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Today Crowley had to reassure the Bentley that the only reason they were taking the train was because Aziraphale loved trains, and in-turn, that Aziraphale did not love trains more than the Bentley, they just both believed it should get to have a break once in a while.
#good omens#aziracrow#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#ineffable boyfriends#ineffable lovers#meanwhile at the cottage#south downs cottage
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Cici (local 4 year old) dresses herself for the function; Gus (fashion king) questions whether she’s actually related to him
#gustholomule#the owl house#toh fanart#gus porter#augustus porter#matt tholomule#toh mattholomule#cici tholomule porter#toh oc#toh fankid#they’re getting together with their friends and their kids at hunter and willow’s cottage#and matt is just proud of her for dressing herself without his help LMAO#meanwhile gus (who hasn’t been in the trenches getting her dressed every day for years) is like#“what in the titandamn hell is YOUR daughter wearing!?” (hes being dramatic)#hunter made the shirt for her luz got her the rainbow tights and matt was responsible for the tutu and ballet slippers it was a team effort#yes i snuck in the earring exchange for gus and matt i cant stop drawing it#steph draws#x
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Phil coming over to roll Keeley's sleeves up for her when she starts getting mucky despite being clearly absolutely disgusted by the fish guts is so sweet.
#river cottage#like Hugh keeps trying to play up Phil's 'hard man' persona this episode while meanwhile he's spent the whole time just being a sweetheart#keeley hawes#philip glenister
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remus staring at the mirror, sirius’ body draped across his small bed, trying to convince himself that he should back out because she can’t possibly love him as he loves them, and oh yes, as she huffs in her sleep, searching for him, he’s instantly giving away to the pain in his chest. she was heartache from the day he first met her. yes. he had been a fool to think otherwise. he’s as good as dead but death never felt lovelier.
#wolfstar#!!!!!!!#sorry forget her has been on my repeat#meanwhile sirius is dreaming of their little cottage and adopting a child and living happily ever after#<33333#i love them.#i want to set myself on fire
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in theory I really wanna design Melliwyk's living spaces, since she's my only OC who's had any kind of permanent living space for any meaningful amount of time, but in practice not only do I not know anything about interior design or architecture in general I really don't know anything about how to design a fantasy-setting rustic woodland cottage which also is several thousand years old and was built during a now-lost era of high magic advancement
#this is a problem of me thinking abojt the worldbuilding a perhaps unreasonable amount but my house predates? the vault??#what does that MEAN for DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION#I don't even know where to begin trying to research references and inspiration on this lol#I MEAN I GUESS PROBABLY MIDDLE AGES I'm probably overthinking it wrt the DM's intentions but#I just wanna think about Mel's little items#and my brain's like 'okay figure out what modern gnomish interior design is like and also figure out what an ancient cottage is like. idiot#meanwhile I can't even interior design my own real life house that I live in for myself agdkfldsh#about me#my OCs#melliwyk
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the more i learn about pre-meghan harry, the more i wonder how he possibly landed meghan because that man was SLUMMING IT… like no one would believe he was a british prince by the condition of his home and those holey shoes lol
#meanwhile my girl was living in a luxurious toronto apartment#lol imagine her visiting his house for the first time#“so he wasn’t lying about the cottage part#- meghan probably#let’s br she is way too nice to say that (unfortunately) but i wouldn’t blame her for thinking it haha#meghan markle#prince harry#duchess of sussex#duke of sussex#meghan and harry
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Just saw someone reblog their own post like “wow I didn’t expect this to resonate with so many people uwu” my brother in christ you sure did expect it to resonate with people who follow (checks tags) dark academia, light academia, cottagecore, goblincore, beginner witch, witchblr, lgbt, gay-
#meanwhile I do the world a favor by tagging as lazily as possible#and mostly only so my mutuals who are sick of my shit can block the tag for my latest obsession#and also so I can be unhinged. very important#if gay goblincore academics who live in cottages and do witchcraft find my posts that’s their problem
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i will never get over how s8 gem found a nice couple of friends in the woods and started building a little cottage next to them meanwhile s8 pearl stumbled onto 4 unhinged chaotic idiots who forced her to jump in a tower of boats
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Meanwhile, at a Cottage in the Woods...
“Who is it?” Momma Bear yelled from the kitchen.
“It’s a man,” Baby Bear called over his shoulder from the front door.
“What does he want?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, ask him!”
“You ask him.”
Momma Bear took the saucepan of porridge off the hob and, wiping her hands on her flowery apron, went to the front door. Baby Bear scurried back to his PlayStation.
Momma Bear looked the man up and…
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#Fairy tale#fiction#Goldilocks and the Three Bears#Meanwhile at a Cottage in the Woods...#short story#William Stafford#writing
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The voyage west at the end of Return of the King is extremely funny to me, because just look at who's on board. You've got:
Frodo Baggins, hero of the Shire, in need of healing but also excited to see Valinor and meet the legendary elves who live there, a gentle soul
Elrond Halfelven, as kind as a summer, looking forward to peace west of the sea, probably wants to go chill out in a cottage with his wife for the next thousand years
Which seems fine. And then we get to everyone else.
Gandalf, cheeky bastard who's gotten so used to being a weird old wizard in Middle-Earth that's he's forgotten what Maia are supposed to act like, will immediately cause problems
Bilbo Baggins, noted storyteller, definitely planning to break into Aule's halls to see his dwarf friends, will ask all the elves weird questions and then sing about their lives and deaths in front of them, will immediately cause problems
Galadriel, who came to Aman half for Celebrian and Elrond's sake and half to taunt all her cousins about being the only one of them to survive the First Age, enjoys causing problems, will immediately cause many problems
(Also, to be clear, these are not three isolated problem-causers, they absolutely spent the entire trip to Valinor actively planning to give Amanyar society and the Valar an aneurysm.)
I just love the idea of Elrond, now reunited with Celebrian, and Frodo happily having tea with Elwing and Earendil, with nothing to interrupt them but the gentle sounds of the tides.
Meanwhile Galariel, Bilbo, and Gandalf are collectively bullying Mandos into releasing Maglor Feanorian from the halls because:
Bilbo wants to read him his translation of the Noldolante, which is written as a cheery Hobbit drinking song
Elrond always complained about how Gandalf and Maglor were both insufferably vague about advice and Gandalf needs to make sure he's more infuriating than Maglor as a matter of his wizardly pride
He still owes Galadriel money
#silmarillion#silm headcanons#valinor#elrond#elrond peredhel#frodo baggins#bilbo baggins#galadriel#gandalf#maglor
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Picture this, you’re a real estate agent in South Downs. Your toughest clients to date are a very soft, kind, but demanding man, Mr. Fell, and his grumpy, slender, goth husband. When showing houses, the latter is always touching things he shouldn’t, fiddling with knobs and light switches, until eventually he gets bored and wanders off to the back garden. Meanwhile, Mr. Fell has a large list of insistent requirements for their cottage and is unwilling to settle for anything less. He’d like a ridiculously large room to create a library space, but he doesn’t want to make any renovations that change the original structure of the historic home. Neither of them seem to be very concerned about the amount of bathrooms or their features, other than a requirement for a spacious bath tub from Mr. Fell.
Someone please to God write this. The POV from this poor person who has to deal with them.
This energy.
Edit: @pixiefairy15 and I wrote it!
here on ao3
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Today Aziraphale was reading while Crowley took a nap. Aziraphale heard Crowley shiver, so he laid a blanket out over his demon and tucked him in with a kiss to his forehead.
#good omens#aziracrow#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#ineffable boyfriends#ineffable lovers#meanwhile at the cottage#south downs cottage
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Honestly I'm pretty tired of supporting nostalgebraist-autoresponder. Going to wind down the project some time before the end of this year.
Posting this mainly to get the idea out there, I guess.
This project has taken an immense amount of effort from me over the years, and still does, even when it's just in maintenance mode.
Today some mysterious system update (or something) made the model no longer fit on the GPU I normally use for it, despite all the same code and settings on my end.
This exact kind of thing happened once before this year, and I eventually figured it out, but I haven't figured this one out yet. This problem consumed several hours of what was meant to be a relaxing Sunday. Based on past experience, getting to the bottom of the issue would take many more hours.
My options in the short term are to
A. spend (even) more money per unit time, by renting a more powerful GPU to do the same damn thing I know the less powerful one can do (it was doing it this morning!), or
B. silently reduce the context window length by a large amount (and thus the "smartness" of the output, to some degree) to allow the model to fit on the old GPU.
Things like this happen all the time, behind the scenes.
I don't want to be doing this for another year, much less several years. I don't want to be doing it at all.
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In 2019 and 2020, it was fun to make a GPT-2 autoresponder bot.
[EDIT: I've seen several people misread the previous line and infer that nostalgebraist-autoresponder is still using GPT-2. She isn't, and hasn't been for a long time. Her latest model is a finetuned LLaMA-13B.]
Hardly anyone else was doing anything like it. I wasn't the most qualified person in the world to do it, and I didn't do the best possible job, but who cares? I learned a lot, and the really competent tech bros of 2019 were off doing something else.
And it was fun to watch the bot "pretend to be me" while interacting (mostly) with my actual group of tumblr mutuals.
In 2023, everyone and their grandmother is making some kind of "gen AI" app. They are helped along by a dizzying array of tools, cranked out by hyper-competent tech bros with apparently infinite reserves of free time.
There are so many of these tools and demos. Every week it seems like there are a hundred more; it feels like every day I wake up and am expected to be familiar with a hundred more vaguely nostalgebraist-autoresponder-shaped things.
And every one of them is vastly better-engineered than my own hacky efforts. They build on each other, and reap the accelerating returns.
I've tended to do everything first, ahead of the curve, in my own way. This is what I like doing. Going out into unexplored wilderness, not really knowing what I'm doing, without any maps.
Later, hundreds of others with go to the same place. They'll make maps, and share them. They'll go there again and again, learning to make the expeditions systematically. They'll make an optimized industrial process of it. Meanwhile, I'll be locked in to my own cottage-industry mode of production.
Being the first to do something means you end up eventually being the worst.
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I had a GPT chatbot in 2019, before GPT-3 existed. I don't think Huggingface Transformers existed, either. I used the primitive tools that were available at the time, and built on them in my own way. These days, it is almost trivial to do the things I did, much better, with standardized tools.
I had a denoising diffusion image generator in 2021, before DALLE-2 or Stable Diffusion or Huggingface Diffusers. I used the primitive tools that were available at the time, and built on them in my own way. These days, it is almost trivial to do the things I did, much better, with standardized tools.
Earlier this year, I was (probably) one the first people to finetune LLaMA. I manually strapped LoRA and 8-bit quantization onto the original codebase, figuring out everything the hard way. It was fun.
Just a few months later, and your grandmother is probably running LLaMA on her toaster as we speak. My homegrown methods look hopelessly antiquated. I think everyone's doing 4-bit quantization now?
(Are they? I can't keep track anymore -- the hyper-competent tech bros are too damn fast. A few months from now the thing will be probably be quantized to -1 bits, somehow. It'll be running in your phone's browser. And it'll be using RLHF, except no, it'll be using some successor to RLHF that everyone's hyping up at the time...)
"You have a GPT chatbot?" someone will ask me. "I assume you're using AutoLangGPTLayerPrompt?"
No, no, I'm not. I'm trying to debug obscure CUDA issues on a Sunday so my bot can carry on talking to a thousand strangers, every one of whom is asking it something like "PENIS PENIS PENIS."
Only I am capable of unplugging the blockage and giving the "PENIS PENIS PENIS" askers the responses they crave. ("Which is ... what, exactly?", one might justly wonder.) No one else would fully understand the nature of the bug. It is special to my own bizarre, antiquated, homegrown system.
I must have one of the longest-running GPT chatbots in existence, by now. Possibly the longest-running one?
I like doing new things. I like hacking through uncharted wilderness. The world of GPT chatbots has long since ceased to provide this kind of value to me.
I want to cede this ground to the LLaMA techbros and the prompt engineers. It is not my wilderness anymore.
I miss wilderness. Maybe I will find a new patch of it, in some new place, that no one cares about yet.
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Even in 2023, there isn't really anything else out there quite like Frank. But there could be.
If you want to develop some sort of Frank-like thing, there has never been a better time than now. Everyone and their grandmother is doing it.
"But -- but how, exactly?"
Don't ask me. I don't know. This isn't my area anymore.
There has never been a better time to make a GPT chatbot -- for everyone except me, that is.
Ask the techbros, the prompt engineers, the grandmas running OpenChatGPT on their ironing boards. They are doing what I did, faster and easier and better, in their sleep. Ask them.
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Thinking about no upside down everyone's happy and healthy and *cough* alive. Witch!Steve's happy off living his best life in his super cute cottage with his cute garden making soaps that help with itches and creams that clear up bruises and just generally being content. His best friend Robin who has convinced herself that Steve is lonely and Robin is a Meddler (TM) so she, not having anywhere near Steve's skill with magic, steals one of his books and Steve's favourite crystal and a flower from the roses that grow over his front door, and goes home with them.
And she summons Steve a familiar, except she doesn't tell Steve and when she doesn't hear anything for a bit, she assumes she got it wrong or something.
Meanwhile Steve is trying to shoo a jet black snake out of his cottage, except it keeps hiding in the cupboards. Steve ejects the thing to the bottom of the garden in a pillow case. He's very gentle because he's fairly sure the snake is magical in some way.
This is confirmed when the snake, after being told they are very pretty but 'not an inside snake' actually responds by 'hiss'ing.
It doesn't hiss.
It says the word 'hiss'. And it says it repeatedly when it's being carried in the pillow case.
"You can come back when you learn some manners," Steve informs the very male sounding snake. Not that Steve wants to make any assumptions.
Anyway long story short, Eddie is Steve's familiar and he can turn man shaped and makes Steve's magic so much stronger and the reason Robin doesn't hear anything for ages is because they fall in love and have been sexing it up with Eddie's double snake dicks.
Or something.
#eddie munson#stranger things#steve harrington#steddie#fic ideas#witch!steve harrington#familiar!eddie#snake!eddie
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once again thinking about how wei ying’s idea of a scandalous fantasy was taking a bath with lan zhan in their little cottage and he never, not even once, got to the actual undressing part before he woke up. he was over there like “what if lan zhan and i...... h*ld h*nds” and meanwhile sixteen year old lan wangji was out there daydreaming about what locations inside his ancestral library would be optimal for ripping wei ying’s clothes off and bending him over a table
#wwx: what if he...... cooked for me#lwj: what if i made him cry.#the beauty of post-canon wangxian is that it's like (old el paso taco kit meme) u can have both#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#wangxian#rtxt
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you just know how much of an impact lilia had on malleus when — the time he still doesn't know about lilia's contribution to his life — he would run away/secretly escape from the castle and visit lilia from time to time in his little cottage in the forest. he doesn't like it back home and prefers to stay in a very homely and small cottage where it's full of life. heck he probably still appreciates lilia's cooking since lilia cooks out of LOVE, not just to keep him alive. despite it being deadly
it's how much he looks up to lilia when it was also him that introduced ice cream to malleus, when he had his tantrums, when he didn't know how to control his magic, how they'd play fight all the time (even until now). he even was willing to assist lilia when it comes to looking after little silver. it was lilia that gave him the confidence and strength and he KNOWS that but it must've been so painful knowing the full truth.
damn it he even listens and cowers to lilia if lilia's mad/scolding him because NO ONE DOES back in his home so how would he learn?? malleus doesn't even like being acknowledged as a prince. that's why he's so admirable/attached towards the mc because they're clueless about his real nature and the mc sees mal for himself. which is what lilia does because heaven forbid lilia doesn't care about mal's title 🥹 he's putting that draconia ass to his place just like he does to his mom. and may i remind you, most of the royal duties were forced on mal leaving him no room to make mistakes and just be...a young fae (ie. during his birthday he needs to do royal stuff as 'acknowledgement' since his birthday is a national holiday in his country). meanwhile, lilia just lets him play and do whatever he wants until he needed to interfere.
if you see malleus and leona's bickering, lilia can actually sense that mal's enjoying it and he fully supports that ideal because again and again he knows malleus needs it as part of growing up. damn it i hate the royal household of briar valley. when leona commented that malleus is so lucky to have everything and be acknowledged, best believe that malleus doesn't even like it. while he's being acknowledged, he's not evolving as a fae. he's just forced into a space where he's not himself. and leona's being ignored by his own senate but gives him to freedom to be and do what he wants. lilia is giving him THAT kind of freedom. a father. the rightful father figure that he NEEDS.
do you see the juxtaposition? do you see how important lilia is now to malleus' life? because damn well the senate of briar valley's deadass eyes don't. like come on y'all dead just STAY DEAD FFS‼️‼️🗣️🗣️
#twisted wonderland#twst#diasomnia#malleus draconia#lilia vanrouge#twst spoilers#i'm sorry but can you just SMELL how much i despise malleus' household now#i'm gonna keep making these posts to spread my agenda on hating on briar valley's senate
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