Game Changer & Make Some Noise
Mike Driver
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@splintered-emotions
ā about:
astrid, she/they, adult icon by @/patrick-stewart i currently in far too many fandoms and my discord server for them here
ā recent and ongoing works:
ā³ transported and trying my beloveds (the hobbit) ā³ you're dead to me (agent carter) ā³ stumbling through long forgotten memories (legend of zelda)
ā full masterlist
ā requests closed at the moment but asks are welcome!
one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.
Not a sin at all!
This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.
If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "GrĆmnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.
So you're not sinning, you're participating in an ancient literary tradition!
Scansion:
ā” ā / ā” ā / ā” ā / ā” ā / ā” ā The sun / was ho/ney-bright / that af/ternoon
Metrical form: iambic pentameter
this post is a moving example of the poetic power of the creative spirit,
an illustration that language and its associated rules exist to lift up human expression and not to hinder it (and are both constantly changing and maintaining helpful usage to suit the needs of the moment),
as well as a devastating reminder that whenever you think youāre doing something new and oh-so-scandalously inventive, it was probably actually the well-trodden pasttime of a glorified theater kid several thousand years ago.
isnt language beautiful?
Do you have a LEAST favorite bicycle? One that was unkind to you? Is this possible?
all bicycles are born with kind souls but some of them are built for a person with proportions I have yet to see in the big wide world and trying to ride said bike is a lot like a brand new baby horse trying to figure out the whole "six long legs and a proboscis" thing on day 1
I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE REST OF THE SENTENCE TO BE ABOUT HORSES INSTEAD OF BUTTERFLIES,
you know what yeah this IS how it feels
Never Learned - Gator Days
...the alt text?
i love alt text that itself is a part of the art
every race George and Oscar are locked in a battle to the death to see which of them can be more fucked over by their team
was thinking about how the concept of god is usually characterized as male (thanks patriarchy) and i came up with a question: in christian theology,
does "God" have a penis?
surely the catholic church made some sort of ruling on this
stop derailing with Jesus's foreskin, this post is about God's genitals ONLY
Hi, Catholic hereāthe only part of the holy trinity with a human body is the Son (Jesus) so yes, but also God the Father doesnāt have a human body so no, but the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all the same being as well so yes, but all humans including women are created in the image of God so hypothetically He has everything else too. Hope this helps.
thank you it did not!
Using he him pronouns doesn't necessarily indicate having a penis does it gaudy
see that's gender studies 101 but i wanna force the catholic church to ADMIT it
Also for what it's worth Catholic God doesn't use he/him. He uses He/Him which theologians insist is distinct from human pronouns.
so the catholic church wants you to respect their god's neopronouns
āmetaphorically undressing myself via truth nuke
"why do men watch porn instead of just having sex with their girlfriends?" is already silly for numerous reasons, but seeing it being used as like. a feminist talking point is so crazy to me because like of the implication that being in a relationship means being available for sex all the time, which you know. doesn't feel great for women i think.
We should start asking that question of all people who enjoy fiction.
Why are you watching a mystery instead of going to a real clifftop mansion and killing your longālost aunt for her secret inheritance?
Why are you reading Moby Dick when you could let a real whale eat your leg?
Why are you watching PokƩmon when you could fight a real pigeon?
We should start asking
that question of all people
who enjoy fiction.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I love informed consent, I love dignity of risk, I love the thought of having someone willing to tell me why the thing that I'm about to do is a bad idea, telling me in detail exactly what the consequences are, what's going to happen and why, and what's the worst that can happen, and then having no power to stop me when I decide to do it anyway because I'm an adult and I'm allowed to get my shit kicked in so fucking bad while doing something stupid if I so choose.
i stopped you from leaving with the others because i need to have a quick chat with you. please stop telling people the character you're writing is going to be a hit because, and i quote, "he has big boobs. honkers never before found on a scale. sir badonkers d'breastenson". not only does it undermine your writing skills, your integrity as a narrative lead and a professional, but also scaring the others. but now that i have you here. how big are we talking
whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight
The grip that Burger & Big Drink has on the American People cannot be overstated
Iām just an easy mark for dumb pilot humor. Today the captain was like āweāre now at altitude, feel free to move around, my one rule is you must stay inside the planeā and I lost it. Itās funny because you would die a horrible death akin to standing unencumbered on Pluto
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:
generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.
analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.
game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.
losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.
Sometimes you get a brief glimpse into the American worldview and decide that you don't want to know.
I cannot stress enough that this meme is entirely literal. there's no reference or subtext you don't know. these are simply the objectively most popular works of art from each denomination.
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I can no longer feel the infinite sadness
teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek
fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"
