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almost home
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Keni
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we're not kids anymore.
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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@kase1248
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BASICS:
Name: Kase! Age: 25+ years. Face: Daphne Blake (circa 2003 to 2005). Birthday: August 5th. Pronouns: she/her/they. Orientation: queer. Timezone: GMT / BST. Nationality: Scottish. Languages: English.
FANDOMS:
Too many to list but main ones are (subject to change):
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Thunderbirds Are Go (2015). LEGO Ninjago. Teen Wolf. Fallout. Nightwing/DC.
LINKS:
fics || gifs || edits || AO3
Part 3 - ?
"The Signs of Twelve" by @kase1248 on AO3
After sacrificing himself to the Nemeton to save his Dad, Stiles struggles to deal with the darkness that lurks under his skin. Between accusing Jennifer of being the Darach, crushing on Derek, and losing Scott to Isaac, he makes the decision to leave for San Francisco to finish out the school year with some normalcy. And then he doesn't come back.
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After sacrificing himself to the Nemeton to save his Mom, Scott turns to his pack bonds to fight the darkness that burns in his heart. With Derek's help, he forges a pack strong enough to protect the Nemeton and the surrounding territory of Beacon Hills, all the while adapting to his best friend's unexplained disappearance.
Twelve years later, Beacon Hills comes under a threat Scott can't fight; and that's when Stiles comes home.
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Another beautiful fanfiction, but this time a Series! And yes, while not completed, it's still one of the reads I loved most! (Still have a million questions unanswered, but that's the fun part)
[Caption: eight gifs LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu, focusing on Kai using the word "sister" or "sis" to refer to Nya in various situations; with the ninth gif in the middle focused on Nya calling Kai "brother" in return. End caption.]
LEGO Ninjago gifsets :: 2/∞ :: kai and nya
Sister
[Caption: eight gifs of LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu, focusing on the use of "boys" to refer to the group by Cole and Kai; with the ninth gif in the middle focused on Nya referring to the group as a "boy's club". End caption.]
LEGO Ninjago gifsets :: 1/∞ :: the boys
Boy's Club
[kase note: for some reason, this gifset is flagged as mature. it is not. it's just LEGO.]
[Caption: ten gifs of S2E7 Up From The Depths Part 2. End caption.]
Favourite Things About Thunderbirds Are Go :: 1/∞ :: Episodes
Up From The Depths Part 2
"So he and Brains built the TV-21?"
"It was beautiful. A dream come true."
"Until the Hood crashed it."
"But it didn't crash his dream. Your father didn't care about being fastest anymore. He only cared about being first. First on the scene when people need help. First to act when someone's in trouble. And instead of one ship to do it all, he built five."
Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through
*screams* SOMEONE JUST USED A GIF I MADE ON ONE OF THEIR POSTS!!!
Guys I just found the most amazing thing.
Thunderbirds' Parker voice-star of visits Shaun in the City sculpture.
On the issue of the recent UK online “safety” act.
KEEP THE PRESSURE UP
IT MIGHT NOT HIT ITS GOAL BEFORE GOING INTO AFFECT, BUT EVEN THEN KEEP GOING
YOU CAN GET IT REPEALED IF YOU KEEP FINDING WAYS TO SHARE IT
KEEP SHARING THE PETITION, KEEP SIGNING IT, KEEP THE PRESSURE UP AND IT CAN BE TAKEN AWAY
EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE UK
KEEP FUCKING SHARING IT
SO MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOSE THEIR COMMUNITIES FROM THIS, AND IT WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
KEEP PUSHING IT. KEEP FIGHTING THIS. GET THIS TAKEN AWAY.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
kase basket
nick, uh, brains? nick criminal? nick athlete?
HALT! Do you have sensory issues? Overwhelmed by sound in a messy environment? Desperately wanting to write that essay/fanfiction but your ADHD is getting on the way? In need of atmospheric sound for your tabletop game??
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Mynoise provides an incredible index of noise machine generators with personalizing sliders to suit your every taste.
Missing the sound of a lively coffee shop during the pandemic? They have that. That specific, calming noise of a public park in a peaceful afternoon? they have that. Rain sounds? City sounds? Want to fuck around and listen to some uninterrupted Gregorian chants? They have that also!
According to the website:
“myNoise generators cover the whole audible frequency range, from 20Hz to 20kHz, over 10 color-coded sliders. Through a simple but accurate calibration process, all myNoise generators can be shaped to your personal hearing thresholds and compensate for your audio equipment and listening environment deficiencies, including the presence and nature of background noise. Calibration is unique to this website, and makes calibrated noise machines stand out from regular white noise machines. During the calibration process, we are able to measure your personal hearing levels, and adapt our noises accordingly. If you are suffering from age-related hearing, you’ll be surprised to hear frequencies you thought were lost.”
And that’s not all. When I say ‘incredible’ I really mean it; I’ve found myself using the website on multiple occasions, for work, creative and stress-related issues, and the variety of machines provided cannot be overstated. You’ve got animal noises, nature soundscapes, street sounds, meditation aids, melody-based lullabies, magical soundscapes, medieval ambiance, situation specific sounds, white noise generators– and a lot more!!! They even have noise to block out IRL sounds you don’t want to hear.
Just take a brief look at what the index page provides:
There’s something for EVERYONE. And it’s all for free! It’s been for free for years, and it is the creator’s wish that it remains accessible to everyone who might need this kind of aid in life. I am using it to write this post right now. Though if you read some of the above index, you may have noticed that the support for the website has been very low lately.
Which brings me to the reason I’m making this post. Mynoise is curated and maintained by a single person:
Please check out the Mynoise Index for yourself, donate if you can, and tell your friends who might be interested ♡
hands-down my favorite white noise app
mynoise is the real deal. Stéphane Pigeon should get a Nobel Peace Prize
mynoise is the real
deal. Stéphane Pigeon should get
a Nobel Peace Prize
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Didn’t expect that.
No one ever does.
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been playing LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and I have never been so unenthused about a LEGO game in my life
Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.
I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.
Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.
Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.
Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.
I think this is an incredibly important post for a lot of reasons. You have to write a bad book in order to learn how to do something. You have to suck at playing an instrument before you can improve.
Struggling is part of the process, and I've had a lot of people argue with me that it shouldn't be who fail to see the point. When you replace an composer with an AI music generator, an artist with an AI-generated image, or an author with an AI-generated fanfic, you are missing out on the critical, fundamental experiences humans need to learn and grow. You are robbing yourself of essential skills you need as a person.
AI is not like a calculator, or a synthesizer, or a prompt generator. It's not a tool to aid in your process of understanding or creating something. It is replacing your ability to learn things, and that is going to do so much damage if you let it.
okay, does anyone else think it's dumb you have to follow your own sideblogs for them to show up on your dashboard???
like if it's my blog and it's using the same dashboard, why don't they just show up like my main posts do?
be proud of your original characters. it's no easy task to create a character from scratch, to make them believable and real and human. it takes time. it takes dedication. so what if they aren't perfect right away? so what if there are still things you're only now figuring out after time? characters evolve, they go through changes and arcs and stories just like real people do. and it's okay if your character develops over time, you don't need to have it all figured out right away. there are some things that will only ever clear up after writing them for a while, finding their voice, and seeing the way they interact with other characters. but this is your character, your creation, and you deserve to feel proud about it no matter what.
