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Heyo! Folk punk dream tarantula, I reblog fantasy stuff, skyrim, dnd, and rocks!

[sacred-portal]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[bedupolker]

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I like when someone invents a new and disturbing way to Decorate Wrong

[animentality]

Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

Happy pride.

[rivers-thoughts]

This is actually super cool from a media preservation stand point!!

[kosmogrl]

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[volatilevale]

how life feels when there's a sicko on the same disgusting freak wavelength as you

[achillesinhighheels]

female bodybuilders across india

captured by keerthana kunnath

[atlaculture]

Cultural Fashion: Avatar Kuruk’s Design

Kuruk - Bear (Pawnee) or to lower one’s head in humility or sadness (Iñupiaq).

Avatar Kuruk’s design takes inspiration from a variety of Inuit, First Nation, and Native American groups. The overall silhouette of his outfit appears to be inspired by the traditional clothing of Gwich’in, a First Nation people native to Alaska and Canada; note the capelet and V-shaped trim at the bottom of the shirt. The elaborate beaded trimming is replaced with fur for Kuruk’s design, but I believe that’s mostly for ease of animation.

His necklace, as mentioned in an earlier post of mine, appears to be based off of bone chokers, which are typically associated with Great Plains tribes. His shoes appear to be inspired by traditional Inuit kamik; which are soft boots traditionally made of reindeer (caribou) skin or sealskin and worn by arctic aboriginal people.

Finally, the bear headdress. It was actually pretty frustrating researching this, since it’s one of those “iconic” cultural items that gets assigned to the entirety of indigenous peoples, much like war bonnets (feather headdresses). One tribe that uses a bear headdress in their cultural practices are the St’át’imc of Lillooet, British Columbia in the Interior Plateau region. The woman featured in the picture is Laura Grizzlypaws, a famous St’át’imc performer. Her St’át’imc name is “Stálhalamcen – Grizzly Paws” and she belongs to the people of Xwisten, the Bear Clan. Grizzlypaws uses bear pelts in dances meant to pay respect to the grizzly bear.

It’s also worth noting that Kuruk appears to be wearing a polar bear’s pelt. According to Wikipedia, in Inuit religion, Nanook (Polar Bears) are considered to be the masters of all bears. Inuit hunters worshiped the Nanook as they believed it was the bear who decided if the hunt would be successful or not. Respect was given to Nanook by the hunter hanging the bear’s hide in a special section of his igloo, where it would stay for several days. Legend says that if a dead Polar Bear was treated properly by the hunter, its spirit would share the good news with other bears who would allow themselves to be hunted. Bears would stay away from hunters who failed to pay respect.

With this context in mind, that Kuruk chooses to wear a polar bear headdress when Aang first meets him reveals so much about his character. First, we immediately realize he must have been a magnificent hunter to have owned such a pelt. Second, he clearly respected what he hunted, as he only wears the pelt when introducing himself to another Avatar; he doesn’t wear it when he’s doing something frivolous, like surfing or making out with his girlfriend. Third, Aang first meets Kuruk when he’s conflicted about taking Ozai’s life. Kuruk chooses to appear before Aang with the headdress on; he’s subtly reminding Aang that taking a life isn’t always an innately malicious or callous act.

So yeah, Kuruk’s a pretty cool guy.

[fillianore-moved]

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

[omegaverse]

velcro is kinda crazy if u think about it

[omegaverse]

sorry guys im bored as fuck

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.

[thesplendidsnout]

From the Nib, by Mattie Lubchansky

[bobdylanyaoi]

what i feel like when i reply to someone’s post

[pangur-and-grim]

fairly reliably when someone is mean and weird to you on Tumblr, you can look on their blog and all their recent posts will be about how unhappy they are in their interpersonal relationships and/or how frustrated they are that their creative venture hasn't found success. and it's like ohhhhh okay, I get it. you're clawing at other people because you're actively drowning. my sympathies, that sucks, but I'm not a lifeguard so carry on.

[sapropel]

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

[diet-poison]

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

[orthusisintheforest]

Hi this reminds me of the skyrim quest I always think about constantly.

It happens during the whole vampire questline. It's not related to vampires. I may misremember details so forgive me for that. But you have to go through old dwemer ruins and you meet the last living snow elf in Skyrim. You know, the snow elves. Who were enslaved by the dwemer and went blind and feral and still live in the ruins long after the dwemer are gone. The falmer is what they're called now. Here's the last one who's in their original form.

And oh hey, to get to where you need to go you have to take a path that's an old snow elf coming of age rite of passage. And he's going to take you through it and you're going to learn about this dead culture, this culture that was killed.

And now you've got what you came for and there's one way out. Now that you've learned what the falmer used to be, where they came from, what was lost because of the dwemer enslaving them, you have to go through a falmer village.

It's a narrow canyon lined with huts. There's no way to avoid it, in order to get through you have to kill them. They attack you because that's what they do to people invading their territory. You're invading their village. You have to kill them or they'll kill you. It's the only way out. You feel terrible.

If you stop to loot one of the huts on your way out you'll find a book full of unreadable text. Take it to the winterhold college and give it to the librarian and he'll tell you that it's a remarkable find because it's evidence that falmer have retained intelligence. They're not just mindless feral monsters. They have this book, they've kept this book even though they can't see. They have a culture. Maybe they still remember what happened to them. Maybe that's why they're so mad.

You just killed so many of them. You're going to have to kill many more.

Anyway.

Video game with no messages.

[kaioty-summer]

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.

Google Wants To Control Our Phones

Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b

If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.

[caldraws]

hey bi people