#did not...know that

[nemaliwrites]

okay remember when i said i was trying a new style of drafting? yeah well it sucks and i hate it, so here's a lil snippet before i revert to my old self :P

But this world... isn't it still his? Isn't this the same Paris he fights so hard every day to protect? 

He thinks so -- or he would, if everything he sees didn't provide an argument for the alternative. Mister Bug looks up into the bleached grey sky; the moon, visible, has cracked in two. There is no day or night, not anymore. Not here. No color. No anything.

This, he thinks, is destruction.

A sign of life, then, from a nearby rooftop. Indistinguishable from the world around it except for the slightest movement. Yoyo at the ready, Mister Bug swings closer. Who, he wonders, could possibly survive in a place like this? Sitting on the edge of a roof, swinging their legs as though they don't have a care in the world?

The answer comes to him in pieces that his mind refuses to put together: a girl, who turns to look at him. Eyes so blue, so impossibly blue - the only color in this world of white and grey. Her braid, tossed carelessly over her shoulder. It's tangled, tied into elaborate knots. No one to undo it for her.

Feet rooted to the ground, yoyo hanging uselessly at his side, all Mister Bug can do is stare.

"L...Lady Noire?" he hears himself whisper. "Is that... you?"

"Adrien," she says, not surprised in the slightest to see him. The way she says his name, the way it falls from her lips -- it's as though she's said it a thousand times before. As though it's the easiest thing in the world for her to see Mister Bug and know he's Adrien. As though him being there is something to be expected.

As though she knew he would come for her.

His feet, finally able to move, step back. Once, twice, and again. "What? That's not... I'm not..."

She rises with a strange kind of grace he's never seen from his own partner. Arched, catlike in an unfamiliar way.

He never thought any part of Lady Noire would ever be unfamiliar to him.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so I just sat quietly in the back.

After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”

And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know Transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”

I think about that interaction a lot.

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[daughterofsarenrae]

hey, don't cry. marbled polecat, ok?

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[kensatou]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[grimbeak]

woag. i'm sure this character who i've never heard of before in my life would do completely ethical things to me in my Smart Home and that there are not two games entirely based around why this is a bad idea

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Since you guys liked Marcille as Kermit that much, it seems fitting to thank you for my 12k milestone with MORE Kercille. And this time, Miss Falin is also here.

Thank you so much again everybody! MWAH 💗

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[crabussy]

slightly furious reminder that fish do in fact feel pain and do in fact experience fear and distress when in pain since people seem to love spreading the myth that fish don't feel pain. what is it with people assuming a creature is incapable of feeling pain or emotion just because it doesn't have complex facial muscles. come on gang

[star-pocalypse]

[roz-ani]

IS THIS YAOI DOOMED ENOUGH FOR YOU?! IS THIS WHAT YOU PEOPLE WANTED?! 😭

[eldritch-ace]

May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨

[inky-here]

[poidkea]

I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far

The polycule learns about monster hunting