#I Put A Spell On You versions

[shadow-the-crow]

I think i finally understand how the Distortion works. I mean, i don’t think it’s possible to ever fully understand it, and i don’t know the whole picture yet because i don’t know what Helen will be like, but i feel like i’ve just been granted a glimpse at the lovecraftian (as in ineffable) thing that is this being.

It’s not a person and a creature fighting inside one mind. There’s no Michael clawing himself to the surface to express his emotions and get his revenge.

Michael Shelley is dead. The Distortion became Michael. It sounds so simple, yet a least in my opinion it’s hard to fully understand.

I think what provides the best metaphor is a small thing the Distortion says after becoming Helen: "without a proper mind." The Distortion does not have its own mind. It’s only a what, but in order to really exist in this reality, it needs a who. It needs a body, but also a mind.

So if i understand this right, it’s like this: Michael Shelley is dead. His conciousness is not there anymore. And the Distortion got forced into that mind, an empty mind of a dead person. This doesn’t make it human, it’s still able to understand the impossible, it’s still the thing that was created to scare and kill. But in the mind it’s living in… the previous owner’s furniture is still there. It gets the dead person’s memories. It becomes Michael, in the sense that it has to be someone. Its existence got tied to being Michael, although Michael Shelley is dead.

When Michael got "emotional", that wasn’t Michael Shelley coming through. It was the Distortion grappling with the side effects of being someone - of living in a mind with all the memories and the human emotions that a human mind can’t fully turn off, even when the thing inhabiting it isn’t human at all.

The Distortion was Michael in the sense that it was thinking with Michael Shelley’s mind. When it became Helen, its consciousness, its being stayed the same, but it needed to adapt to this new mind. It could see clearer now, realizing that the windows of the previous house had been dirty, realizing that the wirings of the previous mind had driven it to do something that it actually didn’t want to do. The throat of the Spiral itself getting caught in the spiralling of its own, borrowed mind.

#here comes the first michael essay #this is only the start #i've still got so many more thoughts #i hope this makes sense #idk why but i think i get how the distortion feels #being forced to be someone who isn't you at all #like - it doesn't make sense but i get it?? #okay i haven't watched doctor who but maybe it's kinda like being the doctor? #you kinda change personality and become someone else but your true being stays the same? #(as if anyone of us knew what it's like being the doctor any more than we know what it's like being the distortion lol) #tma #michael distortion #tma the distortion #helen distortion #the magnus archives #tma podcast #tma spoilers #tma thoughts #mag 101 #another twist #michael shelley #i just realized i've probably spelled michael wrong in the tags before oops (i know how it's spelled but “micheal” keeps popping up so...) #you know what i'm gonna put the wrong version too for reach #micheal distortion

[royaltea000]

Sloppy snotface snotlout sketch o(-( 

#httyd books #httyd fanart #httyd #im just blowin off steam in the student lounge rn lol #snotface snotlout #how to train your dragon #snotlout jorgenson #is his nose big enough yet #ill draw a better quality version of him soon I swear or2 #fireworm #has even less effort put into her lol #would be better if her name was spelled firewrym #s’cooler #digital art #my art #very weird that he’s not a brunette in my head #what tf do you mean he’s a ginger and has a blonde mustache growin??? #he’s so bright…

[awkward-teabag]

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.

#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing #it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement #and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in #(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch) #(if you want it done right anyway) #hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough' #even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place #and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken #but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers #but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way #and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken #you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language #but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough' #this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations #even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling #and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er' #because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing #human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so #and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it #or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language #if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions #you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate #because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version

[cleric4vampire]

also I've been meaning to tell yall. NEW OC NEW OC 🚨 well not so new, she's been cooking for a WHILE but I was waiting for her to marinate you know. aka some details were still iffy and most importantly I didn't have a name lol. but now I do!!!!

her name is Soluwae and she is a Lolth-sworn Drow that belongs to a fringe Lolthite cult based in the Feydark. The cult is of my creation and actually ties in with Aune's background as well. Soluwae is the "Chosen One" of the cult, so suffice it to say she's had a very unique upbringing.

I still have to make her in the CC so I'll wait to share more details but I'm so excited that she's not just a nebulous entity floating around in my brain matter anymore

anyway for now, here are some vibes:

#now before I get ahead of myself. I'm probably not gonna play her until months from now lmao AUNE IS MY PRIORITY OK forever and always #(both versions of them. also Lethe) #but I still wanna put Soluwae out into the world. #she will romance minthara 🥰 at last - my drow in shining armor - I am coming for you #oc: soluwae #oh also not sure on class yet. will start with lolth cleric and she'll probably escape the cult in act two and reclass #either into a sorcerer or shadow monk #the former would be easier because soluwae is absolutely a ''I will shoot you with spells from over here I CANNOT risk breaking a nail'' #type of girlie. but I like the idea of a shadow monk specifically trained by this cult. I will have to flavor it heavily though

[thetimelordbatgirl]

OC Halloween Challenge 2023 Costumes Tell A Story Day Twenty Nine: That Could Be Us

Featuring Ben, Sirena Sanderson and Mal from I Put A Spell On You as Edward, Giselle and Robert from Enchanted (in that order respectfully).

#oc halloween challenge 2023 #ohc2023 #oc halloween challenge #i put a spell on you (fanfic) #sirena sanderson #(aka just genderbent robert costume i guess #in a poly version of the enchanted costumes #given mal ben and sirena are a poly ship in story so)

[barnabybrainrot]

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#mod posts #idk dude i am so conflicted abt this ‘barnaby is overrated’ shit #on one hand im like… wow another person who feels he’s overrated. daring today are we? #on the other im like… i understand what its like when the character you like isnt the popular one in the community #like i normally tend to hyperfixate on the side characters so i absolutely know how frustrating it is #i also know from personal experience that a lot of it can just be hating it solely BECAUSE its popular #when i was like 14 and undertale came out i hated it just bc it was popular. and then i played it myself and yknow what? i enjoyed it #like… its okay not to like something!! everyone has unique tastes #and i also understand the concern abt barnaby being treated like snatcher (i know NOTHING abt snatcher so dont. quote me on that) #like theres a chance the ‘fanon’ version of barnaby will be given precedence over ‘canon’ #the same shit happened with sans. remember all those sans/reader fics where sans was this edgy mysterious guy? #yet in fanon hes just a funni little skeleton who likes bad jokes? #yet in *canon jesus christ i cant spell today #but like. can we just let people enjoy things if they arent hurting anyone? #like i get it its annoying sometimes. like i had to mute the oc tag bc i was tired of seeing RP stuff #but im not like. going into their inboxes and telling them theyre bad ppl for enjoying a popular character yknow? #sorry this is making like. no sense. and im sorry to put it in tags but i do NOT want this spreading #anyways. those are my thoughts for today.

[strange010]

I love yuri on ice and the Victuri/Viktuuri ship but I rlly wanna see if anyone has broken down their power imbalance

I am a SLUT for couples that are mostly healthy with an underlying toxicity that doesn’t show on the surface

Like Yuri idolized Victor and now he’s his coach like…I NEED SOMEONE TO DO AN ANALYSIS ON THIS BECAUSE I DONT HAVE THE KINDA BRAIN TO MAKE ONE MYSELF I JUST DONT HAVE THAT KINDA THINKING ABILITY TO GO INTO IT EVEN THO I KNOW ITS THERE

So if anyone knows a video or a post that talks about it please link it PLEASE IM ON MY KNEES I WILL EVEN TAKE A FANFICTION ABOUT IT

#again I love them #this was my first anime I watched and they have lived rent free in my head since middle school #It’s just this bit of their relationship that I think about so often but apparently no one else has #most fics are just about yuris insecurity or him idolizing victor just being written for embarrassing but cute moments #I want someone who is better at analyzing things to give me the gritty details #I’m such a hypocrite cause I always preach about if you want to see a fic so bad then write it ursrlf #I just don’t have the analysis abilities I’m not good at breaking things like this down #yuri on ice #victuri #vikturi #viktuuri #victuuri #I put all 4 versions of this ship name praise me #why have we not collectively decided on a spelling Jesus Christ #victor x yuri #yuri katsuki #victor nikiforov #that’s it I refuse to put every single possible spelling again

[bluemedallion]

@crewfu i have no idea how to reblog posts with music, idek if you can.  but anyways, i did it again.  ty for the clip of steve showing this song 🥺

i got tired of steve interrupting my daily loop of this clip <3 it’s a little choppier than before sorry, blame steve for ad-libbing so much

like before, what i could parse of the lyrics under the cut

[Verse 1] What's the matter? You're staring at her – oh Oh, I symthapize in you You're so dramatic So if you think you're special, well I say otherwise You're the last thing on her mind

[Verse 2] Alexander, You barely manage Oh – oh, I like the challenge, I I got your package So if you think you're ready, then, Don't be so polite [Unintellible] of our lies

#steve suptic #steven suptic #sugr? #sugr #i also have the instrumental version he showed first #ill post that separately cause i dont think i can put em together #i learned how to shift enter to format the lyrics better lfg #like before pleeease lmk wtf these lyrics are #i concede that he for sure was saying jane doe before #steve why do you talk over yourself ueueue #im 85-90% on these tho #the last song i separated the lines by counts but this time i separated em by clauses/meaning #i think it comes off better for sure but the other way was fun for my brain #also #i genuinely fuckin struggled to understand wtf he was saying in the 3rd line #so even tho Sympathize is spelled wrong #my working theory is that steve just said it wrong #cause otherwise idk what the actual fuck he said there #anyways yea muah

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i do this funny overcompensation when im writing where because when i use british words on purpose because i know theyre british and im writing british characters i feel like a poser so i pick (what i think are) the more american alternatives when i know i have options, making my fic sound more american than it already does by virtue of my having watched a lot of american tv

#like the opposite of britpicking it's really dumb #i do try to make it sound more english when im writin gdialogue #just thinking what kinda words the character would use #but then you run into english regionalisms and stuff and ive had enough of that for a lifetime #dont ever wanna be on wikipedia again reading an entire paragraph of synonyms for lemonade thank you very much #my dialogue isnt very good anyway so when i smudge it a little it doesnt bother me too much #but in description especcially i always go for the less british version #if i know theres a distinction #i do use british spelling though bc our school taught Oxford EnglishTM #but like it feels so weird to try and match a specific kind of region? #this is also why i dont practice my english accent #which accent do i pick? it always feels like lying somehow #as if im trying to make people believe im from a place #if i sound Just So Fucking Dutch then at least the place you think im from is correct you know fhkjghjkgh #i also like putting dutch in my prose but i dont think you can tell it's dutch #i think it just makes the sentences weirder

[fluffveebee]

i know im deffo not the first one to complain about it but i really don’t like how the netflix bee and puppycat condensed down the first season and the pilot partially as well. the original season one gave you time to get to know the characters personalities i feel? moreso than the characters importances plotwise, like season one had a charm to it and while it could be a little hard to follow at times i suppose, it gave you time to piece things together. and cutting down the pilot and season one down into three episodes really feels like such a disservice to bee and puppycat to me. like i still enjoy the new episodes but i’m really missing getting to see bee and puppycat’s relationship towards each other grow as it does in the first season. especially with the absence of bee’s line, “if you want, i can help you figure out a nice ending” in reference to puppycat’s story... the smushed together, more of a recap version of the season one episodes really made things feel a bit too rushed, at least to me

#i'm also just really missing the jellyfish song and cardamon screentime #speaking of cardamon #i also majorly didn't like cardamon's voice in the first few episodes #at least the fact that they didn't stick with that and kept his younger-sounding voice in the lazy in space episodes #it was jarring honestly #but anyways yeah i'm just so sad that we got a cutdown version of season one instead of just season one reanimated? #like i feel i wouldve been happier w having s1 just be reanimated to fit lazy's artstyle #however on a nicer note. i did kinda like how much more obvious they play it that puppycat is the space outlaw #like the little 'i'm not a child anymore im a big ass man' bit was very nice and i liked it a lot #i just miss the iconic little window scene that the og pilot leaves off on #and the kinda like air of mystery around puppycat/the outlaw in the og #it gave you space to wonder and draw your own conclusions instead of spelling it out and putting the plot right in your face immediately #like how they do with bee's dad. im VERY slash pos that we get grownup bee's dad appearance and voicelines and stuff but #i wish it hadnt happened. in the pilot. i wish the audience was given more time #i wouldve liked it more of the bee's dad/baby bee bit was more towards the end of ''s1'' or at least after the episode w glitch gorge #or even in lazy in space #just not the pilot #one of the charms of og bapc was that you pieced things together slowly i think. at least to me. plot wasn't immediately shoved at you #the way it is here? yk? #i hope i make sense #i will say though #when i opened up netflix and saw the first episode title was 'again for the first time' i nearly cried #bapc my beloved #bee and puppycat #bapc #bee and puppycat spoilers #bapc spoilers

[sateurn]

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These sobs really limited my tags?????

I have so many more thoughts this is so so much less than 1/2. Broski. Big dislike

#its ‘i watched a tv show and i need to talk about it in the tags of this site im not on anymore’ time #ty to the void for always accepting my thoughts <3 #so honestly its just me thinking about the andromeda tv show. i just finished it and it left me destitute bc i clung onto the first 2 season #s as a basis and had ten thousand questions i *assumed* would be resolved. spoiler alert: they were nto #not*. and the coda addition helps but like. not enough. it explains some of the #oh fyi if anyone is reading or cared there will be spoilers #anyways it explained some of them ex for the cosmic engine bit. seemed pretty relevant and then was never mentioned again #i also MUCH prefer that version of trance — i had speculation she was a sun avatar which i took as confirmation when i finally noticed her #tattoo when harper used it to remind himself he put that data in the sun etc etc but i much prefer the sun-as-consciousness-astral-poject- #ing-slash-dreamjng-itself-a-body / being a little devil. i think that feels much more true to what we got in worldbuilding early on and tbh #the bar is on the floor bc any explanation would be better than what we got. also im sorry but s5 i trusted SO hard that that whole virgil #vox bit in the finale was insulting. couldnt even tie up the loose end you invented at the last minute????? MY god. i understand getting you #r budget halved but like. broski. it would have been better to ignore it at that point imo. #anywhoodle. i also have just ISSUES w the lack of resolution & not doing justice to literally any character #listen. why would you sink SO much effort into tyr just to have honestly what i feel is a disrespectful end to that character. like #tyr required me to do a LOT of thinking bc i sympathized with his position in exile etc while thinking also bro thats real fucked up. bro #stop thats fuckinng e*genics again dude. tbh with the entire species (im not looking up how to spell that rn) bc like the foundation of #their entire race is e*ugenics. (sorry censoring bc im in the tags just venting about tv) which obviously is a terrible idea but i think the #so it was like i am fundamentally against the concept but in show universe theg obviously did it etc but for me provided such a huge like #context to the universe. i fundamentally am not on board with all the commonwealth stuff like yeah i get it the magog are bad and scary but #like the neitzcheans (sp??? idc) are also Right There bein scary. then theres the ‘enhanced’ debate re dylan beka etc that like. is the same #but ‘’different’’ i guess. 🙄 anyways that is just to point out like. the level of thinking this show put me through just to blindside me w/ #no resolution. i had SO much hope. tyr selling iut to the abyss is disrespectful to all of the established work the actor did for him and #to the character as well even if i think the ideology is icky. he was shown to be even less and less self-centric survival guy as it went on #and also tbh i didnt understand the him stealing his kids dna thing. i really thought that was gonna gi in a different less bs direction #okay also while im here can i just say. that tyr and dylan had THE most romantic tension to me. everyone else felt very friendshipy and i am #NOT one to usually fall into a ‘they obviously should be together’ pipeline that the writers dont make themselves. but the back and forth ( #and intense eye contact) had me sitting there like. it was made in 2000 i know they wont do it but for not doing it they sure did! not that #i think they’d make a good couple (they would not) but that there was definitely something there on the dl you know? something more than #‘mutual respect’ you feel? and tbh! they also ruined the tyr beka thing by making her the matriarch. big ew huge ick.

[orangerosebush]

@pokegeek151

I realize I am replying SO late because #final semester of college, but: I need you to know that I learned the "etc = end [of] thinking capacity" from some knock-off version of diary of a wimpy kid at like, 9 and never looked back HAHA

#every time i spell 'separate' i go 'sep a rat? ee!' and then wednesday = wed nez day for similar elementary school hack reasons #I know there are some other ones that i put in my mental pocket and thus i really really really would love to hear of your version of these #if you have them!

[welcometogrouchland]

I don't talk about my feelings with my dad but he does send me Arabic covers of Led Zeppelin songs. So there's that

#ramblings of a lunatic #i think its led zeppelin. its some kinda rock band he likes that i know jack about. #but the cover is in arabic #its good! it fucks! #i love it #he did this bc me and my family were watching a (recent?) cynthia erivo concert #where she sang a song in french and my mom talked about loving songs despite not knowing the lyrics #and i mentioned my enjoyment of latin pop music and dad started talking abt arabic led zeppelin #he also sent me three different versions of I Put a Spell on You. so there's that! #excited #also the feelings thing is /lh. we're both bad at talking abt out feelings its mutual and really not that big a deal most of the time

[unnamed-atlas]

Searching my blog archive for old zeph posts to feed my own brainrot and somehow ended up finding the exact date of creation of the Odysseus hate blog instead

#anyways to add to the vibe for you I'm also listening to the Hocus Pocus version of I Put A Spell On You on repeat so #i have not found old zeph posts yet 😔

[v-iv-rusty]

I could go to bed at a reasonable hour, but why would I do that when I could stay up and make myself sad over characters that I made up literally 5 minutes ago instead

#misc.txt #3 in the morning is peak oc creating hours #was doodling an er oc I have #and offhandedly wondering what they'd be like if they were an npc with a traditional soulsborne tragic quest. yes I know I am cringe btw #but now I'm sad :( and also dealing with the fact that this character only exists in my head and matters only to me hdfjskhd #it's like whenever I make a character where like. I want to write them a sad story I guess? idk how to put it but you know #I get to a point where I'm like 'idk this just seems kind of boring and bland' and then I get. a tiny idea #which then just snowballs from there until I'm reduced to the human version of a crying cat meme #AND NOBODY ELSE WOULD FULLY UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THEY ONLY EXIST IN MY HEAD. torture :) #honestly I never post about my ocs (fully original ones and then ones like this one) even though I have them but. whatever #his story arc and questline are not real but I could absolutely break your heart with subtle details and item descriptions if they were <3 #ok actually I want to talk about this though. so like #I think it's less so like 'I want to make a character in this universe' but I really love the fromsoft method of storytelling #by giving you tiny details and hints and things you might not notice at first. and then when you do it just HITS you and it hits different #than if it were just spelled out for you. like if you fully understand a character from the start that's great and all #but there's something about absentmindedly connecting the dots in the shower or something and going 'OH.' #idk if I'm wording this right probably not it's late but. thinking about how to tell a character's story through those methods is very fun

[scalpelsister]

back on my tomb raider bullshit

#im never not on my tomb raider bullshit lets be clear here but. #it goes dormant for months or years until I recall the comfort it brings me lol #also i went to put a tr game on in the background and saw a lore video where the dude calls her laura in the description and i #listen i get spelling things wrong but on a lore video? . #idk man id never trust tr lore from someone openly calling her Laura Croft #i need to catch up on my classic lore tho. study the Old Texts if you will #I know the basics but I've always been a LAU and survivor kid bc uh #i wasnt born until the year 2000 so #cant wait to either love new tr content or uh #become a gatekeeper Older Versions Of Her Are Better person #u die a hero or become the villain u know what I mean #/lh #i get it. i dont get the drama and the attacking the fandom does to each other but i get why everyone has their own favorite lara version #anyways pspsps come here dear friends i promise i wont info dump about tr #my post