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idea i’m rotating in my head: instead of the classic ‘reverse-sexist warrior woman from matriarchal society’ bit, a character who totally isn’t a reverse-sexist, not at all, sis!

Sorry, i know some fellas get all offended by that but I just use ‘sis’ in like. a gender-neutral way, you know, it’s how i was raised. But nah i’m a modern 24th century woman, I don’t buy any of that “if it don’t bleed it don’t lead” shit. I think boys - sorry, men - can be just as good at all that stuff as women.

*approaches a group of people, instinctively assumes a woman is in charge and is corrected.* “Ohhh, yeah, ok. Hey, good for you. Hashtag Yes He Can.”

loki-zen

lines that didn’t make the above post (largely this character quoting things her grandmother would say that she totes does not agree with):

“It’s unnatural! Men don’t bleed regularly, which as everyone knows makes them squeamish about blood in general and their own in particular. So how are they going to handle it on the battlefield?”

“If they were strong enough to fight they’d be strong enough to carry babies.”

“Look, it’s great that some boys want to ‘have it all.’ But if all the boys want to be warriors, who’ll carry the firewood, and cook, and mend our clothes?”

“God, don’t be such a fragile little ballsack.

…sorry! was that a microaggression?”

crackshipsandregret

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

baraphalloplastyclinic

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

ladyfoxfire

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

dressedupliketheking

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

parakeet

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

parakeet

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

thatdisasterauthor

I believe it's only auto-enabled if you were already sharing your likes. If you had like sharing turned off, reply sharing should (should) also be turned off.

Probably best to still check, though.

herssian

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

gatheringbones

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

quasarkisses

i needed this as a background

spectrexviiii

gothammite

i have something to say

caezar23

I like to change character clothes so here is a fall look for Robin (I took it from Pinterest)

charlesoberonn

The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.

feldfrog

souplover13

images: two tweets by stand-up comedian Benny Feldman.

the first picture shows a tweet:

"Don't police comedy" Well. I'm not going to arrest anyone. I'm not even trying to cancel anyone in the 2010s sense of having them lose their job. My goal for comedians who make regressive jokes is for them to change their minds. And for everyone to understand why jokes matter.

the second picture shows a quote retweet. twitter user ChoppedBeef says:

"All I want is for everyone to agree with me"

to which Benny Feldman's response is:

I would like everyone to be not racist instead of racist, yes

end image descriptions.

souplover13

benny feldman's the man who gave us 'it's just a joke dude. and the joke is just rooted in ideas. that i'm enforcing' and also 'it's just a joke dude. it's just one of the most digestible and powerful forms of persuasive rhetoric my guy'. he posts a lot of his one-liner sets online. he's a very good person to check on occasionally if you're interested in the philosophy of humour.

jabberwockypie

The problem with so many of these regressive, right-wing people is they view social censure as equivalent to an attack on them, personally.

If you say shit that's mean or racist or transphobic, some people will not like you! Some people may, in fact call you an asshole.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from social and economic consequences! Somebody calling you a dick and refusing to give you money is not the same as throwing you in a gulag.

You are not owed an audience and you are not owed access to people.

yellow-cat

actually hate that the bodys response to anything is nausea. ate too much? nauseous. ate too little? nauseous. an imaginary threat got you scared? be nauseous. on your period? you guessed it. sawed into your hand and need to go to the emergency room? perhaps throwing up into your open wound will be of help

soskcrumbs

Zakki raving about Sakura

or Zakki letting his inner Suo take over and start glazing Sakura-kun

Note:

The original line: だから好きなんだろうなぁ There was no clear subject, so I decided to translate and subbed it this way. But since he's using なんだろうなぁ (a vague expression to show conjecture or assumption with no direct confirmation) at the end, it's likely that he's not talking about his own feelings... And to no surprise, a lot of JP fans at the time collectively agreed that Zakki meant to say "That's probably why (Suo) likes him so much" lol

aolihui

andhumanslovedstories

I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#IM SORRY THEY DO HOME FUCKING WORK IN ANIMORPHS??????

Yeah they're students. If they don't keep their grades up or if they miss too many classes (or miss classes at suspicious times) then they risk drawing the attention of the faculty and/or their parents, some of whom are the enemy and some of whom can just make future espionage a whole lot harder. There are multiple missions where they're like "okay, this is incredibly time sensitive but it'll take a full day or longer so it has to wait for the weekend and we'll have to all lie to our parents about sleeping over at each others' houses. It's gonna have to be done at the last minute because we've gotta go to class. Also, remember to get that English paper finished, we can NOT afford to have you grounded right now."

derinthescarletpescatarian

They also get disembowelled and/or eaten a lot

derinthescarletpescatarian

#animorphs#its actually devastating i bever got into these#they wouldve been a million times more up my alley wtf was i reading harry potter for

It's not too late. You can still read them.

cheerfulomelette

These have been out of print for an age, and the authors have given their blessings to share the PDFs. Here's everything, including companion/side books and the non-canon Alternamorphs books, in reading order:

All of the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate, as well as the other books set in that universe. I got them here. I am not the one who collec

derinthescarletpescatarian

#Im sorry can we circle back to the disembowelment for a second im not over that

Oh they get disembowelled so so often. Especially Marco. Marco gets diesembowelled, Jake dies in alternate timelines, and Rachel blacks out for ten minutes or so only to come back to herself surrounded by the torn-apart corpses of her enemies with her teammates screaming at her to retreat before the building explodes or collapses or whatever. They have their niches. They all get eaten alive often enough that you can't really pin that one to a specific animorph.

Jake did get crushed as a fly that one time and his organs got smeared everywhere and all his friends (also flies) had to carry him somewhere safe to demorph before his brain died but it was hard because the legs they were holding kept getting torn off his mangled body, making him very difficult to carry, which personally I think is Marco injury territory. But like. They've all gotta take occasional actions to avoid tight typecasting so Jake can have a little Fly Dismemberment as a treat.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#hi yes what the FUCK#no wonder her and the author of the gone series are together

The author of the Gone series cowrote Animorphs. The couple wrote it together.

night-dragon937

that makes a lot of sense, I've just seen K A Applegate on all the covers

derinthescarletpescatarian

Yeah they published under her name. If you ever see people talking about Animorphs refer to "Applegrant", this is why.

dailycatsblog

stage-props

Hey so if you haven't heard about this you absolutely should give it a read because it's just as satisfying as you're hoping

onionsandleeks

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and fail

gummiegooie

Unpaywalled text under the cut

A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create a plan to take over the development studio and force out its founder, according to court records.

The Monday ruling details the bizarre story. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is the studio behind the 2018 underwater survival game Subnautica. The company has since been working on the sequel, Subnautica 2. In 2021, South Korean publisher Krafton bought Unknown Worlds Entertainment for $500 million and promised to pay out another $250 million if Subnautica 2 sold well enough.

Krafton’s internal sales projections for Subnautica 2 looked great, and looked like it would be on the hook for the additional $250 million. In an attempt to avoid paying this, Krafton CEO Changhan Kim turned to ChatGPT for help avoiding paying the developers the $250 million bonus. “As Unknown Worlds prepared to release its hotly anticipated sequel, Subnautica 2, the parties’ relationship fractured,” the court decision said. “Fearing he had agreed to a ‘pushover’ contract, Krafton’s CEO consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate ‘takeover’ strategy.”

Kim partnered with Krafton Head of Corporate Development Maria Park and the company’s legal team to work out options. He toyed with finding a reason to fire the founders. According to court records, Park pinged Kim on Slack and told him that attempting to avoid paying the bonus would be legally risky. “Hi CEO . . . it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause,” the Slack message said according to court records. “Therefore, there isn’t much that we can practically gain other than punishment with a simple dismissal alone, whereas I am worried that we may be exposed to lawsuit and reputation risk.”

But the CEO would not accept defeat. “And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help,” court records said. “When the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be ‘difficult to cancel,’ Kim complained to Park that the [payout] was a ‘contract under which we can only be dragged around.’”

Kim pressed the chatbot for an answer. “At ChatGPT’s suggestion, Kim formed an internal task force, dubbed ‘Project X.’ The task force’s mandate was to either negotiate a ‘deal’ on the earnout or execute a ‘Take Over’ of Unknown Worlds. They looked to buy time,” court records said. “Kim sought ChatGPT’s counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a ‘Response Strategy’ to a ‘No-Deal’ Scenario.”

This was a piece of ChatGPT’s “Project X” for Krafton:

“a. Preemptive Framing - Repeat that protecting quality and fan trust is the highest priority, undermine the ‘Large Corporation VS. Indie’ framing b. Securing Control Points - * Lock down Steam/console publishing rights and access rights over code/build pipeline through both legal and technical aspects. * For the earn-out freeze, keep room for negotiations through provision stating ‘immediate removal if specific development results are achieved’ a. Systematic materials for legal defense - Prepare contract interpretation memorandums, log all communications, seek external consultation b. Team retention - Operation of retention packages for key personnel and rapid backfill pipelines in anticipation of resignation/departure scenarios c. Two handed strategy - Create a structure that allows for both hardball (Legal+ Finance) and softball (Support/Incentives) approaches so moderate factions within Unknown Worlds can push for compromise.”

Kim followed ChatGPT’s advice rather than his lawyers’ advice, according to the court records. The first step was posting a message on Subanutica’s website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to “secure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy.” He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the game’s original creators and entered into a legal battle with them.

The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose. The judge has ordered he reinstate the fired developers and has exposed the CEO’s flailing use of ChatGPT. Krafton told Kotaku that it was “evaluating its options” regarding the ruling and that it “puts players at the heart of every decision

waywardworldhopper

Since this has started making the rounds a bit late, some updates:

The court was NOT impressed by Krafton's argument, like, at all. They ruled that Krafton would have to (a) give Ted Gill (the founder who remained active in development on the sequel) his job back, (b) honor the earnout agreement, and (c) stop getting in Unknown Worlds' way w/r/t the game's development or early access release. You can read the whole ruling below; it's the delightful sort of court document where you can feel the judge's disapproval coming through.

Krafton proceeded to be kind of a baby about the whole thing and put out an internal memo (that they probably leaked intentionally) setting a release date, which the Unknown Worlds team immediately. Gill and the Unknown Worlds lawyers basically immediately fired back that this was sabotage and requested Krafton be held in contempt:

They've since retracted this objection, and an official early access launch date of May 14 has been set. There are also still legal battles ongoing, I believe largely regarding further damages for the wrongly fired founders.

So TL;DR: at this point the best thing to do to support the Unknown Worlds folks (and spit in Krafton's stinky AI-loving eye) is to pick up the game when early access drops and help force Krafton to pay the earnout they were so desperate to avoid.