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Hunger by Emiliano Ponzi

louis didn't know how to be there for claudia in the way she needed (deserved) because no one in his life had ever been there for him

#not really. the second he started acting unusual in any way they dropped him. his sister held out longer than his mother but. calling #someone to show them the grave you commissioned cause theyre dead to you is a little crazy.#and lestat. didn't really see him. not all the way. he couldn't figure out why he clung to human life. called his business a “hobby”#he was doing his best. to a degree. paul was the closest thing he got and paul was his little brother. paul wasn't well. his designated job #was to be there for paul. much to think about #prev tag #all the prev tags

angrybubbles

SCREEAAMM

#🙇🏻‍♀️

sixtiesgogobootz

dr julian bashir you have captured my heart with your big puppy dog eyes, charming accent and general awkward demeanour i simply had to draw you

uss-edsall

At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map

the-murmuration-project

My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.

We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.

iam-just-a-hole-for-jacoblouis

Buzzy af

#GOOD MORNING WORLD #loulaw

themanwhooncedweltinavault

#there was a post about comfort movies going around a few days ago #and it changes all the time for me but this is definitely one of them #doctor sleep #especially the director’s cut #favorite scene

respocked

Four Bajorans & their outfits, from Rainmongerers. (ao3 link)

This is Itzig's second outfit that is never described (because Kira and Girani don't actually attent the actual ceremony) so I wanted to at least draw it.

The "crochet" garments make no sense portrayed like this (the backside should be visible through the frontside through the holes) but I kept them like this for legibility.

kaelio

pfft. whats so great about Paris anyway

frontier!!! yeaaah!!! adventure!!!!!

(request for image based on this post)

kaelio

I totally forgot about this and you know it WAS funny

for-hiraeth

Iran protests

Photographers and people are kept unknown due to the security of the protesters' identity.

A man sits on an office chair in the middle of the street, after setting a governmental office on fire; Ilaam city.

A man celebrating their victory after setting a governmental grocery store on fire. (The bags of "7$ rice per month" are torn and that is rice all over the ground. "We are protesting, not begging"); Malekshahi county

An arrestd young boy in the police car, feeling victorious even when he's arrested; location unknown.

A man using a gas-filled fire extinguisher to set the police on fire; Hormozgan.

Teenage girls sitting still in front of the police; city unknown.

A girl and a boy, standing in front of the police together, location unknown. (Quality enhanced by AI)

A man sitting in front of the armed police, alone. Location unknown. (Quality enhanced by AI)

people of Abdanaan celebrating their victory after taking over a governmental state, holding up a man sitting on an office chair.

3 of the photos above are enhanced by AI so the details are visiblble, but no other changes.

We die, we fight, and we know that after this rain of blood, we'll see the blue sky.

insert-some-url

And the fact that most of these brave people were probably killed by the islamic regime just shatters my heart…

gothinkdexign

Thousands of years ago, Cardassia was much warmer and wetter, and small petty kingdoms covered the landscape. But when an ice age caused much of the planet to become drier and colder, resources became scarce and some regions became unlivable, which let a few strategically located rulers become much more powerful. This set the stage for Cardassian culture to develop its focus on authority and control.

I first thought of modeling the polearm after the Galor class ship, and everything else grew out of that.

twentytales

For the prompt fingerpainting together, submitted by anon.

Kardasi awaits below! If you don’t speak it quite as fluently as Julian and Garak do, hover over the text for a translation.

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He held as still as he could as Garak’s cool fingers daubed the pigment on to his skin, posture perfect, head tilted. There was a very clear way to do this. And by God, he was going to get it right.

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#how beautiful #garashir