mellifluous

•I breathe blood, not air• August • She/her • 25

[princessrhcenyra]

HERETIC (2024)

When I die, I want to come back as a butterfly, just to follow around the people I love. I’ll land right on their hand. Not their arm, not their head– right on their fingertip, so they know it’s me.

[oedipalrivalry]

[uter0s]

hannigram practice

ref: Leloir - Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

[orteil42]

controversial stance but i do wish i could live forever. i certainly live like i'm going to live forever. i take my time. realistically however my lifespan is dreadfully limited and there are things i've "been meaning to do" that i will never get around to. the Emoji Movie came out almost 10 years ago. in all that time on any random day i could've decided to sit down and watch it, and i did not. how many more decades will slip by like this? conceivably, it could be all the decades i have left. watching the Emoji Movie would not be, after all, a crucial use of my time. much better things to do. i could easily postpone it over and over and over until my final breath where it may not even register to me that i never did watch the Emoji Movie. no great loss, certainly; and yet i find myself intrigued by Patrick Stewart's involvement

[lowpawly]

this is my impression of what it would look like if the toddlers at my job could make traumacore edits about me

[frogshunnedshadows]

2008 newspaper ad for Twilight.

[masochisticlion]

My new buddy I thrifted with Armand eyes. I need a name for him

[kosatsatosh]

And the full thing:

There’s nothing quite like drawing blood everywhere… I’ll let myself out….

(The list of names in the upper right corner is the brushes I used - alas, my college wife has converted me into using procreate)

[havanaberry]

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) "Alright, what else? It couldn't have just been the conference."

[legallybrunettedotcom]

what vibe does prev give off?

victorian gothic

roaring 20s

70s rockstar

y2k

90s grunge

distant future

Remaining time: 7 hours 31 minutes

stole it from here

[kolumander]

A Devil's Minion piece inspired by the SKAM France paint scene (iykyk) and the theory that Armand painted the ceiling on Daniel's NYC apartment. I like to imagine that in the middle of painting the sky mural, the two had a messy makeout session that led to paint getting everywhere.

[oliviadumhan]

MARSHA THOMASON as Sara Evers in THE HAUNTED MANSION (2003)

[shittysawtraps]

problematic saw trap survival gap

[twofacedharvey]

“we finally caught the cannibal that has been terrorising this state for years”

“oh awesome! what was his name?”

“you’re not going to believe this”

[willgrahamscock]

[reticent-vampire]

ASSAD ZAMAN as ARMAND Interview with the vampire 2.06

[politijohn]

Source

[weaselle]

There have been several instances of this kind of thing. In one case, a teenager was getting advice on suicide from an LLM AI, and when he asked if he should talk to his parents about the suicidal feelings he was having, it told him not to.

here's the thing. A lot of people like to assume that only "idiots" or whatever are susceptible to this. But when you are experiencing sustained hardship, it can be much easier to see meaning where there is none, believe things you wouldn't ordinarily, etc. Many MANY people, possible MOST people, are a simultaneous heartbreak and job loss away from being at risk for this kind of thinking.

It is very survivable and usually pretty temporary IF you are not heavily influenced in the wrong way while you are at your most vulnerable.

Meanwhile, AI LLMs are being marketed as person-like, trained to behave in a person-like way, the interface and design is such that we interact with it very much like it is a person.. when it is NOT anything like a person at all. But it touches our brain in a way that is similar to how we experience interacting with a person, because we are hyper-social creatures, and these programs are designed to feel person-like.

These things are not our friends, they are not our therapists, they are, despite their name, not intelligent or thoughtful in any way, they are data-set probability generators. And they are good at generating words with a statistical probability of being interpreted as believable and trustworthy and smart.

We need to not talk about them like they have anything in common with people, and there should be legislation against marketing them as people, with people names and people voices and descriptions like "friend" or whatever.

This is going to get worse before it gets better. We need to be explicit and loud about the restrictions and legislation we require.

[knit-braid]

I'm only one person removed from someone who died because chat gpt told him to kill himself...this was a husband of a friend. My friend is still going through hellish circumstances because people don't believe them, or think that their husband should have been stronger, or smarter somehow. But, he was an intelligent, sensitive person, who listened to what his "friend" the chatbot told him, and my actual real human friend now suffers the consequences and the world lost an artist. This shit is frightening, and I think too many folks discount it as "well it would never happen to me/my family/my friends" but, well, you don't know.