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re-doing introduction post <3
The world is hers! 👑🌎
shirt that says I HATE WHEN CHARACTERS WITH UNUSUAL BEHAVIOURS AND MANNERISMS DUE TO NEUROLOGICAL DIFFERENCES GET "CURED" AND BECOME "NORMAL" on the front and "bye" on the back
the ONLY time I'm fine with this is when the character is STILL unusual after whatever event changed them, just in a different way. bonus points if they're upset about the change. EVEN THEN YOU (pointing my fingers around at no one) ARE ON THHHIIINNNNN ICE
"but why do you hate this? isn't it a good end to a character's arc?" my actual physical neurological structure deviates from the norm in ways that CANNOT be "fixed" and I like it when characters are like me and can still have fulfilling story arcs and loving friends [:
this includes characters who say things that don't make sense, have memory issues, behave irrationally, and more. I'm talking about characters who represent a wide range of neurological differences. not just autism or adhd!
I'm going insane with "this would be fucked up au" theories don't mind me <3
so i spent far too long on this.
for those unaware, the spaghetti wall of letters and numbers is a base64-encoded JPEG image (and not a URL as some guessed). in certain cases when you tried to insert/paste an image into what’s ostensibly a text-only box, this could happen.
the thing that’s bugging me however is that there’s image data there. we have fairly a clear (albeit with JPEG artifacts) screenshot of text that, thanks to how Windows ClearType renders text, each character is identical to each other, that is to say, an uppercase Q will always look more or less pixel-perfect each time, meaning we don’t have to guess what a Q looks like, we simply have to pixel-accurate match it.
as an aside, this is why regular OCR struggles so much with this kind of data retrieval, such as code even when it’s clearer than a physical paper scan. ordinarily, OCR will try to best-guess every single letter because it expects each letter to be slightly different from each other (as would be the unpredictable nature in a scanned document), and on top of that most OCR today will try to autocorrect because it expects the scanned text to contain words in some human written language.
so, all we have to do is make a program to recognize each character and piece back together the whole base64 string, right? well…
first i stitched all 7 images back into a single block of text, observing the consistency of the line spacing. some of the screenshots have little bits of the previous one sticking out of it, which helps with alignment and to make sure they’re in the right order.
after that i had to sample every single letter off this file. this means going around the file and finding one example of each different character we’re trying to identify, saving it as its own separate file so that the program can load them as references to compare against in the full image. for base64, the alphabet consists of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, / and =. once i had the initial code in place…
…close! but oh so far. if any one single character in a base64 string is wrong or missing, the resulting decode will be wrong. the issues i was having were mostly with the lowercase r and j because of how the kerning affected the pixels around those letters. i was also getting false matches for r where there should be an m. what followed was grueling hours of tweaking the matching code and my known font set to better fit the original image and get as close as possible to a 100% match. here is the resulting code, maybe it’ll be useful for someone and this won’t have been a complete waste of time.
once i was confident through the verification image that i had all characters recognized, i put it through a base64 to JPEG decoder. i actually did this several times as i improved the recognition and what follows is the best result that came out of it yet. i suspect some of the data might be missing (perhaps a line or block of text got lost in between screenshots), or i have a wrong character somewhere resulting in a wrong value. this is the image extracted from OP’s base64 string:
we can finally know what they meant when they said “me in a relationship” and i can finally go the fuck to sleep.
update: i found that the string that i used to decode the image in the previous reblog actually had one letter wrong.
with this it still doesn’t parse as fully valid base64 in strict mode so i think there’s still another letter in there that’s wrong, but i couldn’t find it. however this gives us a better look:
and this is finally enough to do a reverse image search. i present to you, the HD version of our intrepid massive backpacker:
still have no idea what they mean by “me in a relationship” with that, though.
#they have baggage
If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.
If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform
None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.
THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.
GUESS WHOS ALIVE GUESS WHOS MISSED YOU GUESS WHOS BACKKKK
HIIIIIIIII IM BACK TOOOOO HRU!!!
I haven't heard from you in some time, how are you?
im back!! and im okay, kinda just faded off tumblr its good to see you
luv the new theme king
thanks man im gay as fuck
broke: women are at a biological disadvantage to men, which is why the two cannot be trusted to safely compete in sports. testosterone makes men better at sports and estrogen makes women worse at sports
woke: pretty much every single thing recognized as a sport plays to men’s strengths and women’s weaknesses. some types of physical flexibility are valued while others are determined useless, and women are discouraged from taking the spotlight on grounds of spiting their teammates while men are told “if you see an opening, go for it”; the game was rigged from the start
bespoke: we encourage every kid we’ve decided is a girl to become malnourished and beat them into submission when they show an ounce of confidence. we train them separately from the kids we’ve decided are boys, often enforcing completely different, less aggressive tactics than the boys are allowed to use starting as early as elementary school. both groups are implicitly discouraged from collaboration unless absolutely necessary to win. we tell the kids we’ve decided are boys to assert dominance on the field/court/lanes at all costs, that a loss means weeks if not months of deserved shame and maybe even beatings. we slash funding for women’s professional teams, tell them to shut the fuck up when they come forth about facing sexual abuse at the hands of their coaches, and make a good chunk of them wear revealing uniforms under the guise of optimized movements when really it’s just about Male Viewing Pleasure. men are encouraged to risk subsequent concussions on the grounds that, if they lose, they’re all fucking sissies, an empty threat that hangs over their heads like a social death sentence. young boys are taught that if they hit a girl, even in self defense, they’re no better than domestic abusers. young girls are taught that if a boy hits you, you should curl up and cry in hopes that he comes to his senses and stops. it’s not about chromosomes or genitalia or even hormones, all of this is taught. if you think the disparity in men’s and women’s sports comes down to an inherent biological imbalance that sadly can never be rectified, you haven’t been paying attention to jack shit
maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient
maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.
And I call this piece "holy fucking moly I need that woman !!!!"
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Happy 420 did you know drug usage is canon in Dungeon Meshi and that modern Fleki smokes weed (in canon she uses hallucinogenic mushrooms)