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I miss when being online didn't mean being subjected to people's opinions 24/7.

sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Illustration portrait of Aerith as Kainé

by accepting himself feels good.

Anyway, S5 is engaging so far. Not sure where they're taking the lore—and I'm not sure I'll like it—but I'm along for the ride at this point.

(*reposted because I can't type when excited)

Hindsight has made me unsure whether this show is a net positive or net negative for society (nostalgia is often used as propaganda; Noah Schnapp has said...interesting things in the past few years), but I can't deny that seeing a queer character seize a deuteragonist role+

「Adam [&] Eve」
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#FF7 #sefikura #セフィクラ
#NieR #ニーアオートマタ

Ever Crisis keeps insisting on covering Cloud from head-to-toe and all i want is for him to be topless in dragonscale pants.

Well, I'm caught up on Stranger Things.

The queer part of the fanbase is about to be *so* annoying re: Will Byers (positive).

It's really easy to fall into 'There's nothing good anymore' doomerism right now. That's just your depression talking. Take out the gremlin running your brain and beat it with sticks.

There is an OVERWHELMING amount of cool stuff being made in every medium right now. Algorithms just won't help you.

“He’s a problematic character” it’s ok he’s hot. “He’s bad representation” it’s ok he’s hot. “He murdered two hundred people and manipulated his husband” it’s ok he’s hot

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Eyvind Earle

I will never unhear this now, that's delightful 🤭

I based my portrayal of Roche’s theatricality on Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

*it being limerance, whoops

others I'm currently getting screened for. Go figure.

I entertained the idea that I might have BPD for a while and that it might be an FP situation, but my "crushes" always felt distinctly different and much more temporary. Then I come to find out it's more likely to occur in people with ADHD, autism, and OCD—one of which I'm diagnosed with and the+

Dropping this here because you might find it (uncannily) enlightening.

Way to clock me. That's exactly what I was reading about. 🥲

DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich

ME: oh dang that sounds so good

DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37

shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you

I've been describing myself as aroace for a while, but man, realizing all the crushes you thought you had weren't even crushes? It's basically irrefutable now. Too many things suddenly make sense.

This kind of sucks. I feel like I'm mourning a part of myself that never existed.

I could drop down in the middle of the City of the Ancients and impale somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?

Did you know we have the tallest building in Midgar? Some say maybe even the world. 70 Floors! Nobody else has floors like ours - big, beautiful floors. Marble tile, every one of them. We have a nice gold statue in the lobby, isn't it great? The other power companies don't have that...

Many people have been telling me about this Sephiroth guy, great guy. He has a great big sword, and they’re calling him the one winged angel. And when I heard that I said wow, but we’re going to be looking into this very strongly

The meteor is going away, okay? It's going away. Very smart, very good people are making it go away. We have very large rockets, beautiful rockets, filled with the best materia. By the way, only Midgar makes materia this good. Wutai materia is junk, couldn't stop a child.