#but I’ve been thinking it for a while

[voidify333]

I miss 2021-22 era AI image generation. When it was consistently… shitty enough to be funny. I miss the YouTube trend of “i fed every line of this song into midjourney or dall-e and timed it to the song— look, it’s funny and surreal and reflects so bluntly the cool imagery that the songwriter put in the song”

Now AI images are still shitty enough to be boring and soulless, but un-shitty enough that people are trying to pass them off as their own drawings or sell them for money, creating all these depressing ethical issues

Machine learning is fascinating. It scratches a certain itch in my brain to find out what patterns exist in a corpus of text or images, patterns that it is possible for a robot to find. The best role for AI was “a silly little toy to use to have fun and riff on existing person-made art”, revealing the patterns in the corpus with a unique robotic honesty. Genuine creativity is unique to person-made art, but AI images used to have something unique to them too, in this magical naïveté that comes from brute adherence to patterns, that made it insightful and funny— made it ART in its own way.

I miss when AI art was shitty enough to be art.

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike and Abby finally meet Michael’s siblings

[cologona]

“Jason should have ducked”

Jason gave Bruce a gun to shoot him with.

Jason gave him three options but there are only two results. Either Joker dies and Jason is left alive or Joker lives and Jason is too dead to care. That’s not an accident you have to understand.

It’s the most miserable “win if I win, win if I lose” I’ve ever seen set up and it worked. The neck slice moment isn’t just written for shock value it’s a demonstration of the truth of Jason’s point. Sometimes refusing to choose one over the other is just a choice for the other.

[deadsetobsessions]

Of all the places he could have been summoned to, Danny Phantom had never considered a private school’s bathroom to be one of them.

With glowing green skin, a shock of flickering flames for hair, and a suit made out of the spaces between collapsing stars, Danny stared down at the stupefied faces of Gotham Academy’s finest students. One of them had their face in their hands, having caught sight of him and undergoing all the stages of grief in but a moment.

They sat around a circle that he was appropriately impressed with considering the limited space they had to work with. Danny could see the empty stalls, some of which were adorned with drawings and writings that were left by the, no-doubt, extremely busy caretaker.

“Seriously, a bathroom?” Danny wrinkled his nose.

“Holy shit, that actually worked?” One of the kids blurted out, then slammed their hands on top of their mouth.

“Did you expect it not to?” Danny squinted at them, frowning. It’s Friday, so it’s not like he had much to do, but Danny would prefer it if his time wasn’t wasted.

“No- no, your… uh, highness?”

“All of that schooling and you’re still uneducated,” one of the other ones hissed at the red headed kid who spoke. It’s “Your Majesty.” He’s a king, idiot!”

That was a pretty solid burn but, “It’s actually just Phantom. Did you guys want something? I’m busy.”

He’s not busy, but who cares?

“Uh…” the kids exchanged glances. The one in the back sighed and spoke up. He adjusted his glasses.

“We’re sorry for bothering you, Phantom. You wouldn’t happen to have a solution for dimensional separation, would you?”

“Huh.” Danny tilted his head, face souring. “I hate dimensional issues. They’re the worst. Who’s causing them?”

“His name’s Klarion!” The one who slapped a hand across his mouth earlier piped up.

“Oh! The lords of chaos or whatever. Yeah, I can help, for a price.”

Danny is against unpaid labor. Extremely against it, considering his side gig is being a half-dead vigilante. Then again, are you really a vigilante if you’re not half dead on a regular basis?

“What do you want?” Despite the reluctance from earlier, it’s clear the one with the glasses made the big decisions in this weird friend group.

“… A hundred dollars.”

“That’s it? No stipulations?” When Danny nodded, the kid had a calculating expression. “Deal.” The teen said immediately. He pulled out cash and wow, Danny’s definitely in a place with a different tax bracket.

He snatched it. Nasty burger money!

“Deal’s a deal. Also, don’t ever summon me again, but if you do, don’t ever do it in a bathroom again. You kids are so weird.” Danny floated out of the circle, grinning sharply. He formed a small bird- he doesn’t know why, but it felt right- of ice and handed it to the kid with glasses. “There. Proof of the deal.”

With that, Danny disappeared. Private school kids were so fucking weird, but… Dash and his goons were probably worse. What’s a little ritualistic summoning in the face of teenagers?

——

“I leave you guys alone for ten minutes and you summon the king of the dead?” Robin narrowed his eyes at his teammates, traitors who had the good graces to look sheepish. “How could you?! I wanted to try, too!”

Kid Flash patted him on the shoulder, a granola bar appearing in his mouth now that the possible world ending terror disappeared. “Sorry, Rob. Maybe next time! Magic still isn’t real though.”

“I’m not doing this shit in a bathroom again,” Artemis rolled back to her feet. “He sounded like he was going to rip our bones out if we ever summoned him in a bathroom again.”

“Ugh…”

[romijuli]

It’s not that I don’t LIKE the Fandom Popular Pairings, it’s that I find the assumption that everyone ships them and the general all-consuming nature of said pairings to be kinda exhausting,

[codgod]

i have crafted a diagram

[tubesock86]

an ode to matching heart patches

[rwsdarw]

idk thinking abt maternity

[arctvros]

jujutsu high teachers flirting on the job (cursed child arc alternate ending)

[cluelessbees]

I’m happy people are realising Noah is being racist but I’m also hurt that a lot of people refused to listen to me when I said it :/

Like as an Arab in this community it really feels like my voice doesn’t matter. This situation is personal to me. I called his racism and yet a lot of people wanted to doubt and invalidate my voice.

Idk I’m just exhausted from this. I feel like this community needs to re-evaluate some things ngl. I love it regardless but I was pushed into silence because barely anyone even showed me support on my opinions on him. But now that hes being so fucking blatantly racist. Now you realise.

I want this community to be better because for the past month it didn’t feel like a safe space for me as an Arab to talk about this.

[ato-dato]

Concussion?? I hardly know her

[smilesrobotlover]

Heh

[royaltea000]

Every letter addressed to Jonah Magnus just sounds like several men of good high standing who he’s tricked into giving him their knowledge money and affections realizing that they’ve fallen for a succubus but they can’t find it in them to hate him too hard- like do you know what I mean??? I know it’s just the old timey way of speaking but every statement just sounds like “please my evil twink, I beseech you!” Like this is why I can only imagine him as like very Dorian Gray-esque in my head. Please someone tell me I’m not crazy for thinking this that’s literally their evil bbg that’s sucked them for all they’re worth and thrown em away

[yukipri]

Jaster Mereel, having just decided that this brave, grubby orphan is going to be his Foundling. His name is Jango Fett.

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[pencilscratchins]

sometimes i think about the very odd internet presence over the last 7 years on this blog, and i almost want to apologize for any whiplash this username has given you. but honestly. it’s a little funny