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[starfleetspacecadet]

Ziyal and Kira having dinner

may i offer kira and ziyal making dinner together... traditional bajoran hasperat?

[adira101]

Oh, this's quite something, and believable as well.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

nobody “writes like ai” as long as they write, then they write. period. there’s no “writing like ai”. because by saying someone “writes like ai”, you’re implying that ai actually writes and that ai is the blueprint. but what ai does is mimic human-made works.

ai writes (aka they’re mimicking) like humans. not the other way around.

saying “this writer writes like ai” is the equivalent of saying “your work looks like those other works that copied yours”

[adira101]

You're not wrong; and usually these programs produce BETTER works than humans do, which's to their credit and sad FOR US.

And I want to extend a sincere salute to you on this: these who'd make that argument are far too dumb to BE Human; as far as the people who claim such a statement!

Its learning to write FROM US, not the other way around, and doing a better job thereof!

[plinys]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The infamous Black Siren, who had gone by her first name back on her Earth… Dinah .

Seeing her like this, out of the costume and in normal clothing, it’s impossible not to see the letters that stand out dark against Black Siren’s wrists, in her own handwriting, small cramped capital letters, unmistakably the style of writing that she had mastered during her police academy training. Her name clear as day on Siren’s wrist. The wrist that Dinah had been handcuffing into place a moment before, making the mistake of bumping theirs together just for a moment.

dinahsiren soulmate au where they both have “dinah” on their wrist

[adira101]

Don't these two share a mutual hatred? Because if so, that'd border on a "bully romance" which's one step MORE broken than most of those... if anything, this'd be basically proof of insanity about selecting their pals...

[adira101]

Reacting to, "Senator Tester Compares Trump to Dictator at Fundraiser!"

[gothamite-rambler]

Damian: I watched a documentary in health class today. A guy ate McDonald's for a month and it made him unhealthy.

Dick: They're still showing kids that crap?

Damian: I was a bit skeptical but did agree with some points. The doctor said he had liver damage that was on par with an alcoholic.

Jason: Because he was one.

Damian: Wait, he was?

Jason: Yeah, the dude was an alcoholic during the filming and didn't stop while stuffing super sized food in his face.

Damian: Oh... That explains why he puked in the doc. I thought it was due to all the salt intake.

Dick: Yeah, the dude definitely lied to make McDonald's the blame. I defend McDonald's whenever it's brought up. I don't want to defend McDonald's!

Duke: They're nuggets are good though. Damian, don't take what the doc said as facts, I remember seeing that in middle school and thought it was some bs.

Dick: Exactly. Morgan never kept a food log for obvious reasons we now know. You can eat McDonald's everyday in moderation and not go through what he did.

Duke: There's a dude who stuffs his face with big macs. Still kicking!

Jason: Exactly and look at Dick. He's pretty to most people and he stuffs his face with junk food.

Dick: Nothing you said was wrong. Damian, point is, like Duke said, don't take a lot of what the doc told you as truth.

Damian: As I said I was skeptical, but McDonald's is greasy fast food, I was suspicious of that man's lifestyle while eating McDonald's, but I do think that super sizing that food was not good.

Jason: You are such a vegetarian.

Damian: Yes, yes I am. When I'm your age I'll be big and strong. When you and Grayson are father's age, you'll both be fat and lethargic.

Duke: You didn't include me in the fat part. Smart kid.

Dick: Ouch, I don't believe that, but ouch Damian.

Jason: Bitch I died, my body is peak.

Tim: What about me?

Damian: I'll be honest I doubt you'll be able to move when I'm an adult.

Tim: I... Walked into that.

[gothamite-rambler]

Talia: People keep bringing up that Grayson has a big butt, but they focus on it way too much. Honestly, it's worse than Kim Kardashian's. He probably got injections or a Brazilian Butt Lift. Gone wrong, am I right?

Talia laughed curtly while Batman had to physically restrain his son from hitting Talia.

Batman: You... You don't like comments glorifying-

Nightwing: Yeah, but I don't want her body shaming me! My body is perfect! Take it back!

Talia: Perfect? Honey, you share similarities to that Canadian rapper, Drake.

Nightwing: Drake? DRAKE?!Let me at her!

Batman: Talia, stop insulting him.

Talia shrugged, smirking.

Talia: I'm simply speaking facts. Don't get me started on his hair. A mullet? Was Billy Ray Cyrus his inspiration?

Nightwing: Papa! Let me hit her!

Batman: She is the mother of my child and trying to get a rise out of you! You do this to her all the time.

Nightwing: I don't want to receive it! And you... you... Talia... Stop smiling at me!

Talia: No, your anger gives me strength.

[adira101]

These're pretty good; especially as likely in this case; Talia kind of goes nuts on Nightwing!

Very entertaining, if also chaotic incoming events- really fast at that!

[adira101]

Is Fascism Right Wing? | Facts Ep. 3

[adira101]

The FUNNIEST Democrat Political Parody (Best of the Worst)

[thrawns-backrest]

Not to be 'that guy' but I only recently connected the dots and wanted to share. I came across a post mentioning Thrawn and Thurfian's first meeting and I was reminded that I also used to think Thrawn was pretty young at the time. A preteen or something.

Well, having read the books a second time it turns out he was in his late teens at the very least. I didn't realize it on my first readthrough because these three scenes are scattered between three separate memory chapters and two books but Thrawn's first meeting with Thurfian, then Thalias and finally Thrass happen immediately after one another.

The one that's most telling is his meeting with Thalias who's thirteen at the time. Not only does she describe Thrawn as a 'young man' and 'grown-up' but he's also tall enough at that point that he needs to get down to one knee to be eye-level with her.

Then there's Thrass who also refers to him as a 'younger man' and 'young man'. The only one who refers to him as a 'boy' and a 'kid' is Thurfian but I imagine that's because he's older than Thrass and has a slightly supercilious attitude towards Thrawn.

With all that said, if Chiss age functions like human age, for Thrawn to be perceived as a young man by two separate strangers while still being seen as a boy by an older adult, he would be around the sixteen or seventeen mark. As someone who interacts with teens as part of my job, I'd say seventeen is a safer bet.

[navigator-vahnya]

Omg I have asked myself this same question!

IMO, Thrawn is 17-18ish at the time of those first three memories scenes where he meets Thurf, Thalias and Thrass. I picture the school where Thurfian recruited him from to be like a high school/secondary school, and Taharim to be like Annapolis/equivalent naval academy. So at the time Thurf recruits him, I assume Thrawn is about 18.

Okay so the meeting with young Thalias and the kneeling scene… I always found that moment where Thrawn knelt to talk to her to be so weird. Idk about all y’all, but when I was a 13 year old girl, I’d have found it massively condescending if a young man, say aged 17-23ish, knelt down to talk to me. You could of course make the argument that Chiss teens don’t age like humans, but I don’t think that’s the case. For example, I think Che’ri circa LE would’ve been pretty offended if anyone knelt to talk to her and she was ten.

But I digress. Back to Thalias. I think it’s simply a case where sometimes authors/editors forget what’s an appropriate way to treat a child/teen of a certain age. Like I’ve read some books where a toddler acts super precocious, or where a teen acts like an eight year old. And it makes me think… “did the author ever meet a kid who’s ___ years old?” No shade to TZahn, but when Thrawn kneels down to talk to Thalias, it might be a case where nobody caught it in the editing process to say, “hey, this is a bit weird.” Even if Thrawn is 20 in that scene, it would still be odd.

IIRC, there was also a line somewhere in one of the books that says navigators are smaller/shorter than their peers on average, so maybe Thrawn thought Thalias was younger than she actually was. Even still, I like to chalk that one up to bad editing.

As for Thurfian referring to Thrawn as “boy”… well, I think that’s A) because he’s quite a bit older and sometimes older folks see teens/young adults as “kids” no matter their age or accomplishments, and B) because he’s a bit of a dick. And as for Thrass, I think the opposite is true. He is a lot more respectful towards Thrawn, so he’d see him as a “young man.” I imagine Thrass has between 5-10 years on Thrawn.

TLDR: I think Thrawn is 18 in those scenes, and that the kneeling should’ve been scrapped in the rough draft. Sorry for rambling!

[thrawns-backrest]

lol okay, I can't believe I didn't catch this but you're right. I currently teach a class of kids around that age and if I keeled down in front of any of them they would probably ask me if I was okay. 5-6 would be the age where you could probably get away with it without being seen as weird

I guess Zahn really wanted a moment where Thrawn is 'not like other adults' though I think he already achieved that by the way Thrawn talks to Thalias. I guess we could make up some chiss cultural norm to wave it away (like the importance of talking to someone at eye-level?) or maybe skywalkers are just so far removed from a normal environment that they wouldn't see anything socially awkward about the gesture

but yeah, none of this was indicated and it's probably just a case of lumping preteens in with kids, who are incidentally also very different at different stages of their growth. no shade to Zahn, I was similarly completely unaware of the nuances before I started my job

[xiema]

Isn't the entire point of Thrawn that he is socialy akward? Even Thrass thought about it after their first meeting. I think that Thrawn, especially in his youth, has no people skills and just want to be polite. He probably don't even thought that lowering himself to Thalias eye level is wierd in someway.

My personal headcanon is that he had little to no friends after Vurika 'died' and that he had never a chance to develop proper social skills.

I agree that navigators are probably too estranged from Chiss norms, that Thalias also didn't see it as akward. It's also more that only hinted that navigators aren't always treated the best, I mean we meet 4 named navigators throu all canon Thrawn books and only 1 seems to be treated well. So Thrawn meeting Thalias on eye level was probably, something really positive to her.

Also I am very relieved that I am not the only one who thinks that Thrawn wasn't 10 or so when he was adopted. I got comments on my fanfic because of it, and I don't understand the assumtion. I mean what do people think happend? Thurfian showed up, took Vurawn, Vurawn got adopted but then has to live as Thrawn on Rentor until hes like 18 or so? Why should the Mitth adopt a child for military reasons? Even if this child is promising, that has to mean nothing.

Isn't it more logical when, Vurawn was discoverd later, when his personality was developed and grades acually mattered? Just because you are a talened kid with good grades in elementary school dosen't mean that this wouldn't change once you reached middel or high school.

Don't want to sound mean, just clarify my thoughts.

[wintertorch-deactivated20260523]

wait guys I locked in

[adira101]

Who is this woman depicted?

What's her backstory as a character?

[forecast0ctopus]

the blondeification of james t kirk

[lazyasriel]

Cordelia Chase has my whole heart actually. She is HOT she is AUTISTIC she is SMART and she’s going to have her heart broken by XANDER of all people?!

[adira101]

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[adira101]

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[murcielagatito]

they are so fucked up they should kiss abou- oh wait-

they are so fucked up they should fuck about it

[adira101]

Yeah, much more likely the guards're showing themselves as fully stupid and also so perverse that the *guards need to be shot dead* as does the entire prison staff system for this kind of stunt even once happening EVER; yes, Especially applied in the most harmful way to the most authorities imagianble!

In fact, it is entirely right to deprive those in any sort of power at all of all rights and safety, forever, only for having once received that nonsense delusion from above; yes, I very much do mean that in the most sadistic meaning imaginable to all those who could have any authority or power at all, ever!

[murcielagatito]

the writers were straight up laughing at all the latine lesbians for giving us these and then doing nothing more w em

[adira101]

Yeah, *why* the emphasis on the broken? That's what I want to know.

[murcielagatito]

wrote a lil sumn for my boxer au 🫣

[adira101]

Interesting match visualization you have.