Rainbows, Giant Robots, and Female Empowerment

they/he. this is a grown folks blog 18+.

[depsidase]

[highhappyhog]

I made a Zine about this! If anyone ever wants to print and hand it out, please do!

[pangur-and-grim]

would commissioning horny art of my book be freak behaviour, or no

[pangur-and-grim]

you know what, that’s true

[pangur-and-grim]

alright I'm going for it. this is the reference sketch I sent the artist

[pangur-and-grim]

HOLY SHIT!

this was done by the amazing @taylor-titmouse! AND if you wanna know what these two men are getting up to, you can read Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die

[taylor-titmouse]

i truly do love that reference sketch i was given. as you can see i did not follow it at all

[centrally-unplanned]

Another entry into the category of "conceptually cool game design decisions that are in practice completely insane but in the early days you could just do it anyway", aka my favourite type of game design.

[baejax-the-great]

Truly, deeply not into this need to diagnose anyone with academic interests as autistic

[anchovy]

I really like it when horses look like this

[gauntletqueen]

Do the goron have an opinion on hylians naming their mountain Death Mountain? They live there. And they're very chill. Maybe they'd prefer their home wasn't called Death Mountain.

Or maybe they think it's badass :)

[drawsmaddy]

Been playing Sonadow Generations! The tonal difference between Sonic and Shadow's routes is absolutely wild

[watchhisjawdrop]

Wherever you are, I hope you have a beary good week 🐻‍❄️🐻🐼♥️

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[romanceyourdemons]

you can tell the economy is doing awesome when every ad is like “play our slot machines—they’re weirdly addictive!” “no money? try loan shark!” “sports betting: the cooler way to be a man” and i swear to god i’m barely paraphrasing the copy of several ads i just saw i swear to jesus christ

[radicalityincident]

Seriously anyone engaging with age verification bill discourse in terms of whether or not you think age restricting content is good or bad are completely missing the point.

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

Thats it, thats the whole thing. They want to link your every single usage of computers to your real world identity, and like they have been doing for all of time, they are hiding under the guise of protecting the children.

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[oh-morrow]

Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)

[beivfac]

Was watching the main pov and heard a bunch of donation messages saying “joe is bald” “joe is shaving his beard rn” so i switched to his perspective and you’ll never guess what was happening

[infectiouspiss]

all gambling advertising should be illegal

[infectiouspiss]

same goes for weight loss and alcohol and credit cards and vapes and crypto and medicine and religion and. all adverts should be illegal.

[anarchopuppy]

isnt it maddening how one day ur 9 and u go to middle school and cub scouts and all the kids are cursing and making dirty jokes and drawing dicks and repeating offensive shit they got from watching south park and family guy on their bedroom tv after their parents have gone to bed (on the same channel that shows kids cartoons during the day) and playing horrifically violent games on newgrounds and a handful of the kids u know have straight up told u they do coke, then next thing u know ur an adult and the ppl around u expect u to act like even the slightest exposure to potentially objectionable content or depictions of the human body will instantly and irreversibly shatter any childs fragile innocent mind

and theyre like "prove to me this wont traumatize my children!" and even the ppl who agree w u go "well u see, in other cultures, and in the ancient past, and if u look at this study-" but like. my source is every child whos ever grown up at any point in human history. open ur eyes. we have never been able to stop kids from seeing and repeating adult stuff and we never will, and its always just been fine

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

idk man I'm thinking a lot about the discourse being reported in this post and my own post about crushes, which has garnered a lot of responses like this one

and I don't know exactly what to do with this yet but I'm fascinated, in a really upsetting way, by the way some of these people seem to conceptualize romantic and/or sexual attraction as an act of violation that no one should do to people they like and care about. if nothing else it raises some really compelling questions about what they think actually goes on between people who have sex and/or romantic bonds with each other if that's not supposed to be something that happens between friends.

[al3xand]

I would like to point out that being your friends having a crush on you is the greatest fear of pretty much every aromantic person

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I don't know about that (source: me, aromantic)

[redkrypto-deactivated20211128]

i’m screaming

[emiliusthegreat]

I don’t think this woman is straight anymore.

[striikee]

Yall are missing the best fucking part

[idrathergoforgirls]

This is my new favourite post on tumblr, bye

[wolfjillyjill-deactivated202101]

I live for this fucking post. I’ll always reblog it lmfaoo

[vespertineflora]

[ID: tweet from andreak/@andreakvng: So one of my straight friends shared with me that she’s never had an orgasm so I took it upon myself to find her a pretty dyke to get her right…and y'all lmao.

This is followed by screenshots of a text conversation: Friend: i didn’t know sex could feel so good, does lesbian sex always feel that great? i never liked head bec it didn’t feel like anything i dead ass thought my clit was broken but oh my god when i tell you she sucked my pussy like she was drinking a thick milkshake Friend: and her strap game was…immaculate. very disrespectful though…she wouldn’t let me tap out i came at least 7 times. Friend: bitch i’m still cumming on myself…lesbians are so nasty. you’re all nasty whores Friend: would it be thirsty to ask her to fuck me again tonight? or should i play it cool…im twitching i need it again Friend: i woke up this morning for work & the first thing i said was “let’s make today a good day” BITCH WHAT!! cus u know i hate my damn job..she got me right

Friend: wait i texted her and all i said was “hey” and she gon say “you need it again already huh?” ..she’s so cocky Friend: bitch first of all…yes. i do. so i’ll be over at 11…also are you hungry? tf OP: LMAAAOOOO THATS MY BITCH!!!]