so i’m currently working at a law firm and the other day one of the attorneys was talking to me and he mentioned that he’s “not very confrontational” and i was like you are?? a lawyer???
and he said “yeah but in court there are rules. i can argue with some shmuck in a suit in front of a judge no problem, but when i leave the courthouse and go home i’m not gonna argue with my wife about dinner. there are no rules in our kitchen. i would die.”
I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.
I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.
everyone is always acting like there is some crisis of human interaction with one another because everyone is overly sensitive to how strangers approach them and like. no actually its because nobody has any fucking manners. social etiquette has legitimately vanished. it makes interacting with strangers miserable because people don’t know how to fucking behave in public.
like it is rude to stare. it is rude to point. it is rude to have a loud phone conversation in a quiet place. it’s rude to listen to music or videos or whatever on your device with no headphones on a loud volume, or at any volume in an enclosed or quiet space. these are rude things to do. like i’m sorry while some etiquette is silly, an acceptable level of decorum is necessary to make existing in public bearable for everybody…….it is LITERALLY common courtesy
The way Holmes textually canonically frequently regularly and often without hesitation commits crimes and/or protects criminals because he likes them, he thinks it’s a silly thing to be criminalised for, he’s bored, the police annoy him, he’s gay, he’s been drinking his respect women juice, or it was a really funny crime is just… Perfect of him actually
Literally canonically in his eyes basically the worst thing you can do is be a rich guy using your power to hurt people especially if you’re hurting women or warmongering but if women commit treason he thinks it’s hilarious and they end up besties who send each other Christmas cards every year its so fucking good
He’s 100% right about all of this by the way
Rich man: *harasses a woman and acts like a creep*
Holmes: You fucking asshole. I’m going to make sure you go to jail.
A woman: *murders her husband*
Holmes: I DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING ALSO GOOD FOR HER
The Solitary Cyclist and The Abbey Grange, respectively
Importantly, many of the “murdered husband” stories feature Doyle, via Watson or Holmes, looking directly at the reader and going “And this could have been avoided IF DIVORCE WAS LEGAL”
I hope the “What if Disco Elysium was about a witch finding her cat in the mountains” post never leaves the gaming discourse vernacular. It will never not be funny to me bc it’s got all the Gamer Entitlement™ levels of CoD bros throwing hissy fits about “woke” shit but instead of being couched in far right reactionism it’s the exact kind of “Kingdom of Conscience” style liberal outrage at anything with conviction and beliefs that DE waxed on about. Like even chuds who get mad that the game calls you out for being racist interact with the themes of DE better and understand them more than Cat Lady did.
Trying to comprehend this post shuts down my frontal lobe.
gf fandom in 2016: if you so much as hint - even jokingly! - about the nature of ford and bill’s relationship being anything other than platonic (and even then you NEED to give a disclaimer that bill is manipulating him!) then you support abusive relationships
And people really do try to interact with fandom like consumers! They want « content ». They act like they can get a refund on reading a fic they don’t like. They add fanfics to goddamned goodreads without a second thought without realizing that’s as ridiculous as adding your friend’s dining room as a restaurant on yelp just so you can post a review about it
‘Fandom’ is a contraction of 'fanatic’ and 'kingdom’.
Fanatic, from Latin fanaticus “mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god.”
Fandom is literally the place people go to be enthusiastically crazy about their blorbos! There are no normal people here!
#just opening livejournal would have killed you instantly
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”
I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.
And it’s going to happen with AI.
There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.
AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.
Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”
I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.
And it’s going to happen with AI.
There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.
AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.
Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.
my guy definitely didnt come that bulked up. its what happens when you haven’t eaten or moved in a thousand years and ur suddenly being fed 3 meals a day and forced to do labor 7 days out of the week.
finished designing Jakub’s TOWW (ive been calling her Melinoe) and mapped out his scars/gave him more piercings. plus bonus art i did of them while i was mulling over their relationship togetherrrr
yeahhhh so chirin’s first death wasnt even violent or dramatic they just had an anxiety induced loss of appetite and once the adrenaline from their crusade and fight against leshy wore off they starved to death lmao.
There are many women out there who want to be a housewife. I, however, want to be a househusband. So, how is that going to work? You can’t be a housewife and househusband together, right?
Wrong.
Here is my guide on how that is in fact possible and how to achieve it. Women, please listen up, because this is important to you when you marry me which I know you want to do.
Step 1) I become your househusband.
Step 2) You become my housewife.
Step 3) The bank takes the house.
Step 4) Can’t be a househusband and a housewife without a house, right?
Step 5) Wrong. We pretend to move out, but actually we are just moving all of our stuff into the walls of the house, where we will live. Much like house gnomes.
Step 6) This can go on for years if we play it right, but eventually the family living there finds us.
Step 7) We get arrested on some trumped up charges like trespassing. We both know they are actually arresting us for daring to love.
Step 8) We go to prison.
Step 9) But what else is prison called?
Step 10) The jailHOUSE.
Step 11) We just can’t stop winning.
Step 12) We get out of prison but have to reintegrate back into society.
Step 13) Where do we do that?
Step 14) The halfway HOUSE.
Step 15) We just can’t stop winning.
Step 16) After we leave we have trouble finding stable employment due to our criminal record..
Step 17) So we become freelance DJs who play at clubs, restaurants, and parties.
I was on YouTube and clicked on a 28 hour long video with a black title card, and it opened with Markiplier’s voice saying, “Hello everybody my name is Markipler and this is your Daily Dose of Internet.”
It was literally just DDOI, but it had Markiplier‘s face cam in the top left corner and he would add commentary every now and then. Halfway through, his house was exploded in the heat death of the universe and his face cam showed vibrant patterns and ethereal shapes as the clips continued like normal.
If nobody ever explained this to you, if someone you see a lot does something you like and you never ever tell them that, they might think you don’t like them or don’t like the things they do for you.
If you like your sister’s cooking and have never ever told her that, she may very well think that you hate her cooking. If you like it when your friend drives you places and you never ever thank them, they might think you’re not grateful even if you are. If you like it when your partner does this or that thing for you they won’t know that unless you tell them.
Tell people in your life hey thanks for driving me, that was a great dinner, I like your singing, thanks for helping me with that. They don’t automatically know that you appreciate what they do.
