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holylulusworld · 7 months

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Backpack - Kinktober 17

Summary: You've got a new neighbor.

Pairing: Jax Teller x fem!Reader

Kink: Thigh riding

Warnings: ogling, cocky reader, thigh riding, implied smut

Idea by: @dawn-petrichor-world

Kinktober vs Flufftober 2023

You were about to spend your Friday night like every Friday night. The bathtub was waiting for you, along with a glass of wine and a book or your vibrator. Whatever would make you fall asleep sooner?

That was until your eyes landed on your new neighbor. A cigarette dangling from his mouth as he watches you. He puffs on the cigarette, inhaling deeply as you watch him with curiosity.

“Who is that?” You crane your neck to get a better look at the man standing across the street. He flips the cigarette away and nods in your direction. “What is he up to?” Licking your lips, you watch the man turn around. He uses a remote control to open the garage.

“That’s the new neighbor. I think his name is Teller,” you dip your head to glance at your neighbor, Patsy. If anything happens in your neighborhood, Patsy is the person you go to. She knows everything about everyone. “I think he’s a biker or something.”

“A biker.” Oh, your Friday night just got interesting. Your new neighbor rolls his bike backward out of the garage. “Maybe our little neighborhood gets a bit more interesting now.”

“I hope he doesn’t throw loud parties and lure more bikers in,” Patsy wrinkles her nose as the bike roars to life.

“Don’t judge a book by its cover,” you tut. Your eyes are glued to your new neighbor’s bike. You always had a thing for bikes. Sadly, you never were brave enough to ride a bike. You always chickened out.

“That monster is loud, and stinks,” she points at the bike. “I will make a note and talk to the other neighbors about that…uh…”

“It’s a Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide Sport,” you roll your eyes as she takes notes. “If you want to complain about it, you should know its name.”

Two weeks later you’re watching your neighbor again. Watching him became your newest hobby. Whenever he works on his bike or prepares to go on a ride, you watch him.

Today you pretend to water your roses as he rolls his bike out of the garage. All you know about the mysterious man haunting your dreams is his name. Jax Teller.

You sigh as you imagine becoming his backpack. Your legs and arms slung around his body while you go on a ride with him.

“Maybe I should talk to him,” you say to yourself. If you want your fantasies to come true, you must talk to him eventually. “I can do this.”

Placing the watering can on the ground you take a deep breath.

You’re wearing your favorite summer dress and light makeup. Usually, you don’t wear this kind of outfit at home, but you want to impress your new neighbor.

You cheer yourself up while walking toward your neighbor. He sits on his bike, smoking a cigarette. His eyes are glued to you step toward him and his bike.

“Hi.”

“Hi,” he replies, smirking as you put one hand on your hips, and push your tits out. “I’m Jax. Your new neighbor.”

“I know,” you take the cigarette out of his hand to take a puff. You try not to cough, not used to smoking. “I like your bike.”

“Thanks,” Jax grins. He’s got a lot of women fawning all over him and wonders if you are different. “What’s your name? I didn’t get it.”

“It’s Y/N,” stepping closer to his bike you run your fingertips over the handlebars. “Excuse me, but…can I go for a ride?” You look him straight in the eyes, holding his intense gaze as you try not to show that you’re nervous as hell.

“Sure baby,” he grins. “Let me get a helmet.”

“Oh,” you move your hand to his thigh, gently squeezing it, “I didn’t mean the bike.”

He inhales sharply, but his eyes darken. “You’re a bold one,” Jax smirks darkly. “How about we go on a ride with my Harley, and you can get that ride later…”

Just as promised, Jax took you on a ride. You enjoyed every minute. It was just like you always imagined. Wild, and free.

But your night didn’t end when he drove back inside his garage.

Jax didn’t let you chicken out. He took you to his home, whispering filthy words in your ear as you tried not to pounce on him right on the front porch.

Now, in his bedroom you watch him sit on his bed as he watches you like a hawk in return.

“I want you to take off your panties,” Jax demands. He holds out his hand and clicks his tongue when you take too long. “No thinking. Take off your panties and come here.”

His voice raspy voice goes straight to your core. “Okay.” You breathe out as you move your hands under your dress to shove your panties down your legs. You step out of your panties and pick them up.

“Come here,” he pats his thigh. “I want you to go on the ride of your life,” Jax smirks as you place your panties in his hands. He presses the fabric to his nose, inhaling deeply. “Your pussy smells so good.”

You make an odd noise. No man ever told you that your pussy smells good. “How? I mean…”

“Take what you want.” Jax points at his lap, but you have other plans. You straddle his lap and grip his shoulder for balance.

“I wanna ride,” you wrap one arm around his shoulders, “your thigh. It looks so inviting.”

He laughs and throws his head back. “Go ahead, baby. When you are done, I’m going to ride your pussy until you beg me to stop.”

Ignoring his mocking tone, you sit on his thigh and wiggle your hips.

“You’re mine,” you purr against his lips as you try to find the perfect position.

When you feel comfortable on top of Jax, you slowly start rocking back and forth on his thigh. It feels good, and sinful at the same time. Jax is a stranger to you, but here you are eagerly riding his thigh.

“Yeah, fuck yourself on my leg, sweetness. I want you to make yourself cum. Rub that pretty clit,” he breathes against your lips. “Fuck, me baby. Come on.”

“Ah,” you whine loudly as you drag your pussy over Jax’s leg. “Fuck. This feels so good. I’m gonna soak your pants.”

“Do it,” Jax’s breathing quickens. “I want to be a good girl and soak my pants and thigh. I want to smell like your cunt.”

Jax grips your hips, now guiding your movement to get you off as fast as possible. Your moans turn into cries, and he smirks.

He knows you are going to be his after tonight. Jax can hardly wait to ruin your pussy thoroughly.

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#jax teller #jax teller x reader #jax teller x y/n #jax teller x you #kinktober vs flufftober 2023 #Backpack - Kinktober 17 #light smut #thigh riding #female reader

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atarathegreat · 1 month

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Come on, Hero!

Villian!Reader X Shinso Hitoshi

In the beginning of your villainous career, it wasn't as funny. But now, as you jumped across rooftops with the suitcase in hand, you couldn't help but let some laughter slip out. You were practically taunting the hero as he chased you.

Raven had been on your trail for months, determined to catch you. Somehow you had managed to evade even Dyna-Might and Deku, but he wouldn't be the third failure in your robbing sprees that were getting progressively more daring. Now you were in his town, his jurisdiction. He was going to catch you.

Your laughter only served as a guide and sent a message that you were confident you would be getting away. Shinso couldn't afford to have this embarrassment if you did get away. Bakugo wouldn't let him live it down, Deku would feel sorry for him, and he didn't even want to imagine what his old mentor would think. So, he pushed on, leapt over the edge of another rooftop and crashed down just as you stood and took off. "You can't run forever!" Shinso yelled after you, throwing his capture scarf out in the hopes that you wouldn't dodge. But you managed to move just in time with nothing but a snap of the material against your leg that would bruise and identify you later.

"Come on, bird boy!" Your voice seemed a little familiar, Shinso was sure he heard it somewhere else. "Is the Raven too slow?" He certainly felt like it, though he was right on your heels. Like he was running through water, or quicksilver. "Stop running already!" Shinso threw out his scarf again, but it wasn't his capture scarf, it was a scarf you had made for him. "What the hell?" He paused, staring down at his clothes. That's right. He wasn't on duty, he was heading to the rehab facility.

"Shinso?" You had also stopped and turned to look at him. How did you know his name? The way you smiled at him was sweet, "You look good today. Not working?"

"...No...I-I came to see you..." Shinso mumbled. Nothing was making sense. Was this your quirk? No, no it couldn't be. You didn't have a quirk, so you-

How did he know all this about you? "Nothing makes sense..." He looked at his hands. "Wake up, Shinso. Your alarm is going off."

The sun assaulted his eyes when he opened them. "Wake up, Shinso. Your alarm is going off." Your gentle voice came from his phone, making him sigh as he sat up. It had been nearly two years since he caught you and got you put in rehab. Every day he went in to visit you, sit and talk to break the monotony of the room you were in. Maybe today he would finally ask why you did it. Why you chose to commit crimes as a past time to being a stay-at-home wife.

It wasn't how he had expected that day to go. Staying late after work was bad enough, then catching his wife as the up-and-coming thief of the area? It would've been less press trouble if he had failed to catch you. Then Shinso wouldn't have found that bruise on your calf, wouldn't have inquired as to how you got it. He remembered the look on your face, the way you scrambled for an excuse when he knew he had put that bruise on you. The way he immediately knew it was you who ran away from him.

Shinso hated the way it felt.

"I'm here to see Y/n Hitoshi." Shinso slid his I.D. and hero permit to the woman at the counter, "Married. Floor six, cell twelve." The woman had asked him the questions to those answers every day for two years. It was routine. Common. "Go on up." She didn't have to hand him a key. The facility had already offered him the spare since he visited each day. And no one else bothered to.

You sat by the window, watching out at the people walking as Shinso unlocked and opened the door. "I watched you pull in." Even if he was only away from you for a few hours, he missed your voice, "You seem troubled this morning."

As always, you knew what was going through his head. "I dreamt about the night I caught you."

"And you're going to ask why I did it?"

"If you'll tell me."

Some days, he would rather ignore what happened, information from your sponsor leading him to believe that you needed to stay in the rehab longer. But it seems that maybe you were getting better. Maybe he could take you home without worrying about you becoming a sticky-fingered villain again.

"I don't know, honestly. I've been thinking, though." You turned to face him, and he could've melted at the sad look in your irises, "Back in elementary, I had a klepto problem. Notebooks, lip balms, pens, pencils. Anything I thought was cool and knew my parents could never buy me... I stole it. My only theory is that it resurfaced." Shinso sat on the twin sized bed, listening, "I don't understand why. You've always made sure I had everything. So why would I need to steal? It makes no sense. And they've been putting me through some sort of training ground."

"A training ground?"

"Yeah. Like a makeshift supermarket or high-end store. Last week I tucked a necklace in my pocket, no one even noticed. But when I got up to the register... I felt awful, like my gut wanted to crawl out of my body. I put the necklace on the counter, admitted my theft, and was returned here."

Shinso was glad, "You admitted it. That's good."

"Yeah... I don't want to steal, Shin. I hope you know that. And I'm sorry for the way I've impacted your image." You knew he'd been demoted to a sidekick again, fired from his place of work for refusing to divorce you. Then Dyna-Might took on the controversy and hired Shinso for his agency. "You hardly did a scratch, Hon. Bakugo hired me, remember? Besides, he pays more." Shinso kissed your head, "No harm, no foul."

It would be a lie to say he wasn't hurt emotionally, but you'd apologized enough for that. "Just stick to getting better. Find out what made you do it." He whispered. Having you home again was his main goal; he didn't care about the press. "When we get you home, we'll keep you in constant contact with your sponsor. Any time you get an urge you can tell me, and we'll figure it out. Okay?" He really just wanted you to be home with him again so he could hold you and help you make dinner again. Shinso was getting sick and tired of takeout. And this little room wasn't near good enough for you. You deserved a whole house.

"I'd love to be home again. How's Lemon?" You moved to sit with him. Lemon was the cat that you and Shinso had saved from a dog years ago. Lemon was elderly, on his last legs, but you cared for him so much that Shinso had a weekly vet visit for the mangy animal. He refused to let your pet die while you were locked up. "He's old. Misses you. He still sleeps on your pillow, every night." Shinso let you grab his hand and tugged on you to lean on him, a sigh slipping free, "Let's focus on getting you home."

#anime #manga #x reader #boku no hero academia #bnha #mha #my hero academia #shinso hitoshi #shinso x reader

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starflungwaddledee · 4 months

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Do ya think Dynablades’s wings are natural or are more so a replacement like a prosthetic

i chose to illustrate the 'sharp/metal' parts like armour that she could put on or take off, but i absolutely love the idea of them being a prosthetic...

'prosthetic' feathers certainly is a real thing that exists for birds. integral missing feathers can be grafted with a similar replacement feather (usually from the same species or similar), but they're generally temporary in nature due to the fact birds shed and replace all their feathers over time.

however if something had damaged her wings severely enough, it certainly could have hindered the feather growth or required a whole wing replacement. i had a cockatiel who had brain damage/a parkinson's-like disease, and she lacked all bar two flight feathers due to repeat damage caused by her poor balance

in real life you'd take a bird like this into care where it no longer needed to fly, but dyna blade is no ordinary bird. she seems like a skilled fighter and very independent, so i can imagine she'd go for bad ass prosthetics. perhaps she'd even have different kinds for different purposes! sharp edged ones for battle, long broad ones for extended flights, fancy patterns or colours for display or events/courtship! endless possibilities, actually. adopting this headcanon now.

#asks #dyna blade #am i... a dyna blade headcanons blog now.... okay. sure. let's go. let's go Bird Autism.#i'm adopting this one so i'll tag it ->#my headcanons and worldbuilding

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sillyrabbit81 · 2 years

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The Fallen Wolves Brotherhood - Part Six

Series Summary: Lori "Babycakes" Tate swore she would never date a biker but when her life is in danger, she is put under the protection of a small club known as The Fallen Wolves Brotherhood. She suddenly finds herself attracted to not one, but five bikers.

A reverse harem, biker AU.

Part Six Summary: Syverson has an unusual request for Marshall which leads him to a decision that could change the fate of the Brotherhood forever.

Pairing: Captain Syverson x OFC, Walter Marshall x OFC, Mike x OFC, Geralt x OFC, August Walker x OFC

Word Count: Approx. 3.4k

Warnings:

Series Warnings: Reverse harem, age gap (OFC 23, ages range from 23 to mid 40s), oral sex (male and female receiving), unprotected p in v sex, anal sex, group sex, masturbation, praise kink, mentions of body fluids, drug use, recreational drinking, sex work, criminal activities, mention of death, violence, use of weapons, mentions of war, mentions of abuse, angst, fluff, probably a lot more that I will add as they come up.

Part Six Warnings: Smutty thoughts, angst, fluff.

Authors Note: Thanks as always to my lovely BBFs (Best Beta's forever) @henryobsessed and @nashibirne. Its been a while since I've written Walter and I've never written his POV so I hope you all enjoy it.

Divider made by me. Edited by me, there will be errors.

Masterlist

Parts Masterlist

Part Five Part Seven

Marshall

When Sy brought her out of the room with his arm around her, both of them were flushed and looked a little tousled. For half a second I felt a stabbing pain of jealousy and I wanted to look away. Then I saw him run the back of his finger down her cheek with a tenderness I had never seen in the Brother. The moment appeared so private and so personal, like it had been when she slept in his arms, it seemed wrong to look at them.

You’ve gone soft Walter, I told myself. But I felt a smile tug at the corners of my mouth.

Despite all of it, I was happy for him because I hoped he was going to get a chance to make up for some of the mistakes of his past and move through them. He wasn’t all the way healed yet. Like all of us, his scars, his pain, and his trauma ran deep. I spoke to him truthfully last night; he deserved her as much as any of us arseholes did. I wouldn’t stop him and I would hurt any of the Brothers who got in his way.

I glanced at Walker, yes even him.

Although I didn’t hold the same level of animosity against Walker as Sy did, I understood their rivalry. They were both capable leaders, both could have been president, but in the end, Walker had connections that Sy didn’t have. It wasn’t just Sy being put out that he had to bow to Walker’s leadership though; Walker had never let Sy forget his loss, throwing his position in his face for years until Geralt had a word with him. Sometimes I think we all fucked up and should have made Geralt Pres, but Geralt wouldn’t hear of it.

Sy helped her put her jacket on, her helmet and gloves. Walker revved his Dyna impatiently and Sy threw daggers at him as he languidly got on his bike. His face was mostly covered by his helmet but I could imagine the smirk on Sy’s face as Lori climbed on behind him and held him tight. As soon as she was settled, Walker took off and Mike, who was cruising in the front with him, had to light his back tire up to catch him.

Shaking my head, I looked over at Geralt who was mirroring my gesture. Unspoken, we knew something had to be done about the situation between Sy and Walker before it got way out of hand.

We stopped for lunch at a truck stop. The food was awful but the bathrooms were clean and that made up for a lot. Lori, Sy, Mike and I sat in a booth together while Walker and Geralt sat in another.

Mike talked incessantly, but she seemed to like it, smiling and giggling through his constant chatter. Sy didn’t seem to mind that Mike kept monopolising her attention and looked at the two of them like an indulgent uncle, happy for the younger ones to be getting along.

Sy kept throwing me looks however, like he was trying to work something out in his head and thought maybe I’d have the answers.

At one point Lori leaned into Sy and he put his arm around her shoulders and kissed her temple. I saw her close her eyes and it looked like she shivered with pleasure. I squeezed my eyes shut and looked away, avoiding eye contact with both of them until food arrived.

I was in my own world as I ate, trying not to think when I realised everyone was quiet and looking at me.

“Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention,” I said, putting my almost finished burger down and taking a sip of my coke.

Lori smiled at me while Mike scowled. “Babycakes asked if you ever played football.”

“You mean American Football?” I asked.

Lori nodded. “What other kind is there?”

I raised my eyebrows.

“Here we go,” Sy said, chuckling. “You’ve opened a can o’ worms here, sugar.”

Deciding to take it easy on her, I forewent the explanation of “football” versus “soccer” and answered in the spirit of her question. “No. I played rugby.”

“Oh, I’ve seen that. It’s like football, but no helmets, right?”

“There’s more to it than that, but yes.”

“So you’re English?”

I let myself smile. “What gave me away?”

She laughed softly, dropping her eyes a moment and she tucked a stray bit of hair behind her ear as if she were embarrassed by stating the obvious. Jesus, she was pretty and her throaty laugh warmed me enough that for a second I imagined what her deep mahogany waves would look like fanned over my pillow like a corona as she threw her head back with a moan.

Mike interrupted then, inserting himself back into the conversation and I was relieved when her attention was diverted. But every so often Lori would look over at me and smile. Sy kept throwing those pondering glances and again, I wondered what he was up to.

After we ate, Sy handed Lori over to Mike and lit a cigarette as he called me aside. I lit a smoke myself and followed him out of earshot.

“Walker is sending me on a job when we get back,” Sy said with no preamble.

I was only slightly surprised. I took a long drag on my smoke. “Want me to go instead?”

“It’s a logistics job, so it’s got to be me.”

“How long are you going for?”

“Walker says two days to a week, so who knows. I haven’t seen the brief yet.”

“What about her?”

I took the risk to look at Lori. She was sitting on the curb outside the diner having a cigarette with Mike who was telling her a story, his arms moved wildly. She was bloody breathtaking with her hair all mussed up from her helmet, her long legs bent with an elbow resting on her knee and hand covering her face a moment as she laughed at whatever Mike was telling her.

Sy took a deep breath. “That’s what I want to talk to you about.”

My eyebrows shot up. “What do you need, Brother?”

Sy sucked in another deep lungful of his cigarette and stared at me. His eyes squinted almost shut as he looked towards the sun behind me and blew the smoke out again before he spoke as if he were still making up his mind what he should say.

“I wantcha to take care of her,” he finally said.

I felt my brows draw down low as I tried to process what he was asking of me. “You’re gonna have to be clearer than that, Sy.”

He sniffed and glanced over at the girl before he looked at the ground. “Just be there for her. Keep her occupied, away from Walker.”

“Fuck,” I swore under my breath.

“I know what I’m askin’…”

“No, you fucking don’t,” I said harshly. “You’re setting me up to betray you, my Brother.”

Squinting again, Sy looked me in the eyes. “It ain’t betrayal if you have permission.”

I blinked. Completely floored, I stared at Sy my mouth working several times before I was able to speak. “What the fuck are you talking about? She isn’t a whore to just pass around.”

“Fuck, I shoulda asked Geralt,” Sy ran a hand over his close cropped hair, “He was the one who put the damn idea in my head in the first place.”

He turned away in frustration and I grabbed hold of his arm.

“Wait a minute. What did Geralt say to you?”

“That she could choose more than one of us.”

I took a step back. “Fucking hell.”

“Look, I know we all want her—”

“Syverson—”

“Let me finish, God damn it,” Sy growled. I put my arms up and he continued. “We all want her. Geralt’s of the mind she can have all of us if she wants to, I don’t doubt Mike would go for that too. But, Mike’s too young to stand up to Walker. It’ll still be up to her. I ain’t sayin’ ya gotta force yourself on her or nothin’. Just give her the option.”

“So, this is all about Walker? Are you so fucked up that you’d give up a chance at happiness, just to spite Walker?” I shook my head. He can’t be fucking serious. “She could choose Walker anyway, you know? Then where would you be? Sharing her with him?”

“He only wants her to fuck with me,” Sy growls. “The rest of you, I see it in your eyes, you care about her the same as me. This ain’t a competition for us. And you’re my Brothers, and… Fuck.” Sy grabbed me by the back of the neck, drawing our faces together until he was looking me in the eye. “And I trust you with everythin’, with my fuckin’ life, with hers. Ya feel me?” His jaw jutted forward, and his grip on my neck tightened. “If you’re who she wants, if any of y’all are who she wants, or if she wants us all, then I’ll do it for her and I’ll do it for you. Ya get it?”

Fuck, he was serious. He was actually considering this shite. And not just considering it, he seemed hellbent on it; his eyes burned with a passion I’d rarely seen from him before.

I put my hands on his shoulders. “Alright, Sy. Alright, my Brother. Relax, okay? She’s looking this way.”

“Fuck.” He let me go and took a few steps back, making sure not to look in her direction. “Is she comin’ over?”

“No.”

“Good.” Sy rolled his shoulders a few times, releasing built-up tension. “So what do you think?”

“I think you and Geralt are living in some kind of fantasy if you think this could possibly lead to anything other than disaster.”

“I thought so too, but…” Sy shrugged, “I don’t know. I still don’t wanna leave, but knowin’ that you’d be with her takes the edge off. Something about it feels right.”

“Syverson, I—”

“Do me a solid and just think about it, alright? For me, Brother.”

I nodded, still too shocked to really argue with him. Sy returned the gesture, turned abruptly on his heels, and walked swiftly over to Lori. He squatted in front of her, resting his chin on her bent knees. Without looking at him, she reached out and scratched at his beard, I could almost hear him purr in response.

He doesn’t mean it. There’s no way. He thinks he does, that’s what it is. He’s so fucking narrowminded when it to Walker that he’d rather see himself share her with another man than risk the chance that he’d lose her to Walker.

“You gonna do it?” Geralt spoke from behind.

“Do what exactly? Throw myself at my Brother’s girl, pretending it's ok cause he wants me to?” I spat bitterly. “How could you put this lunacy into his fucking head?”

“He’s got no claim on her.”

Slack jawed, I gestured to Sy, still on his haunches in front of Lori, he still hadn't taken his eyes off her.

“Even if he hasn’t fucked her, look at him. He’s a bloody lovesick puppy. I can’t take that away from him.”

Geralt put a hand on my shoulder and made me look at him. “You won’t be. She looks at him the same way.”

“Then what’s the point? She’s made her choice.”

“She looks at all of us the same way.”

I looked at her, really looked at the way she was staring at Mike. Then her eyes drifted to Geralt then slowly to mine, and she smiled when she saw I was looking at her. Fuck, Geralt was right, she’s attracted to all of us.

“I need to think about this.”

“Don’t take too long, or I’ll move in myself.” Geralt said and grinned. “I will anyway. But I’ll let you have the first shot.” I looked at him sharply and his grin turned into a laugh. “That look tells me, you’ve made your mind up, you just haven’t told yourself yet.”

I grunted. I lit another cigarette craving another hit of that antsy rush as the nicotine hit my blood stream. Geralt patted my shoulder, leaving me with a hum and a sinking feeling in my chest.

Pizza was ordered and somehow we all ended up in Lori’s room eating and knocking back a few beers. Except for Walker and his absence was noted.

“Is he always left out or is it because of me?” Lori asked me quietly.

She was sitting between Sy and I against the headboard of the bed, while Mike and Geralt sat cross legged across from us. The pizza was long gone and I was on my third beer. I should have stopped at one, but after my talk with Sy earlier, I needed the extra buzz.

“I can see there’s tension between Sy and Walker and I don’t want to make it worse,” Lori shrugged, “I know how shit can go when there’s issues between members and it usually isn’t pretty.”

“He could be here if he wanted to. Walker often chooses his own company.”

“Still, I feel kind of bad for him.” She dropped her head a little, scratching at the label of her beer bottle.

“Don’t worry about it, Lori,” I said, lowering my own head to catch her eye. “The issues between Sy and Walker go way back. If it wasn’t you, they’d argue about the colour of the sky.”

She gave me a half smile and nodded before turning her attention back to the guys.

I took some time to really observe what was going on here. The dynamic was oddly normal. Lori slotted into the group easily, almost like she’d always meant to be with us. It wasn’t exactly the same as it was when we first became Brothers, even Mike had changed that dynamic, but like him she enhanced us, as if the four of us had been waiting for him and now her.

If you had told me a month ago that a woman would come into our lives that we all developed feelings for, I would never have imagined this scene. I would have envisioned a growing animosity between us, a heightened level of competition, of each of us trying to outdo each other for her attention. But again, oddly, it was the opposite. She was bringing us together in a way that I thought would be impossible. It hardly made sense. It seemed to go against every instinct I had and yet… Could it work? Could we all be with her? Would it be enough for us?

The only spanner in the works was Walker. And really, that was an issue for Sy and Walker to work out. Lori didn’t begin the animosity between them, but her presence has accelerated its cancerous growth.

And she had noticed. She was aware of the way Walker held himself aloof from the rest of us sometimes. He was as much my Brother as the others, my loyalty to him was as strong but there had always been a distance between him and the rest of us. For a brief moment, I entertained the possibility that she could be the key to unlocking his final walls, to bring him closer to the rest of us and finally settling the futile peacocking that went on between him and Sy.

But that was a ridiculous thought and I was getting way ahead of myself.

I finished the last of my beer and caught Geralt’s eye. He seemed to be thinking the same thing I was and dipped his head slightly.

“Right,” I said, climbing off the bed, “Come on Mike, let's get some rest before our shifts start.”

Mike opened his mouth seemingly in protest, but I gave him a firm look and his mouth snapped shut. Mike glanced at Sy and Lori and had enough sense to yawn and ungracefully stretch.

“Yeah, I’m a little tired.”

We silently tidied up the empty beer bottles and pizza boxes and when we were finished Lori looked at us a little awkwardly.

“Well, goodnight,” she said.

Mike said goodbye first, giving her a kiss on the cheek and a hug, not as flirtatious as he had yesterday, but he whispered something in her ear that made her smile and her cheeks warm as she stepped out of his embrace.

“Night Geralt,” she said softly, perhaps even a little shyly.

“Lori,” he said simply pausing briefly to nod his head in her direction as he walked past her and followed Mike out the door.

Then she turned her attention to me and wrapped her arms around my waist. I think I hummed as I returned her embrace. I could feel the rise and fall of her chest, the soft tickle of her warm breath on my neck and my eyes slid shut on their own accord. She stood on her toes and suddenly my nose was in her hair, her fragrance unavoidable, delicate and intoxicating in its fresh, sweet, citrusy aroma.

“Good night, Marshall,” she whispered.

My heart was thumping harder than my Fat Boy at idle as I let her go. I held her at arms length by the shoulders. She was beautiful. She had an easy, unpretentious, girl next door sexuality that made me want to crawl inside her and make her filthy.

Fuck.

As if her skin was suddenly a hotplate, I let her go.

“Night, Babycakes,” I said. My tone was a little deep, but at least it didn’t waver, “I’ll see you in the morning.”

Her brows furrowed, “Aren’t you on duty tonight?”

“We’ll be standing watch outside your room,” I explained. Geralt had a word with Walker and it was agreed that Sy would stay the night with Lori and the rest of us would guard the door outside. How Geralt convinced Walker to allow it, I’ll never know.

“Sy?” Lori said, turning to him.

“I was going to stay with you, like last night,”

Lori looked at the floor and her cheeks flushed slightly.

“If you don’t want me too, I’m sure I can…”

“No, no,” Lori said quickly, “I’d like you to stay.”

Sy grinned and cupped Lori’s cheeks, tilting her face up to his.

Not wanting to intrude on what was undoubtedly about to take place, I left quickly. However, Sy surprised me by following me outside after telling Lori he’d be back in a minute.

Mike was smoking and Geralt was leaning against the wall, their heads both lifting as Sy and I came out.

“Aren’t you staying with Babycakes or did she kick your old ass ou–Ouch!” Mike grunted.

Geralt smirked as he dropped his arm by his side and Mike threw him a murderous look as he rubbed the back of his head. I scoffed. If Mike only knew what Sy and Geralt had in mind.

Sy shook his head, and ignored Mike.

Geralt smirked and threw an arm around the kid. “Come on, little Brother,” he said and took him off to his room.

When they were out of earshot, Sy spoke to me in a low voice as he pulled a cigarette out of his packet, “Did ya think about what I asked?”

“Yeah.” I said.

“And?”

“I’ll do it,” I sighed.

Sy took a deep breath and let it out roughly. “Thank you, Brother.”

I crossed my arms across my chest. “Don’t fucking thank me yet. What are you going to tell Lori?”

“I already told her, if she needs anythin’ and I ain’t around she should go to you.”

“I think you should tell her more than that.”

Sy took a long drag on his cigarette before crushing it beneath his foot. “Yeah. I’ll speak to her.”

He stood for a while, flicking his zippo between his fingers. Mike and Geralt had left, no doubt going to get some rest before their shifts began.

“Hey, man. Maybe you should spend some time with her tonight,” Sy said. “Let her get comfortable with ya before I leave tomorrow. I can take an hour of your shift, wait here and—”

“No Brother,” I interrupted. He was really serious. Part of me thought he’d take it all back once he realised what he agreed to and what it would mean for him. “You don’t know when you’ll be back.”

Sy’s eyes were drawn to the motel door. “Yeah,” he agreed.

I patted his shoulder. “Go on, she’ll be waiting.”

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mingisdoll · 1 month

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Ateez and Kirby

This list includes the members as Kirby characters. I totally wasn't inspired by old memories of playing the Kirby games lol anyways. This will include games I played on my old DS and my Switch lol

@newworldnet

Hongjoong - Dyna Blade

In Kirby Super Star Ultra, Dyna Blade is a huge colorful bird that will do anything to protect her children. You can fight her after fighting King Dedede in Spring Breeze. Hongjoong is similar to Dyna Blade since he'd do anything for his fellow bandmates kids. His hair has undergone so many color changes. I don't know how his scalp is holding up lol I'm surprised he hasn't pulled a Sehun yet. Only Yunho lol

Seonghwa - Dark Nebula

Originally, I had him for Dyna Blade since he was told he looked like an angry bird back in the days plus he's more motherly so it would make sense. However, I remember that his name roughly means to be a star and his name backwards means Mars. In relation to this galaxy themed thing we got going on here, I decided to choose Dark Nebula. Dark Nebula is the final boss in Kirby Squeak Squad. He's a huge black star with a single pink eye in the middle who gave Daroach ultimate power towards the end of the game. Seonghwa's long black hair is literally giving me life ever since I saw those Coachella pics and vids so I wouldn't be surprised if he put on pink eye contacts and cosplayed as his own version of Dark Nebula. Sometimes, even the brightest stars can suck you in.

Yunho - Void Termina

Void Termina is the final boss in Kirby Star Allies. I honestly had no context behind this other than the fact that Yunho is tall and big and scary only when he's mad though.

Yeosang - King Dedede

Yeosang literally looks like a fucking prince so it shouldn't be a suprise that he's King Dedede. I still remember that one video where he was able to hammer down a shit ton of nails in mere seconds. Homie is strong af so I'm sure he'll be able to swing around that huge hammer that Dedede has.

San - Marx/Marx Soul

Oof. I remember fighting Marx in Milky Way Wishes. He was this innocent little bean until he revealed his plans to control Pop Star and he turned demonic after that. This is literally San when you plant him on stage. Marx Soul is utterly fucking worse and I remember having major difficulty fighting him. I feel like demon mode San fits perfectly with Marx Soul. His stage presence is insane. Marx insane lol

Mingi - Galacta Knight

This motherfucker has had pink hair and now has white hair so I decided to put him as Galacta Knight. In addition, when I imagine Galacta Knight as a human, I envision a tall man with huge angel wings sticking out his back and the tips touching the floor, the white shield with the huge pink star in the middle roughly being the same size as Captain America's shield, the pink lance being larger than life, and the mask covering his entire face so you only see the sharp wolf eyes through that mask slit. Yeah I envision Mingi being the human version of Galacta Knight. Will he have his short pink hair or long white hair though? It's up to the imagination ig lol

Wooyoung - Kirby

You cannot fucking tell me that this man is the personification of Kirby. He's just a sweet boy with a huge damn mouth. He is softness and cuteness personified. The only difference is that he doesn't inhale everything in his path. He only screams. Maybe he can inhale San's di-

Jongho - Meta Knight

Ngl, I originally thought of Mingi being Meta Knight since he's my ult and Meta Knight is my favorite Kirby character of all time. However, I remember playing Meta Knightmare Ultra and this one scene popped up. Galacta Nova asked Meta Knight what his one wish was and of course, in true lone swordsman fashion, Meta Knight answered that he only wishes to grow stronger. In that Vanity Fair video, Jongho revealed that he was born with power and as he talked, he exuded that damn power. That's when I knew that he was more fit for Meta Knight rather than Mingi. Also, now I'm imagining Jongho as the human version of Meta Knight with his lilac hair and hands gripping Galaxia (the name of Meta Knight's gold sword) with that 49.1 kg strength, and piercing yellow eyes through the mask. In addition, I now want Jongho to dye his hair an indigo color since technically, Meta Knight's Kirby form is indigo colored in the DS version of the Kirby games.

#newworldnet #ateez #ateez imagines #ateez fanfic #kirby

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wackypalooza · 1 month

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some quick drawings from the past few days. big fan of the second one, it's supposed to look like little red riding hood. the thought process was "what if the big bad wolf was just a looming shadowy presence over red for the whole time she's in the woods" along with a more... i guess "modern" take on red's design with a more tomboyish look. i imagine she's something like cerise hood mixed with red from hoodwinked. that was a lot of talking, sorry... there's also a dyna might from lalaloopsy girls, and the thing, the myth, the legend, gonzo the great. with a little top hat. :3

#lalaloopsy #lalaloopsy fanart #lalaloopsy girls #little red riding hood #red riding hood #fairy tales #fairy tale art #the muppets #the muppet show #gonzo the great #the great gonzo #the muppets fanart #muppets fanart

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thekaijudude · 5 months

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New Ultraman Zero form revealed

Ultraman Zero form drawn by Masayuki Goto and posted on X to commemorate Zero's 14th Anniversary with the caption:

"My evolution hasn't stopped yet"

No name for this tho

But it's quite obvious that his design is very reminiscent of Saga's, which he might achieve this form if Zero tries to use the entirety of the powers that Dyna and Cosmos left him at the same time, tho I can't imagine how it'll be necessarily stronger than US Zero unless on top of that, he also utilises Wild Burst and even Shining all at the same time

This is an outright foreshadowing alr for UGF4, tho if this would really be implemented, I still doubt he'll be able to match Tartarus and he'll still have to resort to using Saga

But commemorating his 14th Anniversary? Only for Zero I guess lol

Tho 2024 is Zero's 15th Anniversary so Zero gaining a new form in UGF4 wouldn't be that surprising either

Speaking of which, every UGF installment has Zero gaining a new form + a Reiwa Ultra gaining a new form as well, we alr have this for UGF4 for Zero, the next in line to gain a new form should be Trigger. The most obvious upgrade form would be to fuse Glitter Trigger Eternity and Trigger Dark together to bascially create a recoloured Glitter Trigger suit.

#ultraman

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klenda-v · 1 year

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Thinking about the King’s Jubilee special of 2003,

which featured Every Ultra they had a suit for at the time, an absurd amount of rap music, an Ultraman hip-hop dance troup, and Zearth’s hip-hop son, B-Boy Zearth Junior. He looks like this.

Literally I have difficulty watching this because this might be the single piece of ultra content that delivers the most psychic damage to me. It’s just. It’s absurd, it’s a musical, it revels in its shamelessness—or at least I think it does?

Link and more specifics below:

Just gathering screenshots I feel my soul deteriorating. For the curious and foolhardy, here’s a link to the video. No, there are no subtitles; no, you won’t need them. CONTENT WARNING: flashing lights and images, absurdity.

I will go briefly through each song, to give you an idea:

Song 0, 2:27 - Meet the performers

A dance/rap(?) group made of kaiju, aliens, and maybe bedazzled ultras? Or maybe they’re just dressed up as Ultras, the eyes are dark and they’re slightly Off? Maybe the announcer actually says, I think the general consensus is that they’re not true Ultras, but some other kind of alien cosplaying as ultras to…honor them? Or at least play as them for the purposes of the “narrative” they’re about to play out.

It’s also an incredibly large cast of performers. We’re just starting, we’re barely three minutes in.

UPDATE: My friend Emcee was kind enough to share the names of all the performers, which I will now relate to you:

"Ultra" dancers, referred to as Ultra Funk Jam:

Dyna Rocksteady, Gaia Electric, Zearth Funkygroove, B-Boy Zearth Jr., Cosmos Air, 80 Super Cool, Agul Boogiedown, Tiga Spinning, Ace Galaxy Step, Seven Shuffle, Justice Pointer

"Kaiju" Dancers (IDK their group's name):

Baltan Big Twister, Pit Flash, Izaak Wildstyle, Magma Freeze X, Dada Sexy (YES REALLY), Lady Benzene Hypnotic, Godola Popping, Bomberhead Gan-Q, Deban Floorcrown, Chaos Headder Grandmaster, B-G-RL Lady Benzene Daughter, Z Capsule Kouju Miraclon

Song 1, 3:15 - four-man hip-hop dance

There are no words I can possibly use to match the actual experience of watching this. I think it’s the fact that I can’t tell if this is satire, or if they’re playing it completely straight. They never tell us. Or maybe they do, I don’t speak Ultra.

Imagine if you will, any late 90s rap. Then imagine the music video for it. But filmed as if it’s a live stage performance, but also everyone is a trained gymnast and we get synchronized flips with Zearth Funkeygroove, Justice Pointer, Gaia Electric, and Tiga Spinning.

Song 2, 4:14, Kaiju Team’s turn

Now that I’m watching this, I think it’s framed as a dance competition? Where the kaiju and “ultra” teams alternate songs, like a rap battle with performances?

Anyway this song starts with an audio sample from, of all things, the sound Ultraman’s timer makes when he’s in mortal peril. This audio blinks sporadically throughout the song, hitting that sweet spot right between “huh I guess it’s just playing at the beginning, huh” and “actually using it as a sample/carrying any meaning.” Maybe the weird timing of the audio has significance with the JP lyrics, but I doubt it. The timer blinking tempo doesn’t quite sync up with the tempo of the actual music.

While the NotUltra’s solo performance had heavy use of flips, the kaiju team impliments a lot of floor work. Lotta breakdancing, if the camera cuts slowed down enough for me to catch most of the moves. Honestly the dancing throughout is very solid overall, with, again, the big caveat being the bewildering editing choices.

Also I think the ultras in the audience are moshing? Maybe I don’t know what moshing is. Watching this, I don’t think I know what anything is anymore.

Song 3, 5:21 - Kaiju Team, or the “Sexy Dance Time, Check It Out” one.

I…wish I were making this up. This one stars Dada Sexy (his [their?] actual name), alongside a feminine-coded alien I only later learned was Lady Benzene Hypnotic. At this point I wonder whether this is better watched high, or if this is already making me high.

The groove to this one starts notably different, but like…if the Cha Cha Slide tried to be steamy. And no I didn’t grab a screenshot mid-frame-shift, this part is literally shot like this. It goes on for several seconds. They wanted it to look like this.

Oh and the Not-Ultras are here too. Seven Shuffle is one of them. Do with that what you will.

The dancing itself is definitively less hip-hop and more…interpretative dance? I absolutely believe that this is an alien party, because nothing about this presents as remotely normal or human.

Partway through, a green screen cape (Kings?) flies through the screen. I can’t bring myself to care. Every Ultra in the audience is Very into it.

Then about halfway through they switch it back to…hip-hop? I think? It still has multiple Interpretive Dance elements to it. The Not-Ultras bedazzled suits have neon lights on them, btw, I think you should know that.

And yes, by the end, they have the (male) narrator's voice chanting variations of “oh, sexy” in a way that makes me feel. vEry uncomfortable and I wish I could turn back time. I can only hope that the writers truly, legitimately didn’t know what that word actually meant in English, or what it implied if you sing it with the breathy energy they put into this number.

Benzene Hypnotic lets out an alien scream/trill at the end of the song, and we cut to the Ultra audience applauding at what a fun song that was. I want to go home.

7:43 - The Kids Come And Do a lil dance!

This next song is the intermission, a little ditty sung by and danced to by children. One of whom is B-Boy Zearth Jr. Zearth has a child. I barely notice; I’m still reeling from Sexy Dance.

This song, inexplicably, also has the “Dying Ultra’s color timer” sound. It actually appears more here than in the “villain” song. The song itself is…I think cute and charming? It’s hard to tell, my eyes are still glazed over. The kids do a pirouette or a cartwheel or something. The song ends, the announcer praises how super kawaii the performance was, I get a drink.

9:03 - Actual Dance Battle

This one has Justice Pointer, Agul Boogiedown, and I think Dyna Rocksteady (Might be Gaia Electric; his head is weird so I can’t tell), in a dance battle against three Kaiju Team members. This one’s probably my favorite, it sums up the weirdest parts of this while also having some legit solid dance moves. That and since it’s turn-based, we get lots of cool freeze-poses. Plus Agul Boogiedown throws up some gangsta peace signs, which is deeply funny after watching how edgy he is in his show.

The rap song itself appears to also be framed as a rap-battle? I think? My JP is limited but each team’s bar of music seems to be lightheartedly dissing the other/pumping themselves up. Everyone ends the battle by doing the splits on the floor, which is what my head’s gonna do in a minute.

10:42 - A Ballet Number

What’s that? You wanted this to make less sense? No? Well that’s okay, this is basically a ballet number (??????), with violin and slow swaying from the crowd. Zearth Funky Groove is dancing ballet with Lady Benzene Hypnotic. It’s actually…you know what, this is kinda nice. It’s a nice break from—NOPE ITS HIP-HOP AGAIN, LADS

But like a…flamenco (I think?) influenced hip-hop. This song is actually really interesting in terms of merging VERY different influences. Definitely a musical style inspired by the carribian or one of the Romance languages, but asking me to search my mind for factual information while watching this is like asking a boxer to do trigonometry mid-match.

The announcer tells the crowd to grab your sweetheart and dance with them. Tiga bows before Camearra and offers to dance (she graciously accepts). A Daadaa propositions Seven to dance, which seems to catch him off-guard in a bad way. Ultra Father offers his wife his hand, though they don’t properly dance, they just hold hands and sway to the music. Incidentally, Yullian and 80 are present and clearly went together, but they don’t couple up for this dance (that we see).

This doesn’t fit anywhere, but Zoffy is REALLY into the music. Like I’ve never seen him this enthusiastic for anything before. It's really sweet honestly. He’s dancing alone but is clearly more than happy that way.

12:22 - Final Dance

I have trouble articulating exactly what happens in this segment. Clearly it’s framed as a final battle, but those interpretive dance bits are still mixed with the hip-hop. As before, the dancing itself is quite good, if you like incredibly 90’s hip-hop dancing and breakdancing. It’s definitely the most floorwork-heavy of any of the songs.

The camera-work, while strange but functional before, takes a turn even further into the surreal. Some of the camera cuts are so rapid you’d think it was a stage-3 marvel movie; in places it gets to about 5 cuts per second. It will also cut not only between angles on the same person mid-action, but to random other shots, like the crowd of ultras, or a different dancer, or someone unrelated doing half a flip before cutting back again.

I think this must be the point in production where someone discovered you could rotate a camera, because suddenly multiple flips or dance moves are filmed with the camera spinning—presumably to follow the movement, but not quite synchronized and there’s no way we’re doing another take.

At the climax of the song, I can only assume Ultra Father saw some risk to the child-dancers; the music gets tense, and the kaiju-dancers close in around the kids, who cower back-to-back. Ultra Father exchanges an urgent glance with his wife, and together they SHOOT A PULSE OF ENERGY AT THE PERFORMERS ON STAGE.

Which puts everyone on an acid trip. Or I think it does? The colors turn negative/green/weird, and then all the adult-coded performers drop to their knees in a clearly rehearsed part of the dance.

I’m losing my mind. What was this? Was this choreographed or not? Was Ken supposed to do that? I can only think he must have, but then why did his body language radiate legitimate fear for the children’s safety? Why have the Ultra Parents do that part, isn’t this King’s party?? What am I going to do with the avocado I bought two days ago and is gonna go bad??

Not labeling this as a separate song, because the last one never truly ended. But this is clearly the epilogue of the “fight”; the ultras do elaborate secret handshakes with the aliens and monsters, indicating everything’s A-OK now. I will never be A-OK again. The announcer is chanting “happy," though I think he’s repeating the last syllable a bit too much. I don't think they thought through what yelling "HAPPY-PEE" would actually mean in English.

The experience ends with King’s greenscreen cape floating down and King materializes onstage between the two child performers. He then levatates back up, which is the most normal thing to happen this whole time. He says something in English that sounds like maybe “Happy Mercy?” Messy? Blessing?

After the third listen, I realized he’s saying Happy Birthday. It’s his birthday. He’s saying it to himself. The crowd wildly applauds his self-congratulation and repeats the English phrase, and King makes his bows. My splintered psyche notices that the foley-work on his cape movement is very nice.

The end closes out with what I at first think is a hip-hop version of Dyna’s opening theme. I am wrong. They start a weirdly paced hip-hop beat with Cosmos’s “Something You Can Do” vocals. They loop the opening line twice, then go back to rap.

The announcer delightedly cries in English “See you NEXT YEAR!”

I take this as a threat.

#the late ‘90s to early ‘00s were a WILD time for Ultraman #especially the promotional material and ads #they’re insane #look them up #ultraman #obscure ultra lore #Ultraman king #Ultraman king’s jubilee #2003 ultraman densetu #Zearth has a son #who appears here and nowhere else #psychic damage

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thursdayisbetterthanfriday · 7 months

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Applied AI - Integrating AI With a Roomba

AKA. What have I been doing for the past month and a half

Everyone loves Roombas. Cats. People. Cat-people. There have been a number of Roomba hacks posted online over the years, but an often overlooked point is how very easy it is to use Roombas for cheap applied robotics projects.

Continuing on from a project done for academic purposes, today's showcase is a work in progress for a real-world application of Speech-to-text, actionable, transformer based AI models. MARVINA (Multimodal Artificial Robotics Verification Intelligence Network Application) is being applied, in this case, to this Roomba, modified with a Raspberry Pi 3B, a 1080p camera, and a combined mic and speaker system.

The hardware specifics have been a fun challenge over the past couple of months, especially relating to the construction of the 3D mounts for the camera and audio input/output system.

Roomba models are particularly well suited to tinkering - the serial connector allows the interface of external hardware - with iRobot (the provider company) having a full manual for commands that can be sent to the Roomba itself. It can even play entire songs! (Highly recommend)

Scope:

Current:

The aim of this project is to, initially, replicate the verbal command system which powers the current virtual environment based system.

This has been achieved with the custom MARVINA AI system, which is interfaced with both the Pocket Sphinx Speech-To-Text (SpeechRecognition · PyPI) and Piper-TTS Text-To-Speech (GitHub - rhasspy/piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system) AI systems. This gives the AI the ability to do one of 8 commands, give verbal output, and use a limited-training version of the emotional-empathy system.

This has mostly been achieved. Now that I know it's functional I can now justify spending money on a better microphone/speaker system so I don't have to shout at the poor thing!

The latency time for the Raspberry PI 3B for each output is a very spritely 75ms! This allows for plenty of time between the current AI input "framerate" of 500ms.

Future - Software:

Subsequent testing will imbue the Roomba with a greater sense of abstracted "emotion" - the AI having a ground set of emotional state variables which decide how it, and the interacting person, are "feeling" at any given point in time.

This, ideally, is to give the AI system a sense of motivation. The AI is essentially being given separate drives for social connection, curiosity and other emotional states. The programming will be designed to optimise for those, while the emotional model will regulate this on a seperate, biologically based, system of under and over stimulation.

In other words, a motivational system that incentivises only up to a point.

The current system does have a system implemented, but this only has very limited testing data. One of the key parts of this project's success will be to generatively create a training data set which will allow for high-quality interactions.

The future of MARVINA-R will be relating to expanding the abstracted equivalent of "Theory-of-Mind". - In other words, having MARVINA-R "imagine" a future which could exist in order to consider it's choices, and what actions it wishes to take.

This system is based, in part, upon the Dyna-lang model created by Lin et al. 2023 at UC Berkley ([2308.01399] Learning to Model the World with Language (arxiv.org)) but with a key difference - MARVINA-R will be running with two neural networks - one based on short-term memory and the second based on long-term memory. Decisions will be made based on which is most appropriate, and on how similar the current input data is to the generated world-model of each model.

Once at rest, MARVINA-R will effectively "sleep", essentially keeping the most important memories, and consolidating them into the long-term network if they lead to better outcomes.

This will allow the system to be tailored beyond its current limitations - where it can be designed to be motivated by multiple emotional "pulls" for its attention.

This does, however, also increase the number of AI outputs required per action (by a magnitude of about 10 to 100) so this will need to be carefully considered in terms of the software and hardware requirements.

Results So Far:

Here is the current prototyping setup for MARVINA-R. As of a couple of weeks ago, I was able to run the entire RaspberryPi and applied hardware setup and successfully interface with the robot with the components disconnected.

I'll upload a video of the final stage of initial testing in the near future - it's great fun!

The main issues really do come down to hardware limitations. The microphone is a cheap ~$6 thing from Amazon and requires you to shout at the poor robot to get it to do anything! The second limitation currently comes from outputting the text-to-speech, which does have a time lag from speaking to output of around 4 seconds. Not terrible, but also can be improved.

To my mind, the proof of concept has been created - this is possible. Now I can justify further time, and investment, for better parts and for more software engineering!

#robot #robotics #roomba #roomba hack #ai #artificial intelligence #machine learning #applied hardware #ai research #ai development #cybernetics #neural networks #neural network #raspberry pi #open source

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tsunflowers · 1 year

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I keep thinking about new generation gaia. they have to do it right. imagine how sad it would be if they rebooted tiga and dyna but left gaia to die. I actually don't have anything to say I just want zogu back

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I don’t like the oc slander. While I can understand Tae, he is still in the wrong. I think he should be way more understanding. We’re literally all witnesses to what oc has done for him & what she has tolerated. She is a character who has a very understanding nature and really believes in the good in people & redemptions. Whether he meant it or not, I think it was really horrible that he said while he was suffering she was off falling in love. We all know it’s not as simple as that, also if I recall correctly I could’ve sworn once all was well, oc asked if tae was okay with what her & yoongi had. He didn’t say it bothered him then, so for him to say such a thing, in such a moment like the one they’re in, really sucks. If I was the oc I would be just as heartbroken because not only has she lost one lover but now it looks like shesbon the brink of losing another. I would be extra heartbroken because although I know some people say things out of anger I also believe sometimes whatever they say holds some sort of truth to it. So that would definitely always be in the back of my mind. Like imagine if now she feels like she can’t love yoongi anymore because Tae (who she also loves very much) thinks it’s wrong. Oc has never restricted tae from loving anyone, even when it was horribly toxic (yes jimin, this is about you). She’s endured literally watching him fuck other people & rave about how amazing they are!!!?? I get Tae’s frustration with wanting her to take care of herself but the delivery was definitely wrong. On a brighter note (kinda) oc is stronger than me because I would’ve broke down after seeing them cater to me & taes fluffy pancakes and the reserved leftovers all for me, even though I’ve been such a bitch. That moment really solidified their family dynamic and it’s so sweet. Also kook:( !!! He’s so sweet and so understanding. He literally scream comfort, I feel extra bad for him because I feel like he’s the type to think he can’t be sad over Yoongi because you probably feel even worse. Almost like he doesn’t have the right in a sense?? Idk but I feel like he has so much pain over the whole situation & hasn’t been able to really deal with it head on because anytime he does cry, he doesn’t just cry. He breaks down as if he’s been holding it in the whole time. I know deep down in my heart of hearts that Yoongi will come back I just really wish for her & tae to still be okay after it. The whole family too. I feel like her and Tae’s relationship is always on the rocks from him being an ass bcs of namjoon then because of jimin, then because of grief, then over jimin again & now over yoongi.. it’s all a.lot. I love this series & all the plot twists you add & how your characters are never dense. They seem so real, complex and relatable. Can’t wait for the next chapter!!

Interesting take on the entire situation 👀 as an author I should stay neutral but..... i'm not saying that i'm agreeing but 😶 hahahhaha NO BUT THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TOPIC I AM LOVING IT NFANFDS

also if I recall correctly I could’ve sworn once all was well, oc asked if tae was okay with what her & yoongi had. He didn’t say it bothered him then

You are calling correctly 🤔 they talked about it and reassured each other that it was okay for both of them, which just makes the entire situation so much sadder :(

So that would definitely always be in the back of my mind. Like imagine if now she feels like she can’t love yoongi anymore because Tae (who she also loves very much) thinks it’s wrong.

NOOOOO PLEASE NOOOO

Oc has never restricted tae from loving anyone, even when it was horribly toxic (yes jimin, this is about you). She’s endured literally watching him fuck other people & rave about how amazing they are!!!??

😶

oc is stronger than me because I would’ve broke down after seeing them cater to me & taes fluffy pancakes and the reserved leftovers all for me, even though I’ve been such a bitch. That moment really solidified their family dynamic and it’s so sweet.

SAME BRO OMFG ISTFG THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH LIKE PLEASE THIS FAMILY IS GONNA BREAK ME 😭😭

Also kook:( !!! He’s so sweet and so understanding. He literally scream comfort, I feel extra bad for him because I feel like he’s the type to think he can’t be sad over Yoongi because you probably feel even worse. Almost like he doesn’t have the right in a sense?? Idk but I feel like he has so much pain over the whole situation & hasn’t been able to really deal with it head on because anytime he does cry, he doesn’t just cry. He breaks down as if he’s been holding it in the whole time.

THIS THIS THIS FUCKING THIS HOLY FUCK THIS 😭😭😭

#asks: magnus venatio #asks #anon

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cina-full-moon-xanadium · 2 years

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i did actually know about the cancelled shf orb forms before. actually now that i know more about ultraman it's interesting to see that burnmite has the same chest details as mebius brave i think it was. almost tragic these didnt happen bc they look so GOOD

the sheer cryptid nature of the 2016 Tiga and Dyna prototypes... these seem so scary to me now. Can't wait for this to get eclipsed this year by Seihou #DynaSweep

but the most absolute fucking nuts award of Tamashii Nations 2016 unreleased Ultra SHFs easily goes to one that wasn't actually there but was just teased. SHF REDMAN. Can you even fucking imagine

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bvannn · 3 months

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Weekly Update February 16, 2024

I’ve been mostly okay this week except Thursday and I also haven’t been sleeping well. I assume I’m basically equilibrated on the medicine I guess thursdays are just gonna suck for a while, oh well. I got stuff done this week. I’m a bit tired from lack of sleep so sorry if I ramble.

Music: today I just went and recorded a bunch of stuff on the fancy practice room pianos with the petals. Not everything I need for current projects but the way I’m looking at it for now: the fancy keyboards have 2 advantages over my Casio: damper petals and dynamics (they have quiet petals too but it doesn’t look like midi files record that). I don’t know how many VSTs I have that even utilize dynamics, I assume most of the pianos do though, and obviously damper petals are important for piano as well to get that extra reverb. But for other instruments, not as important. So I can use my Casio for most of what I do, which is great because I don’t have to walk through a giant snowstorm to get to it. Problem is a couple of the songs I’ve been focusing on have been character themes for OCs, Romeo and Shaun specifically. The two piano players. So the songs use a lot of piano.

As for the songs themselves, I’m making reasonable progress. The main ones I’m working on are (1) character theme for Romeo, ambient, (2) an EDM type vocal song that is basically done except for the lyrics and vocals, (3) a symphonic rock vocal song that is basically done except for the lyrics and vocals (and maybe I might redo a verse melody but that’ll take like, 10 minutes), (4) character theme for Shaun, low priority because I’ve had to basically scrap and redo it from the ground up because it sounded like shit, (5) song of storms medley that I have everything recorded for basically I just need to plan out instruments and get the other parts separated, which really shouldn’t be hard at all idk why I’m procrastinating, and (6) video game retro boss fight style song that I have written down a plan for and have a melody idea in my head but all I’ve actually made so far is a drum and bass line. I got a couple other ideas and Melodies I’m holding onto but I want to finish some of these first. If I get another burst of recording energy I’ll try for that boss fight theme tonight but that’s unlikely. Next steps will probably be finishing up Romeo’s theme by tempo fixing the recordings I did today, and plugging them in to the master edit, if I need to add more instruments I can but I already have like 13 layers in that file (mostly ambiance and percussion) so I’m hoping I can make do with what’s already there. Then next priority should be taking another stab at lyric writing or practicing with vocaloid again.

General drawings, a couple OC drawings done this week, I’d like to do more but I just haven’t had time. Comic thumbnailing is going pretty well though, I’m at 18 pages. I’m aiming for 32 total, but because my initial writeout had me going over, I’ve been trying to keep the page count low here. If it’s too low, I can add back in some more dialogue conversations, since again, more character interactions and ghost exposition would probably be appreciated by readers, but not justified enough to excuse extra pages. But if there’s extra pages, why not add it back in? Well, it might break pacing but as long as I watch that it shouldn’t be a problem. Whatever.

Also been playing a bit with other stories I’ve had as lower priorities. Obviously Backstage is the next most fleshed out story after the O’Malley Foster Home, and I’ve been thinking through plot and character stuff for that, but also some other stories that are so underdeveloped they don’t even have central themes yet. Once I get central themes, they’ll basically write themselves, but until then I need to focus on individual character conflicts until I can find common ground between them, and it becomes the theme. What that culminates to is rotating characters in my head and trying to imagine dynamics with them until eventually something will click. If I get anything I’ll draw it, but I want to try to put more thought into that, since I think some of my insomnia is just me running out of sheep to count, so I need to find more things to ponder, and I think that’ll be a good one.

Still no animation anything but with Romeo’s theme so close to completion I’ll probably throw together a small animation of him playing the piano or something. I don’t mention it much but the majority of the OCs I post are musicians in some capacity. Mikey, Jack, and Thomas are all guitarists, Shaun and Romeo play piano, Emrys is a drummer, and Josh sings. Animating that could be fun, but it’d probably get repetitive after a while. I’m kinda poking at other animation softwares too, since I kinda want to give animating in clip studio another shot, plus I have certain characters meant to be really visually different from others, so I’m considering trying Blender for a cutout style animation or something. Plus the more I think about it, the more certain I am that I’ll have to animate more flowy stuff like long dresses or ghost tails in after effects instead of flash. Annoying but I can learn, I can always learn.

Final tiny note keep getting on and off pushes in motivation for the anime campaign game I’m preparing, still not sure if I’ll try to find players in person only or online or a mix. But I have some art for it on the side I’m working on, as if the epithet 52 isn’t enough epithet erased style art. It’s fine I’ll hopefully take a break and do more OC art again soon.

Next week looks to have a absolute ton of homework so good chance I’ll be unproductive, although every time I say that I find a way so who’s to say. I’m hoping I’ll be okay medically too, since I mostly was this week and today (except this morning when I woke up early from a nightmare, but that was before I took my medicine so it doesn’t count). My bigger condition also flaring up on and off this week too but I’m already doing everything I can about that so it’s fine. I thought last week that a consult for the next surgery got cancelled, but turns out it was a miscommunication and I’m actually still fine, so that’s a relief. This next week I’ll do what I can, hopefully finish a song, and get a couple more drawings done.

#weekly update

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