#function yaoi

[arsonwerm]

Composite functions? More like Function Yaoi

[dingledraw]

Springtime Swing

Thank to everyone who came up with ideas for my sketch! I really appreciate the inspiration😀

[riddler-apologist]

but christ alive

[thisisanerror]

Rough week so here's some broken men.

[anghraine]

It's wild to me that I had heard of the prime Kirk/Spock content in various TOS episodes long before I saw them, but had never heard of what IMO is the shippiest moment of all thus far, in an interestingly O_o goddamn I do not want whatever you two have but you do you?? holy shit though what a moment way.

I'm of course referring to the otherwise rather mid episode "Requiem for Methuselah," in which Kirk has an underwritten love affair with a clueless woman whose various secrets have to be discovered before her inevitable death.

At one point in this relationship, her.......uh, guardian??? sort of???????? had Spock play the piano while she and Kirk waltzed, which (in-story) Spock did perfectly while somehow managing to silently exude even more intensity than usual. After the plot (and her life) were over, we end not with the usual cheerful bit of snark on the bridge that ends most episodes, but with a weary Kirk falling asleep with his head on his arms and Spock hovering not for away. McCoy exposits the last bit of detail and then goes on an unprompted and honestly pretty viciously racist speech about how Spock, unlike Kirk, will never suffer from the joys and travails of love because of his inherent lack of feeling as a Vulcan. The speech is longer than usual and just really mean-spirited as McCoy waxes rhapsodic about all the aspects of passionate true love that Spock will not and cannot experience as a Vulcan before he just leaves.

Spock then turns to look at Kirk, and now just bleeding intensity, takes a few slow, deliberate steps towards the sleeping Kirk, lays his hand against Kirk's cheek and neck, and then very obviously mind melds with the sleeping Kirk while murmuring, "Forget."

Is this healthy respectful behavior that honors Kirk's autonomy? No, obviously. Is it god-tier repressed homoerotic passion between two people who should probably just work their issues out and stop inflicting themselves on anyone else? Yes.

[showmepolkadots]

“Take my right eye.”

“Excuse me?”

“Since I’ve already staked it once.”

…

“If you lose one of your eyes, won't your combat ability deteriorate? Why would you take such a loss because of me?"

"If I had to choose, I'd choose you, Han Yoojin-gun."

[pxnn-a]

changed my mind on not finishing it,,,

[wasteland-wrecker]

Ur ocs are so cute... are they from another game or your own plot line? If they are from your own plot, can you tell me the full story right now, please and thank you

Literally the aura of this ask ✋😭🤚

You mean my last post ocs? They’re from my original story webcomic kinda like thing idk, what’s sure it’s currently on hiatus cause it wasn’t sustainable for me.

I’ll try to keep the story super short btw:

So there’s this Vegas-style city called Roveast, but way more modern (it’s set in 2045). The city’s crawling with these big scary creatures (basically werewolves, but nobody knows that). People just call them “Wolves.” They come out at night and get hunted by these robot-androids called Vigilants—like Pitt, they look exactly like humans tho but with pointy ears™️ —who were created to protect humans from the Wolves. The main character’s Isaac, a delivery guy who’s trying to figure out what the hell he’s doing with his life. He feels guilty because he might actually have the “key” to end the whole conflict, but the cost is insanely high.

And yeah the protagonist (Isaac) is also a werewolf and his best friend android (Pitt) doesn’t know that/can’t understand that.

I think my favorite theme in this story is that the androids are actually killing people who can transform into werewolves, even tho their purpose is to protect humans, but they just can’t understand it because of their “default settings” monster -> kill 🤯

And then there’s a cult, some politics, corruption, power abuse, and other heavy themes like sexual abuse, grooming, stalking — a lot of dark stuff I was fucking with at the time. Problem is, all this stuff was very heavy to handle in a story so I got overwhelmed and stopped drawing it.

🪦

[lmxpsuedonym]

[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two

[energysynergymatrix]

Like a ring that won’t come off

[bigchunkyrocksss]

there needs to be a study on the impact mlm red and blue ships had on teenagers like i grew up with zukka and then KLANCE came around and i’ve been haunted by the comedic relief/angsty enemies to lovers trope for years and my life has never been the same since then

[thatoneplaguedoctor]

The moment you realize that since Harvey essentially has a cataract in his bad eye from the accident so he and Matt have only one good eye between them:

[yellowwwcrayon]

god sometimes I wish I could just stay home with my fat furry little eunuch and write fan fiction forever, and never work. but then my depressed and equally stressed out and underpaid coworkers wouldn't get to experience the sheer deranged joy that is me. duality of man I guess.

[leprosycock]

chai, have you been working on any new fics lately?

i have… i’m writing some fob fic but also i’m working on this thing where jIud are randomly transported into the 1960s in hollywood and are trapped there forever and have to try and make their way in the world while trying not to fall in love. they will fail miserably

[cakeandsodomyy7]

mr tusk and mr human centipede a meeting of the minds