#it’s all cutthroat

[secretmellowblog]

Every day I wake up and horrified by the implications of AI on the entertainment industry….a lot of my friends are going to lose their jobs and starve to death because Elon Musk thought it’d be fun to fund a machine that automatically steals artists’ work against their will to create generic algorithmically generated mass market slop.

I feel like I’m going crazy because everyone pretends they care about how “popular media sucks now because it’s all created to be as generically marketable/similar to other things as possible, almost like it’s algoritmically generated >:(“ but then they’re also like “WOW COOL AI ART!”

Like dudes???? Don’t you understand that supporting AI art means that you’re supporting eliminating and eviscerating any last vestiges of humanity from art……..a company will definitely settle for “mass produced AI slop generated by an algorithm to look as similar as possible to whatever generic popular slop came before” if it means they don’t have to pay a human being.

And that’s not even going into the way that these algorithms monetize themselves……some of them have “free” tiers now but that’s extremely likely to change in the future. I can’t wait until the most prolific “comic artists” of our times are like, hedge fund managers who can afford to buy 1000000 prompts on Dall-E.

And once that starts happening more we’ll all be drowning in a tidal wave of hollow empty shallow algorithmically generated “”””art””””” created by machines that can’t feel, think, intend, or care— machines that can only rip off the artists they were designed to replace, the artists whose actually meaningful thoughtful creations were stolen to provide their training data.

I hate all of this, and I hate the mass callous indifference to it. I am baffled that people don’t see the dangers of a future where none of our art is created by people who care— by people who are trying to mean something and to say something and to connect with you from one person to another—but by algorithms mindlessly mashing pixels together. It’s going to be horrible. Especially because in a time of climate change and intense social stress/collapse it’s going to be very important to connect with other people through art, but AI removes humanity from art entirely. If climate change wasn’t likely to cause the collapse of society anyway I’d say that if we keep heading in this direction the art and entertainment industry is a bit doomed

#ai art #anyway! #i feel like I’m losing my mind seeing everyone be like #‘wow it’s so amazing I created this with Ai -heart eyes- #like you didn’t create anything…. #Elon musk funded dall e so its more like you just commissioned Elon musk’s fancy machine for a drawing #the moment they remove the free tier from dall e you’re fucked lol #anyway #i have had absolutely no faith in the entertainment industry for a very long time #(it’s the ‘studying to work in the entertainment industry and making friends in it’ burnout ) #so yee #it’s all cutthroat #if I wasn’t so sure we were heading towards some kind of greater infrastructure collapse #I’d be more sad about it #as it is I have a lot of other things to be sad about #but thankfully I have a decent job out of college #because I studied 3D stuff #which can’t be replaced yet

[ataleofcrowns]

Hi there! I love D so much and their route is just <3<3<3. HOWEVER, My crown is not the type to suck up to the nobles, and they seem to be the ones really "preventing" (for lack of a better word) the relationship between D and the Crown... will being a crown that prioritizes the people over the nobility hinder the relationship between D and the Crown? Especially considering the events in ch 11 💀

If anything, it's the opposite!

Like, the nobles and the court and all the social rules attached to being the Crown is definitely an obstacle, but that doesn't change D's feelings for the Crown at all. Those are external circumstances that neither of them can change - and, if anything, a Crown that prioritizes the people will further win D's admiration and strengthen their bond as a result.

If your Crown starts veering into directions that prioritize or enable the noble class of Arsur at the cost of its citizens, however? Now that's a problem, because that's fully within the Crown's control, and something D disagrees with immensely. Pretty much flying into the core of everything they believe and the principles they hold, pretty much.

Each of the LIs already have had opinions on what the Crown has decided in their official capacity as a ruler (such as the choice you make in CH5 regarding the assassination attempt), but they just haven't been very vocal about it yet because the decisions have been smaller scale, less consequential, or without any overt moral slant. It hasn't impacted the relationship much at all yet.

But the further along the story we get, the greater the consequences of political decisions the Crown will have to make, and the more the LIs will have to say about it.

A romancers, for example, have already gotten a preview of this in CH11 if they made a certain choice that drew A's anger...

So, be prepared for that!!

#ask #randomcheesecakery #i was considering being coy with this answer #but we all know how the LIs feel abt the nobles at this point lol #so if you wanna roleplay a crown who is cutthroat and elitist #whether to safeguard their own power or just to survive... #hoo boy!! #expect your main LI (and the others as well) to have THINGS to SAY lmao

[merakiui]

i hope this doesn't sound too pushy, but i'd love to see more sapphic twst from you!! of course, i'll read anything you put out either way o(^▽^)o

It's not pushy at all!! (⸝⸝ᵕᴗᵕ⸝⸝) I would be happy to write more sapphic twst! I'd like to write more with the Boyfriend universe because it's always fun writing fem Riddle, especially one who is so in love with you. <3 although I'd also like to write something where fem Riddle thinks Jade isn't a good fit for you and she drives herself near mad trying to prove you're better off without him. Meanwhile, Jade has too much fun tormenting her and continues to drive a wedge between you and her. It would be interesting to explore a dynamic in which Riddle is so emotionally codependent on you, so when you start dating Jade (or even Floyd) she feels as if she'll lose you. You're the one and only light in her dark life; she needs you.

I like the idea of Riddle getting drunk at your birthday party and she stumbles upon some secret thing on Jade (or Floyd's) phone and perhaps it's something incriminating. But because she's drunk her memory is foggy and it's the perfect excuse for everyone to use in order to diminish her claims. She just thinks that Leech guy is bad news and totally unsafe, and she's trying so hard to convince you that you should consider other people.

AAAAA and Jade would have so much fun with it, too. Adding more fuel to the fire by saying things like, "Aren't you a little too attached to (Name)? I understand the both of you are close friends, but even this is a little obsessive." And you're stuck between the both of them, wondering what's gotten into your friend and why she seems so distrustful of your boyfriend. >:D

Of course I'd also love to write for other fem twst characters as well, but Riddle has me in a chokehold. She's so cute. I love her lots. orz

#twisted chit chat #riddle who thinks jade was your stalker before he started dating you #but the twist is that she's actually projecting and she was the one stalking you all along :) #and she's trying so hard to map out the stages of stalking to see how it applies to the timeline between you and jade meeting #and eventually getting into a relationship #but she's actually just mapping out the timeline for her obsession and stalking #she's so unhinged aaaaaa #i think riddle's lawful rigidity versus jade's cutthroat wit is such a fascinating thing #they're playing the most complicated mind games in hopes that the other will inevitably trip up while you remain oblivious T^T

[robertseanleonardthinker]

take me out back and shoot me

(camisado - panic at the disco)

#DO YOU GIYS GET IT. DO YOU SEE MY VISION #this has been bouncing around in my mentally ill little brain non stop #DO U GET UT. #DO U GET WHAT IM SAYING #this could go for any characters btw cuz they r all so Damaged but these r the ones i chose #house md #malpractice md #hatecrimes md #house #gregory house #greg house #james wilson #chris taub #remy hadley #thirteen #remy thirteen hadley #amber volakis #cutthroat bitch #<- is that a tag? idk

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Cutthroat Centurion

"We both serve the Demon Thane. Your parts would better serve with me."

Artist: Ariel Perez TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.02 #ariel perez #cutthroat centurion #phyrexia: all will be one #artifact #creature #phyrexian #warrior

[raveartts]

just some sketchies

#raveartts #akudama drive #i figured trying a different program might give me motivation? #not really..though i do like this brush #but csp is just so unbelievably laggy #and this is a good computer :/ i think the program is badly optimized or sth it shouldn't be that annoying to use #i'm just gonna put cutthroat in a croptop for any and all sketches from now on #i refuse to draw his jacket i fucking HATE HIS JACKET' #i'll draw it for finished pieces but ugh #cropthroat forever #it's basically canon anyways~

[anonymouspuzzler]

(To Davy and Buck) Hey y'all ever think of hiring any henchmen? Obviously there's a cost issue there, but getaway securing, junk sorting, babysitting... you can get a lot of use out of a good union hench.

it is SO hard out there for a henchperson these days

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[Image 1 ID: Panel one of a comic featuring Puzz's OCs. Buck (a middle-aged white man with a barrel-chested build, balding with a bushy mustache, wearing a turtleneck and slacks) is gesturing with one hand with the other on his hip, saying grouchily, "You think I got hench money? Hell, you think I got hench space?? This is a one-bedroom hideout and I've already got this kid takin' up my whole couch!!" In the background, Minnie (a 13-year-old white girl with a stocky build and large braided pigtails, wearing a school uniform-type blouse and pleated skirt, plus fingerless gloves and a sweater tied around her neck) is sitting on the couch holding a video game controller with one hand, glaring and flipping Buck off. End ID.]

[Image 2 ID: Panel two of a comic featuring Puzz's OCs. Davey (a middle-aged black man with a lanky build, amputated right arm, diagonal scar across his face, thin mustache, large ears, thick eyebrows and curly hair in a ponytail, wearing a baggy tank top and loose shorts) is standing to Buck's right, grimacing and gesturing with his left hand. He says, "I never really enjoyed working with henchmen, to be honest. Granted, I don't think the ones I worked with were union, which was probably at least part of the problem..." Buck, turning to look at Davey with confusion, says, "Wait. You had henchmen?" Davey responds, "I worked with henchmen." End ID.]

[Image 3 ID: Panel 3 of a comic featuring Puzz's OCs. Buck and Davey are standing in the background, with Minnie on the couch in the foreground. Buck, gesturing with both hands and looking confused and frustrated, says, "When did you-", only for Davey to interrupt by turning to Minnie with a grin and calling, "You get Street Fighter working yet, Min?" Buck shouts, "DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT", while Minnie, gesticulating angrily in front of her, also shouts, "THEY TRAPPED ME ON THE STUPID EULA!!". End ID.]

#anonymous puzzler answers #anonymous puzzler originals #friendlyfrankenstein #anonymous puzzler art #long post / #i feel like most Relatively Professional Villains use union henchpeople and it's a relatively stable gig unless your villain gets Targeted #whereas the more cutthroat and/or capitalist villains are more liable to use desperate and sketchy nonunion henchpeople (or none at all) #buck and davey are a rare case where they're just broke-slash-know they wouldn't be great bosses #one could argue minnie is kind of like their junior henchperson but A) she sucks shit as a henchperson B) she would disagree with you. #update i had to come back and edit the tags bc i just remembered something i need you all to know #i looked up 'does sf6 have a eula' to see if i could make the joke about minnie and davey playing street fighter work #and not only does it but apparently there was a glitch at some point where folks on pc were getting stuck on the eula. #which made the joke even better #Villain Coded comic

[austajunk]

Hey! Did you know I made a smutty, degenerate Akudama Drive fan visual novel?

Cos.... cos yeah, I did.

My Akudama Drive fan game,

Spotting a Killer

Is finished!!!

Ah, ah, ah, the Tumblr nun won't let you see the fun bits here. But if you wanna download and play the little game for yourself (it's very short, just a one-shot with a normal ending and a joke ending), here's the link:

Gotta unzip the file twice cos it's weird... and be sure to click this little beast in the unzipped file here:

Happy playing! If it suits you, lemme know if you liked it, hated it... any advice? Should I continue it....? Add Hacker to this mess? XD

#akudama drive #fan game #akudama cutthroat #cutthroat #swindler #akudama swindler #SwindlerxCutthroat #fanart #akudama courier #courier #i'm sorry i was born stupid #for falaaaaaaaa #you made this all possible and now i actually made a little thing #i'm emotional rn #i swear #nsft

[brachiocephalics]

absolute loser take i saw on the app today

#if you can't stomach amber but can handle house then maybe uhm your brain's rotting? how embarrassing #i love you amber volakis i love you mean lesbian who's just doing all she can to get by i love you cosmic playtoy dyke #this is actually so embarrassing and wrong in many levels and randomly bringing up your autism and narc mom just makes it so? #like trust we do not care #disasterpiece.txt #amber is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite house md character and she will always be #i love you cutthroat bitch

[clonerightsagenda]

I wonder if Ling fucks around so much early in the comic (hassling the military's elite evil wizards, bumming food off people, getting arrested) because he has never actually had a chance to be a dumb kid before. He has grown up surrounded either by his clan who are depending on him to be their savior or enemy clans who are trying their best to kill him. People mistake him for older than he is; he has probably had to grow up very quickly. Amestris is a desperate attempt to raise his standing but it is also kind of spring break.

Then he gets possessed by the embodiment of self-interested hedonism but instead of getting to have a good time he spends several months in a creepy basement and then several months roughing it in the woods. When it's spring break and your dad makes you get a job.

#Ling 🤝 Greed: born with a job #I love him bc he is one of the most cutthroat characters #the kid gets exactly what he wants crawling over a pile of bodies to do so #but I have no clue what he might have wanted personally for himself #selfish selflessness... #Mei has that epiphany that hey the philosopher's stone is bad and maybe the emperor shouldn't get near it #Ling's like nope hand it over #I'm already carrying the lives of thousands of people at all times what's a few more #now time to skip town before someone asks me about all the soldiers I ripped apart with my bare hands #similarly Mei gets a lot more storytime on personal interests and desires #and probably gets the better ending for herself imo #kat reads fma #I am not actually to this bit yet I am just thinking

[vitamin-zeeth]

NO FUCKING WAY WILSONS DATING CUTTHROAT BITCH IM GOING TO FUCKING BLOW UP MY LAPTOP WITH LAZERS I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH HER

#I HATED HER WHY WOULD THEY BRING HER BACK #worst part is i predicted it i was like well i know wilson gets another long term gf at some point probably this season i hope its not her #i cant fucking believe this. look im usually all for evil women im all for women in stem im all for cutthroat bitches NORMALLY #but i just fuckin. i dont like her at all. she thought she was better than everyone else and she thought she was smarter than everyone else #house gets to be like that because he also accepts that he can miss things. this bitch won't admit she's wrong. i dont fucking like her. #wilson you can do BETTER. FUCK now im gonna have to put uo with her for like a season #god this is gonna be worse than fucking Stacey. i hated that plotline stacey was cool but the plotline was boring #zeeth watches hatecrimes md part 4

[coquelicoq]

raksura for the ask meme?

YAY

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) moon was designed in a lab to appeal to me personally, so. it's about the trust issues!

scrunkly (my "baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) the sky copper clutch!! traumatized children imprinting on a guy with baby fever is usually what i go to fanfic for so to have it right there in canon? incredible. i love all of frost's little tantrums and idk, just the way that she claims moon as her family in a way that has nothing to do with court politics? she's like, we're your clutch, obviously. and this is our court because it's your court, and all the other jabronis who live here are on thin ice. she's ready to throw down with moon's wife/the government at all hours of the day and she's like six years old. i love that moon has that energy in his life even though he personally is pretty confused and exhausted by it lol.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) it's hard out here for an ember stan because he is in so few scenes relative to the space he occupies in my psyche! i need 5000% more interactions between him and moon. him and stone. him and shade. him and river. him and the teachers. him and the clutches. him and jade and balm and chime. oh my god him and malachite? him and celadon? him and delin??

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) niran. i'm always up for a "longsuffering ship captain resigns himself to another restless night of hearing gigantic shapeshifters with incredible stamina fuck nasty on the roof of his cabin" moment. technically i have never been in that exact situation, but i feel like i can relate.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) river who is CLASSIC poor little meow meow territory like yes his whole personality is being a grade A asshole and sure he tries to kill my blorbo a few times, but once you get to know him he's so sad and pathetic that i'm kind of like okay where can i sign up to defend him from the largely factual aspersions of his dozens of quite frankly justified haters? he'd hate that. the good shit 👌

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) stone. every time he crankily says "why did i ever reproduce" upon finding himself entangled in yet another ridiculous clusterfuck thanks to one of his hundreds of idiot great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, an angel gets its wings. he's depressed and antisocial but he can't totally check out because he has to mediate relationship issues between his dumbass relatives. love that for him.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) malachite but specifically because malachite would not be scared of superhell. she'd skulk around being invisible, maybe fuck some shit up if she felt like it, and leave when she got bored. she probably makes it like. opal night's sister city or something. and nobody in the court is at all phased. yeah that's our reigning queen who recently got back from vacation in superhell. she does that. she says it's relaxing.

#yooo thank you for asking for this one!! i had already started thinking about it because river is like. plmms of all time for me #he's the platonic ideal of a plmm in my book #books of the raksura #asks #anon #every few months i check the ember ao3 tag to see if there are any new fics and there hardly ever are. but i live in hope #the moon-ember diplomatic attache tag team would be off the chain. it's all i would ever think about #ember was raised to be an imperial consort in a harem drama and he gets there and the empress is just like. #a deadly grizzly bear with no table manners who loves children and can't read and gets his feelings hurt really easily #moon tells him a bedtime story the second time they meet and ember is like #wow i love you. i'd die for you. if you'll be my bodyguard i can be your long-lost anger translator #a match made in heaven 🥰 #meanwhile moon is picking up on none of this and is like. well i guess nobody's going to want me anymore now that they have #a REAL consort. he even knows how to pour tea. bastard. but i have to look out for him because he's so young and innocent. dammit #but if anyone actually needs to be looked out for in the cutthroat world of court politics it's moon. and ember is the one who can do that #i love the idea of indigo cloud needing moon to fulfill some diplomatic function and everyone knowing that the only way #to get him to agree is to send ember to point his big sad eyes at him #ember likes to hang out in moon's bower just dressing him up like a doll. moon submits to this with resigned forbearance #if anyone else tries it he bites off their entire head

[shivered-bones]

more than a bit of a stretch, but i love rogue hawke and the completing of the triad of classes amongst the hawke siblings and how this represents each role they play.

carver is the warrior, a protector. he struggles with being under hawke's shadow. he wants to be noticed by his own achievements, he wants to protect people, and most importantly his family. and he's willing to take the hits. carver is impulsive, battle hungry. flashy, powerful, always at the forefront.

bethany is the mage, and she is a whirlwind. her appearance is decieving. it is easy to underestimate her, to mistake her sweetness as passivity, but truly she is fierce, even angry. and yet she is also the glue, the kindness to soothe, heal, the roughness of her family. she keeps them strong.

and hawke as the rogue, the handler of secrets. their main goal is to obfuscate, because the protection of their family can not be earned through brute force alone. their mind is quick, and their methods brutal. maybe they're charming, maybe they're not, either way they hide the hawkes in plain sight.

#dragon age 2 #da 2 #hawke #carver hawke #bethany hawke #when i say a stretch i do mean a stretch #i just adore the idea that no matter what hawke is the more cutthroat and socially intelligent of the three #which really fits into the rogue archetype #i love all hawkes #this is just a thought #and some brainstorming for my own hawke

[notahero76]

something something blackwatch being more-or-less made up of people who were willing to do whatever it took to achieve their goal(s) bc that's gabe's style of doing things and why he probably got passed over for strike commander position (and why he ended up being glad bc he knew he'd be on a tight leash in the post-crisis version of overwatch)

#twilly talks #overwatch #blackwatch #i havent looked at lore in a while so forgive me if anything has already been stated or like. denied #but idk. just #moira is an obvious one #this woman literally got blacklisted for her experiments and joined blackwatch to continue them #genji was willing to do whatever it took to live. to avenge himself. then when all that was left was anger and disgust he just kept going #with the people who let him use that. even if it was for their own purposes #cassidy is a bit different #he was 17 and chose blackwatch over prison #more desperation at the start. but i feel like we see him being very goal oriented. not as cutthroat as his companions #but definitely not completely averse to violence and doing what he has to #gabe ran overwatch during the crisis. he would've had to do anything it took to win #look at retribution. look at him as reaper. #im just. head full of thoughts

[sciderman]

Almost accidentally sent this as a message, Sci how do you actually feel when we’re mean to the boys?

i sustain damage every time the boys do (we are psychically linked, unfortunately)

#sci speaks #I wish it wasn’t true but I inherit all their trauma #usually it’s all in jest!! but sometimes I get really scathing insults towards the boys that actually kind of hurt #the cutthroat anons… please.. mercy … they’re doing their best (so am I)

[arcxnumvitae]

Another one who, despite how he is as a person, I actually think wouldn't be a bad partner at all. For the romantic identity part that have lines I shrugged and feel like it's in that area depending on mood and time. He's more neutral on what he likes in a partner, but once again, that's because his hardline requirements are more pragmatic and aren't really on the list aside from confidence and the like.

#{Daileas Headcanon #{Daileas Games #it's very weird because he's an absolutely cutthroat and cold guy #but not really at all with a partner I feel? #but yes he's indulgent and would sugar baby someone he was romantically involved with