Book 1 of the 50 book challenge. Bamboo people by Mitali Perkins. It’s a good book but sad fiction book about Burma. A young kid forced into the army learning to be a soldier and becoming injured and being helped by the Karenni native group who they were going after. I really liked the book.

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Shanghai, 1996 Shanghai, China. 中国 上海市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

I’m a Hell Dog. The same as you.

Hell Dogs (2022)

floating islands?!!?!?

Her majesty, the fae queen nymph, Queen Mab 🧚‍♀️🦋

Big thanks to @bamboorocket for letting me draw her gorgeous nymph OC for a oneshot concept she's working on!

My danmei/xanxia inspired bamboo pin tapestries are *finally* up in my shop! I wanted to make something that I could use for my SVSSS and Genshin collections and they turned out *perfect.*

I have a variety of sizes and colors available in my Etsy shop, so be sure to take a look. <3

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I think what scares me most about the whole AI surge right now is that for writers, there's... nothing to defend ourselves.

You can't Glaze or Nightshade a fanfic like a piece of visual art. You can't garble or hide bleeps in prose like an audio file. You can't watermark your AO3 fics or your blog entries, because text can be copied from anywhere and pasted TO anywhere. You can't embed poisoned data in uploaded text. And if you can, I do not know how.

Right now there's no safe way to share our works beyond either... not posting at all, or crossing our fingers that just ONE person won't come and feed it to ChatGPT.

It's really scary.

wait hol' up i gotta hear those Bobo Thoughts. hes such a fascinating character and the way he was used was so all over the place (like straight up vanishing when it was Serious Episode Time lmao) but,, thats Rex's friend! weird uncle? Moral compass but pointing the wrong way?? Always had such mixed feelings about his writing

Bobo is like. The thing about Bobo is he's such a good fucking character potential. I said most of my thoughts in this reply so I don't really have much more to say besides Wow they really did just make the potential for a really interesting character and blew it for jokes about harassing women. There was so much THERE where he COULD be funny while still being a serious character - plenty of the time Rex is silly and goofy while still being a serious character.

Exposed imo is one of, if not the best Bobo episode for the simple fact that he was actually a funny comedy relief character while still being Bobo, actually. It didn't really dive into him as a character, but he did have some pretty good lines ("That cage was electromagnetically sealed" "I didn't say it was easy" got a chuckle out of me, as well as "Are you going to just stand there and talk or help me?" "Talk.")

But also in my rewrite of Bobo, he's...well, he trusts in Rex's abilities, and he knows at the end of the day he doesn't really have superpowers or healing like the kid, but he's way more concerned for him. He notices how Rex makes jokes when he's stressed and makes jokes with him, to help ease tensions and get Rex to crack a smile when things are tough. He sits with the kid and talks because he knows he's also an adult, but he knows he's easier for Rex to relate to than other soldiers at base. Even with as much as Holiday and Six love Rex and are there for them, they're still in positions of authority over him - Bobo, meanwhile, is another EVO, who knows he can talk to Rex about how much it sucks not to have people like them. I don't have the link on hand but I remember in @bambeptin's interview where the show creators mentioned how Bobo was like a weird uncle, and I think they should've played into that dynamic more. Bobo encouraging Rex to be reckless and sneak out and see what he can get away with when his parents and Providence aren't looking.

Also, the show just kind of...forgets that Bobo made Robobobo and I think that'd be fun to play with. Bobo surprising everyone with how smart he is, all the skills he picked up over his time doing crime on the streets that Rex doesn't remember/know about. He could've contributed to the team so much in S3 by being the guy who knows how to break into places without hurting or killing people (like Six and WK know), occasionally peeking at Holiday's work and pointing something out bc she's an overthinker (all the adults in the Providence Fam in S3 kind of are in their own ways) and he goes at things to try to find the easiest solution. Hell, even have jokes about him being surprisingly smart - have characters talk about something super complex and Bobo surprises everyone by understanding it. Have everyone getting ready to kick down a door and have Bobo say "And here I thought I was the animal" or some joke like that and pick the lock. Hell, have him try to open a door and see that it's unlocked while everyone's prepping to kick it in.

Have Bobo be just...a smart and logical guy and have that be the joke. He looks ridiculous, constantly makes jokes and acts dumb, but reminders that he IS smart can be funny, and him being cheeky can be funny! Hell, the show kind of hinted at potential but never went through but Bobo and Six having a rivalry bc they both think the other is bad for Rex at first (and have a history of clashing that we see in Promises Promises) could be VERY funny! Especially because it would pair Six's very blunt personality with Bobo's ridiculousness and refusal to act seriously. There's potential there but they just...went for easy jokes and it's a shame, because Bobo had so much potential to be great.

someone tell this child to stop eating raw bamboo shoots

Me:

The water feels nice. There is room for two, you know, incase anyone wanted to sit with me.

Tomorrow's "I have no spoons and I must rest Or Else" day has become "okay I'll just go to the county clerks office and the DMV and call the vet and buy a grate to get on a ladder and HOPEFULLY FIX THE RACCOON HOLE"

I may or may not have started a project that will probably overwhelming me...

hardwood comb project

I forgor to buy a lighter colored wood for the spine/core so I can't keep working on it tonight cause all I've got is the walnut.

@mayakern OK so I have a PLAN to write a nice and helpful review of your skirts, but I honestly have no idea if I'll actually be able to follow through anytime soon or if it'll just languish in my head for the rest of time, so this is a PLACEHOLDER nice and helpful review that just says HER SKIRTS ARE V. NICE, IF PLUS SIZE AND ON FENCE HIGHLY RECOMMEND DO BUY

man one of my bigger pet peeves is people touting themselves as "horticulturalists" to win internet arguments about plants. that means nothing. you being "literally a horticulturalist" doesn't mean you're an expert on plants, especially in more global plant conversations.