#give promotion or give death

[irvinis]

Screen from @wolviestars Thanks for the news @ingravinoveritas

Ok, let me show you some magic, sir. Wish fulfillment.

#michael sheen #devid tennant #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #inaffable husbands #inaffable lovers #good omens #thin dark duke #good omens 2 fanart #artists on tumblr #it's a kind of magic #give promotion or give death

[lightandfellowship]

[Image description: Digital KHDR fanart depicting the upperclassmen as chess pieces. At the very bottom of the image are four chess pieces representing Hoder, Heimdall, Sigrun, and Helgi. They are upside down and silhouetted in black against a white background. Above them are two rows of black and white squares forming a chess board pattern. Above that are three pedestals holding up Vali, Vidar, and Vala's chess pieces, with Vidar's piece resting on the tallest pedestal in the middle. Both the chess pieces and the pedestals are silhouetted in white against a black background. Above them is a white heart with Baldr's hand silhouetted in black inside of it. He holds the iconic Kingdom Hearts crown in-between his index finger and thumb, posed to place it on Vidar's chess piece. End image description.]

"I paved a path for him to succeed, if he had only followed it to the end."

#khdr #kingdom hearts dark road #kingdom hearts #kh baldr #kh vidar #making kh art #So to explain the concept: at the end of the game before the final battle Baldr gives a speech where he uses a chess metaphor throughout #And when talking about Vidar in the above quote it brought to mind a chess piece being moved on a set path #from one side of the board to the other. And upon reaching the end getting 'promoted' to a better piece #In the case of checkers: getting crowned as a King. In chess: a Queen or other piece. #Baldr's goal was to get Vidar to summon Kingdom Hearts. And in a way become a 'king'. #Baldr 'captures' the pieces of the upperclassmen and clears the way for Vidar (thus why the bottom pieces are silhouetted black) #Vidar's path is paved with the deaths of his friends #Vali and Vala are of course at Vidar's side but it is Vidar who Baldr is targeting with his manipulation and schemes #khdr spoilers

[filurig]

short comic i made in feb for portfolio stuff. the theme was injustice... so i made a character who worships injustice out of a kind of... hyper darwinian sense of morality or whatever (well another flavour of it considering thats a big theme of my other ocs LOL)

#comic #digital art #illustration #oc #original character #oc: robin #i actually made him into kind of an oc in the sense that i really like the concept but so far has not done much with it #the allegory here is supposed to kind of touch on class. basically this guy is like #one of those r/libertarian redditors who worships people like elon musk #except he kills people #and also believes that elon musk will give him a promotion if he gets rid of the undesireables #cw: death #cw: blood #cw: bright colors

[casimirt]

Dear Readers,

If y'all want some dark, angsty or romantic poetry, that is low-key Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death or The Magnus Archives coded...

Check out my big serious poetry blog @casimirat

#dont mind me just promoting myself #my work #my poetry #poems #poetry #writing #creative writing #good omens fandom #good omens #ineffable husbands #gives me tma vibes #the magnus archives #ofmd #our flag means death #queer author #queer poets on tumblr #queer poetry #tumblr #artists on tumblr

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Im not even gonna lie..if they replaced crusty ol’ palpy with MAUL in TROS I would have been completely okay with that

Like no explanation needed for how he’s back

I’d just accept it

I might’ve definitely would’ve even cheered him on

#palps returning undid the significance of THE ENTIRE OT AND PT #maul returning would’ve only undid the significance of like one episode of a show for 10 year olds #it would’ve given some sort of satisfaction to whatever that was in solo #i also don’t even care that it would ruin how perfect maul’s death in rebels was #and I LOVE that moment #the thing is…bringing maul back in the first place kinda ruined a bunch considering obi was promoted because of it #so like who even cares if he just kept coming back #just adds to the iconicness of him #absolute cockroach #give him the loki treatment #im so serious #he might be the only character that I would be okay with returning at any point #no matter how dumb #or lazy it is #the more annoying maul is #the better methinks #darth maul #maul opress #star wars #maul #the rise of skywalker #sw the rise of skywalker #star wars sequals #twin suns #emperor palpatine #sheev palpatine #darth sidious #tros #sw tros #kate's post

[casiavium]

Everyone on the program: omg cool mummies!!!

Me, literally holding back tears: they are so far from home. Are their souls scared? Has anyone even offered them bread in the afterlife?

#important to note: some ancient Egyptian tombs contain prayers to give the deceased food in the afterlife meant to be read aloud #we read aloud a prayer (NOT SPELL. I AM AGAINST CALLING IT A SPELL) in my class two years ago #we're going to have a 'discussion' on the ethics of displaying mummies and I had to start taking the anti anxiety meds again so I Do Not Cry #while this happens #god. i can't go into Egyptology #day one on the program and I Know Now. I cannot do it for Various Reasons #I'm still doing classics (Ptolemaic period counts as Classics not egyptology) but I Cannot and Will Not interact with modern Egyptian #bureaucracy #tw death #??? #i have no fucking clue what to tag this #it's apparently a controversial opinion to say that Egypt is in Africa #a dutch museum got an exhibit SHUT DOWN for PROMOTING AFROCENTRISM. EGYPT IS IN AFRICA #like this is super cool and very important to my feild of study of museum work in general #but yeahhhh i am Too Passionate and full of Righteous Indignation for egyptology #screaming crying throwing uppppppp #and idet and ruiu aren't even THERE

[ice-sculptures]

OH OKAY SLEEPOVER TIME. umm. would u rather.....have bucktaylor endgame and for buck and eddie's friendship slowly drift apart.... OR for buck to die in eddie's arms and taylor is never heard from again. sorry love u

hey spencer you are evil for both of these BUT the mere idea of buck and eddie's friendship slowly drifting apart is fr my worst nightmare so give me the dramatic death scene any day!! i'd readily take one of them dying and haunting the other one for life shaunajackie style if the alternative is the two of them becoming strangers. and if it's ANYTHING like the shooting or the well collapse i just know that ryan & oliver would kill it and i would eat every second of it up 🙏🏼

it's a sleepover!!

#altho to be fair i don't actually hate taylor i just don't like her & buck as a couple n think their r/s did them both a disservice 😭 #her appearance in 6x17 had me giggling fr bc i enjoyed her most in an antagonist role like in 2x06. let women actually be terrible 2k24 #i would not mind if she showed up in s7 just to promote her tell all book and then we got a montage of her secretly working on it while #she was in a relationship with buck (bc how else would she have gotten that published so fast LMAO) and then also another montage #of everyone in the firefam taking turns reading chapters of her book in increasingly dramatic voices while buck sits there groaning #....wait. how did this turn into a spiel abt taylor kelly and her book? #ANYWAY. BUCK DYING IN EDDIE'S ARMS!! i am here for the angst i am here for a whispered love confession at death's door i am here for #ryan & oliver to give the performance of a lifetime i am here for it!! #not really bc i need them to end up happy and also get married. but. #for the sake of the game. let's kill buck #answered #spencer tag

[arithmeticanimaniac]

“you make funky color combinations work, but you also only look good in funky color combinations.” and suddenly my wardrobe makes a lot of sense

#that period where every influencer was promoting capsule wardrobes was a sickly hell for me #business professional is my nemesis #death to millennial pink give me Barbie pinks #.txt

[notthewriteryourelookingfor]

Fandom: Our Flag Means Death

Rating: not rated

Warning: Izzy may or may not drown

Relationships: Stede/Edward Teach, implied SteddyHands after ending

Characters: Izzy Hands, Oluwande Bloodhari, Lucius Spriggs, the Swede, Roach, Wee John, Buttons, Black Pete, Frenchie, Ivan, Fang, Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet

Additional tags: a fuckery, fuck izzy hands, fuck canon, fuck proofreading, almost drowning, Ed loves Stede, Stede is a good man, the crew deserves to have more fun, pretend murder attempt.

Summery: The crew decide to pull a fuckery on Izzy and he almost dies.

Set in the alternate universe where stede doesn't leave Ed on the dock and they both return to the Revenge in episode 9.

#i keep seeing people promote their own fics like this and decided to give it a try #our flag means death #might add some promo art if i ever get around to it #izzy gets a shock blanket just imagine izzy w a lil shock blanket #our flag means death fan fiction #cathys fan fiction #fan fiction #archive of our own #a03 #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #steddyhands #the crew of the revenge #i just want people to read my stuff and maybe leave a kudos #idk #ofmd #idk if this is what people want to see on their feed please let me know

[varricscrossbowbianca]

i think the whole spoiling the hp game thing aint gonna work. people are still gonna play the game because for them it isnt just about the story but about being able to play a wizard in a video game. and at this point, some folks arent even boycotting the game, they just wanna troll others and some are even sending death threats which uuhhh is a crime yknow. the internet is not a legal vacuum. the moment you send someone a death threat or tell someone to kill themselves, you are the one being in the wrong. this is not what activism is and you know it. hp fans are buying more copies of the game because they feel pissed off by trolls. so on both sides people are adding fuel to the fire.

there cant be a discussion about anything if people arent willing to listen to each other.

#. the game is being promoted even by how often it is talked about #. the discourse around it just made it bigger #. no matter how many tags i put on my blacklist i still see stuff about the game #. even when its just a screenshot #. i dont want it on my dashboard anymore because it gives me a headache #. if you think threatening to kill a streamer for playing a game then you have a serious problem #* if you think doing that is right/a good thing to do #. i think its disgusting how some folks on this website and twitter throw around death threats and telling people to commit suicide #. that shit is so vile #. stuff like this is why i left tumblr before because it seems to be everywhere now #. twitter is toxic af but sometimes tumblr is as well #. rant #. so close to closing my tumblr again istg

[novlr]

A quick guide to animal symbolism:

Animals have a long history of symbolism that varies between cultures and customs. As literary tropes develop, some animal symbolism has become universally recognised in the western literary canon. Here are some examples you can use in your writing to give subtext, develop motifs, or promote your thematic content.

🐥 Birds: freedom, hope, escape 🦁 Lions: strength, courage, royalty 🐶 Dogs: loyalty, devotion, protection 🐱 Cats: independence, stealth, mystery 🐺 Wolves: intelligence, nature, wildness 🦊 Foxes: cleverness, cunning, deception 🐍 Snakes: temptation, evil, deceit 🦋 Butterflies: transformation, change, new beginnings 🦉 Owls: wisdom, knowledge, mystery 🦅 Eagles: strength, freedom, nobility ◾ Ravens: death, mystery, the unknown 🕊️ Doves: peace, love, purity 🐻 Bears: resurrection, strength, power, new life 🤘 Bulls: virility, sovereignty, wealth

#animal symbolism #writer #writers #creative writing #writing #symbolism in writing #writing community #writers of tumblr #creative writers #writing inspiration #writeblr #writerblr #writing tips #writblr #writers corner #writers community #poets and writers #writing advice #writing resources #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #helping writers #writing help #writing tips and tricks #how to write #writing life #let's write #resources for writers #references for writers

[mrdrhenwardhykle]

Okay, I think I'm going to keep it up on Wattpad for now, but I like AO3 a lot better. So yeah, "INSERT 25¢ TO CONTINUE" is going there sometime soon! I hope to mainly use that instead for future projects. I'll send a link when I'm done.

#okay I know I said that was it for stuff promoting it #but you have to understand that this is whole project is my baby #I don't want to give up on it quite yet #I just love it so much and have a lot more to say about it-and I don't want to be swept under the algorithm #or people assuming it's going to end up like quickly written fanfic garb #it's a year-old development #I mean it when sharing helps #it helps a lot! #and I appreciate and love to death those who have #ao3 #archive of our own #book update #also trying to find my voice #INSERT 25¢ TO CONTINUE

[harunayuuka2060]

*When Idia accidentally hacked MC's social media accounts and saw everything related about the dorm leaders*

Idia: ...

Idia: Ortho, do you think we should share this or not?

Ortho: Do you mean to the other dorm leaders?

Idia: Yes. These are pretty neat.

MC: Guys, have you noticed anything weird today?

Ace: Yeah. It was quite obvious, honestly.

Epel: Vil gave you a kiss on the cheek and thanked you.

Deuce: Rosehearts-senpai smiled at you warmly and asked if you would like to study with him.

Jack: Leona-senpai ruffled your hair, and Kalim-senpai almost hugged you to death.

Ace: And we shouldn't forget Azul-senpai giving them a discount coupon.

Ortho: Also, Malleus Draconia visiting your dorm with lots of presents in hand.

Ace: Seriously, what did you do for them to act like that?

MC: I don't know?

MC's posts/social media activities about the dorm leaders:

Has designed a plushie for Riddle, and was hoping to start soon in making it

Created a personalized ad that would help promote Mostro Lounge

Has bought a pair of comfortable slippers for Leona (but Kifaj told them that the size was a bit small for his feet)

Has drawn a cute sketch of Kalim and Jamil and is planning to give it to them before they return in their own world

Made an inspired makeup palette solely for Vil

Collecting lores about gargoyles that they could share with Malleus

Released a gaming app (playable in a browser) where users can interact with cats, befriend them, and start their own story. Two of the cats in the game resemble Idia and Ortho.

#twisted wonderland #twst mc #twst ace #twst deuce #twst epel #twst jack #twst ortho #twst dorm leaders

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses

MERE HOURS REMAIN for the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything forever, and wow, it's pretty amazing, huh?

AI pitchmen don't make it easy. They like to pile on the cognitive dissonance and demand that we all somehow resolve it. This is a thing cult leaders do, too – tell blatant and obvious lies to their followers. When a cult follower repeats the lie to others, they are demonstrating their loyalty, both to the leader and to themselves.

Over and over, the claims of AI pitchmen turn out to be blatant lies. This has been the case since at least the age of the Mechanical Turk, the 18th chess-playing automaton that was actually just a chess player crammed into the base of an elaborate puppet that was exhibited as an autonomous, intelligent robot.

The most prominent Mechanical Turk huckster is Elon Musk, who habitually, blatantly and repeatedly lies about AI. He's been promising "full self driving" Telsas in "one to two years" for more than a decade. Periodically, he'll "demonstrate" a car that's in full-self driving mode – which then turns out to be canned, recorded demo:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/

Musk even trotted an autonomous, humanoid robot on-stage at an investor presentation, failing to mention that this mechanical marvel was just a person in a robot suit:

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/elon-musk-tesla-robot-optimus-ai

Now, Musk has announced that his junk-science neural interface company, Neuralink, has made the leap to implanting neural interface chips in a human brain. As Joan Westenberg writes, the press have repeated this claim as presumptively true, despite its wild implausibility:

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-lies

Neuralink, after all, is a company notorious for mutilating primates in pursuit of showy, meaningless demos:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

I'm perfectly willing to believe that Musk would risk someone else's life to help him with this nonsense, because he doesn't see other people as real and deserving of compassion or empathy. But he's also profoundly lazy and is accustomed to a world that unquestioningly swallows his most outlandish pronouncements, so Occam's Razor dictates that the most likely explanation here is that he just made it up.

The odds that there's a human being beta-testing Musk's neural interface with the only brain they will ever have aren't zero. But I give it the same odds as the Raelians' claim to have cloned a human being:

https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/cf.opinion.rael/

The human-in-a-robot-suit gambit is everywhere in AI hype. Cruise, GM's disgraced "robot taxi" company, had 1.5 remote operators for every one of the cars on the road. They used AI to replace a single, low-waged driver with 1.5 high-waged, specialized technicians. Truly, it was a marvel.

Globalization is key to maintaining the guy-in-a-robot-suit phenomenon. Globalization gives AI pitchmen access to millions of low-waged workers who can pretend to be software programs, allowing us to pretend to have transcended the capitalism's exploitation trap. This is also a very old pattern – just a couple decades after the Mechanical Turk toured Europe, Thomas Jefferson returned from the continent with the dumbwaiter. Jefferson refined and installed these marvels, announcing to his dinner guests that they allowed him to replace his "servants" (that is, his slaves). Dumbwaiters don't replace slaves, of course – they just keep them out of sight:

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-the-dumbwaiter/

So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: "AI stands for 'absent Indian'":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

A reader wrote to me this week. They're a multi-decade veteran of Amazon who had a fascinating tale about the launch of Amazon Go, the "fully automated" Amazon retail outlets that let you wander around, pick up goods and walk out again, while AI-enabled cameras totted up the goods in your basket and charged your card for them.

According to this reader, the AI cameras didn't work any better than Tesla's full-self driving mode, and had to be backstopped by a minimum of three camera operators in an Indian call center, "so that there could be a quorum system for deciding on a customer's activity – three autopilots good, two autopilots bad."

Amazon got a ton of press from the launch of the Amazon Go stores. A lot of it was very favorable, of course: Mister Market is insatiably horny for firing human beings and replacing them with robots, so any announcement that you've got a human-replacing robot is a surefire way to make Line Go Up. But there was also plenty of critical press about this – pieces that took Amazon to task for replacing human beings with robots.

What was missing from the criticism? Articles that said that Amazon was probably lying about its robots, that it had replaced low-waged clerks in the USA with even-lower-waged camera-jockeys in India.

Which is a shame, because that criticism would have hit Amazon where it hurts, right there in the ole Line Go Up. Amazon's stock price boost off the back of the Amazon Go announcements represented the market's bet that Amazon would evert out of cyberspace and fill all of our physical retail corridors with monopolistic robot stores, moated with IP that prevented other retailers from similarly slashing their wage bills. That unbridgeable moat would guarantee Amazon generations of monopoly rents, which it would share with any shareholders who piled into the stock at that moment.

See the difference? Criticize Amazon for its devastatingly effective automation and you help Amazon sell stock to suckers, which makes Amazon executives richer. Criticize Amazon for lying about its automation, and you clobber the personal net worth of the executives who spun up this lie, because their portfolios are full of Amazon stock:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

Amazon Go didn't go. The hundreds of Amazon Go stores we were promised never materialized. There's an embarrassing rump of 25 of these things still around, which will doubtless be quietly shuttered in the years to come. But Amazon Go wasn't a failure. It allowed its architects to pocket massive capital gains on the way to building generational wealth and establishing a new permanent aristocracy of habitual bullshitters dressed up as high-tech wizards.

"Wizard" is the right word for it. The high-tech sector pretends to be science fiction, but it's usually fantasy. For a generation, America's largest tech firms peddled the dream of imminently establishing colonies on distant worlds or even traveling to other solar systems, something that is still so far in our future that it might well never come to pass:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

During the Space Age, we got the same kind of performative bullshit. On The Well David Gans mentioned hearing a promo on SiriusXM for a radio show with "the first AI co-host." To this, Craig L Maudlin replied, "Reminds me of fins on automobiles."

Yup, that's exactly it. An AI radio co-host is to artificial intelligence as a Cadillac Eldorado Biaritz tail-fin is to interstellar rocketry.

Back the Kickstarter for the audiobook of The Bezzle here!

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/#tailfins

#pluralistic #elon musk #neuralink #potemkin ai #neural interface beta-tester #full self driving #mechanical turks #ai #amazon #amazon go #clm #joan westenberg

[clambuoyance]

[Lovesquare Au]

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I watched the mlb movie and caught up w the show so I got au brainrot again 💀 My first post was more silly and had smaller snippets but somehow I got carried away and ended up drawing a lot more than the first time around. I’ll post it in parts tho so I don’t overload one post 🙏

In short, Tim -> likes Conner…but is fond of Superboy? Kon -> likes Robin, but has gotten to know Tim a lot better.

And the timeline/world for this au is a big mishmash of 90s comics/ROTS movie/TT03/2000s comics and headcanons, so in summary for backstory for this post especially:

Superboy - during Superman’s death, he was created at Cadmus (w funding from Lex) and told he was Superman’s clone, even if he is a lot younger and different. Like the comics/my headcanon, he is fascinated by the celebrity life and Lex who promised him he’d be as great as Superman, assigned him Rex Leech who would be his personal agent/pr manager/etc. Lex was kind of like…his funder and sponsor that promoted him as the guy that would give new hope in Supermans absence.

Flash forward to Superman’s return, he decides to go on a world tour/become disillusioned with celebrity life until Clark comes and takes him to the farm and suggests he lives as Conner Kent to get away from the likes of people like Lex and Rex lol. So he’s not connected to them by contract anymore but he will do things out of obligation (like being a bodyguard at a party)

In this au, Lex doesn’t know Conner is Superboy either, and he hasn’t told Kon to what extent he was involved in Kon’s creation (yet…) but he’s hinted at it before

Tim - in this au, he’s also been operating as Robin for a longer time but is recently dealing with also becoming Tim Drake-Wayne and preparing to become the possible successor to Bruce Wayne’s company so that’s why he’s at this fancy party 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ I haven’t quite decided how much of his backstory to adapt to this au specifically but he becomes Robin in a similar way as his debut with becoming Robin bc he sees that Batman is lost without one and Batman needs a Robin. By the time this au starts he’s gone to different schools and I guess is going to a new one where Conner is also attending? Also his parents are now dead in this 😔 and he’s very secretive compared to Superboy and is the one that attaches more weight to a secret identity

they somehow go to the same school idk don’t worry about it i throw logic out the window in this regard for my silly lovesquare shenanigans 🫡 the World building isn’t the main focus it’s just a backdrop to their dynamic anyways . Here. Take my cringe.

#clam draws #dc #kon el #tim drake #timkon #dc comic #timkon au #timkon lovesquare au #comic #my art #this is sooo fanficy but. oh well. paneling practice 🫡🫡🫡 #dc clamics

[jisungshotfirst]

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#just learnt from my mum there that there's a show at the moment that's a dramatisation of the covid boris bullshit ???? #WTF and WHY #I have Such a massive issue with dramatisations of real life events ... like you can enjoy them on one hand but they can be so harmful.. #it's making a documentary without the ethical aspects you need to address to make a documentary #it's absolutely horrid and I hate that they're so popular nowadays because it will just give people and unrealistic view of real life people #and sway their understanding about events #and whether positively or negatively it's giving these people promotion and attention that they have no control over #the fact that this show can be sympathetic towards boris and make him have some redeemable qualities and tell his story in a way They decide #and not Him being in control of (and therefore accountable for) what he says and does - and therefore the audience get a different view #that is COMPLETELY CRAFTED #....... I hate it SO MUCH #and making stuff about Covid .. Covid is NOT OVER 😐 literally like .. it's Too soon to dramatise Covid deaths - it is Way too soon #literally what happened to original story writing - I am TIRED of dramatisations of real events and disney live action remakes that are the #exact same as the original animations #I don't care about Any of it 😐 #kit rants #ooh we haven't had a rant in a while I love