#what was i supposed to do? not buy them?

[nottheweirdest]

Me: I'm broke 😭

Also me: SONIC AND SHADOW SQUISHMALLOWS??!? *buys them immediately*

#im actually a kid w grownup money 🤣 #treat yo self right? #right? 😅 #sonadow #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #squishmallow #what was i supposed to do? not buy them? #holly rambles 🙃 #and needs her credit card taken away apparently 🤣

[otaku553]

Quite frankly still obsessed with the three of them

A little procrastination doodle

#one piece #portgas d ace #sabo #monkey d luffy #it’s 5 am and I do not have the time to be spending on procrastination doodles but that is neither here nor there #ft. my headcanons for their outfits as kiddos but not really because I think this is pretty close to canon #oversized jacket for sabo because I refuse to believe he has worn the same clothes after being a runaway for at least a few years #like kids grow so fast and I can see undersized jacket for that as well but I feel like undersized would just be uncomfy and restricting #straw hat is definitely too big for 7 year old luffy so I hc it goes around his neck more often than not #or sabo or ace gets annoyed at luffy for having his eyes blocked all the time while they’re fighting each other or hunting so they #eventually get luffy to wear it around his neck more #also you can’t convince me that the fuzz on luffy’s shorts is like… actual fur #I think it’s more like very frayed edges of denim if you know what I mean #ace with baggy pants because it’s what he deserves. baggy pants ftw #also probably bigger pockets for his pickpocketing #sabo complains about noble clothes like girls complain about small pockets #‘what are they even supposed to hold. why are they so tight. this is just them trying to get us to buy expensive bags’

[warningsine]

GIRLS5EVA • Summer Dutkowsky

#girls5eva #girls5evaedit #summer dutkowsky #gloria mcmanus #busy philipps #wickie roy #dawn solano #sine's gifs #does Summer know that Bette Davis "tried being a lesbian” and that Crawford tried to seduce her multiple times? the audiobooks probably #didn't cover that <3 #also it would have been topical had she mentioned something about tatu--larry sounds as gross as ivan. #she could have commented on the hypocrisy. the girls pretended to be gay to sell their first album abroad. #meanwhile in local interviews they'd say 'we are normal and have boyfriends.' one of them is openly homophobic supports putin and has run #for office. #anyway i know the series has no such intentions and sum is supposed to be a good/supportive sister but #that doesn't mean I don't think she would benefit from dating a lady now that she is independent/her own person #(preferably gloria but honestly any lady would do) #it wouldn't be hard to buy given that she hasn't had the opportunity to explore her sexuality what with the purity rings and upbringing #// #i wanted to add more moments but eh

[tears-of-boredom]

ok so...I wouldnt call myself necessarily "artistically talented", and I famously am very bad at perspectives.. but i drew a thing for @bearotonin-international

#2 hours of my life well spent id say.. #and brown bear's little drawing is supposed to be Brown bear + Panda bear. but i realise that both initials fit at least two different #bears. so you can honestly interpret it as you want.. #i didnt realise how hard drawing uno cards would be.. my notes app wouldnt zoom more and my fingers arent small enough for that.. #but actually they do look pretty good from farther away.. #also my imagining is that they cant buy furniture. because they're bears. so they have to make do with what they find.. #and that polar bear in the front is playing tetris and losing.. #also literally only that brown bear in the back is doing actual work lmao.. #and sorry for making them all look so tiny. its really hard to draw a realistically proportionate bear.. #my art

[saltyfryz]

#my art #xpaucard #stardust!sans #cloud!papyrus #i wanted to add the rest of my skeleton crew buy i couldn't fit the rest in #so ill just describe what i wanted them doing #well #i didn't have have an idea for Topaz cypher and hyde #but Patch was supposed to be hiding in the tree while Stickers tried getting him down #Retro would be laughing at them #and Plum would be chugging eggnog in the corner

[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

[zooophagous]

Ok who the fuck had the idea to make those stupid teensy tiny little panty liners the size of a thumb. Who can use these. They absorb almost literally nothing. And why does everyone who ever stocks a bathroom seem to think they're adequate. I know you bleed from your crotch too Janelle you can't tell me this is enough for you either.

#literally have always hated these fucking things lol #stop buying them for the shared bathroom get a normal sized item for humans i am begging you #what am i supposed to do string like 7 of these together

[avianii]

someone needs to tell my brother that he needs to stop buying credit cards and actually start buying shit with the credit cards that isnt other credit cards.

#oh and also to STOP BUYING ME CREDIT CARDS #WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS AND WHOS MONEY IS THKS???? #anii's random thoughts #can't even activate them bc I forgot my ssid 💀

[monotone-artist]

naming layers is my passion

[id: screenshot of drawing layers on clip studio paint. the first layer is named "Layer metal pipe noises1 Copy," the second layer is "shad/dhead body," third is "BLOOOOD," and the last one is just "bg." end id]

#this is supposed to be an angsty drawing #monotonepost #im making a maria lives au where shadow beats that one gun soldier to death #(u could probably guess what he used. glances at the layer names) #then he jettisons both himself and maria to earth and proceeds to pull an aang and freeze the both of them in time for 50 years #either that or he freezes just maria in order to buy time to save her from dying from her sickness #cause im thinking that around the time of the GUN raid she rlly starts to decline #not sure which i wanna do yet #anyway goodnight everypony #there's a cat on my lap. she also says goodnight

[soumarhea]

Loving fictional characters like

#fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #sundrop #moondrop #fr tho why am I buying so many bells #what am I suppose to do? tie them to all my stuffs?? #next thing I know I'm gonna buy ribbons too just to tie the bells to my wrists

[nerdie-faerie]

Currently thinking about the last time I met up with my college friends, and we went around the table reintroducing ourselves with names and pronouns, cus it gets like that. And every time it would come around to me, I would deflect and distract instead of answering because I hadn't actually figured it out yet. It's coming up on a year since then, I still have no idea what the answer would be

#Queer gang #it was literally this time last year cus it was the last time i went home for winter break that i saw them all #i panicked and got distracted the first time i was supposed to introduce myself despite the fact theyre the last people who would judge #but were a bunch of very easily distracted fckers so it wasnt even that noticeable that i hadnt answered at first #but then one of them realised id never actually introduced myself and i cant even remember how i changed the topic #but someone would always realise in the middle of someones story so id just redirect the attention to what we were already discussing #to buy myself time to think but i never actually came up with an answer and im stuck on a coach rn so my brain has all this time to think #and im just. its been a year since that incident its been several years since i started to think maybe my gender didnt entirely fit #but every time i try to figure it out like a puzzle like i did with my sexuality the first time i realise i dont really have an answer #its not that i feel that something else would fit better and i cant figure out why it doesnt feel right in the first place #is it because i was raised hyperfeminine despite growing up predominantly around brothers? #is it because tradition gender roles dont fit anyway when yoyre queer because so much of gender is tangled up in sexuality? #is it because im taking too much of a theoretical/whatever approach to it when i know gender is predominantly a social construct? #is it because its just not that deep and i dont care? or do i care and i just havent figured it out yet? idk

[captainbasch]

I thought I would take some time today to gather some flower refs for ffxiv prints, specifically flowers that matched the colors of job stones/soul crystals and BOY did it take a literal 3 hours to get all of them a match @ A @ ; and some of them are reaching LOL Like you want to find me a GREY, SEAFOAM, or GREEN HELLO? flower - too bad I did it already - but G O D. Some of the choices were like "oh wow, this flower matches the color and vibe of DRG perfectly. It even looks like a little snowflake to give Ishgard imagery and its spiky like the end of a lance!" but my favorite ones were "Oh GNB is yellow and mimosas are yellow and they're my fave, so :)" Hardest finds were NIN, MCH, and SAM T v T but i did it in the end. Everyone's got a flower match and hopefully I'll have enough drive to actually make these after all of this work LOL

#they were supposed to be really simple like here is a flower wreath around your job icon and a block of color #and now it's like HERE IS A SPECIFIC FLOWER MATCHING THE COLORS OF YOUR SOUL STONE AND ALSO MAYBE the symbol itself is the same kind of #material as the actual Soul Stone and well maybe it'll be FULL COLOR PAINTS instead of flat #so we'll see what i decide to do because i am super lazy but i've been wanting to do Job prints for ages now #i plan for them to be 4x4 prints u can put in 6x6 frames for a fun gallery effect if you buy all your fav jobs

[yellowvixen]

Well. Did not mean to buy these but now I have these guys I guess fkgjghdgd

#saw mecha sonic blacked out and bought this LOL #THEYRE 10CM TALL I DONT HAVE ROOM FOR THEM!!!! IDK WHERE TO PUT THEM WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW AFKGKGJDHS #the shop also had talking sonic 2 plushies but like. i dont have room 😭 #sth #vixentalks #i should make a tag just for the stupid sonic shit i buy skdfjdhd

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The Great SCA Garage Sale is coming up (formally known as Kris Kinder) and I have pinky promised not to buy fabric at Kris Kinder. I already have a lot of fabric. In fact, I have donated quite a bit of my fabric stash (34 yards plus various fleece pieces barely made a dent) for the Barony's fundraiser at Kris Kinder. I have told the person driving me to Kris Kinder not to let me back into the car if I am carrying fabric I bought at Kris Kinder. I WILL NOT BUY FABRIC AT KRIS KINDER.

Anyway this past few days (not kris kinder) i got a pretty great haul of fabric.

#my posts #letter of the law-ing myself #listen! #what was I supposed to do! #i went to a town i rarely go to #and there was a CRAFT EXCLUSIVE THRIFT SHOP #and they had ENTIRE SECTIONS for WOOL and LINEN #YES i bought eleven yards plus three for my twin #I'm gonna use them! #very soon! #YES i also bought three yards at a different thrift store #its gonna make a really nice warm overskirt! #or maybe a nice full length cloak! #anyway I can very safely not buy fabric at kris kinder

[randomnameless]

The more I think about it, the claim Edelgard wants to be a goddess/replace the goddess from Dimitri and Seteth makes more sense. Her believing only she can fix the world's problems, believing the world is too sinful because of "those eeevil lizard people", crushing anyone who dares oppose her and seeing human sacrifices as a means to an end/collateral damage. Heck you can see her war as a rapture and those who don't agree with her burn for a thousand years or in the case get killed/vanquished. And after her war if she wins, then she reforms a church under her name and in Nopes she does the exact the same thing after getting rid of the Slithers with Rhea. And considering how cultish her stans irl behave while trying to claim that they're "good people", yeah it all clicks.

The thing is,

The "Goddess" or at least what we know/heard of her didn't even act like Supreme Leader did.

Sure, sources on Sothis's time in Fodlan are biased, either we're told anything about her by Rhea, or by the Mole People.

But I agree, the game gives us some clues about what Supreme Leader wants to be, at least in Tru Piss. With her Manu support, she becomes the figure people look up to and aspire to be, the source of strength the Goddess and the CoS previously were. You also have the explore sections in the monastery, and how she's found where Rhea used to be when she was doing her archbishop things (the audience chambers iirc?), the CoS being "reformed under her supervision" and the final straw on the camel's back is her ending mural.

The rest is her messiah complex - partly fueled by Adrestian nationalism - and her stubborness, Supreme Leader will walk on her path and refuse to look back or even reconsider, no matter the obstacles standing before her, you are either on her side, or an obstacle needing to be removed.

As for the irl devoted fans, lol, I won't consider their behaviour in an analysis of the character, but if we are to talk about the BESF in Nopes, they are also sure they're doing a favor to the world/Fodlan while ignoring a good part of said Fodlan. Nopes!Ferdie comes to mind, with his nonsense about the Kingdom having more crusted generals, or the general fuckery that is the alliance with the Federation, or people being gung ho and looking forward to sack the monastery/cities/Faerghus to earn some fame.

#anon #replies #what i like about supreme leader is her supposed charisma #sure it doesn't work at all if you take into consideration the world and think from a doylist and even watsonian angle #but in the end the games especially nopes portray how the usually attentive BESF suddenly turn their brain on off mode #whenever they join Supreme Leader even if her words don't match what the world is telling them #something like you can buy anything from someone who knows how to talk #with all the issues and questions this raises of course #I also like how her determination that is usually a good trait #is shown here in excess to be something negative #at least in AM #funny how both Willy and Supreme Leader had a strong will that Rhea notices #but their drive was most likely different even if on paper they achieved the same thing #both Supreme Leader and Claude strike me in the games as people who want to win over people's hearts #be the one they love and revere instead of the supposed Church #but they don't know how to do it #FE16 #3 Nopes

[acaiyatree]

ong i'm so tired of collecting comics and yet i still DO!!! what is my PROBLEM!!!

#i'm so fucking tired of having to arrange them guys oh my god yall have no fucking idea #WHY DO I KEEP BUYING COMICS OH MY GOD. WHY AM I STUPIDLY OBSESSED. I'M SO TIRED OF FIXING EVERYTHING. I DON'T EVEN HAVE SPACE FOR THESE #SILLY ASS FLOPPIES NO MORE WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO DO #I HAVE SUCH A SMALL ASS ROOM WITH EVEN SMALLER CAPACITY FOR STORAGE WHAT AM I DOING?!????! #i am so pissed at myself broskis #the claws of unnecessary consumerism has gotten to me i want this to STOP #i have no PLACE TO PUT THEM IN