I think the other reason I don’t really get into ships as portrayed by fandom culture is that it seems like the mindset is more like. “I want these characters to be in a Romantic Relationship™” instead of “I want these characters’ relationship to be romantic”
What I mean here is that, so often I see pairings enacting romance tropes to the point of heavily altering or downright replacing their original dynamic - as if the people behind it only understand romance as a series of checklists to tick off. Couples like to kiss and sleep in the same bed and flirt with each other, so it doesn’t matter who the characters are, if they’re a couple then naturally they’ll do those things, right??
And that’s where the whole thing starts to lose me, because I would assume that the appeal of shipping characters is, y'know… the characters? Rather than just, the idea of a couple? If I’m thinking about how it’d be cool for them to be in love, my first thought is always “so how would they show it,” because just like everything else about a person, the answer is going to be different on a case-by-case basis.
Maybe the characters involved aren’t really into kissing, but they like arranging date activities. Maybe they aren’t committed to the structure of dating at all, and just want to be around each other whenever they can. And even if they are the types to like doing traditionally romantic things, that doesn’t suddenly erase whatever else they had going on before they started adding that on top of it.
I’m not saying that the more typical romance tropes and activities are bad, just that they’re applied kind of excessively, regardless of whether or not they actually work for the characters involved. I want to see my favorite characters having relationships that are true to who they are, not what the stock depiction of a couple says they should be.
More of toon Lamb au where when they argue Lamb will turn off the TV so they are quickly put back into their world so they don’t have to deal with Narinder while they cool off
I’m training a neural network to generate cookbook recipes. It looks at a bunch of recipes and has to figure out completely from scratch - no knowledge of what English words even are - how to start generating more recipes like them.
It has to start by figuring out which words are used in recipes. Here in a very early iteration, you can see the first somewhat intelligible word beginning to condense out of the network:
4 caam pruce 6 ½ Su ; cer 1 teaspoop sabter fraze er intve 1 lep wonuu s cap ter 3 tl spome. 2 teappoon terting peves, caare teatasing sad ond le heed an ted pabe un Mlse; blacoins d cut ond ma eroy phispuz bambed 1 . teas, &
It’s trying SO hard to spell teaspoon. Teaspoop. It’s hilarious. It gets it right every once in a while, apparently by sheer luck, but mostly it’s:
It reeallly wants to learn to spell teaspoon. There are a lot of almost-teaspoons beginning with c… maybe it’s a mixture of teaspoon and cup. There are a few others that might be a tablespoon attempt.
Up next: pupper, corm, bukter, cabbes, choped, vingr…
people have noticed that large language models get better at stuff like math and coding if the models have to spend time showing their work. apparently it can get excessive.
the prompt was “hi”
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the eventual output was “Hi there! How can I assist you today?”
Fun fact: in Europe, charcoal makers or colliers were considered somewhat of an odd job. While not rejected outright, despite the very specialized skill set and knowledge needed to do charcoal kilns, they seem not to be highly considered. Charcoal making needs constant attention and is often a solitary job next to sources of wood like forests, so colliers were considered solitary men, the German word Köhlerglaube (“collier’s faith”) means a person with blind faith on something, because colliers often didn’t have time to go to church to learn what they believed in, they just did.
This solitary lifestyle and connection to the forest, at least in Scandinavian folklore, seems to make colliers a favorite ‘target’ of forest spirits such as the Hulders or Huldras. Hulders are described as beautiful women (sometimes men, huldrekall) with a hidden non-human trait, like a hollow back or a fox or cow’s tails. Colliers who left gifts for them and were kind were repaid by the Hulders tending to their kilns.
Yes, I do have an encyclopedic knowledge about historical legends of fox or wolf girls. No, this doesn’t say anything at all about myself.
me when i listen to a playlist full of peak songs: ok one more peak song and ill go do stuff. ok. ok no i cant skip this one. ok . ok this is the Imagining song i cant. how is it 2am
me when i listen to a playlist full of peak songs: ok one more peak song and ill go do stuff. ok. ok no i cant skip this one. ok . ok this is the Imagining song i cant. how is it 2am
wow so this is the one to break containment a bit.
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you’d like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
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In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.
Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.
You follow up with a letter to the business saying you’re fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don’t name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you’re disgusted at them for allowing this.
Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.
Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.
You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.
i’m so pro-divorce that i forget myself sometimes. a guy on the elevator was telling me unprompted about how he got divorced on friday and apparently “nice congrats” was not the correct reaction
“Women and non-binary” poll that only lets in afabs 😔
(!?) op is a trans woman…
Hdishskdhshs I meant it as a joke about how many spaces that describe themselves as “women and non-binary” (adding non-binary to the woman poll) don’t include trans women not as a jab at you sorry
Oh, thank you for clearing that up. Unfortunately I have encountered that :(
poll 4/2
Should OP be raptured for not including nonbinary people?
The village people sang “Go West” so west is men and east is women because that’s where the women are compared to west (note: everything is east compared to west)
> go East
You go East.
As your journey stretches on, there are fewer and fewer men.
What do you do?
> go East
what the fuck did i stumble upon
this is a perfectly normal post, don’t worry about it kitten
Hi followers wanna fuck up this Trainwreck of a post even more
Having a favorite pokemon puts me in a panic of having to choose one but I’ve basically narrowed it down to a list of extremely small, quadrupedal, non-mammalians:
honorable mentions for pokemon not fitting this category, but could be my favorite include Toxapex, Iron Valiant, Primarina, Kyogre, Clodsire, and probably a few more
You understand my conundrum, though
Hold on I’m seeing something here give me one minute
Base form
Fuck maybe this is why like half my friends are autistic
half? only half?
I’m not autistic myself, just have adhd, and plenty of my friends follow that same pattern
I have a favourite
And who would be your favorite, xerneasvgc? hm? you gonna keep it a secret? Xerneasvgc is gonna turn it into a guessing game? Xerneasvgc is gonna act cryptic about it?
@alucard007 This is called shimmering or defense waving. They raise their abdomens in a synchronized way to deter predators. I would have to assume it makes them look like one big organism rather than many small that could easily be picked off.
@alucard007 This is called shimmering or defense waving. They raise their abdomens in a synchronized way to deter predators. I would have to assume it makes them look like one big organism rather than many small that could easily be picked off.
@alucard007 This is called shimmering or defense waving. They raise their abdomens in a synchronized way to deter predators. I would have to assume it makes them look like one big organism rather than many small that could easily be picked off.
No man can get laid easier than a single dad fumbling through the feminine hygiene aisle trying to be supportive for his daughter who just hit puberty. And if he’s also a widower, women will try to fuck him in the parking lot.
i haven’t watched a single episode of severance and while it does pique my curiosity at this point i think it’s way more interesting and funny to learn everything i know about it via tumblr osmosis
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