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whaddup ya boy grim is back but for a third time. anyway here's my non-sonic fandom sideblog. enjoy i guess

the fandoms i go through are quite varied but here’s a list (this will probably change)

- star wars

- star trek

- minecraft

- sleep token

- danny phantom

- saiki k no psi nan

- sherlock holmes

- wings of fire

- the summer hikaru died (hikaru ga shinda natsu)

- link click (shiguang daili ren)

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#grim speaks #grim's art

novataleart

If Vessel is a black flamingo, III is a bearded vulture

Do you see the vision???

#YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES #I LOVE BEARDED VULTURES THEY’RE MY FAVORITE ANIMAL #HARDCORE ASS BIRDS #THAT ARE ALSO STUPID #sleep token

lazyleafeon

[image description: a 8 page comic starring saiki. he's sitting at a booth, eating coffee jelly.

saiki: this is great. no annoying friends, no annoying family. some silence, and my coffee jelly. something is wrong here. Multiple things, in fact.

saiki: there’s nothing beyond the booth I'm sitting at. It's all blank. the line work could be better. and is the lettering handwritten? Good grief. I do break the fourth wall, but isn't this too much? I'm going to be out of character. And would it kill this artist to use a straight edge? its no problem for me since I’m an esper, but other people could trip on these uneven panels. The coffee jelly's fine, thankfully.

An example is shown of kaidou tripping. Kaidou: woah!

Saiki, not seeing kaidou walking towards him: it’s a good thing the artist is too lazy to draw anyone else. I can handle this, but with other people it could get dangerous.

kaidou, tripping on the panel: hey saiki- woah!

kaidou knocks saikis coffee jelly off the table.

kaidou: sorry saiki!

he sees saikis expression. kaidou, nervous: haha... I'll talk to you later!

kaidou runs off. Saiki thinks: How come I didn't notice Kaidou was right there? I don't have the germanium ring on, so i should've heard- could this artist be so careless that they didn't bother to write his thoughts in?

saiki, holding the coffee jelly in its glass: like i said: dangerous. i just barely caught the coffee jelly with my telekinesis off page.

saiki, looking at how the table looks the same as the start of the comic: but all the other stuff should still be on the floor. how hard can it be to keep props consistent in an eight page comic.

he looks to the side, and sees that theres another coffee jelly on the table, since the table is as it was in the beginning.

saiki, eating the new coffee jelly: good grief. i need to do something before this gets out of hand. seems i should investigate further. End ID]

coffee jelly

#the disastrous life of saiki k #ich liebe dass

kaijuyuri

star wars fans really just make anything up

byjove

I’m not Glup Shitto-ing you. He has a sexstache and everything.

#star wars #god i wish this was fake

i prefer the storylines of star trek but the worldbuilding of star wars.

in addition to all of the detail and care put into the worldbuilding, star wars has what i call "casual worldbuilding," wherein there's little to no explanation or context to things happening, so you absorb it through exposure rather than explanation. characters will say or do things within the context of the story, and it's shown as something that just happens in this universe, rather than something that needs context.

star trek has some of this casual worldbuilding too, particularly in the 80s and 90s series, but there is much less of it and more focus on storyline. they put a lot of care into exploring specific places and the historical and cultural significance behind things. this is what i call "careful worldbuilding." star trek has a lot of emphasis on a few specific races, such as the vulcans, romulans, klingons, etc., and keeps building on the existing cultural context throughout the continuity. it also means that there tend to be more continuity errors, as things aren't thought out as well.

i don't think either of these approaches are bad. both of these are good if used properly. i personally prefer casual worldbuilding, as it helps me feel more immersed in the story, but the downside is that this can make things a little hard to follow with no context, and that there isn't always as much time and thought put into it all. the careful worldbuilding of star trek is great too, but i much prefer when things just happen rather than them being explained to me.

and the type of worldbuilding used greatly depends on the setting and storyline! star wars is an ongoing epic detailing rebellion and political disarray and the underworld, the remnants of a galaxy fractured by the hold of fascism. the networks and cultures of star wars have long been established, the histories long since learned. star trek has more focus on science and exploration, the building of a galactic network rather than the falling of one. things about the galaxy are still being learned and empires are still being established.

i guess what i'm saying is that it's important to think about your setting and what kind of worldbuilding you want to expose to your audience. you can think about it and build it all you want, but ultimately the audience only knows what you show them. idk. might rb this on main

#grim speaks #star trek #star wars

startrekprodigyfan

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

#star trek #tbh i would probably just use the holodeck to hang out in cool places and frolick around #but of course actually GOING to those places would be far superior

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