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Love from me on this kind of sad sky-blue sun-struck snow day. . .
— Anne Sexton to Anne Clarke
I love you today with a special kind of wide, sunny love. . .
— Vladimir Nabokov to Véra Nabokov
Tho I long for the actual sunlight contact between us I miss you like a home. Shine back honey & think of me.
— Allen Ginsberg to Peter Orlovsky
Write for a long time, send a little of yourself to this city waiting for you, stay turned toward me, love me. . . and, if you’re feeling depressed, forgive me for being so alive this morning. But the sun and you. . .
— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès
#w#comparatives#letters#anne sexton#vladimir nabokov#allen ginsberg#albert camus#the earth was made for lovers
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Lynda, You did an outstanding job with Letters from Earth. It helps those who lost loved ones to remember and reflect. I love your singing. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
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I'm still so amazed at how far medicine has come for trans people... being able to take hormones and get surgeries that are life-saving and life-affirming are genuinely such amazing feats and I wish more people understood that. Like, even if those aspects of transition do not appeal to every trans person, it is still so important to recognize just how important it is that trans people have options.
If love were a language, it would be science.
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#medicine is secretly a love letter to humanity#have been seeing a lot of people bashing so much trans-specific medicine and it honestly just fucks with my head#i would truly rather have a trans body that *looks* trans than to not be on this earth. trans medicine is life-saving#not recognizing that is blatantly biased i think#anyway yeah... ily medicine. it's been a long fucking ride and there's so much dark history surrounding you#but there are glimmers of hope#anyway this is why i want to get into a specific discipline like... love is REAL. RAAAAAGH
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I did the Riddle of Strider 🫡
#lotr#lord of the rings#lotr fanart#tolkien#tolkien fanart#hobbit#hobbit lettering#lotr art#tolkien art#middle earth#jrr tolkien#artists on tumblr#my calligraphy#video#aragorn
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Yes; something deeper, more serious and more true than my already worn out and helpless imagination, has held me back to you, to us, to myself; it is the earth, the sky, the sea, the breath that you have put in me; it is the life that I have only really known since you are there in me; it is this dull pain that rumbles in the middle of me, this endless stretching towards a goal that seems to me every day more distant, more elusive, more abstract but also more necessary and more vital. By what miracle must I love you more as your image moves away from my memory? I don't know, but that's the way it is and I know of no greater suffering than that of one who tries in vain to recreate dear and disappeared trappings.
Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 6, 1950 [#173]
#albert camus#camus#absurd#absurdism#maria casares#correspondance#love letters#love#earth#sky#sea#breath#life#pain#memory#suffering
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Dear Sirs!
(or have some ladies also signed?)
A few days ago, you, Mr Musk, together with Mr Wozniak, Mr Mostaque and other signatories, published an open letter demanding a compulsory pause of at least six months for the development of the most powerful AI models worldwide.
This is the only way to ensure that the AI models contribute to the welfare of all humanity, you claim. As a small part of the whole of humanity, I would like to thank you very much for wanting to protect me. How kind! 🙏🏻
Allow me to make a few comments and ask a few questions in this context:
My first question that immediately came to mind:
Where was your open letter when research for the purpose of warfare started and weapon systems based on AI were developed, leading to unpredictable and uncontrollable conflicts?
AI-based threats have already been used in wars for some time, e.g. in the Ukraine war and Turkey. Speaking of the US, they are upgrading their MQ-9 combat drones with AI and have already used them to kill in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The victims of these attacks - don't they count as humanity threatened by AI?
I am confused! Please explain to me, when did the (general) welfare of humanity exist, which is now threatened and needs to be protected by you? I mean the good of humanity - outside your "super rich white old nerds Silicon Valley" filter bubble? And I have one more question:
Where was your open letter when Facebook's algorithms led to the spread of hate speech and misinformation about the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar?
Didn't the right to human welfare also apply to this population group? Why do you continue to remain silent on the inaction and non-transparent algorithms of Meta and Mr Zuckerberg? Why do you continue to allow hatred and agitation in the social media, which (at least initially) belonged to you without exception?
My further doubt relates to your person and your biography itself, dear Mr Musk.
You, known as a wealthy man with Asperger's syndrome and a penchant for interplanetary affairs, have commendably repeatedly expressed concern about the potentially destructive effects of AI robots in the past. I thank you for trying to save me from such a future. It really is a horrible idea!
And yet, Mr Musk, you yourself were not considered one of the great AI developers of Silicon Valley for a long time.
Your commitment to the field of artificial intelligence was initially rather poor. Your Tesla Autopilot is a remarkable AI software, but it was developed for a rather niche market.
I assume that you, Mr Musk, wanted to change that when you bought 73.5 million of Twitter's shares for almost $2.9 billion in April?
After all, to be able to play along with the AI development of the giants, you lacked one thing above all: access to a broad-based AI that is not limited to specific applications, as well as a comprehensive data set.
The way to access such a dataset was to own a large social network that collects information about the consumption patterns, leisure activities and communication patterns of its users, including their social interactions and political preferences.
Such collections about the behaviour of the rest of humanity are popular in your circles, aren't they?
By buying Twitter stock, you can give your undoubtedly fine AI professionals access to a valuable treasure trove of data and establish yourself as one of Silicon Valley's leading AI players.
Congratulations on your stock purchase and I hope my data is in good hands with you.
Speaking of your professionals, I'm interested to know why your employees have to work so hard when you are so concerned about the well-being of people?
I'm also surprised that after the pandemic your staff were no longer allowed to work in their home offices. Is working at home also detrimental to the well-being of humanity?
In the meantime, you have taken the Twitter platform off the stock market.
It was never about money for you, right? No, you're not like that. I believe you!
But maybe it was about data? These are often referred to as the "oil of our time". The data of a social network is like the ticket to be one of the most important AI developers in the AI market of the future.
At this point, I would like to thank you for releasing parts of Twitter's code for algorithmic timeline control as open source. Thanks to this transparency, I now also know that the Twitter algorithm has a preference for your Elon Musk posts. What an enrichment of my knowledge horizon!
And now, barely a year later, this is happening: OpenAi, a hitherto comparatively small company in which you have only been active as a donor and advisor since your exit in 2018, not only has enormous sources of money, but also the AI gamechanger par excellence - Chat GPT. And virtually overnight becomes one of the most important players in the race for the digital future. It was rumoured that your exit at the time was with the intention that they would take over the business? Is that true at all?
After all I have said, I am sure you understand why I have these questions for you, don't you?
I would like to know what a successful future looks like in your opinion? I'm afraid I'm not one of those people who can afford a $100,000 ticket to join you in colonising Mars. I will probably stay on Earth.
So far I have heard little, actually nothing, about your investments in climate projects and the preservation of the Earth.
That is why I ask you, as an advocate of all humanity, to work for the preservation of the Earth - with all the means at your disposal, that would certainly help.
If you don't want to do that, I would very much appreciate it if you would simply stop worrying about us, the rest of humanity. Perhaps we can manage to protect the world from marauding robots and a powerful artificial intelligence without you, your ambitions and your friends?
I have always been interested in people. That's why I studied social sciences and why today I ask people what they long for. Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's a good idea to ask the people themselves what they want before advocating for them.
The rest of the world - that is, the 99,9 percent - who are not billionaires like you, also have visions!
With the respect you deserve,
Susanne Gold
(just one of the remaining 99% percent whose welfare you care about).
#elon musk#open letter#artificial intelligence#chatgpt#science#society#democracy#climate breakdown#space#planet earth#siliconvalley#genocide#war and peace#ai algorithms
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institutionalized biphobia (<- airport staff uncuffed my jeans during security check)
#honestly guys what on earth could i be smuggling in there!!!#folded love letters?#trzy gumy turbo??#bisexuality#memeories.txt#personal
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I think it'll be interesting when RWBYJ tells everyone about the ever after, specifically Oscar/Ozpin. I think that'll be a hell of a slap in the face to those two. Imo it's pretty clear that Oz doesn't like the Brothers (his lie for his curse literally puts them in the WORST light to anyone who hears it), but isn't exactly open about it nor does he think on it much. But hearing that the 'gods' are essentially just people who got kicked out of their home would make him. Well I hesitate to say that he'd flip the fuck out, but I definitely think he wouldn't be happy at ALL. I'm sure he'd be furious while simultaneously having an existential crisis.
Frankly, Oz is just. An interesting character when it comes to his thoughts on the Brothers. He went from more or less listening to Light without question (but immediately started questioning when Salem talked to him- "Unsure of where his loyalties still lay-" he trusts Salems words but is confused about his stance on Light, perhaps afraid of questioning him), to putting them in a bad light repeatedly and more or less giving up on his task (there's far far easier ways to unite the world i.e. war- why would he deliberately make it hard on himself? He's far from stupid. He still foes his best to foster peace because why wouldn't he?). And, now, he's actively fighting his curse, and is doing so the second he got an ounce of hope.
I think why he hasn't really thought of fighting the Gods is bc a) he's still scared of them (and it makes sense, I'd be scared too) and b) he never knew that they, well, were just people. I think he'd need some convincing, but I really think he'd be happy to try his hand at giving Light a piece of his mind lol. Something tells me Oz has millennia of bottled up anger- something will eventually be the straw that broke the camels back, as even the most resilient of people can break.
Though I think the biggest issue would be the idea of teaming up with Salem. He's bitter and terrified of her, and although we don't know exactly what's happened between them since their first fight (beyond Oz spending several lives as an alcoholic, then wandering Remnant being reminded of Salem (not necessarily bc he thought every Grimm attack was her, Grimm just remind him of her)), it's entirely possible Salem has also done... something to hurt him. No one's that bitter or terrified of someone for absolutely no reason, but whatever the reason is, that'll definitely be an obstacle between him being allied with her against the Gods. Plus she also, yknow, tortured him and allowed Hazel to torture him (which Oscar took most of it, but they're in the same body).
I think that interaction would be... interesting. Especially since I really don't think Oz even is 'Ozma' anymore. Ozma is the foundations yes, but the merge changes you fundamentally. He has changed his name every lifetime (if Oz doesn't accidentally answer to the name Oscar I'll eat my left shoe), but how much of him really is Ozma anymore? Ship of theseus and all that. If he, by all accounts, isn't 'Ozma' anymore and Salem isn't aware of this, I think it'd be an interesting revelation for her. There's similarities between Oz and how he used to be, but I feel like 'Ozma' is functionally a deadname for him (Oz trans/DID allegory? /j). Especially since I think Ozma is just- not who he is anymore. He's tried living up to the name, but he can't and he knows it (the words his illusion in v9 says speaks a lot to his mental state and his opinion of himself).
God speaking of his illusion on v9, I think it's incredibly clear that what each illusion says pertains to that character in some way. And it says so so much about Ozpin and how he sees himself. It's ironic how the God of Light, associated with creation, made him, yet he thinks that all he does is destroy. He's scarily good at splitting people apart just accidentally (i.e. v6, Summer basically throwing him under the bus thus STRQ broke apart and blamed him, etc) too. Yet Salem, immortal via Lights curse, made herself through Grimm and is very good at rallying people. Dunno, fun thought there (it's why swap aus are so damn tasty with these two).
Sorry for the long ask, I just wanted to ramble in your inbox for a bit. I have many thoughts about Oz.
not. to be snarky but
To live free or die, it’s all the same
The enemy was right, there’s no reclaiming
In waves of shame
We’re desperate to make amends
But through a simple soul we lie complacent
Love brings us dreams
But grief makes the heart burst at the seams
As light fills my eyes
I’ll picture me beside her
And pray that I’ll inspire
I promise I’ll be here until the end
I promise I’ll be here until…
Our story has been told
Til our bodies break down every door
Til we find what we’ve been looking for
terrified she’ll never forgive him and terrified of what will happen if she confronts the gods again, yes. but terrified of her?
the enemy was right. we’re desperate to make amends. grief makes the heart burst at the seams. i’ll picture me beside her. ozma isn’t terrified of salem; he is, explicitly, ashamed of himself and desperate to make amends and longing for her.
listen. you don’t have to go salem did dot dot dot something to hurt him. we KNOW exactly what she did; rejected the mandate, fought him, burned him alive. they blew up their home and killed their own kids. is this insufficiently traumatizing to explain him.
similarly i do not have to go ozma did dot dot dot something to salem: we know exactly what he did. we know why she’s furious and bitter and still hurting. it is not ambiguous.
he’s spent the intervening centuries hiding inside a narrative where salem is the Great Evil he must defeat because the guilt he feels for deceiving and manipulating her and the grief for everything he sacrificed is so unbearable that he can’t touch it except through layers and layers of distortion. but it’s bleeding through the cracks everywhere. the infinite man tried to be a hero and is a fool who may not be worthy of forgiveness, ozpin suggests. look far enough ahead from the ending of the girl in the tower, and you’ll find the hero who saved her turned out to be a villain.
he hates salem. (he deserves her hatred.) this is the wrenching internal war he fights with himself day after day and life after life; the only way he can live with himself enough to function is by hating her, but the hatred is a fiction, a lie, to protect him from his fear. the truth is that he neither hates her nor deserves her hatred.
i am being intentional about calling him ozma, by the way. i am also intentional about when i call him ozpin or oz. i do not think ozma is a deadname. i don’t think ozma is an ideal he is trying and failing to live up to. he doesn’t identify himself as ozpin; he says “the professor ozpin you all met was not my first form.” he dons these other identities as a mask—i am the combination of countless men who have spent their lives trying to protect the people of remnant—because he hates himself. ozma is who he’s running away from because he doesn’t think ozma has ever been enough.
that is why. salem distinguishes between ozpin and ozma the way that she does. and why she is able to differentiate between oscar and ozma even when oscar is mimicking ozpin, because ozpin is the latest in a long series of masks that ozma wears.
(ozpin is tippetarius enforcing his own exile, and thus he became the wizard. ozma is the true self imprisoned by the curse. he’s… named ozma for a reason.)
”what if you could be anyone?” <- the blacksmith does not ask ruby this question because ruby needs to stop being herself in order to be happy. she offers ruby a metaphorical representation of ozma’s curse—what if you could be anyone, slip into a like-minded soul and become that person—in order to guide ruby to the realization that only her true self is the right fit. this is what i like to call blunt force foreshadowing.
ozma is trying to be a thousand different heroes and salem has only ever wanted ozma. ozma then is not the same person as ozma now, but ozma is ozma is ozma. the ship of theseus is the ship of theseus, then as now. on those who enter the same rivers, ever different waters flow. read heraclitus.
the thing is. yeah. he’s going to snap like a brittle twig when he learns the truth about the gods… because he already knows salem is right, deep down. the enemy is right. it bleeds through even into the lost fable, which is narrated in his voice. jinn’s telling—his telling—obfuscates and twists away from salem’s interiority, her feelings, her motives except for the moment of her realization about the brothers: perhaps the gods were not as powerful as they seemed; she had lied to them, turned them against each other; they were fallible.
the enemy is right. he knows she’s right.
hearing what the kids learned in the ever after is going to shatter the cognitive dissonance preventing him from acting on that knowledge. it’s going to surface ‘until the end’ but now joined to the hope he has—since the end of v8—that he can make amends for his cowardice and lies.
ozma apologizing to the kids and asking for a second chance to earn their trust was, uh, a practice run for ozma apologizing to salem and asking for a second chance. the fallout of the lost fable (“there was so much you hadn’t told us! how could you think that was okay!” and “i gave my life to you because you gave me a place in this world; i thought i was finally doing some good!”) is a reflection of salem’s distress. the narrative is on her side. because. he lied to manipulate her and grievously betrayed her trust. in exactly the same way he did to the kids.
#like until the end is literally his pining love letter to salem. he wants to be on the same side again so badly#the only thing stopping him is he’s convinced himself it’s impossible because how could she ever forgive him. how could he ever be worthy#meanwhile she’s enraged because she would have given him anything else but what he asked her to do#and he burned it all to the ground and salted the earth rather than give her the one thing she asked in return#which was to not serve the god who tortured her for millions of years!#he was worth everything to her and to him she was worthless.#together in all things even this.
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walked home in the dark for the first time after daylight savings + it was raining in little drops and i put my face up to the sky to feel it and i felt so free <3
#things have been rly difficult lately but these little moments r like a love letter from the earth#diary#tiyas thoughts
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seeing a highly disturbing trend of people """jokingly"""" saying things like men should run their beard by a panel of women to determine if they're allowed to have one, because it's sparse or patchy or whatever
like you all grasp that men do not owe attractiveness to the world any more than women do, right
#sorry to complain about this#but since transition I really register all the incredibly shitty things people say to men regarding their appearance#and are often told to suck it up if they point out how uncool that is#anyway this is my love letter to every person on earth with patchy facial hair#you deserve better than to be the butt of half the internet's jokes
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Letter from Agnès Varda to Jacques Demy after his death and addressed to the Montparnasse cemetery. It starts with “dear ♡” and ends with “if the beautiful and red-haired Yvonne had refused to become Madame Dame, I rather liked being half of a Demy.”
#CRYING!!!! moi j’ai bien aimé être la moitié d’un demy!!!!!!!!!#w#letters#agnès varda#the earth was made for lovers
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So what if the Valar foresaw that a balrog would be reawakened, and sent Glorfindel back as a precaution against this?
Then when Elrond is picking the company that it is Glorfindel’s life’s purpose to be in he gets upped by some silvan weirdo.
#Olorin coming back to the valar like ‘I fought a fucking balrog’ and the valar being like#‘Where was glorfindel?’ And learning that he was just chilling in rivendell#Looking at each other like shit that wasn’t supposed to happen#Guess we gotta send this bad boy back then and apologise to glorfindel for all the inconvenience#Also glorfindel sending letters (?) to ecthelion like ‘miss you but there’s another moody dark-haired one called erestor#He reminds me of you’#silm#the silmarillion#silmarillion#silm fandom#the silm#the silm fandom#tolkien#lotr#Glorfindel#gandalf#the valar#balrog#tolkien legendarium#middle earth
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"Dear Eliza, this is something I should have said a long time ago. I love you."
Miss Scarlet and The Duke (2020-)
#William writing a letter to Eliza gotta be the sweetest thing on earth#I cried after watching this#and the fact that she never got around to reading it#*frustrated scream*#miss scarlet and the duke#msatd spoilers#msatd s4#williza#william wellington#eliza scarlet#kate phillips#stuart martin
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Lately, I have been reflecting on how much I admire people who seem so unbothered and unapologetic about their existence.
I am told I present that way, which is a huge compliment. Though I cease to get passed the way I notice most details, I watch people simply existing, changes in the environment, I am a full time people's watcher.
And don't get me wrong, I don't dislike it, there is something so pleasant and rewarding about silence and observation.
But for once, just once, I wanna be the person someone notices when I arrive into a room, I wanna be watched existing and genuinly being myself, I want my presence to be desirable and appreciated by others.
I often find myself being the viewer, the one who appreciates and adores.
But oh God, please, can I be the view? Once, just once, to get a glimpse of how it truly feels to be someone's Heaven on Earth?
#writing#thoughts#venting#my shit#quotes#poetry#dark acamedia#self image#desires#confessions#moon#light academia#letters to strangers#view#earth#heaven#angelic#pure#love#spilled feelings#spilled words#spilled poetry#spilled thoughts#spilled ink#secrets
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Definitely not thinking about how Rayla saying “You’re the ‘destiny is a book you write yourself guy’” heavily implies Callum had an in-depth discussion with her telling her about his internal mindscape journey while he was unconscious, one of his most pivotal and vulnerable moments, and how much comfort and trust that would have required. Definitely not.
Gosh. They are everything.
Totally am thinking about this by the way.
#the dragon prince#rayllum#dragon prince#tdp#callum#tdp callum#tdp rayllum#rayla#netflix#tdp s4#tdp season 4#book four: earth#letters from xadia
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