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Look whom I found at pride today
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
Edit: AI here is referring to generative AI, rather than closed models or custom made LLMs trained on internal datasets
Edit" "tumblr is not the best place to do data collection" "most biased sample group" yup. cool. good.
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Holmestice Posting is ON!
We are one week into a magnificent run of fic, art, vids, and more celebrating all Holmes verses
Come visit us at our ho(l)me at Dreamwidth!
And also, everyone please welcome our new member of the mod team, @bluebellofbakerstreet!
Happy pride month to everyone! and to my fav genderfluid, agender; demon and angel.
By popular request ;D Holmes being neurodivergent was something I thought about a lot while writing the game (channelling my own experiences a lot of the time!) and I know that our director discussed it with the actors, too. This is definitely not all the scenes or even the most prominent examples, but they're the ones that felt non-spoilery!
This is from my Sherlock Holmes point and click game The Beekeeper's Picnic which releases March 26th 2025!
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Rocky: Grace say Hail Mary archives have all Human media yet Rocky still cannot find classic film Goncharov for movie night statment.
Grace: ....What?
Rocky: Grace not know own earth greatest mafia movie ever made question?
Grace: .......
Grace: What?
A Reichenbach Falls embroidery inspired by the brilliant @contact-guy Watson's Sketchbook. Make me feel things and I must stab things artistically.
THISTHISTHIS!!!!
why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead
this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job
Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety?
“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.”
I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…
I mean.
“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”
“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.”
This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future. So the next time you see artwork like this:
Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”
Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*
This post is a blessing
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Oh my god sirens were literally scam websites
Oh my god they were phishing
They were also half-fish-ing.
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GOS3 Thoughts
Nope. Nope - even if I laughed at moments, and found the ending scene sweet, because how could David and Michael not be? I enjoy an AU as much as anybody, but if anyone deserves their love confession, their kiss, their happy ever after, it’s the canon characters who've been through so much together, not a pair of stand-ins.
I know the line forms to the left. Here we go anyway.
What I got from the original book – and specifically the parts that Pratchett obviously put into it, the underlying theme, the humane perspective – is that the world’s not saved by grand heroics, by the procurement of a McGuffin like the Book of Life or the killing of an Antichrist. It’s saved, little piece by little piece, through the compounding effect of small, good things, of kindnesses performed by imperfect beings and the love of random beauty and the cherishing of the day-to-day. Aziraphale and Crowley thwart the Apocalypse not because they feel the call to be heroes, but because they’ve gotten used to humanity with all its flaws; because they love a bookshop and a car and gravlax and bebop and little restaurants where they know your name. The things that multiply and intertwine in our lives, that hold us and our world together the way roots fix the soil. The shared meals and the do-you-remembers, the problems muddled through, the arguments made up; the love of a child for his home and his friends, for a familiar wood and apples stolen from a neighbor’s tree. How does it save the world if you destroy the world?
(I’m old; I was born in the Fifities, and oh, I remember the heavy irony of “we had to destroy the village In order to save it.” But that’s just what this story did.)
Saying “this is all broken and wrong, and the only thing to do is wipe it all out and start over from the beginning”: that’s been the recipe for some of the worst horrors of the world. That was the entire fucking message of the original book. The world is flawed, the systems we live under imperfect and even cruel in their origins, but it can be healed, bit by bit, if you love enough – even if you love in seemingly trivial ways. Good Omens is about mending – mending the consequences of folly, mending friendships, mending the damage people inflict on one another, like an angel mending the spine of a beloved old book. Mending the error in the assumption that sides mean more than individuals, leaving two beings like Aziraphale and Crowley free to treasure all the small things about each other, as friends or lovers or however you choose to see them. The meet-cute of their human counterparts in the remade, blind-watchmaker universe is, well, cute, but it doesn't reward the characters we came to love, who evolved along with humanity, became who they are by outgrowing the artificial opposition imposed on them, and bonded through rising above it. (And neither couple ever gets a tender kiss to cancel out the angry one that left us all ravaged in 2023; more articulate voices than mine have gone to town on the way that narrative choice dilutes the queer representation that stunned us with its promise in the original TV adaptation).
So I see the whole progress of the sequel series as misbegotten – most likely, for all the usual reasons of cupidity and vanity – leaving us with a couple of pieces of tone-deaf fan fiction that literally lost the plot. Good moments here and there, clever bits of banter and comic turns; two lead actors with dazzling chemistry that most of us would pay to hear read the phone book for ninety minutes; but all in all a disjointed story compounded of fan tropes, that did not seem to love its characters or have a point beyond churning them around for ninety minutes.
Where in this story are characters comparable to everybody that made the original so rich and endearing to begin with? The bumbling, sincere romances (Anathema and Newt, Tracy and Shadwell, even the wholesome marital bond of Lesley and Maud)? The tweenage energy and candor provided by the Them? Eleven-year-old Adam Young faced a choice and protected the world because its simple joys were enough for him; twinky Jesus Mark II goes down an elevator and survives just long enough to learn a card trick, distribute pizza, and be disintegrated without addressing any of the events unfolding around him. And where the entire hell is Agnes Nutter, and her tart wisdom?
(....Remember Agnes? Are we to accept that she wrote two books of prophecy, guiding the angel and demon who were fated to thwart Armageddon – and that her descendant burnt the second, in order to start her new life without a roadmap – only for everything to go up a few years later, not in a ball of flaming goo, but in a corny Avengers Endgame series of sfx dust devils? This story seems to be happening in an entirely different universe to the one that was built between book covers or the opening and closing credits of Season One, and it's not because God rebooted it.)
I'll leave you with a bit of shameless self-promo: an imagining of Agnes’ take on the sequels, and a version of what Aziraphale and Crowley themselves might have thought of the narrative malfeasance, as I view it, of season 2 (both written before any of the uglier reports about NG surfaced). I don't know if this was a case of an author deliberately jerking around his fandom, a case of "too many cooks spoil the broth" when the project had to be retooled for a briefer air time, or just lazy reliance on a wealth of incident and fan service as a substitute for a story worth telling. All I'm sure of is that we, as fan creators, should feel completely free to ignore anything that violates the promise, the message, and the perspective of the story we fell in love with. To mend what went wrong, piece by piece.
As always, Copper can spin straw into gold. (signed, Silver)
Another take that resonates with me.
Still don’t know what to think.
The destruction of the entire universe and every soul in it is a truly depressing ending. Just because God replaced it with another universe that looked similar doesn't change anything - this is Job and his children all over again. Job doesn't want new children, and neither do I.
YES @untouchedsoap exactly.
Aziraphale saying, I did this to give everyone a chance, including us.
And then everyone dies, including them.
Ok this is the closest to what was bothering me, I think…though I couldn’t quite parse it all at first. I think the fact that they keep finding eachother in every Universe is meant to imply the souls are identical and the big switcheroo was made and it is still the same queen we are finding in a new place. Maybe if it wasn’t cut to ribbons, we’d see that more clearly? But the Job parallel is just as strong as the Find the Queen one here. It’s meant to be the same queen, I think? But there is a feeling at the heart that God will fond a way to screw you over when challenged, and it’s coming across to me as a deeply cynical Atheism— leaving Crowley’s solution to seem as rushed and not thought-through as the entire plotline of this compressed series-ending movie.
Are you in Denver, CO? Come join us at a reading and Author Talk by Shai Porter, one of the contributors for When the Rose Speaks Its Name: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology.
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Shai Porter contributed to the anthology When the Rose Speaks its Name, a collection of writings inspired by Sherlock Holmes.
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It me!!!!!!!
Reading The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter…..
Nice, nice, interesting characters, historical fiction, bringing in Holmes and Watson now, Holmes has the social skills of a gnat, good, good, ok next book is European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, ok let’s do this, nice title, we are bringing in the vampires, yeah? Ok, and still Holmes and Watson and asking about Irene and…..SKREEETCH!
Why do people mess up a decent canonically-based story by making Irene “the love of his life”? Why?!? Now I gotta go listen to see if Watson has it all wrong when he tells her this.
Am setting myself up to be pissed off if I keep reading. How can the characterization be so good and yet so …. terrible?
Ok Irene just told the protagonists that John doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Good.
I would have hated to have had to abandon the book
Much love to everyone finally listening to Sh&Co tonight.
Reading The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter…..
Nice, nice, interesting characters, historical fiction, bringing in Holmes and Watson now, Holmes has the social skills of a gnat, good, good, ok next book is European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, ok let’s do this, nice title, we are bringing in the vampires, yeah? Ok, and still Holmes and Watson and asking about Irene and…..SKREEETCH!
Why do people mess up a decent canonically-based story by making Irene “the love of his life”? Why?!? Now I gotta go listen to see if Watson has it all wrong when he tells her this.
Am setting myself up to be pissed off if I keep reading. How can the characterization be so good and yet so …. terrible?
Hi I’ve got tickets for the Sherlock Showcase I’m very excited for it and I’ve just started playing Beekeeper’s Picnic and I’m loving it. I was wondering if you’d be selling copies of the artbook or the paper crafts at your stall? Thank you I’m so excited for the event.
I'm really excited too, I'll be so happy to see you! (For anyone not in the know, I've got a table at an event in London in a couple of weeks called the Sherlock Showcase! The vendor market is free to enter, there's also a paid programme of stage events.)
The artbook has never existed in physical form, I figured that getting a book printed is a whole creative project in itself, and I've never gone down that route.
I might see if I can coax my printer into printing out the papercrafts in a way that I feel comfortable selling?
Right now, in addition to the game I've got some art prints...
I'll also be giving out newt fact stickers!