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I am 100% serious when I say that the cowboy in Dracula is completely thematically fundamental. The story stops working every time ppl try to take him out. Its why they just end up making it another story entirely.

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was at the lake with friends and thought to myself “it would be so cute if shuake swam in a lake together” and so i made my dreams into reality

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Kurama 🌹

Yu Yu Hakusho

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the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

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Worst part of popular left wing AI discourse online is that there's absolutely a need for a robust leftist opposition to use of cognitive automation without social dispensation to displaced human workers. The lack of any prior measures to facilitate a transition to having fewer humans in the workplace (UBI, more public control over industrial infrastructure, etc) is a disaster we are sleepwalking into - one that could lock the majority of our society's wealth further into the hands of authoritarian oligarchs who retain control of industry through last century private ownership models, while no longer needing to rely on us to operate their property.

But now we're seemingly not going to have the opposition we so desperately need, because everyone involved in the anti-AI conversation has pretty thoroughly discredited themselves and their movement by harbouring unconstrained reactionary nonsense, blatant falsehoods and woo. Instead of talking about who owns and benefits from cognitive automation, people are:

Demanding impossibilities like uninventing a now readily accessible technology

Trying to ascribe implicit moral value to said technology instead of the who is using it and how

Siding with corporations on copyright law in the name of "defending small artists"

Repeating obvious and embarrassing technical misconceptions and erroneous pop-sci about machine learning in order to justify their preferred philosophy

Invoking neo-spiritual conservative woo about the specialness of the human soul to try to incoherently discredit a machine that can quite obviously perform certain tasks just as well if not better than they can

Misrepresent numbers about energy use and environmental cost in an absurd double standard (all modern infrastructure is reliant on data centers to a similar level of impact, including your favourite fandom social media and online video games!) to build a narrative AI is some sort of malevolent spirit that damages our reality when it is called upon

It's a level of reactionary ignorance that has completely discredited any popular opposition to industrial AI rollout because it falls apart as soon as you dig deeper than a snappy social media post, or a misguided pro-copyright screed from an insecure web artist (who decries a machine laying eyes on their freely posted work while simultaneously charging commission for fan-art of corporate IPs... I'm sure that will absolutely resolve in their favour).

It would be funny how much people are fucking themselves over with all this, except I'm being fucked over to, and as a result am really quite mad about the situation. We need UBI, we need to liberate abundance from corporate greed, what we don't need is viral posts about putting distortion filters on anime fan-art to ward off the evil mechanical eye, pointless boycotts of platforms because they are perceived to have let the evil machines taint them, or petitions to further criminalize the creation of derivative works.

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the mundane

I can't help but to ask the question of what it’s like to be the main hero(s) and then fall into the normality of an endless routine once the big bad is no more. Do they miss the thrill of not knowing if they will make it out alive? Do they miss not having peace? Do they secretly wish for evil to return? The whiplash must be really, really hard to cope with at times.

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cant wait for tumblr to compress this drawing real bad💯

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I FINISHED P5R i fucking love bitter akechi sm

i have more i want to draw so ill be momentarily back into my p5 drawing mood again!

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hanging out with akechi during third semester

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I love your postcanon shuake AU where they're just traveling the world and getting into shenanigans LOL ❤️❤️ They seem like they would be the main leads of the funniest and cutest romcom ever

thanks so much, i think about them a lot lol and absolutely! in my head, shuake in general are on each other's (freak) wavelengths about 80% of the time, and it's that other semi-rare 20% where complications arise,

hence them taking like several months to officially get together after they start traveling alone!

(Akechi thought the romantic proposal was implicit in his offer for Akira to come traveling the world with him. It was not.)

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Your dislike or phobia for certain animals never outweights the animal's right to exist and live, i keep running into this behavior and i don't know why some folks never got to learn that. Who do you think you are

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To anyone who is following me for sengen and is wondering about Twin Primes, I have NOT dropped that fic. I have every intention of finishing it, I've just been on a bit of a break from Dr. Stone.

I don't know when the next chapter might be done, possibly not for quite a while, but I have a plan for the fic and I haven't abandoned it. The tab is always open on my laptop bc I consider it one of my active WIPs and I will get back around to it at some point.

I know I mostly post shuake so there might not be anyone here who cares about Twin Primes, but I wanted to put this out there just in case.

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[ persona 5 | akeshu ] Haven't drawn these bois in literal years 😭💕

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More sickeningly sweet domestic stuff