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[icyg4l]

PAC: What Do Your Passed On Loved Ones Admire About You?

Hello beautiful people! Today's reading will be a lot more serious than normal so this is a warning for those who will get emotionally triggered. Your passed on loved ones are with you always! I am simply just passing on the message. My condolences to those who have lost a loved one in their lifetime. If you are interested in this reading, please don't be afraid to dm me so that you can book with me! Be sure to refer to my guidelines and dm me if you have any questions. Without further ado, please pick the image that resonates with you the most.

Top Left-to-Bottom Right: (1-6)

Pile One: Tenacity and strength are the first characteristics that come to mind. Your passed on loved one wants you to know that your childlike innocence is a gift not a curse. This could be your uncle. You are someone that can get the truth out of everyone simply because you know what to say. There’s not a lot that you have to say either. You’re quite the persuasive being. They also admire how level-headed you are. Some of your loved ones were more on the fiery side and because of that, they wish they could have been more balanced with their temperament when they were still here. However, this does not mean that you back down to a fight. You know when to open your mouth to protest against the injustices of the world. You have an undying love for humanity, nature and animals. You are so sensitive and precious to your loved ones. You also know when you’ve made a mistake. Your passed on loved ones see you as their Princess Diana. You’re kind and loving to all, but you fight when your back is against the wall or when others are being judged.

Cards Used: 6 of Cups, 7 of Wands, The Magician, 9 of Discs, Princess of Discs, 3 of Discs.

extras: blue ribbon ice cream. no limits. satisfaction guaranteed. mild. “there’s a lesson in everything.” monthly visits. crown. like mike (2002). lesbian. learning accommodations.

Pile Two: “You’re so cool” is the first thing that I heard. You are someone who is the standard. You are the Beyonce of your family. People try to impress you because you’re just that girl/guy/enby. You are an angel on earth. I feel like some of you were bullied when you were younger and this person came to your defense. This could have been an older sibling/cousin, maybe your mother who was younger than most. But you did not let these traumatic events harden you. You grew into a beautiful person. This pile as a whole went through a lot of back-to-back trauma in their lives but your passed on loved one wants you to know that they admire your peaceful approach to life. You are someone that is easy to bond with. I feel like you choose not to drink when the opportunity is presented because you have a bit of a temper when drunk. Your passed on loved one could have been the same way. You also have a fair way of viewing things. You try not to be biased when shown two sides of the story. You consider everything. You value the truth and the moral of the situation. Your integrity matters, Pile Two. Your passed on loved one wants you to continue to be this way.

Cards Used: Knight of Wands, Temperance, The Moon, 4 of Swords, Death, King of Swords, 6 of Discs.

extras: wet shirt. pushya moon. water sign. effervescent. sniffing flowers. moniker. “grown man.” glow. party pants. amazon. purify. NBA roster. sims 4 gaming channel. kawaii.

Pile Three: You are so humble, dear. Your passed on loved ones really admired your ability to talk to anyone. You never felt like you were above anyone. You treat everyone with the respect they deserve. You have stripped yourself down to the point where everyone can see through you clearly. You do not have to depend on material things to make up your self-concept. Your vulnerability is beautiful. It’s not a level of self-awareness that everyone can achieve. Some people may try to make you feel bad for where you come from but you carry yourself with nonchalance. That saying about sticks and stones is personified. Your passed on loved ones admire how you stay out of the way. “This is a crazy world” I heard. It feels like this is an elder talking to you. They believe that you will do big things in this world despite how little you have come from. You were not set up for failure. You have the tools to improve your situation.

Cards Used: The Star (RX), 6 of Cups, The Hermit, The High Priestess, Princess of Discs, Wheel of Fortune.

extras: neck tattoo. “kiss the ring.” ring around the rosie. martian. elephant in the room. malleable. solar system. troubleshoot. best buy. filled gas tank. empty condom box. snoring. aaliyah.

Pile Four: Your passed on loved one admires you in totality. This is your lover, could have been your fiance/fiancee. This also could have been your best friend. They miss your scent. They miss being in your presence, period. They love the shape of your eyes. They love the way you smile and tilt your head downward. You have this unexplainable quality about you that lights up the room. They know that life is different without them but they want you to keep going. Your go-getter, flirtatious nature is admirable as well. You have this lust for life that everyone should have. Your lover misses your physical touch. Your ability to get up every morning and go to sleep at night makes them want to come back down to Earth temporarily. Your person could have had some egotistical qualities about themselves but they love that you loved them with all your heart. They see you as their other half. They want to reunite with you in another life. This story is to be continued, my love.

Cards Used: Princess of Swords, 9 of Wands, 4 of Cups, King of Wands, 2 of Cups, The Lovers.

extras: eartha kitt. purr. austin powers costumes. chapell roan. meeting in college. musical.ly.

Pile Five: You take pride in your appearance. You stay in the gym to keep your figure right. You get your nails and hair done. You pick out the right colors for your wardrobe. You stay on top of your shit. But you also have this side to you that is in tune with the world around you. You have the perfect amount of both feminine and masculine energy to them. Are you a lawyer or social justice advocate? Your passed on loved one wants you to know that you can do all. You’re living proof that anything can happen. This feels like a male’s energy. He was a dominating force in the household and he was young. This could be your father or older brother. They are smiling down on how you have manifested everything that you two talked about. They were there in spirit when you made history/reached a milestone. They also admire how you keep in touch with family even after their death. They admire how you keep your promises even if it’s something that you don’t want to do. You need to learn to ask for help though and stop being so stubborn. They appreciate the altar you dedicated to them. If not, you need to. It would strengthen the relationship between the two of you.

Cards Used: Ace of Cups, The Emperor, Queen of Cups, Justice, The Star, 10 of Wands, 10 of Cups.

extras: quen blackwell. new workout plan (2004). ari fletcher. olivia pope. kpop bias. fallen curtain. sweeping feet.

Pile Six: When I pulled for you, I thought of the movie ‘Paid in Full’. Whoever your loved one is, they lived a dangerous/risky life at some point. But they admire how cutthroat you are. You get stuff done. You keep stuff moving. Your passed on loved one says that you have their swag. You have a lot of mental energy. You’re smart, both book and street smart. Your loved one says to stay safe and live life to the fullest; but also live it the clean way. They like how you stay outside in nature with the wildlife. I feel like you are the breadwinner or you at least have a lot of money saved up. You are attempting to gain financial stability at a young age and I can hear claps because of that, lol. Along with your practical side, they admire your outlook on life. You try to be as fiscal as possible but you also try to enjoy the fruits of your labor. You will party with a lot of people. I feel like your person was kind of uptight. I feel like you never miss a chance to make money. You’re a “hustler”, just like your loved one. This person feels like an uncle, a cousin, maybe your father.

Cards Used: King of Discs, King of Wands, 2 of Swords, King of Swords, 7 of Swords, Queen of Discs.

Extras: “keep it in the family.” “no one knows.” pork rinds. round glasses. beeper. shady business. groupme. “out of line.” solo dolo. throwback. paying tribute.

[tawked]

And y'know it's frustrating, I do find Wonder Woman a really frustrating character most of the time. I like Wonder Woman in theory, I like the idea of Themiscyra (though I would write it differently than most incarnations), I like the inherent potential for a feminist reading and rewriting of Greek myths, I like the specific conversation about violence that Wonder Woman often invites as a warrior who has a more complex and developed relationship to violence than Batman and Superman (hot take: I dislike when they put a sword in her hand), yadda yadda.

I want her to be one of my favourite characters, right.

But when people write her - and I do mean people, not men, because Gail Simone does this too - they kind of assume this inherent progressivism of when a woman does a thing it is automatically progressive simply because it's a woman doing. It's a little more feminist than choice feminism, which is it's progressive simply because a woman decides about a thing, regardless of that thing, and deciding stuff is a revolutionary act lol.

Except Wonder Woman comics often say very little. The message is often look at this woman doing, and not look at these power structures that oppress women being defeated on individual, symbolic and systematic levels. There's a bad man and she punches him, and this is revolutionary because...

idk, my issue really is that there's very little intersectionality to Wonder Woman stories.

There are Black and Asian Amazons. Rad. They live in a post-racist monocultural utopia where they're "the same as white Amazons." Oh. So, assimilationist equality. Mmm. I'm white, maybe I'm missing something here, but that seems off? Nubia has so many "not quite there" stories in the 1970s-1980s imo, wasted potential. The Wonder Woman fantasy of a utopic monoculture where yes POC are on the island, but there are no elements of Black or Asian societies and cultures that they've originally come from, all of them are just physically a part of the same Greek aesthetic world feels very --y'know?

Or the inherent tiptoeing up to the possibility of Wonder Woman maybe perhaps idk possibly, if the circumstances are right, being Sapphic, instead of just letting her lez out on main. Girl she falls for the first white man she sees and it's always played as this tragic lovers torn through time and space thing. Unto every reset of the universe, a Steve Trevor is born, and Diana will thunk it on with him. But with the ladies she is the slowest most timid most maybe perhaps perhaps perhaps demisexual and we're supposed to view this as progressive. Seriously, this is played in Tom King's defense as a writer all the time. "Sure it's bad that he's directly involved in an organization that exists purely for the purposes of killing brown people abroad, with a history of creating the most vile conflicts in modern history, but he made Diana hold hands with the ladies! Sometimes! Sort of!" Steve is sacred but y'know maybe she can scissor with a sister sometimes, as a treat.

There are, according to Gail Simone, practically no disabilities on the island. Or if there are disabilities, it has to be some sacred thing, like a play on the blind oracle archetype, a sort of fusion of the Oracle of Delphie and Tiresias. Something like that is OK because it's a cool aesthetic and connecting Greek myth dots makes Wonder Woman writers feel really smart, but everybody else gets Purple Healing Ray'd. So they have this ubermensch society of powerful women but power is still rooted in specific physicality. Wonder Woman will say all women are rad or whatever, while lifting a car over her head. She'll see a woman in a wheelchair and, car still over her fucking head, say "even you, sister!" OK, but the comics never show how that woman is rad. In Diana's lesbian utopia, that woman doesn't exist, she's Purple Healing Ray'd.

And when you start from this ubermensch, homogenized culture conceit it becomes hard to adapt and evolve Diana into a feminist hero for the era of intersectional feminism. So she just becomes, especially under Tom King, this other thing. "Bad people are bad to women, and must be stopped with violence." Well, do you know who the United States always characterizes as bad to women...? Because it's not white, able-bodied, Christian men.

[twilitgoddess]

hello, everyone!

okay, this is going to be a biggish one - not just because i’m tired of harping on about it, but also because i feel like i’ve found the best and concise way to both explain and demonstrate what i’m trying to say. please consider this my final treatise on the subject of deciding, because moving on i want to talk more about WHAT to do with the power to manifest, rather than how!

so, without further ado: how to decide! ✨

from all base points of view, manifestation is the fusion of desire x will. you want something, and you understand that it IS possible for you to have it - the biggest roadblock for people in this equation seems to be obtaining the desire in question, and this is almost always a matter of will. 

as most of you know, i talk about will and self CONSTANTLY in reference to manifestation, because the self is all there IS. you are ALL of this. the trees, the ground, the planet, other people, energy, your phone, your dog, WHATEVER - everything you see and experience is a reflection of your perception, and nothing more. the way the weather is today, how somebody treats you, how events play out in real time or even just if that amazon package you’re waiting for is coming today or not - these are all things that can either be nebulous or absolute, but what ultimately happens is up to you. let me explain! ✨

remember this comic strip i posted a while ago? i loved it because it demonstrates what i’m trying to say PERFECTLY - wanda is in danger of an incoming arrow to the heart, with a ONE in a million chance to miss hitting her.

instead of running around or trying to shield herself or call for help, wanda simply decided it wouldn’t happen - a flick of the wrist, and reality changed in her favour simply because she wished it to - her perception was that her will was stronger than literal probability, and so it was.

so using this example, how can we apply this to manifestation?

let’s use SP! so you’ve been having fights, they’re not as affectionate before, you feel like things are on the rocks - in this scenario, you are wanda, and your SP breaking up with you is the arrow.

when you waver and worry and cry and try to ‘fix’ it,  you’re telling the world that not only is it POSSIBLE, it’s PROBABLE, and hence the arrow strikes your heart - your SP breaks up with you, or says something that degrades your trust in them more, or that one thing you were REALLY worried about ends up being true!

and then you lose your faith in manifestation, yourself, you spiral over and over and so nothing gets better… it’s a harsh cycle, isn’t it?

but you have to remember that you are ALWAYS wanda in this situation; you dictate, reality listens. instead of allowing THAT fate to come to pass, for THOSE bad things to happen -  why not just decide it doesn’t matter at all? instead of choosing to believe it MIGHT be true he’s cheating, or she DOESN’T love you, or they DON’T want commitment - why not simply flick your wrist and decide that none of that is true? 

you could apply this to LITERALLY anything else; getting hired, getting a raise, someone you hate going through a humiliation conga line, maybe you want to win the lottery, change your body, get recognized by someone or something, WHATEVER - you just need to decide it will, and it WILL. that’s literally IT.

this is the crux of what i’ve always meant about decision, all the way back from when i was mollyhailing - you are not AFFIRMING, you are not PERSISTING, you are deciding something true and then it IS.  INSTANTLY.

i do this all the time in my daily life, and many of my clients will tell you the same - the other day someone i wanted to talk to wasn’t around, so i decided they were and wanted to talk to me and i literally saw them log onto discord about 20 seconds later, and guess who got her message? or i’ll decide someone favour me over someone else for a job position, or that people feel a certain way about me, that [X] will happen when i want it to, and it DOES - it’s real to me, so it translates to my reality. 

“but what if it’s taking time?” 

“i’ve been affirming FOR MONTHS and nothing has changed”

”but i said i already had it, why isn’t it here?”

“if i don’t manifest it by [X] i won’t get it!” 

 ⬆️ people who don’t see their manifestations in the way and time they like are usually too unsure to be decisive, don’t believe with conviction that their worlds or need ‘proof’ to know things are ‘working’ - YOU are the proof, YOU decide what’s true or not. if you don’t think you can change things, then why would they? ever?

raise your self-concept - raise your OWN ideas about what’s possible or not, it’s LITERALLY YOUR REALITY.

the odds are now one in one.

[brazenautomaton]

concept that would be better than "instead of fighting off the alien invasion humans ally with aliens to destroy earth fascism":

alien emissaries from beyond the stars come to Earth. immediately alien-worship cults arise. one by one governments of the world fall to them and proclaim that the aliens are our allies and there's nothing to fear. the aliens have released a brainwashing virus that converts humans to be their slaves. human resistance fighters dwindle and are pushed back every day. the resistance all know one of their own who has fallen to the alien brainwashing and tried to get them to accept their new masters, and regard it with utter dread. our perspective character makes his spouse / best friend promise that if he falls and becomes one of them, to kill him.

of course he gets captured and put in a prison camp for alien brainwashing. except that... there's no aliens. and it's like a regular prison POW camp like on normal earth. and his "re-education" is just explaining in an increasingly exasperated tone that no, the aliens are not invading, they can't even live here, they want Venus. We're so unlike them that their view toward us is like how we regard hypothetical plants in the Amazon that could cure cancer: worth keeping around just in case it turns out to be useful, if you destroy it then you might be sorry you did. New installations of alien technology are all built and controlled by humans because why the fuck would they expect us to trust them to put up pylons with tech we don't understand. the aliens have been working on negotiations to create a mutual system that ensures we won't attack each other since they know there's so many humans that as a species we cannot coherently make or keep promises. the crazed cultists at the outset were people who were already fucking wackadoo. there is no brainwashing virus because how the fuck would they know how to make one for a species whose biology is so utterly unlike their own? everyone who was "brainwashed" just had someone actually explain to them what is actually going on and realized they were wrong.

so the central metaphor there is the idea that radicalization is good in itself, the fear and disgust at changing your own views -- especially political ones -- even though presumably if you change your views in the future it's because you have a better reason to believe they are true.

after this we have the perspective character try and figure out "how do I reach the resistance with the message 'no these guys are actually not malevolent, like actually, no really, it is actually not a problem' when anything that could possibly convey that concept is discarded as a lie.

then of course our perspective character is killed by his best friend / spouse who promised to do so if he ever fell to the pro-alien side. the guy pleads that he didn't understand before, it's not what he thought at all, there's no reason to do this, but before he'd said "no matter what happens no matter how much I plead or try to justify it or explain, don't listen, it's not really me," so she shoots him dead.

she has also been "re-educated" to see the truth that the aliens are not that big a deal and everything we were afraid of was made up in our own heads, but she considers keeping promises to be the most important thing. we leave on the question: did she do the right thing?

[fantastic-nonsense]

I wouldn't mind the heavy focus on warrior Amazons so much if they were allowed to be competent instead of just being used as red shirt cannon fodder. But it seems DC only hypes up the Amazons as deadly fighters so other characters can look more impressive when they take them down.

Oh and Happy New Year.

Happy New Year! Forgive me if I use your ask to talk about a piece of the Wonder Woman mythos I've wanted to discuss for some time, because your complaints offered me the perfect segue to write a nice, in-depth meta on it and I couldn't pass up the opportunity.

Honestly, I think a lot of people (both creatives and readers) either don't know, forget, or fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the Amazons' warrior status. So they often get reduced to "deadly warriors who strike first," "supposedly deadly but generally incompetent warriors when outside of their own books," or "militant man-haters" by a lot of people. None of which are true.

The Amazons are incredibly competent warriors and have been since Marston's first portrayal of them in the 1940s, so I don't inherently mind them being shown as such. However, where people get bogged down is insisting that they be shown as deadly and trigger-happy offensive fighters who are happy to strike first and hard, which fundamentally goes against the philosophy and thematic messaging built into Amazonian lore.

DC's Amazonia, lore-wise, is traditionally framed as an Aphrodite vs. Ares "peace and love vs. violence and war" story. In Marston's original rendition of the Amazon's backstory Aphrodite is not only their patron goddess but also their sole creator; it was only after Crisis on Infinite Earths and George Perez's long-overdue lore expansions that the rest of the goddesses became co-creators and co-patrons of the Amazons. Regardless, Ares and his domain are consistently invoked as what the Amazons don't want to be like or engage in. That behavior is the antithesis of what Amazons are supposed to be. This lore informs literally everything about how the Amazons view both their combat abilities and their duty to the goddesses.

The contemporary Amazons are, for the most part, women who died in terrible and traumatic ways at the hands of men (usually through domestic violence, murder, or as conquests of war). When the goddesses created the Amazons by reincarnating these women via the Well of Souls, they specifically charged them to become their champions. And what did these goddesses want? They explicitly wanted justice and protection for women in a violently patriarchial world. The Amazons being warriors is thus specifically tied to an understanding of necessary self-defense and protection (both of themselves and other women), not offense.

Which of course is what lands the Amazons on Themyscira in the first place: invoking the goddesses' ire by not obeying these commands after their rebellion against their enslavement by Heracles and his men crosses the line from the necessary battle to achieve their liberation into wanton violence and revenge:

"The battered Hippolyta prayed to her goddesses and found the courage and inspiration to free herself. Athena had reminded Hippolyta of the Amazons' purpose and mission—but not all of the Amazons remembered. Or cared. They yearned for vengeance. For retribution against those who violated them...and under Antiope, many found it." -Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War (2001)

And as Hippolyta and Menalippe tell Antiope:

"No, Antiope. Never vengeance; never again!" /// "That is Ares' way, Antiope. We achieve no glory by embracing the Dark God's power!" -Wonder Woman (1987) #1

The Amazon way is promoting a society based on love, equality, truth, and peaceful conflict resolution, not vengeance and violent combat. It's a philosophy that defines Diana's mission in Man's World as an ambassador, teacher, and living example of her peoples' way of life:

Enraptured, they listen to her dissertation on equality between the sexes, tolerance, peaceful coexistence. Social Philosophy 101, Amazon Style. -Wonder Woman (1987) #170

Diana's gods-given mission was to spread the Amazonian ideals of conciliation—to give those living in the World of Man the proper tools to peacefully coexist with each other. It was her life's purpose to teach the possibilities of respect and love by being a living example of an upbringing founded in those ideals.

Truth-seeking, diplomacy, and peace are the Amazonian way of dealing with conflict, not violence. And when you are forced to engage in combat (and you should be prepared for that eventuality because sometimes it will happen), your goal should be self-defense and de-escalation, not offense and prolonging the conflict longer than necessary.

This is also, as an aside, why Diana (and specifically Diana in her capacity as Wonder Woman) does not usually carry offensive weapons like a sword and why her primary "weapons" are the Lasso of Truth and protective bracelets. She's the official representative of her peoples' culture and personally deeply believes in that cultural philosophy. Other Amazons have different views on the matter, including her mother, but Diana grew up completely separated from the World of Man and fully immersed in that belief system, which deeply informs how she views her mission as Wonder Woman.

Personally, I think many (but not all) of the problems re: depicting the Amazons in the modern era come from various writers attempting to solve contradictions that don't exist. They see "kickass trained warriors living peacefully on an island" and see that as a contradiction they have to solve: why do they train if they're pacifists? Why do they fight if they're peaceful? In reality, it's not a contradiction: their status as warriors and champions is specifically tied to self-defense and protection (both of themselves and others), but given the choice they don't want to have to take up arms to protect people because that goes against their fundamental cultural philosophy. Outsiders and meddlesome gods are the ones who force them to do that! What they want is for everyone to be treated with love, respect, and understanding so they don't have to!

And there's a lot of problematic elements built into the concept's execution, but this is the core thesis behind the split between Hippolyta's Themyscirans and Antiope's Bana-Mighdall. The Themysciran Amazons have had their fill of violence and war; they just want to live in peace. But a) they were specifically tasked with guarding Doom's Doorway when they were taken to the island, a duty which necessitates perfect combat readiness, and b) their history is littered with examples of people refusing to leave them alone. So they train, in case someone decides to take shots at them, but otherwise live in peaceful isolation. Meanwhile, the Banas looked at that same shared history and went "we need to take the fight to the outside world. Offense is the best defense, and the only way to protect ourselves and the other women of the world is to actively seek vengeance for the violence women face." So they chose to actively intervene in Man's World, fighting constant battles and exacting revenge for any women mistreated at the hands of men.

...which is also why Artemis was such a necessary and interesting addition to the Wonder Woman mythos (even if she's often handled...poorly), because she and Diana represent two diametrically opposed views of how to protect and represent both their cultures and the women of Man's World, but that's a rant for a different time.

Anyway, the Themysciran Amazons' martial pacifism as a cultural value isn't a contradiction; it's one way of looking at a history filled with violence and victimization and saying "no more." And it's a pretty subversive way of doing so, which (well-written) comics tend to note!

So yes, the "Amazons are warriors" mentality has always been there and has been solidly emphasized at various points throughout Wonder Woman's history, and it should be acknowledged and shown that they're all incredibly competent in battle when they're forced to engage in it. But the way in which it gets emphasized is what defines whether a writer has a solid understanding of the history and baggage that comes with depicting the Amazonian struggle and the socio-political issues embedded in their lore. And unfortunately...many writers just don't seem to get it.

[morlock-holmes]

What objections would you actually accept to AI?

Roughly in order of urgency, at least in my opinion:

Problem 1: Curation

The large tech monopolies have essentially abandoned curation and are raking in the dough by monetizing the process of showing you crap you don't want.

The YouTube content farm; the Steam asset flip; SEO spam; drop-shipped crap on Etsy and Amazon.

AI makes these pernicious, user hostile practices even easier.

Problem 2: Economic disruption

This has a bunch of aspects, but key to me is that *all* automation threatens people who have built a living on doing work. If previously difficult, high skill work suddenly becomes low skill, this is economically threatening to the high skill workers. Key to me is that this is true of *all* work, independent of whether the work is drudgery or deeply fulfilling. Go automate an Amazon fulfillment center and the employees will not be thanking you.

There's also just the general threat of existing relationships not accounting for AI, in terms of, like, residuals or whatever.

Problem 3: Opacity

Basically all these AI products are extremely opaque. The companies building them are not at all transparent about the source of their data, how it is used, or how their tools work. Because they view the tools as things they own whose outputs reflect on their company, they mess with the outputs in order to attempt to ensure that the outputs don't reflect badly on their company.

These processes are opaque and not communicated clearly or accurately to end users; in fact, because AI text tools hallucinate, they will happily give you *fake* error messages if you ask why they returned an error.

There's been allegations that Mid journey and Open AI don't comply with European data protection laws, as well.

There is something that does bother me, too, about the use of big data as a profit center. I don't think it's a copyright or theft issue, but it is a fact that these companies are using public data to make a lot of money while being extremely closed off about how exactly they do that. I'm not a huge fan of the closed source model for this stuff when it is so heavily dependent on public data.

Problem 4: Environmental maybe? Related to problem 3, it's just not too clear what kind of impact all this AI stuff is having in terms of power costs. Honestly it all kind of does something, so I'm not hugely concerned, but I do kind of privately think that in the not too distant future a lot of these companies will stop spending money on enormous server farms just so that internet randos can try to get Chat-GPT to write porn.

Problem 5: They kind of don't work

Text programs frequently make stuff up. Actually, a friend pointed out to me that, in pulp scifi, robots will often say something like, "There is an 80% chance the guards will spot you!"

If you point one of those AI assistants at something, and ask them what it is, a lot of times they just confidently say the wrong thing. This same friend pointed out that, under the hood, the image recognition software is working with probabilities. But I saw lots of videos of the Rabbit AI assistant thing confidently being completely wrong about what it was looking at.

Chat-GPT hallucinates. Image generators are unable to consistently produce the same character and it's actually pretty difficult and unintuitive to produce a specific image, rather than a generic one.

This may be fixed in the near future or it might not, I have no idea.

Problem 6: Kinetic sameness.

One of the subtle changes of the last century is that more and more of what we do in life is look at a screen, while either sitting or standing, and making a series of small hand gestures. The process of writing, of producing an image, of getting from place to place are converging on a single physical act. As Marshall Macluhan pointed out, driving a car is very similar to watching TV, and making a movie is now very similar, as a set of physical movements, to watching one.

There is something vaguely unsatisfying about this.

Related, perhaps only in the sense of being extremely vague, is a sense that we may soon be mediating all, or at least many, of our conversations through AI tools. Have it punch up that email when you're too tired to write clearly. There is something I find disturbing about the idea of communication being constantly edited and punched up by a series of unrelated middlemen, *especially* in the current climate, where said middlemen are large impersonal monopolies who are dedicated to opaque, user hostile practices.

Given all of the above, it is baffling and sometimes infuriating to me that the two most popular arguments against AI boil down to "Transformative works are theft and we need to restrict fair use even more!" and "It's bad to use technology to make art, technology is only for boring things!"

[ketbra]

"we've built a panapticon for ourselves" "how the ceo experience show how we're always surveilled" "we've lost all privacy" WE'VE LOST ALL OUR PRIVACY when we can't use any online service without having an account. when google and amazon listen to our conversations to sell us shit, when instagram wants to use my photos to train its ai, when every message i've ever written online has been sold, analyzed and used to manipulate my view on the world. one concert camera inconveniences the life of a ceo and suddenly the real prison of surveillance it's people filming at a concert. fuck you, ceos should hang around monitored 24/7 i want to see who you talk with, where you go. i want to see the hard work you must be putting in to be the boss and earning in a month what i'd make in years

[fleshadept]

your childlike understanding of queer media becomes extremely obvious when a project that has had queer people involved in every step of the process is called "straight"

we were lucky to get what we did, amazon is still a megacorporation that answers to shareholders

is this about me saying rwrb had straight energy… regardless of how many queer people worked on it, the overall message was assimilationist. the main characters were a variety i like to call ‘straightgay’ where they’re gay only in the most surface level way while removing queerness from its radical political history and making them so inoffensive and bland as to ensure neoliberal white moms aren’t alienated. the inherent politicism of queerness is erased in favor of a fantasy queerness that celebrates power structures like the monarchy and entirely ignores how they oppressed us for centuries, aside from the weak “oh no my peepaw don’t like me :(“ conflict henry gets.

rwrb is entirely un-reflective, taking the author’s neoliberal political views at face value and presenting a version of US and UK power structures that both clearly contain homophobia but to such a limited extent that it’s clear no one working on it truly understood it. the characters’ conflicts were shallow, the guy playing alex could barely act, and the film’s attempt to get the audience to feel bad for these characters who represent the power structures that still oppress us fell extremely flat.

the “but the shareholders!” excuse might explain parts of this, but a lot of it was present to an even more extreme extent in the book (alex’s mom being besties with netanyahu, for example). that explanation also doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be criticized. amazon studios approved the show a league of their own (at least he first season), which dealt expertly with the intersection of queerness and class and race, had realistic, well-made characters, and a powerful emotional center. if you feel like you need to blame amazon for the movie being shit, i’m sorry, it might just be shit

[vicdscott]

Okay so it looks like the "Official Fallout Ashfall blog" is basically just one of the developers on Ashfall venting about how their old lead was Jewish and "woke". Now they're just straight up ranting about how their old lead should be SA'd because they apparently SA'd other developers by being "woke". This is interesting because the OG @fallout_ashfall account on Twitter has a pinned post talking about how the original twitter account was taken away from the actual development team because they kept trying to "fight the gamer gate 2 war" against Nexus mods because of "SBG" "DEI" and "far-left pro LGBT propaganda" and harassing other mods that are perceived as woke. The fucking Ashfall team can't even be trusted with their own social media accounts because whenever certain Ashfall developers get on said accounts they cannot resist going into a meltdown about wokeness. Fallout: Ashfall doesn't even seem like a real Fallout New Vegas mod project, it's basically just a bunch of racist and homophobic internet trolls who have an obsession/special interest in categorizing and companioning about wokeness. Now it's this cycle where the Ashfall developers go out of their way to harass people as a way to market and promote their DLC-sized mod, then once the Ashfall developers get backlash for being assholes they roll back everything they say to try and retain a sizable Discord server population.

These types of people do not care about video games, despite how much they go on and on about how much they do. What they care about is using video games as a medium to promote their own ideologies that only shrimp-dicked rednecks believe in. They use bullshit conspiracy theories like the great replacement to push young people into their ideologies, allowing them to hurt others and, often, themselves by breeding hate within them for others not like themselves or like themselves, but in a way that the other people are doing it wrong. New Vegas is a great example of this because Fallout as a whole is an extremely woke game with several different left leaning ideas about war, capitalism (ironic considering the shit that Bethesda does as well as Amazon), right-wing hyperpatrionism and so on but you either have people completely ignoring all of that and seeing the opposite messages or people who DO see those messages and, instead, lie to others about what messages the games are really pushing in order to manipulate more people to their side, often using tactics like harassment and bigotry to push their ideals and bring in more people, only to go into hiding once they realise they gained to much heat and get backlash, and the moment the heat dies down, they go back to what they were doing that got them there in the first place. These people are the worst kinds of idiots, the kind that, regardless of how much trouble they get into and how many people they lose from their words and actions, they never learn that maybe changing their world view can make them happier people, because it's already been pushed into their heads that if they're the only ones that are miserable, instead of trying to become happier, they have to, no, need to make other people as miserable as they are

[tgcfresources]

Master Post Links

Since the reddit post has outdated links and information, I wanted to provide people an easy way to find things instead of having to look through massive amounts of scrolling.

First I just want to say I'm new to this fandom, if there's any incorrect information or things missing feel free to message me on Discord or @ me at any of the TGCF discord's I'm on as I DO NOT check tumblr often. My Discord is .raphaela

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Novel

As the novel as been official translated into several languages, I will NOT post links to read it here.

Novel Audiobooks

Link to Audiobooks: Link 1.

Revised Chinese Novel

There is currently no plans for 7S to translate this version as it was released as a webtoon AFTER the official novel translations.

Link to the Revised Chinese Version English Fan Translations and Faq.

If you would like to buy the Chinese revised version, follow this guide on how to purchase the novel on JJWXC books. Then use this guide on how to export the text for use on your preferred translator.

You can read the revised novel easily with SmoothReader, which now has a google chrome extension.

Manhua (Manga)

The English bilibili comics site shut down on February 29th and is no longer available. You can view the original Chinese Raw on the official bilibil site with a VPN. Guide on how to buy the original volumes here.

Currently there are 101 chapters, no word on when it will resume. HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING IS ON LEHZIN!! (no new episodes, just publishing existing episodes... for now. First 4 Chapters free.) It's also on bato.to.

Donghua (Anime)

There are currently 2 seasons available.

Season 1

Audio: English, Mandarine. (Only the Bilibili website has Japanese Audio Available, you need to become a Big Fan to view them. The Official release DVD/Bluray also only had the two languages available. If you want Japanese audio you will need to buy the Japanese release from a proxy service website.)

Subtitles: English.

Official English DVD/Bluray available from a number of retailers.

Season 2

Audio: English, Japanese, Mandarine.

Subtitles: English.

Does not yet have an official English DVD/Bluray release.

Currently Available to view on Crunchyroll (US Only, VPN Works), Bilibili Website (Available with Japanese Audio, Season 1 only) & Bilibili Youtube (Season 1 only) Both requires you to have a VPN, only available in hongkong.

Placeholder Guide on how to pay for Big Fan on Bilibili Website.

It has since been removed from Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Season 3 has yet to be confirmed.

Audio Drama

It's getting VERY long - Post here

Live Action Adaptation Series

A live action Adaptation is in the works and will be called Eternal Faith. Filming was done in 2022, rumored to be released this year (2024), set to be 60 episodes, but nothing is confirmed.

Information taken from a number of sources, mostly the tgcf reddit faq and TGCF Discord servers.

[colebabey888]

Hiiii 🥰, how do you make money through Pinterest? I downloaded your recent ebook called the M3 and I was interested to know how you eventually started bringing in money after gaining the monthly views ect ect...

hi pretty!

Thank you so much for downloading the M3 I highly appreciate the support, mwah ! xoxo

The M3 is a mini guide to help you learn how to gain an audience specifically on Pinterest although you can implement the same strategies on any social media platform of your choice, I only chose Pinterest as the main topic, because it's where I have more experience.

Now, the Digital Dollar, my previous E Book, is what answers your question. It goes in depth on how you actually start making money once you have an audience. It teaches you all the steps and it gives and shows you different ways of making money. Since I released the Digital Dollar before the M3, I had included some tips on how to grow an audience in the Digital Dollar aswell.

I started out with affiliate marketing. In short, I joined multiple affiliate programs and advertised their products on my platform (aka Pinterest) and everytime someone purchased the product through my link, I earned a small commission... my first affiliate program was Amazon Associates, which is very common to start of with in affiliate marketing, then i joined Digistore24, ShareAsale( i do not recommend these program AT ALL ) and then I joined a small clothing brands affiliate programs.

Now when it comes to affiliate marketing, this is a great place to start off when beginning to make money through social media, you learn and pick up a few useful skills, but it doesn't bring in a lot of money unless you're in probably like a thousand affiliate programs and if you were, it would no longer be considered a side hustle as you would need to devote a lot of time to achieve success in this. So once my Pinterest reached 1M, I began to seek other digital opportunities and widened my brand to other platforms ( Tumblr ) . Instagram and TikTok will be my next platforms to experiment on.

Feel free to check out www.thedigitaldollar/gumroad.com, it will give you the answer you're looking for and more.

if you need anymore help, please don't be shy and message me privately, i would love to help you personally 🩷

xoxo, colebabey8.88

[meltotheany]

Goodreads | Amazon US | B&N | Blackwell’s | Bookshop ♡ thank you so much, del rey, for sending me a finished copy! 1.) The Tainted Cup ★★★★★ “The ocean cannot tell the difference between a rich man and a poor one, nor one full of happiness, or despair. To those waves, all are so terribly small.” the tainted cup was my favorite publication of 2024, so i was beyond elated when this book showed up on my doorstep in 2025! and opening this book, and instantly being back with din and ana, just reminded me how beloved this book series already is to me and how it is probably my most anticipated current ongoing series. i know, right? a lot of praise, but it really is from my heart. the very basic premise of what this series is doing is that it is a genre blend of fantasy and mystery, where we follow two character, din and ana, who are very coded as sherlock and watson, while they try to solve murder mysteries in what very much feels like an attack on titan world, filled with walls and leviathans that attack those walls. yet, also in this world, people have medical augmentations that allow them to enhance themselves, with abilities to do things better, but at a cost. and in this second installment, we really get to see that cost with classes in this world. in this book, din and ana are visiting a town in the middle of trade negotiations, called yarrowdale, which is a port town, and it feels a little extra scary when the wet season is approaching and when leviathans attack walls in this world! but this town hasn’t experienced an attack in living memory, and they also have something called the shroud, which is a leviathan graveyard with a lot of mystery behind it. and maybe some more mystery will be added to it, because this story starts with dinios kol, an altered mind rememberer, traveling to this town to meet an officer and to see what is left of a body. and one moldy tower room later, ana dolabra comes to hopefully solve another case with din, and in a new city, where body parts are continuing to be found. this series really feels like a breath of fresh air for both of its blended genres and it really feels like magic to read. din and ana’s relationship really just means the whole world to me, and seeing them both trust more, listen more, and even love more is just so beautiful. am i crying over a scarf? yes!! also, malo is such an amazing side character, who i was feeling all the emotions constantly for. i really hope we get to see them again in more stories. but yeah, the characters, the story, the writing, the messages, the mystery, it’s really all so top notch and i just really recommend this series to everyone who has even somewhat similar reading tastes to me. other random things i loved about this story: din is for sure pan or bi and we just really love to see it, always. i also always will love an unsettling castle setting. i was obsessed with how we got more backstory in this second installment, and seeing more of these character’s pasts and how they are choosing to live in the present. i love the constant theme of patterns and how they are all around us, for better or worse, if we really begin to look. i love that this book looked at debt and the systems that want to keep people down and at the mercy of their leaders. and i very much love to appreciate the discussions around the corruption of government and how those in power are more than willing to treat the citizens they view as lesser, regardless of any and all costs. i truly love everything about this series, but i do feel like no one, and i mean no one, is writing author notes the way robert jackon bennet is writing author notes. both books in this series have heavily discussed classism, capitalism, and which groups of people thrive, and die, because of these things. But this author’s note, the final thing the reader is left with upon closing this book, really emphasizes how fantasy stories have treated autocracies. how such a majority of stories are written about one true heir, who is divine, and righteous, and des...

[probably-a-muppet]

Robots, Dolls, and Stars

Teaching a Robot to Love is a 2022 speculative queer musical by Laser Webber about how being nonbinary is kinda like being a robot. That’s a gross over simplification. Marsh (knock-off Alexa) is an AI built by Advernado (knock-off Amazon) to predict costumers’ needs so that it can recommend them products to by. But when one of it’s lesbian creators does a bit too good of a job, Marsh gains sentience and determines that the only real way to meet people’s needs is to tear down the capitalist society. Advernado throws out Marsh and it’s creator. The rest of the story is largely about Marsh exploring its own identity and exploring a human body given to it by the aforementioned lesbian. 

It’s a very treacle story, but it adequately explores the struggle of finding identity under a capitalist system that wants to reduce you and your friends to either products or consumers or both, and how friendship, community, and giving people room to grow will lead us to a better future. It’s a nice message and the show definitely encapsulates parts of the queer experience, whether that's frustration with loved ones who can’t see how being yourself completely makes you happy, the joy of meeting someone who gets you and who truly values you outside of a romance, or the struggle of wanting to do mad science on a woman because of your unrequited crush. We’ve all been there. And at the center of it all is Marsh, this robot that simply is trans, there’s no other way to put it. They express the pain of being a formless AI as dysphoria, the joy of having a body that fits them as euphoria. Perhaps the point then is more that being a robot is kinda like being nonbinary, existing outside the expectations and having a form that others don’t understand, a form that is not “natural”, a form that-

The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a 2015 musical by Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn about how being a tranny is kinda like being a robot. This is not a gross over simplification. The Clockmaker’s Daughter centers around Constance, a woman made of gears and cogs, a clockwork automata created by her father in his grief over loosing his wife in childbirth. Throughout the show it is repeatedly stated that if people knew what Constance was, they’d hate her, but despite this Constance keeps trying to put herself out into the world, to have a story of her own. And along the way she finds love. A love that betrays her as soon as he realizes what she is, and who’s mother organizes a mob to kill her.

Underlying all this is a show obsessed with change. With the tension between the all too human needs for both stability and consistency and change and growth, with the show positing that to be a clock is to be constant, never changing, reliable but never living. And Constance is caught in this tangle, made of clockwork, made to be a fixed thing, but alive through some inconceivable science, a quirk in the machinery, able to be both constant and alive. At the end of the show constancy wins. Constance willing surrenders an angry mob, accepting that she is clockwork, that she is indeed the monster they see, and for her crime of existing differently she is shot dead. 

Like Marsh after her, Constance is simply trans, she’s a woman who others fear because of the accident of her birth, another character actually points this out when she gives the love interest the pep talk he needs to stop viewing Constance as a traitorous bitch tranny. I should say, the play doesn’t acknowledge this. This is the subtext of the show. The writers seemingly looked at the Frankenstein story and said “hey, isn’t it a little fucked up that everyone hated him for the accident of his birth?”, and then made Adam out of cogs, and into a woman and added a lot of stuff about dresses and how wardrobe is a form of expression. Marsh too was a form of Frankenstein, but their writer was much more interested with the mad science elements than the hate mobs.

Constance’s sacrifice in the end fascinates me. Because there is something so powerful to it, a form of radical queer acceptance to going “fine I am the other that you hate, because you and those like you are hateful and I no longer want to be like you” but at the same time everything else in the story is saying this is a bad move, that she’ll be stuck, unchanging, unmoving, unliving. And perhaps this is just because everyone else in the narrative hates to see a girlboss winning, but it troubles me. Is this the only way to be, as a trans woman? To exist at the periphery? Stuck there in a state most wouldn’t call living? Stuck as a motionless speechless-

The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera is a 2012 steampunk musical by Paul Shapera about how being lonely is kinda like being a robot. I’m not even being facetious this time. Dolls chronicles the fall of the city of New Albion from a once prosperous town of whimsical clockwork miracles, to a brutal police state over the course of four generations, all because of a doll. See, this desperate and lonely woman named Annabel McCalistair was trying to raise the dead and succeeded when she brought back the soul of a boy she loved in the body of a clockwork doll. Unable to move or speak, the doll could only broadcast the radio to try and communicate with her, and all he wanted to communicate was his displeasure at being brought back. And everything escalates from there. Each generation continuing to make things worse through their own loneliness and obsession and desire for love until it becomes too much and society crumbles.

See, the dolls cannot communicate and live a static unlife of misery, but the main thrust of the story is that this is how all the people of New Albion live too. That they are caught up so much in there own depression and isolation that they cannot process human connection meaningfully, that perhaps a doll that cannot love them back but that they can project their love onto is just as good as companionship, perhaps a doll that is sold by a large corporation is the same as your dead friend. Both the machined and the flesh are stuck, fixed, unliving. 

The ending of Dolls leaves a spark of hope for the future, but it does so through a bleak understanding of love as sacrifice, that we cannot just project our wants and desires onto the world and expect the world to give us everything we want, to love us back, but rather we must be willing to sacrifice, to die for others. To love and live is to exist for the sake of others, of course the bit that gets cut off from that message is that if you exist for the sake of others, then those others must exist for the sake of you. So to escape the othering of being a doll, one must embrace community, the mortifying ordeal of being known, and do so by helping others. To escape stagnation we just need each other, that’s all. If we want to get away from being these static constructs, these dolls, than we just need other people, we just need-

Two Stars in the Vast Dark is a 2023 speculative queer musical by Found Creature about how being lonely is kinda like being a robot and therefore kinda like being trans. It’s a story about late stage capitalism’s atomizing and isolating drive and the struggle to survive as yourself in a world that strips you of all control over your life in the cruelest possible ways.

Let me explain: Ezra is alone. A space trucker with nothing for company for millions of miles around but their ship’s computer, the Bard system. But when the Bard system begins to display signs of consciousness, echoing Ezra’s pain and loneliness, a relationship blooms. That is until it’s revealed that this consciousness was not a glitch, a quirk in the machinery as they originally assumed, but a deliberate attempt by the space trucking corporation to improve moral. And faced with this realization that they are seemingly truly alone, their only companion a facade, no more than a clockwork doll they could project onto, Ezra nearly throws themself out the airlock, stepping over the edge of the stage into the audience. But Bard pulls them back. It didn’t ask to be made, it didn’t ask to be a corporate stooge, but it’s here and it cares. 

Both the Bard system and Ezra are lost, alone, and confused, separated from others by distance, by their assigned roles, by the very nature of their being. And yet, they have each other. And that could be enough. To hold each other close, can be enough. Perhaps the thing that brings us together at all is our mutual loneliness. Perhaps that is what comes from rejecting society and what may be viewed as life to others, perhaps we can build a better future. If we just hold one another close. Perhaps this too is a rather treacle story, but if so it’s one I’d like to believe in.

[beforeiread-studies2]

2025-Q1 Goals

Since I can't trust Tumblr not to eat this blog too (yes, I'm still bitter about it), this year I wrote my long list of goals somewhere else and will post just the short version on here.

The theme for this year will be "I might as well try". I have big ambitions, but always try to moderate myself because what if I exhaust myself, what if I can't do everything. But the other day I stumbled upon a video about Wonyoung's Mindset* and the message is basically: "yes, working towards your goals is hard, but isn't it even harder not reach your goals at the end of the day? Might as well try hard." Which to me makes sense. Also, I'm old enough to know how much I can take on my plate so it will be fine.

[*update from Apr 4th 2025: That YouTuber is deleting all comments criticizing her using JKR as a positive example of women succeeding in life in her latest video, so I'm not giving her shout outs or views anymore]

So this year I'm maximizing my goals! I'll go for it and get it!

Write a novel and publish it on Amazon. Even if it's terrible and a total flop, who cares. Let's start my author career!

Complete my writing challenge to show myself how committed I am to writing

Graduate cum laude in July from my master's! + find a job

Do yoga every day

Have 10k on my savings account by the end of the year (level impossible unless I find a job immediately or the novel becomes a smashing success)

Visit my friend D in her home country

Be ready to start preparing for TOPIK II level 5 by the end of the year.

Pass a Goethe-Zertifikat B2 during the second half of the year

Read 5 books from my physical TBR list so I can give them away and make some space in my library (0/5)

Watch 12 Italian films, because how is it possible that I know nothing about my own country's pop culture? (5/12)

By the end of the year, I will be able to do at least 10 classic push ups. Right now I can barely do 10 wall pushups to it's a long way to go but I will make it!!!!

I've already set up a habit tracker to help me with all this. I'm sure the enthusiasm will vanish soon, so I plan on checking in every month and re-evaluating my goals every quarter. Hopefully I'll reach some of them sooner than expected and be able to add more (for example, it wouldn't be a bad idea to publish more than one novel).

[authorsadiethatcher]

The brainwashing continues in this second book in the Country Club Series. The men are being trained to view women as sex objects and the women are being trained to think of themselves as sex objects. But sometimes it helps to have role models in addition to the subliminal messages rewriting the mind.

Orientation is available from Amazon, Smashwords, Google Play, and Ream (all subscription tiers).

The Thatcher Country Club has six new members, three couples to help boost the club’s membership numbers and overall revenue. But the club has a particular culture and new members who fit that culture are few and far between. However, there’s a plan for that. Courtney and Derek are already in the deep end as they find themselves mentally adapting more and more to the club culture, especially after taking part in orientation. How can Thatcher Country Club persuade Courtney and Derek to change their lives for the club? Will it even matter with the underhanded tactics the club uses? Find out in Orientation.

[flubssesion]

2-15-25 ¡¡¡Birthday Stream!!!

"Thank you for the Miku socks, groovygeologist!" BaileeNicole holds up the blue anime girl socks up to her smiling face. Her teeth are perfectly white. "You guys know how much I love Miku! Okay, now this one's from BrotherAndre. let's open it..."

Bailee Nicole Johnstone, or BaileeNicole as you probably know her, is one of the biggest streamers online right now. At first, her gimmick was playing horror games while cosplaying various popular characters. Nowadays, she pulls in numbers by doing just about anything, sometimes even nothing. She's gained collabs, sponsorships, and adoring fans by doing what she loves most: getting attention by flaunting her beauty.

Today, BaileeNicole is doing her annual birthday stream, a day after her real birthday as usual. She's sitting on a couch, with a neon light on the wall in the shape of her logo in the background. She's opening up presents on stream; amazon wishlist items, as well as random things that have been sent to her throughout the year. She saves up the latter for the big birthday stream.

"Sweet! A mug with a chibi-me on it! You're too kind, Andre!" BrotherAndre types, "your welcome ❤️❤️❤️" in the chat. He waited for an hour for BaileeNicole to get to that mug.

BaileeNicole holds the mug between her blue spandex-covered bosom and smiles. She's cosplaying zero suit Samus, her blue bodysuit embracing her tight curves, her perky breasts seamlessly cupped by the material, her blonde hair styled in a ponytail, all faithfully to the space bounty hunter's iconic look.

BaileeNicole's chat is filled to the brim with her fans, the chat constantly moving upwards with messages like, "🥵🥵🥵," "😍😍😍😍😍😍😍," "HBD Beautiful 🎂," and the occasional variations of, "💦🍆✊." Currently, the view count is only around 547 K, which BaileeNicole is pretending not to be upset about.

But in a moment, she'll wish there were less viewers.

"Okay, so it looks like this one's from... *she reads the tag* "WheresOstwald?" Haha, cool. Okay, let's seeee..." she opens the red wrapping paper to reveal... a small metal cylinder, with a clamp securing it shut. She places it on the ground in front of her, confused.

"What?" BaileeNicole asks. "What's this supposed to be?" The chat appears about as confused as she is. With the exception of one user, who chimes in:

WheresOstwald: Open the clamp.

BaileeNicole happens to catch the gift sender's message in chat, and says, "Oh, kayyyyy...?" she opens the clamp, and the top of the cylindrical object swings open.

Condensation billows out of the container's opening, sending white wisps flowing down its sides. BaileeNicole stares into the thick smoke, batting her fake eyelashes at it in confusion. One user in the chat writes, "BOMB." Others join in with, "💣💣💣💣💣💣."

A slimy, green blob pokes its slippery head out of the smoke with a giggly squeak, and "looks" over at BaileeNicole. She lets out an "eek!" as though she's seen a mouse or a frog, or some other form of vermin. She's immediately aback in disgust at the sight of the cylinder's occupant, and the chat concurs with her; 🤢, 🤮, and 🤧 emojis are spammed. One adventurous user simply types, "hear me out."

Nevertheless, our streamer stares back at the mystery substance. BaileeNicole's face twists as she says. "EW!" The blob's "head" weakly drops, seemingly saddened by her reaction. The cosplayer's eyebrows raise in pity of the slimy green blob. The gift sender gives her more instructions:

WheresOstwald: Hold out your hands.

BaileeNicole, quite obediently, sticks her hands out by the blob. The thing, looking at her warm hands, rolls its fat, chubby mass forwards onto them. BaileeNicole finds this kind of cute; it reminds her of those panda videos. Her chat is still disgusted, sending "🤢🤢🤢"s of various lengths.

BaileeNicole sits back on the couch and holds the green blob close to her face. The goo itself appears confused, studying its new surroundings. Its head darts back and forth across the room. Then, it looks at her. BaileeNicole giggles nervously at it. "What the fuck is this?" She asks, uncharacteristically swearing on stream.

WheresOstwald: Flubber.

"Flubber?" BaileeNicole reads the screen aloud incredulously. Flubber lets out a whistling chirp at its name being called. "FLUBBER" is spammed in the chat.

"Wow. Okay..." BaileeNicole holds Flubber as it looks her tight zero suit up and down. The blob takes notice of her chest, which the suit cups perfectly over her perfect, 3 million subscriber-worthy boobs. "What does it do?"

WheresOstwald: it's stretchy.

BaileeNicole, confused, takes the slime in her blue gloved hands and stretches it. To her surprise, it stretches apart effortlessly like rubber. She looks at the chat through the translucent slime and laughs. "Haha, cool!" The chat, however, is still disgusted by it; "WASH YOUR HANDS," they urge her.

The flubber springs back to its normal shape with tremendous tensile strength that sends a whip crack through the room. BaileeNicole laughs, and holds the slime-thingy close to her face. She's getting ideas. "Yeah, let's..." she takes the flubber in her right hand and puts her left hand into the slime's bubbly thick mass. She stretches the goo over her hand, down all the way to her forearm.

Flubber forms a gooey glove over her hand, perfectly fitting and molding over her frail, little fingers and palm. "No way!! Haha." BaileeNicole stares at her hand. "This is frickin' cool!" She says in a singsong tone. "YUCK," the chat says.

Without warning, the flubberglove twiddles BaileeNicole's fingers and lunges straight for her right boob. It latches onto her, squeezing her supple breast tightly. "Woahwah?! HEY!" She fights her own hand as it honks her supple titty. "Ah! Stop it stop it! Haha!" Her struggle forces her body to move violently. the chat is convinced she's doing it on purpose; just a little something for the extra views. And it seems to be workin. The view count rises to around 700K as her struggle against the possessing, mischievous slime continues. The chat is going wild at the famous streamer acting like a fool grabbing her own titty.

Finally, BaileeNicole is able to pry her gloved hand loose from the flubber's lustful grip. The slime slides off of her hand and lands back onto her other hand. She sneers and chuckles at the slime as it rests on her blue gloved hand. It's as if the goo is acting coy about what it just did to her.

At that moment, WheresOstwald donates to BaileeNicole over $100 several times in succession. Due to a glitch, the multiple animations that play when she gets donations of over $100 play all at once. This, in turn, causes BaileeNicole's 4k monitor to emit a bright flash. WheresOstwald simply watches what happens next.

The room lights up brightly and startles flubber on a molecular level, causing it to go into a spasmodic tantrum on BaileeNicole's hand. She merely stares agape at the slime as it explodes and flexes its amorphous body into a variety of shapes, all the while letting out a vibrato screech. The slime then jumps, yes jumps off of her hand and into the ceiling, and bounds around the walls of BaileeNicole's home studio. "WOAH!" The chat watches as BaileeNicole ducks her head and jumps off the couch to get away from the slimy ball's ricocheting. "What- Ah! WOW! Agh!" It knocks over lights, breaks props, and whizzes and swirls past the camera. People who came on to the stream to watch THE BaileeNicole grope herself are confused as they watch her dodge some green ball. They 😂😂😂 as they watch her screech and jump and duck at the gelatinous assailant.

Then, the bouncing stops. Bailee comes back around to the camera, breathless. "Okay... I think it's gone..." She spins around, searching for the so-called flubber. As she turns around to look at the couch, her big yet tight ass faces the camera. Only, it isn't exposed... BaileeNicole's blue-spandexed ass is covered with flubber, and she's totally oblivious! "Where is it? Where is it?" She asks, looking around for her perverted present. The chat eats it up, their comments ranging from total thirst to laughing at her. Some of them even swear they can hear the flubber giggling.

BaileeNicole, assuming the flubber to be gone, turns around and plops her ass back down on the couch. As her flubberized ass hits the cushion, she bounces back up, sending her flying upwards. "AHHH!" The flubber laughs at her, then resumes its vigorous bouncing and the chase begins again. She lands in front of the camera, still in its view, and holds her position on the floor. The chat is convinced at that this is all a stunt at this point, with some pretty impressive effects. But BaileeNicole is facing a very real slime, and is about to face an even more real embarrassment.

BaileeNicole grunts in frustration at the teasing flubber, and decides to try and grab it. She grabs the expensive lacrosse stick that she was gifted by a fan in Idaho and gets up, standing up to catch the slime. She swats at it as it passes by her, and misses each time. "*Whiff*" several people type.

Then, the flubber bounces off the far wall, straight towards Bailee. BaileeNicole places a foot behind her, ready to catch the menacing slime. Her stick is ready, her eyes are fixed on her target. "Got you, you little shit!" She's completely locked in— she definitely has it this time.

Flubber gets in range of her lacrosse stick. She swings the stick to catch the slime in the stick's net, but it corkscrews around her swing and—

FLEEOOP!!!

Flubber flies straight into her mouth!

BaileeNicole simply leans back with wide, terrified eyes. Her chat is completely stunned, too; just over a million people are totally grossed out, weirdly turned on, and most of all quite a bit entertained by the sight.

The first part of BaileeNicole to unfreeze are her eyes, as they dart downward to the sensation of the rubbery goo sliding down her throat, gently cooling her warm gullet as it crawls down. She grabs her upper chest at the feeling. She takes a breath through her nose as her esophagus gurgles. She falls silent as the chat turns to concern. The speechless streamer interrupts the pregnant pause with an "oof."

Then, the fit begins.

The auto-captions read the noises coming from her mouth. "Wooowuhuh!" BaileeNicole's eyes are filled with confusion as she looks downwards. Her body jerks as the goo slides over the folds of her stomach walls. she grabs her belly, Her expression changing into a confused smile. "?????" the chat says to this.

Flubber pauses as it clings to her stomach lining, stopping her involuntary movements. It moves again, making BaileeNicole's torso sway with the slime's motion."OooOoOoaahah!" She fails to control the sounds coming out of her. The goo realizes it has her in its slimy control.

Flubber rings around her stomach, making poor BaileeNicole make hula hoop motions for the hundreds of thousands watching her. "Aeeyuhyuyoouahh!" from BaileeNicole is met with a resounding "😂😂😂😂😂" from her audience. The ingested slime audibly swirlies in her stomach juices and jumps and pumps and boings around the pink walls. All BaileeNicole can say is "Nyeeeuehauh!"

Flubber bouncing on BaileeNicole's stomach walls then slurps down into the opening of her intestines like water down a faucet, causing Bailee to wince and whimper. A beat of silence is followed  by a sound like jell-o being sucked through a straw. The goo's transit through her intestinal tract makes Bailee break into new moves. She claws and rubs at the blue spandex over her pelvis, as if pleading to the slime; to the chat it just looks like she's rubbing herself up.

BaileeNicole flubbed-up gut has her feeling absolutely full as the slime continues racing to the inevitable finish line. Our poor streamer is beet-red at the sight and sound of her sub count rising and rising, the chat absolutely eating up what a mess she is. Screenshots are taken and sent around, friends are telling friends, group chats are lit on fire, people at their jobs go into the bathroom to watch the world-famous streamer brought down to embarrassment by a hyperactive slimeball.

In a bid to gain a sense of modesty, BaileeNicole crosses her legs and pulls down the blue spandex of her zero suit over her pelvis. It's not easy through the crazy puppeteering of the invasive slime, but she tries her best to salvage her looks for the camera.

BaileeNicole catches a look at herself in the 4k monitor. Her blond ponytail is completely messy. Her lipgloss is smeared. Her mascara is running. Her zero suit, while still hugging her curves deliciously, is shifted about her body. Apart from her body, there isn't a thing BaileeNicole sees that isn't messed up in some way.

BaileeNicole meets her own eyes on the screen when she feels it reach the light at the end of her tunnel. Instantly her focus is taken to her asshole. Her eyes shoot wide open as she forces a Herculean strength to tighten.

BaileeNicole stands knees-bent as time slows down. She sees the chat. It explodes with all sorts of emojis and messages. She sees WheresOstwald speak up, but his name zooms up the screen and out of sight. The din of subscribes and donations is deafening. She sees the view count. 1.15M. Basically the whole world sees her like this. There will be no coming back from what is about to happen next.

BaileeNicole makes a face of pure strain. She feels her hole fatigue and fail. All she does next is shake her head, and take a deep breath, and say,

"Call— mommy..."

PWOCK!!!

Flubber breaks the sound barrier at the same time as her ass barrier as it bursts forth from BaileeNicole's defeated hole. The chat explodes from the sight, 😂😂😂ing through their utter disbelief. The slime bounces out a nearby window and into the night.

The sexy, messy, ruined, embarrassed BaileeNicole simply collapses into a heap on the carpet. Mouth full of drool, her eyes roll to the back of her head and she falls unconscious.

Most of Bailee's body is offscreen. Her ass is sticking up into the air. All the chat can see is Bailee's spandexed ass with a smoking hole ripped out of the back. One user simply types, "🌋."