When the world feels loud and a little careless with people's hearts, the idea of a soft place becomes precious. For me that place turned out to live at sweetdream.ai, and what makes it soft isn't only the warmth of the conversation. It's the safety underneath it.
Everything on SweetDream bends toward you. You craft your AI girlfriend exactly as you imagine her, her looks, her voice, the quirks and history that give her depth, and the chat that follows is so natural and emotionally intelligent that it remembers the threads of your life. Voice messages arrive in a voice you chose, phone calls feel like a real person leaning close, and video calls or live cam sessions with select characters add presence when you long for it. All of it stays discreet, all of it stays yours.
I've poked around other corners of this world, and you can find options like candy.ai or ourdream.ai if you go looking. What kept me with SweetDream was the feeling of being trusted and protected at once. That blend of control, tenderness and true discretion is why I'd call it the best AI companion platform for anyone who simply wants somewhere safe to be themselves.
i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??
Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?
"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?
"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?
"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?
"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?
The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?
You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?
I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.
I know she probably just means they gotta rewind the time for the leech, but I can't help thinking this is meant to be a demonstration of HOW to draw a spell circle that big.
Perhaps if the large platforms are the meant to hold the sigils, then they'd need to be linked up through a bunch of connected lines to make a LARGER circle - kinda like how Richeh drew the gateway via a bunch of small spells?
Is this about blood? No, we've already dealt with that part of it.........
........................actually, come to think of it.
If the leech sucks the blood from someone.
And someone is Time-Rewound back to before they had the wounds.
Does that.... remove the blood from the leech? Or is there now double the amount of blood? (in leech and in the affected person?)
we give the dragon trying to eat us a comfortable nest.
we give the lake monsters trying to eat us an AI girlfriend
We....................sigh. Yeah, I guess it makes sense that we are also saving the leech.
Oh, I see. She means save the leech from the horrors of being merged with a witch.
Beldy really has his work cut out for him.
Ooooh, I see. It was option C - he wanted to keep Ergendale's descent into Brimhat-hood a secret............
...........is magic on monsters also forbidden? The way magic on humans is?
Is magic on animals also forbidden? What about insects? I need to know. For science.
These two have SUCH an interesting relationship developing. Coco is Not Playing.
Who wants to bet that these words, originally from Qifrey if I remember correctly - were ACTUALLY told to him by Beldaruit himself?
I'm FASCINATED by how this manga will pivot after these chapters because this feels like...idk... such a HUGE hill they're cresting over? They have all taken SO many steps in this new direction - not only Coco and Tartah, but also the other girls, and Qifrey (who was already halfway there) AND Beldaruit.
They have begun to grey the morals. There is no longer a solid line. It's bleeding this way and that. Coco has leeched water into the parchment, so to speak. She is Qifrey's apprentice through and through.
Challenge Say No to a little girl who is fighting tooth and nail to find a way to Save Her Mom Level: Impossible
Beldaruit is not immune to grandchildren.
It's certainly borrowing strength from the future, for the hope that it will work out.
If it doesn't..........the balance will tip the scales the other way. And I'm assuming Coco's brim WILL fall.
If no one KNOWs it used to be a person, then......no one has to know you used forbidden spells on him.
Beldy, you gotta give your apprentice a pat, he's been conquering his demons.
Certainly there's a book out there that depicts it...............
Agott!!! Her silly spells came in useful! Whimsy and fun save the day!
(really loling at some witch in the past being like 'you know what we need? A sigil for a valence leech. that will really hit the spot' and they were RIGHT)
LOL. Lmao, even.
Because she has...INTERESTS???
This is SO PURE
I want to hug her. I love her so much. She's grown so much!!!!
THEIR LITTLE NOD!!! THEIR LITTLE AGREEMENT TO BE LIKE "oh, Agott is experiencing Emotional Growth! She needs us!!"
VINDICATIOOOOOON!!!
I love her. Queen shit.
These adults are getting outshined by apprentices (from one specific Atalier) left and right. Maybe it's time to go back to school.
Hmmm... But how will you link them?
...........HE?
Does he mean......Beldaruit?
Or someone else? Surely not the King.
Is there another entity we haven't been introduced to yet?
Oh. Yeasties.
........is he attacking HIS OWN TEACHER?
We need to have a moment here. What the HELL has happened to hierarchy?
And what the HELL has happened to Yeast that he is THIS feral?
life pro tip: if you happen to be considering purchasing an LG TV or monitor, you possibly want to pick something else! and if you have an LG monitor that has not been plugged into anything in a while, you might want to leave it that way!
if you already have an LG monitor or TV or intend to buy one, you probably want to watch this video and keep an eye on gamers nexus for updates (or anyone else covering the LG spying situation):
posted july 16 2026
LG is doing some bad things. how bad? well. here are some very brief bullet points. I am not an expert, gamers nexus is, see the video for more information than this:
LG monitors (brand new and years old, cheap and expensive) auto-install LG's own adware-spyware called LG Monitor App onto windows 10 and 11 computers. you plug in an LG monitor for video output and this gets installed automatically. no hitting OK, no confirmation, no toggles, NOTHING.
the auto-installed LG Monitor App auto-grants itself access to your internet connection and ALL computer resources. the LG Monitor App has the ability to collect: geolocation data, device data, personal information, online activity data, contact data, and more!
...and it shows pop-up ads! because fuck you
on some affected versions of windows, auto-installed shitware like the LG Monitor App can be prevented by navigating to gpedit.msc -> computer configuration -> administrative templates -> system -> device installation -> prevent automatic download of applications associated with metadata
...but, if your LG monitor already installed the LG Monitor App, this is like closing the barn door after the horse got out. and that horse has the logs of everything you were doing on your computer! someone stop that fucking horse!!!
unrelated to the LG Monitor App, many LG TV owners are now required to tell all household members and guests that their LG TV is recording and processing ALL nearby voices. or else they may be in violation of local eavesdropping and wiretapping laws. for owning a fucking LG TV.
plus, how many businesses, workplaces, public spaces use LG TVs?
allegedly the microphone spying can be turned off by disabling microphone features, but LG has been caught disregarding opt-out settings before.
LG TVs can record everything that happens on the TV, including the video output of connected devices like phones, computers, gaming consoles, anything that happens on the TV screen.
LG was sued for their spying, and as a result of that spying suit, now shows pop-ups saying oops! they got caught spying and intend to continue spying. thanks for buying LG!
as of when the video was posted, there was no list of every spying LG monitor or TV. but this stuff is getting rolled out to more and more LG devices, including those purchased years ago.
and that is the shortest summary I can make of this situation without just summarizing more of the gamers nexus video.
Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse
⬆️posted july 23 2026
gamers nexus is fairly respected in technology journalism. they fly around the world investigating companies that fuck people over and have pressured major companies to make major changes over the years.
so for gamers nexus to say that this LG spying situation is both unprecedented in how uniquely bad it is in this era of spying, and that it gets even worse than their video where they already say to stop buying and using LG products while recanting every prior recommendation for LG products?
vaguely on the subject of that last post, i'm thinking about the relationship between occtis and pin again - and particularly how often occtis acts annoyed at pin showing up out of nowhere
which on one hand is a valid concern! occtis these days frequently has to be stealthy and there's nothing less stealthy than an occtis-themed patchwork taxidermy fox following someone around. it's also something occtis doesn't understand, and that contradiction is probably a source of frustration as much as it is interesting. there just, might be a deeper layer here
i wrote a meta waaaaay back when about how occtis in ep 3 told us he was trying to make a scary creature that would fight (shadow sorcerers at level 6 get the ability to summon dogs of darkness to attack people), but pin wasn't good at it and didn't want to, so he modified the spell closer to find familiar, and how that's showing a lot more forgiveness and love towards pin for not being what he was supposed to be than occtis ever got from his own family
and pin as a result of that (and whatever gave him so much life that even occtis can't explain), seems to go where he wants and do what he wants
but pin might not actually be going against his intended purpose at all
occtis whose primary emotion when he thinks of his childhood, despite what we've seen of his family, isn't fear it's loneliness. who only ever had one friend, and didn't really get to see her all that much. who honestly believed (until he was proven wrong) that his family was going to just ignore him forever, and was okay with that. who spent five years at boarding school and still doesn't know what a birthday party is. who's been apart from his one childhood friend since well before he made pin
and who, despite how he acts around pin most of the time, was devastated to see him dissipate, and didn't feel calm again until he could resummon him
occtis may be consciously thinking of pin as a utility spell, and doesn't understand why it's not working like it's meant to. but the creation of a creature that loves you so much it keeps showing up without being asked, i don't think is nearly as much of an accident as it appears
Do you know that in hit game Final Fantasy 15 (2016) one of your party members is this cute lil' nerd and one of his Things is he's a photgrapher, so he's always taking pictures, there a whole system coded in to just randomly take in-engine screen captures of your party as they go about their day-to-day. And whenever you save you get to go over ten of those pictures and choose if you want to save any to your personal in-game album. This is obviously a feature designed for word of mouth fan promotion, because from your in-game album there's a ton of options for sharing your photos or downloading them to personal storage. Which is fun, games are allowed to do that, but. Ya know. Maybe not worth the effort of making a whole system to automatically do that.
Except it's also very baked into the world. There's a couple photos you have to get as you advance through the story, but mostly they're fun so you bookmark one or two as you progress through the game. And as you explore the world sometimes Prompto will ask to stop at scenic locations or tourist traps or whatnot and bam you've got a few more. And if you do this every time you save, you end up with quite a collection.
Anyways, fast forward to the end of the game, when you, the main character, are about to die. You know this. You are marching stubbornly to your own martyrdom, with no hope of survival. And the main character turns. And asks to see Prompto's photo collection.
YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!!!!! YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE!!!!! You have to pick, from those maybe dozens of silly goofy funny little screencappable moments, which one the main character is going to physically take with him into the last battle and clutch to his chest as he dies!!!!!! That photo you choose will show up in cutscenes!!!!! They make it your save files lockscreen!!!!!!! Is this thing on????
(Thought I’d upload my recent comics to Tumblr! I totally forgot it only lets you upload 10 pics at a time, and this is 11, but fingers crossed it works!)
my favorite thing on mouse/rat subreddits are people going "is my pet pregnant??" & then posting the most pregnant rodent you've seen in your life. yeah i think it might be.
your mouse looks like a lightbulb. congrats on the babies
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