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what if buck and eddie met in peru (x.)
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
I believe I found the paper on Internet Archive and it definitely expands on some of these. Iāve not finished reading it yet, but wow.
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?ABSTRACTThe past 3 years of work in NLP have been characterized by thed
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Redo of the first gifset I ever made on May 24, 2025.
Happy happy birthday, dear friend! I hope your day is fun and relaxing, with cake, prosecco, and hockey boys books šššššš¾š„šš
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Crystal Clear
@drarrymicrofic | wc: 258 | prompt: ball
Draco did not believe in Divination.
It was vague nonsense, which was why he complained for the entire queue while Pansy dragged him towards āthe most gifted seer in Europe.ā
āYou need distracting,ā Pansy said.
What he needed, though neither of them said it, was Harry Potter not leaving for Australia in three days. Harry Potter, who smiled at him over Ministry reports. Harry Potter, whom Draco had been meaning to tell he loved for six months, two weeks, and one catastrophic almost-kiss.
When the seer peered into her crystal ball, Draco asked, dryly, āSo, whoās my forever partner?ā
āA man with spectacles.ā
Draco rolled his eyes. āRevolutionary.ā
āGreen eyes, dark hair, and a most interesting scar on his forehead.ā
That night, Draco wrote an owl before cowardice could return.
Harry came over instead of writing back.
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āAnd that,ā Draco said years later, āis how I married your father.ā
Their children shrieked with delight and tore back into the garden, apparently satisfied at the answer to their question.
Harry waited until they were gone, then said, āYou do realise she was probably a fake, and she read the rumours in the papers.ā
āObviously, darling.ā
Harryās smile softened. āThen why did you believe her?ā
Draco looked out at the garden, where their children were laughing and playing, all wild hair and muddy knees.
āI didnāt,ā Draco said, lacing their fingers together. āBut Pansy paid her twenty Galleons to say it, and I was too desperate not to listen.ā
Harry laughed, then kissed his knuckles.
āBest money she ever spent.ā
Darcyās introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really āwhat if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dadās life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where heād just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl heād just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger sheād clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out sheās really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.ā
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okay but anecdotes about other people accidentally having other people's service dogs task for them because dog just went "oh you are doing thing i am meant to fix" has me laughing imagining shane just having a high anxiety day for some reason and someone's anxiety service dog (maybe still in training, so a lil confused still) continuing to try and approach and task, but shane is just CONVINCED that it's ilya somehow trying to get this dog to keep coming over, and he's already on edge anyway, so people noticing that this dog keeps trying to come closer just keeps winding him up more, which just makes the dog try to come back over, which just makes him tell ilya to knock it off again, which makes ilya say he's not doing anything, which makes-
and finally whoever the handler is just "sorry, she's still in training." and ilya is just "ah, a professional in training. what a smart girl." "yeah, she's training to be an anxiety service dog. :)"
and ilya just looks RIGHT at shane, who is suddenly
oh my GOD, they had been fighting about getting another dog because ilya wanted anya to have a sibling and shane wanted to call it at one dog because what if the next one ISN'T good and now they're going to have two dogs AND one is a problem-
so they're already miffed at each other, and shane is convinced ilya keeps somehow signaling this dog to come over because he's being an asshole about their fight about dogs, the exchange about her being an anxiety service dog happens, shane avoids eye contact COMPLETELY and manages to fully escape standing next to ilya
but then ends up retreating to an empty conference room that the dog and handler also happen to go to as a break place for the dog, and the handler is like no worries if not it's okay but do you mind letting her practice tasking? it's really okay if not but she seems really eager-
and what is shane going to do? say no i won't help out with training this dog? no.
but now he's laying down under the very reassuring pressure of this dog, totally physically relaxed, but just sighs and goes "...goddamnit" because he knows ilya is going to find out about this SOMEHOW and then they're going to end up with a second fucking dog
in their household, she is dogtor rosie because she has a degree even if she doesn't use it (ilya made it, it hangs on the fridge), and when shane tries to appeal to ilya to help him call rosie off when she's tasking, ilya shakes his head and refuses
it's dogtor's orders
dogtor rosie is SO good at this! she's a little angel (and sometimes menace), and i adore her.
i can also maybe picture anya picking up the basics of some of these moves/behaviors after the two dogs have spent some time together and she's seen rosie receive positive attention/praise for doing so. (ilya is for sure providing that, even if shane himself is more unsure at first)
all of a sudden, anya is also now fetching things With Purpose when she senses that someone is upset/anxious. she doesn't have rosie's discernment or training, so she's not grabbing water bottles or prescriptions (even if they are for the wrong person), but she is bringing whatever random item feels right in the moment. she has the spirit!!!
it's very hard for shane to stay in his anxiety spiral for long with two concerned dogs insistently handing him ilya's medication and.... the tv remote? and well, if rosie is going to press herself across shane's lap, anya is going to do it too!!! she won't be left out of the cuddle pile when a packmate is in distress! and if rosie is going to be licking and nudging shane's hands every time he goes to pull at his hair, redirecting him, anya is doing the sameāshe's not going to miss out on any opportunity to be pet, either!
ANYA DOING HER RESIDENCY UNDER SUPERVISING PAWSICIAN DOGTOR ROSIE
also the idea of anya frantically looking around for an item to give shane when rosie goes to grab the empty pill bottle from the counter because she WILL go looking for it if they don't leave it there for her is SO cute and funny to me. incomplete list of items anya has prescribed shane to make him feel better:
his sunglasses
ilya's keys
yuna's purse
a pair of tongs for the grill
her leash AND rosie's leash
a pillow from their bedroom
her stuffed hockey stick toy
the empty pill bottle when she got there first, prompting an annoyed rosie to try and take it from her because that's HER item!! give it!! meaning it actually did work because shane is now having to ref a sibling squabble over helping him with an empty bottle of medication that wasn't even his to start with
and @hardlyhinged adding your tags here because Best Wiggly Girl hopping the boards and getting carried off with a puck in her mouth is SO delightful to me
she is their biological daughter <3
#meet the buckley-diazes
Anok Yai met gala bronze hair look
okay the HAIR is amazing! This whole look is just incredible!
So, a funny thing happened on trigun twitter
(amazon link where its 50% off as of May 8th: https://www.amazon.com/This-How-You-Lose-Time/dp/1534430997/)
Update, āthis is how you lose the time warā is now #21 on Amazonās bestsellerās list
(semi-related note but I too have now ordered the book)
another update: Amal El -Mohtar wrote a small article on her blog (https://amalelmohtar.com/i-tried-to-title-this-post-for-twenty-minutes-and-failed/), one which contains the words ā[ā¦] and the upshot of it all is that corporate marketing people at Simon & Schuster now know the name Bigolas Dickolas.ā
Further update!
Time war has reached #7 on the amazon bestsellerās list and is still discounted!
(thread found here: https://twitter.com/tithenai/status/1655613629604016151?s=20)
In addition:
I know it made it up to #6 at one point. Being a pre-existing fan of both Trigun and This is How You Loose the Time War made this especially enjoyable.
Iām just going to add some more Twitter screencaps I pasted into the groupchat.
The producer of Trigun Stampede. (No word from Nightow yet, I checked.)
A literary agent. To be precise, the agent of at least one of the authors of Time War.
Slate, posting their article about the whole thing.
A frenzy of mutual adoration and signed hardcover offers.
Other authors want in on the Bigolas Dickolas goodness.
Dongwon again.
Saw this on Twitter and HAH.
Bigolas Dickolas is now Alexander the Great.
And finally, the forecast is good for a livestream of Max and Amal watching Trigun.
This is apparently still unfolding! Tumblr ānewsā is sometimes 5 years old so I wasnāt sure š The latest - itās up to #3!!
LMFAOO YEAH I JUST SAW IT HIT #3 been trying to keep this post updated but didnāt want to spam, and the speed at which these things have been happening is beautifully astounding so:
trigun, following bigolas dickolas, has also become a trending topic in business and finance
Interview with Bun (or Mr. Bigolas)
Crossover art (https://twitter.com/xxrat__punkxx/status/1656446745088278529?s=20)
thread of semi-current placements on the book
memes
and the situation very much escaping online confinement xD
A significant number of hours later (and too much to summarize):
Time War summary: reached #3 on Amazon overall, #1 (and 2, And 3) in science fiction romance, #3 in lit and fiction, social media presence overseas, and-Ā
printing with a bigolas dickolas sleeve and so much more
Bridging the two: so many articles
slate article
techcrunch article
insider article
kotaku article
Gizmodo article
tor.com
polygon
and etc
And then on the bigolas dickolas trigun side-
And then after tweeting @ dark horse for a potential trigun maximum (trimax) reprint due to the eng verison being out of print for several years by this point:
so everything can now basically be summed by by this tweet!
(I donāt know if iāll keep updating this thread considering how many branches there are and idk how much more this can escalate, but Iām keeping an eye on the situation so weāll see!!)
For those asking what time war is about, per Mr. Bigolasās post: DO NOT look up anything about it. Just read it.
For those asking about trigun, it is an amazing manga, anime adaptation, and new reboot anime.
its been over a year since all this first occurred, but felt it was necessary to tack on that bigolas dickolas declined the Hugo that the infamous tweet was nominated for š
ā¦Itās an amazing world. :)
Anon asked: Buck + Kids