2343.
and the AI is telling me
to put glue
in my pizza
and the AI is telling me
we should all
eat a rock
and the AI is telling me
gasoline is the spice
and the AI is probably
the next Republican
candidate for president
let's be real
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no but it's so funny that breq and mercy of kalr seem to be working from the same first principles (ships love captains) but breq interprets the "i could be my own captain" thing (which it immediately follows up with "i don't want to be a captain. but i find i like the thought that i could be") as "i don't love you as my captain" instead of "i could be someone you (a former ship) could love…"
i also love the ambiguity of that later scene when ship says it likes seivarden mostly because she loves breq. which you could interpret either as ship liking that seivarden loves breq because ship loves breq (the main interpretation, given that ship loving breq is what the rest of ship's speech is about), or as ship liking that seivarden is a person who can love a ship (and ship is a ship…).
idk just like. mercy of kalr my beloved but also. hilarious breakdown of ship-to-ship communication here. breq is the first captain who used to be a ship, breq is the first (former) ship to have the undying devotion of its human (former) officer, ship is the first ship to have a captain who used to be a ship, ship is the first ship offered the chance to be its own captain, none of this has ever been done before. mercy of kalr is trying to go off-script but breq is still interpreting all its responses according to the figurative Intership Social Schemata and Communication Protocol even though none of the prompts are in the Intership Social Schemata and Communication Protocol! like come on babe YOU'RE the one who asked ship this brand-new question and opened up a whole new universe of existential possibility. meet ship halfway already!!
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I think advice like this is generally good and am aware that me complaining about it will probably be the "why doesn't your post account for my personal circumstances specifically, internet stranger?!" thing people love to make fun of, but nonetheless I can't help but feel bitter because "repeated positive low stakes interaction" for me has almost always fizzled out before it could deepen because the effort is just not worth the reward for either of us and pretty much all my significant friendships have been formed by (a) being approached by someone with enough confidence and extroversion to make "treating a stranger like a best friend" actually work or (b) instant familiarity because we're bonding over a shared interest and our enthusiasm over the topic is more important than how well we know each other or (c) quick recognition of each other as similar personality types and agreement to cut the bullshit and communicate in a way best suited to our type. And the tone of this type of advice always makes me feel like it's saying "the way you do friendship is wrong and you're wrong for thinking it could work, grow up". Which is uncharitable of me, I know op of that post is just trying to be helpful and has been helpful to many people reblogging the post! Still feel bitter about it though.
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It's very interesting trying to find blogs to follow for cherry alive bc like. Things we like: pink, ribbons, flowers, pretty clothes, baked goods, cute things, fairies, feminine stuff, cottagecore aesthetics, etc etc etc
Things we DO NOT like: misogyny, thinspo, 'i'm just a girly girl who needs a boyfriend to take care of me' (and related), traumacore, lana del rey inspired stuff (her music's fine, the way it's been turned into an aesthetic online bothers me), nymphette stuff (Yikes TM), tradwife stuff (extra Yikes TM), etc etc etc
Like a lot of pink themed blogs have content we find viscerally upsetting and completely antithetical to what I'm trying to make this space into. On my former account I saw a lot of posts criticizing the whole "girlblogging girl dinner" thing but I didn't see a lot of the original content they were responding to. Now I've seen it and I do not like it! I like femininity and fairies and flowers and sunshine. One of my deepest desires in a relationship context is actually a dynamic that includes a certain amount of being taken care of. But like. In a chivalrous butch/femme way not a weird 'girls are incompetent' way. I like so many things that are aesthetically adjacent to a lot of stuff I hate, but at the same time completely opposite from it. Because for me it's about healing and embracing joy and whimsy and magic and sunshine and hope and art, and, to a certain extent, how that stuff interacts for me with gender and femininity and finding joy in my femininity again. It's not about this bizarre 'i'm just a weak little girl' and/or 'i'm a violent girl who's cutesy and cruel' or whatever all that nonsense is. It makes me so sad to see honestly. Like. Idk what you're doing, I'm having fun. You should maybe try it too.
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Thinking about current continuity Vanessa and just getting pissed off again
Like one, LET HER REST oh my god dc you ruin her FUCKING life like an asshole only to bring her back as a villain after she finally got out oh my god-
But also like its just so bad. This is a whole other woman with her name like why are we doing this. Like first you kill her mom (JULIA NOOO) and erase her YEARS of history growing up around diana (the thing that actually made her villain turn [if you can call it that w the level of manipulation involved] interesting and fucking heartbreaking) for some shitty "oh I saved you we were friends" run of the mill whatever. Then to use that and say Nessie had a crush on her OWN SISTER (Diana, so like informally adopted, but still 😡) now????
And then they took away her curls and made her a redhead but not even the realistic kind. DC SHE DOESNT LOOK LIKE THAT
It just makes me so mad. Freaking guys. They could have used another name like oh my god. She's not even the first silver swan why the fuck would they do that if they're not going to explore her history w diana (which she no longer has!!!!) or how intensely fucked up everything got for her. What is even the fucking point of this then other to drag a main character of the ww supporting cast through the mud again for genuinely no reason. They could have easily had her be Valerie Beaudry (sorry Val) instead or just MADE UP ANOTHER NAME because it's obvious that no one actually cared about her as a character they just wanted the wondy villain back so like !!!!!!!!!! Why even bother
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get to know me tag
useless info edition
thanks for tagging me @futurelabs!
1. what do you have under your bed?
a few cardboard boxes full of old school books and copies, some board games, a couple pairs of shoes, and a bunch of spider families probably
2. favourite sweet? (be specific if possible)
parma violets mmmmmm i could live off them. luckily i’m the only person i know that likes them, so whenever we open a box of sweets i always get all the packets. i would also kill for dipdabs. AND i adore drumstick squashies
3. describe your favourite t-shirt
a white t-shirt with the can’t stand the rezillos album cover on it. i got it this year from the rebellion punk festival in blackpool. i’ve had 4 occasions where people i’ve never met before approached me and told me they love the band!! so i love it for that lol
4. the last thing you drew/doodled?
i was doodling my goose keychain in class today. it’s this yellow flower one, my friend named him dain. he’s become sort of like our good luck charm 😫
5. are you completely sober right now?
i have had 2 energy drinks worth of caffeine today but that doesn’t count, so yeah. i’ve got three fatfrogs for friday night though, they’re like lemonade vodka drinks, because i’m gonna start watching a new tv series with my dad, which i’m looking forward to!
6. what's the one thing that annoys you more than anything?
i fucking hate umbrellas with a burning rage. every time i touch one they snap in half or turn inside out or rip and i think we should just get rid of them all. they’re the bane of my existence and i would rather walk through a hailstorm than use one.
another thing, and this actually bothers me so much i lost sleep for like 3 days the first time it happened. i like to have my laptop volume at 30. it’s been at 30 for 2 years. after one of the recent updates, it just will not stay at 30??? it always goes down to 29 or up to 31 and will not stay at 30 when i set it there. why can’t i have it at 30??? i just want it to be an even number pleaseee 😫
7. have you ever gotten your tongue stuck to a cold pole during winter?
no and i think if i did it would kill me. i have raynaud’s and just walking outside in the slightest cold breeze causes me to lose all feeling in my hands and feet lmao. hot water bottles are my best friend. if it snows i can barely leave the house for more than 10 minutes
8. if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?
in my bed with my old 3ds and 10 weighted blankets piled on top of me please, or i’d love to take my dog up into the fields behind my house but it’s too wet and i don’t want him to catch a cold. he’s barely taller than the grass and he’s very high maintenance, he’d just demand to be carried.
9. what was the single last word you spoke?
no idea but probably like “bye” or something, when i left my friend
i never know who to tag so i tag you reading this
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