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so there's a new fish (Branchiostegus sanae). it's named after San from Princess Mononoke because of its cheek stripes and I'm in love with the picture they used to illustrate this:

San looking lovingly at this fish while it is giving me the worst side eye imaginable.

also:

perhaps?

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Natalia Rybka (Polish, 1988) - Untitled (2015)

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Orville Peck fuck me challenge

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jadeazora

Textless card art from Triumphant Light!

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Assortment of SpongeBob SquarePants episode title cards (1999)

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melonramune

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fanonical

literally everyone who played pokemon as a kid has a weird little ritual that supposedly would make the pokemon stay caught. for me i pressed a in time with the ball shaking. none of them actually work but god damn we swear by them

sailorsally

Unpopular opinion but if you don't enjoy the process you should find a different thing to do.

And I think this is true in general but now I'm talking about it in the context of AI.

If you don't enjoy making art and only care about the end piece and how it'll look and how much traction it"lol get online then making art is not something for you, find something you enjoy from start to finish.

Same goes for writing: if you do not enjoy writing and rewriting and then some more and instead want AI to write for you, being a writer is not something you should pursue.

Sure, not every part of creative process is going to be equally enjoyable but you should get satisfaction from solving the problems along the way and you should get a sense of accomplishment on your way of "making the piece yours" and you should have a sense of ownership once you are done.

None of these things will come from typing in a prompt into chatGPT. And I am sad to see so many people are missing on the opportunity to experience the joy of making something with their own hands and brains.

theivorytowercrumbles

#this is so true#i know writers like to joke about hating writing#but like if you're serious?#if you actually hate the process of writing?#why is this what you've chosen to pursue#just do something else

wittlecritter

I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being romantically unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.

And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-

wittlecritter

This essay is a group project now and y’all are pulling your weight

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I will add that while the sequel books have their issues, Sophie shows up and kicks ass in both of them and she’s so so so cool about it

siliconewhale

She believes she has the curse of being the oldest child which she brings up so many damn times but in reality she just has the curse of low self esteem and she just needs to get away from her horrible mother and live a wild little life to show herself she has value.