#project do-over

[project-do-over]

Bookwyrm1982 has logged in

Bookwyrm1982: Hi :)

Violet_M00n: Hello again 💜

Bookwyrm1982: what's that?

Violet_M00n: huh?

Bookwyrm1982: after your message there's like an empty box, what does that mean?

Violet_M00n: Oh, sorry, that's an emoji. It's like a little picture you can send, like an emoticon.

Violet_M00n: I think they technically exist already but they're really only in Japan.

Bookwyrm1982: oic

Violet_M00n: so... Did you have any questions for me?

Bookwyrm1982: yeah, lots. Is it okay if I ask them now?

Violet_M00n: of course, fire away!

Bookwyrm1982: OK, well, first of all, how does time work for you?

Violet_M00n: :')

Violet_M00n: I tell you we're a girl now and that's your first question?

Bookwyrm1982: Is that OK?

Violet_M00n: yeah of course, and I really shouldn't have been surprised, but lol!

Violet_M00n: The short answer is, I'm not entirely sure. I just downloaded this app that promised to let you talk to your past self, the actual mechanics are proprietary.

Violet_M00n: To be honest, I just assumed it was going to be an AI I would talk to.

Violet_M00n: But you seem to know things that no AI could know. So I guess I actually am talking to my past self?

Violet_M00n: From what I can gather by googling, it looks like the company was set up in 1985 and has been working on this tech ever since.

It involves quantum entangled particles, and the reason you can only go back as far as 1985 or so is because that's when the "reference block" was first set up.

Bookwyrm1982: oic. I really meant more, is an hour for me an hour for you?

Violet_M00n: Pretty much, except I think the chat client can skip forward when chat is idle.

Violet_M00n: so like, if I log in it will jump ahead to the next time you log on too, even if it's days or even years after the last one, without me having to wait.

Violet_M00n: I think it works the other way around too.

Bookwyrm1982: interesting. The app I'm using is ICQ, is that the same for you?

Violet_M00n: actually it's just one program that links into MSN and AIM and a bunch of other apps too. I just picked ICQ mostly for nostalgia's sake. And because I still remembered my ICQ number heh.

Bookwyrm1982: oic. Interesting.

Violet_M00n: Do you have any other questions? Maybe something about *gestures vaguely at me being a woman now*

Bookwyrm1982: I mean, I do, but... I'm not quite ready yet.

Violet_M00n: that's okay, I understand. It's a lot to take in all at once. We can talk about something else if you want. What do you want to know about the future?

Bookwyrm1982: Do we have flying cars?

Violet_M00n: lol no! You can't trust most drivers in a two dimensional plane, you really want to add altitude to that? Haha!

Violet_M00n: We do have self-driving cars though, at least they're being developed.

Violet_M00n: We live in the Bay Area now so we sometimes see them on test drives, but you can't buy them or anything.

Bookwyrm1982: We live in San Francisco!?

Violet_M00n: Well, South Bay, but yes. We moved here four years ago. Just before the pandemic.

Bookwyrm1982:... There was a pandemic? The future sounds awful.

Violet_M00n: yeah, it could be better. But some things are better. For one, LGBTQ+ people are less discriminated against. Though the fight is still ongoing.

Bookwyrm1982: What's that, like a club?

Violet_M00n: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, etc.

Violet_M00n: What we are, basically.

Bookwyrm1982: I don't think I'm gay...

Violet_M00n: You learn a lot of things about yourself. But most importantly, you learn being gay is okay actually. I fsct, it's pretty dang awesome. You should really think about it.

Violet_M00n: Although by "gay" you'd technically be saying you're into women, which you already know.

Violet_M00n: But men can actually be okay too, you really should give them a try.

Bookwyrm1982: Thanks, but I don't think I'm ready for that yet. And besides, I can't even ask a girl out, could you imagine trying to ask out a guy?

Violet_M00n:... I'm picturing it now. It's adorable.

Bookwyrm1982: *blush*

Bookwyrm1982: Sorry, dinner time again. Can we talk later?

Violet_M00n: I'll be here. Literally any time you want.

Bookwyrm1982: Thanks. Cya!

Violet_M00n: toodles!

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my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

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make what you love, do what you love :) filet crochet 50 x 37 cm prints available here dyke version here

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Another animation test. I like how in some versions of the Golem story the first thing Rabbi Loew has the Golem do is run some errands lol. ive created you to defend the jewish ghetto against antisemitic violence, could you pick something up at the grocery store for me pls

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drawing for fun again to prove to myself that i still can. some older gravity falls kids designs!! 🌷

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early days of hextech, camped out in one of their prototypes, working through the night~

from chapter 4 of my timeskip jayvik fic

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Second or Third Contact

part 1 /part 2 / part 3 / part 4

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and they never ever had any problems ever . the end

[xitsensunmoon]

Guys I love hands so much... But why they be so difficult to animate 😭

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Yiling Band Tour!

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「なにその目」

What's with that look?

[project-do-over]

Violet_M00n is available

Violet_M00n: Heyyy sorry for the delay! Got caught up with work stuff...

Bookwyrm1982: literally no time has passed.

Violet_M00n: Right. Right. Habit, I guess.

Violet_M00n: Anyway, what else did you want to know about the future?

Bookwyrm1982: Well you said you had AI, right?

Violet_M00n: Well... Yes and no. We have programs people *call* "AI", but they're really just advanced machine learning. They can't actually think or anything, but they can put together a surprisingly human sounding sentence, and draw things that could at first be mistaken for art.

Violet_M00n: But of course it's awful. The results are full of factual errors or have way, way too many fingers, companies are trying to use it to replace creatives, and it burns a ton of energy doing essential nothing of value.

Violet_M00n: So could you go on ChatGPT and talk to a convincing facsimile of a human but underneath it's just a more advanced version of Dr. SBAITSO.

Bookwyrm1982: that's a shame. But then again at least you don't have to worry about them taking over the world, right?

Violet_M00n: Luna, at this point I'd welcome our robot overlords. Better than the fucks we have running things these days.

Bookwyrm1982: Are things that bad?

Violet_M00n: *sighs* no, I suppose not. I still have a job, a family, I can exist in public without fearing persecution, and I'm mostly free to do as I please.

Violet_M00n: But trust me when I say the people who very much want to take that away have much more power than feels comfortable.

Bookwyrm1982: that sounds scary though.

Violet_M00n: More enraging than scary, really. Just so many people who can't or don't want to see things from anyone's point of view from their own.

Violet_M00n: Well, that, and capitalism.

Bookwyrm1982: I thought capitalism was good though?

Violet_M00n: *sigh* we have so much to learn.

Violet_M00n: Honestly though, and you should be able to find these online if not in the library, but read some Marx.

Violet_M00n: It may not resonate a lot yet, but it will.

Bookwyrm1982: I always thought that Communism was a good idea in theory but it needed a global revolution to actually work.

Violet_M00n: You may be on to something there. And someday, hopefully in our lifetime, we may get there. But it's a long, long road. Especially here in America, where it's been used as a boogeyman for like 80 years now.

Violet_M00n: (55 for you)

Bookwyrm1982: Wow, that's.... I'm not sure I want to grow up now.

Violet_M00n: Well maybe your timeline will invent actual time travel and you can keep that wish. Luna knows I wish I could.

Bookwyrm1982: so

Bookwyrm1982: um

Bookwyrm1982: Can we talk about something more fun? Like, what's something good in your time?

Violet_M00n: Well Magic the Gathering is still pretty good.

Bookwyrm1982: We're still playing? I kinda lost interest and stopped following it a year or two ago.

Violet_M00n: Oh yeah, we're still playing, and the game is... Well, it's way different from your time but also at its heart the same.

Violet_M00n: Like it's still Magic but also there's D&D and cowboys and Gandalf, for some reason. It's cool but it's also kinda scary how much they're pumping out.

Bookwyrm1982: Oh that sounds cool! Is it just D&D and LOTR?

Violet_M00n: They've done a ton of crossovers, they call them "Universes Beyond". They've done, let's see...

Violet_M00n: Dr. Who, Warhammer, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy, they're doing Marvel soon, Transformers (those are Hasbro though so they were among the first), The Walking Dead, Fortnite, Stranger Things (you... Don't know about those yet, don't worry), um, lots more stuff too that I'm forgetting, but those are mostly in like five or ten card bundles.

Violet_M00n: Unlike LotR which was a full set, with boosters and everything. And the best selling set of Magic in all time, unless Bloomburrow has passed that already.

Bookwyrm1982: Really cool! You'll have to send me some pictures sometime!

Violet_M00n: I'll be sure to downscale them appropriately this time!

Bookwyrm1982: What else do we like? Is Star Trek still running?

Violet_M00n: It had a long break there where it seemed we weren't going to get any more Star Trek.

Violet_M00n: But then JJ Abrams (a director/producer of some renown) made a Star Trek movie that was meh, but good enough to get people interest in the franchise again.

Violet_M00n: Soon after that Paramount spun up Star Trek Discovery, which had a rocky start but Grew The Beard soon enough for them to greenlight Star Trek Picard. Then Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Academy, and probably one or two others I'm forgetting (not to forget Short Treks and Very Short Treks).

Violet_M00n: Prodigy! I forgot Prodigy!

Bookwyrm1982: The online service?

Violet_M00n: No, Star Trek Prodigy. It's a CG animated series for kids made by Nickelodeon.

Bookwyrm1982: You're making that up.

Violet_M00n: I swear, it's true. Lower Decks is animated too, but 2D, and it's for adults and probably the best thing Star Trek has ever created. It's hilarious!

Violet_M00n: SNW follows Captain Pike on the 1701

Bookwyrm1982: And Discovery?

Violet_M00n: Complicated! It starts out pre-TOS but... Spoilers! And Picard is... Also here!

Bookwyrm1982: Is that about young Picard or something?

Violet_M00n: Old Picard, but close.

Bookwyrm1982: Hey my mom... our mom... just told me to get off the computer so

Bookwyrm1982: ttys!

Violet_M00n: See you in literally no time at all!

Bookwyrm1982 is away

[shepscapades]

[Set in Mid-Late Hermitcraft Season 8]

In which we learn a little something about Cub, a little something about Doc, and a little something about Xisuma.

[ayzaart]

unavoidable (sound on)

[sunlit-mess]

im coping

more ms paint stuff

kms this is like my 6th day running with little to none sleep

[chiricat]

i think you’ve already lost, dear detective