INSTA PREGNANCY POST
SUMMARY: you and matt announce your pregnancy/birth on insta!
YOUR POST
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yn.yln: growing a baby is pretty cool, 10/10 recommend. (p.s doing it with your best friend is even better. @/matthew.sturniolo )
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nicolassturniolo: it really wasn’t just food poisoning…
yn.yln: no just a baby!!
christophersturniolo: Congratulations ❤️ 🎉 love u guys.
yn.yln: love u so much chris <3
matthew.sturniolo: love u kid
matthew.sturniolo: never been more proud of my best friend, thank you for the mini version of you. i love you.
yn.yln: i love you so much, diaper duty employee of the month!!
mattswife: HE GOT HIS FALL BABY? OMG IM SO HAPPY FOR YALL😭❤️
HIS POST
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matthew.sturniolo: we all know i hate captions so this is going to be weird but there’s no way that i can go another day without screaming at the top of my lungs, a huge thank you to my best friend. my partner. my soul mate. watching you sacrifice everything every day these last nine months (41 weeks and 4 days to be exact but whose counting anymore ?) to grow such a precious little life i get to call mine will forever be my most cherished moment, right after meeting you. thank you for really making the dad in my dad jokes a reality. i love you both with every thing in me. @yn.yln
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marylouoffical: My baby has his own baby😭❤️ Come visit soon🙏🏼😘
matthew.sturniolo: soon as it’s safe to fly with baby❤️.
yn.yln: mama lou!! thank you for raising such an amazing father for my child<333 see you soon best friend!!
yn.yln: i’m crying so hard right now. can’t even blame it on the hormones this time, I LOVE YOU. OVER N OVER AGAIN.
matthew.sturniolo: forever❤️❤️.
christophersturniolo: bro gots his own lil fam now❤️
matthew.sturniolo: ur an og dw kid🧅
nicolassturniolo: okay have like seven more immediately
yn.yln: yk the whole thing about the hot new dad walk? yeah i was ready to pop out four more before we left the parking garage.
matthew.sturniolo: @yn.yln not against the idea 👀
nicolassturniolo: very dilf of you matt
matthew.sturniolo: get outta here w that bruh😭
mattsmunch: alex play that should be me by justin bieber ft rascal flatts😢😢
a/n: i love making little insta post like this sm :,)
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DCRC Week #16
Wiggity what's up my fellow book clubbers, today we're taking a look at the ethics of treating artificially made intelligent lifeforms as second class citizens and what the qualifying factors are to determine a being as truly "sentient" and deserving of basic social rights. And by that I mean we're reading PKNA #12: "Second Draft" which is a comic where nothing bad happens!
This post is LOOONG btw.
okay we're just gonna start off our comic as normal and-
WOAH who's this handsome young devil in his little fancy suit??? What's that? Head of Ducklair Industries?..... yeah sure that makes sense I think.
Everett Ducklair 🤢🤢🤢 get a job stay away from him. Also this is a really nice way of saying you had to stop him from being overtaken by insane homicidal tendencies and putting guns in all his inventions btw
Haha woah what was that. Did the fabric of reality just tear for a second there or did my ADHD meds just kick in. Probably just me.
MASTER Donald???..... I don't even think I can write out the jokes I wanna make here they're too inappropriate for this blog sorry. But also what the fuck.
Uno stop mothering maybe I WANT to get frostbite and lose all my fingers
Not to take a sudden side tangent here but is this supposed to be like, a good thing? Don't the other seasons exist for a reason? I always thought fall and winter were meant to be like a cleansing period, they bring balance to the two other hotter seasons. If it's eternally spring, do some plants just never die? Are animals ALWAYS in the breeding season? Today we're going to overanalyze this one concept in an essay where-
OH MY GOD IT'S ODIN wait nevermind hiii Odin hiiiii. what's lookin good cookin. I mean- shit. fuck. shit.
I'm kind of obsessed with the way Odin is drawn in this comic. His whole body is all wiggly like a bendy straw. His stances go crazy.
gayass
Guys ever since I made that post about Odin's outfits and noticed that he's barefoot here it's been haunting me. Like it might just be a coloring error in this panel but also... why'd he take his shoes off. Also sorry for immediately revealing that it's Odin but um uhh I totally don't know who the OTHER cloaked figure is.
girlll you're giving away the game SHUT YOUR MOUTH
TWO Lylas?!?!?!
I'm loving Donald's shock lmao bro is fucking flabberghasted
This picture is so fucking silly bro. Nooo you can't put Odin in jail, he has such a nice suit on :(
Donald getting offended on Uno's behalf, not knowing that Uno is literally sitting right behind him. SURELY he'll figure it out eventually right.
Omg guys it's Geena!!! Remember Geena? From Portrait of the Young Hero? Anyways she has a gun now
Way to go Donald, you showed her basic empathy for like 2 panels and it gave her an actual sense of self value and NOW she thinks she deserves rights 🙄 she's gonna Detroit Become Human up in this bitch
beaming you with my evil lasers. what if he just fucking fried her brains here I think it would've been funny
Oh that's. probably bad.
ohhhh noooo.....
OOOOHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ok so bad news, Geena fucking exploded and her droid rebellion is presumably over. The GOOD news though is that droids are destined to get their rights anyways, just in a less violent manor than in the timeline Geena had started. So... I guess that's a win?
Disappears in a cloud of beautiful sunset smoke... Goodbye Odin 👋
Donald. Please. DONALD.
Okay so there's a LOT to say about this comic (so much that I kept hitting the image limit and having to make edits to my post to make it more concise) but if I could summarize it into one word: damn. Like I'm just kinda sad now.
The whole concept of "do robots deserve to be treated like human beings" is a common argument to explore, we've seen it in all kinds of media before. The ethics that get touched on in this comic are nothing new, but I can't help but find this comic incredibly interesting to read in the year 2024. Maybe in 1997 the idea of robots integrating into our society seemed like a far-off concept, but in present day the ever-growing integration of AI technology really makes this chapter feel a little more close to home.
I mean, it's easy to be like "yeah, well of course the droids deserve to be treated like people." I mean, Lyla and Odin are droids, and we like Lyla and Odin! Odin is literally so lifelike that people don't even KNOW he's a droid. But I can't help but think about how this all ties back to the current ongoing debates surrounding the usage of AI, and specifically AI-made content. Obviously the AI we currently have is nowhere near the level of the characters in this series (chatGPT fucking WISHES it was Uno) but there's really interesting debates to be made here.
What qualifying factors determine whether or not a living being is deserving of the same rights we humans give to ourselves? Is it being biological? I mean, there are literally millions of types of animals on our planet, but we don't even treat them with the same level of respect we give to ourselves. So, is it intelligence? If we were to create a computer with the intelligence level of a living, breathing human person, would they be entitled to basic "human" rights? HELL IF I KNOW.
I love the way this comic handles exploring this topic. Geena isn't WRONG for wanting more, she's wrong in the way she went about it. Going as far as to literally alter the course of spacetime only further complicated things, for her AND for the other droids. Had Geena instead devoted her energy into droid advocacy in the modern day, things may have gone differently. This story isn't the end of droids getting rights, but it is unfortunately the end of Geena.
We ended on a happy note, but overall this story is a pretty melancholic one. Especially that whole "only machines can be rebuilt" like DAMN.
Anyways that's enough media analysis for today, time to take off my smart thinking hat and go back to being generally kinda stupid. I'm not gonna add anything about Angus Tales here at the end because I already hit the image limit lol. Umm shoutout to Angus Fangus for having like 110 parking tickets. Idiot.
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My best friend and I moved in together with his closest friend from his MA program, and while I had met her before (the friend; my bff is a man), we hadn't spent much time together because I've never lived away from the West Coast (and only two years out of the PNW) and she's never lived outside of North Carolina and only briefly visited the PNW once, when she went to Portland last year.
It's been a delight to show her around the PNW and realize we need to explain things that are just sort of omnipresent in our lives. The bff and I were casually griping with each other about having to run an errand to Trader Joe's at an inconvenient hour, and were telling her, "it's okay, you can stay in the car and avoid the people if you want" and she was like "NO I MUST SEE IT, I'VE ONLY HEARD OF THEM" and nearly ascended to another plane when we showed her around the store.
The bff and I grew up in the same town in NW Washington (him for his first 18 years, me from 9 to 19) and he lived in Bellingham and Seattle for years before he went to NC for grad school (I went to the SF Bay Area for mine, a very different experience). Both of them are hardcore coffee aficionados, but he struggled with the different Coffee Ways of the South, so for the true PNW experience they want to tour various indie coffeeshops next.
Also, she adores Kaidan in Mass Effect and we were like, oh, is your passport up to date? We could take a trip sometime and show you your boyfriend's beloved English Bay. It's very beautiful :)
her: O_O
me: Actually, it's worth going to Vancouver BC for its own sake as well, it's truly spectacular. We used to go all the time as kids.
bff: And Victoria!
her: O_O
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I started shipping Dick Grayson and Percy Jackson as a joke and then got accidentally invested. Help.
The thing about them is that I think they would Know. They would each know that the other had been though more than any one person could be expected to bear. They would feel secrets like a weight between them. And they would just. Not ask. They would decide to be eachother's simple thing. A bright spot of good in a world that's too hard.
Dick comes across as a ray of sunshine but he keeps up with Percy's snark. Percy's bleeding heart for the downtrodden and disdain for any authority endears him to Dick. They just have complimentary energies.
What makes this funny is how everyone else reacts to them.
Dick's family is panicking, since Percy is The Most Suspicious Man on the Planet. He works six months out of the year at summer camps that don't exist. He was accused of terrorism as a twelve year old. They keep trying to bring this up with Dick, who is exaggerating oblivoiusness. "What, Percy, suspicious? Never. He's great with kids, I'm sure the campers love him, isn't that sweet?" Tim is pulling out his hair.
Meanwhile, Percy's telling Annabeth (who he is still dating, polyamory ftw) all about his new guy, and Annabeth is like, "Let me get this staight. You're dating a rich trust fund kid, who's also a police officer, named Dick? That's not a real guy. That's a parody of a person. Who are you and since when do you tolerate cops."
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please please lets talk about how barry and hunter percieve thawne and his relationship with barry. like im sure barry had no idea of thawnes crush on him (along with what even was his motivation in general before rs) like up until 'the only time' confession and him calling thawne pathetic for that is his live reaction to this realization under the influence of negative speed force. and we KNOW he knows at the very least after that because of these mfs!!!
they are fear constructs and they are based on barrys fears!!! THEY ACT EVEN FUCKING GAYER AND CREEPIER THAN THE ORIGINAL ONE!!!
and barry oh poor sweet barry. he had no idea that this!
was thawne meaning time with barry and barry alone! and barry didnt fucking see that! barry related to these words because they reminded him of his parents and naturally he supports The 25th Century Flash! AND THAWNE HEARS THAT 'I UNDERSTAND' AND THINKS THAT BARRY UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANT!! THAT BARRY FEELS THE VERY SAME FOR HIM!!! JUST LIKE HE IMAGINED ALL THESE YEARS!!! AND NEVER QUESTIONS THAT CONCLUSION!!! AND LATER CALLS BARRY A LIAR FOR THAT!!! FOR NEVER FEELING THE SAME DESIRE TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER WHICH BARRY NEVER ACTUALLY IMPLIED!!!!
and what about hunter? oh he saw the events of running scared alright. and more, he has an unlimited access to the info about thawne, both personal experience and flash museum archives. he relates to him, he finds fucking comfort in him and his story. he is just like me fr! thawne is his poor little meow meow too and hunter takes it so much more serious than i do due to percieving him as Tragedy Personified!
in fact thawnes death in running scared fucks him up so badly he gives up his ideals and beliefs about flashes in favor of 'they are unfixable and deserve only to suffer'. besides, hes a profiler, he studied psychiatry. like, that guy should understand thawnes character deeply, right?
..............
hunter. hunter my sweet summer child i dont know how to tell you. this is SO not the reason thawne kept it.
he is the BIGGEST (and the only) fan thawne ever had. he knows about him SO MUCH and yet he straight up cannot figure out the most obvious thing about him because he PROJECTS HIS OWN ISSUES AND BELIEFS ABOUT FLASHES ONTO HIM AND REFUSES TO THINK FURTHER. yall im fucking crying. no comments.
THE CLOSET IS GLASS AND NO ONE FUCKING SEES THROUGH AND I AM PERFECTLY NORMAL ABOUT IT!!!!!!
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AYO I THINK I MADE A NEW OC WEEE
For Final Fantasy 7 that is ><
But JUST designated from that particular universe! Since yall know Tsizilia isn't from the same universe where Gaia is. (or know now lol)
She's basically like a woman turned cyborg by Shinra, who was programmed to be a killing machine, one of the greater 'experiments' by professor Hojo and Director of Advanced Weaponry [during that time, I don't think Scarlet was there yet], after learning of their terrible motives and other 'experiments' they worked on. At first, she wanted to run away, but then decided to try and somehow leak all the secrets to the public. She was caught, but already thinking ahead if she failed, the woman blew up the lab along with herself. They used the remnants of her old body parts and some other fucked up shit, and created a cyborg... Or more like an android, tbh. Only parts of her brain, and heart were used.
She's like this trope I REALLY really like, an artificial force who grew to understand its bigger worth out there, and find her place in the NATURE, and the vast world, a place she will always be somewhat distant and different from, past always there to haunt her, since she's just a constrained hunk of metal. Yk, kinda like Android 16 from Dragon Ball Z. She grew to be one with her environment, even with all that 'not belonging everywhere' trait, proving things can evolve and adapt. Almost fully bodily modified cyborg who's a forest ranger. How cool am I right-
She DOES later get's found by the Avalanche. Being an old model, darting from year 19XX, I'm not sure yet, the android couldn't find a charger in the forest, duh, so she lost her 'battery' and basically shut down for over 20 YEARS. She was later then charged back into life, and they helped her fix her 'nature-reclaimed' body, full of grass and moss and stuff. As a way of thanks, and not really having anywhere to go, the android stuck with 'em.
Now here's a lil interesting fact. She actually worked as some sort of intel collector/mission informant for the Turks, but she could never ACTUALLY join them, because she had some sort of illness/disorder, I still have to decide.
And, she was best friends with Lucrecia! And acquintances with Vincent. And she knew about his crush on her. BECAUSE SHE HAD A CRUSH ON VINCENT HIMSELF AAAA-
LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN A TURK, A SCIENTIST AND AN INFORMANT HELLOOO THAT SOUNDS SO INSANE-
Anyways, she was jealous of Lucrecia, but never could hate her, because she really was a kind soul of a woman, the only one she had. Vincent, on the other hand, was too busy as a Turk, and being in love with Lucrecia T0T
Technically, the 'experiment' on OC and Vincent happened almost at the same time, the OCs being a bit earlier.
Vincent ran away once he woke up, and the technically 'reborn' OC stayed and fought under Shinra, with about a year until she found out the truth about them AGAIN, but deciding to just run away instead. (Ofc, her memory of her past was gone ENTIRELY.)
And later, when they went to Shinra Manor and found Vincent, he didn't remember her now new robotic body, but her model WAS the same as her destroyed human body. It's like they started from scratch. SOMEHOW, Vincent later somehow connected two and two, and was DEVASTATED once he understood what happened. Both of their lives non-consently used for Hojos sick, twisted ways of fun.
He tried to make her half-organic-half-artificial brain to remember some fragments of her past, but she never DID recover fully. After defeating Sephiroth, and Advent Children, Vincent and her stuck together during the Dirge of Cerberus (and maybe grew closer or maybe not SHDJHGSD-)
I STILL HAVE TO DECIDE FOR HER NAME! But I know her aesthetic would be combination of a dystopian cyborg with old hunter clothes who uses a crossbow >:3 and one really cool fun fact about her is that she uses a blowing horn to call for someone if they're lost or as a distraction! :D
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