confirmed!))
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okay so report: DIDN'T find any posts on my own blog but did find that one from ivy. IT WAS THE OG POST
I have come to the same conclusion! I was thinking that there was a longer chain of reblogs, but now with the evidence gathered I think it was just that, and that the majority of the posts and chaos about it were on entirely different posts. Like asks sent and reblogs on those
so! will reblog and tag the heritage blog :)
perhaps we should collect a few of the posts made by other people to add as well for context, as with just the gif it makes it seem pretty tame when. that was very much not a tame time in the fandom
#kotlc#quil's queries#soryasongsaa#thank you for confirming with me <3#i have used like 60 tabs for this project#i've got through like a 10 different people's archives at least#not all 60 tabs at once it was in batches of 30#anyway. wow this takes me back#forbidden spicy gatorade#i forgot I didn't hit post on this whoops!#anyway have not reblogged and tagged the heritage blog
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bsf!rafe x reader whose tricked into sucking his cock every time he does anything for her-
Ike drive her around, buy her things, etc and she’s completely oblivious and he LOVES IT
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— “hi rafey!” you beamed, pressing a kiss to his cheek as he smirked at you from the drivers seat. “hey princess— you good to go?” rafe asked, giving your bare thigh a firm squeeze whilst you buckled your seatbelt.
this had become a weekly occurrence— rafe takes you shopping, you get to spend time with him, he gets whatever he wants out of it. in your pretty little head, it was a win win situation. yet, your friends didn’t see it like that. ‘you’re telling me he buys you things in order to use you? is that what you’re saying right now y/n?’ — ‘he’s not using me! he’s my bestfriend he would never do that!’
— “right kid, where d’you want dropped off?” he replied, readjusting himself as he watched you fuss about the shopping bags, making your tits prominent as you leaned over the seat to keep the bags out of your way. “oh, just my house” you smiled, all glossy lips and bright eyes.
the car ride was comfortably quiet, with little communication other than the odd squeeze of your thigh.
“m’gonna pull over here, usual spot yeah?” he queried, not actually bothering to look for you for confirmation, until you protested. “aw, but rafe i don’t want to ruin my lipgloss again!” you frowned, giving him your best pout. — putting the car until park, he reached over you, undoing your seatbelt. “i just bought you a new one doll, you wouldn’t want to be ungrateful, would you?” he stated, the same condescending tone that went right over your head, just like always. pulling a frown from you, you quickly readjusted, giving yourself easier access to start undoing his belt.
“no, of course not— m’sorry” you whined, peering up at him through your lashes as you freed his painfully hard cock from his shorts, earning a hiss from him.
placing your manicured hand around the base, you worked at the tip— pressing soft kisses and kitten licks.
“don’t be a fuckin’ tease kid” he groaned, pulling your hair into a makeshift ponytail as he stuffed the rest of his cock as far as it would go, causing you to whimper as your eyes watered.
“thas’ a good fuckin’ girl right there, doin’ so well f’me”
#ʚ♡ɞ ☁: elle’s dreams#rafe cameron x reader#outer banks#rafe cameron x fem!reader#rafe cameron#outerbanks rafe#rafecameron#rafe obx#obx
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