Swedish Taco

Hay thar! I'm located on the east coast of the US and I enjoy drawing, video gaming and tabletop. I dabble in music and writing. For those of you interested in The Book of Life, I have a huge amount in my archive, just go to August 2015 and have fun....

[thispreciousthing]

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Seeing as Twitter is gonna legally steal your work now, please use glaze to protect what you make.

[chromatocloo]

Guys did you hear about Nightshade?

Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI's recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.

And it would be hell for AI bros to remove the cloaked pictures from their database ʕ 👀人ʔ

[ayeforscotland]

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

[jondoe297]

also use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!

here's a link to Nightshade

here's a link to Glaze

best combination is usin Nightshade then Glaze on your images. Glaze creates a protective layer and Nightshade poisons the A.I. software.

[edenwolfie]

’Til our compass stands still by edenwolfie

A Hualian Canon Divergence AU

After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city’s denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.

Fandom: Tian Guan Ci Fu / Heaven Official's Blessing

Relationship: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian

Rating: Explicit & No Archive Warnings Apply

Word Count: 178k (complete)

Characters: Xie Lian, Hua Cheng, Yin Yu (background), OCs

Additional Tags: Ghost City, canon divergence, different first meeting (you know what I mean), slow burn, secret identity, identity porn, mutual pining, angst with a happy ending, fluff, friendship, found family, first kiss, first time, original characters, canon-typical violence, discussion of suicide, PTSD, panic attacks, masturbation, book spoilers, hurt/comfort, semi-public sex.

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 10/12 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián Characters: Huā Chéng, Xiè Lián, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Shenanigans, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Worth Issues, canon-typical for those three don't worry, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, dragon!hua cheng, But he doesn't know it yet, confidence building (Xiè Lián), Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Grinding, Rutting, Top!Hua Cheng, Bottom!Xie Lian, Come as Lube, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Biting, Marking, Body Worship, Scent Marking, Creampie, Come Inflation, Cuddling & Snuggling, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Idiots in Love, Riding, Hand Jobs, Bath Sex, thigh fucking, Light Angst, Shapeshifting, First Time Blow Jobs, Couch Sex, blink and you'll miss it strength kink, Orgasm Delay/Denial, interruptions for days, grief processing, Accidental Self-Harm, hua cheng's canon bad handwriting, Praise Kink, Sparring as Flirting, Note! this will eventually include bottom!hc, if that isn't your thing you can read up to chap 9, everything before that is bottom!xl and top!hc

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 9/12 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Shenanigans, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Worth Issues, canon-typical for those three don't worry, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, dragon!hua cheng, But he doesn't know it yet, confidence building (Xiè Lián), Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Grinding, Rutting, Top!Hua Cheng, Bottom!Xie Lian, Come as Lube, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Biting, Marking, Body Worship, Scent Marking, Creampie, Come Inflation, Cuddling & Snuggling, Non-Sexual Intimacy, then sexual intimacy, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Idiots in Love, Riding, Hand Jobs, Bath Sex, thigh fucking, Light Angst, Shapeshifting, First Time Blow Jobs, Couch Sex, blink and you'll miss it strength kink, Orgasm Delay/Denial, desk sex (attempted), altar sex (attemtped), interruptions for days, grief processing, Accidental Self-Harm, hua cheng's canon bad handwriting, Praise Kink

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, mer!hua cheng, prince!Xie Lian, fantasy with cultivation, Canon-Typical Violence, Suicide Attempt, Suicidal Ideation, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Slow Burn Summary:

He was just about to round a larger rock formation when he heard something that made him pause – the sound of something heavy moving against the sand. Xie Lian stopped and quieted his breathing, listening closely. Definitely something big moving against or across the sand on the other side of the rock, and was that…a whimper?

Thinking that someone was in trouble, but knowing he shouldn’t just announce himself, Xie Lian moved as softly as he could around the rock. He didn’t move fast, creeping as more and more of the shore was revealed around the rock. When he was almost completely around the rock, his breath hitched when he got a clear view of what was making the noise.

Entangled in an old, heavy fishing net, was a small creature desperately trying to escape. It flailed, flashing pale skin and dark scales as it hopelessly became more ensnared in the net. The creature let out another quiet whimper, struggling to try and free itself, becoming more frustrated with every failed attempt.

It was a merfolk!

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 8/10 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián Characters: Huā Chéng, Xiè Lián, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Shenanigans, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Worth Issues, canon-typical for those three don't worry, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, dragon!hua cheng, But he doesn't know it yet, confidence building (Xiè Lián), Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Grinding, Rutting, Top!Hua Cheng, Bottom!Xie Lian, Come as Lube, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Biting, Marking, Body Worship, Scent Marking, Creampie, Come Inflation, Cuddling & Snuggling, Non-Sexual Intimacy, then sexual intimacy, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Idiots in Love, Riding, Hand Jobs, Bath Sex, thigh fucking, Light Angst, Shapeshifting, First Time Blow Jobs, Couch Sex, blink and you'll miss it strength kink, Orgasm Delay/Denial, desk sex (attempted), altar sex (attemtped), interruptions for days, grief processing, Accidental Self-Harm, hua cheng's canon bad handwriting, Praise Kink

[markv5]

– Смотри: я сфинкс….

[littleoldariel]

Can someone please translate this I feel like it’s important

[redportrait]

“look: i’m a sphinx”

[ladyshinga]

you’re right that was important

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 7/10 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián Characters: Huā Chéng, Xiè Lián, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Shenanigans, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Worth Issues, canon-typical for those three don't worry, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, dragon!hua cheng, But he doesn't know it yet, confidence building (Xiè Lián), Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Grinding, Rutting, Top!Hua Cheng, Bottom!Xie Lian, Come as Lube, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Biting, Marking, Body Worship, Scent Marking, Creampie, Come Inflation, Cuddling & Snuggling, Non-Sexual Intimacy, then sexual intimacy, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Idiots in Love, Riding, Hand Jobs, Bath Sex, thigh fucking, Light Angst, Shapeshifting, First Time Blow Jobs, Couch Sex, blink and you'll miss it strength kink, Orgasm Delay/Denial

[were--ralph]

HEY DEVIANTART USERS PLEASE DON'T SCROLL PAST THIS THIS IS IMPORTANT

OPT OUT NOW

[sharpenote]

also, from what i understand, unchecking that box only makes it so AI *outside* of dA won’t have access to your art - if you want to make it so dA’s ai generator can’t use your art, you have to *send in a form* to them

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 6/10 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián Characters: Huā Chéng, Xiè Lián, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Shenanigans, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Worth Issues, canon-typical for those three don't worry, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, dragon!hua cheng, But he doesn't know it yet, confidence building (Xiè Lián), Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Grinding, Rutting, Top!Hua Cheng, Bottom!Xie Lian, Come as Lube, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Biting, Marking, Body Worship, Scent Marking, Creampie, Come Inflation, Cuddling & Snuggling, Non-Sexual Intimacy, then sexual intimacy, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Idiots in Love, Riding, Hand Jobs, Bath Sex, thigh fucking, Light Angst, Shapeshifting

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 5/10 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Shenanigans, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Hatred, Self-Worth Issues, canon-typical for those three don't worry, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, dragon!hua cheng, But he doesn't know it yet, confidence building (Xiè Lián), Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Porn with Feelings, Grinding, Rutting, Top!Hua Cheng, Bottom!Xie Lian, Come as Lube, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Biting, Marking, Body Worship, Scent Marking, Creampie, Come Inflation, Cuddling & Snuggling, Non-Sexual Intimacy, then sexual intimacy, Oral Sex, Rough Sex, Idiots in Love, Riding, Hand Jobs, Bath Sex, thigh fucking

[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 4/10 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián

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[swedishtaco]

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

Chapters: 3/7 Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Huā Chéng/Xiè Lián

Or: Xie Lian wants to give more to his and Hua Cheng's budding relationship, but he doesn't know where to start. He gets some help from an old friend when he stumbles upon an advice shop in Ghost City.

Chapter 3 is up!

Loosely inspired by Imaginary's "Sincere Wishes"

[pansoph]

for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’

[beefmilkthings]

jerry is here

[eruriholic]

my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”

[cuddlyaxe-deactivated20190218]

When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”

I was done for the day.

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.

[elodieunderglass]

I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”

I did not find my husband in this way.

In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”

“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.

The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)

Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.

[kat2107]

I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English. 

When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.

“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”

“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”

Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG

[eridaniepsilon]

My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…

[backonrepeat]

I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.

That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.

Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.

[eridaniepsilon]

I love those stories so much…

[acleverforgery]

Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.

She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.

American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)

Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)

[learningftw]

that’s hilarious

[shiraglassman]

I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY 

[speakertoyesterday]

Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?

So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.

The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”

[andhishorse]

What the hell Biblical Hebrew.

[moral-autism]

Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.

[liminalreader]

^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one. 

[liminalreader]

Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.

Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English.  Or French.  Or German.  Or Italian.  (He tried all of them.)

Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years).  He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.

She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.  

[fatterdragon]

All of these *chef’s kiss* but the Medea one is hands down the best

[whatshouldwecallhomer]

s/o to my classics professor who managed to get a tire changed on his rental car while doing research in Greece by telling them his chariot had broken down

[minitafan-deactivated20251020]

OMG the Greek ones are amazing 😂

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