Meret

This tumblr sometimes deals with adult topics. Please come back when you're 18 or older. I'm Meret on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Meret I don't use ai, and never will!

[meret118]

My Fics and Bookmarks on AO3

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My Fics on Tumblr

[komaami]

Well, Ilya turned out to be a lightweight. Great, now Shane's the one stuck dealing with the body 🙄

[miscelium]

has anyone pointed out that first time anal is set to a piece of score titled “it’s you” and the satine song that plays over rose and shane’s developing relationship is “c’est toi”

[nkp1981]

Peter Capaldi as Rory McHoan in "The Crow Road", 1996

[squirrellypoo]

God bless Matthew Santos and his Instagram. BTS from The Vampire Lestat s01e01 "Detroit"

[ralfmaximus]

Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users

Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.

Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network inside of ChatGPT, empowering the chatbot to independently shop and complete transactions on behalf of its user. It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user’s behalf, at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa. The payment network’s previous attempts at this technological leap were confined to a single retailer or a small set of enrolled merchants.

Ahhahhahahahhahahahahahhahhaaa.. *deep breath*

AHHHAHAHHAHHAAAA..!!

No

[ralfmaximus]

To be clear: simply having a Visa card isn't a risk for you. Not yet, anyway. You'll have to intentionally link your account to ChatGPT, then go shopping with the chatbot. If you don't do that, you're safe.

Dunno what stupidity they're planning next, but for now? ChatGPT isn't going to rack up $1000 of cat toys without your knowledge unless you're an active ChatGPT user.

[lou-stat]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - Photo Stills From Episode 1 "Detroit" (x) (x)

[pwlanier]

Paul Poiret (1879-1944), Evening dress, c.1926. Gold silk chiffon, beads and rhinestones.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[zaritarazi]

"I know you're real." "Congratulations. Now go make friends." TVL Episode 1 (Interview with the Vampire Season 3 Episode 1), "Detroit"

[mopandmindlessness]

“Singer” is to the TVL band members as “Maître” was to the Paris Coven.

[gatheringbones]

“Life after menopause is exceptionally rare in animals. It can evolve only in creatures where grannies help younger family members survive. Only human, killer whale, and short-finned pilot whale females routinely live for substantial periods after they stop breeding. Like humans, killer and pilot whales have roughly twenty-five to thirty childbearing years, then can live another thirty or so. And as Ken’s just explained, some live a lot longer. Up to a quarter of the females in a group are postreproductive. These whales are not waiting to die; they are helping their children survive. As human children often benefit from their grandmothers’ attention, killer whale grandmothers boost their grandkids’ survival. A rather bizarre twist of killer whale society is that killer whale mothers remain crucial to the survival of their adult children. When older killer whale females die, their adult children start dying at high rates, especially males. Male killer whales who are under thirty years old when their mothers die suffer a tripling of the annual mortality rate compared to males in their age group whose mothers are still alive. Male killer whales who are more than thirty years old when their mothers die face death rates more than eight times as high as males in their age group whose mothers are still living. Daughters under thirty show no mortality increase after their mothers’ death. But daughters older than thirty when their mothers die have more than two and a half times the death rate of same-age females whose mothers are alive. Males’ handicaps of the extra drag of their huge dorsal and pectoral fins and the extra food required for their immense size (at around 20,000 pounds, males can be one-third more massive than females) seem to make them reliant on their working mothers for food. Females don’t have the males’ impediments, but while raising young, females may rely on food shared by their no-longer-breeding mothers. Adult females share essentially all the fish they catch, and more than half goes to their children. Adult males share their catch only about 15 percent of the time—usually with their mothers. While no one fully understands their strange death pattern following the loss of a mother, extreme parental care is likely at the root. Toothed whales are the world’s champion nursers. Short-finned pilot whales continue to produce milk for up to fifteen years after the birth of their last calf, likely nursing other females’ young. In bottlenose and Atlantic spotted dolphins (further study might reveal others), some females never give birth. Denise Herzing dubbed them “career females,” because their role in society does not include motherhood. They might be infertile. They might be gay. But their contribution is crucial: they do a lot of babysitting. When Herzing entered the ocean with a visiting nine-year-old girl, “White Patches, the eternal babysitter herself, had never seen me babysitting a young human before. Her excitement vocalizations were audible and electric and she continued to swim around us, eyeing the human youngster attached to me.” (Researchers sometimes call babysitters “aunts.” That’s precisely who they often are.)”

— Beyond Words, by Carl Safina

[meret118]

time in a bottle by sheisraging

Summary:

Picking up where The Cottage (ep 1.06) left off and spanning the rest of Ilya's stay.

Notes:

I've been fiddling with this for a while and just decided it was done, but also I completely forgot that the book actually covered some of their stay post-Hollanders reveal, so this is basically following show canon (though I probably reference book stuff). I liked the idea of them circulating similar thoughts at different times, but mainly this is just a series of little moments. The dashed line indicates a POV switch. Also, I hate that we have to say these things now, but I would rather eat my own ass than ever use AI for anything. This is all written by me, mistakes, em dashes (beloved) and all. No beta, forgive any typos, etc etc.

[filmtvtoday]

The science is real, Cosima. In here, you can't make the obvious assumptions.

[wickedhawtwexler]

happy pride month to all lesbians who are incredibly smart but suck at giving impromptu speeches, homicidal suburban heterosexuals being impersonated by their lesbian clones, gay men roped into helping their foster sisters not get kidnapped and murdered by an evil biotech corporation, bisexual scientists in love with their subjects, trans men who do crime and think nothing of meeting their genetic identicals, and, most importantly, all the queer people who had their queer awakening while watching orphan black (2013-2017)

[an-inexplicable-delight]

[image description: Orphan Black gifset. Cosima, dressed as Alison in a pink t-shirt that says “Elect Alison Hendrix”, stands at a podium and says, “As a lesbian…” Felix rolls his eyes backstage, and people in the crowd look around awkwardly. Cosima-as-Alison continues, “…supporter…” End ID]

[lostinthesauceee]

Are you kidding me??

[slothful-rabbit]

I laughed so fucking hard at this

[paint-lady]

[huariqueje]

Bowl Summer Cherries - Alena Savchenko ‘Lukian’ , 2022.

Serbian , b. 1972 -

Oil on canvas , 19.7 x 15.8 in.