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Evil Genius

@ourbooksuniverse / ourbooksuniverse.tumblr.com

I'm trying to be the kind of person I needed when I was younger.
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Anonymous asked:

do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

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I did not know this, but it makes so much sense, and it's SO good to learn fanfiction history.

Is THAT where "No [X], we die like men" comes from?????

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say what you will about the "inconvience" or whatever of tumblr and how tiktok and instagram are so much "faster" and more "efficient". there is nothing more poetic than being forced to pick and choose what you spend your time doing on this site. it takes a solid ten seconds to reblog a post on desktop, IF it loads properly. and who's to say it doesn't glitch and trap you in a loading screen for eternity. i fucking love actually being forced to manange my time wisely because it makes what i spend time on all the more important. i dont have the app anymore. i dont like this fast paced doomscrolling. give me my shitty desktop mobile and let me spend a full minute rebligging a singular post

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Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

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shadow27

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

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knitmeapony

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

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as someone who can have two cups of black tea several hours apart (never even one caffeinated coffee!) and then if i dare to venture any further i’m a jittery dizzy wreck who can’t sleep, i am so curious about how other people’s bodies handle this substance!

It takes 14 cups of coffee for me to kind of feel caffeine have an effect on my body. And if I lay down I can still fall asleep in about 2 minutes.

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humoristics

The thing with statistics - via

Numbers don’t lie but people can sure as fuck pick and choose the numbers they give you and phrase things to make them sound like they mean things they don’t

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agentumbls

learn fucking stats or at least how they can hurt

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karethdreams

As a wise man once said: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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