And for a moment they lay breast to breast, holding each other in a fierce bruising clasp, their hearts beating with a terrible violence; and so they lay in silence for a long time.
Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil
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To those of you who feel lost because you never imagined being around on earth for this long: I see you. You are doing amazing - spectacular, honestly, and I mean that in the most beauiful way. I know how hard it is to feel like this, just know that it can be okay. Please be gentle with yourself. It's okay to feel lost - it's okay to be lost. There doesn't have to be a set "plan" for your life, just be here with us.
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I AGREE WITH YOU SO HARD MAN i find it boring as hell that we have those complex, alien, amazing blend of machine and organism massive structures and people want to reduce them to what is basically a finger
Ignore the fact that I not only had this ask sitting in the box for several weeks but the art as well.
Time to continue the on the string propaganda as is my duty
YES there is SO much room to make these supercomputers incredibly interesting without taking them off the string.
Like I get it, silly creature in scenario (I love those) and I'm not gonna criticise it much here- this is mostly gonna be an appreciation post, but big machine that is not human could very much stay a big machine that is not human.
Faithful mutual @sin-ari talked to me about how such a complex machine would struggle to portray it's emotions through the puppet. The puppet is meant to comfort the ancients and provide a way to communicate in the same style. But who's to say iterators feel things the same way? What if they had emotions that are indescribable to us? Things we could never experience?
And I'm going to keep talking about Ari's points cuz yess iterators should express their emotions with all of their structure. You should hear the thrumming and crackling of the flux condensers! You should hear the growling of their systems with anger, you should feel the metal walls vibrate with sound!!
The PLACE is alive and you should feel it!!! If you wander into an iterator structure and it's quiet, not a single 'whoop' from the flies, if the lights aren't dancing like they usually are, if rooms are empty with inactivity, could you not feel the sadness?
Does the general system bus play a different tune?
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if eyes are windows, then see my soul
if we're all stardust, the sky's our home
if you're all i'll ever have, then i have enough
the universe is yours, it's ours
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hey, what if it all turned out okay. what if im so happy to be alive
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HI CALLING IN TO SAY YOURE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, GA MING IS THE TRANSGENDER ALLEGORY EVER !! TO QUOTE A POST I ONCE SAW “if a guy is hated by his rich parents then he’s automatically gay” WHICH HOLDS TRUE IN EVERY SITUATION BUT THIS ONE IN SPECIFIC !!!! RATTLING HIM
(ALSO, XIAO AND ZHONGLI… THE DYNAMIC EVER FOR SURE)
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like . guy hated by rich parents is so gay coded but in some cases its just REALLY trans coded. i think in general its just queer vibes or maybe neurodivergent in a very very specific way .
but like. the way gaming is with his dad, especially their interactions towards the end. his dad saying "youre a good kid" . not son. kid. that reeks of a parent who still hasnt 'let go' of their kids assigned gender but is trying. the vibes. the energy. is just. its so.
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Theres something so beautiful about knowing your beloved is alive in a grotesque way.
The feeling of bones underneath their skin,
The squirm of their intestines twitching inside their body when you press on their belly
The firm flex of muscle writhing under your fingertips
The reminder they are just as flesh and bone as you are, with space to spare
The inflation of their lungs with every breath they take
The soft thrum of blood racing through their veins
We are more than skin and beauty
We are amalgamations of gore and matter and nerves and sinew and fibers and veins
Our marrow has blood and our tongues ooze like steak
The crimson of our blood carries the very carbon and oxygen that defines life itself.
Somehow, out of all things we’ve ended up in this form, with these features and colors inside us.
The muted pinks and greys are inside us, endlessly moving even if we think they are not
We can feel our inner beauty by merely concentrating, by poking and prodding at all that protrudes and caves.
Every cell is a stitch and every nucleus breathes and pulses.
We are so disturbingly alive and thats horrifyingly beautiful.
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🎄Romance Advent🎄 Day 13: Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole
One-sentence summary: Blood-maddened vampire assassin Conrad is taken to an old mansion to detox, only to realize that the beautiful dancer he sees (and can speak to) is not a hallucination, but a ghost.
Why read it: I mean, aside from that insane summary, this is a great entry point to Immortals After Dark, and has a hero who is, by IAD standards, baby? I mean, he can and will kill anyone who touches his woman and, again, is clinically insane, but Conrad is allso so wounded and so sweet at his core, and also, much to his eternal embarrassment, a vIRGIN (something his brother loudly points out in front of his ghost girlfriend). And Neomi, our heroine, makes it even better. She's funny, she's angry, she's flirty, and Conrad's brokenness calls to her own in a way that's just gorgeous.
Lives in my brain rent-free: Conrad is in the shower, really determined to ignore the Sexy Ghost Lady because SURELY she's in his head, right? And Neomi, rather determined to get him to break and a former burlesque performer, begins doing an elaborate striptease with lines like "Does Conrad want to see my panties?" (He does. As previously mentioned, Conrad is a 300-year old-virgin.) GOLD. QUEEN SHIT.
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I was having a good day until I was suddenly reminded it's canon that Hannibal's heartbeat never rises above 85 beats per minute.
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