#oracle classes

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

OKAY we got a fanfic update today!!

These are the fics that are left on my wip list!

The Queer Capers of Lester Papadopoulos and Meg McCaffery

Hyapollo Multific

Drunk Twins

A Guide By Demeter

The Conspiracy of Rachel Elizabeth Dare

Of Bridges Built & Burned

Koios ToA

The Sun's Rise

All of them, except for the Hyapollo fic, WILL be done for ToApril this year! :D Hyapollo's fic will be written during the month of May (I hope, depends on when my Internship begins🤞), while Eclipsed will have the SUMMER dedicated to it (in between my Internship and work hours 🤞) So hopefully, by the end of the summer/early fall, I'll have it ready to go!!

After that will be Tangled AU, then Dawned (hunger games au part 3) and Heathers AU! Only then will I draw out my next poll and create my next wip list <3

[jester-step]

trying to get over the anxiety of having to do a job interview tomorrow by telling myself it’s JUST like when adaine got a job at oodles of strudel

[defconprime]

USS Wes Craven

[forever-stuck-on-java-8]

Type erasure can really be a bitch sometimes

Scratch that, its a bitch most of the time

Like I get why its a thing and how we got here but dammit why is serialization/deserialization so hard sometimes

[loregoddess]

So uh, y'know how I've vaguely been referencing a short TriStrat fic recently? Well, I hit a point where all the edits were mostly just swapping out words for nitpicking's sake, and decided if I don't share it, then it's never going to be shared. So here, for the like, five other TriStrat fans out there. (I do currently have the fic locked to AO3 users at the moment, only bc there's not a lot of other protection for writing when it comes to genAI net scraping).

Anyhow, I guess my "I wish Anna and Benedict got a character story together" rooted itself in the creative part of my brain at some point.

[jenn0wow]

Actually Barbara Gordon being a librarian and then eventually Oracle makes so much more sense if she was a reference services librarian lmaooo

[sunbeargames]

THE FUTURE IS NOW

The Oracle class is now available, including four subclasses: the Astrologer, the Battlemind, the Doomseer, and the Soothsayer

[thelinnmiser]

made more! i'm like three pages before finishing. then i'm able to post this on fanon, HOPING they're alright with this.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

*pokes head out of hole* hi

writer's block had me in a strangle hold for the past 2-3 weeks haha (<-dying), so that's been fun!! I'm slowly getting out of it though, just in time to get 7 fics going for Xtober this year! Two are currently done, and I'll hopefully be getting started on the third one tomorrow! For once, I have no homework to do, and I will be relishing in it for the weekend XD

Technically, i do have more ideas for Xtober, but I picked out these 7 since they are the ones I want to do the most + have an outline for. the others were just Vibes, so we'll see if I get to them >:3 possibly later, as add-ons to Xtober but eh. we'll see!!

all this to say, fingers crossed the creative juices continuing coming back and I can return to my precious fics <3 i've figured out how to effectively get my homework done this semester (i have four online classes) so that's super helpful!!

[ourlordapollo]

Before and after taking a jiu-jitsu class with no martial arts background and only the vaguest idea of what jiu-jitsu actually is

It was fun! I'm the smallest person in the class and I got choked out countless times!

[oracles-art-icles]

Made some fan HTTYD tablet wallpapers for a friend!

OTHER CLASSES WILL BE ON A REBLOG OF THIS POST AND IN THE HTTYD TAG ON THIS BLOG

Dimensions are 1600x2560 px

[ofthe-sunand-moon]

Y'all....if you have the choice of taking an English class and a speech/public speaking class in the same semester in college.....don't do it, that's the devil talking.

[reasoningdaily]

2022 - Enterprise giant Oracle is facing a fresh privacy class action claim in the U.S.

The suit, which was filed Friday as a 66-page complaint in the Northern District of California, alleges the tech giant’s “worldwide surveillance machine” has amassed detailed dossiers on some five billion people, accusing the company and its adtech and advertising subsidiaries of violating the privacy of the majority of the people on Earth.

The suit has three class representatives: Dr Johnny Ryan, senior fellow of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL); Michael Katz-Lacabe, director of research at The Center for Human Rights and Privacy; and Dr Jennifer Golbeck, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland — who say they are “acting on behalf of worldwide Internet users who have been subject to Oracle’s privacy violations”.

The litigants are represented by the San Francisco-headquartered law firm, Lieff Cabraser, which they note has run significant privacy cases against Big Tech.

The key point here is there is no comprehensive federal privacy law in the U.S. — so the litigation is certainly facing a hostile environment to make a privacy case — hence the complaint references multiple federal, constitutional, tort and state laws, alleging violations of the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Constitution of the State of California, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, as well as competition law, and the common law.

It remains to be seen whether this “patchwork” approach to a tricky legal environment will prevail — for an expert snap analysis of the complaint and some key challenges this whole thread is highly recommended. But the substance of the complaint hinges on allegations that Oracle collects vast amounts of data from unwitting Internet users, i.e. without their consent, and uses this surveillance intelligence to profile individuals, further enriching profiles via its data marketplace and threatening people’s privacy on a vast scale — including, per the allegations, by the use of proxies for sensitive data to circumvent privacy controls.

Commenting on the suit in a statement, Ryan said: “Oracle has violated the privacy of billions of people across the globe. This is a Fortune 500 company on a dangerous mission to track where every person in the world goes, and what they do. We are taking this action to stop Oracle’s surveillance machine.”

A spokesman for Oracle declined to comment on the litigation.

A couple of years ago the firm was facing class action suits, along with Salesforce, via a legal challenge to its tracking in Europe — which intended to focus on the legality of their consent to track web users, citing the region’s (contrastingly) comprehensive data protection/privacy laws.

However the European legal challenges, which were filed in the Netherlands and the U.K., have faced tough going — with a Dutch court ruling the suit inadmissible last year, because (per reports) it judged that the not-for-profit pursing the class action had failed to demonstrate it represented the alleged injured parties and so did not have legal standing. (Although earlier this year the organization behind the suit, the Privacy Collective, said it would appeal.)

The U.K. branch of the legal action, meanwhile, was stayed pending the outcome of an earlier class-action style privacy suit against Google — but last year the U.K. Supreme Court sided with the tech giant, blocking that representative action and dealing a blow to the prospects of other similar suits.

In the Lloyd v Google case, the court found that damage/loss must be suffered in order to claim compensation — and therefore that the need to prove damage/loss on an individual basis cannot be skipped — derailing the litigation’s push for a uniform “loss of control” of personal data for each member of the claimed representative class to stand in its stead.

The ruling was considered a hammer blow to opt-out class actions for privacy claims at the time — clearly throwing another spanner in the works of the Oracle-Salesforce class action’s ability to proceed in the U.K.

The challenges of litigating privacy class actions in Europe likely explain the push by digital rights experts to test similar claims in the U.S.

Oracle’s BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online

Oracle and Salesforce hit with GDPR class action lawsuits over cookie tracking consent

[ima-ghost-art]

Question, does anyone else think that Adaine should/ would have had an Oracle vision about the Sevens quest??

Bc like I finally watched the Seven and I cant help but think it would have been hilarious to see the girls just get a DM from Adaine saying something along the lines of

Hey just checking in!! Ik you girls are one a super cool quest right now but just to give you a heads up you guys are now responsible for saving reality itself. Good luck on the quest! Go get those GEDs!!

Ps, the bad kids all say hi

Like that would have been so funny to me idk lol xD

[papaiyatree]

tried to go back 2 the swing of school doods yesterday in class :>>

drawing this in class made me feel like i've committed 300 sins this is the hottest poison ivy i've ever drawn wtf

[sunbeargames]

As I'm writing the Oracle class, I'm anticipating that lots of players will want to play a blind character. The trope of the blind oracle or blind seer is fairly popular in folklore and pop culture, and I want to accommodate players making the characters that appeal to them.

To save DMs the headache of trying to figure out how to make a blind character mechanically balanced, I'm including this optional feature in the Oracle class. If a player chooses to make their character blind, they gain 30 feet of blindsight and can spend class resources to extend that range for a short time.

For flavor, I also included the table of possible eye appearances, for players who want the nature of the blindness to be a bit more mystical.

That said, I am currently a sighted person. I'm considering hiring a sensitivity reader further down the line, but for now I figure I might as well run it by others to see what people think.

Worth noting that the blindsight offered here does not negate the mechanical effects of being blind. Characters that take this feature will still be unable to do certain things such as see distant objects or observe writing/images on surfaces.

[image description: Sightless Seer, a 1st-level optional Oracle feature. If you choose, you can sacrifice your sight. If you do so, you are permanently blinded and gain blindsight out to a range of 30 feet. This blindness cannot be cured in any way, even by a wish spell. Starting when you reach 2nd level in this class, you can use a prediction to expend 1 fate point and increase the range of your blindsight to 60 feet for 1 minute. This range increases to 90 feet at 5th level, to 120 feet at 11th level, and to 300 feet at 17th level. If you choose to be blind this way, determine the appearance of your eyes manually or by rolling on the Eyes of the Sightless Seer table below.

Eyes of the Sightless Seer, a table with 6 rows of entries under the header "Eyes".

Pools of stars, deep as the night sky, twinkling with infinite lights.

You wear a blindfold that grows stained and drips with blood as you use your powers.

A small ball of solid gold sits in each socket, perhaps etched with symbols or writing.

Your eyelids are permanently closed. Others see strange shapes moving against them.

Both eyes are of a single solid color, such as onyx black, icy white, or deep sea blue.

Your corneas are clouded and opaque, but the swirling pattern seems to slowly move.

end image description]