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[gribbo]

would have killed for a conversation between isobel and wyll about their fathers. ketheric thorm and ulder ravengard are interesting foils

[gribbo]

ulder sacrifices his beloved child in order to (as he understands the situation) do his duty and protect the people of baldur's gate. wyll understands his father's guiding principles and respects him for them despite the ways in which they've betrayed him personally—and he inherits his father's dedication to defending those who can't defend themselves. on the other hand ketheric thorm sacrifices his duty and his principles and dooms his own people + countless others to the most hideous fate imaginable in order to "protect" his beloved child—which of course disgusts and horrifies isobel because in his obsessed devotion to her he perverts and tortures and destroys everything and everyone she ever cared about including himself

[thefighter2-deactivated20200212]

just took a frame perfect shower

[yourlocalnautilus]

the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The really frustrating thing is when I see people comment on art saying it's AI, and it's not AI, a real human put time and effort into making beautiful art and it's immediately written off by people thinking it's AI slop. It looks like real art because it was trained on real art. No one wins in this scenario when artists are discounted as being fake and the consumer is left second guessing every piece they see.

[ubercharge]

[eldritchkraken]

[ankle-beez]

[oneheadtoanother]

are you lost little boy

[oneheadtoanother]

This is so much funnier than my caption, dammit

[obsessingoverl]

His intro post has some gems as well

[willgrahamscock]

I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

[part-time-zombie]

Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.

[someones-here-for-sure]

Oh and wouldn’t it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?

[tinypaperwindmill]

i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they're all stealing my data .i wish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we've truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.

[sapphic-design-is-my-passion]

These kink posts just keep getting more and more esoteric

[huffylemon]

[lurker-no-more]

Well … points made, lmao.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[escuerzoresucitado]

The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal

One of the darkest moments of France’s colonial history has never been properly acknowledged. That could be about to change.

[evilwickedme]

Thiaroye massacre - Wikipedia

^ Just so people know the official name for further googling

[stah-l]

pikmin book club

[creatingblackcharacters]

"They were just LIVING there, in Greece, where they could be SEEN EXISTING and THEREFORE IN STORIES, but they were MIXED BREEDS, they weren't Ethnically Greek! We should be racist accurate in 2025 because they would have agreed with us that white is best!! I'm the least racist person ever!! #Greece for Greeks Only! #Greek Mythology For Whites Only! #No Negroes in my Good Clean Christian Greek Mythology!"

EVERYONE! BOO THIS LOSER WHO CAN'T SEE THEIR OWN WHITE SUPREMACIST RHETORIC!

[creatingblackcharacters]

This is how you can tell that it's not about accuracy. This person has convinced themselves that I meant everyone in Ancient Greece was Black. And not "hey, maybe some of these deities or maybe a hero or two could be Black and that'd be fun too". I think it's interesting, how they treat the presence of One Black person to mean we're overrunning the industry. There's a word for that 👀

[blackfilmmakers]

"Pale skin was highly valued...this shows up in art..." now where have I heard that before?

[inciner8]

The only reasonable take one could make about paleness and its relationship in art of the ancient world was that it was associated with a person who did less or no manual labor. (The idea being that being pale meant you were indoors more often and away from outdoor work.) Often women were depicted with lighter skin than men of the same cultural group. Skin color had nothing to do with conceptions of *race* since that was not a common social grouping at the time. Instead you had your tribes or ethnic groups determined especially by language and other cultural practices. The Ancient Greek world was made up of city-states that spoke different dialects and had conflicts with one another, so unsurprisingly they didn't see themselves as one "white" people as a whole. In fact it's even up to debate how much they saw themselves as a singular Greek people prior to Alexander (y'know, the guy from Macedon). Likewise, the Egyptians and Ethiopians did not principally see themselves as Brown or Black, these are modern concepts that are essentially anachronisms.

I am not saying this to make a "both-sides" point, I am specifically pointing out that white people need to stop pretending like their viewing the ancient world as overwhelmingly white isn't a fiction of modern race mythology and begin to acknowledge that it isn't a matter of fact. Therefore, we should see the ancient world in as many skin tones as humans have come in.

It's telling that that commenter had to equate Mediterranean with white, despite the fact that white as a race was not a thing during Ancient Greece, and wasn't even a thing during the Roman Empire. Different cultural groups saw differences between one another, sure, but they really did not focus on skin color for the same reasons we do today. Yes, they acknowledged that Ethiopians had dark skin, but it was just a feature, not a mark of ugliness; likewise, especially during the Roman Empire, they also noticed that folks in Gaul and Britannia were paler than themselves but it was a feature, not a particular mark of beauty.

All of this to say, if you look at the ancient world with a white supremacist attitude, you're gonna make silly statements like, "If someone in Greece had African ancestry, they were a foreigner or a mixed-race individual, not ethnically Greek." They didn't even have a concept of "mixed-race" the same as we do now. No one needs to discuss in good faith with folks like this because they do not actually care about historical accuracy, they just want to look at the ancient world through white supremacist lenses.

[screenshotsofdespair]

[screenshotsofdespair]

[yurinullification]

Have had this part of my bookshelf like this for ages but just realized it kinda just looks like I'm trying to champion a bold new reading order for ASoIaF while everyone waits for winds of winter

[yurinullification]

[every-cool-name-is-taken]

Bad news guys but the new vine that’s touting the fact that it doesn’t use AI is actually being used to scrape more content FOR ai. They don’t want ai content being used to train their ai to avoid rampancy. From their website, you can see that they’re powered by something called Rabble.

If you go to the rabble website, you see this:

If you click “and other stuff”, you see this:

They’re using it to train an ai called Nostr. Don’t use it unless you want them to scrape whatever you put on their and put it into their ai.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

Fuck; wrong there and I can’t edit it without editing the original post and then re-reblogging it.