you have a vast soul, and i will always come back

Laika + Ripley | 💌 + 🫀 | she/they + it/its fandoms atm: my chem mostly yes there’s two of me

[2001helloangel]

[2001helloangel]

a sequel

[annelidarchive]

there basically isn't a single established action archetype that you can't improve tenfold by making it a girl

[annelidarchive]

the old master. the sneering rival. the implacable pursuer. the pragmatic mercenary. the combat hedonist. the sleeper operative. the guy who's just really big. the list goes on

[reanimatedjuniper]

girl who's died a thousand times and soon will die a thousand more: I think I'm starting to feel a bit better actually

[hungwy]

I've been melting dogs down to make this thing called dog metal

[hungwy]

[expiredcheese]

[creaturey]

ok this tag really got me

[bee-leaving]

...girl

[sapphosdickandballs]

immortalizing these tags

[internetkatze]

When me and my brother were toddlers and we spilled anything liquid, my mom would singsong, "[Name] Valdez! [Name] Valdez!"

Eventually, as we grew up, this morphed into just saying "Valdez!" whenever we spilled something. As far as I was concerned "Valdez" was just a word for "oops!" specifically in this context.

It wasn't until I was probably a teenager that I discovered she was referencing the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989.

[parkayquarts]

mary shelley wrote a wholesome story about a young medical student trying to find his lost homunculus in the alps

[nataliedecorsair]

✨ The collection of my Mari Lwyd art through the years ✨ — First art is called: “Dude… give me the bottle” (or when you lost a rhyming contest against the supernatural skeletal horse) Second art is a meme reference x) Third art is featuring Mari on her day off (hence no rhyming, but she wouldn’t say no to a treat) Plus other stuff, silly sketches and artworks, like Mari Lwyd in modern times being disappointed that nobody wants to rhyme with her anymore, so she has to buy everything herself (featuring a distant relative of the guy from the first piece, plus a Waterboy mashup). —

P.S. - don’t forget about the frogs in some of the arts

[nataliedecorsair]

Mandatory winter reblog of my Mari Lwyd post, now updated with new artwork 💅 December is my birthday month (in the end of it), so I’m very happy to have such a wonderful cryptid on my side

[hothotmiso]

[stellastarprincess]

This is the opposite of the girl struggling on that chicken nugget

[visibun]

the aforementioned godawful chicken nugget scene, for the uninitiated

[legon751]

also a big fan of the sushi vcr

[maryland-officially]

this keeps being reblogged by people and i don’t know. why

[anarchotribadist]

Gonna add my favorite scene of an anime girl eating

[emmavoid]

anime girls eating stuff

[kaban-bang]

Yay! Yippee!

[spacedoutsnail]

Some of my favorite comments from the new Defunctland video: “Disney’s Living Characters: A Living Promise”

[commiegoth]

One part of the architecture of the new Defunctland video that I really liked was how the inclusion of all the sketchy interactions with "living characters" (sexual harassment, transphobia, etc) wound up tying in well with the concluding thesis statement abt how theme park attractions are all made and operated by real people somewhere in there. You certainly only get pushy "flirting" from theme park characters when there's a real person behind it who feels like they've got enough anonymity and plausible deniability of "playing a character" to get away with it. And these human biases are built into the soundboard characters too: voice line options are sorted by whether a targeted guest is a boy or a girl (or adult man or woman), and the options that follow that choice are based on social presumptions for said gender. Roz has "flirtatious" voice line options for adult men, for example, but I doubt operators are given those same options if the targeted guest is a woman. Presumably soundboard characters have many more princess-related options under the "girl" menu, and this is based off assumptions the real people putting the attraction together made. And in operating the "living character", the real person working the soundboard is making choices based on thier own biases and assumptions about a given guest.

So of course automation is dreamt up to be a solution to the "embarrassment" of failed human interactions and subsequent poor customer experiences. We wouldn't want another Stitch gender rant. But behind all the attempts at automating "living characters" are real human developers who are bringing their real human biases to their work. There are assumptions being made about what a given guest wants to hear, and what their human reactions to an automated character imply. Developers can try and assign quantitative values to a facial expression, but they're still making assumptions about how the numbers they come up with will apply to hundreds of thousands of people. Thus any time an automated character expresses social biases, it remains a reflection of its human "operators" despite the superficial removal of humans from the equation. (I'm also considering things like the orientalist tropes wrapped up in Destini's character, for example, to be an expression of social biases. Real people decided this was the best way to present the idea they've been developing to the public.)

I think this is all important to keep in mind as AI chatbots and facial recognition technology built on these same technical principles become more prevalent in broader society. These technologies are not exempt from human social biases because they were developed and programmed by real human beings. When automated facial recognition programs return false positives in criminal databases for a random Black person, or identify a US citizen as an illegal immigrant, that's not the cold, impartial thinking of a machine, it's the result of racism that came with the technology's development, and the decision by real people to use the technology to identify "real" criminals and illegal immigrants. We all had a laugh at that one TERF dating app that used facial recognition on applicants that ended up rejecting cis women it assumed were trans, but that isn't a result of those women not "passing" by the neutral logic of a machine, it's the result of the very same bigotry the app's creators baked into the system. At the end of the day, these technologies are just as human as anything else a real person creates, but they provide enough distance and plausible deniability from their developers that people feel comfortable using them as impartial parties passing logical judgement outside of human bias.

[4k4yo]

THiNGS YOU NEED BEFORE YOU DO BDSM:

first aid kit

tourniquet

narcan

at least 8gb ram

childhood photo album

acetone

thirty decoy safewords (zero real ones)

headlamp

updated wills for all participants (preferably notarized)

getaway vehicle

a pack of cigs and a few beers

PSAT score of at least 90th percentile or higher

spare tire

working knowledge of microsoft excel and powerpoint

small bills, for the tip

an up-to-date road atlas

a drive to succeed and innovate in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment

noise-cancelling headphones (one pair per participant)

bolt cutters

at least C1 knowledge of standard chinese

gamefaqs guide

permission slip signed by a parent or guardian

spare penis

[mpregeminem]

jesse don't touch that that's the growth potion i've been synthesi-no jesse DON'T

[mpregeminem]

yo mr white you're all tiny and shit now

[mpregeminem]

[is-this-fascism]

stawbery mik

[is-this-fascism]

[is-this-fascism]

[is-this-fascism]

[is-this-fascism]

[is-this-fascism]

[is-this-fascism]

you can really just post anything on this website huh

[the-autistic-spider]

Hey everybody loves a good strawberry milk shake

[is-this-fascism]

stawbery mikshek

[clocktower3iso]

Get high and start acting like Leland Palmer

[meshimellow]

[xigrif]

I'M A HUGELY HORRIBLE HOUSE MY NAME is a tantalizing chain of syllables that you will never learn but would not easily forget, LIVING WITH ME WOULD BE… a heartbreaking yet ultimately rewarding experience a fun way to kill an hour, maybe yourself honestly just a really bad idea because I AM... full of broken glass slightly less sound than I could stand to be a charmless, cheeky prank that could go wrong at any moment… A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT CARE TO KNOW ABOUT ME: I'm on the f&&cking brink I'm pretending not to know you Large swathes of my insides are covered in a tasteful, non-tiling terazzo pattern, so prying me apart by my visible seams is pretty much your only means of escape, lol. ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT I CAN BE FOUND Sitting pretty in The Swamp trapped within an executable that refuses to execute slipping across some frictionless surface or another eating handfuls of mica-rich gravel as if it were candy I think that you should break my windows tread without caution or care I think that you will never be me

[the-muppet-joker]

Gosh the floors on the walkway directly above these vats of dangerous chemicals sure are slippery

[junk-thunder]

come back my scarab

[junk-thunder]

please come back my scarab

[junk-thunder]

i,m so fuckign sorryy my scarab