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[ainyan]

Kal'istae Miurani - Stats and Facts

B A S I C S

Name: Kal’istae Miurani

Nicknames: Kali

Age: 34 as of the beginning of Dawntrail

Nameday: 18th day of the 3rd Astral Moon

Race: Xaela Au Ra

Gender: Female

Orientation: Pansexual/Demi-Romantic

Relationship(s): Thancred Waters - Lover/Husband

Profession: Warrior of Light

P H Y S I C A L   A S P E C T S

Hair: Midnight blue with silver streaks. She keeps it long - hip length or longer, and bound in a braid that falls down along her spine.

Eyes: Indigo with glowing lavender limbal rings

Skin: Indigo with silver freckles and sapphire/indigo scales

Tattoos/scars: One tattoo: A meteor brand between her shoulder blades. She still hopes for the brand of an Archon someday. A number of small scars are scattered across her back, ribs, stomach, legs, and arms, evidence of her very active and combat-filled lifestyle.

F A M I L Y

Parents: Unnamed Dotharl Xaela

Siblings: No known blood siblings. Two adopted siblings in Sharlayan - Cailette and Alistair Miurani. Two foster siblings in Ishgard - Artoirel and Emmanellain de Fortemps. A brother-in-law, Fourchenault Leveilleur, and a sister-in-law, Ameliance Leveilleur

Children: Minyda Waters (daughter), Xarise Waters (daughter)

In-laws and Other: Ryne Waters (Stepdaughter), Alisaie and Alphinaud Leveilleur (niece and nephew), Sadu Dotharl (cousin), Kabniel Shinespark (cousin/niece-in-law), Soleil Leveilleur (nephew), Tseren Shinespark (niece)

Pets: Numerous various animals and mammets

S K I L L S

Abilities: Skilled in magic, gathering, crafting, fighting. Particularly skilled in alchemy, cooking, sewing, and jewelry making. Adept Summoner with access to all known Egis.

Hobbies: Making plushes, particularly of animals she’s encountered or people she knows. She keeps most of them for herself, but will gift them to her special people or occasionally barter them for goods she needs.

T R A I T S

Most Positive Trait: Patience. Kal’istae has infinite patience when dealing with almost anything, whether it’s waiting for news, helping those in need, teaching her goldsmithing students, or awaiting Thancred’s return from wherever he’s run off to.

Most Negative Trait: Low self-esteem. Despite her notoriety and fame, Kal’istae does not look at herself the same way everyone else does. She does not see the miracles she has wrought or the good deeds she has done, only the mistakes she has made and the cost in lives lost to her inability to solve every problem.

L I K E S

Colors: Purple, blue, teal, lavender, silver, gold

Smells: Warm leather, gunpowder, gun oil, lavender, sage, wild roses, starflowers, fresh churned earth.

Textures: Silk, smooth wood, smooth stone, velvet, soft petals, cold water

Drinks: Hot tea, water, sweet red wine, hot chocolate

O T H E R    D E T A I L S

Smokes: Never

Drinks: Occasionally, but only when around others and when there is someone else abstaining

Drugs: Never

Mount Issuance: Kal’istae was claimed early by a rental chocobo from Mimigun in Ul’dah, and when she was given her issuance from the Flames, she immediately chose her friend and named him Zhikanikoth, or Zeek for short. It was many years later that the memory of her first chocobo companion, also named Zhikankioth, returned to her and she realized that her first companion was none other than her current companion, waiting those five long years for his mistress to return. She also has a very large number of mounts she has gathered over the years, but none so beloved as her Zeek.

Been Arrested: What?? No! (Being arrested for a false accusation of regicide doesn’t count!)

Tagged by: @paintedscales

Tagging: No one in particular, but if no one else has tagged you and you would like to do this, consider yourself tagged by me!

[lilas]

Anyway

What’s your favorite queer headcanon about your WoL or any NPCs? (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

ALL queer interpretations welcome! ( ˘ ³˘)♥

[ainyan]

For the most part, Kali is pretty heterosexual, but she gets so horny for Merlwyb it's not funny. The Admiral is the absolute top of her list, even above G'raha Tia. No other women have really tugged at her libido (though she did eyeball Moenbryda a little), but Thancred ensures that every time they pass through Limsa Lominsa, they have some excuse to drop in on Merlwyb just so he can watch his wife go all glassy-eyed.

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[grendelsmilf]

I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

[ainyan]

Pride Sale

For the month of June, I am running a small sale on my Pride Cuffs. Please note that I accept custom orders for flag variants as well as flags that aren't in the listing.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4377728795/pride-flag-ear-cuff

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[sylaurin]

knocking off the gpose rust by adapting a silly comic I saw yesterday

[sylaurin]

Sunder Heaven~

[ebitenpura]

swtor question of the day: if your non-force sensitive OC suddenly gained the Force, how would they use it? what abilities do you think would manifest in them? how powerful do you think they would be?

[ainyan]

Kali would be absolutely furious and storm up to Lana demanding to 'get this hell shit out of me, now!'. Chiss don't use the Force! (Just ignore all of the Force-using Chiss out there). She would do her best to ignore it and absolutely refuse to acknowledge it exists - except when she's scouring the galaxy trying to find out where it came from and how the hell to get rid of it.

Meanwhile, Theron's over here torn between supporting his wife and being sulky that it happened to her and not him.

[ainyan]

WIP Wednesday

From my LADS Idol AU:

"Kali, come in here." Looking up from my report, I blinked at Jenna, then rose from my seat. As I joined her in her office, she gestured for me to shut the door. I did so, then settled down in one of the visitor chairs in front of her desk. "We've got our in."

I didn't need any more than that to understand what she was talking about. "Really? Who? When?"

Jenna smiled at my enthusiasm; we'd been waiting months for the break that would allow me to go undercover. A massive protocore smuggling ring was operating in the waters outside of Linkon City, and we knew where the base of operations was - but had no way to get inside. It was a private island, heavily guarded inside and out, and anyone entering was carefully screened using both technology and Evol. We'd been trying to get a mole inside for months, but no matter how hard we tried, our operative was always discovered before they could get far enough in.

It had been my idea to play to our strengths. We couldn't go in as normal security - the firm they hired from supplied security for everyone from presidents to warlords to criminal masterminds, and no matter how carefully we played with the data, they always managed to suss out the agent. But there were plenty of people who went to the island who kept their own private security, and the screening for those were minimal as it was expected that the person coming had already done their due diligence.

But, of course, planting a mole in their security teams brought its own difficulty. So we created our own security company, and our people - including me - had been moonlighting as security personnel for the rich, the famous, and the infamous, and had quickly garnered a reputation for being efficient and ruthless in protecting our clients - and equally undiscerning about who we protected.

"It seems that they're having a big celebration," Jenna was saying as I mused, "and they've booked some singing idol. His manager has convinced him to retain a bodyguard before he goes, and they've contacted our 'office'." Her fingers curved into air quotes. "In fact, his manager asked for you by name, said you came very highly recommended from Mr. Ezekiel."

I grimaced, remembering the big-shot idol I'd shadowed for a week while his usual bodyguard was out sick. Parties all day and night, and so many people in and out of his house and studio it had been a nightmare. But I'd prevented several situations and he'd been extravagantly grateful at the end of my term, even offering me a permanent position in his entourage.

I hadn't been sad to turn him down.

"So who is it?" I asked.

Jenna watched me with laughing brown eyes. "Rafayel."

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[hardrockerhippie]

At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...

[ekjohnston]

This is incredible.

[oracleoutlook]

Teaching Shakespearean Sonnets to Brain Rot 15-Year-Olds

There's hope.

My co-teacher came up with an idea. She said to me: “I’m going to project a Shakespearean sonnet on the board that you have never seen before. They are going to watch you struggle through it, and they are going to see what it takes to authentically annotate something to attempt to understand it”. This was a good idea because it targeted a pitfall of my teaching: that I already know the answer— a predetermined answer I want my students to come to. Therefore, when I ask the class a question, they are aware that there is an answer in my head I want them to arrive at. This method can stifle students’ voice. So, I stood at the front of the classroom that day, feeling exposed, sight-reading Shakespearean sonnets. With most of the sonnets, I, with the help of the class, could only get to about 75% understanding and accuracy at best. But my confusion — my apparent struggle and frustration in understanding each new sonnet— was key for my students. They felt free to posit their interpretations and even to disagree with me. In each session, a student shared a thought or possibility that not only I had failed to see but was also ultimately accurate. One student couldn’t wipe the smile off her face when she figured out a metaphor that stumped both me and my co-teacher. “This was fun”, she and her classmate said to each other when the bell rang.

[willgrahamscock]

reading problematic fanfiction but shaking my head so random tumblr user who thinks thought crimes are real knows I don't condone it in real life

[willgrahamscock]

ignore my boaner 👍

[willgrahamscock]

fictional characters can't consent because they aren't real.. but YOU can consent to reading heavy themes, and you can withdraw consent by clicking the back button and stopping any time, it is your choice to read stories that include or exclude consent 👍