#which is singular

[deniable-masterpiece]

my two fathers and my two brothers

i was gonna do matt looking confused or disturbed by what someone said but i forgot he can’t see😭

[puppetslooselystrung]

i like this concept... the shit family

[squeakadeeks]

shout out to the conversation i had with our research student: "I like to draw in my spare time" "what do you draw?" "usually character art, like expressions and stuff" "you draw people?" "yeah" "so who do you draw? like matt damon or someone else?"

anyway i'll be thinking about that forever

[tanadrin]

i think one of the most interesting things about generative ai is not just that it was a pretty unexpected thing--seems like very few people were sitting around ten years ago imagining we would have this technology in 2025--but that i think it is also pretty difficult for people who aren't well versed in the technical background to trace how we got here from there, you know? like when the internet became a big thing, i think if you were familiar with the concept of the telephone or even just one computer networked to another somewhere else you could grok the fundamental concept: it's just a bunch of electronic machines connected to a bunch of other electronic machines; it's an extremely cool piece of engineering, but packet-switching is not (at least at the nontechnical level) that conceptually different from a telephone exchange.

and you could extend this backward pretty far. electronic computers from mechanical ones; the telephone from the telegraph. likewise future developments that emerged from the internet: smart phones are not to conceptually different from computers and radios, they just ("just") are very sophisticated devices that use new versions of those older technologies. and a lot of technology is like that. if you understand a cannon you can understand the basic principle of the space shuttle.

gen ai seems... not like that? that kind of, i guess, statistical approach to problems in computer science wasn't invented in the 2010s, i gather it's a lot older, but it was mostly a niche research topic, i think? and there were some nifty demos of still pretty crude versions of stuff like deep dream, but it's not like we'd had twenty years of this kind of stuff being part of the wider milieu of technology in everyday use before gen ai started getting good. it's weird! it wasn't an accident, people had been working on this stuff for a while. but in some ways it feels like the discovery of antibiotics, one of those medical breakthroughs that happens just as kind of an a priori discovery of something useful out in the world.

and because computers are already omnipresent in our lives, unlike a medical breakthrough, it's suddenly everywhere. and yeah often it's used or promoted in ways that are pretty obnoxious, but even still, no wonder it provokes feelings of dislocation and anxiety. technologies which emerged much more gradually into society have provoked just as much unease. and the idea that it might keep getting more useful, as much more useful as computers have gotten over the last, say, 25 years--that's just hard to fathom from any angle. i think it's as hard to estimate what kind of social impact that would have as it would have been to anticipate all the social impacts of the internet back in the 1980s.

and it kind of seems a pity to me that the three camps in the discourse right now generally seem to be "ai is useless and stupid and a fad and a scam", "ai will destroy the human race", and "ai will usher in a post-scarcity utopia," because the possibility that ai is neither a complete mirage nor the end of human civilization as we currently understand it is much more interesting. and much harder to speculate about.

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

Bold words coming from you, Sherlock.

[crow-caller]

If you find using alt pronouns tricky or unnatural, just a bit weird that you maybe avoid it as much as possible— I'm talking it/its, neopronouns like ae/aer.

Practice. That's it.

It is okay to find these odd to use, because you are not used to using them. It isn't that it/its is magically uncomfortable to use to refer to another human, it's that you haven't used it for people before and your brain isn't used to it. It's okay to have trouble formatting neopronouns, because unlike she/her/hers/herself you don't have experience using that pronoun and it's variants

Practice! Write something starring a character using those pronouns. Find a character who uses them you can write about. Just scribble out sentences. You need to train your brain a little, and that's normal.

Did you ever have trouble using they/them? I did! People who complain using singular they/them feels wrong are experiencing the same thing. I struggled to conjugate it at first because I'd not used it in such a way. Now it is effortless. You just aren't used to it. You should practice.

[caprart1]

i had to find this in my likes but i'd love to see seph in this or alucard !! if it's not slutty enough forgive me T_T

(1/2)

Sephiroth just wearing this is slutty enough to me

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Love putting on this cheap ass robe it makes me feel like I’m the emperor’s only male concubine that gets assassinated by the court for taking up all the emperor’s time without being able to produce an heir which results in a retaliatory culling of the noble houses by the grieving emperor, tearing apart the political stability of the nation resulting in an influx of foreign influence vying for control over the region due to the presence of a rare mineral endemic to the nation alone which can be refined to produce a potent panacea or turned into the component of a deadly weapon which turns into a large scale international stalemate as the emperor would rather stay in his room producing tear-jerking paeans about the goodness of my nature and the warmth of my embrace that future queer historians would discover held treasure troves of double entendres that would become commonplace slang in the peaceful future secured by the long-term cohabitation of these foreign nationals, themselves away from home and seeking human connection, which fostered cultural exchange and later mutual understanding and the establishment of permanent armistice that would later be attributed to me through my death and immortalize me as a symbol of peace through noble sacrifice and establish my life story as the base archetype for all doomed romance stories for millennia, even tho in reality I was just an errant washing boy with poor impulse control and a breeding kink that wouldn’t quit

It’s also pretty soft !

[starlingstalk]

Morro and Cole chatting it up in the ether

[contamination-zone]

Comic ah, taking some place near the end of the Fresh and CB plotline in Foretale :-]

[littlebitofdnd]

Sandra-Lynn and Sklonda are having a "What Do We Do About Kristen" phone call as we speak

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[iro-shuiro]

some snapes that are semi finished.

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow, I am amused that solangelo fanon was so tunnel-vision in like 2014 that in the midst of crawling through literally every time Will had popped up in the series prior, somehow the ONE singular instance of Will referencing something that the fandom did absolutely nothing with was the thing Rick then decided to draw out into being a major character trait for Will.

Like. Nico eats McDonalds once and it becomes a huge fanon thing, but Will references Star Trek and the fandom doesn't make a peep until Rick explicitly canonizes that he's a huge sci fi nerd. and Rick doesn't even keep it consistent! He changes it so Will is a Star Wars nerd instead of Star Trek. smh 😔 /lh

[fagtainsparklez]

did u guys know i had a huge smurfs hyperfixation as a child. anyways modern smurf writers love the “one of the smurfs don’t feel like they fit in” bit for some reason. like the latest trailer dropped for the new movie is about “no name” smurf having his special trait be the lack of anything unique which…. already existed. his name was nobody. they couldn’t even get that right 😭

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[lacamorte]

mouf