my will to live is wilting

[walkthruthewords]

Told myself I was never gonna need an intro post but

If you're looking for Words

If you're looking for Art

Honestly at this point, I'm just doing this for my own sanity. This is my compromise between the effort of sideblogs/my lack of posts for them and the horror of Tumblr tags only working 60% of the time...

And also my list of gifted names bc like rumplestiltskin I'll never give you my real one (aka I don't want to forget any)

Dragon Lord

BookWyrm

WalkyTalky

Dragonfly

Wordene

Wyrmie

Wyrm

W.T.

(moots are welcome to make personal additions)

As for the rest, good luck to u, I have no idea either

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[lilaccatholic]

It’s Fourth of July Eve so make sure to leave some milk and cookies out for Captain America

[tropelovingpainter]

I’m doing this. HOW HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS?????

[svetzzi]

go away forever with me

[kopytki]

drew fanart of the thang

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[ac3tinium]

baldur’s gate 3 shitposts

[seven-sided-cube]

(This post is an adaptation of one of my favourite works by @teachiisan)

[cosmonautroger]

Sea Dragon

[sivavakkiyar]

[saltysocksniffer]

[dilfdyke]

love love love when a particularly manipulative character is lying off their ass about something and then throws in one hauntingly genuine line

[mbmbimbo]

i know everyone loves baby seals, but sometimes i really am blown away by their whimsy. they took a teddy bear and made it a mermaid. i feel very wonderful knowing we live on the same planet as puppy mermaid teddies

[pomgore]

i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow

[pomgore]

goat dog

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[willgrahamscock]

some of you need to internalize this concept

[teashoesandhair]

I'm in a little local cafe and the women behind the counter started griping to each other, "Oh Christ, Stephen's back again," "It's him, is it? I thought he'd stopped coming," "It's definitely him, look, it's bloody Stephen on a Thursday morning," "Do you want me to get rid of him or are you going to do it?" and so I was peering outside, trying to spot this nightmare customer, this pestilence of a person, this pox upon the cafe trade, and then one of the women from behind the counter ran outside, clapping two trays together loudly and yelling "GET OUT OF IT, STEPHEN!" and it turns out that Stephen is an absolutely gigantic fuck-off seagull who hangs around outside, menacing people for crumbs

[colormush]

[fuck-customers]