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I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.

"We are all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion stars, molecules that do not understand politics, policies or differences. Over a billion years, we foolish molecules forget who we are and where we came from. In desperate acts of ego, we give ourselves names, fight over lines on maps and pretend that our light is better than everyone else's. The flame reminds us of the piece of those stars that lives on inside us, the spark that tells us, "You should know better". The flame also reminds us that life is precious, as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it's gone forever, and there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out tonight, I wonder some days if we can see anything at all."

"All life is transitory. A dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you in a little while, in the place where no shadows fall."

Capt. John Sheridan : I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it sometimes.

Delenn : Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

"The universe puts us into places where we can learn. They are never easy places, but they are right. Wherever we are is the right place and the right time. The pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being born."

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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For those who missed it, Koi lanterns are 20% OFF on my Etsy right now! Sale ends on May 7th!

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obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

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Firefix ios is currently ad blocking on all sites seemingly without any ad blocker and idk if it’s something I did but I’m saying it real quiet in case that interests anyone 👀

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ffs...

My wife is going to have surgery, my cat is going to have surgery, and I am on a teacher's pay. To all of you begging money here, fuck off. The only charity I give to is a rescue for big cats and my own damn classroom.

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hey man i think it's dead

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i reactivated deviantart. while any and all respect and love i had for the site is gone, i have also promised a long time ago that sunstone would be a free to read webcomic first so instead of doing it because i like the site, i did it because i like the people reading the story. so anyways, yeah. go nuts. all the pdfs are there up to the most recent episode. enjoy! https://www.deviantart.com/stjepan-sejic

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yes, thank you, this is everything I've been thinking about the new damn series in a nutshell. I just want a fun, good comic and the only good tmnt comics I've seen in like the past ten years are anything stan sakai put out. I don't want misery turtles, I want ninja turtles.

I really wish the TMNT comics would get out of this "the brothers hate each other" era. It's beyond old at this point and just makes them all unlikable assholes.

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Chapters: 9/? Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Hermione Granger Additional Tags: Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Dark Magic, Creature Draco Malfoy, Slow Burn Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Work In Progress Summary:Draco's family has failed the dark lord, and the penalty is an impossible task as punishment, with a terrible curse on top. But with his friends (insofar as Slytherins measure such things), his comrades in arms (reluctant at best), and the blessing of ancient gods (just as bad as a curse, really), Draco will find a place between two fractured worlds of light and dark.