I start my new job tomorrow!
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Travelling Luffy modern AU:
A modern AU where when Luffy met Shanks as a kid he and his mates were living in a van travelling the country probably as some form of criminal but no one in the sleepy village of Foosha knew him. And it inspired Luffy to travel when he grew up. So after high school Luffy picks up random jobs saving money for himself and others to travel going on these grand trips over seas and when he gets back squats at a new friends place and finds a new shitty job to save money and does it all again. He tries to get all his friends to travel with him though it doesn’t always work out so it’s usually two or three of them.
And even in completely different countries Luffy just has a way of befriending the locals finding the best restaurants and activities and even making genuine friends who he is still pen pals with years later. So many times the craziest things have happened to him but Luffy never takes photos on his journey so Nami and the other Strawhats had made it their mission to document every bullshit lucky occasion because no one will believe him otherwise.
His car broke down? Yeah turns out the mayor of the city found them and helped them out. Now they regularly share animal pics. The random old man he befriended in a big city? Yeah turns out he’s actually one of shank’s dads and a criminal and while though retired is still conning a casino for their money and running from the government. The tall rando he fought at a restaurant before both of them decided to just eat and chill? Turns out his mother is one of the biggest gang leaders in the country and he is her right hand man.
Ace also travels but never as frequently as Luffy does now. He’s seen the big places and heard plenty of stories from his friends (the white beards) but is pretty happy in the city. So it’s always a pleasant surprise when the random stranger Luffy befriended happens to know is big brother.
It’s even funnier if you imagine that’s how Luffy meets the grandline strawhats. Like Robin was an exchange student staying overseas, he befriended and greeted her when she returned home. Chopper was graduating high school in a sleepy snow town and because of Luffy decided to head to the university local to him to become a doctor. Franky was actually a professional mechanic and after talking and a lot of pushing decided to make a better name for himself in Luffy’s town for a fresh start. Brook was an old professional singer who was stuck over seas they randomly found and decided to help out, renewing his passport finding his birth certificate ect. He now performs at bars and is working on a solo career. Jimbe was travelling for his own kind of work though after a few encounters with Ace and then Luffy, he found himself so charmed and in need to settle a little, chose to become a teacher at the local university.
The one time Luffy flew by himself because none of his friends could make time he ended up having to stay over seas for two years due to issues with his visa. By some fucking miracle Rayleigh was there and ended up looking after the kid helping him with his piss poor education, inability to hold a stable job and his own house. Luffy came home to the biggest party ever and while most of his friends graduated he started taking online courses while travelling got a share apartment with Zoro and started really cleaning up his resume and not quitting his fucking job every time he traveled.
Luffy just has the travel bug and a need for adventure and has taken all of the east blue gang with him multiple times on these adventures. Something always goes wrong but works out in the best ways.
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I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.
Because I bet it's a lot.
I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?
There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.
Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.
But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.
Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.
But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.
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I grew up in Durham, NC both feeding the birds and the feral cats (there was a colony of 60+ in my neighborhood, and 20+ behind the local library a few streets away). This may seem like a good thing upfront, but it looks like there will be less birdsong :(
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Howdy! This is Dynjir (mod) speaking!
First of all, a giant thank you to everyone who follows and keeps up with this blog! This is my first time ever making a blog like this and so far it's been so much fun!! I've been drawing CoN stuff for nearly 4 months straight now (which is still pretty nuts to me), but now, I'm afraid I'm reaching a limit!
Not only has my physical health not been great lately, there's some projects related to my career that I want to focus on, and I need to take some things off my plate until they're done.
Announcing a break like this will also help me mentally so that I don't feel a never-ending pressure to keep updating all the time. Even if the blog's just for fun, I am very task driven, and despite having enough content queued up for weeks on advance, I'll still feel like I have to constantly make/find more content to post. If I don't do this, I'll feel like I'm always on a timer that only ticks down @-@;;
So things will be quiet around here for a bit bc I won't be queueing anything either during the break (for the reason stated above). I also won't be giving out a time on when I'll be coming back, but hopefully, it won't be for too long (bc I still have ideas I wanna draw out)!
Thanks for keeping up with this blog!
Until the next update, cya and take care!
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Manifesting Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to Casting a Spell for a New Job
In today’s competitive job market, finding and securing a new job can be a challenging endeavor. However, did you know that you can harness the power of magic to manifest your desired outcomes? Casting a spell for a new job is a powerful way to align your intentions with the universe and attract opportunities that will lead to professional success. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you…
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rain is seeping in
you see the lawn ahead
drowning in water and dew
You see the page and the line of ink the bleeds into parchment
I see the picture
the mumble of words I want to say
have always wanted to say
and find as the ink touches my paper
i am voiceless
they can not hear my intention
blocked my eyes from the sun
light from your vison
my words are jumbled and unreadable
messy and wrong
yet i dip my finger and write them anyway
premature and crude
you look at my intentions and through squinted peircing eyes.
you understand me
you see the picture that has existed just for me
and I weep
because despite my crudeness, my dripping ink stained fingers.
you see me.
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hiii! I hope ur having a good daaayy I just wanted to ask u if u have plans for future pjo botssssss? any scenarios you've got in mind?
-salt girl
hello! i did, hope you did too!! and you're opening a can of worms here babes, sour jelly worms cause these worms aren't dirty worms. anyways, yes, yes i do.
i want to make a lot of bots with the actual gods and goddesses themselves. {{user}} meeting her godly parent, being a hunter of artemis, things of that sort. but also like being mars' badass former orphan sidekick who's also close friends w his babymama (venus,) the lore runs deep.
i also want to send the characters on more quests, quests galore.
my problem, however, is how specific {{user}} gets. powers, special items, history, godly parent. like, there's no way i can incorporate all that even w the new character cap, it's still too much.
it's also a LOT of work. coding pjo bots, by far, has been the most taxing fandom aside from avatar. there's so much potential here, but i feel like i can't do it much justice, yk? i don't have the time or capacity currently and i'm kinda bummed out by that.
i want to do more w new rome, spqr. problem is, no one's from there. we know very little about how it works, over all, i need to conjure up most of the stuff in my brain. i have no problem w it, i just don't have enough time.
i'm working on an old idea, taking up a lot of my time, but it'll be an event. currently going to be exclusive to percy jackson, harry potter, and across the spiderverse or call of duty (yet to decide.)
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