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life in the shark lane (terminally pretty)

@lemonsharks / lemonsharks.tumblr.com

PFP & Header by @requinoesis 🪸 Buckle up, sibs, this is a Lockwood & Co blog now. Fandom old like I needed an invite code for my first LJ. OP of the ancestors post your blood relation shared on facebook, instagram, and/or pinterest. (It was literally my therapy homework, whoops.) ORIGINAL CONTENT: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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About me

Heyyyooo

Adult, she/her, queer, excited to befriend other adults over shared interests! PM me if you're local! I'd love to hang out! (I like museums. And tacos.)

Anyone can interact, use your best judgment. I block with impunity.

I try to tag stuff according to my conscience and better judgement.

I live in Chicago with my best friend, our three cats, and my rosy boa who I swear thinks she us is a boa constrictor.

Fandoms:

Lockwood & Co, Stardew Valley, Star Trek, Dragon Age, Tortall (Tamora Pierce), Flight Rising

Interests:

Nature, history, reptiles, amphibians, sharks, cats, phylogenetics, neat plants, neat rocks, fandoms, history, archaeology, art, true crime, my current hyperfixations

Hobbies:

Bookbinding, sewing, collecting craft supplies, sometimes making stuff with the craft supplies, writing/reading books and fanfiction, digital painting, pixel art, watching shows & youtube, cooking, baking, travelling, (I go to see people, not places), beachcombing, herping & tidepooling (no touchy), photography.

Aspiring to hiking and backpacking.

Someday I will foster kittens again. I love doing that.

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team--edward

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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westiec

I have never ever once in years of reading fic on ao3 let the stats decide whether or not I give something whose title/tags/summary catches my interest a shot

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gaylittleancient

I don't look at stats at all. I don't even have them enabled.

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lemonsharks

The kudos to hits ratio gets messed up the longer a fic ages, as more people go back to reread and find themselves unable to leave reread kudos

Sort by bookmarks, read author back catalogs, and then read outward from the bookmarks of authors you like. Same basic deal as we were doing on fanfiction.net in 1999. (The sort by bookmarks makes the starting point easier as you aren't just diving in blind.)

Also, starting with rare ships and finding authors I like by reading entire ship tags.

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apilgrimpassingby

I thought today - the TV show I'd really like to see is one about a medieval monastery.

You could have all kinds of characters: the pious guy who joined because he wanted to serve God, the son born out of wedlock sent there to cover up his parents' shame, the geek who wanted to study Latin but couldn't afford to go into university, the former knight sick of violence and afraid for his soul... Plus monasteries were centres of pilgrimage and places where criminals could take refuge, so we can have a lot of characters who crop up for a few episodes and leave.

Some plotlines I thought of:

  • Our relics aren't bringing in the pilgrims the way they used to - what do we do?
  • A women fleeing an abusive marriage has taken shelter in the monastery - how will the brothers respond to having a women in their midst?
  • One of the monks wants to leave - will the abbot accept or not?
  • A murderer has taken refuge in the abbey, and the abbot decides to try and save his soul - what will happen?
  • People are coming to the monastery for food during the famine, but the monastery is itself short of food - how will this be dealt with?
  • War has broken out between two local lords, and the monks attempt to broker a treaty - will it work?

I've already mentioned some reasons why I think this setting would lend itself to television, but I'd also love to make it for two other reasons:

  • Get people to understand how weird medieval religion could get, but also that, within its own frame of reference, it was a reasonable and consistent belief system.
  • Show people that the Middle Ages consisted of more than just muddy people stabbing each other and burning scientists at the stake.
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flyingonravenwings

You have just literally described Cadfael

a 90's BBC procedurial where an up and coming Derek Jacobi is a former Crusader turned monk who solves crimes

VERY historically accurate, with a big focus on the belief systems of the time and practical discussion of world Views

He has to deal with local politics during the Anarchy, wrestle with religious extremism, discusses the seperation between Catholicism and Islam, rival Abbeys, the protection of knowledge in what some percieve as an ignorant world

The entire Series is free on Youtube

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lemonsharks

@taraljc PLEASE. WE NEED IT.

#watch list
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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
arstechnica.com
Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.

Use Firefox.

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goodnightmoonvale

This is a response to the laws that eliminate or severely limit third party tracking cookies. Since Google makes so much money on advertising, it had to figure out other ways to get your data. It’s already been tracking people who use the web while logged into Google, but now they’re baking it into Chrome.

As someone who works in advertising, the reason I new use Firefox is because I heard the industry rumblings about this for the last 3 years. It’s finally here, so if you care about making it harder to be tracked/advertised to, switch to Firefox.

Source: Ars Technica
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