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This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.
OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.
And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.
I made a playing card! Good exam break to watch bbc merlin with a lover and draw fanart of the ultimate pookie
I asked my kids if they’d prefer a secret garden or a secret library and my son shook his head and was like “I don’t trust the secret gardeners and librarians”
Me: what if there aren’t any gardeners or librarians.
Son: there’s always a librarian. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. And it’s a garden, there has to be someone taking care of it or it isn’t really a garden.
Me:
Me: this was supposed to be lighthearted
Daughter: don’t trust the secret librarian.
Son: any librarian who hoards a library to themselves is hiding something.
Daughter: /nods seriously/
Me: why are you two talking as if from experience should I be concerned
The kids are right Jazz
But what if I want to be the secret librarian?
Me: what if you were the secret librarian?
Son: wouldn’t be a secret library. I have nothing to hide.
Daughter: so not a secret librarian. A good librarian.
Me: you two are on a wavelength I can’t understand
What a way to find out your kids went on a whole-ass portal fantasy adventure at some point.
I'm making Merlin playing cards
Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.
I think it'd be really funny if Eric was actually a younger brother. So, like, maybe he's a duke, actually, but he still gets the title of Prince. Travels the sea a lot, unlike a more landlocked heir. Hanging out at this summer seaside palace while the rest of the family is elsewhere for some reason.
Like, imagine Eric's parents and older brother and maybe sister-in-law and niblings getting that letter at the end of this movie. Nearly drowned. Miraculously washed ashore. Fell in love with a mysterious voice and then a mute girl. Got enchanted by a shape-shifting sea witch and nearly married her. Killed the sea witch after she turned into a giant. Married the aforementioned girl who turned out to be the beloved youngest daughter of the mythical King Triton instead and have now established a strong alliance with the merpeople. Wild summer! Wish you were here!
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Chibiusa's crystal
This is a question that I’ve heard a lot, so I decided to make a post clarifying it! (By the way, this post was originally constructed by me on the Galaxy Cauldron Forums; I am Sailor Cosmos, who started that thread. I just wanted to clear that up before anybody could accuse me of plagiarism, haha. Also, as always, all of the scans are from the lovely Miss Dream.)
At the end of the R arc, Chibiusa transforms into Sailor Chibi Moon for the first time using the Ginzuishou. Many people assume that the Silver Crystal Chibiusa uses is the future Crystal that belonged to Neo-Queen Serenity. This seems to be the case in the anime, but in the manga, it’s an entirely different story. In the anime, it’s clearly shown that the Silver Crystal had been absorbed into Chibiusa’s body when she held it; in the manga, it stays completely separate from her body (in fact, she carries it on a necklace along with the Key of Space-Time)
This is very important later on; See, after Prince Diamond seized the Silver Crystals of the past and future and was going to touch them together (which would destroy the world), Pluto stops time and Usagi runs to retrieve both of the crystals; she keeps one for herself (presumably the past Crystal, which is the one that belongs to her) and gives the other to Venus for safekeeping.
After Pluto dies as consequence for breaking the taboo of stopping time, Black Lady cries over the loss of her beloved friend. One of these tears transforms into a brilliant Crystal, and Black Lady reverts back to Chibiusa, who transforms into Sailor Chibi Moon for the very first time.
Now, going forward a few pages, we see that Venus is still holding the Silver Crystal of the future:
Venus had been holding the Crystal the entire time. Usagi had her own Crystal with her when she went to fight Death Phantom; so, where did this Crystal come from? I personally believe that this Crystal was born through Chibiusa’s own power. This claim seems to be supported in later arcs; for example, at the end of the Dream (SuperS) arc, Usagi tells Nehelenia that power is born, not taken.
Another bit of evidence to back this up is how the Silver Crystal bonds to it’s owner; on several occasions, whenever Usagi or Chibiusa have their Crystals forcibly taken away from them, it’s shown that they can’t live without the Crystal they were bonded to. Take Chibiusa; when Mistress 9 stole her Silver Crystal in the Infinity Arc, Chibiusa was reduced to a comatose state and needed Mamoru’s powers to keep her alive. If Neo-Queen Serenity really gave her Silver Crystal to Chibiusa, how could she still be alive and well without it? How could she defend Crystal Tokyo without it? The only explanation is that she still has it, and Chibiusa is using her very own Crystal to fight.
Finally, at the end of the Dream arc, Chibiusa’s Crystal finally transforms into something that’s uniquely hers: the Pink Moon Crystal.
In the original version of the manga, it’s shaped just like Usagi’s Silver Moon Crystal,
but thankfully Naoko Takeuchi decided to completely change the Pink Moon Crystal’s appearance in the reprint, transforming it from a lotus into a rose. All of this helps to distinguish that Chibiusa is not just a shadow of Sailor Moon, but a Lady and a Senshi in her own right. She doesn’t share Sailor Moon’s planetary court, she has an asteroid court of her very own, the Sailor Quartet. She doesn’t have a Ginzuishou, she has a Pink Moon Crystal. Sailor Chibi Moon is her own person.
So although the anime sort of fudges up the whole issue, the manga beautifully illustrates Chibiusa’s independence from the very moment she became a solider.
A Madoka Magica project we need: a series showing in detail the first three timelines. To see why and how Homura became the desperate girl we met at the start of the series... And also to spread the answer to two questions: why did she take Mami's freak out so bad, and why did she believe two or three magical girls could take on Walpurgisnacht? Because, well, Madoka Magica Portable actually answers both questions in the Mami route.
If you play things right, get to a certain ending by grinding enough and fight dodging enough, you see MAMI. SOLO. WALPURGISNACHT. Yes, in the first timeline Mami took on Walpurgisnacht with Madoka and Homura watching on the sidelines and slowly shot it within an inch of its life, only for Walpurgisnacht to fire a last ditch attack at Madoka, attack that Mami took head on and died from. In the anime we then saw the immediate aftermath, Madoka going on and finishing off the monster at the cost of her life and Homura making her Contract.
And that is why Homura thought she could take on Walpurgisnacht with one or two other magical girls, SHE SAW IT HAPPEN. And why she took Mami's freak out so badly, that was the invincible mentor that almost solo'd a Witch closer to a hurricane than anything else.
And the hope in the viewers and its crushing would be amazing.
When we were children, my sister had private music lessons at her violin teacher’s house. I only visited there once, but I still remember that afternoon. The teacher had an artificial pond in her yard, a large beautiful thing with lily pads and plant life. And in the pond, there were goldfish. I had never seen such enormous goldfish.
I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond.
Funny what lessons children remember. My sister doesn’t play the violin anymore, but that was the first time I caught a glimpse of the overwhelming extent to which it matters, the way the world treats us.
Reblogged again for this drawing I made for it
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Day 4: Holiday|Multiverse Shenanigans|Delusional
Slobo gets transported into another universe where he meets the evil versions of his fellow teammates.
Design concept art under cut:
I was beyond excited to draw this scene. Normally I get asked to draw romance, but this time it was a...different kind of passion. Something inside Kaz came loose, indeed 💀 It's one of my favourite moments in the book, despite what he just did, because it's when I understood exactly what Inej means to him. It's amazing what we'll forgive in fiction that we couldn't in real life. (commissioned by @litjoycrate for their Six of Crows edition)
i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.
Getting to the end of a story and going "THE CLUES WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME!" is always joyous for me whether or not I picked up on the clues leading up
If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!
If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience
If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.
Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"
A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story
A story that just gives me a "shock" but no pay off is telling me not to engage or get attached or care. So why would I watch?
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June 30th: Happy Birthday, Usagi!