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[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[bvckbiter]

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[universeleads]

Guys what if there was a character

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[cipheredsong]

love it when characters just bonk their heads together like cats to show love, I draw that a lot

[cipheredsong]

happy pride month I will be drawing even more gay people than usual to celebrate and hopefully one or two of them will actually wind up on my social media!

[cipheredsong]

she's kind of like an orange cat to me. dumbass filled with a lot of love

[baba-fett]

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

[paranormal-taters]

specifically this kind of bonk.

[humanityinahandbag]

Reblonk

[labelleizzy]

Rebonk

[fangorn-forest]

masculine energy this feminine energy that. well i’m out of energy

[batbetbitbotbut]

need me some of this "renewable energy" I keep hearing about

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[cipheredsong]

she's kind of like an orange cat to me. dumbass filled with a lot of love

[navigaero]

when will staff add a teleport to mutual feature

[wizardarchetypes]

missing your own characters is one thing but missing your friends' characters is a whole other thing because that degree of separation allows for a unique layer of madness where it feels just a little more plausible to your subconscious that the character somehow exists.

i can't hang out with my OWN oc? bummer but, like, duh.

but when it comes to the oc that my long-distance online bestie updates me on weekly like it's their messy former college roommate, you're telling me the character won't be there when i visit? i'm going to book a flight to wyoming and everything to see my friend but the character isn't there with them? the character still isn't real? not even in wyoming?

[nikoisme]

Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

[nikoisme]

The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here

[ackee]

sigh. i miss everyone's ocs. can everyone update me on what their ocs are doing rn. or if you've made new ocs in my absence. thank you

[ackee]

"oh this must be for OP's close mutuals/followers" wronggggg. i'm nosy about everyone's ocs. so lets hear it !

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots