Every Little Thing

Originally, this blog was something else, but it just became a place for fandom stuff that I didn't want to make a separate blog for. Good luck navigating it. Haha. 

[daitheflu-mx]

[tumblingoverstars]

[madkiska]

[marlynnofmany]

[aye-write]

[sunsetsharkblog]

may I offer my contribution

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: Screenshot from the Emperor's New Groove of Llama Kuzco frantically searching through a bunch of identical glass vials scattered on the floor. They are all labeled, "WIP." Reply image: Yzma and Krunk looking down at Kuzco, newly transformed into a llama and labeled, 15k words and counting. Yzma says, "A multi-chap? It's supposed to be a one shot!" /end]

[hacvek]

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.

[mindfulwrath]

May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.

[quasi-normalcy]

Did you only come to Tumblr after Twitter turned to shit?

Yes

No

I returned to Tumblr, but I'd been here years earlier

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2024

I'm looking to see how much influence "Twitter refugees" have actually had on the culture of this site.

**Pease reblog! I want to get the biggest and most varied sample I can!**

[quasi-normalcy]

You people really aren't grasping this "please reblog" thing, eh?

[nevergonnabemuchmorethanweather]

Between the ages of 14 and 15, Dawn Summers:

Found out all her memories were fake and she had actually only existed for six months, watched her mother collapse in front of her only to discover she had a brain tumor, lost said mother unexpectedly after thinking she had recovered, was hunted and kidnapped by a hell god who wanted to use her to destroy the universe, was very nearly killed by said hell god, and then watched her sister and only remaining family member die in her place.

Then, instead of being allowed to mourn, she had to pretend that all that never happened and live with a robot wearing her dead sister’s face for months so she wouldn’t be taken into foster care or forced to live with her father who didn’t want her.

Then she found her sister fresh from the grave and half catatonic and had to talk her out of immediately killing herself again, get her home, brush her hair, clean her off, help her change out of her burial clothes, etc, all without having any idea what was happening or why.

Then she was left mostly alone with the sister she had missed so desperately too traumatized and depressed to connect with her and all of her other caretakers going back to their own lives.

And y’all want to judge her for a brief shoplifting phase and a couple of screaming fits? 

[spikedaily]

James Marsters as SPIKE Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003)

[griseldajane]

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

[digitaldiscipline]

Art thieves already hate it:

[fierceawakening]

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

[spooky-octagon-deactivated20240]

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

[esoanem]

As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

&

GLAZE: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models

Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community

[sliceosunshine]

A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

[ot3]

to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking. 

[dramioneasks]

Top 10 Most Favourited (Completed) Fics on FFNET of 2022:

Measure Of A Man by inadaze22 - M, 42 chapters, Words: 615,536 - To truly know someone is to differentiate between who they once were, who they are now, and who they’re capable of being. Hermione realises the duality of one man as she rectifies what she knows of the past and begins to understand the pieces of who Draco Malfoy is now: a father, a son, and a man.

Brand New World by NinaBinaBallerina - M, 72 chapters, Words: 286,989 - Draco Malfoy had the perfect plan: use Polyjuice to turn into the Weasel, infiltrate Gryffindor tower, and steal the memories implicating his father. But the Golden Girl had to ruin everything by kissing him. Now Draco’s developed a strange addiction for bushy-haired know-it-all mudbloods, and nothing but the best will do. COMPLETE

Lost Souls of Nott Castle by mezy - M, 44 chapters, Words: 125,761 - Everyone lost something in the war. Some of them lost everything. Hermione had nothing left. No family. No friends. Until she finds everything she ever needed amongst the most unlikely of people. Together they will face adversity, battle inner demons and navigate their futures. Rated M, EWE, Friendship, Romance, Action, Mystery, Dramione

Three Wizards and a Baby by LizzieCarlilexoxo - M, 36 chapters, Words: 144,722 - What happens when Theodore Nott takes in his best friend, single mother Hermione Granger? Chaos ensues. Draco, Theo, Blaise, and Pansy are in for the time of their life as they help their favorite Gryffindor Golden Girl navigate motherhood all while trying to figure out just who is Mini Granger’s father.

Child of Dawn by SarahFraser - M, 31 chapters - Words: 146,963 - A broken engagement, a betrothal contract, and too much champagne leads to Hermione moving to the United States with a piece of Draco Malfoy that she most certainly hadn’t packed in her bags. Five years later, she’s back in London to embark on a new journey and finds herself a bit in over head as a single mother to a special little girl. *secret pregnancy/child* *infidelity*

I’m yours by theLashJedi - M, 2 chapters, Words: 12,652 - After Ron Weasley humiliates Hermione Granger at the Ministry of Magic’s Annual Yule Ball, Draco Malfoy seizes the opportunity to do something he has long desired - offer himself as an alternative.

The Memory of You by PotionChemist - M, 75 chapters, Words: 495,557 - Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger fell in love against all odds, but there was one big problem — he was already married. Pressured, Hermione does something she promised herself she would never do again and erases their affair from his memory. But is their love too strong? Are they inevitable? What will happen if he finds out about their previous relationship?

Obvious Truths by ruby-krishna - M, one-shot - Hermione could feel the heat radiating off his body, mixing with hers. “Did my words make you hard?” His large hand suddenly grasped hers and he guided it down his front. Hermione’s thighs clenched when he made her palm his large erection through his trousers. He was thick and straining against the fabric, her nipples hardened as she felt him. “Obviously.”

The Wrong Choice by BlueZeldana - M, 40 chapters, Words: 137,774 - After the Battle of Hogwarts, the Death Eater’s trials have begun. Lucius Malfoy is already in Azkaban, and now is Draco’s turn to face the Wizengamot and accept his fate. But three witnesses are waiting to testify on his behalf, and one of them is Hermione Granger. As he sees her, his blood starts to burn and he knows he’s fucked. She’s his mate. Dramione. VeelaDraco

Don’t Forget Me by Mythstrata - M, 15 chapters, Words: 65,223 - Harry returned from his battle with Voldemort a very different person. Hermione is heartbroken after a devastating breakup with Ron. The Weasley’s are suspicious and her best friend is a cold stranger, haunted by memories. She decides to cut ties and take off on her own. There are things that she would rather forget. Unfortunately Harry remembers everything. Dark Harry COMPLETE

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Clean sheets, amazing experience 10/10. Changing sheets, the worst 0/10. Why does something so good have to involve so much suffering

[aphroditesmoon]

jorgen: *calls spensa and her father a coward*

spensa: alright jorgen, we're going to play a guessing game right now, and the first question is: gUESS WHO'S GETTING THEIR ASS BEAT-

[mapledryad]

Jorgen, Arturo and Nedd are such great characters because when they're introduced the first impression is they're the most generic antagonists in a YA school novel. You've seen them a thousand times its the rich boy Malfoy stand in with his two dumb lackies, who get put in charge because of nepotism so they can bully the protagonist.

But then you keep reading and all that falls apart. They got put in charge because they're genuinely the most qualified. Jorgen is uptight and rule following because that's all he knows, while his friends arent dumb, Arturo is just quiet and doesn't speak unless he thinks its important, while Nedd just acts that way so people overlook him.

Then as the severity of the book ramps up any antagonistic nature they might have completely vanishes as the stakes leave petty rivalries behind, and Jorgen quickly makes snap decisions to trust Spensa because she's on his squad. (Also that scene where she runs into him replaying past battles late at night... easily best scene in the book)

Sanderson so quickly sets up your expectations than deconstructs them saying "hey these characters are actually interesting" is just so glorious for a YA novel.

[sartorialadventure]

[master-duncan]

Can I get one of these for hairstyles?

[sartorialadventure]

@master-duncan​ How about these?

(I had a lot of trouble finding women’s hairstyles :/ Also ymmv on hairstyle names…)

[srrob01]

Watching the Wheel Of Time with my husband. He is a book reader; my first exposure to these characters is the show; so, you can imagine the kind of stress he's under and the amount of amusement he is getting from me.

[martianaviator]

If you have a child and they are creeped out by a nephew or older brother touching them or looking at them a certain way, you need to have a serious talk with that person and keep them the hell away from your child. Don’t minimize it or tell your kid to hug them anyway, that kid is picking up danger signals they don’t even understand yet. But so many families will tell that kid they are being a brat.

[pajamajamas]

thankyou

[perfectlycriminal]

A quick note- this applies to female relatives as well. One of my aunts ignores my little brother’s requests not to hug or kiss him (he has aspergers and doesn’t like physical contact with people he is not very close with). I have repeatedly placed myself between the two of them and had to tell her to back off and stop trying to “desensitize” him. Whether or not there are “danger signals,” it is not okay for adults to invalidate a child or teen’s request for boundaries. We need to teach children now, when they are young, that they can say no to these things and that other people can too.

[vampirejuice-deactivated2019112]

And this applies even if the relative isn’t giving bad vibes. Just in general teach your kids that they don’t have to have any physical contact for someone else’s sake if they don’t want to. 

[irondadfan]

Never not reblog

[willsilvertongue]

#what was the reason

[etacarinea]

Guys please stop calling hot people “daddy” or “mommy”. Sigmund Freud is getting too strong and is trying to break out of his casket.