why is there an upgrade button on gmail. why does twitter want me to scan my palm to get into my account. why is google a chatbot. why does the transit app make a transit app wrapped for me. why does youtube keep shoving its infinitely scrollable shortform content down my throat. why do my doctor and psychiatrist and therapist want to use an ai notetaker during our appointments. why do free trials want my credit card number. why are most scholarship websites just data brokers. how do i make capitalone stop sending me mail. why is my school making its own special chat gpt powered chatbot. why is every third video on instagram an undisclosed ad. why is nothing online real anymore. why is everything so FUCKING STUPID
My superpower that turns everything chinese aka I made them into the four auspicious beast because! Why not! Also ignore how grian looks like an npc compared to the others, that's because I hate him! 😊
Anyway i do have a half baked plot about them! Read it if you want to 😁
For thousands of years, the four auspicious beast has protected humans and ruled over them according to their cardinal dominions
Vermilion bird: south
White tiger: west
Azure dragon: east
Black tortoise: north
Sometimes they work together to fend off monsters, othertimes they go on wars with each other. There will always be humans dead from the aftermath.
Seeing this, they finally settle on a peace agreement and worked together to seal every monsters and then vow to never use their powers again so no other catastrophic event will happen.
The four beasts takes on different apporaches to their "retirements"
Gem decides to become a military general and teaches her people how to fight and defend. Just because an era of peace is upon them, doesn't mean that they will always be safe. Even though she cannot protect them as the azure dragon, she can still do so as a human. The east is now a very guarded place with powerful military prowess thanks to her.
Pearl became a priestess that lives in the mountains. She lives in solitude, but still opens the door for her former subjects who came to ask her for guidance. The north is small, but wise.
Scar essentially heard the word "retirement" and said "about freaking timeee 😌". He spends his days literally as a greedy house cat being pampered by the royal palace. This guy is literally a bum who gets the best food, entertainment, toys, beds, literally everything he asks is provided to him and he does absolutely NOTHING! He's not even ruling or giving advice or anything, those are taken care of by the emperor and the other relevant boring politic guys (he doesn't even know or care who they are, they're all servants in his eyes), he just lazily rolls around in the sunlight all day, he's literally just a spoiled cat. Everyone loves him 😭
Grian is a farmer. Yepppp. He's overworked, underpaid, he hates everything. All the other 3 guys gets recognized and honored by their dominions in some ways, not Grian. To be fairrr these people dont even know he's the vermilion bird, everyone is under the assumption that the vermilion bird is currently resting in the volcanoes. And that was true... for like a hundred years ago. Grian's done with his rest, and goes back to civillization, but when he came back, nobody believes him when he says he's the vermilion bird 😭 he just looks too pathetic 😭 and its not like he can prove it either with the no power rule, so now he's stuck having to work odd jobs to get paid somehow 😭 He eats stew everyday and he's like.... well! I guess this is my life now! You gotta do what you gotta do! 💔
This is where the plot comes in where main character jimmy (i just love him), who had always had these strange premonition powers gets a prophecy about the future where the seal keeping the monsters trapped breaks. So now he's on a quest to get the band back together (im laughing at him finding grian miserably planting a potato looking like a sad victorian child and he's like... "mr. Vermilion bird??" And grian literally starts sobbing cuz someone finally believed him 😭😭😭😭).
I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
Stratt genuinely deserves so much more recognition than she gets. She's a scapegoat, she's a villain, she's a hero in all definitions of the word and I'm giving her all my money. Lets ignore how funky the Hail Mary looks. It's my first time drawing it..
Debated calling this piece An Unwilling Patron Saint but idkk......
“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid
It’s extremely fucked up that some ppl try to make you feel stupid and immature for hoping for a better world. You say you want world peace and mfs think you need a pacifier; dawg, I just don’t want ppl dying from violence. This idea that ppl simply must die as casualties of war is misanthropic to say the least.
