[theaudientvoid]

So, there's an idea that I've seen floating around in the fandom that Wildbow hates drug users. I can see where it comes from, but I don't think it's strictly accurate. Now, he certainly does seem to hate drug dealers, but I think it's most accurate to say that the thing he hates is drugs themselves, or even more accurately, the concept of addiction. Like, it probably shouldn't be too surprising that the guy who wrote 2 million odd words about the horrors of mind alteration would have strong opinions about mind-altering substances.

[possuminnit]

can you hc a character with DID and make yourself one of their alters or is this some sort of evil crime because this idea came 2 me randomly and its really funny to me

[moonpool-system]

New funniest way to do a self-insert dropped

[zayits-blog]

And a way to turn historical fan-fiction into regular fiction.

[toasthaste]

there's a screenshot of a twitter post of a guy posting a very obviously absurd ai generated floorplan saying something like "architects are cooked ai is coming for your jobs" and everyone is acting like the OP is serious when given what a silly mess the floorplan is (and a lot of the text is garbled in that ai way too) it seems a lot more likely that they're joking?? it bugs me a lot when people look at jokes/parodies of a group and take it as "this is what [group] actually believes" without any inclination to check because it confirms their biased. but also someone made the floorplan in the sims and it's really funny so i want to reblog that part! but the aforementioned issue bothers me slightly too much

[myconetted]

okay you sniped me into checking, and sorry, i think this guy is 100% serious:

[zayits-blog]

Close enough, welcome back, Imperium Romanorum.

[our-lady-of-haymakers]

A lot of people write Fate off entirely as that Weird Japanese Franchise (insert Orientalist sneer here) that made King Arthur into a Girl, but as someone who read a book of Arthurian stories at a formative age in a school library and was disappointed by almost every subsequent contemporary adaptation of the mythos I found, from movies to TV to games, I still feel that Fate/Stay Night was one of the only modern works to truly convey the sense of sheer beauty and tragedy I felt while reading those stories back in the day. Artoria with her mix of stoicism and melancholy, of might and helplessness, is one of the best adaptations of King Arthur, full stop, and certainly the best in current times after The Once and Future King. I hear Westerners react with derision and mockery every time they see a work from Asia adapt their mythologies and folklore on account of an unfounded belief that those silly Easterners with their "anime tropes" could never hope to convey the supposed cultural complexity of Western culture, and then when you look closer to see what complexity they're taking about, you find nine million dogshit works that are either a) D&D slop that run on race science arithmetic or b) adaptations of Greek mythology with the whitest people and the most neoliberal politics you'll ever see. I'll take the visual novels, thanks.

[shoelass]

Tumblr anime fans will do the whole masturbatory “ANIME/MANGA/VISUAL NOVELS/WHATEVER IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ALL OTHER MEDIA IN THE WORLD” thing that anime fans on other sites will do, but they try to dress it in pretenious psuedo-intellectual faux-activist speak.

[camera-dolly]

Finding out that Lancelot was apparently the invention of a french writer is absolutely hysterical to me. 12th century french poet sitting around reading arthurian romances and thinking "yeah these stories are pretty good but I think what they really need is a french guy who shows up and fucks arthurs wife"

[ripmyfictionalfriends]

actually chrétien de troyes was comissioned by marie of champagne - daughter of eleanor of aquitaine - who was a fan of courtly love, to write the Lancelot romance. courtly love was about a sexual desire, almost spiritual passion. this theme was very popular with women, kind of medieval erotica.

Chrétien de Troyes, a very christian man, who wrote about love within marriage in Erec and Enide, did not finish the story Instead he gave the rest of the assignment to Godefroi de Leigni. It has been suggested the reason for not finishing writing the romance himself is due to his disapprovement of the aldulterous nature of the story.

[ripmyfictionalfriends]

what i mean to say is: there was a french noble woman who thought those arthurian stories are pretty neat but what they really need is a french guy who shows up and fucks the queen and then she comissioned a french poet to write it.

[xxscrabiesxx-deactivated2025062]

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

Android System SafetyCore - Apps on Google Play

Provides safety features for Android devices.

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

[unexpectedyarns]

And several others as well. Clear data, disable, uninstall if you can.

[orcboxer]

flipping the tables at the temple is a crucial part of the run, but obviously every npc in the area will aggro on you as soon as you do it, which is a problem because the crucifixion exploit only works on a pacifist run. that's why we picked up those cords from the leatherworker earlier in the chapter. we can craft those into a whip and drive out the merchants, as long as we don't accidentally kill one of them. this is the only weapon in the game that doesn't proc the "violence" effect due to an oversight in the code, so this will essentially allow us to complete the tableflip glitch without breaking our pacifist run. once every table is flipped, the physics engine won't know how to handle it and some key values will be altered that will later allow us to clip through golgotha directly into hell-

[orcboxer]

woke up this morning with the mental image of jesus' last words on the cross being "speedrun strats" and the thought wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote this

[blondebrainpowered]

The artist: https://www.instagram.com/gottehamham/

[krinkshaming-deactivated2017021]

[willcub-deactivated20180521]

I have a feeling this will become iconic in due time.  

[moonblossom]

I’ve watched this for like a dozen loops and I still crack up every time

[cersei-the-truth-bombardier]

[Singing] T-Birds: Well-a, well-a, well-a– Tell me more, tell me more, did'ya get very far? Pink Ladies: Tell me more, tell me more– Jules (in time, astonishingly): Does he look like a bitch?

[cashiers-czech-hunter]

I hope that this is the last remaining piece of media that aliens find after we destroy our planet.

[whimsical-catacombs]

why are time loops always only like 1 day long?

the real horror is a months or years long time loop. no speedrunning your torture here. you have to sit with the consequences of your actions for a loooong time before the release of knowing the consequences and actions have been erased.

but oh, all the actions and consequences are gone. those relationships you built? empty. you can never build them again without the constant guilt of knowing that it's not as real the second, third, thirtieth time when you already know all their secrets and they none of yours.

but you can't hide. you can't isolate yourself because what if this is the time the loop breaks and then what? years gone by of missed chances with people who have changed you a thousand times and now circumstances have changed. you can never build back what was washed away by your own inaction. they'll never be able to meet you like they did the first time if you don't choose to meet them the first time every time

[boethiah]

this reads like disco elysium dialogue

[autismgod-deactivated20250912]

this is something an NPC says to you at a bakery in the witch alps version of disco elysium

[gokusupersaiyan999999999999999]

[trividium-in-unum]

His username is:

xHarlemShakex

1. A. 14. N.

2. B. 15. O

3. C. 16. P

4. D. 17. Q

5. E. 18. R

6. F. 19. S

7. G. 20. T

8. H. 21. U

9. I. 22. V

10. J. 23. W

11. K. 24. X

12. L. 25. Y

13. M. 26. Z

24 8 1 18 12 5 13 19 8 1 11 5 24

X H A R L E M S H A K E X

[schakira]

[everlastingremorse-blog]

So I was wondering how you would solve that.

If you were to assume that 24811812513198111524 was a series of English letters (since we know that the user speaks English) then you’d still have the problem of the decimal system. Or, to put it another way, how would you know when something is 1, 1 or 11 (one and one or eleven).

There are small things, like very few English words have two as right next to each other, but that’s also assuming that they chose to have real words in their username. Or that they didn’t have a foreign name like Aabria

But I would start with the 8s, 9s and 5s, and maybe 4s. We know that they are either the last digit or the whole number. (I.E. 8 is either 8, or 18)

For example, that first 8 has to be an H, neither 8 nor 81 are a valid entry.

That leaves us with:

[24] 8 [118] [125] [13] [19] 8 [1115] [24]

The brackets representing that we don’t know if it’s 24 or 2,4, etc.

If we go with the double a thing from before, and replace what we know, we get this:

[24] H A R [125] [13] [19] H [1115] [24]

We also know that the second to last grouping has an A, but we don’t know where.

Next, let’s do 125 and 13. It can either be

A B E A C (HARABEAC)

A Y A C (HARAYAC)

L E A C (HARLEAC)

A B E M (HARABEM)

A Y M (HARAYM)

L E M (HARLEM)

I probably should have come the 19 here as well, but it was always a lot and I couldn’t compute more in my head. Lucky that I chose the end of the word (or hindsight bias) but either way, I’d be fairly confident that it’s Harlem, because that’s the only recognizable word there.

That leaves us with:

[24] H A R L E M [19] H [1115] [24]

19 is either S or A I, and since I can’t think of a single word that starts with AIH, it me probably S. We don’t know if it’s Harlems H or Harlem Sh, but it’s a step closer.

[24] H A R L E M S H [1115] [24]

Since we know one 1 of the 1115 is an A, let’s start there. Once again, this is assuming there are no double a’s. It can either be

A K E

K A E

Or K O, now that I think about it.

But since no English word has HK right next to eachother, it has to be AKE.

That just leaves us with the 24s at the end and the beginning. So it’s either

BD HARLEMSHAKE BD

Or

X HARLEMSHAKE X

And while I love the idea of bad dragons in Harlem, it’s probably the x. We’re all familiar with internet naming stuff.

Solvable with a little luck.

[furryprovocateur]

everyone trying to own trump about the "he doesn't know sex isn't determined at conception" thing really fundamentally does not understand what the point of that was, and learned basically nothing from his first term. he is not invested in scienve, biology, or any rational discussion where his provably false beliefs would be subject to scrutiny. he is signaling to everyone in the country that it does not matter what you say, he will never care and he will take every action to enforce these views and embolden his followers with the same rhetoric. you cannot logically talk to a person like this when they are reasoning with emotion, not logic. you cannot dunk the transphobia away. someone post the vonnegut quote.

[transfem-juice]

[tentacion3099]

[angelofdykeness]

I FOUND IT THANK GOD this video is so important

[blue-eyes-white-cheddar]

This is real and here is the patent. Nonconsensual data collection is detailed in column #4 on page 17.

[txttletale]

new gaiman allegations coming out has me preemptively exhausted for the countless tedious people ready to reveal their amazing x-men mutant power to tell if someone's a sexual predator based on what's in the wizard books they write

[argumate]

oh man I was joking about him being too horny years ago and I haven't even read any of his books, it just seemed inevitable based on the way these things inevitably play out 😮‍💨

[oakenroots]

It always amazes me how quickly people forget that you should never meet your heroes, and bad people make good art all the time. Everyone who walks the planet has at some point hurt another person, but when those actions become patterns of behavior we need to be able to hold people accountable for that regardless of their celebrity. Failure to do so can eventually snowball to shitty oligarchs like Trump getting elected and reelected.

It is naive to think that everyone's proclivities for violence and prejudice become transparent through their subpar writings, à là JK Rowling, when the reality is that it's seldom that simple. The author of Rurouni Kenshin had a horrific proclivity for child pornography, but that doesn't mean that fans of his work are also child abusers. That also does not mean that I can stomach watching the anime that was released just months after his sentencing. I am not adverse to the work because it displays the proclivities of the creator, I am adverse to supporting the art of a known pedophile while he is still alive and profiting. The art you consume doesn't make you culpable for the crimes of the art's creators, but when those individuals are still alive and thriving, it can feel like a sort of moral imperative to side step giving them your money and accolades.

The Guardian has a really great article concerning the award winning works of known pedophile Eric Gill that deals with this subject in more depth. The takeaway perhaps, is that art reaches us all in different ways, but the origin of that art doesn't have to change the way we feel about it. Stardust by Neil Gaiman was my favorite book for a large section of my childhood. Though the accusations of appalling behavior by Gaiman change the way I perceive him as an author (and takes him out of the running for my favorite) his behavior does not take away the significance his art holds for me.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I would now pepper spray this man if i ran into him on the street. I dont think he should be shot because that would free him of the consequences of his crimes, but I would love to see him spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of international sex crimes. I am no rape apologist. I do, however, recognize the urge that many of us have after being raised in a purity culture to become hypercritical of ourselves because we unknowingly consumed something written by a bad person. There's nothing wrong with you for being a fan of Good Omens or Sandman or any of Gaiman's other works, you only become part of the problem if you decide that the merits of his art excuse his abuse of power.

[fran-valz]

Some highlights from the slop that is the AI Worm audiobook on YouTube Music.

Ai Taylor confronts lung, who has just transformed into a giant evil spiderman with bug wings.

Taylor shows that the bug antennas are a canon part of the costume, she might be changing race every other chapter.

Brian flexes on the dogs and a 10 year old Rachel (This is the only time Brian is portrayed as black)

Wasp skitter fights the ghost rider gang.

White Brian gives Taylor or Lisa a bug inside of a giant amber, while the rest of the Undersiders watch, including their latest recruit, a disembodied leg.

Canary is on space trial being represented by a robot lawyer.

DC fans execute nightwing cosplayer.

Taylor or Faultline single handedly take down the merchants in their sci-fi military base.

Superman checks his emails in a dark room.

Skitter comes back to her modest cabin after a long day working in the mines, her wife is preparing some horrific looking food.

The PRT council discusses a derpy-looking photo of Taylor.

????

Theo fights Taylor using his iconic venom suit in front of the spider mastermind.

Wasp Skitter and Mecha Weaver help rescue civilians.

[felonytaxevasion]

I do think it's a shame this series never tried harder to AI make endbringers. Or like worm ai artists in general don't use AI to make more endbringers

Like it's always gonna be a bit difficult to make an accurate looking Skitter with AI, like it's possible probably but training a machine to properly sort all inputs into "Taylor approved cape designs" and "Taylor would hate these cape designs" and then also use the right inputs to design like a teenage girl with Capital P Problems is going to take a long enough time that it's probably faster just to grab a pencil and draw it

But endbringers literally are the product of a collective human artistic canon and ideas of religious symbols/monsters put in a blender. If the line between a Simurgh arm and Simurgh wing is blended together and undefined that's probably an accurate representation of what Ms Murgh looks like. They probably shouldn't look like a defined creature made by a human artist with the intent to communicate 1 idea clearly.

Sadly the only worm ai artists attempt to make Simurgh I can find is this shit

[beardedmrbean]

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

This is what having auditory processing issues is like.

[royallyferalgremlin]

I was like, oh they made subtitles out of peoples names! thats so creative! didnt realize till halfway through because thats how it sounds to me all the time lol