“would you fuck your clone” = boring, who cares, the answer says nothing about you other than whether or not you’re your own type
“would you fuck MY clone” = unexpected, high potential to cause a lot of ‘why would you fuck my clone and not me?’ drama, reasonable question to ask if you’re a mad scientist
also if it makese u feal better i have alot of ideas for oc named trinity (its one of my favorite names possibly ever) so you probabley wil get that at some point, some like, robotic angel shit (because trinity is an obv religeous name and fuckkkkkk dude i love angelz n religis motiefs,,,, port of why i made my fursona & catsona angel kitty) , im workin on it its still cooking in my brain
u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me
I think most people would benefit from reflecting on how this might be true for them
Sometimes people bitch about media, both fiction and nonfiction, that they think “humanizes” bad people, especially bigots fascists Nazis et cetera. And I’m just like. Hey. Hey. The problem is. They ARE human. HUMANS did that. Your next door neighbor could do that. Your grandma could do that. You could do that.
“No I’m a good person” why? Because you’ve gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don’t think we’re all so different from the bad people. We’re all just people.
Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.
If you convince yourself that you’re just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.
If you remember that those things can get into anyone, you know to look out for them, and weed them out when they appear, and take the criticism when others point them out in you. So remember, that could have been you. If you forget, maybe it will be.
u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me
I think most people would benefit from reflecting on how this might be true for them
Sometimes people bitch about media, both fiction and nonfiction, that they think “humanizes” bad people, especially bigots fascists Nazis et cetera. And I’m just like. Hey. Hey. The problem is. They ARE human. HUMANS did that. Your next door neighbor could do that. Your grandma could do that. You could do that.
“No I’m a good person” why? Because you’ve gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don’t think we’re all so different from the bad people. We’re all just people.
Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.
If you convince yourself that you’re just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.
If you remember that those things can get into anyone, you know to look out for them, and weed them out when they appear, and take the criticism when others point them out in you. So remember, that could have been you. If you forget, maybe it will be.
It’s awful enough when a child dies in an accident. It’s even more awful when a child is killed due to someone’s malice. It’s unthinkable when a child is killed because someone who doesn’t even care was allowed to kill them as an afterthought with no second thoughts and no fear of justice or consequence. This will never be undone.
literally they just used an interpolator technology to make the the lines follow the curve of the face regardless of the camera angle. Thats a shader. That is literally just a fancy shader. Claiming any procedural technology is the same as midjourney is INCREDIBLY fucking disingenuous. Goddamnit
This is what I mean by “At some level of micro managing an AI it becomes a tool again, like a rendering program or a photo shop brush” Artificial intelligence or complex generative algorithms aren’t inherently bad
men love being tied to chairs and gagged it makes them feel masculine it’s the same as working in an office
this is very funny bc i went to a class on gay cowboy bondage that discussed hypermasculinity in the practice and basically made this exact point but like, unironically
1. Humans say ‘ow’, even if they haven’t actually been hurt. It’s just a thing they say when they think they might have been hurt, but aren’t sure yet.
2. Humans collect shiny things and decorate their bodies and nests with them. The shinier the better, although each individual has a unique taste for style and colouring
3. Humans are not an aquatic or even amphibious species, but they flock to bodies of water simply to play in it. They can’t even hold their breath all that long; they just love to splash!
4. When night falls and the sky goes dark, humans become drowsy and begin to cocoon themselves in soft, fluffy bedding.
5. Some humans spend time in each other’s nests! Just for fun! It’s not their nest; they’re just visiting each other.
6. Some humans use pigments and dyes to make their bodies flashy and colourful! They even attach shiny dangly bits to their cartalidgous membranes!
7. Humans are very clever, and sometimes adopt creatures from other species into their family units. They don’t seem to notice the obvious differences, and often raise them alongside their own young!
8. If a human sees another creature in distress, they can commonly be observed trying to help! Even at their own risk, most humans are deeply compassionate creatures!
9. If a human hears a particularity catchy sound or tune, it will often mimic it, even to the point of annoying themselves!
10. Sneezes are entirely involuntary, and completely adorable. Especially when the human in question becomes frustrated
11. Humans love treats!!! Some more than others. Many humans will save these treats specifically for a later date when they are in need of comfort or reassurance. IE, pickles, pop tarts, Popsicles, etc
12. They’re learning to travel in space!!! They can’t get very far, but they’re trying!!! So far, they’ve made it to the end of their yard, and have found rocks
this sounds like it was written by a really enthusiastic alien humanologist
1. Humans say ‘ow’, even if they haven’t actually been hurt. It’s just a thing they say when they think they might have been hurt, but aren’t sure yet.
2. Humans collect shiny things and decorate their bodies and nests with them. The shinier the better, although each individual has a unique taste for style and colouring
3. Humans are not an aquatic or even amphibious species, but they flock to bodies of water simply to play in it. They can’t even hold their breath all that long; they just love to splash!
4. When night falls and the sky goes dark, humans become drowsy and begin to cocoon themselves in soft, fluffy bedding.
5. Some humans spend time in each other’s nests! Just for fun! It’s not their nest; they’re just visiting each other.
6. Some humans use pigments and dyes to make their bodies flashy and colourful! They even attach shiny dangly bits to their cartalidgous membranes!
7. Humans are very clever, and sometimes adopt creatures from other species into their family units. They don’t seem to notice the obvious differences, and often raise them alongside their own young!
8. If a human sees another creature in distress, they can commonly be observed trying to help! Even at their own risk, most humans are deeply compassionate creatures!
9. If a human hears a particularity catchy sound or tune, it will often mimic it, even to the point of annoying themselves!
10. Sneezes are entirely involuntary, and completely adorable. Especially when the human in question becomes frustrated
11. Humans love treats!!! Some more than others. Many humans will save these treats specifically for a later date when they are in need of comfort or reassurance. IE, pickles, pop tarts, Popsicles, etc
12. They’re learning to travel in space!!! They can’t get very far, but they’re trying!!! So far, they’ve made it to the end of their yard, and have found rocks
this sounds like it was written by a really enthusiastic alien humanologist
I will never get tired of how funny it is when people respond to the posts they don’t like by turning it into blackout poetry. What sheer fucking splendour, grabbing something you loathe and then turning it into art as an expression of your utter disrespect and disregard of this person’s stupid-ass opinions. It’s not simply contempt, but an elaborate display of how little it matters to you.
What a way to show that you find this person so beneath your respect that you won’t argue their stupid opinions, you won’t even gracefully ignore them like you would politely and tactfully turn a blind eye to the embarrassing mishaps of some fool who doesn’t know better. No, you choose to turn it into a plaything, making it your arts and crafts material.
The hilarious indignity of having someone pick up something you thought were bold and fine statements, the pinnacle of truth, and saying “this block of stupid text is as worthless as a rock, but allow me to carve it into art, so that it could perhaps be turned into something that possesses worth and beauty.”
I’m sorry op, but how could I pass on this one
Me casting out a big block of solid text about blackout poetry, in order to catch blackout poetry in the wild:
I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It’s called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to
the concept of fatphobia isn’t “skinny people have never ever been shamed or insecure about their bodies ever” but rather “society literally doesn’t want fat people to exist at any cost to the point healthcare systems are willing to let fat people die rather than address any other possible medical issue, in addition to facing insults and disgust at every turn socially”. online the fact u can’t make a body positive or even neutral post without somebody going “but what about us naturally skinny and petite people” is so fucked man
I really, really hope that these increasingly public calls for justice in Nex Benedict’s assault and death lead to more action… this tragedy has finally recieved coverage in publications like USA Today, CNN, NBC, and even The New York Times
In conflict zones, PPE like this is meant to turn you into a walking white flag, especially if you are not authorized to carry a red cross on your uniform to identify you as Untouchable During Conflicts by the standards of an international court of law. PPE comes in a lot of formats, and when you work in a conflict zone as a medical professional of any kind, ostensibly your first job upon arriving to the scene is to confirm whether or not it is safe for you to go and DO your job. This is ~obviously~ a complicated and nuanced ask, and so it is commonly practiced to send medical personnel into conflict zones in high vis PPE that provides them both medical protection AND ballistic protection so that there are more situations in which they can justify running in to do their work despite the danger.
One of the things that has been so horrifying about the way the IOF operates in Gaza and the West Bank is that it negates the function of these forms of PPE. Medical professionals get captured, wounded, and killed REGARDLESS of how visibly identified they are, or even BECAUSE of it. This has led to a massive number of “hero” medics who simply run into frontline situations, no PPE gear, no thought for themselves or their colleagues, no perimeter checks or care for ANYTHING except how fast they can get in, grab their patient, and get out again, because this is now the ONLY effective way to perform medical duties in the region. To be a medical worker in Gaza or the West Bank is to accept death into your heart in ten thousand little ways just so you can save any lives you manage to while you manage to keep it up.
Think about that. Wanting to have a career saving lives means risking yours every day until one day you don’t make it out. It’s not heroic to live like that, it’s psychological torture, and it never needed to happen to these people. They could have just been doctors, nurses, EMTs, etc. It didn’t have to be a game of Russian Roulette to see how many times you can evade sniper fire and bombing raids before your luck runs out. I need people to think about how many of the medical staff “heros” we’ve seen over the last five months who ended up dead within weeks or months of us learning their names, their faces. What it must be like to watch your colleagues drop dead around and keep going because the only other choice is a death you can’t stomach.
Press in blue. Medics in white. Obvious. Visible. Fighting for survival. If that isn’t enough for people to understand what’s happening, I don’t know what could be anymore.
Do you have any idea what you did, Zoe? It feels like you should. You’ve been doing this a lot longer than Alice has by certain definitions of interpretating time loops. That isn’t my specialty. I’m a Poison Guy who lives in Seattle. I’m not a Timeloop Guy. I do poisons. I got cursed by a wizard named Edward so that I can secrete poisons from my skin. That’s what I am.
You were always the one that lied, Zoe. For as long as I’ve known about you. You’re the liar. Nothing you say was supposed to be taken as true. That’s how it’s always been from the very beginning. But now you got an ending with Alice. Your story is over.
Do you have any idea what you did, Zoe? And if you told me “Yes, I do”, could I trust that?
If you told me “No, I don’t”, is that better?
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I want to start by saying that the sea looks beautiful today. I want to start by telling you that I love how it looks when the stormclouds start parting like armies routed by the cavalier sunbeams piercing through the enemy lines to breach the gray waves and turn them blue. I want to start by saying that I can feel the cold, clammy sand beneath my toes as I dig my feet into wet low tide, and that I don’t mind when I accidentally cut the sole of my left foot on a bit of oyster shell. I want to be happy for you, Zoe. For as long as I’ve known you, you were never really happy. You were just really, really good at putting on a happy face. So good that every time I saw you and Alice it felt like I just wanted you back. And every time, you would make some excuse to come back. You wouldn’t stay for long. The loop would be coming back around by that point. You’d need to go back to the start again. But that was okay, because I got to be there for it. I got to see it all happen.
Zoe, I want to tell you how happy I am for you and Alice. But I’m not as good at lying as you are. Please answer.
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Greetings Honorable Alchemist Zykocea the Radiant, if that is your real name. I am Dolarion the Omnipotent. I have been informed by a mutual acquaintance that you have succeeded in your goal of awakening your beloved, the Venom Mage Dark Queen Alkaxicae, to the nature of your imprisonment, and that she has successfully broken your bindings.
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Zoe, when you were just the lying god trapped in an endless cycle of a meaningful journey, you were given very specific rules to follow. So was Alice. You have both broken those rules and I don’t know where either of you are now but it’s important that you know what’s going on. You turned this into a story, Zoe. Do you have any idea what that means?
You made yourselves the main characters. And then your story ended.
Do you have any idea what you did, Zoe? It feels like you should. You’ve been doing this a lot longer than Alice has by certain definitions of interpretating time loops. That isn’t my specialty. I’m a Poison Guy who lives in Seattle. I’m not a Timeloop Guy. I do poisons. I got cursed by a wizard named Edward so that I can secrete poisons from my skin. That’s what I am.
You were always the one that lied, Zoe. For as long as I’ve known about you. You’re the liar. Nothing you say was supposed to be taken as true. That’s how it’s always been from the very beginning. But now you got an ending with Alice. Your story is over.
Do you have any idea what you did, Zoe? And if you told me “Yes, I do”, could I trust that?
If you told me “No, I don’t”, is that better?
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I want to start by saying that the sea looks beautiful today. I want to start by telling you that I love how it looks when the stormclouds start parting like armies routed by the cavalier sunbeams piercing through the enemy lines to breach the gray waves and turn them blue. I want to start by saying that I can feel the cold, clammy sand beneath my toes as I dig my feet into wet low tide, and that I don’t mind when I accidentally cut the sole of my left foot on a bit of oyster shell. I want to be happy for you, Zoe. For as long as I’ve known you, you were never really happy. You were just really, really good at putting on a happy face. So good that every time I saw you and Alice it felt like I just wanted you back. And every time, you would make some excuse to come back. You wouldn’t stay for long. The loop would be coming back around by that point. You’d need to go back to the start again. But that was okay, because I got to be there for it. I got to see it all happen.
Zoe, I want to tell you how happy I am for you and Alice. But I’m not as good at lying as you are. Please answer.
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Greetings Honorable Alchemist Zykocea the Radiant, if that is your real name. I am Dolarion the Omnipotent. I have been informed by a mutual acquaintance that you have succeeded in your goal of awakening your beloved, the Venom Mage Dark Queen Alkaxicae, to the nature of your imprisonment, and that she has successfully broken your bindings.
Please be aware that this was a great and terrible thing. Please be aware that there are consequences for doing this. Please be aware that we are trying to reach out to you about your car’s extended warranty, Zykocea the Radiant, and about a great deal many other things.
They didn’t just cut out the parts with the oat milk, they skillfully edited over all the god-damn branding and replaced the audio.
But what I still find most hilarious about this whole commercial is the fact that everything they show in this solar punk world seems to be made with sustainable, zero waste and reusable materials.
Everything EXCEPT THE FUCKING CHOBANI BRANDED STUFF! The only plastic you see in this whole commercial is all the straight to the landfill packaging made by the very corporation that tries to sell how sustainable and “green” they are. Unintentional self satire at its finest.
They couldn’t even show their yogurt and milk in (basically infinitely reusable) glass containers because they pretty much only sell their shit in plastic
It is such a perfect example of the true face of “green” capitalism, it’s hilarious.
The punk in this solarpunk comes from cutting the corporation out of the picture
ALSO
Another really interesting thing about this edit is that they changed the label on the side of the apple-picking machine.
From “donations” to “commons”. It’s a subtle change, but it makes a huge difference in the world-building of the video. The former implies that this big orchard belongs to an owner and that they’re donating the fruits to “the less fortunate” (and, by extension, that poverty is still a thing); the latter implies that the orchard belongs to everyone and that the fruits are free to take in the spirit of solidarity.
Waffle To The Left brought out the potential in this gorgeous video and made it an actual solarpunk utopia — without brands and without corporate pandering, complete with true common ownership over land and resources.
Digital art of a queer nonbinary teen with glasses and a beanie wearing a rainbow shirt with their back to us. They have a striped long sleeve on and red pants with a star patch. Text reads, ‘schools should be a safe place for queer and trans kids.’
as a teacher, reading about nex makes me fucking furious because I’ve seen that hate in the students I’ve taught. people who say young people aren’t bigoted and once the old fucks die off the world will be perfect have no idea how cruel children can be when influenced by society’s bigotry. while working with 8th grade, i had multiple situations of children harassing lgbt students, screaming slurs at black students, and mocking disabled, especially autistic, students. i was misgendered and degendered by these kids daily without them even knowing i was trans or gay, just that i was a feminine man. i had to dress hyper-masculine to have a smidgen of respect, and god forbid i let my disability show.
but what sticks with me the most when thinking about nex is when i had to intervene when a child proudly announced that she would murder her baby if they were trans (specifically nonbinary) because nb people were freaks, fully aware the person sitting next to her was trans. when i tried to intervene, i was disciplined because i was ‘teaching my personal politics’.
this is what our schools look like. when people say they cant believe these girls could do this, i shake my head because, to me, it’s no wonder nex is no longer with us. nex was a child with intersecting minority identities. our society is cruel and bigoted, and it is influencing our children. we HAVE to fix society because until we do, kids will stay cruel and kids will keep dying