#SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR!

[sophiebaybey]

Not to preach to the choir but I wonder if people generally realize that AI models like ChatGPT aren't, like, sifting through documented information when you ask it particular questions. If you ask it a question, it's not sifting through relevant documentation to find your answer, it is using an intensely inefficient method of guesswork that has just gone through so many repeated cycles that it usually, sometimes, can say the right thing when prompted. It is effectively a program that simulates monkeys on a typewriter at a mass scale until it finds sets of words that the user says "yes, that's right" to enough times. I feel like if it was explained in this less flattering way to investors it wouldn't be nearly as funded as it is lmao. It is objectively an extremely impressive technology given what it has managed to accomplish with such a roundabout and brain-dead method of getting there, but it's also a roundabout, brain-dead method of getting there. It is inefficient, pure and simple.

[michaela-o]

SUGGESTIVE LESBIANS

( minors DNI !!! )

I need them to rearrange my insides🥹

[mikacanica]

my forever and always~

This show was so good. Wish we could've had a season of them dating and being super lovey dovey together but the comics are enough...AND THE FANART HELLSSSS YEAHHHHHHH

[whysoblue2]

Me: "I need to make a Shamura reference." Also Me: "Make them shirtless..."

I am quite happy, it turned out much better than I thought! @thetireddoktor hope it helps! Also, they do have interesting reads right @eliza-forget?

Bonus:

I know, Sozo, I know.

(Ref that funny as hell gif I can't find here omg, the one with the girl)

[askmrtorgue]

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DO YOU WANT WANT TO LEARN TABLETOP RPGS BUT EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO EXPLAIN IT USES THINGS LIKE MATH AND SPREADSHEETS AND YOU CAN'T STOP THEM BECAUSE FATAL SUPLEXES ARE ILLEGAL ON YOUR PLANET?

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NOT ONLY DOES BEN OWN A PAIR OF CAT-EAR HEADPHONES, HE EXCELS AT RIPPING YOUR HEART STRAIGHT OUT OF ITS RIBCAGE USING NOTHING BUT COMPELLING, ROMANCEABLE CHARACTERS AND BADASS EPIC ADVENTURES. IN FACT, EVEN HIS VILLAINS ARE SEXY AS F*CK. JUST CHECK OUT THIS VAMPIRE FROM ONE OF HIS CAMPAIGNS:

THIS MURDER MOMMY IS ABSOLUTELY ABOUT TO KILL ME AND MY ONLY RESPONSE WILL BE TO THANK HER. HER NAME IS THE COUNTESS STRAHD AND SHE IS COLD AS SHE IS HOT. TEMPERATURE PUNS!!!

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OR MAYBE YOU'RE SAYING "F*CK READING, I WANT TO DO CRIMES AND BLOW UP SH*T". AND IF YOU SAID THAT, PLEASE CALL ME SO THAT WE CAN HANG OUT SOMETIME.

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FIGHT OR MAYBE MAKE OUT WITH HOT EVIL VAMPIRES IN CURSE OF STRAHD

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END OF ADVERTISEMENT.

[spacedace]

Had a thought about the Reluctant War and made myself a bit sad and I have no idea if it'll make it into the story proper so I'm going to inflict it upon all you guys:

Dick Grayson on the streets of Gotham trying to do everything he can to help as everyone join the ghosts in fighting the GIW, suddenly has a version of the GAV barreling down towards him and for some reason he can't get out of the way in time.

He thinks he's about to join the army of the dead in a whole new way, when the tank fo a vehicle is suddenly sent flying as something massive charged it from the side. He hears a familiar bellowing and then realizes that it's Zitka, a ghost after passing away peacefully a few years before.

She wasn't apart of the army of the ghosts, wasn't brought in to fight. She's just been following her tiny human child around all these years and now that there's enough ecto in the air to do so, she's going to protect him with all her might.

Dick is emotional, so thankful to have his old friend back, but the city is still in a state of chaos. He gets onto Zitka's back and they get to work, running - flying - around helping to grab the injured and whisk them away to safety or take out other GAVs and the like.

It's absurd and freeing and wonderful all at once to be literally flying through the skies of Gotham on the ghost of his elephant best friend, and if Dick wasn't already on the side of King Phantom he is *now* and -

He gets shot off Zitka's back.

A GIW agent was aiming for the Ghost elephant but somehow *missed* and hit Dick instead. Not enough to injure him too badly, but enough to send him flying off Zitka's back and plummeting to the ground. His grapple is broken, and Zitka is diving for him but she's being shot at and she's not going to make it in time and -

A hand, reaching out to him in midair, familiar with its callouses and strong grip as he reaches out and grasps it, body suddenly swinging in a different direction and muscles acting on memory as he falls into the old, achingly familiar routine of his childhood. His mother, ethereal and bright as she smiles down at him, hanging upside down from a bar suspended from nothing but open sky as they swing and he is let go, flipping on instinct and caught by the steady strong hands of his father.

The Flying Graysons reunited in the skies above Gotham, Dick's ghostly parents determined to ensure their little bird never falls the way they did.

[clowns0cks]

"the ship between the doctor and the master is called thoschei but I think we're trying to change it into best enemies" is a phrase I've seen weirdly often and I'm wondering how many people think best enemies is a new thing. Like. Know your doctor/master history!! Isn't thoschei a relatively recent ship name???? Yes it got popular but the OG has always been best enemies ???

[kiegotakami]

I’m not responding to the person who said this directly because I’m not trying to get in an argument this late when I have to work in the morning, but saying “they didn’t know what to do with bix all season” is to believe this would mean you did not think there was anything interesting or valuable about her storyline, that there was nothing interesting said about war, about how women and refugees are treated, about sacrifice, about faith and hope. having a child is not a failure of writing for her character. I’m not arguing about whether or not this is the most compelling direction they could have taken her, rather that I relate it to katniss’ (thg) ability to overcome and heal. I feel that we knew bix believed that her sacrifice would be worth it if she could commit to it, and that by some sense of the force or by hope she knew she was right.

[jerk-bitch-idjit-assbutt]

Possible reasons why The Thing behaved Like That as opposed to like It Did Before. (Being extremely vague because the twist got spoiled for me and i dont wanna spoil someone else.)

Spoilers for The Well (Doctor who) under the cut!

The entity was young when we first saw it in Midnight. "Young" is obviously relative when talking about aliens, but for the sake of this theory just imagine that it was realtively inexperienced. And like the Doc said in both episodes, it was learning. It learned through mimicking the people in Midnight, it got into the Doctors head and learned some more, and it had 400,000 years to figure out how to do more and create more chaos.

It was always able to do that. We don't actually know what this thing is, we dont know where it came from or what it really wants. All we have are bits and pieces of information that might all be wrong anyway. Maybe it just didn't need to take things to this level the last time, because the people on the train were so easily freaked out. Or maybe it just didn't want to, back then. Maybe it's angrier now after so long alone. Maybe it's lost it's mind. Maybe it's just bored.

It could be a member of the pantheon. It could quite literally be the God of Fear or the God of Paranoia or something. So maybe with the Toymaker and Maestro and Sutehk and Lux all being here, it's more powerful now. Or bolder, more willing to take it's games further. Or it's just excited. (I mean, they did say in this episode that it was laughing. The giggle, anyone? God, new new who is going to succeed in making me fear laughter, isnt it? Every time someone mentions a laugh on this show i just hear ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.)

[buninabottle]

"To regret is to awaken, to grow. To accept a new part of you as yourself, and learn to care for it."

"Like tending a garden."

Roderich smiled. "Just so."

[abominandus]

happy pride month

[voiddrawss]

out of me is the birth of you

[puddingbrainscientist]

y’all the canon of the doctor who idle game is on a whole other level

[budder-tigress]

Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live

I listened to the 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' radioplay again

Literally from day 1 seeing this mf he gave me A.M. vibes

[chamiryokuroi]

Ship wars are ridiculous to me.

What do you mean you got angry because you saw someone playing Barbies in a way you do not like???

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

i see your tim has narcolepsy headcanon and i offer you this: he falls asleep during the titans tower attack and jason's just like. "well now what"

bonus points if it's one of those aus where jason has a conscious or pit madness or whatever and convinces himself tim must be horribly mistreated to start snoring while getting beat up and tim's struggling to get him to understand no dude it's a medical condition my grandpa had it