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]

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[7pleiades7]

Glorious pink roses spilling through the Merton railings into Deadman's Walk, Oxford

[indelicateink]

“No, your eyes did not deceive you — Jarda, Lestat's bumbling body double, is also played by Sam Reid. If you couldn't tell that it was Reid under all that VFX makeup, consider it a mission accomplished.

"‘That's the dream, isn't it, that you don't want people to recognize him?’ Reid tells TVLine. ‘We do have a little bit of prosthetics to try and distort me a bit, but he exists for a reason.’

“Reid admits that when showrunner Rollin Jones first pitched the idea of him playing Jarda, the actor was hesitant to take on the dual role, fearing that ‘it could go so badly.’

"‘It's such a fine line, and I'm really grateful for the editing and all of that which allows me to walk on the thinnest edge imaginable to hold him together,’ Reid says. ‘He's a wild character.’"

“Adds Jones, ‘We have so much on the cutting room floor that is gold. I'm trying to figure out how to get it out there.’”

The Vampire Lestat Team Answers Our Burning Questions About Gabriella, Sam Reid's Dual Role, And More — Grade The Premiere! - TVLine

The stars and EPs of The Vampire Lestat answer TVLine's burning questions about that game-changing premiere... and what we can expect from t

[meret118]

"Lestat isn't like Louis," executive producer Hannah Moscovitch tells TVLine of the show's narrative shift. "He doesn't not remember big chunks of his own experience, so there is a difference between how their subjectivities work in the show. Lestat's version of not dealing with his own memories is just to go forward and to not think about any of it. Then he starts to do art, and then all of his memories of his 265 years start to come out of him. Art is undoing him. It's making him understand and see himself. And all of that happens. That's like his version of subjectivity, whereas Louis' was more like, he doesn't see it, he won't look at it, or he misremembers it.

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Thanks for posting this! I thought this was interesting.

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening Dress.

Date: 1925

Designer/Maker: Jeanne Lanvin

Place of origin: France

Medium: Turquoise silk georgette

[rebeckuz]

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[vangoghcore]

by ianbrierleyphotography

[firstprinced]

[my-dailydreams]

[kookiedeadbutterflies]

I gotta say, it says something about Lestat that he can be at his most vulnerable with Gabrielle. He can be the most pathetic, whining, destructive little Mama’s lover boy in her presence with absolutely no shame.

He can’t do that with anyone else. Not even Louis.

Mama knows her boy best I guess.

[smokingtigerhiddengun]

Don't know if this is a deliberate choice or a coincidence, but the numerological value of Shane's and Ilya's jersey numbers are 6 and 9, respectively.

[robotmango]

when i forget to log into ao3 and i have to click proceed to see an adult fic, i actually get a kick out of it. like i am an old timey queen and my bard is apologetic: “gentle lady, dicks doth touch in this next ballad. would you prefer another?” and i give him a gesture of command like, “nay, you may proceed, minstrel. bring forth the tale of dicks”

[berlynn-wohl]

hope it’s not too late; I made this in Scriptorium

[jkottke]

Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever. 15 years ago, billionaires had $4.5 trillion. “Now, their combined wealth totals $20.1 trillion — an amount that is equivalent to nearly a fifth of the entire world’s total yearly output.”

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[maimonideznuts]

Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

America is Trump's pump and dump scheme. If he's not getting a third term then he'll break the country for whatever poor soul has to clean up his mess.

[wyf-of-bathe]

New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.

Notably, DOGE cut the funding a few days before the US resumed imports of cattle from Mexico... the imports that had been suspended because of the screwworm outbreak in Mexico. So we've had a year of importing cattle from Mexico during a screwworm outbreak without monitoring the outbreak that we already knew about. Mexico's outbreak is pretty bad btw, and cases have been found not just in cattle and dogs but also humans. I assume the rest of Central America too. Not that many people seem to give a fuck about them ig.

[thatdisasterauthor]

In exactly the same vein, the department meant to deal with things like bedbugs...is now infested with bedbugs.

[meret118]

How to prevent and treat your pet from screwworm

Experts say not to panic. These are the signs to look for to protect your fur babies.

[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”