the lean, mean, petite machine

Lynelle/Eel . 33 . Okinawa JP . Bi . Mother of an elder sweet potato calico queen named Little Foot. I love: anime/manga, mechs, video games, digital design, cars, electronica, and learning new things everyday.

[rawjoy]

u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

[darknightsblog]

Fireflies - Zeikun's birthday nov 17

[angelsamericana]

i love how everyone on this website interacts with each other in ways that are so socially impermissible irl. how did we get here

[angelsamericana]

like i know none of us call people we barely know "bestie" out loud. i know none of us say "i am kissing you on the mouth" in response to every mild compliment. but god i wish we did

[angelsamericana]

(recent) tumblr exclusive linguistic phenomena:

bestie (said to someone you've never spoken to directly)

so false worstie

we are holding hands

i am kissing you on the mouth

you're going in the soup

variations on "your dad looks gnc af" "YOURE INSANE"

mutuals (technically this exists on other social media but not in spirit)

[gunshots] (people say this on twitter but they say it wrong)

using periods incorrectly to. fine tune the cadence of a line

my beloved/my beloathed

hyperspecific day of the week holidays e.g. flat fuck friday

variations on gaslight gatekeep girlboss

and, of course, prev tags

[ehentalix]

I think my absolute favorite is "Thank you for the input, Tumblr user [[wildly inappropriate username]]"

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[cybergata]

"Get out of my yard strange cat."

[smallnico]

"we are the same, you and i. we share a warrior's bond"

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

[hachama]

For anyone who needs it. Use in good health.

[anxeious]

[hanpaopaoo]

I'm kinda down bad for H'aanit in Cyrus' outfit so I did another sketch 🫣

[moldavite-moved]

to be honest

[jetix]

Fruit Bus Stops, 2024-01-15

[important-animal-images]

[ladyshinga]

[maplebunie]

[frostedpuffs]

iM???? kkshd;bgdjsmmsnd;sn;

[threshie]

An orc wrote this.

[nameless-inklings]

An orc who knows how to treat a lady

[karpie-diem]

[daintymechas]

I'm really feeling my depression starting to flair up again. Unlocked my phone to see the local weather UI say this

they sure are lil guy.

[rozieramati]

by Brooke DiDonato

[theunfairfolk]

ghost hunting team that keep a nonbeliever named steve around as an emergency supernatural suppressant

[theunfairfolk]

he waits in the car with a walkie talkie while they investigate and if things break bad they call him in. as soon as he enters everything stops floating around/trying to kill the hunters and he rolls his eyes and goes back to the car.

[theunfairfolk]

he’s not bluffing. i can’t emphasize that enough. he 100% believes that the hunters calling him in is either a prank, to make him feel useful, or because they’re spookable cowards who panicked when a book fell.

he stays because the money is good and he can play his gameboy in the car.

[theunfairfolk]

i fucking love this so much. it’s like having a service animal but instead it’s a guy named steve who owns more cargo shorts than the Gap continuously baffled by why he keeps getting befriended by goths.

[tainbocuailnge]

honestly christianity really hit the jackpot with "jesus christ" rolling off the tongue as an expletive so well. the number one problem with fantasy settings is that whatever names you come up with to take in vain will never hit as well as "jesus christ"

[tainbocuailnge]

this guy gets it!!!!! this is the kind of rock solid phonetic structural integrity you have to compete with!!!! and no amount of marika's tits or thal's balls or odin's beards will ever get close because with ol jeezy boy his name alone has all the features you need

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[largishcat]

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[menaceanon]

I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”

I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.

And it’s going to happen with AI.

There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.

AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.

Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

[jonjos-library]

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