A Critter

27, it/its, AuDHD. Am creature, critter. Sometimes, am cryptid. I love to write and make art. I love many fandoms and have many special interests. I love lore: I love giving lore dumps and I love receiving lore dumps. Talk to me about worldbuilding.

[galileosballs]

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

[galileosballs]

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

[galileosballs]

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

[positivitygenic]

i hope you may heal from the traumas that "don't count", the traumas that don't seem bad enough to you to be traumas, the traumas you hide from everyone else.

[songoftrillium]

licensed from @morggo

[sleepimali]

Just me?

[lichenteeth]

fuck gender I’m not even human dude

[urfavhatesterfs]

YOU hates terfs

[switchingtogeico]

[captainhaterade]

[stankpasta]

rb if u hates terfs

[odysseuscore-deactivated2024081]

if you are a terf unfollow me i am literally a trans boy 😁🫶

[someones-here-for-sure]

I am literally gender fluid pease either learn from your mistakes or suffer

[autistic-af]

Is it just me or do you also experience certain media feeling illegal because it's too far away from the special interest zone?

I used to have more mental freedom, yes. But now that I'm basically always in burnout, my brain has narrowed down the allowed enjoyment to basically special interests only.

[zenathered]

I just found out the most hilariously amazing thing.

[randomitemdrop]

Item: wine aged in an oak barrel pulsing with the Nier Automata soundtrack

I hope this catches on and wine snobs have to start arguing over what kind of music the wine tastes like. “Here’s an amusing little Pinot Noir infused with Sousa marches” “this rosé was aged with only the finest Slavic hardstyle to which they added some playful notes by including some Abba remixes”

[jumping-jackalope]

do something to prev

saute until caramelized

hammer with a mallet until tender

vigorously season and let marinate for 36 hours

-> go into the slow cooker? -> go into the slow cooker

mash. like potatoes. with garlic. 

dip into egg, panko, & deep fry

press like a panini

kneed into a soft pliable dough

boil like an egg

boil like a frog

microwave.

Voting ended onJun 24, 2024

[critteric]

Forever wondering from now on which monster each blog is, and what the best cooking methods might be...

"Press like a panini" actually sounds therapeutic so I picked that~

[only-tiktoks]

[critteric]

This is it.

This is my brand of autism.

[whumpshaped-deactivated20250109]

[mochapao]

monster girls and monster souls

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infr

The carbon impact of artificial intelligence - Nature Machine Intelligence

The part that artificial intelligence plays in climate change has come under scrutiny, including from tech workers themselves who joined the

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

[lawofcollage]

can we talk about how this is even more annoying when websites start forcing AI on us even though we didn't FUCKING ASK (@ meta)

like, you stole my art. you stole my writing. and now you're making me fuck up the environment even though i DIDN'T FUCKING ASK

[liberaljane]

The commercial visibility of Pride over the past few years has often excluded the voices of those most marginalized.

Digital illustration of a large group of queer people. There are people of all different ages, sizes, and genders gathered around a sign that reads, ‘no pride for some without pride for all.’

[autistic-af]

Yesterday was my 262 day learning Irish.

The interesting thing is that when I tell people I'm doing this I get one of two responses:

I thought they spoke English there

Why would you do that? Isn't it a dead language?

And my reply of "I've always wanted to and I just feel a connection with the language for no particular reason" just doesn't satisfy anyone. They want a purpose. Like I need to plan on travelling or maybe I want to read a novel in it's original language or something like that.

But just saying "because I have always longed to" gives no satisfaction. They see no end game.

[critteric]

Mood.

I've always been interested in this sort of thing. I did specifically pick up an interest in Gaelic about... a decade ago? But even earlier than that, I had a similar experience.

When I was in elementary school, there was a class that taught the language of the local indigenous people.

(I don't want to say which, for probably obvious reasons. Please forgive me if that sentence comes out weird as a result, I don't fully know what the preferred wording would be at this point.)

I desperately wanted to learn it. I was not allowed to attend the class. Mostly, it's because I struggled with my grades in every class. (I was undiagnosed and unmedicated, and treated like garbage by kids and adults alike, sooo...)

But even then, I still heard things like "It's a dead language. No one speaks it. Nothing useful is written in it." etc etc.

I don't want to live in a world where everything must have a solid purpose. Where people can't pursue things based on interest level, even though we have everything we need to spend time on things others might find frivolous. Things need to change. I wish they'd change in my lifetime, but I'd be content with knowing they're starting to change, at least...

Can we please just let people do things because they want to?

[gabsters-things]

this is a gift for; @elsa-fogen

nothing too special here, alastor was listening to modern music but..... errr... the problem is he asked ANGEL and angel's music taste is very inappropriate! ✋😅

Poor al was so traumatized. Now he thinks this is what all modern music sounds like and he's never going to listen to it again. 😂

hope you like it tho elsa.

I'm in a terrible art-block rn and I'm probably gonna disappear for who knows how long 😭

and you can tell too 💀 (literally drew alastor with no monocle and he's in a HOODIE holding A PHONE 😭)

[elsa-fogen]

THIS IS CUTE AND FUNNY I LOVE IT SDHGJFHAGDFKJH

AND THE FRECKLES WAAA *dies*

[pangur-and-grim]

Grim says "NO! we are NOT silly."

[pangur-and-grim]

it might seem mean, but Grim is actually providing a great service! she does like Belphie (begrudgingly) and understands that he is a tiny baby who just wants to play, but is also teaching him that jumping on adult cats and playing with their tails is not allowed.

and she's doing it all by smacking him without claws, meaning he doesn't get hurt from these lessons.

[pangur-and-grim]

Belphie is learning!

I mean, he is doing the exact same thing. but from an unsmackable distance