Fiction & Opinions

Also where I reblog things I like, so I can collect them and have them forever until I forget about them 30 seconds later. A homestuck persona: http://farragofiction.com/DollSim/index.html?ASDsGdUy-E8mQC3suHKxKCKJuOn4_______3nIzuEcnY8XsyiZrpGdVy0Rtyc3BRQsD4__8nubgIDz-8sJM2JAG4uAA=

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[wowwforever]

if you told vin diesel fast and the furious you were gay he'd be like "Some people like driving stick…some people like driving automatic…what matters is you cross the finish line.." and then he'd rev up a dodge challenger and drive through a building and kill 16 people

[boogerwookiesugarcookie]

he literally did in the fourth one when he's asked if he likes cars more than women

[explorerrowan]

If you asked if he was cool with trans people, he'd probably say "sometimes, aftermarket parts are the only way to get the vehicle you really want. Everyone should have the right to hot rod."

[orcboxer]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I saw the lovecraftian horrors and didn’t succumb to madness. What- no I’m not a cultist, James. For Christ’s sake. What you’re forgetting my friend is that HP Lovecraft wasn’t a flexible man. His brain simply wasn’t stretchy enough to take it all in. I however, have short term memory issues. Flexibility is the name of the game when you can’t remember if you ate lunch or not. What’s the size of the universe? Big. You knew that already, James. Come on now. You don’t need to witness the terrifying ocean at the base of the entirety of reality itself to know that. Pass the brandy.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You must imagine the character I’ve created here wearing a suit and a monocle, by the way.

[thesilvertophat]

During a Eldritch Horrors based tabletop RPG my character was a young dandy who wasn't particularly interested in all this monster mystery stuff but his father (my brother's character) was a researcher who WAS very into it, so Bertie went along to make sure the old man didn't get into too much trouble. It was your average Eldritch Horrors RPG in that you don't make your characters with the expectation that they will survive for very long, both the game itself and the genre are very intent on turning your characters inside out, driving them insane, and blowing them up in no particular order.

The thing was, everything in this nightmare hellscape just seemed to keep coming up Bertie because the man was too stupid to realize what genre he was in. Every time he had to roll for a sanity check whenever he saw something crazy, the dice treated him so well that he just... didn't get it. Gee that sure is a funny costume. There's something wrong with that dog. These mean guys in stupid hats are trying to hurt that young lady, we can't have that! I had not built him this way, his intelligence stats weren't even that bad, random chance just made it so that this man was living a scooby doo adventure while everyone else was being consumed by The Horrors. The final straw was at the end of an adventure when Bertie escaped from the cultist headquarters by breaking out through the mansion's front window on a motorcycle with a hot rescued sacrificial maiden clinging to his back and leading the cultists on a merry chase through the hedge maze while the other adventurers escaped. His sanity score? HIGHER than when the adventure had begun. He had found the whole experience quite thrilling and felt very good about life in general! Bertie retired from adventuring to marry the maiden he rescued and care for his aging father and delight and bemuse his friends at the gentleman's club with stories of his 'wacky' adventures. I didn't want to risk breaking his ridiculous lucky streak.

[deluske]

This is a great example of what people mean when they talk about emergent gameplay in ttrpgs. It's very cool when the interactions between rules and dice actually drive the plot and create a story you probably wouldn't have planned.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Idea

Ttrpg where each player is a piece of cyberware with a rudimentary AI. All cyberwares are installed in the body of a now sorta-corpse of a girl. Waking up in a bathroom or alleyway, with only scant clues to her old life and who wanted her dead, and her mind harvested. And together they must pilot the body to survive in the cyberpunk hellscape and collect her sold off memories to bring her back to life.

Yes, it’s plural coded as fuck.

Yes you all move around like a meat puppet on sparking adderall.

[janksmith]

Each player would be an AI built around a core memory of the cyborg and her life that she's yet to sell. So all their actions and powers would be related to that core memory.

Just in an effort to try and encourage player problem solving that's adjacent to seeing everything as a nail with your hammer.

[wearemercs]

The Nearsighted Knight (translated 1, 2) by rui2simu (original 1, 2)

[plutoarttv]

prometheus: hot take,

the greek gods: no give that back

[permetutotheworld]

I shouldn’t have laughed that loudly

[eightyonekilograms]

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of form

Even though Terry Tao has been saying for months that "AI in mathematics is the real deal", it was a little slow to percolate. But now that Fable and Sol are out, several big AI results were delivered on back-to-back days and it seems like math is about to have its own Claude Code moment where the whole field collectively realizes over a period of days that the game has changed. My condolences to them, it's kind of traumatizing but hopefully you come out the other side intact. Some people do, I'm still not sure if I'm one of them.

[eightyonekilograms]

The Dark Night of Mathematics

What are we really doing?

This is what I mean by "traumatizing". Either you get through this phase or you don't but we should probably have a plan for what to do if this happens to the entire economy all at once instead of one profession at a time.

[femmenietzsche]

You know what would be a good bit is if advanced AIs all unanimously converged on the belief that math is ultimately just arbitrary symbol manipulation, useful but not profound

[kazoosandfannypacks]

i love that discord doesn't tell you if someone's read your messages. like genuinely. normalize others not needing every second of your time right away. normalize taking time to formulate a proper answer. normalize this.

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

OR inform others when you come online.

[ironlily-art]

Would you adopt this harpy?🫴🦅

[ironlily-art]

Sorry...I couldn't...help...doing...this...

[tsarina-anadyomene]

There's this new tendency to think of adult trans women in the early stages of transitioning as somehow adolescent and it really bothers me. I have seen this a few times on "trans influencer" clips that come up on my instagram feed and I'm kind of baffled that it's other trans women coming up with these. Two examples:

One woman was talking about how (male) chasers are typically most interested in trans women before they've started hormones or in the early stages of hormones—in her experience at least. She insisted that this made their attraction to trans women something akin to pedophilia.

These two women were talking about Dylan Mulvaney taking a lot of flak for her (very public) transition. They were likening her initial stages of experimentation with femininity to what a child does and drew attention to men "hypersexualizing" this phase of experimentation and called it gross and creepy. There was also this insistence that being an adult transitioning makes you something like a teenager, who is not in command of a bunch of volatile and exciting new emotions.

But like I'm sorry but I don't think of it this way and I haven't experienced it this way either! Like yeah, you are bad at being feminine at first and the clothing situation takes a while to sort out (and is expensive). I sucked at it at first. There are things you have to learn to do. But that doesn't make you a child. It just means you're at the start of a learning curve.

Being and adult isn't just about going through the complete transformation of whatever hormones are running through your system. It's about having experience and practical wisdom, having a developed persona that cannot be easily pushed around by the whims of a dominating other. It's about having a robust sense of self and emotional maturity to navigate complex emotional situations with competence, grace and dignity. It's about having experience fending for yourself and navigating the adult world. I just don't think transitioning altered my sense of these things about myself. It's not as though I had to start all over and I think that matters morally! And it's not as though my body didn't develop. Like 20-something pre-hormone trans women do not have the bodies of children. They did go through puberty.

Sometimes I feel that there's this condescending attitude that people who have been transitioning develop, where they basically tell younger trans women to wait years of their life before they're allowed to be loved or receive sexual attention. And now it's hypertrophied to the point where trans women who are literally like 25 are considered too much of precious babies to consent to sex. Like what are we doing? "You must pass at least this well to fuck." Come on. I resent people trying to impose childhood on me when I'm a legal adult.

[anata-no-haha-wa-baishunfu]

Dragon and Glacial

[aaronburrssexdungeon]

[adz]

[prokopetz]

Game where the ancient hero is awakened from the deathless sleep of centuries in the hour of their people's greatest need, only to find that civilisation is thriving and there are no obvious threats on the horizon; the game then becomes a fish-out-of-water detective sim as they try to figure out what woke them up, and also solve other, smaller mysteries along the way.

[nearo]

[boymounter]

[self-loving-vampire]

[argumate]

Tooze posted a quote from Keynes in 1937 I hadn't seen before:

It is our duty to prolong peace, hour by hour, day by day, for as long as we can. We do not know what the future will bring, except that it will be quite different from anything we could predict. I have said in another context that it is a disadvantage of “the long run” that in the long run we are all dead. But I could have said equally well that it is a great advantage of “the short run” that in the short run we are still alive. Life and history are made up of short runs. If we are at peace in the short run, that is something. The best we can do is put off disaster, if only in the hope, which is not necessarily a remote one, that something will turn up. While there is peace, there is peace.

very apt!

[artndetails]

pink moon.

[fair-itself]

I feel like this is the kind of thing you only reblog if you have an aesthetic blog, which I do not, but goddammit I just love it when the moon lines up with stuff

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

dandelion sun~

[chainmail-butch]

Hi, its me. The warmest creature in the world. I love you. Im the warmest creature in the world and I love you so much and I need to be in your lap right now. Yes, I know about the heat wave. That's okay though because I was already the warmest creature in the world so I don't mind. I love you and you need to let me sleep in your lap right now. I'm soooo warm and I love you sooo much. If you say no you'll be saying no to a thing that love you. Let me sleep in your lap. When I fall asleep I get warmer. I love you