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starcrossedreaders · 10 months

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Authors Note: So I went to a K.flay and Grandson concert last night and came up with a few Leon headcanons if you were to go to a concert with him...so enjoy!

Warnings: None! Mentions of the warped tour which for those of you that don't know is basically like Coachella but for punk rock. They toured all over America and Canada during the summer. It began in 1995 and ended in 2019

-> Re2! Leon was definitely in the metal/rock/ punk rock scene he surely went to warped tour every time it came into town.

-> Re2! would try to drag you with using every tactic in the book

"Come one loveee. I'll pay for the tickets, food, and even gas." His soft red lips formed a pout.

-> You would eventually cave letting out a big sigh and slight shake of your head.

"Fine. But I choose what we eat."

-> You guys would make a tradition of this till Warped ended

->Any Leon would always prepare. He is the type of believer that if you are on time you're late. Especially if you had a long drive. You best believe you are leaving at least 3 hours early. (even if he tends to be late for most work events.)

"I know love but we have to account for traffic and our food stop on the way."

-> If it's a late concert he will stop at some run-down diner after the concert for food before you go home.

-> If it's an outside venue he will be ready too. Sunscreen, cold water,a jacket, gloves, scarf he will have it.

-> He will bring ear plugs, he does not want his ears to ring for days on end.

-> If you're on the shorter side he will try to push up as close as possible so you can see. Which won't be hard, he buys fast pass every time.

-> From the warped days he stays in the habit to keep you against the guard rail while he cages you in from behind. Always wanting to keep you safe.

-> Before you guys leave he always loves to see and double-check your outfits. He might imply for you to change, but he means well when he does. People can be creeps! He just wants to keep you safe,

"Are you sure your feet won't hurt in those shoes?" "Do your shorts ride up? That might be annoying if you want to dance." "Are you comfortable wearing that?"

-> Moshing is a big no-no if you go to a concert where that happens. It's wayyy too dangerous for you.

-> He will always lean over to kiss your cheek or neck and then check in on you.

"You doing ok?"

-> If you're not he's splitting the crowd and getting you out of there. Stopping by the bar to get you some water.

-> When you guys leave he will have you hook onto his belt loop or keep a vice grip on his hand.

-> He would also wear your bag for you if you get tired of it, he won't care.

"I love you," Leon leaned over your body and kissed your cheek. Turing around you yelled. "WHAT!?" Leon only laughed and shook his head. "I SAID I LOVE YOU!" "OH, I LOVE YOU TOO." You kissed his cheek and continued to dance.

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moontrinemars · 1 year

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TENTH LORD in SUN NAKSHATRAS

As always, recorded for my own benefit, published for yours. Sidereal placements used. General disclaimer is in my bio. Credit to KRSchannel for inspiring this series.

Find your 10th lord here, and find your 10th lord's nakshatra here.

The 10th house rules our life's honor. It represents the services we perform for society as well as the reputation we earn as a result. It is associated with the father and the career because traditionally, this is where both our standing in society and the role we performed in society would come from - inherited through the father's family line. However, in our contemporary world, this isn't always the case, which is why it's important to know the grander themes at play.

The three Sun-ruled nakshatras are Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, and Uttara Ashadha.

The sun is the luminary object that represents what we make of ourselves. It is not our most base self (the Ascendant) or what our experiences make of us (the moon). Instead, it is how our decisions define us. Growth, and personal development must all come through the sun in some way - because success, while partially circumstantial, is also dependent on us pursuing joy, or even just allowing ourselves some happiness in whatever form we find it. Essentially, the sun is who we choose to be - and who we might be if we put forth the effort to flourish rather than just survive.

Do you have your 10th lord in a Sun-ruled nakshatra? That means you...

Katharine Hepburn, Cardi B, and Eartha Kitt all have their tenth lords in Sun ruled nakshatras. Katharine's is in Krittika, Cardi's is in Uttara Phalguni, and Eartha's is in Uttara Ashadha.

... use your energy, warmth, and personality to shape your career and your communities, and vice versa.

This placement is a ticket to a rising status - which is good, because individuals with this placement have an inborn need to improve their station, and then to improve the world through their new influence. They come across as effortlessly magnetic to the public, and yet, to their peers, they remain thoroughly relatable. They are capable of spearheading projects that nobody else would have the courage to even consider, but they may allow their ego or pride to dictate how they handle their responsibilities to society.

As for famous natives, well, fame is the wheelhouse of the sun, particularly in terms of popularity. The term cult of personality comes to mind, as it is these natives who come to immense profit simply by acting like themselves. In turn, this is the only placement where benefitting from fame nepotism is more bad than good, as the native's sun is eclipsed by the star that already hung in the sky, after having risen to prominence of its own accord. Regardless, this is a generous placement, and a lot of philanthropy can be traced back to these celebrity natives, even before it was trendy.

More on the specifics of Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, and Uttara Ashadha below!

If KRITTIKA RULES the TENTH LORD, you...

Shakira, Lon Chaney, and Billie Lourd all have their tenth lords in Krittika. Others with this placement are Christina Applegate, Franz Kafka, Wayne Newton, Alan Turing, Sandra Bullock, Vanessa Hudgens, Mae Whitman, Russell Crow, Alexandre Dumas, Bing Crosby, and Karl Marx.

Create and receive positive energy with your public interactions.

Have trouble maintaining consistency with your work habits.

Have more precise control of your physical body and its movements when you are being observed or reviewed.

Are passionate about various social causes and have strong ideas about how they should be handled.

Have no patience for dishonesty or deception when it comes to professional relationships.

and you may find...

Criticism and skepticism comes naturally to you, and you are compelled to communicate your skepticism for better or worse.

You are involved in workplace affairs, tempted to be involved in workplace affairs, or find they are common wherever you work.

Diplomacy, which may or may not be a skill of yours when handling private manners, becomes much more difficult in the workplace or when the matters are made public.

You are more temperamental, fiery, or easy to anger at work and in public than you are at home or in private.

You end up responsible for a lot of "cutting" and 'shaving' in the workplace - physical, like shredding papers or chopping ingredients, or figurative, like budget cuts.

KRITTIKA is the Star of Fire. Industries and career types favored are those involving crafts that depend on heat and fire, critiquing, oversight, education, spirituality, cutting or needlework, modeling, fashion and styling, military, building contracting, and leadership.

If UTTARA PHALGUNI RULES the TENTH LORD, you...

Rami Malek, Fiona Apple, and Kirsten Dunst all have their tenth lords in Uttara Phalguni. Others with this placement are Austin Butler, Mae West, Adam Driver, William Wordsworth, Samuel Adams, and Rachel Miner.

Are naturally attuned to social graces, traditions, and etiquette.

Come across as straight-forward, likable, and friendly in public.

Are ambitious and productive, so advancement comes easily.

Swing between excessive generosity to others, and entitled or ungrateful behavior for what you are given.

Hold yourself and others to high standards in the name of maintaining your ego.

and you may find...

People you meet in public or through work are compelled to do favors for you - or you for them depending on situations - which may lead to treatment from your superiors that peers find unfair.

Opening up about hardships, turmoil, or conflict in a public setting is grossly uncomfortable and embarrassing to you.

Your relationships attract unwarranted attention, with others treating them as scandals rather than your personal business.

Ending things is always impossibly messy for you, and you have a hard time fully completing anything with any satisfaction.

You allow sentimentality, patience, and generosity to sucker you into enabling the poor behavior of strangers or coworkers.

Luxury and comfort become a top priority in your line of work, regardless of whether that's because you seek it out in those circumstances, or if it's a matter of meeting work standards.

UTTARA PHALGUNI is the Star of Patronage. Industries and career types favored are those involving entertainment, performance and public speaking, counseling, philanthropy, diplomacy, patriotism, service, animals, food and nutrition, caretaking, mathematics, sales, and personality management.

If UTTARA ASHADHA RULES the TENTH LORD...

Dolly Parton, Jeff Bridges, and Saint Bernadette all have their tenth lords in Uttara Ashadha. Others with this placement are Billy Joel, Justin Timberlake, Napoleon Bonaparte I, Patsy Cline, Otto Von Bismarck, Umberto Eco, Lady Iris Mountbatten, Shia LaBeouf, Betrand Russell, and Peter Jackson.

Are modest and down-to earth, but also ambitious and idealistic.

Network perfectly naturally, without strategy, with great results.

End up creatively or intellectually absorbed in any projects that engage the public or your profession, always digging deeper.

Are susceptible to flattery, and get frustrated when people don't appreciate your efforts or don't react as you want them to.

Act like a martyr for work-related stress, despite it being a result of your own choices and priorities.

and you may find...

Things come much, much easier to you when you handle them in public or at work, rather than other settings or environments.

Work or public service projects that you start nearly always prosper, not just to the end you had in mind, but beyond that.

Others treat you as moral authority as you're compelled to speak up when you witness injustice in public or in the workplace

Reading and learning has benefitted you, and helped you to stick out as particularly knowledgable or skilled in your career.

You face adversity early in your career, only for success to come quickly and plentifully once you are older and more established.

Both traveling for work and finishing projects brings you more trouble than it feels like its worth.

UTTARA ASHADHA is the Universal Star. Industries and career types favored are those involving authority, judgment, leadership, religion, exploring, discovery, combat sports, athletics, defense, preservation, construction, archives, research, and causes.

Hope this was helpful. Feel free to message with any questions, thoughts, or ideas. Part 4, focusing on 10th Lords with Moon Nakshatras, will be next! ♡

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spoonyglitteraunt · 1 year

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Anyone else feel like the waves of pornbots are becoming a new form of tumblr captcha, pick out all the traffic lights style?

They keep evolving their names and descriptions. Not quick enough to constantly keep you on high alert, but just enough for habit to set in where you just assume every new follower is a bot and auto report them, only to then realise a second after that you barely even checked any more but that name was slightly different. So you might, probably not, but might have blocked not-a-bot-just-clueless instead. And you’ll never know.

Like a sexy girls Turing test. And you might be failing.

Wait, were we the pornbots all along???

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jhavelikes · 10 months

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream--or a nightmare--that awakens metaphysical questions on human life. Yet far from a distant technology of the future, the true power of AI lies in its subtle revolution of ordinary life. From voice assistants like Siri to natural language processors, AI technologies use cultural biases and modern psychology to fit specific characteristics of how users perceive and navigate the external world, thereby projecting the illusion of intelligence. Integrating media studies, science and technology studies, and social psychology, Deceitful Media examines the rise of artificial intelligence throughout history and exposes the very human fallacies behind this technology. Focusing specifically on communicative AIs, Natale argues that what we call "AI" is not a form of intelligence but rather a reflection of the human user. Using the term "banal deception," he reveals that deception forms the basis of all human-computer interactions rooted in AI technologies, as technologies like voice assistants utilize the dynamics of projection and stereotyping as a means for aligning with our existing habits and social conventions. By exploiting the human instinct to connect, AI reveals our collective vulnerabilities to deception, showing that what machines are primarily changing is not other technology but ourselves as humans. Deceitful Media illustrates how AI has continued a tradition of technologies that mobilize our liability to deception and shows that only by better understanding our vulnerabilities to deception can we become more sophisticated consumers of interactive media.

Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test - Simone Natale - Google Books

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askthebests · 1 year

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Procrastination: How to Stop the Habit

All of us, (every single one of us) is guilty of procrastination. This is a habit that each indulge into a couple of times in a day. While a ‘healthy dose’ of procrastination is fine, it is the extended, overdue duration of time that some of us dedicate to the habit that can cause trouble. But what is procrastination and how can we help ourselves? Well let us find out more:

What is Procrastination?

Can be referred to as a form of self-indulgence, however Science has a rather fascinating definition of the same. Procrastination has been defined as an act of delaying or putting off an important (usually boring) task for later. So you see, most of us tend to do this quite often then we can imagine. While the actual act of procrastination is not a direct problem, however, this can lead to massive loss of productivity that can lead to us missing out on our targets. Most often, we tend to regret this as they say ‘time and tide waits for no man/woman’. So, to help you out, here are a few tips that you can follow in order to ‘better deal’ with the habit.

Rewards

This is also known as temptation-building where you award yourself a ‘nice little gift or treat’ for accomplishing a short-term task. This way you will be tempted to complete a task, that you would rather put-off.

The Consequences

Likewise, much like Rewards, one can also attach consequences to missing out on task. This could be either having a friend or a relation ‘scold’ you into commitment or having to give away some money to a charity you distaste.

Designing the Future Actions

This loosely refers to the act of eliminating the temptations along your way to your goals. For example, if you find yourself procrastinating over the phone too often, then it is time to delete the apps you find yourself wasting time over. Likewise, switching off or turing into Silent mode of the phone is yet another way of assisting yourself to procrastinate less over the phone.

Making it Appealing

Not all tasks can be done at a single go. Also it is not an achievable feat when it comes to some very tiring yet important jobs that we need to get done. For this, you can ‘cut down’ or divide the task into smiler goals, that can be achieved ‘step-by-step’. This way your brain will perceive the task to be rather tiny as opposed to a ‘huge one’.

CONCLUSION

One of the best way to beat procrastination is to read some of the best books on procrastination. This way you can know about this issue and deal with it in a more effective way.

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witt84castillo · 2 years

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The Last Word Guide To Solving CAPTCHA Online

Solving CAPTCHA captcha AI isn't easy, but it isn't unimaginable. A fast have a look at the top apps to get you thru these annoying conditions and make your life easier.

What's CAPTCHA?

CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing check to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It is a problem-response check used on web sites to prevent automated spam and to confirm that a human is responding to the challenge. CAPTCHA was invented by Charles Babbage in 1884, nevertheless it didn't turn out to be in style till the early 2000s, when it began getting used on e-mail addresses and password fields. Today, CAPTCHAs are ubiquitous on web sites, and so they're also being utilized in different applications, resembling online banking and e-mail authentication. How do CAPTCHAs work? A CAPTCHA consists of a set of randomly generated letters or numbers that a user has to sort in appropriately so as to proceed. The letters or numbers are displayed on an internet web page, and the person has to click on them with the mouse cursor so that they are often copied onto the pc display screen. Once the consumer has copied them, she or he has to enter the same letters or numbers right into a validation type (often positioned at the bottom of the web web page) with the intention to continue. How do I resolve a CAPTCHA? There are a number of ways to solve a CAP

What are the benefits of CAPTCHA?

CAPTCHA is a kind of challenge-response test used to verify that a user is human. The term CAPTCHA was created by David L. Sarnoff and Dr. Luis von Ahn, who first developed the method as part of their research into figuring out computer users in a pure setting, reminiscent of at a college or company. CAPTCHA has been widely utilized in online safety, the place it is usually used to protect kinds from automated spam submissions. While using CAPTCHA has decreased in recent years, it remains an vital safety measure for a lot of websites. The advantages of CAPTCHA 1. CAPTCHA helps forestall automated spam submissions. 2. CAPTCHA can be utilized to establish users who usually are not registered or logged in to a site. 3. CAPTCHA can be utilized to differentiate between official and illegitimate requests from users. 4. CAPTCHA can be used to find out how a lot info a person should present earlier than being allowed entry to a site or service. 5. CAPTCHAs can be utilized to track and monitor person habits on a site or application.

Sorts of CAPTCHAs

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How do I create my own CAPTCHA?

If you're looking to resolve CAPTCHAs on-line, there are just a few alternative ways to go about it. You should utilize software like SolveMedia or Google's ReCAPTCHA, or you'll be able to create your personal utilizing on-line instruments like EasyCAPTCHA or Bitly. Whether you're using an existing tool or creating your personal, following the following tips will help make the method simpler.

Why do I need to solve a CAPTCHA as an app developer?

CAPTCHA is a sort of safety check used on web sites to forestall automated spam submissions. CAPTCHAs are designed to be tough for computers to resolve, requiring the person to input textual content from a given picture. For developers, fixing CAPTCHAs can be an effective manner of preventing automated submissions from happening in the primary place. Listed below are some explanation why developers ought to resolve CAPTCHAs: 1) It may help improve the security of your site. By fixing CAPTCHAs, you’re making it more difficult for bots to submit types mechanically. This may help protect your site from being hacked, and it will even cease spammers from flooding your type with unwanted submissions. 2) It can help increase the standard of your submissions. By forcing customers to solve a CAPTCHA before submitting a form, you’re encouraging them to take the time to enter their info appropriately. This can help make sure that your entire submissions are excessive-quality and accurate, which can improve your site’s overall consumer experience. 3) It may also help reduce the number of spam submissions. By fixing CAPTCHAs, you’re making it tougher for spammers to cheat their means

Additional Resources

If you're stuck on a CAPTCHA challenge and want some assist, there are a number of websites that will offer you some help. One web site, The CAPTCHA King, offers step-by-step solutions to frequent CAPTCHA questions. Another website, Solve Your CAPTCHA, offers extra in-depth details about how CAPTCHAs work and how to resolve them.

#captcha AI

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tuttle28mccarthy · 2 years

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How To Stop Scammers By Solving CAPTCHAs

The captcha AI , or Completely Automated Public Turing check to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is a well-liked safety function that may be found on many websites. But if you've got ever tried to use the CAPTCHA in a rush, you'll have noticed it isn't always straightforward to solve. In this text we'll explore the best way to keep away from getting scammed by understanding what a captcha is and how it works.

What is CAPTCHA?

CAPTCHA is a type of puzzle used to verify that you are a human and never a pc program. While you try to submit a type on the net, the system asks you to solve a CAPTCHA. If you can't clear up it, the system assumes that you're a pc and is not going to allow you to submit the form. There are manyCAPTCHAs on the market, however here are some simple tips about how to unravel them: 1. Use common phrases: Most CAPTCHAs use widespread words like "What is your name?" or "What number of eggs in a dozen?" Try to use words that individuals would say slightly than pc code. 2. Use photos: Another method to unravel CAPTCHAs is through the use of photos. Many CAPTCHAs require you to enter a picture, and sometimes these photographs are difficult to see. Try to find photos which can be straightforward to see, like pictures of fruits or vegetables. 3. Use math issues: Some CAPTCHAs involve math problems, like adding up numbers or fixing puzzles involving squares and other geometric shapes. Again, attempt to use easily-seen math problems as an alternative of code phrases or obscure images. 4. Solve

How does the rip-off work?

CAPTCHAs are utilized by on-line platforms to stop automated spam and to weed out bots. A CAPTCHA is a check designed to determine whether you are a human or a machine. The challenge is to solve the CAPTCHA utilizing textual content enter, without looking at the letters or numbers. The primary person to correctly remedy the CAPTCHA is awarded a prize. Scammers take benefit of people that are attempting to access professional websites, but they're met with CAPTCHAs. They are going to create pretend web sites that seem like the actual webpage, but they have pretend CAPTCHAs on them. The scammer will ask you to unravel the CAPTCHA on the faux web site, and if you are successful, they'll take your login information and passwords. To prevent yourself from being scammed, make it possible for you do not enter your login info or passwords on any webpage that you don't belief. Always use a password manager to maintain your passwords secure and confidential. For those who encounter a CAPTCHA that you can't remedy, simply close the window and take a look at again later. Don't answer any questions that you simply have no idea the best way to answer.

Why are scammers so profitable at avoiding detection?

CAPTCHAs, or character-encoding puzzles, are a sort of safety measure used to test whether a person is human. They work by requiring the user to input a collection of characters that characterize a word or phrase. If the person inputs one thing that's not truly part of the puzzle, the system will usually detect this and refuse to permit the user to proceed. One motive scammers are so successful at avoiding detection is that they often use automated tools that don't require any human enter. This means that scammers can easily bypass CAPTCHAs through the use of programs that routinely generate random characters. Additionally, many CAPTCHA platforms solely require a fraction of the full variety of characters required for a legitimate reply, which makes it easy for scammers to artificially increase the issue stage of their puzzles. In order to combat this downside, it can be crucial for website house owners to guantee that their CAPTCHAs are sufficiently tough and distinctive. Additionally, additionally it is essential to watch person exercise so as to detect any unusual patterns or habits that may be indicative of fraud or scamming. By doing these items, website owners will help stop their techniques from falling victim to scammers and be sure that their users are

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Preventing Scams

CAPTCHAs are a typical security measure used to prevent automated assaults on websites. By fixing CAPTCHAs, you'll be able to stop scammers from routinely gaining access to your account or private info. Listed below are 4 suggestions for solving CAPTCHAs: 1. Try using a distinct phrase or phrase instead of the one listed in the CAPTCHA. For instance, strive “What is your name?” reasonably than “What is your 5 letter word?” 2. Use a number of letters and numbers in your CAPTCHA. This makes it more difficult for scammers to guess your reply by copying and pasting from different online types. 3. Use a Captcha generator you could access without having to check in to your account. This way, you can keep away from freely giving any private data that may be vital to scammers. 4. Reset your CAPTCHA each on occasion, in order that it becomes more difficult for scammers to resolve them routinely.

Conclusion

Scammers are a nuisance, and it isn't easy to cease them from contacting you. However, by following these easy steps, you can drastically reduce the chances of being scammed in the primary place. By solving CAPTCHAs (captcha assessments), you will make it much tougher for scammers to entry your personal information. The tougher the take a look at is to unravel, the much less likely it is that a scammer will have the ability to get past it. So if you are ever contacted by somebody asking for cash or personal info, remember: Do not present any data till you could have been directed to take action by an official supply. And at all times use a powerful password!

#captcha AI

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mugasofer · 4 years

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[cross-posted from my blog]

Thinking spooky thoughts about GPT (I almost said GPT-3, but GPT-2 as well.)

GPT does something that, at first glance, you’d think pretty much no-one really wants to do - guess what comes next in a block of text. Some people have used it to complete poems & stories & articles they were part-way done, doing what it’s “for”. But generally you have to awkwardly hack it into doing what you really want.

To hold conversations with GPT-3, for example, people (especially Gwern) often start dialogue with “This is a conversation between a human and an AI with X property”, then they write the “human” role and have GPT-3 complete the “AI” sections. Sometimes they’ll just use a human name instead, especially when using AI Dungeon which is geared toward “roleplay” in unknown-to-the-public ways.

And one frustrating thing is, this can result in GPT predicting that the AI character wouldn’t know an answer even though, on some deeper level, GPT knows (”knows”?) it. @yudkowsky has been freaking out about this on Twitter a little (e.g. here); there’s a sense in which the AI is “tricking” us into thinking it’s stupider than it is sometimes, because it doesn’t care about appearing smart or being truthful, it just wants to write stories (more formally, it’s predicting what would come next in a human-generated text.) A great example of it that someone posted:

GPT-3 “knows” that 20 is the right answer, but the character it’s playing (”Holo”) doesn’t! Here’s another Twitter person experimenting to see which AI Dungeon characters know what a monotreme is.

But maybe this is ... kind of how people work too?

If I understand it correctly, this is sort of how the “predictive processing” model suggests the human brain works, at the deepest level. @slatestarscratchpad has written a bit about this. Basically, the idea seems to be that the brain simulates the sense-impressions and muscle-movements it expects to recieve; but tweaked toward a simulation where desired things happen; then it performs the next action from the simulation, with a feedback loop where any difference between the simulation and reality is treated as “bad”. So either your prediction ends up changing or reality does or (most often) a bit of both. e.g. you get hungry, your brain starts to predict you’re going to get food, notices that it predicted you would have moved certain muscles and gone over to the fridge but you haven’t, so it moves those muscles ... or it notices that the prediction is wildly implausible (you don’t have a fridge) and abandons it, but there’s still an ever-growing tendency toward predicting futures where you end up with food until one gets close enough. Or something. Maybe this is why I end up checking the fridge, even when I just checked it five minutes ago and know there’s nothing I want?

I’ve often thought that my “inner monolog” is basically just me mentally rehearsing and teasing out stuff I might want to say/write later. Note, not all humans have an “inner monolog”; I wonder if I have one because I read a lot of fiction, and so subconsciously expect people to narrate their thoughts all the time, the way you would if you were recounting a story? And the conscious part of myself, including the inner monolog I’m currently putting down in text, doesn’t seem to have access to everything my brain “knows”. In some cases of brain damage etc. this can produce extremely weird results, like “blind” people who can’t consciously see anything but can still subconsciously react to things, amnesiac people who can learn new skills and habits but not form consciously-accessible memories, and so on, but this is kind of the case all the time - we often seem not to know why we do things, only to construct plausible reasons why we must have done things, creating weird biases where e.g. paying a person a small amount to do something they wouldn’t otherwise have done results in them concluding they “must have” wanted to do it all along (since why would they change their behaviour for something so small?)

People sometimes talk about playing a role in order to deliberately (or accidentally) change your own personality (”fake it till you make it”/”becoming the mask”). I have a small amount of experience with this myself; as a child, I deliberately tried to play a role in order to fit in better at school, and then was somewhat creeped out to realise how much my personality and habits had permanently changed.

Perhaps evolution just stumbled upon a generic architecture for “predicting what will happen next”, then hacked it into being an agent that (sort of, imperfectly) carries out actions in pursuit of goals. Evolution, being itself mindless, doesn’t care if it can produce legible read-outs of it’s internal state or any of the stuff we would want when aligning an AI ... except eventually for social situations where it needs to communicate it’s internal state to other friendly brains, in which case evolution invents another hack for the brain to ... predict what must be going on inside itself and then say that?

And now we’ve stumbled onto a similar architecture, and are making similar hacks in order to turn it into similarly person-like things. (Humans are also merely person-like-things; we don’t match up to the simplified ideal of what a person should be in our heads, with free will and stuff.)

But it’s still not a person, right? It’s just a toy, it doesn’t pass the Turing Test.

Well ... no, it doesn’t. And yet GPT has been getting closer and closer to being able to pass for human as model size increased, with the largest current version being nearly indistinguishable from chance (?!)

So maybe what we have is ... not human-level, but a part of something human-level (or greater, balancing out superhuman pseudo-intelligence with it’s other deficiencies?) There are other parts which are still missing (like the ability to better remember what it was saying), but maybe the core is actually legitimately there.

Or maybe that result only applies for news stories because journalists aren’t really people :P

Should we be worried about it’s suffering? Well, one of the missing parts is desires, so maybe not? It can say that it wants things, but only the same way that a human playing a part would; it’ll fluidly shift between playing the role of the AI role in a dialogue and the human role without caring, because it isn’t actually the AI in the story it’s writing. We don’t consider the desires a human gives to a fictional character for actual morally-relevant desires, and the same should go for the arbitrary desires GPT-3 can pretend to have, right? But at what point does that change, when our own consciously-expressed desires are in part just a role we play? (Do we care about the desires a person expresses except insofar as they hint at “real” desires? What is a desire really?)

Should we be worried about whether human+ AI is actually really, really close? It’s been said that there’s no fire-alarm for general artificial intelligence, but GPT-3 kind of is acting as a fire alarm, at least insofar as it’s got people pretty freaked out by how capable it is. Should we be responding to this fire alarm?

#AI #futurism #we live in the future #GPT-3 #x-risk cw #long #effortpost

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razieltwelve · 3 years

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Horizon (Final Rose)

Horizon is the most popular computer OS in Final Rose. It was originally developed by Vanille because the operating systems available to her as a child weren’t powerful or flexible enough to do what she wanted. Instead, she designed her own OS, first for her scroll and then for the increasingly powerful equipment she had access to.

Although she began work on the OS as a child, it only became publicly available when she began attending Beacon Senior Academy. It was at that point that Vanille made a beta version available via the fledgling InfoNet. It’s incredible flexibility, power, and ease of use allowed it to seize marketshare from its competitors. Perhaps its most valuable feature was its ability to offer seamless cross-platform integration between scrolls and other computer devices.

As the fledgling InfoNet grew increasingly popular, Horizon seized more and more of the OS market. Since Vanille was one of the architects of the InfoNet alongside Hope, Horizon was naturally designed to be completely compatible with it and was optimised to make InfoNet usage as quick and easy as possible.

Perhaps the most popular feature of the OS was the so-called ‘newbie mode’. Realising that many people lacked her expertise, Vanille designed a mode for the OS that allowed almost everything to be run using simple voice commands, in conjunction with an intuitive GUI. This made it extremely popular with hunters who could operate their scrolls and other devices without having to occupy their hands.

Over time, the OS grew increasingly sophisticated, capable of better and better anticipating and predicting the habits of its users. This culminated in the Personalised Experience Mode, which offered unprecedented customisability, as well as learning algorithms designed to tweak and alter OS function to better suit the user’s needs.

By the time Diana is born, Horizon had advanced to the point of including its own AI assistant who was simply called Admin. Admin’s primary purpose was to provide a learning interface that made it easier for the user to interact with the OS. Admin could also be used to control networked devices, allowing someone to control all of their linked devices by simply talking to Admin as if she (Admin defaults to a female voice and avatar) was a real person.

Over the years, Admin has grown increasingly advanced to the point that many users treat their Admin as a real person. Indeed, Admin was the first widely available AI to pass Remnant’s equivalent of the Turing test. Admin has been particularly valuable to those who are elderly or disabled. She can monitor their health, contact the authorities if something happens, and just make their everyday lives easier by handling appointments, organising transportation, doing the shopping online and having it delivered, and so on.

Admin originally only came with one voice and Avatar, but a huge degree of customisation is now possible. For power users, one of Admin’s most important abilities is her ability to step back and allow the user to take full control when necessary while also handling tasks like automation if required.

Specialised modules for Admin are also available. For instance, the Science Minion Module for Admin provides Admin with additional functions designed to help researchers and those involved in the sciences. In contrast the Health Minion Module is designed to help healthcare related users.

Many homes now feature a bevy of smart devices, and Horizon and Admin form the heart of their operation. Indeed, Dia Technologies derives a significant portion of its profits from Horizon and Admin, as well as devices that make use of them.

It has gotten to the point that people now expect any computer-like device to come with Horizon and Admin built in, and most people will carry a copy of their Admin on their scroll, so it can create a temporary user file to help them manage any devices they might encounter while out and about. For example, if you’re staying at a hotel with smart devices, the hotel can allow guests to temporarily put their Admin in charge of certain functions in their rooms, so they can just use the same commands they use at home and so on to control any smart devices in the room.

Horizon and Admin have their own specialised development and management teams, and being hired to work on those is considered to be one of the most prestigious jobs available in the field. Although Vanille was the original architect of both Horizon and Admin, there have been significant contributions from a number of other individuals (e.g., Hope,).

#final rose #final codex #fanfiction

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notfromanotherworld · 4 years

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The female life-force itself is characterized as a negative one: we are defined as inherently masochistic; that is, we are driven toward pain and abuse, toward self-destruction, toward annihilation—and this drive toward our own negation is precisely what identifies us as women. In other words, we are born so that we may be destroyed. Sexual masochism actualizes female negativity, just as sexual sadism actualizes male positivity. A woman’s erotic femininity is measured by the degree to which she needs to be hurt, needs to be possessed, needs to be abused, needs to submit, needs to be beaten, needs to be humiliated, needs to be degraded. Any woman who resists acting out these so-called needs, or any woman who rebels against the values inherent in these needs, or any woman who refuses to sanction or participate in her own destruction is characterized as a deviant, one who denies her femininity, a shrew, a bitch, etc.

For the female, the capacity to love is exactly synonymous with the capacity to sustain abuse and the appetite for it. For the woman, the proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

I have made this distinction between truth and reality in order to enable me to say something very simple: that while the system of gender polarity is real, it is not true. It is not true that there are two sexes which are discrete and opposite, which are polar, which unite naturally and self-evidently into a harmonious whole. It is not true that the male embodies both positive and neutral human qualities and potentialities in contrast to the female who is female, according to Aristotle and all of male culture, “by virtue of a certain lack of qualities.”

The most vivid literary manifestation of this pathology of female negation is found in pornography. Literature is always the most eloquent expression of cultural values; and pornography articulates the purest distillation of those values. In literary pornography, where female blood can flow without the real restraint of biological endurance, the ethos of this murderous male-positive culture is revealed in its skeletal form: male sadism feeds on female masochism; male dominance is nourished by female submission.

In my view, those of us who are women inside this system of reality will never be free until the delusion of sexual polarity is destroyed and until the system of reality based on it is eradicated entirely from human society and from human memory. This is the notion of cultural transformation at the heart of feminism. This is the revolutionary possibility inherent in the feminist struggle...

Now, there are many who believe that changes occur in society because of disembodied processes: they describe change in terms of technological advances; or they paint giant pictures of abstract forces clashing in thin air. But I think that we as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators…

Now, the feminist project is to end male domination—to obliterate it from the face of this earth. We also want to end those forms of social injustice which derive from the patriarchal model of male dominance—that is, imperialism, colonialism, racism, war, poverty, violence in every form.

In order to do this, we will have to destroy the structure of culture as we know it, its art, its churches, its laws; its nuclear families based on father-right and nation-states; all of the images, institutions, customs, and habits which define women as worthless and invisible victims...

The fact is that in order to stop rape, and all of the other systematic abuses against us, we must destroy these very definitions of masculinity and femininity, of men and women. We must destroy completely and for all time the personality structures “dominant-active, or male” and “submissive-passive, or female.” We must excise them from our social fabric, destroy any and all institutions based on them, render them vestigial, useless.

We must destroy the very structure of culture as we know it, its art, its churches, its laws; we must eradicate from consciousness and memory all of the images, institutions, and structural mental sets that turn men into rapists by definition and women into victims by definition. Until we do, rape will remain our primary sexual model and women will be raped by men…

And, most importantly, in freeing ourselves, we must refuse to imitate the phallic identities of men. We must not internalize their values and we must not replicate their crimes...

If slavery is ever to be destroyed “root and branch,” women will have to destroy it. Men, as their history attests, will only pluck its buds and pick its flowers.

I want to ask you to commit yourselves to your own freedom; I want to ask you not to settle for anything less, not to compromise, not to barter, not to be deceived by empty promises and cruel lies. I want to remind you that slavery must be destroyed “root and branch,” or it has not been destroyed at all. I want to ask you to remember that we have been slaves for so long that sometimes we forget that we are not free. I want to remind you that we are not free. I want to ask you to commit yourselves to a women’s revolution—a revolution of all women, by all women, and for all women; a revolution aimed at digging out the roots of tyranny so that it cannot grow anymore.

- Andrea Dworkin, “Our Blood: Prophecies and discourses on sexual politics”

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Meta Knight HCs part 3

So I want to do a part 3 before I start on a Dedede and Kirby hcs as well. Just can’t get inn off of that knight.

Edit: I found that some of the words that I’ve writen was gone from this post, so I got them back. Also fixed, changed and added some words as well. Going to do that to my other posts as well. I’ve have some time right know so might as well do some of it. I might not have the change in some time after today. 18.02.20

-Back before Arthur found and rescued Meta, the hybrid was know as subject AX-Delta12-C99 for the project ‘Havoc Delta’. A project where NME wanted to make one of the most nightmareish creatures that would have made the wizared that much more diffecult to defeat had it succeeded.

-Havoc Delta was the last protostage left before the real makeing of elite monsters that would wreack havoc like never before seen. Sending death, pain, despair and fear like it went out of fashion. Too bad for that wizared that lady luck had other plans and made the project go south of the border.

-While Meta did not have the best of luck in his health, defects or start of life onpond his birth to the world, he had enough luck that one of the scientists that was in charge of his ‘birth batch’ selected the wrong puffball blood that was going in turing the creation of him and his ‘siblings’. Instead of normal puffball blood that was newly taken from a civilian, that blood belonged to a recently killed star warrior that was a brillient tactision and battleplaner. Thuse Meta was born smarter then most off his batch that helped him a great deal turning his first 1759 years of harsh and abusive life.

-Meta and his batch siblings was primarily of what-if-we-mix-a-puffball with this demon, that demon or maybe that one, with diffrent types of puffballs gens aswell, kindoff mix. This meant that no two puffball hybrid that came form Meta’s batch had the same genmakeup as the one before or after them.

-Neither Meta nor his batch siblings was born a infent onpond their birth, but as a physically 3-5 year old puff child, with the ability to understand what people was saying and understading orders from the first day they drew breath.

-However this made it diffecult for Doc Coldswager, Estella and a nurse name Kickcrack to find out just how old Meta really was. They thought he was at least 3000 to 4000 years old at first. But it became clear after some time that he was much younger then they thought.

-From a early age, Meta came to hate NME with a burning passion. The tremant along with how often the puff had to survive hell from both demonbeasts and scientists alike, with the added on that NME would often use defect products as toys or snacks for the wizareds more elite monsters, gave the puff enough reasons to hate that basterd way before Sir Arthur rescued him from that hell.

-The day NME realised just WHO and WHAT Meta Knight was, the wizared ended up swaring, curssing, killing many a demon and throwing things to the walls for weeks on end out of pure hate of himself for not seeing that not only had ONE of his prototypes survived the destrucsion of the lab AND was triving like no other in the war. BUT he was wielding the legendery sword Galaxia, was way more skilled than a defect sould be, could fight his most elite of demon generals in battle and wit, great leadership skills and a fighting terror that even the most brutal, smart and savage of NME’s comanders would respect. IT WAS ALL MADE WORST BY THE FACT THAT THIS CREATION OF HIS WAS FIGHTING ON THE WRONG SIDE!!!

-Galaxia became one of Meta’s most closest of friends as well as a good advisor. The sentient sword proved to realy be what the legends told off and would help Meta to best of her abilities both in battle and out of it to support him.

-Much to Galaxia’s embarrasment and shame, she would end up accidentally shock Meta with her thunder and lightning for the next 200-500 years after the puff became her championd. She couldn’t help it, her new champ had demon blood and bit of NME’s precent in him that she could not stop herself from doing it.

-After a little over 2000 years of living with his new famliy, many of Meta very bad as well as unhealthy habits, like attacking anything that comes too close and bitting people, became gone thanks endless paitent from Arthur and Estella, as well as Dragato, Nonsurat and Falspar determination to show their new brother that the world was not always trying to kill you.

-Before the mask that became one of Meta’s traitmarks as a swordman and knight, all Meta could see was from day one till before the day Estella gave it to him at the age of 18 586, was a very muddy, hasy, shades of grays and black with very little detali of anything, that was out to give him a painfull death. When the mask made him able to see, he not only had to relearn how to read and write, but also what colours where and what the world realy looked like.

-Meta has a scare near his upper right wing after a training session with another soilder who wanted him dead simply becuse the woman did not like him much. He never found out why though, but Dragato did. The puff refuse to tell to this day what the reason was.

-Meta meet Galacta when he was around 7000 years old ( a 7-8 years old in human terms) and the mangeta puff was a newly orphaned around 12 000 year old ( 11-12). Galacta, later nicknamed Val by Meta, had manged to get lost in the GSA base that his aunt worked at and was scared out of his mind when little Meta showed up. They quickly became fast friends and Galacta would often help Meta fight off bulliys that thought it was fine to mess with those that wasen’t ‘normal’ or a freak of nature.

-Galacta and Meta ended up much later as a married couple, before Galacta was seald, when they became adults and their friendshipe blomsemt to something else entirely.

-The day Before Galacta had to be seald away so that NME could not gain any control of the powerfull warrior that the megneta puff had become, Gala gave Meta a handfull of small handmade snow white roses with golden spider silkweb adored with tiny dark firery ruby red stars. Meta in turn gifted Galacta a golden bracelet made to look like small dark blue sapphires lillys have grow around the endmeralds that was placed on the bracelet. Meta still has those roses lockt in a small chest to this day.

#meta knight #hc #galaxia #galacta knight #metagala

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Halloween party, cold, and bonfire?

Anonymous said: Bonfire

from autumn fic meme here: 8. Halloween Party + 37. Cold + 23. Bonfire

for this i was thinking that college au might be fun, especially bc ive had this art on the mind for a week....hehe

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“Well, well, well,” a short Godzilla says across the cider bowl from Hermann, his hands—well, claws—on his hips. “What’s a guy like you doing somewhere like this, Gottlieb?”

Hermann freezes, ladle in hand. “I’m sorry,” he says, “do I know you?” Hermann does not generally make a habit of associating with people who attend parties in obnoxious felt Godzilla costumes. Clearly homemade ones, at that.

The Godzilla struggles with his mask for a few seconds before finally ripping it off with a triumphant crow. And, of course—the red-faced, sweaty, messy-haired boy beneath it is none other than Newton Geiszler, who is exactly the sort of person who would attend a party in an obnoxious felt Godzilla costume, and who Hermann, begrudgingly, associates with, on account of being his assigned lab partner. “Oh,” Hermann says. His mouth twists down automatically. His fingers tighten on the ladle. “Hello, Newton.” He didn’t know Newton would be coming. In fairness—Hermann didn’t know that he himself would be coming, either, until about forty-five minutes ago.

Newton adjusts his fogged-up glasses and grins. “Seriously, what are you doing here?” he says.

“I was invited,” Hermann says, spooning cider into his cup and determined to keep a level head: most of his interactions with Newton tend to erupt in violent arguments. Usually through no fault of Hermann’s own. Usually. He’d rather that not happen in the home of a complete stranger, and well past midnight, at that. “I don’t know if I can say the same for you—”

“Ha-ha,” Newton says. “That’s not what I—wait, hand me the ladle, don’t be a dick—not what I meant. I thought you hated this kind of shit. Loud music, and people, and socializing—”

Hermann narrows his eyes and takes a sip of his hot cider; immediately, he starts coughing it back up. He expected it to be spiked, but not spiked this much. It tastes as if there’s an entire bottle of butterscotch schnapps in there. There probably is. “That’s strong,” he wheezes.

“It sure it,” Newton says, and grins wider. After a brief struggle with the cider (because, as Hermann imagines, it’s difficult to do anything with the moronic gloves he’s wearing) downs all of his glass and goes back in for another. “I made it myself. Who invited you to a party?”

Apparently the conversation isn’t over yet. “Tendo Choi,” Hermann says, still wheezing, “from, ah, computer science.”

“No shit!” Newton crows. “You know Tendo?” Hermann nods. “We were in a band together, you know, freshman year, with some other guys. And a little bit of junior year. And this past summer.” He coughs. “We had an, uh, hard time sticking together as a group. Musicians, you know, very—temperamental.”

“Mm,” Hermann says, sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with Newton’s personality, nor the quality of the band itself, which Hermann can’t help but assume was very, very low. He’s not surprised of its existence, at least; Newton is the sort who walks around campus with his guitar slung over his back, just waiting for the excuse to whip it out and torture innocent bystanders with half a dozen Violent Femmes covers. “Well, Newton, if that’s all—”

Hermann ducks around the table to make his way to the glass slider. Beyond it lies the expansive backyard, decorated with strings of skeleton garland and paper ghosts from oak tree to oak tree, illuminated only by orange and purple lanterns, and promising a bonfire with significantly fewer people than there are crammed into this basement. Most importantly, it promises freedom: no Newton Geiszler. Hermann will put up with the October chill if it means no Newton Geiszler.

Newton (perpetually unable to take a hint) trails after him anyway. “What’s your costume supposed to be?” he says.

“I’m Alan Turing,” Hermann offers, weakly, because it was a very last minute costume and the only thing he’d been able to think of.

“You’re so lame,” Newton says, “you totally—” and then proceeds to get his tail caught in the slider. He jerks backwards; his drink sloshes to the patio. “Fuck!”

Hermann can’t contain his snort. “King of the Monsters indeed.”

“Yeah, okay, funny,” Newton says. He gives a fruitless wobble. “You’re a regular comedian. Shut up and help me, jackass.”

Still snickering under his breath, Hermann tucks his cane under his arm and gives a great tug on the front of the Godzilla costume. Newton stumbles forward. “Thanks,” he says, and resumes waddling at Hermann’s side, to Hermann’s disappointment. “Anyway—lame. You totally just pulled that out of your closet. I’ve seen you wear that sweater three times this month.”

“You must pay very close attention to me to have noticed that,” Hermann says. “One might even say you’re obsessed with me.”

“As if,” Newton scoffs. “I just can’t help it, you know, everything you wear is just so ugly. Total eyesore. It’s all permanently seared into my retinas. Jesus,” he waddles faster, tail flopping comically behind him, leaves crunching loudly under his giant costume boots, “slow down, will you? I can’t move in this thing.” He huffs out a breath. “Sweating like a bitch, too. It smells like a fucking locker room in here.”

Hermann wrinkles his nose; Newton is so endlessly charming. “Are you going to follow me around all night?” he says.

“I might,” Newton says. “I don’t have any friends—”

“No surprise there.”

“—here. I don’t have any friends here, and you’re better than nothing,” Newton corrects. He sticks his tongue out. “You’re such a jerk, Gottlieb.”

Privately, Hermann wonders why Newton bothered coming to a party he knew none of his friends would attend in the first place, but he supposes it’s hypocritical of him. He doesn’t have any friends here either, after all. He doesn’t even know the host. Tendo Choi invited him—strong-armed him into attending, really, into relaxing for a single night—and yet Hermann hasn’t seen a single perfectly-coiffed hair of his head all night. “Just promise me you won’t be a nuisance,” Hermann says. It’s better than nothing, as Newton said.

Newton is a nuisance. They find a small bench in a deserted corner of the bonfire, and Newton—after a little trouble fitting onto it, with his ridiculous costume tail—talks to Hermann incessantly about every single thought that crosses his mind: where he bought the cider, how much he hates the music blasting through the speakers in the house, how long it took to make his costume, the weather, whether or not Hermann has Halloween plans. “I kinda miss trick-or-treating,” Newton says. “Why is it so weird for adults to do it, anyway? It’s free candy. You don’t just stop liking candy once you finish puberty.”

“Mm,” Hermann says.

“I bet if I wore this everyone would think I’m a kid,” Newton says. “I could get as much free candy as I wanted. One of my neighbors used to actually give out toothbrushes when I was, like, twelve, can you believe it? I thought that only happened in dumb books. I don’t know why he did it, that shit was probably way more expensive than a bag of fucking candy corn. He wasn’t even a dentist.”

“Mm,” Hermann says again. The loud snap of one of the logs in the bonfire finally cracking in half; a chilly breeze rustles the red-orange-yellow leaves of the oak trees, the garland, the ends of Hermann’s hair, and, instinctively, Hermann shrinks in on himself with a shiver. He wishes he hadn’t forgone his warm parka for the sake of his costume.

Newton’s eyebrows knit together with concern. “Are you okay?” he says.

“Yes,” Hermann says. He does up the two buttons of his blazer and wraps his hands around his cup of cider, which, though well beyond lukewarm, is managing to give off just a bit of heat. Enough to keep Hermann’s fingers from stiffening up. “Er—just cold.”

“I have a sweatshirt inside, if you wanna borrow—”

“No,” Hermann says quickly. “It’s fine. Really.”

Newton stares at him. Then, without warning, he’s suddenly closing the wide gap between them and flinging an arm (soft, thanks to his fuzzy costume, warm, strong) around Hermann’s shoulders. Hermann’s shivering stops at once; his ears go hot; his body goes rigid. “Newton,” he stammers. “You—ah—you don’t have to—”

“Shut up,” Newton says. His breath smells like apple cider, the schnapps he spiked it with, candy he undoubtedly grabbed in handfuls from the cheap plastic pumpkin head on the buffet table. This close, even in the low flicker of the fire, Hermann can see that his nose and cheeks are dusted with freckles he’s never noticed before. (He’s never been this close to Newton before.) “And just—take that stick out of your ass a little. I don’t have cooties.”

There’d been a small bubble of warmth building in Hermann’s chest, just below his sternum, threatening to rise and burst from Hermann’s mouth in the form of something mortifying like I only pretend to hate you because I’m very, very fond of you, but Newton manages to successfully squash it and grind it under his heel into the dirt with that single jab. Hermann scowls. “And I don’t have a stick up my arse,” he snaps.

“Arse,” Newton parrots back in the worst faux-posh English accent Hermann has ever heard. “You know that’s the least sexy word ever, right?”

“I’m not trying to be sexy.”

“Oh, and you’re succeeding,” Newton says, “with flying colors.”

“I can’t stand you,” Hermann growls, and then he kisses Newton.

He does it mostly to shut Newton up—and, yes, he’s been gazing at those soft lips all night and wondering what it would be like, because Newton can’t seem to stop biting and licking them every bloody second, yes, he’s been wanting to take Newton’s smug, gorgeous little face in his hands and knock him down a peg since the very first lab they had to work together—but after Newton’s muffled exclamation of surprise becomes a very enthusiastic hum, after his mouth parts open eagerly, Hermann keeps going. He can taste the cider, the candy. He can feel Newton’s fingers sliding through his hair—

Newton’s claws sliding through his hair. “Newton,” Hermann says, making a face as he pulls away. “Are you still wearing your gloves?”

“Oops,” Newton says, dazed, wide-eyed, glasses dangling off his nose. “Am I?” He is: he looks between his hands, just as dazed, as if he’s forgotten that he’s wearing a costume and doesn’t typically have large green monster paws, and then he breaks out into giggles. “I am. Wow. Sorry. I—you kissed me!”

“I did,” Hermann says. He plucks at one of the gloves. “Now take these off. I don’t want you clawing my scalp up.” They’re truthfully nowhere near sharp enough to, but Hermann can’t say he enjoys the sensation of them regardless. Newton has strong hands with strong fingers he’d much rather feel.

“What,” Newton says, and grins and waggles the claws of one hand, “you don’t want to pretend you’re macking on some sexy monster?”

"Newton,” Hermann says, “if you want to ever kiss me again, you will take those damned things off now.”

“Fine. Grumpy.”

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