Rambles and Preambles

A hodgepodge of things I like, things I wish, things I admire. 18+ only. DM for Discord.

[gary-roach]

Here’s a bunch of fanart of Arthur Hastings!

@foxgirl87 I will draw your suggestion don’t worry

Is the lighting screwed up? Probably

Can I fix it? Probably not/don’t want to

[luna-azzurra]

Caretaker Lines!!

✮ "Stop trying to act tough. You're shaking."

✮ "When did this happen? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

✮ "Hold still--I know it stings, but I have to do this."

✮ "You scared me half to death, you know that?"

✮ "I've got you. You don't have to hold yourself up anymore."

✮ "Just breathe. In and out. I'm right here."

✮ "You're going to need stitches and I swear, if you say you're fine one more time--"

✮ "Don't argue with me right now. Just let me help you."

✮ "I'm not going anywhere, so stop telling me to leave."

✮ "Can you squeeze my hand? I need to know you can hear me."

✮ "You're running a fever on top of everything else. Of course you are."

✮ "I found you on the floor. Do you understand how terrifying that was?"

[chippedquill]

For the amnesia prompt, "My hands remember things my mind doesn't. That terrifies me."

:) want me to write something?

[luna-azzurra]

Amnesia Prompts!!

☆ "You keep looking at me like I should remember you. I'm sorry. I'm trying."

☆ "They told me who I was. I don't recognize that person at all."

☆ "You loved someone who wore my face. I don't know if I can be them again."

☆ "Don't tell me everything at once. Let me find some of it myself."

☆ "I know I'm supposed to feel something when I look at you. I'm waiting for it."

☆ "You're a stranger to me. The saddest part is I can tell I wasn't to you."

☆ "My hands remember things my mind doesn't. That terrifies me."

☆ "Everyone keeps telling me who I was. Nobody is asking who I want to be."

☆ "I fell in love with you twice. Once before and once just now."

☆ "You kept everything. Every photo every letter. What do I do with that kind of love?"

☆ "I don't remember our history but I remember how you make me feel. Is that enough?"

☆ "Don't grieve me while I'm still standing here. I can't bear that."

☆ "I lost my past but I still have a future. I'm trying to focus on that."

☆ "You're the only thing that feels familiar and I can't explain why."

☆ "I know I loved you. I can feel the shape of it even if I've lost the details."

[canonqueers]

Canon Queer of the Day:

James Maxwell

James Maxwell is a side character from We Happy Few! He is canonically MLM and heavily implied to be gay, and has a boyfriend named Roger Bacon.

Submitted by Anonymous

[alookseeblog]

Chris Reccardi

[shattersaurus]

The Unicorn of PRIDE! This is one of our first designs we want to turn into a fancy wearable pin through our queer themed Coat of Arms Kickstarter Campaign "COAT OF PRIDE"! The first testbatches have already arrived and look incredibly stunning!

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A collection of Pride themed Coat of Arms Enamel Pins. Rally your friends, choose your crest and celebrate with PRIDE.

HAPPY PRIDE AND TAKE CARE!

[luna-azzurra]

Ways to Describe Emotions / Feelings!! <3

[lestatfag]

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

[luna-azzurra]

Dialogue Prompts!! #2

☆ "I'm not angry. I'm just done explaining myself to people who already decided."

☆ "You don't scare me. You used to, but not anymore."

☆ "I kept every promise I made to you. You kept none of mine."

☆ "Don't touch me like you still have the right to."

☆ "I watched you choose everyone else and called it love. Never again."

☆ "You're the reason I check my exits before I walk into a room."

☆ "I'm not hard to love. You were just too lazy to try."

☆ "Say that again. Slower this time, so we both understand what you mean."

☆ "I didn't come this far to be treated like a backup plan."

☆ "You look at them like they hung the moon. It's disgusting. I'm obsessed with it."

☆ "We were fine until we weren't. That's the part no one warns you about."

☆ "I don't miss you. I miss who I thought you were."

☆ "The audacity is truly breathtaking. I almost respect it."

☆ "I'm bleeding out and you're asking me if I'm okay. Do I look okay?"

☆ "You taught me that love isn't always enough. That was an expensive lesson."

☆ "Don't come to my funeral if you couldn't check on me while I was alive."

☆ "I was rooting for you. That's the part that hurts most."

☆ "You're not leaving. Not until you finish what you started."

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[rocketsaurus]

[redstonedust]

love wearing all black in public i hope no large gaseous heat emitting orb in the sky comes along and makes my day worse

[nixscriptum]

[drachenmagier]

Honestly, painting trees with Q-tips is going to be my new hobby, this is a lot of fun. :D I don't think I shared the scan yet, so here you go~.

[drmartinkolby]

"I love a good experiment. We strapped an ether lense onto a regular camera, and the result gives one an idea of the strange heat-colors I see in my German ether-powered goggles."

[nixscriptum]

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.