I didn’t know I needed to see Zuko in water tribe clothes today but here we are.

fantasy story: but we grew complacent, indulgent, arrogant, spoiled by this era of prosperity and splendour, and in our short-sighted greed and vanity, we ended it. me at 15: I hate this stupid trope. People aren't going to just turn stupid and ruin everything just because things have been "too good" for "too long". Why does this author think that people are inherently stupid and evil? people on social media in 2024: I'm not going to vaccinate my dogs or my children because polio, measels and rabies are so rare they're not a real threat anyway uwu me at 30: Ah. I see.

You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.

– Audre Lorde

The only retail job I miss is being the cashier at a local Hardware Store in a small town surrounded by other small towns, because I was essentially a high fantasy GuildMaster.

I worked there three summers in a row, and every laborer from every nearby town would come there for whatever supplies they needed, and man could they gossip like there was an Olympic medal for it.

At 8 AM, every morning, every plumber, roofer, electrician, and landscaper in the county was at the door waiting for me to unlock it, and they’d come back throughout the day.

I knew every tradesman in a 30 miles radius, and I knew too much about everyone in town because of, like I said, the tradesman gossip. It’s shocking that people basically tune out an entire person in their living room and say whatever they want, because they don’t see the guy fixing their light fixture as real somehow.

Then your average citizens, the townsfolk, would come in to ask for labor recommendations. The cashier at the local hardware store is a god among yelp reviews.

A woman needs her roof repaired. A man wants central air installed in his 100 year old house. Someone needs to break into a safe they inherited without the combination.

And I would make recommendations. I’d take down names and information so when a plumber I liked walked in an hour later, I could say, “come here, I have a job for you” like I needed them to clear a village of Redcaps.

There is no difference between your local mom-and-pop hardware employee and Greed Karga sending the Mandalorian on bounty hunting jobs.

If Geralt of Rivia walked in, I could have found him something to do.

I believe all plumbers dual-wield drain snakes and arcane magic, because you’d be surprised how often Liches come up in septic tank repairs.

You can belong to a monster hunters’ guild and a welders’ union, if you have the time. Always good to diversify your portfolio.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

The Orcale

Did this one some time ago, based off of her gorgeous concept art. 😭🫶💕 Finally decided to upload after finding it again and updating with more accurate version of the dress I found later on.

I am obsessed with em dashes. They are my one true love. I cannot write my words without them. Take them away and I crumble under the weight of my own sentence structures

Red in Concert

starting to wonder if I'm slightly obsessed with her?? send help??

Mr Sandman sir I am doing a presentation on the Corinthian (OG version) and after extensive study I must conclude that you were being very mean to him at that Cereal Convention thing. why did you do that

he was fucking. he was killing epeoppe okay he was KILLING. PEOPLEE. irl. in reaIRL. IRL. like i GET where you’re coming from. i can SEE the narrative. what CHOICE did he have am i not his god did i not make him this way did i not love him as he was ? did i not encourage this? am i not to blame? perhaps.but i warned him. i told him his role and i gave him his choice and his freedom and he chose to murder the dreamers he was supposed to teach. my fault was that i was proud of him. and i loved him. and i confused him.and i did not see his betrayal coming. but my point is he was literally fucking killing peope for fun and on purpose

Sometimes, you just have to sit down and make yourself write!

But not yet, though.

Chapters: 13/14 Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ravus Nox Fleuret/Reader Characters: Ravus Nox Fleuret, Reader, Original Characters, Aranea Highwind, Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Libertus Ostium, Biggs Callux, Wedge Kincaid, Dino Ghiranze Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Post-Canon, Post-Episode Ignis Verse 2, Getting Together, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, Size Difference, Mentioned Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Slow Burn, Touch-Starved, Reader-Insert, Sharing a Bed, no y/n Summary:

You're an architect whose main job is to help rebuild Tenebrae. Ravus is your boss, whose legitimacy on the Tenebraen throne is being challenged.

He asks for your help.

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

Dream of a Thousand Cats The Sandman 1.11

Chapters: 12/? Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ravus Nox Fleuret/Reader Characters: Ravus Nox Fleuret, Reader, Original Characters, Aranea Highwind, Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Libertus Ostium, Biggs Callux, Wedge Kincaid, Dino Ghiranze Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Post-Canon, Post-Episode Ignis Verse 2, Getting Together, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, Size Difference, Mentioned Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Slow Burn, Touch-Starved, Reader-Insert, Sharing a Bed Summary:

You're an architect whose main job is to help rebuild Tenebrae. Ravus is your boss, whose legitimacy on the Tenebraen throne is under pressure from age-old superstitions.

He asks for your help.

legit as someone who works in tech i cannot IMAGINE being one of the tech volunteers for ao3 and combatting this ddos attack FOR FREE. ALL. DAY. LONG. definitely donating to ao3 this year when this is all over and the site is back up and running.