[asterein]

Heart and Mind

[mcuchallenge]

Happy birthday, Benedict Cumberbatch! (July 19th, 1976) 🎈

MCUCHALLENGE YEAR OF CELEBRATIONS

[luckyladylily]

So the thing is boobs really do be jiggling. If having breasts has taught me anything it is that the ladies frolic. I don't even have that large of boobs but every time I go down some stairs all I can think about is that stupid quote about boobing breastily down the stairs or whatever it is because God Damn.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

What we really need is some pervert to compile the ultimate visual guide to boob bouncing physics that's just like 500 hours of meticulously organized videos of breasts of different size and shape and under different fabrics bouncing around from a wide variety of physical movements so horny game devs can finally get it right and I don't have to be creeped out by women who appear to have surgically implanted softballs in their chest under skin made of rubber bands.

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[whatthekoi-deactivated20260510]

people be like Hey. Don’t post things I Don’t Like on Your Own Blog

[monkeyislandtwo]

fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor's orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

[equos-bipes]

for your consideration

[ladychlo]

I wish you all very good sex. if you don't like sex, I wish you a very good romance. if you don't want either of them. I wish you a very good bowl of soup and some bread, mate.

[swordshapedleaves]

I'm into sex and romance but I could really go for some good soup and bread right now

[commiefaggoth]

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

[watsontbh]

–Arthur Conan Doyle

Quotes from The Sign of Four and The Complete Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

[ashberrrry]

me???? tired???? sleepy???? yes constantly

[nofckingfighting]

@RobertViglasky

[xanaxfarts]

A spider's web delicately entwined around an impala's horns and face, resembling a dream catcher.

[spoopy-skeletoons-deactivated20]

Has anyone done this yet?

[sourcedumal]

I HATE ALL Y'ALL RIGHT NOW

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t that. LMAO

[the-haiku-bot]

I don’t know what I

expected, but it wasn’t

that. LMAO

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[audaciouspixie]

[Caption]: A clip from Disney’s Princess and the Frog; Dr. Facilier singing to Prince Naveen and his valet Lawrence, as he demonstrates his magic, including magically igniting the fires that illuminate the sign for his shop.

“Don’t you disrespect me, little man. Don’t you derogate or derive. You’re in my world now, not your world. And I’ve got friends on the other side.”

He magically opens the door to his shop to reveal an entirely different video of Adele in a forest, instead of the shops interior. Adele sings, “Hello, from the other siiiiide,” [End Caption]

[luna-azzurra]

A flaw is not “cares too much.” a flaw is “keeps helping people so nobody notices they’re angry.”

[femsolid]

If you are a woman, imagine this :

You are at home watching TV and on comes an advert. It features a young man having a drink with his male friends when they see a charming woman enter the bar. The man walks up to her and tries to seduce her but she ignores him. He looks back at his friends who are laughing at him. Suddenly, he leaves the bar and comes back later on with his hair dyed blue. The woman instantly throws herself at him, kissing him and all the men in the bar are stunned. “Go blue” is the name of the hair dye brand, for men only. The next day on the radio you hear another advert promoting blue hair for men in which a woman explains why blue hair gets her instantly turned on. Going on Facebook, articles are shared : “10 reasons why men with blue hair are the sexiest”. Another article is titled : “why women are turned off by natural hair colour”. Yet another article from a website called “OpenMindNaturaScience” explains why women’s brain is pleased with the colour blue and how this colour makes them happy because of biological reasons. On the subway, a poster shows a sexy man with blue hair running away from dozens of female models who all want a piece of him. Day after day the medias keep focusing on women’s preferences, especially their attraction towards the colour blue and blue hair. And little by little, all the men around you dye their hair blue. The bus driver, the customer, your boss, your friend, the man on the street. They all have different shades of blue hair. Some are even dressed in blue, buy blue cars, wear blue make up.

And you see all these men and start thinking : “They’re so obviously trying to please us women, they know that’s what we like, this is all for us. Look at this guy with his blue shoes and blue hair, obviously trying to get our attention… and this guy at work who pretends he doesn’t like me, he’s wearing blue nail polish, he’s trying to look tough, he might not even like me but he’s still trying to please me. They’re working so hard to look good for us, this guy is rude but look at his blue hair ! He knows his place deep down. I go on the subway and I see all these men with blue hair, obviously responding to our desires, obviously interested in seducing us. All this time and money and keeping it perfectly blue every day. They think about us all the time. They are desperate to be liked by me. They ARE for ME.”

And that’s how men see feminine women.

[mymystrade]

If only we could’ve actually had the Lestrade Spin Off.. the information that we could’ve learned off him.. the scenes where he’s just oblivious and not always there when Sherlock is in trouble or not…

I still mourn for the loss of this..

[barachiki]

Did you forget about the scene where Lestrade is just in his flat, doing dishes for a good solid seven minutes, humming to himself when he gets a call and eventually goes to a crime scene....

You know... this scene!

Ok, for real though, I have always said that I'd spend an hour a week watching Lestrade doing dishes. Here it is in action!

[johannadc]

I'm for it!

[dartmoorpixie]