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The Blue Spirit 👹
when I was searching for references of Zuko as a Blue Spirit, I got into this post of @atlaculture and decided to make kind of mix of the stylization of the mask in the series and the original Noh mask in my art
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top this bottom that we should all be focusing on what’s really important. #DRYHUMPING
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Alright HRPF community, I’m in the mood for a very specific type of fic that’s hard to filter for so I’m looking for recs.
Specifically, give me your DUMBEST hockey boy fics. Like I’m talking “is hooking up with his teammate for months but is somehow still calling himself straight”. I’m talking “thinks he’s homophobic because he doesn’t like seeing his bff teammate kiss (other) guys”. I’m even talking “a girl asks him for a jerk off video and he somehow thinks this means he needs to jerk off his teammate on camera”. I want full-on oblivious hockey boy, going through life with a singular brain cell that has a wonky battery, but somehow it all works out for him.
As you may recognize, all of the examples above are from the incomparable @linskywords who does dumb and oblivious like no one else, but I’ve unfortunately already read (and re-read) all those prime examples. So if anyone has another fics to rec, please let me know!!
Like this is the level of dumbassery I am craving. Absolutely zero thoughts going on beyond those eyes.
(this post may end up just being an ode to @linskywords’s entire body of work, but I’m hoping some of y'all can pull through)Haha I will admit I read the beginning of this being like, “wait! I have some fics to offer them!” And then I got to paragraph three 🤣 Anyway, I will have a think on other fics to offer! Anyone else have suggestions?
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Was lucky today being able to watch a dipper dip for quite a while. Such a cute bird.
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Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of
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ALTIt was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door.
Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance.
Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron.
The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies.
The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscated nearly 18 pounds of marijuana. They handcuffed the woman, whose name was Mary Jane Rathbun.
She didn’t look scared. She didn’t look guilty.
She looked at the officers, smoothed her apron, and reportedly said, “I thought you guys were coming.”
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#i didnt reblog the first time #because i wanted to verify this #and now that i have? hell yeah brownie grandma
Can you please share how you verified, and give alternate sources, so we can maybe quiet the accusations of “A.I. slop” in the comments?
I’d be only too happy to do that. I was suspicious to start, too. It seemed a bit on the nose to have the weed brownie grandma named “Mary Jane,” but also, that’s a very common combination in a certain place and time, so I thought it was worth the extra effort.
What I did was find sources that made the claim (in this case, that a woman named Mary Jane was a medicinal marijuana activist in California, USA in the 1980s and 90s.) I checked the dates to get some certainty those sources aren’t AI slop, then checked that the sources are generally reliable.
Then I followed useful details about the place and time, and other people involved, to explore it more fully.
The first thing I did was search for “Brownie Mary” and see if that turned anything up at all. It turned up a LOT of results. Predictably, some of them were recipes, but not all of them.
ALTNext up, I checked sources and dates. Wikipedia can be dodgy for academic use, but their policy on LLM-generated input is very clear: they don’t want slop. I started by reading that page and then went on to read others.
The Atlas Obscura article is from 2018. I found another one from SFWeekly from 2017.
Both of those are decent sources - Atlas Obscura gets a High factual reporting rate from MediaBiasFactCheck, and while MBFC doesn’t have a rating for SFWeekly, the verbiage in that article is very close to what GastroObscura has. (Also to what the post itself has, right down to the choice of pull quote.)
Now, we can stop there and feel pretty confident that articles published before the wide availability of LLMs are not, in fact, LLM generated.
…or we can go deeper, and run this all the way back to source.
I spotted references to a Chicago Tribune imterview of Mary Jane Rathbun, published in 1993.
My search string of “Chicago Tribune 1993 Mary Jane Rathbun” hit it in the top 3 results. That article includes some fun new details: she wore a cannabis leaf shaped pendant to her trial!
She also objected to being portrayed as a cuddly grandma up against The Man, so I must retract my flippant tags, above.
The evidence now strongly points to Brownie Mary being a real woman who really went to court for giving AIDS patients weed brownies. But can we get closer? I’ve now seen several mentions of a 1980 attempt at convicting her too.
The articles have mentioned Sonoma County and a nonprofit called the Shanti Project, so let’s hook onto that and see what we get.
Searching for “Mary Jane Rathbun Sonoma County 1980” gets me an article from a law firm; that mentions the prosecuting attorney by name, and points to a book: Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, by Paulette Frankl. It even has an excerpt!
We can run the book down too, just for fun (now we have a primary source.) My favorite used book site has a copy for $1. Amazon gives a view of the back cover, too:
…wow. I should see if my library has that!
The excerpt on the site has a mention of a candelight vigil held for her death in 1999. It took some hunting past things I’d already read and a bunch of shops giving written tributes, but I found a news report about that, too.
There’s a lot of information out there, and it’s worth digging into. Otherwise it’s altogether too easy to think something real and worth knowing is just another bit of slop.
Thank you.
Signal boosting for the Truth.
As I said in the tags previous to this, A.I. is damaging to our culture not only for producing slop, but also for spreading mistrust of the truth.
Reblogging not just for the awesome history lesson but also the beautiful display of step-by-step fact checking and source researching in this age of AI slop
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i’m collecting these
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SORRY, BABY
2025 — dir. Eva Victor
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i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though
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BEAUTYANDTHEBEAST(1991)
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“What if the result of this war isn’t beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself? Have you given this any thought at all?”
BLACK SAILS
4.08 XXXVI
