#large web

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Late Medieval; 14th century Iron key: broached stem; pentagonal bow; large web.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 262

Pondering Ghosts are Dragons, and just rotating each design in my head I have for them. That is the ghosts we see in the show more than just once or twice lol. Just pondering each of them and potential types and descriptions and how the people of Amity see them, as they’re used to the dragons around, vs say someone from Outside, crossover or no, who are Not used to the maybe slightly eldritch undeath interdimensional dragons around everywhere. 

That is not normal for other people. 

To the Amity Parkers? Boxy is simply a chonky dragon with small boxy wings and covered in blue scales. To people just coming into the city, it’s like seeing a giant komodo dragon when you’re just walking home- not something you exactly want to see and something that is dangerous. 

Kitty’s and Johnny’s weekly relationship tussle? Par for the course really. But to visitors? Two giant wyverns tearing into each other, shimmering greens that could be scales, could be tendrils, and shadows lengthening and thrashing like a living beast all its own. 

And this is just the small dragonlings, not even beginning with larger ones like Pandora and Fright Knight, chill as they may be. 

Outsiders don’t understand that they’re more than just animals. Amity is used to this, but people who have no clue what’s going on? They don’t.

They call the police, the heroes, the government, for help, for answers. And that? That the GIW can use. 

[blubberquark]

Auto-Generated Junk Web Sites

I don't know if you heard the complaints about Google getting worse since 2018, or about Amazon getting worse. Some people think Google got worse at search. I think Google got worse because the web got worse. Amazon got worse because the supply side on Amazon got worse, but ultimately Amazon is to blame for incentivising the sale of more and cheaper products on its platform.

In any case, if you search something on Google, you get a lot of junk, and if you search for a specific product on Amazon, you get a lot of junk, even though the process that led to the junk is very different.

I don't subscribe to the "Dead Internet Theory", the idea that most online content is social media and that most social media is bots. I think Google search has gotten worse because a lot of content from as recently as 2018 got deleted, and a lot of web 1.0 and the blogosphere got deleted, comment sections got deleted, and content in the style of web 1.0 and the blogosphere is no longer produced. Furthermore, many links are now broken because they don't directly link to web pages, but to social media accounts and tweets that used to aggregate links.

I don't think going back to web 1.0 will help discoverability, and it probably won't be as profitable or even monetiseable to maintain a useful web 1.0 page compared to an entertaining but ephemeral YouTube channel. Going back to Web 1.0 means more long-term after-hours labour of love site maintenance, and less social media posting as a career.

Anyway, Google has gotten noticeably worse since GPT-3 and ChatGPT were made available to the general public, and many people blame content farms with language models and image synthesis for this. I am not sure. If Google had started to show users meaningless AI generated content from large content farms, that means Google has finally lost the SEO war, and Google is worse at AI/language models than fly-by-night operations whose whole business model is skimming clicks off Google.

I just don't think that's true. I think the reality is worse.

Real web sites run by real people are getting overrun by AI-generated junk, and human editors can't stop it. Real people whose job it is to generate content are increasingly turning in AI junk at their jobs.

Furthermore, even people who are setting up a web site for a local business or an online presence for their personal brand/CV are using auto-generated text.

I have seen at least two different TV commercials by web hosting and web design companies that promoted this. Are you starting your own business? Do you run a small business? A business needs a web site. With our AI-powered tools, you don't have to worry about the content of your web site. We generate it for you.

There are companies out there today, selling something that's probably a re-labelled ChatGPT or LLaMA plus Stable Diffusion to somebody who is just setting up a bicycle repair shop. All the pictures and written copy on the web presence for that repair shop will be automatically generated.

We would be living in a much better world if there was a small number of large content farms and bot operators poisoning our search results. Instead, we are living in a world where many real people are individually doing their part.

[whewchilly]

Carlos and Max

The Dislocated Room Richard Siken

[mushtoons]

god we have a problem 😔

[transbro]

Panic! at the disco blinkies

[henghost]

This is an important message that needs to get out to the lord infante!

there is a mauerist insurrection in new amsterdam. the first faction that kills 100 nobles, gets to take over the city. you NEED to be careful, lord infante. you could be at high risk because of your high status. PLEASE be safe, everyone in our around new amsterdam, and please reblog this to get it to the nobles in new amsteradm.

i just worry about their safety.

please stay safe fontypoo! <3

[lilbittymonster]

Hey y'all, I think I figured out a workaround for this recent @ limit.

So I haven't seen anyone else try this, or if they have it just hasn't made it into my circle yet, but lately myself and my mutuals have all been having an issue of trying to tag a bunch of people for those tag games and only having the first few tags resolve to an actual link, like so.

But, if you break them up into groups of five tags separated by plain text/put into separate paragraphs, it gets rid of the problem and all of the tags resolve.

I don't know if this will actually solve the problem, since I did this in my drafts to avoid needlessly tagging mutuals, but it looks like it works around what I am assuming is an anti-spam measure staff has implemented. Please let me know if this actually does work or not the next time you do a mass tag for a game!

[firethekitty]

for knives

the flaming lips - vein of stars // pinkpantheress - i must apologize // fleetwood mac - silver springs // rainbow - stargazer // orville peck - let me drown // leonard cohen - famous blue raincoat

[melandrops]

Dark Side of the Moon and Their Fear Entities

Speak to Me - Stranger

It's the pounding heartbeat, the ticking clock and the man that sounds just a bit too distant to make out, the strange laugh that sounds inhuman, the rotors of plane as they grow closer. Something is deeply wrong but it's too early to tell what.

Breathe (In The Air) - Vast

The scream that starts it out, like the first jump off a skyscraper. The gentle melody, like flying above the clouds. For long you live, and high you fly. And when at last the work is done, don't sit down it's time to dig another one. The futility of existence, the inconsequentiality of life. But only if you ride the tide, and balanced on the biggest wave, you race towards an early grave. Even success in life leads only to one end.

On the Run - Hunt

The adrenaline inducing droning. The pounding footsteps and heavy pantings. The woman over the intercom. The sound of a plane flying overhead. Something is coming, and you have been running for a long time. It ends with a plane crash, and with someone still running. Will they ever gain enough ground to stop?

Time - End

You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then one day you'll find ten years have got behind you. The sun is the same in a relative way. But you're older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death. Warm your bones beside the fire. The tolling of the iron bell brings faithful to their knees. It all ends the same way.

The Great Gig in the Sky - Desolation

The woman who screams is reminiscent of a messiah, a woman who is larger than life and designed for greatness. She screams and mourns for the simple life she could have led, if she was just a girl. Life is beautiful and painful and too short for her. And ultimately she failed. I was never frightened of dying, she says as she strings the rope around her neck, unable to be who her people needed her to be.

Money - Corruption

What is money if not Corruption incarnate? Take it and run. It's yours. It sings a sweet song to you. New day, caviar, four star, daydream, think I'll buy me a football team. Don't give me that do goody good bullshit. The promise of it digs into your brain like worms and more, more, more.

Us and Them - Slaughter

The story of war, and of senseless violence. A state that promises its people it does this for the good of all of them. Innocent men who are only doing what they're told watching as their fellow man bleeds out and dies or burns alive. War is constant and merciless.

Any Colour You Like - Web

I have no explanation for this. It came to me in a vision from God. Picture Annabelle Cane as she weaves her tapestry of silk and lies and pawns.

Brain Damage - Spiral

The lunatic is on the grass. The lunatic is in my head. There's someone in my head but it's not me. Rearrange me til I'm sane. You shout but no one seems to hear. The oddly distorted laugh.

Eclipse - Eye/Dark

The sun sees it all. All that you touch and all that you see and all that you taste. It watches over all, leering over your shoulder and leaving no room to escape. Except that the moon can block the sun, just for a little bit. And everything is in darkness. Is that any better?

[tenebrare]

Hellraiser - Baptismus Impius

[tommyssupercoolblog]

I'M A CRAZY WEIRDO AND I'M!!! CALLING YOU!!!

I'VE REALLY GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO!!!!

I DIAL UP YOUR NUMBER AND I LET THE PHONE RING

AND TWO MINUTES LATER I'LL BE DOING IT AGAIN

YOU MIGHT THINK I'LL BE MOVING ALONG

BUT!! YOU!! WOULD!!! BE!! WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!

I'VE GOT NO LIFE AT ALL!!!

AND SO I'LL CONTINUE 2 CALL!!!

IM A CRAZY WEIRDO AND I'M CALLING YOUUUUUUUUU~!!!!!!!

[anneofgreengablesthings]

LMM in Rilla of Ingleside: Susan Baker and her cousin Sophia don't get along bc as kids they fought over a prayer card that said 'God is Love' (silly, ironic, easily resolvable! LMM really said 🤪🤪)

LMM in A Tangled Web: Drowned John and his cousin Jeff don't get along bc Jeff KILLED HIS DOG AND HUNG ITS BODY UP AT HIS GATE (dark, horrifying, an insane jump in feuds, an unforgivable sin)

[lesbianfakir]

Love the idea of a post canon tma x tutu au, assuming tutu ends in 2002 making the kiddos roughly 28-29 when tma starts. Imagine you’re jonathan, barely holding your archives together and your boss hires some random guy on the spot to work as your assistant even though you HATE unknown variables and are already having problems with your other unwanted assistant. You find out he has absolutely zero qualifications for the job, in fact he writes fairytales????? Worst of all he keeps bringing his DUCK into your ARCHIVES and your boss just? Let’s him?? Not to mention the duck keeps staring at you and sometimes you swear she acts as if she can understand you. Though that’s ridiculous, it’s just a duck.

There is a duck in the archives, jon is going to have a mental breakdown, and everywhere the mysterious newcomer goes spiders seem to follow. What could go wrong? :)

[ichthyorelationships]

only just processed that luca added the flames to the colander helmet...implicitly b/c of alberto’s “also i added flames” dream vespa design alteration...

[gloombeaches]

This is part two of a list of archived and currently playable dress up games from StarSue. You can find part 1 HERE.

Glowsome Ghoulfish Toralei

Haunted Spectra Vondergeist Dress Up

How Do You Boo? Cleo

13 Wishes Howleen Dress Up

Freak du Chic Jinafire Dress Up

Madison Fear Dress Up

Ari Hauntington Dress Up

Batsy Claro Dress Up

Isi Dawndancer Dress Up

Electrified Ari Hauntington Dress Up

Art Class Robecca Steam Dress Up

Black Carpet Clawdeen Dress Up

Black Carpet Draculaura Dress Up

Chibi C.A. Cupid Dress Up

Chibi Jinafire Dress Up

Clawdeen Wolf Scaris Style

Ghouls Night Out Ghoulia Dress Up

Maul Session Lagoona Dress Up

Astranova Dress Up

Luna Mothews Dress Up

Kjersti Trollson Dress Up

Clawdia Wolf Dress Up

Kiyomi Haunterly Dress Up

Moanica D'Kay Dress Up

Lorna McNessie Dress Up

Vandala Doubloons Dress Up

Music Festival Venus Dress Up

New Scaremester Clawdeen Dress Up

Scarily Ever After Draculaura Dress Up

I Love Fashion Venus Dress Up

Power Ghouls Frankie Dress Up

Gloom and Bloom Cleo Dress Up

Electrified Venus Dress Up

Elissabat Dress Up

Glowsome Ghoulfish Draculaura Dress Up

I Love Fashion Wydowna Spider Dress Up

Mouscedes King Dress Up

River Stixx Dress Up

Twyla Dress Up

Music Festival Draculaura Dress Up

Picture Day Lagoona Dress Up

Skelita Calaveras Dress Up

Skultimate Roller Maze Abbey Dress Up

Swim Class Frankie Stein Dress Up

Freak du Chic Toralei Dress Up

Skull Shores Cleo Dress Up

Dot Dead Gorgeous Operetta Dress Up

Abbey Scaris Style

Aery Evenfall Dress Up

Day at the Maul Frankie Dress Up

New Scaremester Gigi Grant Dress Up

New Scaremester Jinafire Dress Up

Power Ghouls Wydowna Dress Up

Chibi Purrsephone & Meowlody Dress Up

Frets Quartzmane Dress Up

Electrified Cleo Dress Up

Ghoulia Yelps Scaris Style

Honey Swamp Dress Up

Chibi Rochelle Dress Up

Ghostbusters Frankie Dress Up

Music Festival Clawdeen Dress Up

Viperine Gorgon Dress Up