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thesis: calling things "biblically accurate" isnt funny anymore

antithesis: saying "none of these words are in the bible" isnt funny anymore either

synthesis: theres some level of biblical relevance that will make jokes funny but we havent found it yet

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A lot of people try to explain this without knowing anything about how voice synthesis works, so here's my breakdown on No, Hatsune Miku Is Not AI, And No, AI Voice Synthesis Is Not Bad.

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I need you to understand: doomed by the narrative means that you must be bound by tragedy in order to progress the events/themes of the story. A fridged wife is doomed by the narrative, because in order to progress the story her own story must end. It doesn't mean 'bad things happen to this character'. It is a kind of textual fate.

The entire premise of Dungeon Meshi, however, is that Falin can be saved. If Falin cannot be saved, literally everything in the story falls apart. If it is not up for debate whether Falin can survive her circumstances, then nothing moves forward, the story just ends with her tragedy. Because Falin's capacity to be saved and live is motivating the characters, the series Dungeon Meshi exists.

Got bitches saying Falin is doomed by the narrative. Are you serious. Not only are the themes of the story completely irrelevant to her death/suffering the author is cognizant of this fact and didn't kill her off & then utilized her LIFE, her RESPLENDENT NEED TO EXIST, as a way to bring the themes together. baby she is not doomed she is celebrated by the narrative! The narrative reveres her! The narrative is making up reasons not to doom her! Learn more phrases for the love of god

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This image got blasted on twitter for being impossible to comprehend and completely unhelpful it's good to see multiple go "what the fuck does this mean. What is Miku then" on here too. Do you think Midjourney (company) and its users (fans) and the dedicated accounts to the product (producers) did not consent to Midjourney's existence as a product

this is going viral on the tweeter currently so. for you also. miku is not ai!!

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Precision art lines and color spreads

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y r they this

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I still remember the nurses who laughed at me after major spine surgery when I was walking around with my butt out because I didn't know to bring shorts to the hospital and wasn't allowed to double my gowns due to the incision location. I still remember the aid who told me that I smelled after days of being unable to move my limbs or get out of bed while sweating uncontrollably from spinal shock and agonizing pain. I sat and cried after that because I had overcome so much that hospital stay just to be dehumanized. Never did they ask if I wanted something to cover up or assistance bathing. Just laughed at me and joked with each other.

I also remember the nurse who checked on me extra during the night with a hospital stay in the middle of covid because they kicked my mom out and I have trauma about being in the hospital alone. She made extra visits to make sure I was okay just like she promised my mom. I remember the nurse who held my hand and called me honey as my limbs trashed and shook from spinal shock.

Basically being a good nurse and being a bad nurse to patients does stay with a person. It's been years and many other hospital stays since a lot of these instances and I still remember them clearly. I know nurses are burnt out, traumatized, and exhausted. Nurses deserve better treatment. But so do patients.

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Strange how people keep saying that "Shuro hates in Laios the same traits he supposedly loves in Falin", which is...

Seriously, look at him and his dialogue - does he hate Laios for being a monster freak? For being nerdy and weird and loving nature? For eating bugs? No, that's not it.

Shuro hates* Laios for being so profoundly socially inept (from his perspective).

The key difference between Touden siblings isn't that Falin is a pretty girl - the key difference is that Falin is caring and accommodating to other people, and Laios is awkward and unobservant, seemingly egotistic at the surface level.

(others have already written wonderful essays on why and how they grew up like that)

It has to be noted that Shuro is a sheltered noble from a land where proper etiquette is paramount - he is used to people being incredibly subtle AND incredibly observant around him. He comes from a high-context culture where everyone assumes things based on lots of social cues and shared understanding of context. That's not even a matter of being neurotypical, that's his culture (in addition to his personality and brain chemistry)

He is also rather introverted as person and doesn't have many friends. Even his attachments and emotions in childhood are expressed subtly, in a restrained and proper way. He is polite and refined, perfectly fitting into his house's expectations - even if that means repressing his childhood interests and little weird joys.

In that particular way, the opposite of Laios.

Shuro hates* Laios for being the opposite of the image HE was grown into. This strange man is so utterly insensitive and so open about it - he has no sense of shame (like Shuro), no tact and ability to shut up (like Shuro), no restraint (like Shuro). Look at him talking non-stop about things he wants to talk about and having fun (unlike Shuro) while completely overestepping Shuro's obvious boundaries!

The boundaries, I must say, that not only never before needed to be spelled out, but in Shuro's upbringing and culture would be as ridiculous to spell out as "I want to pee, so I'll go to the bathroom and remove my pants and sit on the toilet and release the sphincter holding my pee in my pee bladder"

Falin is not only awesome in his eyes for being weird and in touch with nature, but for being very delicate, observant and caring AT THE SAME TIME. She is a gem in Shuro's eyes, a miracle of his dreams.

In Falin, he not only sees a nerd-freak - he sees a hope for an introverted, polite, restrained person like himself to reconnect with that love for nature and nerdiness and freakiness.

Laios isn't like that. Laios is unobservant for subtle cues - and so a lot more loud, persistent, enthusiastic and unwittingly annoying. Yes, Falin has all that inside her too - but she restrains herself in order not to be a burden. And so does Shuro, in order to fit expectations. There's similarity between them in that regard, between two introverted and restrained weirdos. And a hope for a kindred, more open soul, from the more restrained Shuro's perspective.

* - I don't think Shuro's feelings to Laios are properly described as hate. Yeah, in his darkest moment he says that, but honestly it felt more like an accumulated stress from a continuous cultural and personal misunderstanding, rather than a profound personal hate.

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What was the post about?.. Oh, yeah, Shuro loving Falin and disliking Laios. That's not him being too horny to think, that's him loving in Falin the defining difference between the two - they aren't gender-swapped clones, after all. Give my boy some respect and nuance.

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the comic adaptation is so funny. had to hide the fact he really fought yoo joonghyeok in a fucking iron man suit. from the MCU.

got to the end of the theatre arc in orv reread. do you ever think about how webnovels are good and so cool

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got to the end of the theatre arc in orv reread. do you ever think about how webnovels are good and so cool

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New Looney Tunes Crew done did it again

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incredibly unfair that staring at the last sentence you wrote for an hour does not actually make the next one magically appear 😔

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Running in the snow

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anybody else in the club feeling this one

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I Needed to make some sort of Falin image after today so I whipped this up! I wish we had more extreme angle shots of the chimera...