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Swordfish lives through the pursuit of the world’s worst archers, and finally meets Grym! I can’t tell if either of them are very enthusiastic about their situation, but at least Hopper’s happy!

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[silvadour]

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026) Director: Lauren Montgomery Screenplay: Tim Hedrick & Christopher Yost Animation Studio: Avatar Studios

[tigerbears]

Today I learn on Bluesky that apparently the new Avatar movie used FUCKING CHAT-GPT as a source for what East Asian People look like.

How to kill any good will your movie had in three fucking words. "According to ChatGPT..."

EDIT: Didn't expect this post to blow up so I'm just going to lay down the facts now that I've woken up.

TL;DR: It's unclear whether the ChatGPT citation was added by whoever was outsourced to make the art book, or if ChatGPT was actually used during the cultural research of the film.

Sources/Evidence/Specifics under the keep reading line.

1: These images were taken during a Comic Con panel, and are presumably from an art-book for the Avatar movie. The fact that the artbook uses ChatGPT as a source for what "South East Asian cultures look like" is not made up or false information.

☀︎☆| ruined by tlovm (@sunshue.bsky.social)

citing chatgpt for a character design and eren yeager is a choice???

Rick (@combattlerrickv.exportaud.io)

I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens

2: Someone who worked on the film's artwork/animation says everyone they worked with was against AI, so I'm willing to take her word that gen AI wasn't used directly for the film's artwork/animation. That's not what the image from the art book suggested, as it instead seemed to imply ChatGPT was used to research what South East Asian people looked like, instead of just consulting with actual South East Asian people.

3: The art-book itself is outsourced to someone not involved in the film, so maybe they slipped in the ChatGPT comment. It could also just be an actual quote from the design/research stage. The main thing is just there's a lot of unknowns right now.

💚 Apes 💚 (@apeslion.bsky.social)

Looked into it a bit more. Because again. I work events and see alot of crap that isn’t correct. The screen shot is from the art book. The

I hope there's a statement regarding what's actually going on here, as using ChatGPT as a cultural sensitivity reader is a really fucking bad idea. However, it may not have actually been used for the research and was just inserted by whoever made the artbook.

[captainzutara]

from what I can gather, it would honestly not make much sense at all for this third party author to have added this in.

The comments are research stage remarks about planning adult Aang's design. When they hire third parties to do art books, the third party author's job is largely to compile the notes from the creative team and make it into a book, showcasing the artwork and commentary and planning surrounding it.

Those notes, ESPECIALLY considering they were put on a gigantic screen at SDCC for all to see, very likely read as something that was internal for Avatar Studios, not inputted by a third party. The higher ups of Avatar Studios (Bryke, Montgomery, Hedrick, etc.) would have easier access to notes and content from their immediate team than an outsourced artbook, too. It's not adding up.

Someone on the Avatar Studios team used AI to research cultural input for adult Aang's design.

Now, the vast majority of artists, writers and storyboarders, and the whole Avatar Studios team probably do hate AI and probably are very dedicated to their craft. However, I think it is almost certainly the case that there is someone on the team itself, not this author, actually citing chat GPT.

And even if this is the case, this author added it in for whatever reason… the higher ups on the team doing the presentation (Bryke, others) should have had the wherewithal to remove that before blasting it on a screen to thousands and eventually millions (online). They either didn't check over what was in their own book and also their own presentation slideshow, or they were 100% okay with that Chat GPT statement and backed it. It's one or the other.

[weasley-detectives]

Six reasons Young MacGuffin is an underrated sweet summer child (and why I ship MerGuffin)

I have a thing for minor background characters, that much is obvious by my fandom track record. Young MacGuffin is a prime example of my love for the characters nobody gives a toss aboot. So! Like I usually do, I’m gonnae explain why. Hold onto your arses.

1: Just look at that mug

Look at it! He’s shakin in his wee boots, bless. God I love the suitors. First we’re introduced to young Macintosh, who’s vain, arrogant and a right arsehole into the bargain (I love him, he’s such a prick). In direct contrast you have young MacGuffin, who’s all nerves and shyness, and waiting for his dad’s queues to act. MacIntosh is a leader, but MacGuffin is a follower. He tries to make himself as small as possible, but for all his bungling awkwardness, Merida actually takes notice of him (this is why I consider the Merida/MacGuffin epilogue in the artbook/deleted scene to be canon, it’s a conclusion to this particular scene).

Side note: I love this scene as a character moment for Merida. She’s not interested in getting married and plans on doing everything in her power to get out of it, but she’s still a teenage girl and she sees something in MacGuffin, despite his …MacGuffinness. Let’s face it, he’s not typical of your male Disney romantic interests (he ain’t no Flynn), which is a very welcome change. But more than anything, I love that it’s Merida who is the one to show interest first, it’s not from his perspective or a romance led by him trying to win her over. I need more female characters to lead/own their romance in fiction full stop. On top of that, this scene exists but it’s not important to the movie, which is why it didn’t make the cut. Even though we know what happens from the deleted scene/artbook epilogue, it didn’t make the film because it’s not important to her story right now. So yeah, thumbs up, I dig it. Go get yer lad, Merida.

Still peeking…

2. The Banter

Cannae beat the Scottish banter! The more indecipherable the better. Plus I’m a sucker for Doric (it’s both melodic and hilarious- Doric speakers can never pronounce my name at all, they always wind up calling me Helga. Fuck knows how they get there cos my name’s Halima.)

When MacGuffin was first introduced I had this horrible feeling they were going to give him a ridiculous, insulting voice, but thank god for Kevin McKidd! People tend to focus on young MacGuffin’s dialect rather than what he says. Can we just for a minute appreciate what a cheeky wee shit he is?

“If he wis a wee bit closer, ah could lob a caber at him, ye ken.”

(translation: If he was a little bit closer, I could throw a log at him, you know.”)

Teasing young MacIntosh and Dingwall about Mor'du.

“Since yer saying it and I wasn’t there to see it myself, I’ll go ahead and take yer word for it.” 

(translation: You bunch of lying bawbags, you can stay here and sit on your tod, nice and safe, while I go ahead and check it out for real)

Ha! Dick.

3. Such a dork

Young MacGuffin’s a massive nerd. Out of the three suitors and the lords, he’s the only one who’s ridiculously excited over joining the hunt for Mor'du. Hell he’s just ridiculously excited about everything. And it makes a hilarious contrast with Posh-tosh MacIntosh (who btw has the kind of wanky accent that would get him chibbed in Glasgow).

MacGuffin: It’s all goin’ tae be settled once we get doon t’ that field!

MacIntosh: What?!

4. His friendship with young MacIntosh

Why does no one talk about this? Hell, why isn’t fandom shipping them, cos goddamn they’re cute (and this is coming from a staunch MerGuffin fan). There’s a really nice progression to their friendship in the background throughout the film. You couldn’t get two more different characters. One’s painfully shy, innocent and eager to join in; the other’s full of his own shite and struts about like a peacock with a stick up its arse. To begin, MacIntosh isn’t much impressed with Young MacGuffin. He rolls his eyes, draws him mocking looks, and makes fun of his thick dialect. But MacGuffin isn’t naive, he knows MacIntosh has an ego the size of his gigantic beak, but he’s not so shy and awkward that he bows down to it - MacGuffin gives as good as he gets. By the end, they’re the perfect odd-couple besties. Bring in Dingwall, who’s cool as a cucumber and couldnae give a flying fuck about anything, and Merida, who is both part dork, part sarky asshole, part capable badass, and they’re the perfect comedy superteam. I just want a million adventures with Merida and the suitors, ok?

Get in the sea!

5. Introspective, observant and cute as a button

I love the kind of characters who are good at reading those around them. Young MacGuffin pegs MacIntosh early on, but more importantly knows how to handle him and deal with his ego (drench it in sea water). And the look he gives his dad when he’s all ‘Let these lads try win her heart before they win her hand, if they can!’ says so much about their relationship. He loves him, does everything he can out of admiration for Lord MacGuffin, but he’s not blind to his dad’s faults (‘christ dad yer so embarrassing’ XD).

The changing expressions on young MacGuffin’ and MacIntosh’s faces are brilliant to watch during Merida’s speech to the Lords- the animation alone says so much- the way young MacIntosh’s face goes from ‘What are these mental old men on about? are they high??’ to ‘Hold on. Shit, this could really benefit me.’ “IT’S A GRAND IDEA!” Meanwhile, MacGuffin’s face goes from smiling softly at Merida to looking unbearably sad when it seems the Lords aren’t going to go alone with her proposal -ugh, my heart.

6. And finally, this line.

“It’s jist nae fair makin us ficht for the hand o the quine that disnae want any bit o it. Ken?”

Which translates to:

“It’s just not fair making us fight for the hand of a girl that doesn’t want any part of it, you know?”

Dingwall and MacIntosh, much as I love them to pieces, their comments are about themselves - which fair enough, they want their freedom the same as Merida wants her’s. But young MacGuffin’s the only one who points out it’s a shitty deal forcing them to marry a girl without her consent. (and then panics because he just spoke his mind and hates drawing attention to himself, dkjasdkjdh). Can we just please have more male characters like this full stop?? Also, Merida giggling at him.

Fuck these two, they’re perfect.

TL;DR, Young MacGuffin is an awkward, shy, story-loving, easily excited, kind-hearted, thoughtful, cheeky, teasing wee fanny, and I love him.

Some extras:

Kevin McKidd: (Young MacGuffin voice actor) “…even though he can’t be understood by anyone, his heart is in the right place. He’s very sincere. He’s kind of socially awkward and shy, but he would be the right pick for Merida. At one point in the second year it was on the cards that Merida was going to pick him and that she saw in him something that she really liked, and they were going to walk off into the sunset at the end of the movie, but then that all changed.”

Kevin McKidd said he wanted the follow-up to have a happy ending with a royal wedding. “I feel bad for young MacGuffin that he didn’t get the girl, but it may be in the sequel.”

Personally, I’m so glad they didn’t go with it in the final edit of the film, but I love that it’s still there in some small way, and that it exists in the artbook as “The Epilogue”, which is how I consider it.

Jesus look at these two blushing cuties.

(lines from the deleted scene - I love the mirroring of MacGuffin and Fergus too)

Merida: For the life of me I can’t understand a word he says.

Elinor: Well dear, I didn’t understand a word your father said when I first met him, either.

150% done.

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gif credit @plixs1​

Artbook pics of the epilogue, yours truly.

[grimae]

Red Wolf of Radagon

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving <- No longer taking donations

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[tamamita]

[onlyberry2]

How the fuck does one run out of missiles when they have literally a trillion dollars to spend on them

[tamamita]

The problem is not the fact that they can't produce more missiles; they can. It's the fact that it takes a very long time to replenish equipment and munitions and sustain vital operations without disruption. Iran is producing missiles and drones at a rapid speed and at a low cost with the purpose of putting pressure on US bases and their air-defense/interceptor systems all over SWANA. However, it costs a fortune for the US to produce one missile: it is estimated that one Tomahawk missile costs 2.5 million dollars, while a Patriot anti-missile costs 4 millions dollars. Contrast this with the Shaheed drones that cost like 50.000 - 100.000 usd each. On top of that, much of the US air defense systems have already been destroyed, which means that they have to be replaced. This is why they had to pull a THAAD interceptor from South Korea and deploy it in SWANA. Second, they're also using much of their air defense and interceptor system in Ukraine, which is rapidly facing shortages.

Iran is simply waging a war of attrition, and the US can't keep up with the pressure, since these bases are far away from the imperial metropole. However, with Bibi visiting the WH tomorrow, it is likely that Trump will endorse a military campaign in coordination with the settler state.

[murlopal]

It's still weird that they ran out. Like the whole point of such an overblown budget was to have absolute ovewhelming force, no?

[tamamita]

Well, they assumed the same in Afghanistan, but got defeated by a bunch of guys riding on Honda CG125 bikes.

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

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[lycanycteris]

[hippy-craic]

[sparrowlucero]

lords of the forest fire

(available on my kofi as adoptables!)

[colorful-horses]

this started as 'my g6' but just turned into my little pony: magical girls

[soareleandluna]

We got a Zutara crumb from one of the artists that worked on the movie

Here's the link to the original post:

[tielmamon]

Push and Pull

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[the-bar-sinister]

Oh hey pals, new AO3 scam just hit!

Just like the tumblr scam where they pretend to be "the support team" this is also a scam.

I edited out the link because I GUARANTEE if you go to it you will get your computer hacked and your AO3 or discord account stolen.

I am so mad because I got this 30 seconds after posting a new fic.

DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SCAMS.

No legitimate website support will EVER contact you like this!

(Obviously, this comment has been reported.)

[elaulora]

A drawing I did some time ago for the Frieren collab I was a part of I decided to draw Frieren with her teacher, Flamme, and later on with her apprentice, Fern. Having the passage of time as a central focus of the series, I depicted different phases in Frieren's life through the four seasons, each season reflecting a different stage of life 🌻🍂❄️🌷

[animepopheart]

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