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phantomrose96 · 2 months

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If anyone wants to know why every tech company in the world right now is clamoring for AI like drowned rats scrabbling to board a ship, I decided to make a post to explain what's happening.

(Disclaimer to start: I'm a software engineer who's been employed full time since 2018. I am not a historian nor an overconfident Youtube essayist, so this post is my working knowledge of what I see around me and the logical bridges between pieces.)

Okay anyway. The explanation starts further back than what's going on now. I'm gonna start with the year 2000. The Dot Com Bubble just spectacularly burst. The model of "we get the users first, we learn how to profit off them later" went out in a no-money-having bang (remember this, it will be relevant later). A lot of money was lost. A lot of people ended up out of a job. A lot of startup companies went under. Investors left with a sour taste in their mouth and, in general, investment in the internet stayed pretty cooled for that decade. This was, in my opinion, very good for the internet as it was an era not suffocating under the grip of mega-corporation oligarchs and was, instead, filled with Club Penguin and I Can Haz Cheezburger websites.

Then around the 2010-2012 years, a few things happened. Interest rates got low, and then lower. Facebook got huge. The iPhone took off. And suddenly there was a huge new potential market of internet users and phone-havers, and the cheap money was available to start backing new tech startup companies trying to hop on this opportunity. Companies like Uber, Netflix, and Amazon either started in this time, or hit their ramp-up in these years by shifting focus to the internet and apps.

Now, every start-up tech company dreaming of being the next big thing has one thing in common: they need to start off by getting themselves massively in debt. Because before you can turn a profit you need to first spend money on employees and spend money on equipment and spend money on data centers and spend money on advertising and spend money on scale and and and

But also, everyone wants to be on the ship for The Next Big Thing that takes off to the moon.

So there is a mutual interest between new tech companies, and venture capitalists who are willing to invest $$$ into said new tech companies. Because if the venture capitalists can identify a prize pig and get in early, that money could come back to them 100-fold or 1,000-fold. In fact it hardly matters if they invest in 10 or 20 total bust projects along the way to find that unicorn.

But also, becoming profitable takes time. And that might mean being in debt for a long long time before that rocket ship takes off to make everyone onboard a gazzilionaire.

But luckily, for tech startup bros and venture capitalists, being in debt in the 2010's was cheap, and it only got cheaper between 2010 and 2020. If people could secure loans for ~3% or 4% annual interest, well then a $100,000 loan only really costs $3,000 of interest a year to keep afloat. And if inflation is higher than that or at least similar, you're still beating the system.

So from 2010 through early 2022, times were good for tech companies. Startups could take off with massive growth, showing massive potential for something, and venture capitalists would throw infinite money at them in the hopes of pegging just one winner who will take off. And supporting the struggling investments or the long-haulers remained pretty cheap to keep funding.

You hear constantly about "Such and such app has 10-bazillion users gained over the last 10 years and has never once been profitable", yet the thing keeps chugging along because the investors backing it aren't stressed about the immediate future, and are still banking on that "eventually" when it learns how to really monetize its users and turn that profit.

The pandemic in 2020 took a magnifying-glass-in-the-sun effect to this, as EVERYTHING was forcibly turned online which pumped a ton of money and workers into tech investment. Simultaneously, money got really REALLY cheap, bottoming out with historic lows for interest rates.

Then the tide changed with the massive inflation that struck late 2021. Because this all-gas no-brakes state of things was also contributing to off-the-rails inflation (along with your standard-fare greedflation and price gouging, given the extremely convenient excuses of pandemic hardships and supply chain issues). The federal reserve whipped out interest rate hikes to try to curb this huge inflation, which is like a fire extinguisher dousing and suffocating your really-cool, actively-on-fire party where everyone else is burning but you're in the pool. And then they did this more, and then more. And the financial climate followed suit. And suddenly money was not cheap anymore, and new loans became expensive, because loans that used to compound at 2% a year are now compounding at 7 or 8% which, in the language of compounding, is a HUGE difference. A $100,000 loan at a 2% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, accrues to $121,899. A $100,000 loan at an 8% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, more than doubles to $215,892.

Now it is scary and risky to throw money at "could eventually be profitable" tech companies. Now investors are watching companies burn through their current funding and, when the companies come back asking for more, investors are tightening their coin purses instead. The bill is coming due. The free money is drying up and companies are under compounding pressure to produce a profit for their waiting investors who are now done waiting.

You get enshittification. You get quality going down and price going up. You get "now that you're a captive audience here, we're forcing ads or we're forcing subscriptions on you." Don't get me wrong, the plan was ALWAYS to monetize the users. It's just that it's come earlier than expected, with way more feet-to-the-fire than these companies were expecting. ESPECIALLY with Wall Street as the other factor in funding (public) companies, where Wall Street exhibits roughly the same temperament as a baby screaming crying upset that it's soiled its own diaper (maybe that's too mean a comparison to babies), and now companies are being put through the wringer for anything LESS than infinite growth that Wall Street demands of them.

Internal to the tech industry, you get MASSIVE wide-spread layoffs. You get an industry that used to be easy to land multiple job offers shriveling up and leaving recent graduates in a desperately awful situation where no company is hiring and the market is flooded with laid-off workers trying to get back on their feet.

Because those coin-purse-clutching investors DO love virtue-signaling efforts from companies that say "See! We're not being frivolous with your money! We only spend on the essentials." And this is true even for MASSIVE, PROFITABLE companies, because those companies' value is based on the Rich Person Feeling Graph (their stock) rather than the literal profit money. A company making a genuine gazillion dollars a year still tears through layoffs and freezes hiring and removes the free batteries from the printer room (totally not speaking from experience, surely) because the investors LOVE when you cut costs and take away employee perks. The "beer on tap, ping pong table in the common area" era of tech is drying up. And we're still unionless.

Never mind that last part.

And then in early 2023, AI (more specifically, Chat-GPT which is OpenAI's Large Language Model creation) tears its way into the tech scene with a meteor's amount of momentum. Here's Microsoft's prize pig, which it invested heavily in and is galivanting around the pig-show with, to the desperate jealousy and rapture of every other tech company and investor wishing it had that pig. And for the first time since the interest rate hikes, investors have dollar signs in their eyes, both venture capital and Wall Street alike. They're willing to restart the hose of money (even with the new risk) because this feels big enough for them to take the risk.

Now all these companies, who were in varying stages of sweating as their bill came due, or wringing their hands as their stock prices tanked, see a single glorious gold-plated rocket up out of here, the likes of which haven't been seen since the free money days. It's their ticket to buy time, and buy investors, and say "see THIS is what will wring money forth, finally, we promise, just let us show you."

To be clear, AI is NOT profitable yet. It's a money-sink. Perhaps a money-black-hole. But everyone in the space is so wowed by it that there is a wide-spread and powerful conviction that it will become profitable and earn its keep. (Let's be real, half of that profit "potential" is the promise of automating away jobs of pesky employees who peskily cost money.) It's a tech-space industrial revolution that will automate away skilled jobs, and getting in on the ground floor is the absolute best thing you can do to get your pie slice's worth.

It's the thing that will win investors back. It's the thing that will get the investment money coming in again (or, get it second-hand if the company can be the PROVIDER of something needed for AI, which other companies with venture-back will pay handsomely for). It's the thing companies are terrified of missing out on, lest it leave them utterly irrelevant in a future where not having AI-integration is like not having a mobile phone app for your company or not having a website.

So I guess to reiterate on my earlier point:

Drowned rats. Swimming to the one ship in sight.

#chrissy speaks #long post #-gestures broadly-

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realjem-art · 10 months

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listen, i needed something as a ref for him. but also it was late and i just wanted to knock something out quickly. take this

#'he has a framed image of sora kingdom hearts' is still the funniest thing to happen to this guy so far #he's like an inside joke to me and my friends now its so funny #he's a 15 year old gamer boy. his friends are all older punk/goth kids. he loves surreal memes. his friends do not get hi #him* but they love him anyways #he only wears those goofy early 2000/2010's gamer shirts #anywyas. tags or whatever #oc - howie #jem doodles

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luckykiwiii101 · 3 months

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What I Will Be Manifesting This Week :

What I will be manifesting this week:

- Desired Body (Revised)

- Always Waking Up In The Void State Aware

- That my 3D always conforms in under 48 hours

What Will I Be Doing?

- Embodying the state of having my desires.

- Fulfilling myself in imagination whenever I think of my desires.

- Fulfill through visualisation and inner conversations because that is what feels most natural to me.

What Will I Manifest In The Void State?

- Desired Face & Body but with some finishing touches. (doll - like, kind of like Karen smith from mean girls)

- Desired Height (5’7)

- Desired hair (doll - like)

- Desired Name (so elegant and pretty!)

- Desired Personality

- Desired voice (singing & speaking)

- Desired Vibe (90s Supermodel)

- Desired house (so luxurious)

- Desired room (Barbie x Gossip Girl themed)

- Desired Wardrobe (Blair Waldorf type outfits)

- iPhone 15 Pro + Desired Phone Case

- New Desired Biological Dad + New cousins & aunties etc to match

- Revising that my parents got married in Paris

- Rich Family

- All my family members are happy and have everything they want

- Privacy

- Pretty School Interior & Exterior

- Desired School Uniform

- My best friends to live on the same road as me and to have everything they want.

- Perfect mental and physical health for all my loved ones.

- Desired Career to start early (Supermodel for when i’m 17)

- Perfect Posture

- Perfect Eyesight

- Perfect Culinary & Baking Skills

- Fluency in French & Dutch

- Piano Prodigy + being able to play desired songs on it

- Good at playing electric guitar

- Changing Appearance of my family members

- Revising my family’s names

- Always knowing what to say

- Family celebrates holidays like Christmas & Halloween

- Revising my memories to align with my dream life

- Photographic & audiographic memory

- Perfect grades

- Whenever I listen to a song, it feels like listening to it for the first time again.

- Desired Items

- Immune from embarrassment + Revising that any past embarrassing moments never happened

- Life feels like the early 2010’s again

- Life feels like a Gossip Girl Episode (You know I had to XoXo 💋)

- Life feels like a barbie movie (like princess charm school or smthg idk)

- Looking like desired songs

- Can Choose To feel hot or cold

- airport and plane processes to be always extremely fun and quick for my family, friends and I

- Teen Wolf & The Originals to be put back on Netflix

- Season 3 of One Of Us Is Lying to come out

- Some cute things for my pets

- Always know what my pets want

- My whole family to have good taste in fashion

- Go on nice holidays every year

- Materialise something instantly by affirming for it x3

- Kind, Respectful & Secular Family

- Disgusting Roadman fashion in London to be stopped (ew if u saw that shizz)

- Fashion to go back to the 90s and early 2000s

- People At School Don’t annoy me

- High Spice Tolerance

- Always Wake Up Feeling Fresh & Energised

- Never late to school

- Desired ear piercings

- Scary Insects never come near me (especially spiders AAAAH!!!)

- I appreciate all aspects of life

- Never abuse my manifesting abilities

- Everything i manifest manifests 10x better than how i imagined

- Basically revising my whole entire life top to bottom

+ much more personal things

Things I Will Be Manifesting For The World:

- World Peace in all realities

- No wars in all realities

- Palestine being free in all realities

- World healing

- Healed society

- Righteous justice system

- No corrupt leaders

- No corrupt governments etc

- Healthcare everywhere is free

- People are good people

- People treat eachother with respect and kindness

Guys, I will definitely go into more depth when i actually materialise all these and post my success story. + Will probably post some picture proof of materialistic things in my home and outfits etc but not my face or anything personal like that.

I wrote everything i’m going to manifest on here because I know i’m not going to be bothered to type it all out when i’m actually living my dream life in the 3D 💀

Share what you guys will be manifesting and stick to your new story so we can all post our successes together!!!

#void state #void #law of assumption #loa blog #loa tumblr #loassumption #loablr #manifestation #loa #neville goddard #live in the end #living in the end #law of assumption blog #manifesting

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norrisleclercf1 · 4 months

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HIII!!! Can you please write about Seb x reader x Jenson... something fluffy maybe like Jenson is sick and is being a Drama queen and reader and Seb just taking care of him??????

Sorry if this is weird it is my first time asking you

Ofcourse you can totally ignore it😄😄

A/N: Yesss Jenson would be a big baby about being sick but Seb would be so patient and worried and you just kicking him and telling him to take the damn medication also this is set in the early 2000's or 2010's

Waking up you feel sticky and warm. The two bodies holding you close has you taking that deep breath and trying to fall back asleep. You slowly wake up, trying to figure out why you were sweating.

Turning over, you find the source as you see the slight dampness that covers Jenson's forehead. "Oh, baby." You whisper, touching his forehead and feeling the fever that is running through your boyfriends body. Turning over you gently nudge Sebastian who only curls in tighter into you hums.

"Sebby," You whisper and nudge him in the shoulder which has him snorting on a soft snore. "Wah?" He groans and moves his arm brushing Jenson's arm. Quickly he pulls it away and more alert then ever. "Jenson?" And you nod, which has Sebastian sighing.

"I knew him staying out in the cold was a bad idea." As you three decided to get away from the world and deep into the Swiss mountains. "Should we wake him?" You whisper as you pull out of his hold. Jenson whimpers and reaches out for you, but you shush him.

"Yeah, we need to." Seb whispers back and climbs out of the bed heading into bathroom. "Jens, come on. Wake up," You grumble and start to shake him, but Jenson bats you off as he rolls over. "Jenson, wake up." You bite, pissed he won't wake up.

"I'm tired," He whines, and Seb chuckles pouring the medicine. "This will wake him." If there was one thing you both knew, it's that Jenson hated, absolutely hated the taste of cold medicine. Opening Jenson's mouth Seb quickly pours the medicine in and the both of you closed his mouth.

Jenson's eyes fly open and he can't help but swallow and you two pull away as he chokes and almost starts to cry from the horrible taste. "Why? What'd I do to you?" he whimpers and falls back against his pillow. But he quickly pulls back from it, feeling how damp it is. "Shower, and maybe we can cuddle." Seb whispers, kissing Jenson's cheek.

"Join me?" He whines, hating being alone when his sick. Basically, Jenson turned into one giant ass baby. "No baby, you need to shower by yourself. You're sick." You explain and Jenson whimpers, throwing himself into your lap. "No, just please." He pouts, sticking out his bottom lip.

Sighing you push back his long hair as Seb comes back from the bathroom the shower running. "Jenson, please just get in the shower," Sebastian begs, but Jenson wraps his arms tight around your waist, refusing to let go.

"Dammit, Jenson. Get up!' You shove him and Jenson whines but trudges up, heading to the shower as he slowly walks to the shower. "Don't be mean to him." Seb whispers, kissing your forehead and tucking you back into bed.

You don't know how long you fell back asleep, all you know is that two cold bodies surround you. "You got in the shower with him?" Seb groans at your question but nods. "He started to cry," Jenson whines from behind you and his chest slows as he falls back asleep.

"Sucker,"

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bogleech · 8 months

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Yeah the internet is acting like this Skibidi Toilet thing is a new level for surreal internet nonsense, there's evidently journalists on about it like it's a sign of a collective madness induced through social media and/or the pandemic and others convinced its popularity with little kids - actually now the SINGLE MOST WATCHED thing on youtube??? - is probably poisoning and rotting their sense of reality.

It's SO simple though? It's less weird than 2010's gmod stuff or youtube poops, and those were in turn less weird than early 2000's humor.

Skibidi toilet starts as a nonsense shitpost thing of a singing head in a toilet, then it expands into a story about these toilet head beings battling object-headed cyborgs. The only "surreal" part is that a toilet with a singing human head is just not a monster concept that's been done before and they aren't given an explanation. I wonder what the people freaking out about it would think of Junji Ito.

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antirepurp · 9 months

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i adore sonic music so much i love how each ost is distinct and unique and how many genres have been covered over the years, i love how sonic adventure embodies the vibes of the 90s while adventure 2 jumps immediately into butt rock and early 2000s glory with all its might just a few years later, i love shadow the hedgehog doing a 180 from the upbeat mood of heroes to embrace edge in all of its different forms, im obsessed with sonic 06's main theme mixing guitars and rock with symphony instruments and putting rap on the top and pulling it off flawlessly, i love unleashed embracing music from all over the world and weaving it both into cool jazz and high-energy tracks, and i adore frontiers dancing around the openworld ost trope of gentle subtle pianos and not being afraid to break the calmness with edm that feels like early 2010s monstercat and then breaking it further with the titan tracks to really give contrast and weight to their respective battles. im obsessed with the variety in this franchise and you should be too

#soda offers you a can #not to mention the music from the rush series going for a much more funky vibe #and begrudgingly i will admit the colors ost is quite good as well #even forces is decent tho it's gotten way grading to me by now especially fist bump

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vioyume · 9 months

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Some Cartoons that you can Watch on YouTube

Many of which are shows from the 90's, 2000s and early 2010's. Was this mostly done out of nostalgia? Yeah, but it's nice to have something to watch casually when you're not witch hunting on pirated websites or don't want to go to them.

I try to have playlists of fully uploaded series or have the majority of the episodes since I feel like it wouldn't be as satisfactory to have only one episode of a series.

The majority of the shows here are from my own childhood but it's a mixture of shows for children to adult audiences. Though I did not add every single preschool cartoon from my memory.

Don't feel like watching cartoons? Old TV Time has many infomercials, PSAs and mini documentaries from the 1900s!

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The Moomins 90's Show

Sam and Max Freelance Police

Sonic X

Popee the Performer (CW: Disturbing/Graphic Imagery and Crude Humor)

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 1

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 2

My Little Pony Gen 3 + 3.5

Hi HI Puffy Ami Yumi

Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat (Most Episodes)

All of The Backyardigans

All of Milly & Molly

House of Mouse (Most Episodes, but I'm surprised that it's not on Disney Plus)

A Playlist of Pokemon Episodes/Shorts that are Available from the Official Account

Ruby Gloom

The Super Mario Bros Super Show

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic SATAM

Sonic Underground

2003 Strawberry Shortcake

Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse

Many of the Older Barbie Movies

Cat Soup (It's a Surreal film)

Pucca Season 1

Clone High (It's an Adult show, so expect what you're going to see from one)

Domo Shorts

Ninjago: Wu's Teas Shorts

Growing up Creepie

101 Dalmations 90's Show

Quack Pack

Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets (CW: Disturbing and creepy[?] Imagery and Loud Noises, they're just shorts I really like.)

#personally I think clone high and daria are one of the few adult shows I'm willing to watch #Was looking for Cybersix but I guess youtube took the episodes down.#creepie is there because I need to force myself to try and watch it #cartoons #youtube #nostalgia #vio.txt

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guardian5tiger3 · 3 months

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Pick a Group Tarot !

What's up ?

1. 2. 3.

Group 1 .

I'm actually picking up on past energy, like maybe 2000's , early 2010's .? It depends for everyone, the point is it's a message about the past, your past self. Something about your future has something to do with your past. Ok, of course. I mean, it's being suggested that you should go back in time, enjoy stuff you used to like that might make you nostalgic. Music, shows, movies, anything really. Especially around middle school age . Once again, it depends , but for a lot of you that's about the age I'm talking about, I believe. For some of you this is way off lol. The point is to relive some stuff from your past, bring back some memories. It'll open up your heart somehow. You'll feel a lot about it if you do, and find the right stuff. It may motivate you and give you a lot of energy moving forward. Hell. Yah. You guys. What more needs to be said. This is a sweet reading , if you ask me. A lot of you come up with so many questions and thoughts, yo why not just take the advice and try it out and if it works it works. Okay some of you are kind of struggling right now. For whatever reason, though, this is what I'm supposed to tell you. In general what spirit wants for you is to open your heart up and feel in your heart. Also weirdly specific but, something about a croissant.

Group 2.

Y'all need to be strong within yourselves at this time , maybe even more than usual. I'm getting this could very well be socially especially or for some in a work environment. Why am I picking up on a movie theatre. Mainly the popcorn. You guys seem like you're just kinda waiting for something to happen, and you're hoping this something happens, and it's good I'm seeing that you guys are dreaming big and stuff ya know.

Ohhhhhh. Y'all know what. Some of you need to maybe rethink a situation you rejected cause you're wanting someone specific and waiting for that. You literally might have just walked right past exactly what you want deep down lol. You guys!!!!! W.t.f. lol. Take your time to think about stuff and reflect. You may not even know what or who I'm talking about . Y'all gonna have to sit back for a while and contemplate maybe. Maybe you have too many standards or ideas but the universe knows what you want and need even more than you do. Dude I see this being a raw blessing. Y'all lmaoo!!! Serious. It may not seem appealing cause of whatever you've been taught to think or just your perception at first, but I'm telling you!!! Just, think about it, ok. You guys seem great by the way, good vibes. Just a little judgemental maybe. But I mainly feel lighthearted. I think that's lowkey your true natures, so, yeah. Peace and love ya goobers. Dang.

Group 3 .

You guys, sometimes you don't actually have to literally win the game to win the game. Sometimes playing the game and enjoying the game is where you really win, at the end of the day. Y'all get what I'm saying? Don't be too serious, don't be too hard on yourself or anyone else. You might need to have some heart healing taking place. Someone must have been harsh to you at some point in your life. You just need to reflect on that if that's the case, maybe and be nice to yourself and rebel against that. I'm also picking up the general concept of becoming your own best friend , being an appreciable character personality. Mainly a lot of what I'm getting is just reteaching yourself to be nice to yourself and enforcing respect on ya name. If you might be a little scared of personal development in some specific way though you know deep down it's good for you, know I can sense people will actually like and enjoy you even more afterwards.!

#free tarot readings #pac reading #pick a card reading #pick a picture #pick a pile #tarot reading #pac #pick a card #tarot pac #pac tarot

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lovable-bastard · 6 months

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Dalien Howlter has been in my mind and that fuck isn't getting out!!!11!

Here. Headcanons.

He still talks with his bio mum once every month just to check in

His alien form doesn't really have bones so he can hide anywhere. That made hide and seek a very interesting and irritating game

He stole Dil's and Tabitha's emo phase clothes

He thinks he got away with it

He didn't.

Dalien makes fun of Dab's phases and Dab makes fun of Dalien's emo phase

His hyperficsation is biology

He fucking loves it

Pretends to hate how dotting his parents are, but he loves it

He's aroace. At least he's on the spectrum

Hangs out with the weirds and/or quiet kids that don't have friends since he knows how it feels to feel different

Listens to MCR religiously and Tabitha couldn't be more proud

His playlist consists of 2000's and early 2010's emo songs

With the occasional indie-pop song

Doesn't use his alien form often because of how much he has to be outside

For a long time he hated the fact he was different and wasn't biologically both of his parents kid. He tried to dye his hair when he was very young because of how little he looked like the rest of his family. Dil found him crying in the bathroom with badly dyed hair and everything stained.

It took a while, but Dalien calmed down and they talked it out. Dil reassured that they both loved him just as much, that they didn't care that he was an alien or that his human form doesn't look like them.

Dalien still dyed his hair, he told them because he just wanted it black, but something in Dil knew he still hated the fact he looked different.

Hangs out with his club a lot after school (Tabitha makes snacks)

Dab thinks Nuki loves him more, Dil, Tabitha and Dalien know she likes Dalien more

Despises the taste of cheese. He can and will freeze ray it.

He sits on the kitchen counters a lot, as does Dil

Wasn't freaked out with the de-aging of his parents, don't get me wrong it was weird, but not much of surprise since his mum told him about it.

He can float, so he sometime's unconsciously starts floating

#dalien howlter #he is our new emo son #dan and phil games #sims 4 #simblr #dil howlter #tabitha howlter #dab howlter #nuki #headcanons #dan howell #phil lester #dan and phil

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ghxstlike · 7 months

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i love loving you

leon kennedy x reader content/warnings: petnames (baby), leon being awkward, leon antics, awkward flirting, teasing, cigarette mention, leon’s music taste, anxiety mention, nightmare mention. authors note: i am down bad for this man. he is rotting my brain and i am very okay with it. these are personal headcanons :)

leon's smile always starts out as a smirk. it's very cute.

always has a hand on you. around your shoulders, holding your hand, lightly gripping your thigh. he wants other people to know that you're taken- you're his.

he is a slightly possessive and jealous man. if someone is flirting with you, his eyes are narrowed at the person who is way too close to you, and his leg is bouncing with anxiety.

sooner or later, he saunters over to the two of you and wraps an arm around your shoulders.

"hey, baby," he whispers in your ear, but it was loud enough for the person in front of you to hear. you shiver, slightly leaning into leon's embrace.

when you first met leon, you were immediately attracted to him. so, of course, you started to flirt with him.

though, he isn't dumb. he knew you were flirting with him (he was flirting back, after all). he teased you for it, obviously.

"are you flirting with me?" he says with a smirk. leon leaned down to get closer to your face, tilting his head.

people say that leon is a flirting machine and is good with women. no he is not.

i mean, yes, he does flirt a lot, but he is not good with women at all.

you found it very charming and cute when he asked you out. a huge smile was plastered on your face, staring at the nervous man in front of you.

“i- hm, i was just- fuck. i was wondering if you, i dunno,” he clears his throat. his face is slightly pink, but he thinks that his face is a deep red by how hot his body feels. “do you want to go get dinner with me sometime?” he manages to get out. he sighs out of relief- he did it. he feels a drop of sweat roll down his temple onto his cheek, shoving his clammy hands into his jean pockets.

of course, you said yes. i mean, who wouldn’t?

y’all aren’t gonna like this, but he definitely smokes cigarettes.

i mean c’mon, he was born in 1977. though, he didn’t willingly start smoking. his friends in high-school peer pressured him.

he tried to stop smoking before his first day at rpd, but it failed miserably. he felt antsy and he was more on edge- angry. he hated that he got easily frustrated with people. he’ll try again someday.

he smells like cigarette smoke and leather. occasionally he smells like coconut & patchouli (his cologne).

always has a stress toy with him. i like to think he wears a fidget ring on his middle finger or thumb. playing with a stress ball or twirling a pen makes him more focused and calm.

bites the inside of his cheek when he’s deep in thought. he doesn’t even notice that he’s doing it, it just happens.

his music taste is decent!

he doesn’t listen to the radio, thinks 2010 music is trash and it’s annoying.

it’s mostly a combination between 90s alt & grunge and early 2000’s rock. his favorite band is radiohead.

always gives eye contact. never looks away when you're talking, especially when you're talking about your long day at work or something you're passionate about.

as we all may know, he's bad at communicating his feelings. you can tell he's getting better with it, but it's still a challenge for him.

he never talks about raccoon city. you only found out about this from overhearing a conversation he had with claire. you brought it up one time, but he fell silent and never looked up at you. ever since then, you never talked about it with him.

mans suffers with frequent nightmares, so obviously he never sleeps. when he's with you though, he doesn't have any nightmares. so, he stays up until you're ready for bed.

when you're out late, he's waiting for you in bed.

leon loves to get his hair played with. he loves the feeling of your nails lightly scratching his scalp.

if you take meds, he always reminds you to take them. he also watches you take them, just in case.

leon always wants the best for you. he just loves you, so so much.

#leon s kennedy x reader #leon s kennedy x you #leon kennedy x reader #leon kennedy x you #resident evil x reader #resident evil x you #x reader #leon kennedy #leon s kennedy #resident evil

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I don’t know if you’ve done this before buuuuut

Schlatt x Autistic Reader?

Comforting them at like a con because of the amount of people + popular creators :)

by the time the con is over, your exhausted and overstimulated, ready to go home, eat and pass the absolute fuck out.

your feet feel sore, you want to cry and just you don’t want to be stopped again for someone to get another picture with schlatt because you need to go back to the hotel and you need to go now. schlatt is politely declining pictures left and right so he can get you to a car.

once you’re both in, you’re sitting there, absolutely exhausted as he puts on some quiet music and looks for a restaurant that isn’t busy or crowded to have dinner in. once you both get into the restaurant and get seated, you feel yourself relax as he whispers to you softly. you look around taking in the calming ambiance of the restaurant, soft music in the background and the light sound of people talking to one another.

he orders your drink and food for you and once they arrive he’s happy to see you now relaxed, as you space out and eat.

his hand is on yours asking if you need anything else once you’ve finished eating. you shake your head no, he pays and takes you to the hotel where you both shower and spend the rest of the night cuddling

i tried my best anon, my younger brother is autistic so that’s mainly my exposure to autism

there’s a large chance that me and my older brother are also on the spectrum but we just never got properly diagnosed as kids bc of the area we lived in + how it was seen so negatively in the late 2000’s to early 2010’s, but anyways, i tried my best n hope it didn’t disappoint

#schlatt x reader #jschlatt x reader #jschlatt x you #jschlatt x y/n #schlatt x y/n #schlatt x you #jschlatt fluff #schlatt fluff

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centrally-unplanned · 3 months

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I strongly appreciated that Matt Yglesias a bit ago put some focus on the long tail of the educational reform movement in America, because in the Trump/Woke era its got tossed aside as a salient issue in exchange for new fronts. But history never works quite like that, and its still the grounding for a lot of modern issues that is just opaque, but still powerful.

And he completed my thought for me when it came to this ridiculous story of a consulting company called, inexplicably, "Woke Kindergarten" that was paid 250K to give antiracism training to a San Francisco elementary school's staff. Obviously it did nothing because DEI trainings don't work even for their own goals and sensitivity training for SF teachers is not the vector any issues with student achievement is riding on, but we all know that.

Instead its notable that up until the early 2010's, there was a strong, bipartisan initiative to use test scores to hold schools accountable for their results. Which schools hated! For the classic reason of all institutions hate scrutiny, but also for the somewhat fair reason that schools don't have that much agency of their student's learning to begin with, so that accountability could often be arbitrary. So one of the ways to outflank that initiative - at the time led by the Obama administration - from the left was to critique it from the angle of racism. Both accurately pointing to structural inequalities outside of the system (which proponents thought they could account for etc etc, its a whole debate) and using far more dubious critiques like saying standardized testing is inherently racist. This was always an idea "in the water" but in ~2000 you didn't find school principals with this idea - but by 2012, you did, as they had picked it up as ammo to fight the Reformers.

And then when Trump got elected and the culture war exploded, this was a ready-made faction to jump into the fray and piggy-back off the agenda. Its a real showcase of the "long roots" of ideological shifts - they are almost always composed of shifting factions under the surface bringing their own baggage into the system. Since we memory-holed the 2000's education wars, we often miss this side of it.

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