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Princess paintings 👑✨

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The ending to Oppenheimer, but it's 2007...

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Doc Martin as the Tumblr autism creature

Doc Martin as the Tumblr autism creature (RTX on)

(Image descriptions: the top photo is digital pencils of actor Martin Clunes’s face on a featureless four legged animal-like body. The bottom photo is the same but inked, with more details to make it eerily rendered, like a collarbone and joint creases on the animal body.)

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pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

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my hot take is that jadzia dax is everything people assume kirk is. a bon vivant verging on a hedonist. a scrappy fighter. a playboy with like twelve sex partners on every planet, starbase, and science outpost in the quadrant. loyal to her friends to the death. always like a LITTLE drunk. in command. drawn as if by fate to an emo alien who's traumatized and repressed and has a lovely baritone. a top

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I’m watching Star Trek and when a teenage boy asks Kirk’s advice he says ‘go slow, be gentle and make sure she’s interested in you all the way’

That’s not the kind of attitude I’m used to hearing from lead male characters in 1960s shows!

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ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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Just like my life, everything is ripping apart.

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some unfinished moiraine x liandrin art

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What Price, Pegi?

Part One

Description of the images above, written in an expanded format. This comic is drawn in an expressive, cartoony, monochrome ink style, spread across thirteen pages.

It begins with a title card saying WHAT PRICE, PEGI?, which shows a confused half-Tellarite captain in front of her ship, The Truckee, which appears to be menaced by giant red hands in space.

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Captain Piggy played a flute in her ready room, like good captains do. Commander Len Mesze stuck his head in to talk to her. "We're ready to beam down to the planet," he said. "I could handle this one. You look busy."

The planet Beta Tarsinus swam slowly behind her through the window. She replied, "Don't be silly! I wouldn't miss my first away mission as captain!!"

"Of course not," Mesze said through a clenched-tooth smile. "That would be terrible. But an -- er -- experienced commander might be good on this one..."

The captain dismissed his fears. "Stop worrying! I've been studying great captains!" She's thinking about people like Captain Picard, Captain Janeway, Captain Pike, Captain Mariner... But she threw herself laughing over Mesze's shoulder, unaware he looked *very* annoyed. "Boy those nerds BARELY knew what they were doing!!!"

She walked down a hall toward the transporters, which were in the shuttle bay, cheerfully greeting a passing crewman in a skirt uniform.

"The crew seems to have accepted me! They like my style!" she said cheerfully. "And I can't go wrong with an amazing away team!"

Her away team is already waiting on the transporter pad. One of them is a dolphin from Cetacean Ops, and the other is Chief Medical Officer T'Bok.

So annoyed that one of his eyes has blown out, Mesze said, "Yes okay good, at least I'll be in command up here."

Pegi jumped onto the transporter pad with her team. "Make it so!" she said in the wrong context.

VWINNGGG! The trio transported to the surface of Beta Tarsinus. The Cetacean officer beamed straight into a nearby body of water, singing "ee ee ee!" while T'Bok and Pegi landed on a walkway.

"I have reservations about Mesze in command of the Truckee," T'Bok said as they beamed in.

"Don't worry! This will be a routine away mission! Totally routine!" Pegi replied cheerfully.

T'Bok noticed something ahead of them. "Doctor..."

Pegi wasn't looking. "We'll be back in no time!"

"Are you quite sure about that?" asked T'Bok, pointing out the issue at hand. Literally at hand. Because there are two giant red hands menacing the city where they've arrived, floating in the sky over the buildings...

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In their rebellious era

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My proposed bumper sticker design in honor of Threshold Day

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SIREN'S CALL

by Alessandro Amoruso

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Is Discworld (at least the City Watch and Moist von Lipwig) urban fantasy? Also, is there any historical precedent for the Thieves’ Guild or was that particular plot point a satiric exaggeration on Pratchett’s part?

Yes, Ankh-Morpork is pretty much the textbook definition of urban fantasy.

I don’t remember if I’ve ever done stuff on weird fantasy guilds, but I probably should some day… (hint to anyone who wants to ask me about them.)

As far as I know, formal Thieves’ Guilds originate in Fritz Leiber’s Lankhmar stories, one of the early pioneers of sword-and-sorcery and became fully entrenched in the fantasy genre thanks to their incorporation into Dungeons & Dragons and the like. What Terry Pratchett did was to (lovingly) satirize Leiber’s trope through the lens of the British tradition of trade union-based humor that you can see in the works of George Macdonald Fraser and a generation of postwar writers who had grown up in an environment of hegemonic trade unions and who couldn’t see the Thatcherite writing on the wall.

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