O woe is the musician!

Rose ~ 21 ~ She/her Will yap relentlessly about video games, classical music, and other things, too. Currently playing Silksong and reading A Court of Thorns and Roses.

[sun-marie]

Flashback Osvald sketchs bc I miss himb 🥲

Textless close ups under the cut~

[otiksimr]

GEN 5 FULL POORLY DRAWN DEX

[before you say anything. I am NOT being mean to myself. that's just the name I picked for the series (yes there's more)].

[aropride]

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

[perishrepublic]

a vague sort of follow-up to my recent noelle drawing. i wanted to give kris a cute outfit too

[samkuchingdraws]

SPOILERS FOR OCTOPATH TRAVELER 2

bon voyage, chief

(Beyond this point, I will be gushing about this moment in the game, so if you have seen this painting and don't really get the context behind it and don't really wanna spoil it for yourself, I suggest you scroll on by)

So, I have been playing Octopath Traveler 2 for a while now. I started with Ochette as my protagonist (because out of the main themes in the soundtrack I loved hers the most -- at least at the time before I started playing the game), but as I played the other characters, Castti began growing on me.

And then Chapter 3 happened and I... I didn't expect the gutpunch of a revelation that came. My friend yelled out in shock, I was rendered speechless and didn't let the game proceed with the next dialogue for quite some time as we cried our eyes out.

Fun fact: it was the eve of Mother's Day when we got to this chapter, and just before this moment, I had just beaten Mother in Throné's story. It was an emotionally... interesting weekend.

It has been over a week. Almost two, I'd say. And I am still not over it. Clearly.

Anyways, Castti's main theme is my favourite now.

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[pinkcadillaccas]

Im listening to a podcast ep about AI usage and the guest is saying he completely understands why people refuse to use it out of fear because he shares the same fears, and it's just so weird to me that it's never ever acknowledged that some people don't use it not because they're afraid but because it just holds no appeal. There are things I'm sure learning models are very useful for but none of them have anything to do with me. Yes I'm a bit of a ludite but I completely failed to resist the lure of the phone, or social media, I've never used chatgpt because I have just never wanted to. I feel like the entire debate is instantly reframed once you acknowledge that it's not a necessary service that people either work to resist or avoid out of fear. For most people it's just an online tool, and for me and I know for lots of others too it's just not that important.

It's not that interesting or useful to me, it's holds no appeal, I am resisting nothing. I could already do everything I wanted I don't need a new tool. It really is that simple and I would feel this way even if it wasn't worrying and evil in various ways. We HAVE to resist this narrative that AI is everywhere because people want it, because it's necessary, because it's an improvement, because people can't live without it. AI is everywhere because tech CEOs and investors want to make something from their massive investments. It is incredibly resistable to me. Just don't have an interest in it. This needs to be part of the AI conversation if we have any hope of saving ourselves from the data mining clutches of big tech (AI specifics aside)

[shadycactus-draws]

assorted therions from the galdera speedrun

bonus:

[theabigailthorn]

the organisers of dashcon 2 asked me to give a talk there what the hell do i talk about i use this webbe site every day and have no clue what i'd say about it other than "yeah it's good it's the one that doesn't suck"

[theabigailthorn]

if i did a presentation about why SCUBA diving is fun and why I like it would people be interested in that???? it's not relevant to anything I just think it's neat

[theabigailthorn]

wait DUH I need to do a presentation about The Prince and fanfic and blorbos and Shakespeare OBVIOUSLY

[egretful]

to revere, or whatever that really means

[wolfer-aid]

anglerfish 

[sin-ophelia]

Fangirls Through the Ages by Lid Thom

[nay-lon]

a quick therion

[funkyness]

baby what's wrong, you've barely touched your 18 pounds of cokane 12 pounds of crake and 7 male stripers (diverse)

[hbmmaster]

by the year 2090 every integer between 10 and 1000 will be a "funny number"

[hbmmaster]

small numbers without unignorable cultural associations are an exhaustible resource

[classicalcanvas]

Sea Study (1881) by Claude Monet

[louisegluckpdf]

wednesday night….the thinking man’s friday