Moegane Labocat

~*~Introduction!~*~ A 27 years + cosplaying geneticist somehow working in pharma in NorCal. Expect to see a lot of cosplay, comics/anime/games, gifs, silly stuff, my tears, and maybe some writing. If you found me through my photographer contact...

[retro-friki]

Suletta Mercury + Textposts

Give this girl a break!

Extra:

Obligatory text post.

[spindrifters]

hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

[trek-tracks]

Star Trek craft book, I am begging you to describe this craft project in literally any other combination of words

[dduane]

...UM. :)

(h/t @thistlewhistler)

[dahliadear]

So myself and two best friends got matching tattoos that say Κύριε ἐλέησον. It’s pronounced Kyrie Eleison and in ancient Greek means “Lord have mercy.” It’s one of the oldest Christian liturgical prayers and features in the Bible, and when Christianity became Latinised, it as one of the only surviving Greek prayers.

Just for fun I plugged it into Google Translate to see what modern Greek thinks of it and

10/10 A+ tat so glad its marked on my skin forever, would tattoo again

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Thanks OP you ruined the liturgy for me.

[bunjywunjy]

never gonna hear The Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack the same way again

[kamen-rider-zed]

Frollo: Ima kill this baby

Choir in the background: Dude fuckin chill

[pottamux]

Frollo: I’m gonna set her on fire

Choir: Dude… chill

[what-even-is-thiss]

My entire church singing in unison: ♫ Sir, please calm down! ♫ Calm down, sir! ♫ Sir, please calm down! ♫ Take it easy, sir! ♫

[argumate]

LORD, you’re making a scene

[ingridverse]

🎶 Sir, this is an Arby’s 🎶

[vonkarn]

me, walking out of a brothel: fucking bullshit

my wife: well what DID you think a brothel was

me: looking sadly at the empty bowl i brought: doesn’t matter

[arcnoise]

#i love this post i love that your wife went with you. shes so supportive (@pmd2)

[uglypsyche-deactivated20240414]

Pride Month Reminder:

[whoexactlyisjules]

hot girl summer? no you misheard me. it's rot girl summer. time to cover yourself with mushrooms and start decomposing, baby

[robichuwu]

[modogoblin]

[majestictortoise]

outsiders and boring normal people and fandom newbies always think that buckwild kinky porn fanfiction is the strangest fandom hobby but they are wrong.

the strangest fandom hobby is plotty fanfiction, the kind that requires research, because engaging in this hobby makes no goddamned sense.

it doesn’t even give anybody masturbation material, which is at least a logical and admirable goal that contributes to the betterment of society, or at least society’s solitary orgasms.

in other news i hope the cia spyware monitoring my internet usage understands that i’m googling information about smuggling drugs in thailand because i want the details to be right in a single paragraph in a 10,000 word story about a gay mafia guys.

[majestictortoise]

this post has been making the rounds again and i just want to state for the record that it is a fucking delight to read in the tags all the random things people research for their fanfic and art. fandom, i love you. i love you with your flood maps and medical procedures and tentacle biology and historical fashion and traditional handcrafts and conlangs and urban geography and literally everything else. i am completely sincere about this. the enthusiasm with which people embrace detailed, deep, and often obscure research, just because they want to get it right, because they want to create something rich and interesting, it makes me feel better about the world. i adore it.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

you know that tumblr post that goes "I don't want my fantasy media to be realistic, I want it to be convincing"?

I think a corollary to this is I don't want my fandom experiences to be unique, I want them to be sincere

That's why I enjoy reading the same tropes over and over again. Those authors are writing those stories from a genuine love of both the tropes and the characters.

It's why I enjoy 17 gif sets about the same 3-second interaction on screen. Each one of those sets was pulled and recoloured and captioned and adjusted because each one of those gif makers wanted to capture that moment and celebrate it.

It's why every "I'm glad you enjoyed it" reply makes me smile when I get one on a comment I left. Because I know replying to comments is hard and kind of awkward, but I also know that the author really *is* glad and I'm happy that I could let them know I enjoyed their work.

I love things that are new, sure. But I also love things that have been done a million times already because I know the person doing it loves that thing too. I love the love they're showing. I love the genuine joy and celebration and community it fills me with.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[slothful-rabbit]

I laughed so fucking hard at this

[paint-lady]

[oscarwetnwilde]

[astro-vee]

I will never not reblog this.

[cryptotheism]

One of my greatest inspirations as a writer is the late great LA Times food reviewer Jonathan Gold. I legitimately think he should be considered one of the best writers of the last 100 years. Look at this.

Poetry. Non-fiction par excellence. This is a man who not only understood the visceral, the sensory, the sublime, but he could put it into words.

[cryptotheism]

He was the opposite of a snob. The man ventured where other reviewers feared to tread. He would visit any greasy taco shack or tacky theme restaurant that caught his eye and detail it with romance befitting a Victorian poet. I have such admiration for his ability to find the beauty, the indulgence, the love, in places you would never expect to find it.

[apricotparrotmemes]

Just looked him up and he looks like how I imagine Dionysus

[cryptotheism]

Truly a Dionysian man

[specialagentartemis]

The other thing about AI/Large image models is that there are things that they could be trained to do that are actually useful.

In college one of my friends was training a machine learning model to tell apart native fish species from invasive fish species in the Great Lakes to try to create a neural network program that could monitor cameras and count fish populations.

Yesterday I was reading about a man on a cruise ship who was reported missing in the afternoon, and when they went through the security footage, they found out that he had fallen overboard at 4 AM.

Imagine if an AI program had been trained on "people falling overboard" and been monitoring the security cameras and able to alert someone at 4 am that someone had fallen into the water! Imagine the animal population counts that an AI monitoring multiple trailcams in a wildlife area could do!

There are valid uses for this kind of pattern-matching large-data-processing recognition!

But no we're using it to replace writers and artists. Because it's easier, and more profitable.

[grison-in-space]

*waves* I'm over here right now training machine learning models to estimate the location of various parts of an animal's body so I can decompose behaviors into ethologically relevant non-invasive measures of social behavior! Other uses I am personally aware of that I think are a net social good include high-throughput cancer cell identification, identification of pathological biomarker readouts on, say, a fetal monitoring system, and flagging signs of chronic pain in livestock so that accurate veterinary treatment can be administered.

So many valid uses for this kind of tech. Amazing how none of them are ChatGPT, though.

[sleepy-bebby]

Reddit • YouTube

[jezebelgoldstone]

Do your part - use literally anything other than Google Chrome

[ccorinthian]

Reminder that switching to Firefox is incredibly easy and takes just a few minutes, you WILL be able to copy over all your cookies, browsing history, logins etc, as well as change the look/layout so it feels like what you’re used to.

[animate-mush]

Shitty Movie Details:

In Renfield (2023) Rebecca learns how to make a protective circle from wiccan tumblr. This wrongly implies that tumblr has a usable search function