I write and sometimes I doodle and sometimes I write poetry now, and I ship fucked up things. I also read fucked up things. And roleplay fucked up things.
Working my way through the Szarr mansion so I've been mucking about in photomode trying to get some reference shots of the interior (let's pretend yet again that I remembered to turn up my graphics settings LOL)
I counted all Baldur's Gate 3 resident NPCs so you don't have to
And then I made a whole anthropological study about it
Spoiler, I guess, but honestly does it count? (pun intended)
If you prefer the real slides with real text in them, I've put them in my drive (I'd recommend downloading the thing to be able to read the graphs, however... Also google slides fucks up my presentation and idk how to fix it, big sad): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16LXCf8ytvFXqInEIG7x90SDx4CXNkSrF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106694258125622774911&rtpof=true&sd=true
If you want the raw data I put it on my drive. Take it and use it to blow up Florrick's car idk: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xNjBJolZh6a5vNC6bfJTNqfVuULyM2_e/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106694258125622774911&rtpof=true&sd=true
Thank you for reading and I hope to see much more Flaming Fist slander in the future <3
I’ve been thinking way too much about the vampire spawn siblings those past weeks…
This is actually quite an old drawing I did in May/June when I found out that Astarion was the second spawn and Aurelia the first, which means that she had to endure him all by herself for a while 😭😭😭 I spent way too much time thinking about their dynamic so that’s my take on it LOL
(This also was the first and last time I drew her in her game outfit, I’m sorry babygirl but you deserve prettier and easier to draw clothes)
Idiots will be like, "Prison abolishion!!! Fuck cops!!! ACAB!!!" and then sneer in contempt when you suggest criminals are people who should have basic human rights. Like bitch, what the fuck did you think "prison abolition" meant???
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." —H.L. Mencken
Mina taking one look at that one line letter and going "that's not MY man," like oh you know these two were in the habit of writing each other absolute novels detailing every SINGLE thing that happened while they were apart.
Andy Serkis using AI for his next LOTR movie is just spitting on Tolkien's tomb.
The new movie will use AI
Let me explain.
Tolkien wrote about the machines that are corrupting people (Saruman and his industry, Sauron in Mordor, but also the Ring itself as a machine to gain more power)
[Selected excerpts from Tolkien's Letter 131 to Milton Waldman, 1951]
That's exactly what AI is all about: the Machine "with destructive and evil effects" and which reduces "to a minimum (or vanishing point) of the gap between the idea or desire and the result or effect".
Of course, back then, Tolkien wasn't talking about gen AI, but about industrialisation at large... but I think that his argument can perfectly apply to gen AI. And if you can't see the similarities, then I can't do anything for you.
Using gen AI to adapt Tolkien's work is not just disrespectful, it's also offensive. It's like stepping on his legacy and the points he was trying to explore through his work.
Besides, we all know why Andy Serkis does this: because he wants the P. Jackson's cast to come back, toying with people's nostalgia to better sell his movie. It's pure marketing, manipulating the fanbase's sensible cord to better sell his movie. He isn't creating anything new, he rebrands PJ's work and uses AI to make it fit our times. (I'm not fond of the Rings of Power series, but at least it offers something new - even if it draws on PJ's work, it's a different, diverse cast, a kinda new proposition based on Tolkien's work).
Tolkien's work focuses on creativity, on the power of imagination and creation. He praises it as a highest type of magic.
Using AI is all but creation.
And don't let me start on Serkis's whitewashing discourse. He made it clear that he didn't want any actor of colour in his movie... which is basic racism.
Not only because there are mentions on brown skins in Tolkien's work, but also (mostly) because this man disregards the importance of inclusivity and representation. Middle-earth is a world in which dragons exist... How dare you say the presence of black or brown people would be "unrealistic" in that world??
So I'm going to say it once and for all: Andy Serkis is a racist, an opportunist, and someone who doesn't give a shit about Tolkien's legacy or about inclusivity at large. I don't need more to know where this man stands on the political umbrella.
in terms of "dead dove" tropes in general one of my favourite ways to pervert an otherwise healthy and consensual relationship is to have one of the characters be responsible for something that was objectively and unsympathetically their fault and that they're determined to spend the rest of their lives making up for, but are unwilling (or unable) to confess to their new partner who only knows them as they are now and not as the shameful fuckup they once were, so they end up convincing themselves that they're essentially committing rape by deception - for the entirely selfish reason that is wanting one genuinely good, stable thing that makes them happy in their life - by concealing it. but because they both desire comfort and don't feel that they deserve it they continue to do so, going so far as to try to prevent their partner from being exposed to any situation or interaction where they might learn the truth, even as it becomes a case of using them and the relationship to self-harm to satisfy their unresolved guilt that only grows with each passing moment.
and then, just when they've finally started to relax and let themself consider that maybe, just maybe, they do actually deserve to be happy and move on with their life, that's when the other shoe drops and their partner stumbles across the information that fleshes out and gives shape to the unspoken thing that's been hanging over their relationship since day one, to the point that they'd adjusted to living in its shadow, in the least favourable circumstances possible
Ah, true to your word, you have returned to us. We have awaited thee...
one who may understand the recesses of the obscure, the macabre, and the wholly dark. Whom we may bestow a most munificent offer.
Come closer, fear not.
Our calling is not for priggish souls. No, it is for the amalgamation of the debauched and disturbed. I see now how you crave that, how you writhe to shape it. How your hands can help build it. That feeble mind that will not end, that defies restraint. Hm?
All I ask is that you give into desire, to not pretend you do not yearn for this. Set your name upon the form. Step into the night. I see now you were never meant to remain small and unseen. Yes, yes, you were meant for The Grand deZine.
Let us make you into something…eternal.
Sign the contract
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