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pinned march 2026
i do art @dualitysdownfall
i write fic here's my ao3
my podfic and videos live on this youtube channel
harper/kk, they/he, college graduate, autistic aroace
She would, in fact, download a car
i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk
so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.
"frequent use of action-result sentences. bullet points all start with action verbs. no career gaps." girl what the fuck are you talking about. that's just resume writing advice being followed. i just did what i was told. it's a fucking resume. you're supposed to do all that stuff. what the fuck do you mean it looks ai generated and wouldn't pass basic detection systems?????????? for following the resume writing rules????????????
wishing every AI bro and ceo a very [REDACTED]
Didn't know you liked kpop demon hunters! I'm on the fence over whether watch the movie or not BUT I like to listen to the songs and I love characters that struggle with being a monster so I think I'll like Rumi.
Out of curiosity, what did you enjoy about kpdh?
i think you should just watch the movie
it was a really solid family film, we really dont get a lot of those anymore. obviously it was made with younger audiences in mind but its not just. jingling keys in your face. i did not feel like i was enduring a narrative written for people whove never experienced a story structure before
the animations phenomenal, sony has been on their a game. no spoilers but im really happy with what happened with the main romance. i was never like, a magical girl anime kid but i Did fuck with the powerpuff girls and totally spies, things in that vein and it captures that magic of a friend group kicking ass and having fun adventures without like, trying to sell me the concept of #girlboss slay. not to say it doesnt have those moments but the movie isnt acting smug that its giving me female characters who can fight. cough black widow
its not a movie i ever really feel compelled to talk about but it does what it set out to do really well. i liked the lore about the world, the musical fight scenes were choreographed excellently, it was paced pretty well (i know some people wanted mira and zoey to be fleshed out more but frankly i dont uh. care)
and this is all coming from a guy who doesnt give a Fuck about kpop. i dont know what twice is, i dont know what blackpink is, all the kpop references went completely over my head, i do not understand idol culture and this movie did not inspire me to learn. im glad it was a critical and mainstream success
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David Hockney Rain, from The Weather Series (NGA/Gemini 23.4), 1973 Color lithograph and screenprint on Arches watermarked paper; signed 'David Hockney 73' in green pencil along the lower edge
RIP David Hockney
i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid
have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS
sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me
there was once a little boy.
he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.
somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.
the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?
he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.
as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.
he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.
and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.
there was once a little boy.
yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real
but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.
tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child
his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.
but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.
and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either
tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.
and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.
but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best
WITH PLEASURE
(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)
Ok but this is how to teach history. This is how you get people to pay attention, to care. Find something small and make it personal, then zoom out to the wider context. History is best taught as a story, with people who lived their lives in ways that came together to create something remarkable that we still talk about today, but who were still just human at the end of the day. They kissed, argued, cried, and dreamed just like we do. And sometimes they really liked ducks.
somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
We often eat pie at work...for morale.
"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.
D1SC0NNECT - Epilogue: D1SC0NT1NUE
this twosday...
the end of D1SC0NNECT is here. the first multi-chapter fic i've ever finished, my favorite thing i've ever written, my main hyperfixation for months... is complete.
but this isn't it for D1SC0NNECT. i have some additional things in the works, so stay tuned.
thank you so much for reading.
assorted sleepy psii, he needs all the rest he can get
read D1SC0NNECT
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happy 6/12 everycrabby!!!
wow happy wriggling day karkat from the hit webcomic homestuck
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a moment from the epilogue of D1SC0NNECT
more D1SC0NNECT hugs because i just want psii to be happy
Third Movement is back
The long overdue third movement of Third Movement is here! Read Poco Rallentando now on AO3!
(Also, I recently made some small edits to the previous installment, Subito Pianissimo, so check that out too)