#PLEASE THIS IS JUST SO HEARTBREAKING

[crispywizardtale]

[nicoriice]

no need to ask, he's a smooth operator 🫡

[ladyelainehilfur]

I NEED Kastle to become canon for my growth and development as a person

cuz if Matt and Karen become endgame, I will turn into a villain. Matt already had his chance with her, and he's gone and dated a whole bunch of other women. Karen deserves someone who wants her as desperately as Frank does!!

[cherie-luvv]

Gay people are so dramatic. Like, couldn’t you just express your feelings instead of dying or something? Ugh so dramatic!

[radioactive-yuri]

rip papa nihil and sister imperator both of yall wouldve loved sabrina carpenter

[numberonetribble]

When your love for each other is so great and it becomes something bigger than either of you, oh that's family baby!

[fastianini]

Valentino Rossi & Marc Márquez

[ happy (belated) 9 year anniversary to sepang 2015 aka the one weekend everything went wrong, everything changed and that still haunts motogp to this day <3 ]

history of man by maisie peters

[loumandaniel]

@ amc studios, look me in the eye - let us secretly erase your terrible mayfair witches show and try again! this time we will set it in 1990, as it should have been, and lean into the talamasca as the CIA & cold war, and the satanic panic for the witches. it’s crazy how badly you fumbled this show, amc. but, i can fix it! give me a shot!!

[lostmf]

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

Please don’t ever become a stranger who’s laugh I could recognize anywhere

…

Why did you ..

[dimsilver]

💧

[bumblingbabooshka]

The fact that when Milchick reduced his words/himself down to the barest bones he could the only thing left to say was the viciously paradoxical imperative: 'Grow.' over and over and over again

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls

Synopsis

The Doctor decides to test how good Missy has become by sending her on a trial run with Bill and Nardole. However, when things go wrong, the Doctor takes over. With Bill trapped in a different time zone, can the Doctor make it to her before it is too late, and who are all those people getting cured?

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Heaven Sent

Synopsis

As if the death of his best friend wasn't enough, the Doctor's situation has only gotten worse. What initially started as an attempt to help clear someone of a false murder charge has evolved into to something much worse.

Now trapped in an old rusty castle in the middle of an ocean, the Time Lord is being stalked by a mysterious creature that only pauses when he gives up his deepest secrets. What does this thing want? And can the Doctor escape and find his way back home?

Propaganda no propaganda submitted  

[alexandria-alexis]

I can’t stress enough how goddamn disgusting it is to see verstappen.com using AI. It’s not the first time something like this has happened, what with the f1 racing teams’ media admins posting AI way too many times previously, but seeing it from verstappen.com is just… so goddamn heartbreaking.

Going back to the Team Admin’s using AI generated art, I’m not going to stay silent any more. The way they posted AI as if fans wouldn’t be commissioned for free- not that they couldn’t AFFORD to pay them anyway. The way they didn’t listen to what we were saying, team after team doing the same disgusting shit ignoring us and posting it more because it was a ‘trend’. It’s so fucking wrong. AI is trained and being trained even as I type this to steal other people’s art and incorporate it into this shit, people who work so goddamn hard. I didn’t sit through a three year old art and design course that I photographed and painted my ass off in just for verstappen.com and the formula one team media admins to mock me, as well as all of you other creative people out there. That’s what it is, it’s mockery.

I’m not going to stay silent about it anymore. My dream was to be a screenwriter and I gave up. When companies that I respect in a sport that I adore who have the money to pay for artwork use AI it feels like an actual physical slap in the face. Every time I see it I feel like crying. Their jobs won’t be taken away, but for writers like myself the plagiarism has already started. If they carry on then we won’t win this and creative people will be forced out of work.

And if you do repost someone’s art respect them enough to fucking credit them. Especially if they posted it for free.

[m0dernv4mpire]

something real quick

[good-beanswrites]

My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:

(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.

It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.

(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)

In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.

The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.

The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.

The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)

Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.

Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.

The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)

Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.

It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.

[moonlightsapphic]

Not Ms. Zolita calling Fletcher’s depiction of bisexual cultural dysphoria (a well documented phenomenon) a “strange inversion” 😭😭😭 + saying “stream out lesbian artists” and then including Lucy Dacus and Janelle Monae (who both openly identify as bi/pan).

The Freudian slip of it all. 💀