youtube had a popup trying to get me to watch some livestream and it was blocking the mute button on the ad on the video i was watching, what the heck youtube
I love how in the homestuck fandom, “stuck” has become a synonymous suffix for ‘AU’. Want an au that takes place in college? collegestuck. Want an au that’s sad and angsty? sadstuck. Want an AU that takes place in the harry potter universe? potterstuck. Just add ’-stuck’ at the end and you got yourself an AU™
honestly it’s the hardest thing not to drag the terminology into other fandoms, because —stuck is much more efficient a labeling convention.
‘au’ just indicates something about the fanfic is different from canon, and it could be anything from a minor plot deviation to a genderswap to a wild west retelling to a crossover. so you have to actually use a couple words or even a whole phrase. ‘everyone’s at hogwarts AU’, ‘biker gang AU’, ‘abducted by aliens AU’, ‘AU from this canon event where that character made another decision’. it’s clumsy.
conversely, the ‘stuck suffix indicates that something major about the setting or characters has been changed, with the prefix indicating what, such as collegestuck, humanstuck, demonstuck, knightstuck, treckstuck. the exceptions that sort of prove the rule are ‘stucks that indicate a genre shift such as sadstuck and horrorstuck. you get a short, snappy compound term that conveys the basic premise of your story and off you go.
it really is awfully useful, as are the troll romance quadrants. if i say “i ship pidge and hunk pale” you know i don’t just mean they’re friends, i mean they’re in a platonic but extremely close relationship involving lots of supportiveness and squishy bro feels. it’s hard to write a story about ‘these two are friends’ because like… so what? everyone’s got a dozen friends. but it’s easy to write a story about a pale ship, because that is fraught with motherfuckin feels.
People can say what they like about the Homestuck fandom (and they will probably be right lbr) but it has yielded a number of really CHOICE concepts for transformative works that I have never seen the like of in any other fandom.
Concept: Some jackass shows Bucky how to make a blog and it becomes really popular. Not because it’s the blog of James Buchanan Barnes, American Legend, War Hero, Infamous Assassin, Alleged Terrorist. Nobody even knows it’s his blog. It gets really popular because people think it’s a really great shitpost generator or something. Because Bucky is just a Weird Fucking Person and everything he posts on his fucking personal blog comes off as somewhere between dril and Jaden Smith and people are like “this is some quality garbage right here” and thus Accidental Memelord Bucky is born.
Bucky posts things like
“What is wrong with bananas. I ate a banana today and it was Wrong. America why”
“Every time I put on my eye makeup it gets bigger. My whole face is eyeliner now.”
“Why does friendship feel so much like punching”
“When I wake up in the middle of the night I am either thinking ‘who am I? does my life have meaning?’ or “did I already eat all of the plums?’”
“Why are you so grumpy” they ask me. they do not realize this is just my Face.”
“I know i said i would give my left arm for a cup of coffee but i am more awake now and i would like my arm back please”
“I guess I must have done something horrible in a past life. I mean. I definitely did something horrible in this life, so. “
I love this so much <3
mob psycho 100 is a Good Anime
There is still very little known about how sound can cause hard drive failure. One of the first such experiments was made by engineer Brendan Gregg, in 2008, while he was working for Sun’s Fishworks team. He recorded a video in which he explains how shouting in a data center can result in hard drives malfunction.
(via A Loud Sound Just Shut Down a Bank’s Data Center for 10 Hours | Motherboard)
This is God damn amazing.
I mean, I already knew that vibration was bad for mechanical devices. I already knew hard disk spindles and arms were mechanical devices. I already knew that sound was actually vibration.
But adding all that together into “shouting at hard disks is bad for them” is just
what
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
every john ship fic ever: john’s teeth getting in the way of kissing, john’s akward ghost buster underwear when undressing moment, dad is in the other room, partner suddenly not caring about John’s teeth, hIS TEETH, chub
every dave ship fic ever: coolest kid in school, the partner is the only one to see Dave’s eyes, dave moment of realization that his partner doesnt care about his eyes, glasses smashing other’s face(and in some cases, the other’s glasses) while kissing, much dom, his muscles make partner insecure
every karkat ship fic ever: angry sex(not exactly calignious just, him being grumpy), “that little red tint in his eyes was becoming more obvious everyday”, light peach fluid, crab boxers, helpless romantic, subbbb, v small and thin
every jake ship fic ever: secretly a sex god, pansexual, huge dick, thought he couldnt actually feel love until (person), hIS GLASSES, “he looks at you with those gorgeous forest green eyes”, cook
every dirk ship fic ever: muscle af, “he looks at you with those gorgeous orange eyes that you can never get enough of, too bad he covers them constantly with his shades”, neko kink, lots of neko cosplay, dresses in a dress for partner, watching anime before initating sex
every sollux ship fic ever: lisp annoys partner or the partner points it out, dom, takes off the fuckn glasses, was coding but got distracted by partner, two buldges,