a fallow moon

Que sera sera

[afallowmoon]

This is my ooc blog if you've found it following you I'm sorry you've attracted my attention. I might reblog something about one of my characters here from time to time but I have separate blogs for them. I've compiled a list. Lyrin'a Muinvel - healer catte who is definitely not part of a cult

Fane Gray - courtesan and petty criminal catte freezing his tail off in Ishgard. Elathain Moreau and friends - Ishgardian paladin. Also his brother and various other Ishgardian based characters I'm too lazy to make separate blogs for atm.

Emil Baschet, Coerthan spinner, can also be found in Elathain’s blog.

A'eleth Eventide - entertainer bun who runs a totally legit hostess club in Ul'dah that absolutely isnt a front for breaking people out of shit situations

This - is a catchall blog for various characters that dont have their own home. names in tags.

All these characters are free for rp.

[afallowmoon]

don’t you get tired of being beholden to the past?

[thoughtkick]

“For every person you forgive, you heal a wound of your own.”

— Phil Good

[batsandboba]

@munnchausenzip i can't lie, it goes hard (x) (x)

[afallowmoon]

whats with casters and ranged lately falling all over themselves to use lb in duties against single target bosses?

[afallowmoon]

I just wanna sleep :<

[afallowmoon]

Sometimes my fyp gets his with a clip from The Pitt and the comments always make me realize that I’ve forgotten what it’s like to not be able to imagine being witness to some of people’s worst days on earth.

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[afallowmoon]

"In the end, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about you. You have to be exactly who and what you want to be. Most everyone is floating along on phony public relations. People who say being beautiful or rich or thin makes them happy⁠—people who are trying to make their marriages and their children seem better than they actually are....and for what?! Appearances. Appearances don't count for diddly! In the end, all that really matters is what was true, and truly felt, and how we treated one another. And that's it."

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[afallowmoon]

Once again I guess I’m the villain

Shrug honestly. I’m used to it. That’s what happens when you stop placating everyone else and quietly do what’s best for you.

[afallowmoon]

Since I have a break at work and I’m in a reflective mood, you know what else is weird? How you pick yourself up and remake yourself after hitting rock bottom. The resiliency of the human mind is pretty wild. The ability to accept truths while not letting those truths sway you? Chefkiss. Holding multiply perspectives while giving in to none? Extraordinary. Empathy is really one of the most powerful abilities humans have, to allow us to see one another where we are and choose to understand them.

[afallowmoon]

It’s weird to randomly think about the person in your past who briefly destroyed your life and fucked you up for trusting people in the future for a long long time and about how you were the villain in their story and they probably still call you the villain in their story when all you did was say no once and expect accountability. And because you were blocked after they blew up all over you deriding you as a terrible human being when you’d spent years helping them emotionally and financially to your own detriment you never got to have the closure of sticking up for yourself.

So now at the fist whiff of out-of-pocket behavior from someone you vanish like smoke.

Yeah that’s weird.

[afallowmoon]

im going to crash the fuck out why do i have to log in to every single fucking website i go to i dont WANT TO LOG IN I DONT WANT AN ACCOUNT I DONT WANT THEM CONNECTED

FUCK

i remember when the internet was lawless i miss that wtf this is bullshit i hate this

[afallowmoon]

unpopular opinion: if youre going to go into a duty and then be a prick when people arent familiar with it rather than try and be helpful and explain things, how about you go fuck all the way back to wow where you most likely came from with that rancid attitude.

[afallowmoon]

rude.

[afallowmoon]

Coming to peace with there being only one way out of this