I just love olives. @privateolives - Tumblr Blog

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

We have similar problems.

Here's a UK version:

(it gets more complicated than this but this is the basics that most people need...also there's an age disparity in that some older people will only use imperial and some younger people have never used things like stones and pounds)

#culture #man what the fuck

389

#funnier as a transformer

briarhide

In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#lgbt

hollowedskin

I got a 4 min long video of Kimchi dreaming today, so here's a clip

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

Later in the dream she injured her paw and was limping, and earlier she caught something and ate it.

hollowedskin

#animals

unionizedwizard

head in hands. the way sphene's arc is a perfect tragedy but nobody starting with the writers themselves seems to realize it.

imagine the horror of waking up after practically the most traumatic events conceivable, leading up to nothing less than your death, only to find out that they made - without your consent or knowledge, of course - an AI version of you, using your likeness, voice, memories, and core personality traits tweaked to fill the needs of the nameless, mysterious puppeteerer holding the strings in the shadows, who is only keeping the aspects of your personhood that fit his agenda at any given time. and this - extremely sophisticated - AI is, as far as you can tell, sentient and aware of her nature and fate, but unable to do anything about it, agency being denied at every turn. and the thing is - people love her. her people - your people - adore her. she's endlessly (hah) doting, gentle, caring, the sister to every child and mother to everyone, a perfect doll to be deployed to pacify and placate the feelings of anyone. she has no needs nor even preferences of her own, the better to accomodate that of others. her algorithm - to which she is, as an AI, completely bound - even pushed her to self-destruct and violate every single principle she held, even though it cost her the small fraction of agency and personhood she had managed to build. she was stuck in what was effectively an abusive marriage of convenience for survival for three decades. that copy was eventually erased, then remade with slightly different parameters in order to follow a slightly different agenda, and nobody sees the difference. nobody even remembers the former iteration. you can, however. you never met the original AI - whom everyone including your newfound (and only) friends loves and clearly grieves, including someone you may or may not be falling in love with, who clearly was in love with the unauthorized AI version of you. eventually you manage to reclaim your agency, your personhood, you fight the shadow puppeteer, you even win! - and then, what happens?

you're back to square one. the people are grateful and they love you oh so much. everyone just looks up at you with hopeful, expectant, wet puppy eyes. they need you! by which, obviously, they mean they need the old version of you, the AI that only ever served them, even though they swear it's not the case, that they've changed now; was your own education, in a bygone era, when you were reared to assume this duty (and enthusiastically rose up to the challenge) anything different than a cold algorithmic decision? can you even tell the difference? programming is programming, isnt it? you have your duty. you need to protect and serve these people. who are you to refuse their wishes? yet something feels unfair, something buried very deep inside you. so you hesitate. you bow and examine the tiara - a girlish accessory, even though she was about 400 years old at this point - which was used to monitor your AI predecessor's every thought and action, spy on her constantly, and presumably give her orders. things are different now, they say. things are back to normal. the cycle has been fulfilled. only this time you are dimly aware of the personhood you're being so efficiently denied. or are you? is anyone? nobody seems to see anything wrong with this state of affairs. your newfound - and only! - friends encourage you to accept this role. for the sake of continuity, says the woman you may or may not be in love with. you are all standing in an illusory, impossible, computer-generated landscape. you slowly put the tiara on. THE END

#ffxiv #ff14 #my hottake is that if they wanted her to resume being monarch #they should have let her take the role as king of resolve #all her actions we know from the war are befitting of resolve #part of the expansion growth for her is picking back up her magic training again to fight #and it would be a strong symbollic gesture to both herself and the people that she would not resume the same role as before #not to mention I think king of reason would've been better for gulool ja #turn the inheritance from the father into a lesson of folly #focus on developing those genius hacker skills to make sure he ciuld bever be locked out again #neither of those crowns fit right on their heads for what the story had been doing imo #at least switch them around

k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl

how to tell mutual hey i think ur really cool we should talk more but like also im bad at talking and am always exhausted

tieflingkisser

hoe-for-link

I was super inspired by these art works (this, this, and this. Also specifically this fic just had me thinking about Bluestreak in general) and I just really wanted to draw today even though it’s one of the busiest days of the year for my work. I tried rendering this a different way at first but lemme tell you that was NOT working so I switched to this style. I love the way this style looks but I don’t do it often because the amount of layers I have to keep track of just makes things a nightmare (I render things in probably the worst way possible).

#transformers #maccadams

just-dnd-thingys

describedposts

[Image ID: Tweet from pea poopingirl @/PoopingIRL on 8/14/23 - i think the idea of a shady dwarven salesman selling "cheap" stuff to humans and laughing to himself like "heh it will only last one generation, those stupid idiots, how will they even pass it down to their kids" forgetting that one dwarf generation is like 4 human ones is funny. There's a black bar at the bottom with an iFunny watermark in the corner. End ID.]

appendingfic

Elf ea-nasir selling mithril armor that will last no more than 1,000 years getting death threats from his fellow elves but doing numbers w/humans

yeomanstuff

Actually, I really like this idea as why elven and dwarven crafts are so good. Something that’s merely acceptable is meant to last most of one of their lifetimes. So even a mediocre dwarven craftsman will make something a human can pass down.

And you can always sell what the apprentice makes while still learning to a human, letting them know it will merely last for the rest of their life.

The elven version of IKEA could be a human family heirloom.

phantoms-lair

'Good enough for humans' becomes an expression for 'you're getting there' for an apprentice.

nocek

the best part of field trip experiments is a chance to become THE experiment yourself ;)

#phm

ntrider

noncon friendship

sonyvegas9-deactivated20241118

Coworkers

ryukisgod

Your friend’s boyfriend

#other kids at the family function #the stranger trying to gossip with you on public transit #classmates when birthday invites need to be handed out

distinguishedbaloney

official-linguistics-post

official linguistics post

#lgbt #culture

kkoribyeol

선거 시즌이네요 투표합쉬다 It’s election season in Korea! Everybody, go vote 🗳️✨

#transformers #maccadams #maccadam #cute idea OP

ebitenpura

new follower spotted

"19, ❤️ maryland, ice skating"

I SEE IT

ocllo

@ffxivheritageposts

#ffxiv #ff14

catsdelightful-deactivated20240

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

misslunarose

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}