It's 2040. Our president is a plant.

Horizon Forbidden West is my current obsession, The Locked Tomb, She-ra, Dragon Age, lots of awesome queer characters, whatever else strikes my fancy

[aithne]

Opal the leucistic raven has things to say.

[solitae]

I love her so much!!!! I am forever changed by Opal, and I don't even know why.

[aithne]

Went to see poodle puppies when I went to Vancouver Island!

[solitae]

Precious puppers! These are so good!

[aithne]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I might have followed through on my threat to write that scene where Zev shows up in the Cantori Diamond.

Mornings in the upstairs of the Cantori Diamond were usually a relaxed affair. The tables were empty, the sharps and the gamblers both snug in their little beds. Those clients who they might entertain at the big table tended to prefer midnight to noon. The apprentices were busy with cleaning and training and running errands for the cooks and bakers who would feed the crowds after sunset. Sometimes, tradesmen came to call, and sometimes deliveries needed to be accepted, but before mid-afternoon was a time to drink coffee and eat pastries and talk of nothing truly important. Unfortunately, someone had forgotten to tell Rook about this. And Rook was a morning person.

[homunculus-argument]

The paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you think of tolerance as some sacred and unconditional moral duty. Some ultimate and absolute law with no exceptions, and if you ever slip into the sin of intolerance, you must repent yourself and beg for forgiveness. Yeah no fuck that. Tolerance is a social contract. You're in the game as an equal player for as long as you play by the same rules as everyone else, and if you don't, your ass is fucking out. You're not entitled to the same respect you won't give others.

"Oh so you all tolerate each other just because you tolerate each other, but if I want to destroy you, then all of a sudden you want to destroy me?" Literally yes. That's the gist of it. What's not clicking. This equation is so simple it barely counts as math.

[beka-tiddalik]

"I refuse to sign the social contract if it means I have to be polite to people I don't understand" said the bigot

"Well then you aren't protected by the terms and conditions" says everyone who has signed

[shalizeh7]

[solitae]

Sometimes you want to drown the world in blood, and your hot Drow girlfriend is into it. I think that's neat.

[qwiqwiaqwi]

Isabela Dragon Age I miss you

[shadovvheart]

isabela sketches to get into the summer mood ☀️

[seyloyevents]

*Find the prompts in text format below*

The Moth to Flame Seyloy Discord server presents:

SEYLOY MONTH! Her Sky, Her Sea 2023

Hello and welcome, members of the Old Ones! This event is to celebrate our favorite duo of Zenith chasing, Horus slaying, gay panicking, beach smooching outcasts by expressing ourselves creatively in a wide variety of ways!

This event will be running throughout the entire month of November 2023. Mark your Focus calendars, get on your Waterwing, and join us for a month of adventure with our OTP! 

GUIDELINES: 

-This event is all about celebrating the relationship between Aloy and Seyka, therefore they must be the central plotline and focus of whatever content you create. And however you would like to portray their relationship is entirely up to you—friendship, romance, sexual—just have fun exploring their dynamics!

- Any contribution is welcome. Art, fanfiction, crafts, graphics, fanvids, songs, cosplay, fanmixes, crochet dinosaurs wearing hats—anything you can think of! There is no minimum or maximum content length, or anything like that. The prompt list is there to inspire you—but we are not the prompt Compliance Department; if your creativity leads you in a different direction, by all means, go for it! You can do as many or as few of the prompts as you want.

-You are welcome to include WIPs such as multichapter fics, or things you completed even months ago.

-Rate all entries appropriately. Trigger warnings for graphic, sensitive, trauma-inducing, potentially upsetting material are a requirement. NSFW works are gladly accepted, but make sure you label them clearly. **If your fic or piece falls under the Dead Dove Do Not Eat category--- best to ask a mod whether it's okay, as there are a few triggers that we will not repost, (i.e. anything with non-con or underage sexual content). We want this event to be safe for everyone.**

-You don’t need to submit your work to us, just tag it appropriately and we’ll share it (tags below) We reblog and queue our posts, so if yours hasn’t been reblogged yet, give it a bit of time (usually within 24 hours)

-If you wish to submit your work on Ao3, be sure to put it into the collection entitled “Seyloy Month 2023”

- Late submissions are permitted. We will still be receiving new content through December. You do not need to rush to get all of your work finished by November 30. Nonetheless, do your best to keep up with the assigned schedule!

- Don’t be a Clamberjaw. Be kind! No bashing of other contributors or their content. Remember we’re all here to have a good time and fully appreciate Aloy and Seyka together. And while celebrating them is the whole purpose of this event, bashing of other ships is not tolerated.

TAGS WE ARE TRACKING: #seyloymonth; #seyloymonth2023; #herskyhersea23

Please, be sure to include one of these within the first five tags of your post. This way it’ll be a whole lot easier for us to find your entry and share it here for all to enjoy! We would hate to miss out on your beautiful creations.

☆☆‎☆

That should cover all the basics!

If you have any additional questions that weren’t previously discussed, do not hesitate to reach out to our moderators for further clarification. We will try to get back to you as quickly as possible!

xoxo,

-The Moth to Flame Seyloy Discord server (Message @melusine0811 or @despite-the-nora for an invite!)

Prompts:

1- Her Sky

2- Her Sea

3- “She flies, she fights machines, and she has fancy moves!”

4- “You don’t seem so ordinary to me…”

5- Second kiss 

6- We’re on a boat

7- For Our Amusement

8- “We did it!”

9- “Don’t leave me waiting too long…”

10- Machines

11- “It’s a little snug…”

12- Seyka Sunday!

13- “Why do I feel like that too?”

14- Dinosaurs!…Wearing hats?

15- “And what if I do?”

16- Aloy came to the rescue!

17- “I always wanted a sidekick!”

18- Outcast behavior

19- Storms

20- “I was worried about you…”

21- “You have a Focus!” 

22- Part of You

23- “I AM calm!”

24- Confessions

25- The Stars in Their Eyes

26- “Legacy’s Light!”

27- “You know, I’m kinda glad you tagged along.”

28- Engineering/making things

29- Seyka saves the day!

30- The Idea of Home

[river-taxbird]

There is no such thing as AI.

How to help the non technical and less online people in your life navigate the latest techbro grift.

I've seen other people say stuff to this effect but it's worth reiterating. Today in class, my professor was talking about a news article where a celebrity's likeness was used in an ai image without their permission. Then she mentioned a guest lecture about how AI is going to help finance professionals. Then I pointed out, those two things aren't really related.

The term AI is being used to obfuscate details about multiple semi-related technologies.

Traditionally in sci-fi, AI means artificial general intelligence like Data from star trek, or the terminator. This, I shouldn't need to say, doesn't exist. Techbros use the term AI to trick investors into funding their projects. It's largely a grift.

What is the term AI being used to obfuscate?

If you want to help the less online and less tech literate people in your life navigate the hype around AI, the best way to do it is to encourage them to change their language around AI topics.

By calling these technologies what they really are, and encouraging the people around us to know the real names, we can help lift the veil, kill the hype, and keep people safe from scams. Here are some starting points, which I am just pulling from Wikipedia. I'd highly encourage you to do your own research.

Machine learning (ML): is an umbrella term for solving problems for which development of algorithms by human programmers would be cost-prohibitive, and instead the problems are solved by helping machines "discover" their "own" algorithms, without needing to be explicitly told what to do by any human-developed algorithms. (This is the basis of most technologically people call AI)

Language model: (LM or LLM) is a probabilistic model of a natural language that can generate probabilities of a series of words, based on text corpora in one or multiple languages it was trained on. (This would be your ChatGPT.)

Generative adversarial network (GAN): is a class of machine learning framework and a prominent framework for approaching generative AI. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is another agent's loss. (This is the source of AI images and deepfakes.

I know these terms are more technical, but they are also more accurate, and they can easily be explained in a way non-technical people can understand. The grifters are using language to give this technology its power, so we can use language to take it's power away and let people see it for what it really is.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... hideout ...

somewhere in Sweden

[mysharona1987]

[strengthins0lidarity]

A rock has more self-awareness.

[magic-and-moonlit-wings]

[malscare]

going

[jeniferprince]

just the two of us…

patreon // check more of my work on instagram // buy prints here

[identitty-dickruption]

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

[identitty-dickruption]

we have to give ourselves permission to imagine disabled futures. we’ve been told, either implicitly or explicitly that we shouldn’t exist, so it becomes hard to imagine a perfect world populated with people like us. but loving ourselves and our communities is about being able to imagine a future that has us in it. there is a perfect world where people are happily disabled. and that’s what I’m fighting for — the chance that we can slowly take steps towards that world. imagine disabled futures

[loveexpelrevolt]

I will let a thousand innocent people die if there's even a chance that he will live. That is what it means to support him, you do understand that?

ROSAMUND PIKE as MOIRAINE DAMODRED The Wheel of Time 2.8 | "What Was Meant to Be"

[evil-britney]

*takes off my leather jacket to reveal a second, secret leather jacket underneath*

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

you mean, skin?

[degenerate-perturbation]

What an absolutely terrifying addition to my post. Thank you.