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[cate-eblanchett]

Text: Glen 🌪️

Cate: Hey! 👀 Cate: It's Cate! Cate Blanchett. Cate: I finally got your number! Sorry, are you available to work next year in a new movie produced by me? I've read a new script and the role of the young man? God! you were in my head the whole time while i was reading it! @glenpowcll

[islaoro]

haven't had the chance to read nightbane yet but the thing is i knooowww alex is going to have isla and grim end up together because god forbid the ya fantasy series stray from the dark haired morally grey love interest even if the mc has had more buildup and chemistry with the golden haired "good" boy but fuck. i'm not going to be happy about it

[deathb8dy]

THOUGHTS ON QUALIA AUTOMATA, TUMBLR EDITION

ORIGINAL POST I MADE WAS PUT ON REDDIT FIRST FROM DISCORD, I'LL JUST COPY AND PASTE WHAT I SAID AS IT'S EASIER. WITH EDITS OFC.

This point on holds spoilers in relation to the newest song 'Lamentations'. Please do not read unless you have seen the song OR are fine with it. Also this all will be copied and pasted from discord with edits to include examples (at least for the lyrics and such.)

If you have any comments or criticisms to make, please do so.

spoilers begin below here.

Even in the initial impression, the song about Fayrouz is the MOST human out of the three. In RBB, it's very mechanical and erratic in wording (no rhyming scheme at all but it still made sense for a song). In EWN it's still mechanical but has some humanity to it if that makes sense.

But both songs of the machines you can tell something is off.

Example in lyrics:

Tamari uses more nonsensical and complicated words as if to compensate for a lack of understanding. These words also tend to not make sense with each other either.

(EX; ‘Invite Suicidation, Transfer Enumeration’ is a great example. Suicidation is obviously about yk. But fun fact, it’s not even a word! And Enumeration is “the action of mentioning a number of things one by one.” Compared to the rest of the song of RBB, it does NOT make sense at all.)

Mariyam has more simple terms used and a rhyming scheme but still reverts to what Tamari does... And also references some really obscure stuff (Such as a french women's asylum!) that no one who would go looking would understand.

(EX; The lyric I mentioned is “Fleeting words in pen, I tell the story of Salpêtrière” with the last word in reference to ‘an institution founded in Paris in 1656 as an asylum for the infirm, aged, and insane. At one time, it contained nearly 10,000 people, and treatment was proverbially brutal.’ Which… is ironic since Mariyam is meant to be a therapist)

Example in art:

Tamari is FULL of references and barely anything that's actually their own design. While cool as hell, Tamari is basically what an AI does... Generate images/prompts based on wording and such. Which is likely why Tamari is so ... erratic!

Mariyam on the other hand does have more original art but most of it is ALL black and white until the end with Tamari. And even then, it's not complicated art with a lot of details unless with Tamari and even then... She still fails to have something to be put to human

And music wise:

Both songs are VERY metallic noise-wise with choir like sounds within the instrumentals. Both beginning and end. Tamari specifically has the "jumpscare scream" while Mariyam has just more "clock/chime" motifs. It's all still mechanical without any sort of "organic" tones if that makes sense

FAYROUZ ON THE OTHER HAND. Despite being the "villain" of the story is the most human.

Lyrics - She uses the most simple BUT effective words that aren't overly complicated/nonsensical (Tamari) or aren't as impactful as they should be (Mariyam)

PV - Unlike the two, I just noticed it's just a static one image pv as well as it's fully colored. Tamari and Mariyam had movements in their pvs, like they are trying to move to humanity but also how AI is always constantly shifting.

Music - THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE. It has some mechanical elements (like the 'siren' like sounds in the beginning and end) BUT IT HAS MORE ORGANIC SOUNDS UNLIKE THE GRITTY GEAR LIKE SOUNDS YOU HEAR IN RBB AND EWN

Fayrouz also admits to being at fault but pushes on to do better (at her work, mess up on words but ykyk). Which is ironic isn't it? Her creations are more "human" than she is. Which lyrically also- Fayrouz references more mechanical functions while Tamari and Mariyam reference more humane functions.

EX:

Tamari - My stomach turned at the thought of the stars / And my heart pounded louder than the ones I had before

Mariyam - Though you’ll never die, you’ve found that / All eyes are staring at your hands

Fayrouz - Restarting, rebooting null programs / Running, debugging their brains /Forging and sorting successes

AND FINALLY. Tuning wise, Fayrouz sounds more human (if it's intentional or not) but still has the lyrics that are guilt based BUT focused fully on being like a human machine. If you are raised up to be a "machine".... how can you even know otherwise? Tamari and Mariyam are learning to have humanity, Fayrouz lost hers due to the loss of her husband and control over what she had (aka the siblings)

(out of context but it’s related to how different the first two songs are to the newest.)

It makes you think it'll be the same as the two but it's not because Fayrouz is meant to have humanity. She's human after all no?

ANYWAYS.

Basically:

Paradoxical shit of the Robots being more human than their creator who’s losing her humanity with the losses she’s had.

BONUS: Forgot to mention since I made this BEFORE Mors made the tweet out. The title of the series supports what I said heavily.

Qualia, according to wikipedia, "... are defined as individual instances of subjective, conscious experience."

While automata means (according to google) "... a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being." but also "...used in similes and comparisons to refer to a person who seems to act in a mechanical or unemotional way."

[mariocest]

i know i never really post on here anymore but it's kind of saddening how unfriendly the proship community is to minors, to the point it's very common for people to say shit like "lmao you're literally A MINOR nothing you say MATTERS AT ALL because YOURE YOUNG". and honestly as a minor who's a proshipper i feel like all the anti-minor shit is literally just contributing to more and more minors becoming antis :/ like.. no offence but alot of y'all complain about how all minors seem to be antis and then proceed to be an absolute DICK to minors every chance you get. maybe.. don't do that?

if they're being a dick to you first then obviously let them know that's not okay but it genuinely really hurts for almost all proship blogs to have posts like "i fucking hate minors they're all immature little snotbags and i want to punt them into a wall" :/

[katdengz]

Texts ----> Andy B 📱

Kat: Oh my god, you need to start a cult, or church or something because so many Texans ow you their lives right now. Kat: Black Veil Brides saves lives.

@fallenandy

[tinotika-arts]

Tonight on Tino's random thoughts: Stardew Valley/farming/retirement(??) thoughts ft. Trahearne and Commander. Aka I really just wanted them on a farm together.

Or Trahearne tries to prevent his husband Alexander from stealing his produce when they're overripe and/or not safe for eating yet.

Both do farm work, though Alex prefers to handle the plants and probably entertains' Trahearne's little experiments with fertilizer and plant enhancers... And while Alex usually does most of the mining, there are occasions where Trahearne would swap tasks with him, if only to get out some frustration by slamming his pickaxe into some rocks.

Retired Commander and Marshal living a hardworking, but at least peaceful life with nothing to worried about other than pests, the volatile weather and maybe the occasional assassin.

[shionoi]

i still don’t know what it was supposed to mean