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Technically a blog - trans - she/her (she/it if you're not cis) - sapphic - early 30s

[amelia-d03]

Yeah I know a few of those

[itsjunetime]

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Goldilocks finished the second bowl of porridge, then activated the time machine and returned to the future. "Oh no!" she said, taking one look at the giant red swastika banners hanging outside her window. "This timeline is too fascist!"

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

The bear reached out her paw and took Goldilock's hand. "Wait! I know you don't remember our marriage, but... couldn't you still be happy? Here? In my bed?" Goldilocks shook her head. "One more trip. I have to make it right. I have to make it just right."

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[facts-i-just-made-up]

[sunderwight]

Gonna make a sci-fi entity that is an AI supercomputer which consumes a planet's worth of resources in order to run, like it is the entire planet, all just for one singular being and its calculations, and it's also stupid as fuck.

Like people regularly pilgrimage out to try and get it to calculate something for them despite the fact that it's widely known that this machine is dumb as bricks. People just refuse to believe that something this big and impression and that takes so much energy to run can actually just be stupid. There are whole entire cults on other worlds that are dedicated to puzzling out the secret actually "smart" interpretations of it's conclusions, widespread disagreements about what the culture of its creators was (if they existed) and how they might impact things like the translation of data submitted or received, there have been historical teams who have worked night and day to understand the planet brain's language and workings and solve this riddle of how it's secretly smart, but prevailing wisdom remains that it just actually, factually gets everything wrong like 99% of the time.

Some people are convinced there's some fundamental flaw to how the planet brain works, and that if this flaw could be fixed then it would become an invaluable resource. So yet more resources and genius have been poured into figuring out what it could be and trying to secure the necessary grants and access privileges to attempt repairs. The few times anyone has actually gotten in to try and change the brain, though, the effect on its output has been negligible, and the brain has gradually reversed those changes and reset itself over time.

It's estimated that multiple billions of resources have been poured into figuring out the planet brain over the years. Experts have dedicated their lives to trying to understand it. Impassioned devotees have ruined themselves and their communities attempting to follow its advice. Even people who agree that it's stupid tend to agree that it should still be preserved and studied, even though trying to recreate some of its systems or apply the super advanced technology involved in its creation to other tech has yielded negative results (it makes everything else dumber too).

Basically it's the sci-fi equivalent of a money pit. Even aside from the energy the planet brain consumes as a planet itself (it's eventually going to spiral into the sun and be destroyed btw), intergalactic civilizations just keep pouring more and more into it because of the conviction that no one would waste THAT much on a stupid machine that did nothing. With the plot twist being that this is exactly what happened. The original aliens who invented it poured a ton of their energy into it out of the belief that a machine intelligence could figure out how to solve all their problems. Over time the investments in the project mounted, the sunk cost fallacy kicked in, and the planet brain even became their last hope of saving themselves from extinction because they had invested too much into it to allow it to fail. Now it exists as an accidental trap, ensnaring those civilizations that discover it and share similar enough cultural flaws as its creators, that they take up the cause of chucking more resources into it.

[anxeious]

[cipheramnesia]

Messing around with an objectim cassette futurism character.

Her head is a 1990s camcorder, and she has a variety of manual switches, sliders, and dials which control her voice, personality, mood, and memories. She is trans feminine, medical transition accomplished by bolting a breastform chestplace onto her otherwise genderless body. The variety of audio and video attachments allow multimedia presentations played through her body using physical media, or anything which can be converted to A/V output. These also can output her innermost thoughts and even unconscious feelings into a separate display.

Her personality and attitude, along with more cosmetic features like voice, can be swapped around using the various cassette slots throughout her body. Instead of genitals, a large, tinted monocolor display occupies her pelvic reason to display various adjustments through her controls, defaulting back to one of a few dozen screen saving options. She can adjust herself manually, but her controls are not something she can lock out - anyone can interfere with her.

[cipheramnesia]

Cordelia Sharp

[cipheramnesia]

She sometimes looks like she has a halo, but it's just the light from the LCDs and viewfinders on the side and back of her head. The majority of her body is technologically mutated, and you can extract the camcorder from the mutated addition and use it as a mundane camera separately from her body, although that would be a deliberate choice to leave her blinded and unable to speak or hear.

[cipheramnesia]

She's basically a manic pixel machine girl.

[cipheramnesia]

Someone asks her how her depth perception works and she goes, "Gosh! I have no idea!" And for the next four hours she's just moving her hands nearer and further from her face and sticking her face really close to things then moving back and she swaps out like three memory casettes and the next time she sees the person who asked she's like, "Hey! I found my macro function, check out all these cool bug photos!" which are all pictures of twigs and rocks actually.

[cipheramnesia]

She keeps a heavily curated selection of CDs in storage racks behind her ribcage and gets really insecure if anyone asks her for blu-rays. "No, I don't carry any blue rays! I bet they're an endangered species, ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha ha-ha-ha!! Who have you been talking to. I'm forward compatible!"

Also her legs have those giant old school floor speaker types with a cloth cover dinnerplate woofers, and separate midrange and tweeters, plus she's also got those shitty plastic 1990s boombox speakers inside her calves. She does not have an AM radio receiver.

[cipheramnesia]

She tries to keep her fold-out LCD screen closed, but it pops out when she's startled or embarassed. She has a DVD adaptor but doesn't like using it because not all DVD software is compatible with her menu buttons, so sometimes she can't play a disk or it goes right into the movie without any options for closed captioning.

[cipheramnesia]

If she's particularly frustrated she'll eject her current brain tape and throw it against the wall and try a different one.

[cipheramnesia]

She has cassettes for each person she's dating, a whole brain just for the people she loves. And obviously she's "pan" sexual.

[cipheramnesia]

She leaves her brain casettes with her lovers and makes them mix tapes of her favorite songs and memories.

[cipheramnesia]

Most of her clothes are like donated or stolen because she's got no job and is terrible at learning new skills, also has no acting, cinematic, or musical talent. Her breast forms are also generally in pretty rough shape, with a lot of slipshod repairs done through tape. She forgets she has them as they're mainly to get her gendered correctly (and don't always work). Strangers looking at her pelvic display make her uncomfortable so she wears high waisted men's jeans a lot, but around friends usually wears nothing below the waist.

[cipheramnesia]

Also, she smokes. She doesn't have lungs or a circulatory system, but she still smokes cigarettes. "How??!" She just shrugs, Cordelia literally has no idea why she's alive or how her body works. "You want a drag?" "No!"

[cipheramnesia]

Her skin is that cheap kind of shimmery matte silver plastic that you see in all the 90s electronics, combined with the rough textured black plastic from 80s electronics, with touches of 70s brushed metal. She has some fake wood trim on her back and if you look through the venting holes you can see pcb and vacuum tubes, but taking her apart reveals deeper and deeper layers of wiring, magnetic readers, disc swappers, deeply burried permanent casettes, with more material than should fit in her body yet not a single indication how she functions as humanoid biped with sentience.

[cipheramnesia]

[lanaflowerz]

[ivy-justafox]

Well I got hrt so I guess it’s works

[jaypilled]

are those my only options

[prower-labs]

[reachartwork]

also i am really annoyed at people thoughtlessly using the term crutch to refer to ai stuff because crutches are good actually and yet whenever someone uses the term they mean it in an apparently demeaning way. some people do in fact need crutches! idiot

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[downwithpeople]

we will domesticate the shark. we will restructure society around shark ownership. this is basic fucking marxism people.

[anarqueeen]

Hate when I'm trying to find my luggage at the baggage claim but they all look the same. Many such cases.

[chthonic-thought]

My name usually feels correct when I write it or see it, but it often doesn't when I hear it

[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

[david-talks-sw]

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[comebackali]

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

[cibastion]

Spiral with me