Do What Makes You Happy and Fuck the Rest

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This blog has bit of everything. I use tumblr mostly for my own amusement, and if I amuse you too then great!

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Today is the 20th anniversary of Reagan's death.

You'd think this would be a Tumblr holiday like the Ides of March or Destiel Day.

its called the D: drive because you look at how much space is left on it and you go "D:"

why is this mom joke getting notes

bc its true

this reply kills me 😭

this is "if you can't afford to pay your workers you can't afford to stay in business". I'm sorry, if you can't train your AI without copyrighted material, you have no business doing what you're doing.

If you are using copyrighted material you need to license it and compensate the owner just like anyone else were you born in a barn?

Saw this tweet on Blue Sky yesterday

"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, do that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."

Publishing companies are, right at this moment, using our books to train AIs. Officially, it's for marketing and things like flap copy, but 1. THEY WRITE AWFUL FLAP COPY and 2. no one believes it'll stop there. Duolingo fired their translators and just kept a few to check the AI's work. That's where publishing is heading too. And other forms of writing. It's a nightmare.

ppl who are like “there’s no way sokka’s art skills would improve, he’s ontologically bad at art” ummmm. dude. you realize that this is the mary sue of hobbies, right? this guy could out-westley westley. he would develop an immunity to iocane powder in less than a week because he’s just that prodigious. he became a kyoshi warrior who could best their leader in a matter of hours, and this was the first time he had ever trained in his life with an actual teacher and opponent. he mastered the sword in one day, if we’re to take piandao’s word for it (and considering his name is literally sword, he is clearly an expert). sokka looked at the rough schematics for hot air balloons after the eminent inventor in the world had spent who knows how long not able to get his idea to actually work like “uhhh…. this may sound obvious, but have you tried a lid???” he has borderline supernatural aim with a boomerang. he was dropped into a haiku battle knowing nothing about the form, and not only beat the leader of ba sing se’s premier haiku club, but also chose, completely unnecessarily, to make each verse rhyme. if he actually sat down and practiced drawing, maybe with some instruction from a trained artist, or easier beginner’s materials than ink and a brush (you’ve all seen my art, and I still cannot paint with ink and a brush), I think sokka would easily be able to produce a work on par with (if not superior to) the mona lisa by the following morning.

#i love this v much sokka is absolutely amazing #but my boy has to have ONE thing he sucks at but can master everything else #i also like the idea that sokka doesn't wanna improve drawing so he draws for the fun of it #pays no attention to rules or dissecting other ppls art work he just whacks it out #if it sucks eh whatever if its good eh whatever

ah yes. the old "sokka is mentally stable and secure and happy and would never push himself to master every single form and sphere of knowledge because he's aware of his own giftedness and is confident in his skillset" fallacy. been seeing a lot of comments like this (this just happens to be the most recent one) in the notes of this post and wondering whether you guys understand that there already is a domain entirely off-limits to sokka. that there is one pretty big, significant area in which he entirely lacks the tools to ever succeed! whether you guys remember about that thing that he is not only bad at but completely incapable of?....yeah. and so he will never lack the drive to succeed at everything he sets his mind to, unless he magically gained the ability to bend, or ever developed even a functioning baseline of self-esteem. but, as all know, that would be impossible. because as i said in my original tags, sokka can do everything but bend and love himself.

lanadelreyquasa

WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT

kaibas-paragraphical-mind

YOU COULD BE A FUCKING BADASS DRAGON THAT’S THE POINT

“I AM A CREATURE OF DARKNESS” “oh hey sabrina.”

shitsuren-chama

I guess the point is that you could shapeshift into the body you always thought you’d grow into when you were a kid

taller, shorter, slimmer, more muscular, purple hair, tattoos everywhere, tattoos nowhere,

every single shoe would fit you every single time you tried it on, every single article of clothing would fit your perfectly, all you have to do is transform slightly, you’d never run out of ‘your size’ again

and you wouldn’t have to work for it at all, and you’d never be limitted by your bone structure or something. You could just transform at will.

I don’t see how this is much of a downside

When you turn into a sixty story tentacle demon and terrorize a city you want to get the credit you deserve

revereche-deactivated20140508

Oh man that would be so sweet. I could be an annoying fuck as an insect or something but you couldn’t kill me because everyone would know

perpetualcombustioninstruct-blog

That’s great but have you considered

~cosplay

~Halloween costumes

~acting

~cosplay

~stretching to reach stuff and shrinking to fit through spaces

~cosplay

~cosplay

~COSPLAY

imagine being at work minding your business and then suddenly you look out the window and see like a 50ft tall flamingo and then someone just says “oh, yeah, that’s just pete, he does this sometimes, don’t worry”

brightlotusmoon

“BRB, gonna be a cat-sized dragon for a few hours. Might come home a foot taller with mood tattoos.”

“Don’t antagonize the fae.”

“I AM the fae, Susan.”

aqueerkettleofish

Also, consider— people will know it’s you, but it doesn’t say they’ll know what you are. “So is Pete a 50 foot flamingo who changes into a man, or the other way around?” “We.. we don’t know. Barbara asked him once, but he just grinned. She said they weren’t the teeth of a human OR flamingo and she didn’t want to talk about it.”

Iconic post

themoss-deactivated20210919

LEMME BE A DRAGON I DONT CARE IF YOU KNOW ITS ME

I’ve seriously only seen screenshots of this post before though

godspeedyoublackemperor

This is legendary

“I AM HERE FOR YOUR SOULS”

“George, did you forget your coffee?”

this-account-is-a-mistake

ok but like the only difference here is if you dont press it you cant shapeshift. theres no loss in pressing it

Look I can’t shapeshift now, at least after I’ll be able to shapeshift

letsstartafamilywellinvitewelove

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

chaotic-public-menace

I would love to shapeshift. Gimme that shit. I want to turn into a Komodo dragon and sit in front of random people’s windows and doors and s t a r e

the reason they know it’s you is because you keep your signature hairstyle in all forms

saw this massive onion bigger than my entire hand in the produce aisle and immediately snatched it up solely to weigh it and a guy across the aisle asked how much it weighed because he was curious as well and when i told him it was two pounds he excitedly was like “it’s like the biggest one i’ve ever seen..” humanity rocks moment. bonding with strangers over giant onion

its so funny remembering that there are people who still hate furries its almost charming to find ppl still doing it. youre giving google+.. youre giving youtube comment

literallyaflame

my partner doesn’t use pet names nearly as much as i do, which is very funny because i will crack my gay little knuckles and say some shit like “good morning my sun and moon, my loveliest boy, my baby my sweetheart my darling dearest” and he will reply “hello adrian”

the "i'm not pretty like the other girls because i'm pale and skinny" female protagonist trope is something i loathe more than almost anything else in the world but i'd be more willing to forgive it if the author was brave enough to commit to it. if your "unattractive" female protagonist is a snow-white waif then i'd better see you emphasising how nauseatingly corpselike she looks. how people shudder when her maggot-flesh fingers touch their bare skin because they're expecting her to be cold and damp. how her birdlike bones and dainty waist are contemptible rather than desirable. maybe even have her develop a degree of beauty by gaining some weight and colour for a change. put down the necromancer barbie template and show me a proper little freak.

fyeahgothicromance

professionalchaoticdumbass

IT

octal-alchemist

FUCKEN

WIMDY

serial-unaliver-deactivated2024

in 2050 we'll be introduced to the new ideology "snow denialism" that consists of climate change deniers which also believe snow never existed and all pictures/videos of it are fake

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bigwordsandsharpedges2

Explosive decompression

dumbbitchawards

I wanna see it without the bag. POPCORN SHOTGUN!

he thinks he's being so smooth with his little face on my leg. i SEE you, villain

ONLY bcos loves u. love u DESPITE ur dinner actually

sluggoonthestreet

The Elopement

Krux is something I find under a park bench sifting sadly through and empty bag of crisps and I take him home

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