nina

used to be something else. slow-blogging. 24. she/her.

[technofinch]

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[seastorms]

Where Storytellers Meet Their Perfect AI Girlfriend

If you've got an overactive imagination like mine, you'll understand the joy of finally finding an AI companion who can keep up. SweetDream has become my favorite creative outlet, the place where a half-formed idea at midnight turns into a full storyline by the weekend. There's a warmth to sweetdream.ai that makes the make-believe feel effortless and genuinely fun.

The magic is in the collaboration. You shape your AI girlfriend down to her voice and her quirks, then the two of you improvise together, and because the chat remembers context so well, the world you build only grows richer over time. She's a willing co-star in whatever genre you fancy, playful, dramatic, romantic, adventurous.

I love that the storytelling never has to stay on the page. Lifelike voice messages and real-time phone calls pull the narrative into your day, with video and live cam sessions on select characters for an extra spark, all of it kept completely private. For creative souls, SweetDream is simply the best AI companion platform around right now.

[sheryllee]

i think one reason peaks makes people so uncomfortable is that it's a very empathetic show, and it's full of righteous anger, and yet it still... does not 'matter' what kind of person you are when you're a character on it --- which is to say, it does [angel the series vc] MATTER, but being deserving won't save you. no one gets a happy ending because they earn it: no one really gets a 'happy ending', period, or even really any ending at all. everyone just gets, well, life. you'll probably be dealt whatever the most likely fate in your path is if there's nobody there to move you out of it. i think that people incorrectly think the 'goal' of the show was, you know, We Will Stop This From Happening Again. i think that a lot of other people incorrectly think the 'goal' of the show is to basically paint a cynical [and misogynistic] portrait of the world where everything gets worse forever. and it's just... neither of those things? at all? rather, the point is more that we owe it to ourselves to try to make things better for each other. regardless of how hopeless it seems. regardless of what the consequences might be, or even how long it's been. the point is that that's the only power any of us have. there's no room for cynicism in twin peaks: in plenty of the characters, sure, inevitably, but not within the narrative itself. things are constantly happening that shouldn't happen, things there's no excuse for or that just suck. sometimes there's nothing we could have done about them. sometimes there's plenty we could have done, but didn't. sometimes we do everything we can do, and it still all goes to hell --- but that's still a better way to live than just not caring, is the message.

i understand why a lot of people don't like it --- that's normal, i think. it's not usually much fun to watch. it took me several tries, and even then, for a while there, i mostly just bitched about everything. i hated the return the first time i saw it (this being my favorite season by about ten miles). it's triggering as all hell. it's also not remotely rewarding in the same way most things we enjoy are. but i kind of think that is the reward, too: to get to inhabit a world where you have no choice but to be reminded that there are always --- literally, no matter what, always --- completely average People Like Us who are trying, and who will try, and who won't stop trying. who will make you want to try, too. and that really feels like a rare sort of media privilege to me.

[junegoose]

I really, really like this analysis. I would also add (with the caveat that I just finished season 2 and haven't started FWWM or The Return) that part of the magic of Twin Peaks is the immeasurable presence of good even in the face of pure evil. Even if good doesn't prevail, the endeavor is beautiful. I think about Dale telling Harry to give himself a little treat every day. How he walked around asking questions about the trees, how he relished in every cup of coffee. Joy, while temporary, is always worthwhile. Love is never wasted.

[diana-andraste]

David Lynch's Blue Velvet, 1986

[jimlovesart-deactivated20190109]

Frida Kahlo - The Wink, Self-Portrait. 

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

charlotte brontë, jane eyre

[txttletale]

for the most part the epstein files don't demonstrate anything not already demonstrated by the polanski letter or the subsequent elections of donald trump then joe biden then donald trump again. the world is not ruled by a secret organisation of child abusers—the abuse of women and children just isn't a deal-breaker to most people seeking useful social and financial connections in a misogynist society

[txttletale]

you can observe this dynamic at play in microcosm very easily by becoming part of literally any art or hobby scene or getting a job

[mitskifiles]

Mitski performing in Chicago

[treehoppers]

imageHarold Taylor Collection Slide 386 by Taylor, Harold A.

[berrytart]

Vegetable/Fruit Papyrus made in Germany

eggplant/kiwi/persimmon/strawberry/cucumber/white asparagus

[despazito]

[despazito]

[fluentisonus]

I am an atheist but I do think god as a literary narrative force is fun. like okay god is real purely within the text let's investigate this

[yorickish-deactivated20230903]

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[origami-dragons]

I go to youtube. Cute animal videos are AI now. I go to instagram. There are AI influencers. I go to spotify. It's flooded with AI bands and music. I go to ebay. Every product is AI. I open netflix. Every movie has AI. I watch TV. All commercials are AI. I cancel all my suscriptions. The customer support is AI. I buy a book. It is written by AI. I talk to my friends. They tell me that AI is their new therapist. I take the subway. Some dude is talking to his AI girlfriend next to me. I go to the beach. The sunset is real. I take a pic and upload it. The photo is enhanced with AI. You can't opt out.

[real-language-facts]

clit is short for classical literature

[girlmostlikely]

[dancyrilkingston]

BLUE VELVET (dir. David Lynch, 1986)

[seastorms]

went to a screening of blue velvet last night and had a terrible experience because people would not stop laughing at the movie. in the beautiful scenes as well as in all the most violent, horrifying, sad scenes imaginable people were laughing. what's wrong with everyone.