The Nikto Krueger Blog Of Your Nightmares

Asks are open and welcome! (MDNI in general please :)) It’s hot, it’s gay and it’s filthy. But most importantly: it’s not gonna ship itself.

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Also… this is my Linktree!

Linktree. Make your link do more.

Greetings, you human of good taste :) You might find:

My AO3 (Wow!)

My NSFW Twitter (So cool!)

This blog! (Much useless!)

My cosplay Instagram (Yikes!)

Have a grand old time here!

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Nikto is a selfish sleeper… but Krueger would rather sleep in a headlock than without him.

Based on this post.

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A short break from Krueger/Nikto to announce my evil desire for writing fanfics of Magnus/Ahriman from the Warhammer 40k franchise! As a gift for my lovely @sixleggedboar, I present to you: emotional turmoil wrapped into the cloak of a 10k year divorce between two men who were never even married :)

Summary:

Magnus asks the question that inevitably is asked of every lover, of every heartfelt companion, in some variety over the centuries.

“Would you still love me if I was a worm?”

Tragically, Ahriman answers with honesty.

Read it here.

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I was in Omega Heat (TM) last week… I am finally recovering and will be back with a fresh chapter soon. I will point out that my Loner Alpha @sixleggedboar was of NO help.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“I, in my corner, with my monstrous needs.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (1964 - 1980)

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Calm down, Nikto. It’s just a hug. You can ask for that.

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i got some dissociative issues, bipolar and honestly a whole lot of other undiagnosed stuff. and reading your stuff really gives me hope on being happy with being stable. made me come to terms my life being different AND THATS OK! or it can be just gotta put work into it! so thanks!

I know that my answer is super late and I sincerely apologise for that!

But like… this really touched me. I really believe that every person can find a place in this world. Some just have to carve it with their bare hands, and there will be some bleeding.

I hope that you find a way to be happy and content, just the way you are (+being well managed!) and that you find a loving crowd. I do like to write characters like Nikto or Krueger who don’t have a home and who wouldn’t be fully accepted by anyone until they find the right person to grow with because just seven years ago I was undiagnosed, in a constant, terrible state of fear and high alert and it took so much work and so much tenderness from both myself and others to be able to just be alone with myself and call it good company.

You go! There is always a way forward :)

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soooo, how often do they fucked with the mask on?

Uh, I think not as often as one might think!

Nikto’s mask is a ballistic one and it goes down over his whole face, covering his chin as well. And since I have his mask with a pretty similar setup for the straps and balaclava, I can tell you that its impossible to “half lift” it for snogging. (And oh, do they like to SNOG!)

I think it happens on the field now and then, just randomly when Nikto gets horny or Krueger wants to scratch an itch and… gets Nikto horny. Since I imagine that they usually have some sort of sexual encounter right before sleeping (an orgasm helps Nikto sleep) they mostly fuck mask-off.

I think I have talked about Nikto having reacted to his trauma with very selective hyper-sexuality (he is borderline abstinent until he gets someone he is attracted to who is “trustworthy” enough to let down his pants. Then he gets INTENSE with them)

Thank you for that ask, I do like the “the mask stays on during sex” trope SO much… if Nikto’s was only a little bit more convenient… sigh.

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Hello! Do you have like a recommendation of soundtrack while reading your fics? Cause I love to listen to one helps set the mood!

Sorry for the late reply… University is my all time favorite (and sadly true) excuse!

While writing, I listen to certain bands/genres for specific types of scenes. So I will list them here.

Emotionally vulnerable/ sad scenes: Noah Kahan (especially the album “Stick Season”, but I can’t recommend “doors” enough!) or Lord Huron… indie in general is great for introspective scenes :)

“Sexy” scenes like stripping, watching another do something that is perceived as erotic or simply plain sex: My Darkest Days. I kind of don’t like them because their songs are pretty objectifying to women, but I didn’t really find anything that scratches the itch like them.

Fighting/Action Scenes: Warhammer songs. Especially Colm R. McGuinness. Used to listen to Endless Tavern SO much but like… they are AI generated, so ew. No recommend.

Otherwise… I just listen to whatever songs are stuck in my head/new at my playlist while I write. They absolutely influence the tone of a scene though, so I try to be mindful of these, lol :D but I will keep this in mind and add music recommendations in the notes, if anyone is interested in having a “soundtrack” to a chapter :)

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Of Laugh Lines and Nimble Fingers, chapter 3: Fooling around (NSFW)

If Nikto had any shame left, he would not have gotten into the van with the clown… but sadly, this man is duly out of options…

See this lovely illustration by @sixleggedboar in context on Ao3!

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Of Laugh Lines and Nimble Fingers - Chapter 2: Fair and Square

On a parking lot Nikto meets his nemesis - and proceeds to share a piece of cake.

Read all about their debauchery here!

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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Incase people missed this.

[julevanwilde]

Adding another free art program!

Gimp

This is what I learned on back in the day, and has many of the same features (some better tbh) as Photoshop.

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Krueger when confronted with yet another of Nikto’s ideas in “Slavic Remedies”

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Chapter 1 “Of Laugh Lines and Nimble Fingers” (Aka “Party Clown”) is out now!

Summary:

To say that Nikto is lonely isn’t entirely correct. He has casual hookups, a team that values him and one man who he calls “something akin to a friend” with cautious optimism. But he knows that as a homosexual man, he will most likely have to wait for retirement for his love life to go steady and for his weekends to be filled with more than grocery shopping and tv.

This is why he agrees to help Dmitry out with a kids birthday party on a random Saturday. To his surprise, his biggest problem is neither the soundscape, nor the kids. It isn’t even that between spilled soda and provocations, he finds himself feuding with a third-tier party clown who seems to be set on charming him.

The worst thing is that it is working…

Lovingly illustrated by the gorgeous artist that is @sixleggedboar. Thank you for making me write this, you will always be a horrible influence :)

Read of their debauchery here!

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Would they do that yoga pose? With Krueger and Nikto pt. 10

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Little look at my current Wip for a project with @sixleggedboar

Not to get my one feral friend excited but Party Clown comes out some time this week… and I treated it 100% seriously, despite the allegations of crack :)

Sound off in the comments if you have good titles for a fic where one of them is a clown but also weirdly sexy about it because ffs I can not call this one by its working title or I will vomit into my mouth out of shame.

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Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.

But... Stochastic Parrots.

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

Her name is Timnit Gebru.

She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.

The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.

The paper had not even been published yet.

Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.

The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.

This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.

The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.

The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.

Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.

Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.

The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.

In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.

The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.

In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.

The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.

Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.

This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.

The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.

The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.

Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.

She was making that argument from inside Google.

Then Google proved her right by removing her.

The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.

Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.

Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.

The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.

Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.

The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.

The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.

And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.

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Would they do that yoga pose? With Krueger and Nikto pt. 9