overall loser

[saintscoundrel]

brief introduction

name • E ➞ MBTI • INTP-T

cancer ☼ gemini ☽ scorpio ↑

they/them, asexual

[pris-cas]

Lesson #26 Visceral shifting

Kinda hard to explain concept but it’s like when you’re on your rollercoaster and your tummy feels funny…it’s genuinely just your organs moving up and down with you and afterwards just wriggle back into place…yeah

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Thank you to my awsome beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@the-asexual-winter

@stelosia

[meatballlady]

There seems to be a misconception about Grace's translation software that is bothering me more and more and we need to address:

It is *not* AI. It is not """interpreting""" Rocky's words/meaning. It only picks up literal words.

This is how it works:

Eridian words are musical notes/chords

Soundwaves are physical, and at different frequencies they make different patterns! These physical patterns, and therefore Eridian language, is formulaic and repeatable. This is easily processed by computers in a reliable way. This is also lucky for Grace!!

Grace and Rocky create a database that maps notes/chords to words

When Rocky speaks, the computer looks up the exact notes in their pre-made database and returns the associated word

It is a FORMULAIC LOOKUP, NOT AI

Rocky isn't saying "My loneliness knows no bounds, and I have forgotten my soul in the endless abyss" which the translator outputs as "Rocky in space too long"

Rocky is literally saying "... Rocky in space too long" knowing that that's the only words the translator has to draw from.

It's a bit terrifying to me how quickly people are just accepting "yeah computers must be intuiting basic meaning" because that's the opposite of how it works. They don't "understand" anything. They take gads of data and turn it into something that looks like it has meaning, not the other way around. I know I'm fighting a losing battle here, and maybe I'm just being a pedantic asshole, but god do I hate how pervasive this misconception is.

[deadgravity]

You don't have to grieve alone.

[kaomojiloser]

grace after every time eva asks him to do something:

[ambrystoma]

Hitting the Jeremy during ur bosses important meetings

[hungwy]

as you know one of the problems of english is that you can't capitalize "I" for emphasis because it's already capitalized

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I need tiktokers to understand that ao3 has been home for the freaks (affectionate) ever since the day it was created. the entire site was created because “dark and fucked up fics” were banned and removed from other platforms, so us freaks came together and created a site for other freaks — a site where nothing is censored, a site with no algorithm, no capitalism, no ads, and again, absolutely no censorship.

this has been our house for decades. you newbies don’t come into our house and tell us how to arrange our furniture. either be nice and respect our house, or leave and build your own house elsewhere.

[cursedchildofchaos]

I'm on some new shit

Excuse my idiot self, under blood not underwater

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

don’t know who needs to hear this but ao3 is not a social media. it’s an archive. a library. please stop treating it like twitter or tiktok

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[eedweiz]

Grace insisted on putting Carl's name on the most important paper of the century 🎉

[cybernetichumanoid]

The Weight of The World

Stratt genuinely deserves so much more recognition than she gets. She's a scapegoat, she's a villain, she's a hero in all definitions of the word and I'm giving her all my money. Lets ignore how funky the Hail Mary looks. It's my first time drawing it.. 🫪

Debated calling this piece An Unwilling Patron Saint but idkk......

[alexxuun]

Fist my bump!

Wait until you hear about fist me…

[chromaticrainarts]

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

[7-inches-of-satanic-panic]

k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes

only for Rocky to get more and more tired as the experiment goes on just to realize that Grace isn’t which makes him panic so he puts as much distance as he can between them and finds a (hopefully) safe spot to sleep and when he wakes up the human is crouching over him like “got youuu” and Rocky has never shrieked so damn loud before in his life

[lifes-pinata]

Grace: *Retroactively freaking out about Doing A Misogyny™*

Rocky: Me and the bestie!!! :)