Dinner Made in Adrenaline Imbroglios

An energy economy intubated, intercepted and interrogated by its multiverse escape game, TikTok-addicted black holes, go-getting cerebral vampires and healing rice ball spirits. Originally an extension of The Asian Drama Philosopher (A-Philosopher)’s Chair, a site examining literature, art and ideas featured in East Asian series.

[aphilosopherchair]

Math cell ghosts offering shelters in a sample response to an AI Paul Klee's rendition of a starfish haunting challenge (AI, because the ailing human commissioner has neither the fantasized tools nor the financial and temporal budgets):

The sample challenge for authenticity signaling in an art-based matchmaking concept:

Mobilizing math cell ghosts, mobilizing math cell ghosts for a bungeoppang (fish-shaped pastry) stall haunted by a lost, lonely ghost starfish alien!

The complete context:

Cell Village Matchmaker

Merch + Platform Bubble: A matchmaking app where users display personal drawings of their own psychological cell villages in lieu of photos,

[aphilosopherchair]

What's worse than ridicule for being a (liquid) foundation general onscreen? Ridicule for being a (liquid) foundation delivery rider in a reality actively kept unpretty by everyone's minute actions. Low-SES males appear to be underrepresented among cdramaland heroes, so much so that it's heartening news Zhang Linghe is playing the role of a rebel king who begins life as an oppressed street thug in a production currently underway.

The Rose on Asteroid B 612

Remake Bubble: What if Prince Charming turns back into a frog once a storybook is closed? The male protagonist poses the tough question this

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[aphilosopherchair]

Proper romance writers,

how would you matchmake two characters toward the icy end of the emotional spectrum?

The idea of pairing the moody classic bookworm Lin Daiyu (right, her again) with moody warrior of March Xie Zheng, or rather someone of his archetype since he's very much taken, occurred while on a photo hunt for the pitch below. Would such a pairing work? Do you also see mostly cold-warm and warm-warm matches in your real-life network? Can you envisage a relationship in which people barely exchange words but also grant each other respectful silence?

Black Jade, Snow Jade

Platform Bubble: An aesthetics filter system through which you toggle on (1) a Black Jade filter to render shows in gritty realism on the da

[nasa]

Earthset

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon. The Apollo 8 mission was the first crewed spacecraft to circumnavigate the Moon.

For more imagery from the mission, visit our Artemis II Multimedia Page.

[aphilosopherchair]

We've been living on a sort of moon all this while.

[aphilosopherchair]

How realistic is it to expect a financially strapped writer already spending months on a manually written framework to create the accompanying art all by themself as well? Even the very first released version of that illustration took numerous trials and edits, including bounces among multiple pieces of software. Recall too the ethical safeguards, without which things might have been much smoother. H is abandoning neither those safeguards nor the technology. Running away won't help you learn anything.

[aphilosopherchair]

Finally nailed a color tone that's much easier on the eyes and approximates that of the graphic at the bottom of the proposal. Next up on the infinitely long wish list: Make the main figure more androgynous or feminine. Someone give H the budget to hire an artist!

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[aphilosopherchair]

Also Hilarious

(With various edits old and new)

AI-hallucinated updates for the (100% human-conceived, 100% human-penned) platform:

🧵 Patches

Hoodie back-print will now accurately render your favorite action pose instead of defaulting to “Fell Over While Solving Quadratic.”

Calculus-based mountain range melts will no longer trigger if players write “let x = idk” in brush script.

Berry spirits providing hints will now visibly sigh before giving you the third consecutive reminder about eigenvalues.

Masala Chai builds were unintentionally setting entire minor lakes on fire. This has been reclassified as a Feature.

🐞 Known Issues

Some players report emotional attachment to specific math problems and refusing to progress.

Some players are befriending minor Wine NPCs instead of fighting them and attempting cross-fermentation diplomacy. The narrative team is discussing this.

Rare glitch where the sky turns into graph paper during emotional cutscenes.

Rare crash triggered by writing proofs in calligraphy so beautiful the system assumes enlightenment has been achieved.

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[aphilosopherchair]

What a find it's been. This drama G-R-A-P-H-S ITSELF!

This hilarious show compared by numerous web articles to a film adaptation of the novel Brewster's Millions subverts the structure of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi tale The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by making its Midas-touch tech boss protagonist the sacrificial lamb who helplessly props up a prosperous system while he's stuck alone in perpetual, obscure poverty in the lose-to-earn startup game. (Major #Spoiler) Arguably that conundrum never resolves in the finale since it probably takes a ginormous loan to buy out the business empire from the coldly pragmatic funder, old Master Sima, too ginormous to repay in the near future for a guy who realizes he needs to protect his fiercely loyal employees from toxic investor interference and thus cannot cash in his post-buyout 51% equity. No matter which side you root for, him or his conglomerate Tengda, you're rooting for his failure in one way or another. And if you do care for his personal welfare, it sharpens the irony highlighted in the Omelas tale, keeping that fairytale-like city's moral dilemma fresh. Because we're too accustomed to the existence of wretched underclasses in our economies.

The writer of the source material has had an actual day job in game design. A flaw of the drama adaptation is that both the protagonist's misery and Tengda employees' happy oblivion seem to flourish in an invisible zombie epidemic with hyper-specific neural targets.

[soapver4]

Sunbath Ingredient Disclosure

Site-wise TL;DR: Tubs with a social mission. Dream pitches you don't expect to belong to this world. Granular details are often omitted to avoid distraction from the floated high-level concepts. Definitely contact for usage, adaptation or collaboration.

Post-wise TL;DR: Opening paragraph of each pitch.

Fully human-conceived.

Fully human-written except for demonstration of AI responses in the post "Greek Lessons" and for the rarely accepted, short linguistic fixes by chatbots. Rarely and short, because probability maxima cannot accurately convey the finicky soapbender's nuances.

Check out alt text, picture corners and captions for provenances of images. Where machine-generated graphics are adopted, a great deal of care has been taken to either (1) keep to styles of non-living artists or ancient art forms or (2) use generators trained on datasets collected with artist consent.

[aphilosopherchair]

↑ Updating female representation in Edgar Degas through job-depriving technology for non-job-depriving purpose.

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↑ The original human masterpiece and human prose.

[aphilosopherchair]

Rollercoaster-y fantasy graphing of a revenge fantasy drama. If only the intergender control dynamics within were pure fantasy as well.

The Professor is a Ratcatcher

👛-🎨 Hybrid Bubble: George Bernard Shaw's Henry Higgins is not a professor in this television adaptation that takes you on an unanticipated t

Line plot: LLM. Text plot: LLH(uman), as usual containing not even AI-polished sentences.

[aphilosopherchair]

For all ye who feel misunderstood. For all ye who experience imposter syndrome. For all ye whose wings are clipped. For all under-valued work teams. And, certainly, for all in-house lawyers.

Gym Lawyering Mom

Spinoff Bubble: A slice-of-life mini-drama about Gil Woo-joo, a talented litigator who has become an in-house counsel after motherhood clash

[thesweetiepienovels]

What you consume becomes part of you, whether you notice it or not. It leaves fingerprints on your mind and soul. It dictates the lens through which you see the world. That is why they feed us noise instead of meaning. They say it is expression when really it is hurting the world quietly, one note, one scene, one photo, one line, one trend at a time. Don’t fall into the trap of applauding cruelty because it’s packaged as culture. Don’t fall into the trap of trusting trends over truth. Feed your soul with things that demand thought, not mindless consumption. Feed your soul with things that resist the world’s cruelty, not normalize it.

[aphilosopherchair]

Kim Eun-sook's The Glory and the Michael Balogun-starring Death of England :Delroy were contrasting productions on the mind while conceptualizing the metadrama below. The Glory was a darkly romantic, lyrical, and perhaps cathartic roller-coaster ride for many Netflix viewers, but that one-off catharsis (#wetblanketalert) might be underwhelming to those dissatisfied with one-dimensional villains who shed no light on the psychology of real-life tormentors, against whom societies worldwide are in desperate need of realistic solutions. Delroy was a no-frills one-man-show, yet it addressed the deep roots and pervasive reach of pathological othering, which can rear its head even in someone (play #spoiler) who dearly loves you and carries a child with your blood. Missed opportunities in relatively financially accessible dramascapes are no doubt what motivate large swathes of the soap site, so you can see that the ending of the metadrama is (pitch #spoiler) partly autobiographical.

The Vivaldi Origin of Cardboard

Metadrama Bubble: An ex-delivery rider, Nick, left maimed and jobless by a horrific accident is on a bus ride home one night, with his omino

Other drama and stage productions reflected upon in the writing process include Kim Hee-sun's Tomorrow, Seo In-guk's Death Game and Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

[aphilosopherchair]

Machine-generated plot of themes in He Who Drowned The World.

Warning: The book contains numerous explicit passages.

[aphilosopherchair]

Machine-generated plot of themes in She Who Became The Sun.

Warning: The book contains an explicit scene.

[aphilosopherchair]

Machine-generated plot of character arcs in the book Pachinko. Though the graph is not technically flawless, it is one of the many instances that vividly illustrate the evocative, dynamic possibilities achievable through fusing mathematics, literature and art (ukiyo-e style in this case). An interesting way to expand the overlap between mathblr and bookblr.