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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Delicious. We love to see it.

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AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

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perhaps I love him

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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Nines: I have the sex appeal of a math textbook

Gavin: I don’t know, dude, I’ve never met anyone that opened a math book and didn’t say “phck me”

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Is the Gatsby musical an accurate retelling of the original novel? No.

Does it romanticize the fuck out of Gatsby and Daisy? Yes.

Is the idea of the green light being a metaphor for romantic love entirely missing the point? Yes.

Is it a really, really fun time with gorgeous music, beautiful visuals, and a wildly talented cast? You're goddamn right

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There is a sort of cognitive dissonance between Baizhu and Qiqi's dynamic as shown in game vs. the way it's described in one of Qiqi's character stories. In scenes that feature both we often see Baizhu doting on Qiqi like a parent would, while Baizhu is described as being unable to say "I love you (the most)" to Qiqi with any sencerity. And tbh that is just typical asian dad behavior but there is definitely more to it than that. Like, the likely intended explanation is that Baizhu is approaching the situation (situation being that Qiqi is buffering from being unable to complete a task) with a very clinical mind, he knows Qiqi needs help but doesn't realize that it is an expression of love that is the important part and not really the words themselves. Like entering a password. Whether or not Baizhu truly does or doesn't care about her is up for interpretation, though the character story is an example of Baizhu failing to meet Qiqi's emotional needs, not from any lack of trying however (yay dysfonctional family dynamics).

There isn't a canonical explanation for why Baizhu is like that, I think. Any further reading into Baizhu's character from here on out is mostly headcanon and probably not intended by the writers. It's kinda funny how much of the more convoluted aspects of Baizhu and Qiqi's dynamics could be rationalized by his backstory though. Like, he's an orphan, for one. It isn't clear how young he was when his parents died, and he was taken in as an apprentice pretty soon after. But like, how would that affect how he approaches familial relationships? He would've been taken in by his master in a similar way to how Qiqi was taken in by him, except Baizhu has sworn of any apprentices with the whole "this contract will end with me" thing. Does he still try to apply the dynamic he and his master had with Qiqi? If his parents died early enough then he wouldn't have a functional frame of reference for what fatherhood should look like, it's possible his own master was a father figure to him, but how would he know that? How would he tell if his master was acting as a father or just as a mentor? Circling back to having sworn off taking on apprentices, Baizhu was definitely not planning on raising a child at all ever. How many mixed feelings would he have about having a child shoved into his care? Does he feel like he's bound to her by duty and research? He is already used to the role of caretaker, being a literal doctor and all. Wouldn't it be fucked up if he feels guilty about being unable to express genuine affection when Qiqi needs it but still flounder at figuring out a way to do so truthfully considering he himself has not spoken to his own parents since before the plague killed them and his master most probably wouldn't have outwardly expressed familial love like that? When prompted on random for Baizhu to make a declaration as weighty as "I love you" wouldn't it be sad if the only way for him to say it out loud is to detach the words of any meaning? Is it possible he tries to make it up to Qiqi by absolutely spoiling her whenever he can because he hopes Qiqi will understand that he cares for her through his actions rather than words?

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Bruh I just painted this little pebble on the left and showed it to the little dude back at home and now he’s crying in the corner tf do I do now

It’s been more than a year since “The Voyage” came out and tbh it’s still one of the works I’m most proud of having written so far

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Remmick after Sammie refused to join his racially blind Irish revival vampire BORG collective:

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I had to wait a whole year to post this 😂

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crack headcanon that kaeya sends varka vaguely threatening and ominous letters asking when he's going to bring the horses back. 'how can i be a cavalry captain with no cavalry, varka.' 'day 4647363 of having to travel to dawn winery on foot' 'I'm beginning to forget what a horse looks like. sometimes I still hear their whinnies.'

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😂😂😂😂😂

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He was speaking Cantonese but as a Chinese person who speaks both dialects 100% agreed

when grace chow said that white devil spoke chinese ! and started making a molotov cocktail, that’s exactly how i feel when white ppl speak mandarin like she got it perfectly

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The Blues scene with all the generations of music being summoned at once and everyone dancing in a trance and the Irish river dance scene with the haunting music and the hypnotising dance and the other Blues scene where the singer's belting and the dancers feet smacking the ground coordinated perfectly with the violence in the other room were literal masterpieces like these three scenes deserve an Oscar in Directing Cinematography and Music they were incredible

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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

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Poor Sammie played literally his first gig and immediately got the worst fan to ever exist