Nightmare INK

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“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[vieneinpace]

William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[liberalsarecool]

Completely disgusting abuse of privilege.

[clacy2812]

Teethies <3

[iamhavingsomuchfun]

[thestuffedalligator]

Tinkering with a silly character concept.

Snack food company in a superhero universe decides to make their mascot into a superhero for publicity stunts and staged heroics. Rather than just having a guy in a costume, they summon a water elemental and seal it into a glass suit filled with cherry flavoured juice powder. Eventually the elemental develops his own sense of ethos and justice and kindness, fights for his right to be an autonomous person and goes on to become this world’s moral paragon superhero.

Most of the world has accepted his presence, but every now and then someone stops and goes “Wait didn’t this guy used to run through walls a lot and do commercials for fruit punch”

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Oh yeah!

[thestuffedalligator]

#if you can't call him kwench may i suggest homaid man #i could imagine a koolaid style company branding themselves as home made #''quench your thirst at home just add water'' #homaid fruit-flavored beverage (cannot legally be called juice)

Homaid Man…

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Descending Ancestor I, Descending Ancestor II, Loon Rattle, Wood Pecker Ratttle, Loon Rattle, Kingfisher Rattle, Dove Rattle, Raven Rattle by John Marston Qap’u’luq (Coast Salish/Stz’uminus)

[rrrrunk]

sorry but look how silly drunk gaang is

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[academicgangster]

[andersam5]

I absolutely lose my shit laughing every time I see this

[mharti-mcfly]

[cleo4u2]

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

[asparrowsfall]

In art, we can be fucking nuts.

[lithugraph]

Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sublimerascal]

Reblogging because this is my first time hearing about this. Be careful out there, y'all!

[hgedits]

Eva Stratt:

[pocketss]

smile, dog!

[havingapoemwithyou]

Winter Stars by Larry Levis

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Hey wait a second, why did cats evolve to attack invisible things?

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

They were domesticated in Fertile Crescent and Egypt so probably an evolutionary advantage for snakes and scorpions that are hidden in sand and are more noticed by their movement than being seen directly

[corrucyst]

and also all the ghosts and devils.

[redstonedust]

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.