Tea pixie

I read books, I love science and I like Nintendo games.

[tea-pixie]

The Realism Benchmark: How SweetDream Stacks Up

If you benchmark AI companion platforms purely on visual output, the criteria are pretty clear: facial consistency, natural lighting, believable texture, and faithfulness to the character you actually designed. I held sweetdream.ai to all four, and it scored where it counts. The photos look less like AI renders and more like pictures of a real person you happen to be talking to.

What pushes it past the pack is how the visuals connect to everything else. The look isn't bolted on after the fact; it grows out of the same deep character creation that shapes personality, voice, and backstory, so the person in the photo matches the person in the chat. Compared to options like candy.ai or ourdream.ai, that cohesion is what makes SweetDream feel less like a gallery generator and more like a believable AI girlfriend.

Round it out with conversation that remembers context, human-sounding voice and phone calls, video calls and live cam on select characters, and a serious commitment to privacy, and the review writes itself. On the realism benchmark specifically, SweetDream is the one I'd rank at the top.

[junestrings]

through pottery we domesticated rocks

[kiophen]

solo jazz suicune

[kiophen]

there are a lot of people reblogging this again and tagging it with "wow.. this kind of looks like that one cup" again. you guys would not believe what "solo jazz" means

[john-boneman-lich-lord]

Yeah man, this wizard conference is such a drag. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "Hastened Networking" or something, and suddenly everyone in a 20 foot radius was holding a copy that dude's business card. Nobody even acknowledged the quality of his card, that's how common this is. I'm over here casting Handshake and level 2 Small Talk. I think I just heard "Power Word: Video Call" two groups over. I gotta get a new job.

[hellsitegenetics]

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Closest match: Duponchelia fovealis genome assembly, chromosome: Z Common name: European Pepper Moth

(image source)

[lmaonade]

idea i had

[lmaonade]

more

[vincentvarlotto]

one i made

[making-you-in-mtg]

[ozth]

found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember

[wispsofwhimsy]

no no you’re on to something don’t leave this in the notes!

[teaboot]

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

[seedysys]

sorry about the light mode but this is important also

[teaboot]

^^^^^ Also, since it wasn’t in the original post:

Some kids who ARE being abused will backpedal too btw, and minimize things. But investigating gives you a chance to assess, and lets THEM know that there are adults who exist, who- even when they’ve done something wrong- still care about their wellbeing more than they care about punishment

[teaboot]

Idk who has to hear this today but sometimes the devil doesn’t need an advocate. Sometimes the devil is already winning

[bedupolker]

tryin to press charges on my landlord in a certain large city in arizona but googling "phoenix lawyer" isn't getting me the results I need

[tinsnip]

Try “lawyer in Phoenix”

I’m sure that will work fine

[bedupolker]

good lord, those two men with the slick hair... no, they couldn't be... in the courtroom of all places..!?

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[np-444]

The real horseshoe theory.

[depsidase]

[headdunk]

great image, helpful infographic. that being said this is the most useful reaction image ive seen in my life

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

enough about the timeloop I wanna hear about the post-timeloop.

person who just got over the horror of being trapped in a loop and settled into a comfortable routine...but then the timeloop breaks and they struggle to reacclimatize. person trapped in a loop for years who grieved their loved ones—who are suddenly back and acting like nothing happened (because for them nothing did). teenager who aged physically and mentally during the timeloop and now they're so much older than they're supposed to be. random strangers who were trapped in a loop together relieved to get away from each other at last, but feeling oddly bereft of familiar company. service worker who is pissed as fuck to have to go back to work

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

person who lost their impulse control suddenly living in a world that has consequences again. person who lost their brain-to-mouth filter and now just says things they can't take back. person with choice paralysis because the future was certain and safe and familiar for so long and now who knows what the fuck will happen next. gimme timeline re-entry dysphoria!

[khashanakalashtar]

Masterpost of AO3 Skins

Multipurpose

How To Change Text When the Cursor is Hovering Over by La_Temperanza

Another Changing Text On Hover by mackerel_cheese

Linked Footnotes by La_Temperanza

Making Complex Shapes / Hover-Over Effects / Choose Your Own Adventure / Changing Ao3’s Preset Headers: Author Notes, Chapter Titles, Fic Titles etc / Invisible Links+Link Aesthetic / Interactive Elements / Animation/ Retroactively Appearing Text by InfinitysWraith

Page Dividers by Linwelin

Email

Nonspecific email window by La_Temperanza

Basic Gmail by sunsetcurbed

More Gmail by DemigodOfAgni

Texting

You don’t need to code iOS, because 221b_ee made a generator for it

inspired by iOS by CodenameCarrot and La_Temperanza

Another version of iOS iMessage by Azdaema Codes

Retro iOS by Azdaema Codes

iOS, Android by gadaursan

iOS, Signal, and WhatsApp by lordvoldemortsskins

WhatsApp by ran_a_dom

WhatsApp by etc e tal

kakaotalk by beherrscht

LINE by noliteobdurare

LINE chat by ran_a_dom

Social Media

Facebook Messenger by ran_a_dom

Facebook post by BluebeardsWife

Tumblr by phyripo

Tweaks to that by Aposeopesis

Instagram by gadaursan

Instagram DMs by xslytherclawx

More Instagram DMs, including light and dark modes, by monarch_v

Incredibly comprehensive Twitter by gadaursan

Display case of gadaursan’s work by Fluffycorn_njst

More Twitter by starskin

Update by starskin

Yet More Twitter by etc e tal

Twitter, Reddit, and LiveJournal by aerynevenstar

Examples

Twitter mockup inspired by aerynevenstar by TheBrookesNook

Reddit by spookedcroon

Update by jinsake

More Reddit by knave_of_swords

Yet more Reddit (2020 version) by timstokerlovebot

SnapChat by Azdaema Codes

More SnapChat by starskin

Twitch Chat by Ultraviollett

4Chan by anonymous (cw: slurs and discussion of pedophilia in the live example)

Amazing Discord by unpredictableArtist

Slack derivation by me

Another Discord by Heterochromia_Mars

Tweaks by junietuesday25

Unspecified forum by fencesit

BlueSky post by anon

YouTube comments by LupaMoe

Blog post by intherainex

LiveJournal by sesuntaMew

bubble by me

Writing

Notebook Lined Paper by La_Temperanza

Post-It Notes by La_Temperanza

Letters and Stationery by La_Temperanza

With parchment backgrounds by allollipoppins (you can leave off the MDZS symbols)

Online newspaper article by ElectricAlice

Example

Simplified newspaper by Anubis_2701

Newspaper Article by lordvoldemortsskin

More documents by hangingfire

Online journal by enigmalea

Screenplay by astronought

Script or screenplay by Ninjabunny99

Screenplay on an actual piece of paper by junietuesday25

Shooting Script by Walzer

Calendar by Linwelin

AO3

AO3, including comment section by lordvoldemortsskin

AO3 header by ElectricAlice

Comment and Kudos buttons by La_Temperanza

Complete fic-within-a-fic by cheju

Gift fic email by rileys_words

Fandom Specific

Disco Elysium by SarunoHadaki

Blaseball by facingthenorthwind

Fire Emblem by gadaursan

  Tweaks by Clover_Zero

Deadpool’s Thinking Boxes by La_Temperanza

Homestuck extended by unpredictableArtist

Star Trek PADD by duskyspirit

Example

Incredibly expansive Among Us by Umbry2000

Another Among Us by mystyrust

S-Class by unpredictableArtist

IDOLiSH7 Rabbit Chat by associate

A3! LIME by associate

Runescape by fennfics

Nameless: the one thing you must recall by sqbr

Minecraft by Ultraviollett

Final Fantasy XIV Linkshell by Pent

Honkai Star Rail by Pent

Rain Code by faish

Ace Attorney by QuailFence

Other

Wikipedia by styletests

Scoreboard by revanchist

Google search by gadaursan

Yelp reviews by kiwiana

Amazon reviews by kiwiana

Silent film intertitles by Kitsune_Scribe

Zoom chat by mystyrust

Replika AI chatbot by FaeriMagic

Cards Against Humanity by L56895

Most can be found in the collections (also check the bookmarks) A Guide to Coding and Fanworks, AO3 Useful Workskins, and/or AO3 Social Media Workskins. If you’ve written a skin, add it to these collections!

[teaboot]

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

[teaboot]

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

[edgar-allan-possum]

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

[elidyce]

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

[cipheramnesia]

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

[val-the-bun]

[sankta-wraith]

the original? on my dash?

[sr-roto]

audio On 😂😂😂

[eversoslightlybitter]

Peer-reviewed tags

[outnumberedbybooks]

Would you be delighted to have your fics recorded into podfics (aka audio versions of your words)?

You can tell us in a permission statement!

Does the idea of your words being turned into a pod churn your stomach and make you want to hide in the forest (ie you DON’T give permission)?

You can tell us in a permission statement!

Do you have boundaries, are some works a yes and some a no? Do you like the idea of art but no pods or pods but no translations?

You can tell us in a permission statement!

Who is ‘Us’?

We’re like the cool weird aunts (gn) at your family reunion that few people listen to and even fewer respond to, but we continue to be cool and weird despite the radio silence because we know that there are other cool, weird aunts around that get excited about the same things we do.

We’re pocket friends who are deep in your fandoms and already enamoured with your words; and we’re internet randos who go squirrelling for food, fandom blind, so that we can record it for team challenges. We’re fans who wish our favourite fics were audiobooks so we could listen to them over and over on our daily commute, or in the bath, or when we’re hiding from the world under a weighted blanket.

We’re people who want to turn eyeball cake into earball cake, and we need to know if your bakery is open. (Not a euphemism. Unless…?)

Okay, weird aunt, so what IS a permission statement?

It’s a sentence or three in your ao3 (or other) profile that tells other creatives where you stand about related works.

Here is a great post with more detail and here is an example of mine:

I love podfics, fan art and translations, and I’d die of happy if one of my fics has moved you to create.

It’s a blanket yes from me for art and podfics - but I like to be asked on a case-by-case basis for translations (unless we know each other outside of ao3 then go forth and do your thing). Please ask in a comment on the fic! I read all my comments and will respond.

(And PLEASE, whether we know each other or not, share your creation w me so I can die of happy, as per above, and so I can share your work in kind!)

If creating your own seems too hard, and my bakery matches your bakery, feel free to copy and paste.

That’s it!

If I’ve encouraged you to make a permission statement regarding your own works please let me know in the next *checks watch* three days so I can get some extra cool weird aunty points for a cool, weird team challenge xx

[palmofviolet]

Are you hoping someone podfics your fic?

They won't, unless you have a statement allowing it on your AO3 profile. (Or if they ask you directly first. Power to the brave among us.) It's literally against AO3's TOS for podficcers to do otherwise. Your profile is linked next to or below 'Dashboard' on AO3.

A permission statement can be as little as "Podfics welcome" to something more detailed. There's a whole community of people looking at AO3 profiles and adding those allowing podfic to the FPS List, which lets podficcers browse an AO3 that only shows works with permission. Neat, huh!

It is not pushy, cringey, self-centred, or any other self-disparaging thing to say you'd welcome podfic. This is fandom. Be free.

[tea-pixie]

Not to mention unless the author puts info for their other socials in their bio/the fic notes, a podficcer has to either try to track down those socials, or ask in the comments, which are public, which is a whole layer of awkwardness/anxiety all on it's own.

It's a whole process, and I feel like a little dragon coveting their tiny hoard of permissions (instead of, y'know, a normal person with a project list.)

[zendayamybabe]

december 2nd?? what the fuck. what’s next? december 3rd?? a 4th of december???? give me a fucking break.

[bonyassfish]

and what’s after the 4th? the 5th??? the minor fall, the major lift????? the baffled king composing hallelujah???????