it's Bananas to me that despite these being two separate canvases i'm working on, they'll inevitably be one cohesive piece

chinese college girls slay (cr: 哭天喊地六仙女）

i finished the Soul Eater anime all because i had a passing soul-eater wangxian AU idea

of 30+ wangxian

of Meister!wangji who has a Frankenstien-like roll within his region's faction of the DWMA. strong soul, adept at resonating with whatever weapon is in his hand, can use it like a melee weapon if he Really wanted to, strong foundations with a rocky start in his time as a student at the academy

of Witch!wuxian who had no real idea that he had witch origins, who was raised as a Weapon!wuxian & freely transforms back & forth between Weapon & Wuxian, who realizes his witch heritage fighting the Xuanwu Witch with wangji as kids & who fucking Dips the minute his witch heritage is fully realized, only to come back when something related to Yuan is going Wrong

this article is behind a paywall but i'm obsessed with the headline + photo combo

kingdom hearts

from now on your tumblr nickname is whatever you get from this sexual identity generator  ☆

we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

The Amazon grocery stores which touted an AI system that tracked what you put in your cart so you didn't have to go through checkout were actually powered by underpaid workers in India.

Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales

A great many AI products are just schemes to shift labor costs to more exploitable workers. There may indeed be a neural net involved in the data processing pipeline, but most products need a vast and underpaid labor force to handle its nearly innumerable errors.

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY & I GOT A HAT TO PROVE IT NOW !

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

Happy April Fools Day

appreciation doodles of the less popular duos

i asked for some mo dao screencaps from Any adaptation over on twt as an excuse to practice doing some backgrounds Quickly to see what i liked the Best & my own personal spin on it was challenging myself to imitate a Very Specific anime/manga artist from the 80s-00s

refs below the cut 👇