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justnoodlefishthings

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

mcg-magpie

Nope...

I didn't feel a tear at the end...

🥲

...totally fine!

shutyourmoustache

demonicae

Jurch

foldingfittedsheets

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more incredible. Fifteen hundred hours of love to create this masterpiece. Humans are wonderful actually.

girlfromenglishclass

What is the longest book series you have read?

I only read stand alones

Duology

Trilogy

Quartet

5-10

10-15

More than 15 books in the series

Voting ended onSep 8, 2025

For the purpose of this poll, books in the same world but not Directly sequels count. If they're grouped on Goodreads, it counts. So like, Percy Jackson but also Magnus Chase count as the same series.

mcg-magpie

All of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, including all the Tiffany Aching books.

He's just a poor lil guy,

He didn't deserve it all!

....this definitely wasn't fun to draw, at all... 😊

#game changer #dropout #sam reich #TheRoastOfSamReich #He's just a poor lil guy

unsubconscious

Helene Appel Sink (With Dishes), 2024 Acrylic, oil and lacquer on linen 49.5 × 39.5 cm

mcg-magpie

It doesn't make any sense, but is a great piece of artistic skill!

I mean, why is there a plug hole in the washing tub that's made of plastic and sits WITHIN the sink?

Why is the water filling the entire sink and not draining? Shouldn't the bubbles be pulled into the drain?

My overly logical brain cannot forgive the lack of physics awareness! 😄

bigtonguebiollante

felixvile

4YO understands superman better than Zack Snyder

guerrillatech

dduane

See also [Eric] Berne's Law: "The basic existential position of human beings is, 'I am blameless.'"

:/

Berne also succinctly described, in his textbook for professionals working with the Transactional Analysis school of psychology/psychiatry, one of the commonest and most toxic of human ego-states: the "Little Fascist."

A fascist may be defined as a person who has no respect for living tissue and regards it as his prey. This arrogant attitude is no doubt a relic of the prehistory of the human race, [when] ruthlessness meant efficiency and greed was motivated by hunger. But as the human mind and brain evolved through natural selection, these qualities were not bred out… Ruthlessness developed into cruelty, and greed into exploitation and theft. The small fascist in every human being is a little torturer who probes for and enjoys the weakness of his victims. …He who pretends that these forces do not exist becomes their victim.

It was a wake-up call when I read it the first time in the '70s. It remains one, day by day, this year.

mcg-magpie

Wow.

groovysarity

beaft

being on the aro spectrum would be a lot easier if being single wasn't made to feel like a literal death sentence

beaft

it's all very well to say "friends are just as important as romantic partners" but in practice this simply is not the case lmao. you can share a flat with a friend but it's expected that sooner or later that friend will meet someone and will move out to go live with that person instead. if you're hanging out with friends you can bring your partner along but your friends can't come on a date night with you because that's third-wheeling and it's weird. you can know somebody for most of your life and still be second-best to some guy they met on tinder 6 months ago. you're meant to just accept without question the fact that your friends will prioritise time with their partners over time with you. being single is treated like a problem that needs to be fixed. we casually use expressions like "just friends" or "more than friends". everything we read and watch reinforces the idea that romantic love is what gives life meaning and therefore your life is meaningless without it. i try to keep my chin up but my god it is bleak out there

mcg-magpie

Well.

I no longer feel so lonely in this feeling.

nianna

“For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good…”

“What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?”

25000 likes!

Wat?

😳

#25000 likes #tumblr milestone

thechekhov

I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)

arcanegifs

Favorite Arcane Character: Caitlyn Kiramman ↳ "My actions? You know what else reflects on the Council? Its citizens living on the streets. Being poisoned. Having to choose between a kingpin who wants to exploit them and a government that doesn't give a shit!