Hello, Sherlock Holmes adaptation writer. I have trapped you in this room. It is fully furnished and comfortable. On the table, you will notice a copy of A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of which redistribution is perfectly legal, as the work is in the public domain. You will notice it is rather thin. You have 24 hours to read the approximately 8,550 words in this story. To exit this room, all you must do is summarize the plot of the story without referring to Irene Adler as a seductress or implying she is attracted to Sherlock Holmes. Good luck.
a little bunny looking at the stars in case you're having a bad day.
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me: [delusional] I will learn 4 languages simultaneously
I decided to make some positive translation memes
[ID: a picture of kitten looking at a phone edited to be crying and surrounded by heart emoji with text reading 'when a translator worked hard for me to be able to access a piece of media']
“Why do we persist in thinking about gender differences? I think it’s telling to think about who benefits, when we think about why this research is even being done. Why is anyone trying to prove that there are innate differences between men and women in intelligence, scientific ability, competitiveness, or any other traits that seem to confer high status in society? One general reason to cling to the idea of innate ability is to give ourselves an excuse for not being good at something. If I claim that I just have no natural aptitude for sports, that gives me an excuse for being very, very bad at sports. Conversely, when people declare that I am very talented at the piano, that negates the thousands of hours of practice I have put in. People can declare themselves to be a right-brained, “creative” person, and use that as an excuse for being disorganised. They can boast of being a left-brained, “logical” person, and use that as an excuse for being insensitive. (This is in spite of the fact that the left-/right-brain theory has been largely debunked.) The more invidious reason to claim that people are born with certain traits is to avoid having to help people do any better. This is a way of not having to address our prejudices. If we can somehow argue that women are innately less intelligent than men, then we won’t have to address issues of inequality in education, science, business, politics, and every echelon of power. If “innate” biological differences are found, they become fodder for people who seek a pseudo-rational basis to maintain structures that discriminate against women.”
— Eugenia Cheng, x + y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
good xkcd today
i love you space i love you moons i love you solar/lunar eclipses i love you gas giants i love you pluto i love you asteroid belts i love you planet that rains molten glass i love you supernovas i love you comets and meteor showers i love you nebulas i love you constellations i love you infinity
Starry starry night 💫
your honor in my defense i’m not reading all that shit
*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-
i am a simple creature. every day i am sleepy