#Intelligent Conversations

[my-self-reflections]

[cavettrobert]

A charming woman (AI Facsimile) shares a portrait of quiet strength, mystery, and grace!

[kibermonakh]

sooooo triple-S team (Starscream-Soundwave-Shockwave) being the High Guard means that they are far older than Megatron and probably worked with Primes directly… just like Sentinel... And before carrying out his betrayal, he could have tried to rizz them (and fail miserably) so that they would more likely to continue working for him...

[trolledu]

What does it look like? It would be hard to deny the in-mid-flight ski-jumping bunny-rabbit theory:

but it is a bird, right?

[1bibypersecond]

Christian Linke, co-creator and showrunner of Arcane, stated that Sky represents the Hexcore, guiding Viktor toward achieving his desires: influence, power, and ultimately, the Glorious Evolution.

But I can't help but look at these pictures and wonder if there was some kind of disconnection between the script and the animation, bc she's nothing but supportive.

She looks like she's against baddie Viktor and she's worried about him bc he's crossing the line :/

She even tries to hold his hands, like 'are you okay?', and he pulls them away qwq

On top of that, she genuinely looks scared when he agrees to work with Ambessa??? I’d understand if she were smiling or something, but she’s not.

And the sadness in her eyes when Viktor says goodbye... her expression tilts with pain

Did I miss something? Where is she supposed to be manipulating him?!?!

[feratscal]

Like,,, are we seeing the vision?

[shanklin]

Stan being highly intelligent but considered stupid because he's only ever been compared to Ford, would also mean Ford himself has a very screwed up idea of how intelligent he actually is.

The poor guy is off to college and thinks he’s being bullied again because the other students pretend not to understand him. Stan’s a highschool dropout who can barely read [yay for undiagnosed dyslexia i guess] and he was able to follow Ford's science talk just fine. The only real difference between them was that Ford actually applied himself and studied. He earned his “genius” status because of all his hard work!

And Ford is proven right when he finally meets Fiddleford, who is too nice to bully him.

[dangerousdesiress]

[macrolit]

Can we start a dialogue here about AI? Just to start, I’ll put a few things out there.

As a student, did you ever use AI to do your work for you? If so, to what extent?

Are you worried about AI replacing your job?

What are your other concerns about AI?

[firstkanaphans]

nong boun, release the goods please 🙏😂 x. com/allwayssinlovee/status/1909277308814245926

Boun: I have a lot more pictures of AouBoom. Boun: I can’t post them yet. I’m waiting to help trend, but I have so many! Boun: Oh, you forgot your cards! You’re only interested in AouBoom now.

+Boom's reply:

Boom: Luung is so cute. There’s only one problem: You don’t respond to my IG anymore!!! 😒

[canwediscuss]

Stop judging concepts based on the person who came up with them. Love languages? A helpful tool for communicating better in a relationship. I don't give a fuck if you don't like the conservative, misogynist, whatever guy that came up with them. It's a fucking tool. Use it if it's useful. The Nazis implemented modern maternity leave and a bunch of other useful fucking things that we all use frequently but that doesn't mean you agree with everything they ever did, just because you've driven a Volkswagen down the highway before. Nor is "Nazis did it first" a good reason to stop using the olympic torch relay.

[starleska]

honestly done with doctor who after the trainwreck that was the the interstellar song contest. i became a casual fan back when the eleventh doctor had a chokehold on tumblr and even had fun self-shipping with mr. ring-a-ding, but just thinking about how this series tried to "both sides" a GENOCIDE makes me feel physically ill. i can't believe i was indirectly supporting this series by making fanart and fanfiction

anon, gently, i think that your response is...a little overblown, and i'm not sure why you've sent it to me 😅 i'm going to put my reply under the cut, whilst tapping the sign on my blog again, which requests that folks don't try to drag me into discourse. i've shared my thoughts on the episode, and that's all: i'm not interested in validating whether or not people decide to interact with a show.

as i explained in my longer post about The Interstellar Song Contest, i don't believe that the intent of the episode was to "both sides" a genocide. i think that the allegory was poorly handled, and i also think that they made a bold move by daring to make this episode at all, let alone slotting it right before the actual Eurovision Song Contest. after discussion with other fans, it's very possible that earlier versions of the script had a more sympathetic view towards Kid, or even a more obvious condemnation of the Company, but the script needed to be edited because they would never have allowed such an episode to air. i'm getting the sense that you're either on the young side, or very active in fandom discourse. i understand your outrage, but i encourage you not to think in such black-and-white terms. you must understand how silly it is to be getting your hackles raised now, when Doctor Who is a show funded by the BBC (which airs the Eurovision Song Contest), and Disney (where do i even begin?). from my perspective, the show made a clumsy, weird and deeply uncomfortable episode which attempts to create an allegory but wildly misses the mark. do i think that's better than making nothing at all? honestly, i'm not sure: but it has gotten people talking, and i don't think that's a bad thing. you can do what you like, but i have no idea what you ceasing to make fanart/fanfic or watching the show will do except make you feel a little more righteous. poor writing doesn't mean that someone is an advocate of genocide, and frankly i think this is a chronically online stance that discourages people from thinking critically about deeply traumatic, difficult topics. this attitude you have, to immediately discard anything that you perceive as having a 'wrong' view, is detrimental to literacy and to educating people. it's one i strongly encourage you try to get out of. this is an exhausting conversation, and the second the episode was over i knew this kind of discourse was going to pop up. one thing the episode did try (however unsuccessfully) to make clear is that jumping to rage is never the answer, and only serves to perpetuate the cycle of trauma and violence. making it about whether or not you should engage with a television show feels reductive and silly. i would recommend putting this energy towards reading up on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and supporting Palestine where you can.

[les-deux-heros-belges]

𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆.

[kirkwallguy]

i think in a weird way knowing marcus makes anders(/justice) less likely to explore their gender(s) because marcus' transition is SO marked by his obvious dysphoria while andersjustice's to me would be more about euphoria. so when you see someone incapable of functioning in their birth gender it's kind of hard to reckon with the fact that you're Fine but it'd be nice if you could wear a nice dress and be called a girl sometimes. which really works for me alongside a lot of anders' weird avoidance of his own circle trauma / assurance it wasn't That Bad while trying to help other mages in kirkwall.

[jessiemeows]

At Cazador's:

Amaya: "Some kind of storage room this is. Where the hells is the food??"

Astarion staring at her in disbelief like this:

Astarion: "Sweetheart, did you forget I'm a vampire? That this is a literal vampire mansion?"

Amaya: "Right, right. I actually did forget you don't eat."