Fantastic Rambles

        Collector of broken things. Writer, dreamer, cynic, and occasional artist. DNI: -ists, -phobes, MAPs, anyone who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.       

[fantastic-rambles]

About Me

I'll prettify this later™ but I figured I should get around to making a pinned post or something.

Just so you know, if I follow you, it'll come from @fantastic-wanders, my empty "main blog" that I was going to do stuff with but didn't and I'm waiting for tumblr to let me switch this blog to my main blog (please, staff 🙏).

I'm just your local, Totally Normal™ fan and this is my blog or something. I mostly write and share fanfiction (and currently, most of that is in Sk8) but I have eclectic tastes, ranging from fluffy romance to psychological horror (though I'm a baby with horror).

Asks/Fandoms

If you want to chat with me, I'm happy to take asks! I had a lot of fun chatting with people while Sk8 was running and I was foaming at the mouth for Adam (I still am, but people don't talk to me anymore, maybe because I'm a weirdo 🤣, but probably since I'm not really writing meta posts right now since I'm waiting for the OVA/S2). Some other fandoms I'm in right now (though I may not be making much content at the moment since Sk8 still has me in a deathgrip) are as follows:

Ancient Magus Bride

The Apothecary Diaries

Bungou Stray Dogs

Jujutsu Kaisen

Psycho-Pass

but I have plenty of others (including tons of lesser-known ones) I'm happy to chat about if I know them.

Creations

Other than fanfic, I'll sometimes do Photoshop composite graphics or something (fic headers, usually), and even more rarely, AMVs. I have a (very infrequently updated) masterlist here. If you prefer to read fanfic on AO3, you can find me here.

I do use the "Mature" tag for when I post... well, mature content (such as Explicit fanfics 🤭) so if you'd like to see them, please make sure that your preferences/settings are toggled to see all the nasty shit. 😘

Due to Tumblr selling out to AI companies (and I don't trust their "opt-out" option even though I have it turned on), I may not post as many original works directly to the site anymore. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I am still currently posting fic to AO3 and may migrate some of my other writings (such as my meta analyses) there as well. 🙏

Idk what else to say, so hit me up or something if you want to know more.

[ayagdos]

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[moonfox-mumbles]

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[pt: DO NOT TAKE THIS SURVEY]

The Same Dark Money Behind Project 2025 Is Bankrolling A Northwestern Study Recruiting Trans Kids

Project 2025 outright calls on conservatives to fund and manufacture more “studies” on the “negative” effects of trans-affirming care.

[reishi-is-tired]

guess we need to be circulating this psa again. This Is A Fucking Trap. Do Not Participate.

[creatureprofessor]

maybe you could fix him, but I personally, don't intend to. i want to see him baring his teeth while covered in blood

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[seukorei]

orpheus, don't look back

[seukorei]

i shared a couple of my thoughts on creating this piece in my twitter replies, but I wanted to go more in depth with it since this entire concept has been haunting me since october!

first: the composition. this piece is intentionally in vertical orientation, and it's for two main reasons. one of them is the visual pluralism of joker 'exiting' toward the surface (top of illustration) and akechi remaining in the underworld (bottom of illustration), which is just like, wordplay but in visual form.

the second, more distinct one is to make obvious the readability of progression. as your eyes (and your screen) travel down the piece, they follow joker's (orpheus's) changing figure, and become witness to him as he actively turns around. similarly (this was an observation by someone in my replies!), as you scroll past the image, you slowly cut off parts of it until akechi is the only thing left. if in horizontal orientation, it could be read L->R or R->L which would obscure the action being conveyed: orpheus is looking back, not turning forward.

moreover, in regards to lighting and colors, i wanted them to reflect the gradual shift from the surface, to the underworld—from our true reality, to maruki's reality. closer to the exit, joker is kissed by the warm hues of sunlight. overall, his coloring is darker and more grounded; his shadows have form and weight to them. but, as he recedes back into the throes of the underworld, maruki's reality awashes both him and akechi in bright pastels that are saturated and shadowless—ghostly and unreal. it's that specific sense of 'unreality' that i wanted to convey.

the last thing of note is joker's reflection on the lefthand side. this, combined with the fact that you don't see akechi's reflection, represents their souls and the uncertainty of by akechi's existence: is he there, or not? is he real, or not? is he part of reality, or not? neither the audience or joker know the answer, which is why you can't see his reflection.

now, my jumbled thoughts on joker and akechi's relation to the myth of orpheus and eurydice!

this piece is a portrayal of the 'bad end' (accepting maruki's reality) because the defining component of the myth's tragedy is that orpheus, no matter what, will always look back. there's a variety of reasons/ portrayals of how he looks back, why he looks back, and when he does, but he always looks back. and it is always an act of love. orpheus looks back because he loves eurydice—he holds her so dear that he can't make it out of the underworld without knowing she's there.

orpheus is the active player in their myth—the one who traverses the underworld, sings his songs, and begs hades to let eurydice return. seldom do we get ever get eurydice's perspective. she does not have agency/control over her death, nor over her return—it is she who is taken to the underworld, and it is she who is bargained for—never is it her own choice. i imagine you can start to see the akechi parallels. despite the fact that eurydice is stripped of her agency, it doesn't discount the fact that orpheus's choices were made out of love for her at every step, and that he dooms them both because he loves her so dearly.

third semester as a whole is constructed on the cast's deepest, most intimate desires, and for joker, his greatest desire is to see akechi again. the same is true for orpheus. for both of them, that desire is what dooms everyone involved.

in another draft of this idea, i had a comic-like line overlay of joker's eyes, tearily turned to the side in unknowing. akechi's face was obscured, so neither the viewer nor joker knew what he was thinking. in this version, you see joker turn around, and outstretch his hand towards akechi. if you were to look closer at akechi's body language, you can see how he stands stiffly, and his foot is retracting, as if in retreat. you don't know what he's thinking. but you do see that akechi is looking forward, toward his own death, while joker looks back at him and wants nothing more than to see him again.

the caption i chose is ironic; everyone knows how this story goes. "orpheus, don't look back" is nothing more than a frail warning that does nothing to prevent what will happen and will always happen: orpheus looks back.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

[chibird]

I will never let AI touch my art, even as it becomes more and more prevalent in today’s society. I like to think that every part of the process, from coming up with the ideas to handwriting all the words, is special because it’s coming from me. I put my whole heart into my art, and I hope that it shows!

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[evilwriter37]

Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

this is the best way i’ve seen this put!!

[lynati]

And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man’s trigger is another man’s catharsis.

[randomslasher]

AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eating things that could potentially harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.

[nikoford]

I’d like to add that within AO3, “Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings” is, in this food analogy, like the food labels that read “This product was manufactured in a facility where [potential food allergens] are used in the production of some products”. It’s not telling you they’re in there, but even more importantly, it’s not telling you they’re not. This is not the same as “No Archive Warnings Apply” which would be the certified [food allergen] free food. One guarantees a certain experience, the other has given you no promises as to what may or may not be included and is very much a consume-at-your-own-risk product.

[sevdrag]

perfection

[ryuichirou]

almost missed ainosuke's birthday by accident, i'm so sorry 😭

[caelanglang]

Gravity’s Gentleness…

Wooly Sunflowers (Eriophyllum lanatum) symbolize “Gentle Strength” 

source: Flowerpaedia by Cheralyn Darcey

This is heavily inspired by Story and Nawy’s (i’m too shy to tag them ><;;) ramble about Chuuya knowing (or not) how to be gentle… please read it! It’s so rich of brainworms and vitamin C(huuya)!!

[neenarchive]

me when we start eating billionaires and i have to kill gomez addams

[neenarchive]

[nudityandnerdery]

Gomez and Morticia, telling us where they store the spare guillotines so we can go after Jeff Bezos after we finish with them.

[nudityandnerdery]

Look, I know we don't want to admit that our heroes can be flawed, but this isn't just people baselessly picking a rich person and saying they're a billionaire.

Don't hold back. Gomez will respect the revolutionary fire burning in your heart!

[bravelion96]

The Addams would bring the guillotines for the other billionaires, give away literally all their money and then still ASK for executions because it’s been so long since they had a good beheading in the family

[anderjak]

honestly, you'd break his heart if you said you WEREN'T planning on sticking his head in a guillotine. morticia, too. they'd be upset at the special treatment, too, but mostly they really want to be executed gruesomely as they stare lovingly into each other's eyes as their heads are separated from their bodies, and we need to respect that.

[krudman]

[jilted-love]

Holding hands and making kissey faces at the each other as the guillotines come for their necks because they roll with each other that hard 😘

[egg-noodle]

:D

[lavander-aavaros]

Waoww kaitou-al has a whole custom tadaai seal this is so cool

[melgillman]

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!

[melgillman]

I’m reblogging this 7-year-old comic of mine because, not only is it somehow still circulating, it just passed 400,000 notes??? Thank you, several hundred thousand internet strangers, for keepin’ this ol’ goat girl goin’ so long

(Also hi, I’m still making fairy-tale-flavored lesbian romance comics and have a new one coming out very soon…)

[kudouusagi]

Attention SK8ers!

I know I've told people to stay away from this instagram account before, but please... stay away from this instagram account!!!

https://bsky.app/profile/kudouusagi.bsky.social/post/3mjtz3deu522p

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weepingwitch]

i know this means absolutely nothing to most people but basically all of the little web game things I've made recently (angels in automata, hex plant growing game, d.a.n.m.a.k.u., life music, sudoku land, the metroidvania style map editor, etc etc etc) are all entirely self-contained individual client-side html files that can be downloaded and run offline and have literally no libraries or frameworks or dependencies, because i'm an insane woman who enjoys hand coding my input handling and display code from scratch in vanilla js and having it all live in one single html file with the game logic and the page structure and the page style all just living and loving together side by side in a universal format that can be run by any web browser on any devixe. i'll even include image files as base64 data-uri strings just to keep every single asset inside the one file.

[submalevolentgrace]

the sudoku one is gorgeous and a really intuitive way to play sudoku

[greaseonmymouth]

i also really love the hexplant one

(reaching the purple aquare with the three exlamation marks is how you 'win' this game)

[weepingwitch]

this is going Around again and it is always funny to me when ppl tag it "need to try this later on my computer" babes you don't need to wait they all work on mobile too <3