Ouchie, lesson learned I guess?

Fics on AO3 called A Better Word Than Humanity by @silentsnowdrop, personally I love creepy evil scientists so just adding on to my hyper-fixation huh?

Thoughts below if you wanna read and possible spoilers?

giggling and kicking my feet, ah more angst fics to fill my lack of fluff updates(speaking of recommendations?) anyways cough cough…

Honestly I wanna draw more for this fic specifically spoilers future Donnie’s death and the purple dragon scene cause I can like perfectly envision that stuff.

Side note: mmm reading about the parasite makes me cringe internally(in a good way ya know?) keep it up!

also don’t care what ya do with my art just credit it :]

WHOO IT'S BEEN A WHILE Hi everyone who's ready for a CHAPTER ART PREVIEW??? Namely in that there's multiple versions for everyone's gilf needs because uh the upload is happening now, go read A Better Word Than Humanity

Technodrome Donnie fic but it’s incomplete new but still has a lot of chapters also bishop

Btw the Technodrome isn’t really present more like Donnie has a parasite

Hi. I'm updating again.

Dear Joanne Kathleen Rowling,

Google: hello I recommend this show to you based on your interest in 1600s Japanese modern period dramas and animations

Me: oh actually this show is pretty neat, I like that the Japanese characters actually speak Japanese and not *winkwink* they're totes talking in Japanese but for the viewer's sake they're using English *winkwink* and from the sound of it traditional Japanese at that because this is sounding very antiquated and out of date compared to my rough knowledge of modern Japanese

Show: :)

Show: have 10 minutes of a character being tortured by being boiled to death in a large cast iron pot :)

Me: ...

Me: WHY

God. What if Pandora didn’t want to open the box. What if she was manipulated, her hands tied to and guided by strings she couldn’t shake off. What if when she released the horrors out into the world, Hope chose to stay with her, in the box. What if Pandora couldn’t rid herself of that guilt. What if Hope couldn’t convince her that not all was lost, and that she wasn’t responsible for the strings around her hands. That she wasn’t a monster.

What if Pandora and Hope found a way to trap everything in the box again. What if Pandora couldn’t do it. What if she didn’t want anyone else to feel the guilt she did. What if she thought that trapping the horrors in the box would just doom everyone into the same cycle. What if she felt she had to break it by bearing the suffering of everyone else. What if Hope tried to convince her that it could be better. What if she wouldn’t save herself. What if Hope had to kill Pandora for a chance to save everyone, including her. What if they both were sealed in the box. What if no one ever knew what happened to them. What if their last words to the world and to each other were “I love you.”

What if the world ending was never Pandora’s fault, but in her guilt and grief she blamed herself for it, and the Hope that voluntarily stayed by her side had to take her life to save it.

What if?

Laios…… my guy….. 😭 truly the more I think about him and his motivations and desires the more I am overwhelmed with how big his heart is. He devoted his life to trying to make sure no one in the whole world ever had to go hungry. Are you kidding. I need to lie down.

@annymation @uva124 @emillyverse @oh-shtars @kstarsarts @tumblingdownthefoxden @hopeyarts @mythartist21 @dangerousflowerpanda @spectator-zee @gracebethartacc

How would your Asha handle flirting? What about Starboy?

I think that The Fallen Star Asha would be a terrible flirt. She thinks the most basic form of attention is her essentially throwing herself at someone. She sucks at it. Being flirted with, this girl is dense as a brick. More like “why are you being so nice to me? What do you have planned?”

Cielo is a natural flirt. He’s suave and charismatic and a big tease, getting along with people easily. He pays special attention to people they’re attracted to, though, with extra nicknames in Spanish and things to rile them up. To the princess, he is way too sunshiney but in an endearing way… wait, why was it endearing? Being flirted with, even if it’s terrible, is like being flirted with Aphrodite herself.

(source)

doing figure drawing studies because i know thats what i should be doing right now but also ive been in a very insane deranged state for the past 2 months that leaves me like this whenever i look at a man for too long

If I had a nickel for every time this week I’ve read a fic with a teenage mutant ninja turtle having a seizure I’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

Looking at you ENtLD and aBWtH

Hi everyone! It’s time for this week’s preview of the next A Better Word Than Humanity chapter! Remember, it updates Saturday, so you have until then to catch up if you haven’t read it recently! Poor Leo. He finally gets to talk to a shrink and it’s literally the Worst One ever, sorry fearless leader better luck next time

incoming: another fucking voltron rant because i watched a langst edit and now i wanna cry😭😭

they did not take time. they did not slow that show down for a little bit. especially for lance. cause he did not getting a fucking moment to find himself again after he FUCKING DIED. we saw him homesick, we saw him missing his family, we saw him insecure about his position on the team, we saw him insecure about himself, but we never actually saw him go anywhere else but being sad. he really did get barely any character development.

and tbh i feel like in a way just all the characters didnt have a moment to slow down. and i know, i know, its a kids show, its about fucking robots for fucks sake, theyre in the middle of a war. which, yeah. youre right. but there couldve been so much more, for him, for all of them. what about them? as people, with feelings. where are there emotions. why is it only sadness and happiness and not the enitre confusing spectrum of emotion between. does pidge not feel lost after she finds her brother? yeah, hes back, but i bet she didnt imagine she would be fighting an intergalactic war, and now matt is too. she imagined family dinner, brother barging into her room, dad making corny jokes, house happier and full of life.

hunks family was put in a fucking work camp. he had seen this across the galaxy, zarkons army imprisoning people, making them work, killing them. did he imagine that for earth ? did he imagine that for his family? how the fuck did he cope fighting a war, anxious as he is? how did he cope at all?

shiro isnt even in his fucking original body. thats fucking weird. im not saying that in a rude way bc like yeah, organ transplants are a thing irl, and a major life saving thing they are ! but like, how odd it must be to have someone elses kidney or heart in your body. nevermind to have your entire soul and conciousness put into another body, you but not really you.

keiths life,,, dude probably just doesnt even give anything a second fucking thought anymore. but like, could they not have shown him showing some more emotion. fair enough if he doesnt always cry in the moment but rather late on, but you'd think seeing allura die, they wouldve at least put some tears in his eyes. he had fucking no one before he had voltron. only shiro, and even then he was alone for so long when shiro had been on his mission. you cant tell me he didnt want to think of voltron as his family. they bonded :(

and lance, gosh lance. i feel like, if we looks at this as it is, lance would be the character that people think back on and go "oh yeah, he helped me accept my emotions, he helped me become the best version of me and gain confidence in who i am". in the fandom hes seen as someone with big emotions that he wears on his sleeve, but also someone who will put everyone else and their needs before himself.

he's a story of self-sacrifice, quite literally. he's the story of sincere love, of casual admiration. he's the story of the most wonderful friend, of loyalty, of no, I'll step down because there's a cause bigger than me, and im not the one for the job when there's people like my friends and you on the team.

and no one wanted to explore that? no one wanted to see him do more than just, what? flirt and literally die and fall in love and barely find his place on team voltron? that was it for him. it shouldn't have been, but it was.

And this is how I plot out fight scenes. With tiny turtles and octopuses.

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.