#She cares for Data so much;;;

[orcelito]

Being in a data governance class makes it so weird to watch the shit that tech giants are continuously pulling. I see them mass data scraping for AI training and I'm like. But Wait. What about GDPR??? Hello??? User privacy and right to access/correct/delete??? I know that's an EU thing but other places have their own data protection acts too!!! And they're pulling these moves that communicate such flagrant disrespect and irresponsibility for the handling of user data.

In the IT courses I've taken, they've taught us something that's really stuck with me: "Just because we can doesn't mean we should."

My data governance professor keeps emphasizing that as IT personnel, we will need to have a much higher sense of integrity than most other fields bc we have access to SO MUCH SHIT. IT and tech industries are so under-regulated bc of how relatively new it all is and how slow the law moves. But people in charge of handling user data should keep in mind that this is data about Real People, and capitalizing off of it is a violation of privacy.

But tech giants don't care. They'll keep poking and prodding, trying to capitalize off of users' data in order to earn as much money as they can. Data regulations like GDPR exist, but they don't cover everyone, and tech giants are more of "Do First, ask forgiveness later". Or in this case, pay the fines later. Bc if they violate GDPR, they Will be paying fines. And maybe they'll even change the way they handle the data... for EU citizens.

The rest of us are fucked tho. Tech giants really don't care. They just view us as assets to profit off of.

[danielnelsen]

update: peach is doing very well!! she's eating and sleeping normally (sleeping more than normal, really, but that's to be expected)!! after 3 days of not sleeping and a few changes in painkillers, she finally just napped for an hr then, after another day, slept through the whole night (and most of the next day). she's started following all her usual routines again and is very keen to eat! still on some painkillers, but they're not having any horrific side effects anymore

now that im not staying up to keep an eye on her all night (while also dealing with upgrading my computer and my phone and also my sister preparing to go overseas and the dogs barking and howling constantly due to all of the above), i finally got some decent sleep too and slept for about 14 hrs. so today ive got that weird shakiness that i get from sleeping too much, but hey it's better than the whole of the last week

[arolesbianism]

Some more concept designs but this time for two guys I’ve never talked abt before oops

[kenobihater]

just saw a fic tagged both as a #fix-it fic (for the noncanon gay pair) and as #widowed character (implying the character's beloved canonical wife died somehow). motherfucker, spousal death is NOT a fix-it! STOP fridging women just bc you find them inconvenient for their husbands' relationship statuses!! give me lavender marriages, infidelity, miscommunication, polycules, or any other form of complex dynamic but for the love of GOD stop killing them off for the combined benefit of avoiding unconventional and/or uncomfortable dynamics and also allowing you to focus on that sweet sweet man pain in your shitty fic. the next person to do this owes every wife on earth $500

[ednaeflowers]

omg i am translating stuff from the zesty JP script, and edna's default outfit is literally named "a girl who loves her brother" in the og japanese text 😭😭

i want to make it into a headcanon that she wanted to wear flower motifs into her attire to represent how she loved collecting flowers when e.izen took her outside to play when she was a kid 🤔 the other reason, i want to think, is maybe that flowers are elegant and ladylike, therefore tying quite nicely into her desire to be visually presented like a lady. i enjoy playing with the idea that she wanted to be like a lady in the first place because ladies are graceful and composed, something that she wanted to invoke in order to steel her own heart from being too vulnerable or open after e.izen left home. it was her own way of being emotionally stronger.

[neomedievalist]

rereading ep7 is really strengthening my willness (will illness) because everyone remembers the scene where will kisses jessica's hand but i forgot that right afterwards it says

"Will had returned the greeting in what he thought was a perfectly serious way" 😭 😭 HE DIDNT EVEN REALIZE WHY SHE WAS EMBARASSED? THIS IS NORMAL TO HIM?

[youredyingthatsallthereis]

yall those succulents were all brown and crunchy when a friend gave them to me in june i am ao thrilled theyre so happy now 🥹🥹🥹 and BOTH my elderly orchids (their names are agatha and dorothy) are going to flower!!! dorothy has two flowering stalks coming in!!!!

[emmodii-mode]

Me, wanting to go for the Verda route, but having characters who would either call the agency to scrap his research, or wouldn't fail to corrupt it...

_(:l」∠)_

Fuck me for having smart characters and/or cautious characters. 😂

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also it's something (better) like, the exercise of deliberately [art imitates life imitates art] holding up Billions to My IRL Things Perspective and going like whaaat would i want for winston. first answer is you want any character to not have been within the scope of the show in the first place, and to exit it since they are. and you kind of get that in the accidental reward in banishing winston, since like in the end it's just that the show doesn't care about him existing at that point But like it's winston sitting there quietly as everyone leaves & turns out the lights & Then he can leave too; others have peaced out & nobody remembers he exists so Now he can go off & do whatever.

but like in true form i think they definitely accidentally baked in another divine reward for winston in that, like, the way he's kept around as fodder for these fun little [pov: enjoy abusing this guy] asides with him, where it Just So Happens that he's autistic as something they're unaware of but is completely relevant to the expectation we understand him to be inferior(tm), it Just So Happens that he's also ""bad"" at not ""causing"" abuse to be turned on him. he's ""bad"" at staying in line. like well yes Yes that's what i want for him. just like In Real Life it's like yeah Ideally i'd want people to be able to extricate themselves from where they're trapped in power structures & i'd want them to have the perspective about it of understanding they're not Inferior / i.e. they are as much a person as anyone else and they're not corrupting everything good / i.e. it wasn't them Bringing It Upon Themselves and it's not them being Destructive by toppling a jenga tower of a hierarchy that happened to be pressing down on them. and winston is the kind of [the ruinerrrrrr] who is Turned On exactly because he keeps acting like someone who's on the verge of breaking out of the [being in line] someone demands of him as autist, employee, whatever other supposed manifestations of [inferior]

like in the 5 second stretches in which winston's allowed to speak before retaliation, it's because he's like "matter of factly" delivering whatever Information that's useful for another plotline. then he Brings It Upon Himself by making people aware that he's Also existing in his own right as a person rather than what they think serves their own deal / what they want from him at all times, perhaps by expressing his personality (didn't appeal to them! so it was Wrong) or not b/c of anything in particular said or done at present, just b/c people have a constant / accumulating contempt for him so their being in the same room as him & able to see & hear him is already dangerous. the [we're just seeing Any Abusive Dynamic in action] continuing apace.

and it's like, well, right there. he's written as acting like someone who doesn't blame himself for how he's treated, which billions frames as being Rude & Mean, and so too does everyone's abusers lmfao like and that these are his moments that are written to be Bringing It Upon Himself. and it's like hell yeah he doesn't blame himself. hell yeah that his self-esteem can manifest as anger at all. hell yeah that he keeps expressing himself with personality & confidence & doesn't even disguise his having been hurt, & it's this [his ass is Not grey rocking] that billions frames as both him "causing" his abuse & making that abuse "successful" lol, wrow just like real life!! and when like speaking of real life yeah it's not "bad" that people Do engage in strategies to mitigate & survive, including things like blaming themselves or being too "boring" to be anything but a non dialogued background character b/c that's all that goes unpunished, it's bad b/c it's done to them at all, not [ohh they're doing it to themselvesss] and like i'm asking myself like Ideally. what do i want Ideally. and i'd want winston to know that it's being Done To Him & i'd want him to find as much room for his personhood & autonomy as possible. and that's basically how he's written anyways, and billions hates that like You See this is why he deserves it this is why he's doing it to himself. and i'm like my god if that's not Inspiration for like "so what if people don't find you Personally Likable" and not preemptively holding back all personality or anything that'd draw attention as if you exist as a person in your own right & not something that only either gets in the way of or serves their wants of a Real person (someone with more power) like hell yeah you have him out here doing it =']

another fun addendum is like, billions isn't getting into it much b/c it doesn't seem to care much about "what if some people were peers & seem to have a genuine, recipcrocal relationship?" but that it just so happened to be like "oh tuk as the next closest loser who deserves it might be nice to winston" while it's framing winston as the "worse" Loser as being....unconditionally supportive of tuk. while the one downside of billions Also giving bentuk as much as it is is that it also inevitably has that shadow of "but ben is Superior to tuk" and like that it's correct that everyone encourages tuk to Stop Bringing It Upon Himself and start being less of a loser; it's wrong for winston to be like hey let's go have a foursome. like yeah probably don't make a list of the women you work with you'd be dtf but it's not like i'm convinced "ah billions and it's strong anti misogyny stance like" roflmao and billions is Not reflecting on "the downsides of unconditional support?" there when winston was beaten up for criticising taylor earlier like we WILL take his ideas while looting his [beaten unconscious] body there but he WAS wrong to express them as though he's BETTER than taylor!!! mafee's beautiful show of loyalty in kicking his ass even when he might agree with the argument and then benefit when it's adopted by taylor anyways! so it's as usual actually purely based on hierarchy & who gets to be in charge of people. it's correct for ben to be in charge of tuk, unless he has to step aside for that bizarre dead-end subplot about how it's tuk's fault if he's treated badly, b/c it's really his own Failure to have Confidence to know he has good ideas [raising our voice to deliver this message over the sound of breaking desks and chairs and computer monitors over winston because he had the confidence to act like he deserved to talk to someone and because he knows his ideas efforts & results are good & valuable around there] like. and isn't it sooo fucked up to talk about who you're dtf in the episode that has it be neutral if your boss is dtf & lets you know but is nice about it (and you're already Correctly tending to their ego, which you're responsible for!) like hey no possible problem! it's not even so much of a problem for a boss man to have the sex they're entitled to & be rude about their leveraging their power in that acquisition that it Stays a problem into the next season. ew, winston is Known (Inferred) Dtf??? we'll use it to exploit His vulnerability, exacerbate it, & punish him further for good measure in another episode that just revels in abuse & violation with a sexual aspect once again, but like, hey tuk don't do that, winston's such a Bad Influence for being like, shrug, kneejerk intervening with the Good Friendship where the One In Charge leaps in & Tells tuk the Correct thing to do. obviously there's also the tragedy that billions will Never let winston push back against Real Winners like rian or taylor in A Way That Matters (actually gets in their way at all) lol like. one thing that would have really been fun, winston should've literal kneejerk started physically fighting wags in either pertinent scene in 7x03 for real 110%. i wouldn't be like Gasp Violence Is Never The Answer if he just hit someone to hit them b/c fuck you. or broke anything on his way out etc etc. billions would Never let him. which is the other side of the same coin of [why he should get to]

tl;dr how great that winston's being "out of line" means he's basically always noticeably flouting & rebelling against the [He Deserves Abuse] agenda lol. that IS what i want. his being "beyond hope" like ohhh he's sooo stupid he doesn't realize how much he has the bad tastes & wrong interests & annoying personality He Will Always Be This Way like hell yeah!!! billions like oh no winston's personhood will never stay tamped down & locked away such that some godawful person tolerates keeping him in their inventory :( ohhh the ABA will never work :( that's right!!!!!!!!!! although they're not sad about it because it's about relishing the promise there will always be True Inferiors you can enjoy abusing with your righteous power over, but like well you wrote him escaping anyways even while dragging other "better" characters into standing around to serve axe's need for more than 1.8 employees and [crickets, reverberating cough, sneaker scuff] like. another ""wrong"" thing for winston to do, another thing for him to not "deserve," which is itself godawful actually lol like lord what it "rewards" its Good, Deserving characters with, no thanks. meanwhile winston's punishment is that he's autistic and """bad""" at being abused like lmfao good for him, fantastic for him, just what i want

[hahafucksewingmachines]

if you want to hold one accountable, hold the rest accountable

[meliohy]

ok ok I talked to a colleague and now all's good. I'm motivated af for the interview this afternoon. I'm getting that fucking job. Everyone wants me to get that job anyway. I'm done being nice now I'm letting them know they better give me that job and sign the papers in the next month else I'm quitting. Good luck with finding yet another engineer to work in the middle of nowhere when you're already struggling to hire 💅

[pierswife]

I miss my wife, Tails

I miss her a lot

[oathofpromises]

Stella winced as she felt his lips softly brush her wrist and absorb her aether. It felt like her entire soul was being gradually ripped from her body, but she had to endure it with her teeth clenched. She knew Data would cease to take any more from her at the earliest sign of pain. The greater the amount of aether that left her body, the more difficult it got to stay awake. She was the warrior of light, so consequently she had plenty of it to go around, but that didn't stop the anguish she was feeling.

The Au Ra could hear locals mumbling about how insane this was, or peering at Data like he was a monster. He had contributed so much to keep the first people safe that he even went out of his way to create a home here. The second he was bitten, all of them had all but turned their backs on Data. The kindness they showed now turned to fear, thus did they start treating him like a full on Sun Eater. There was still so much good left in him. Stella only wished everyone else could see that too.

Perhaps she was native, merely delaying the inevitable, as the people here would tell her. There’s no treatment for turning into a Sin Eater, or at least nothing that anyone had found. The pink-haired woman had been seeking an answer since the moment Data was bitten. It had gotten so bad one night the Exarch had to carry the warrior to her quarters. Stella, struggled at first, wanting only to focus on finding a cure, but he persisted that she rest. It made her feel sick to her stomach how everyone was so calm about this yet seeing Data in pain caused her heart to ache.

'I know you want to assist him, Stella, but you can't do it alone. I'm here to support you.'

Those were the Exarch's last words before embarking for Amh Araeng. He was concerned about sending her off to see Data alone, but he trusted her to return safely. It was obvious that he was also very worried about Data. Condemning himself for the brunet's current dilemma. It was supposed to function as another escort mission. Data, Lyna, and a few guards were assigned with the responsibility of safeguarding the Exarch. Stella trusted them to return safely, but the agony she felt in her heart when she saw Data bleeding on one of the hospital beds.

At that moment, after Data had consumed a large amount of aether, she observed a guilty reflection in his irises. It didn't help that the people were murmuring their opinions about the situation. The Au Ra tried to reach out for Data but became disoriented. It took everything she could not to pass out on the spot. Tesleen's voice called out for Data as the brunet fled out of the area. It was at this point when Sin eaters became more prevalent, which spelled peril for her best friend.

"Data…wait…don't go…" groaned Stella as she stumbled forward, trying to grasp out to his departing body.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as the warrior began to fall backwards. Instead of her back hitting the ground, she felt two strong arms grasp her. Her vision hazy, she looked up to see the Exarch's hooded face. It was difficult to distinguish, but it appeared that he was calling her name, despite how hard that was to hear with how muffled everything was to the woman right now

"Exarch, please let go of me..It's highly dangerous for anyone to be out there alone, so I need to find him." Stella's voice broke, she was trying so hard to keep her cool but losing it at the notion of Data getting wounded or worse. He was entirely capable of defending himself, but that didn't stop the anguish from developing inside her chest.

'I cannot let you travel out there in this state, Stella. Any Sin Eater miles away can pick up your aether.' The Exarch spoke as he held Stella close. Despite her best efforts, the Au Ra could feel the world turning dark. The Exarch lifted her carefully and carried her to a nearby cot. He laid her down before taking the injured wrist and kissing it. Even without seeing his eyes, it was clear he was beyond worried about the warrior of darkness.

'My Lord… Data shouldn't be out there alone,' Tesleen said, concern visible in her eyes. Aside from them, she was one of the few people that still cared about Data. It didn't bother her that he had been bitten by a Sin Eater. It was the same young man who had aided them so many times before.

'Tesleen..I'm concerned as to what transpired here. I can surmise how Stella got this way, but I need someone who was present when it happened to clarify.'

Tesleen darted a glance out the door, where Data stood alone and terrified. He needed someone to bring him back, or else the Sin Eater would take over. Everyone's process was unique, but one thing stayed constant: pain was a trigger. Some became numb to it, while others consumed it. Nodding, the woman took a seat nearby, trying to figure out how to explain what all had occurred.

Stella winced as she awoke hours later, clutching her bandaged wrist. When she looked around, she saw that she was now laying down on the bed. Where had the Exarch vanished to? She didn't waste any time in grabbing her weapons and rushed for the entrance. Only there did the Exarch intervene and put a halt to her activities.

'Stella..' As he extended out for her hand, his voice was worried. His words were soft, yet she could sense his emotions behind them even without seeing the Exrach eyes.

"I'll be fine…he's my best friend…I need to bring him back." Her tone was compassionate, yet she spoke with the same conviction she always did. The warrior let out a surprised gasp when she felt her body being pulled towards him. The Exarch grasped her face gently, almost like he were grasping a precious treasure.

'Return safely, both of you.'

Stella took a step away from the Exarch, smiling sweetly before turning and sprinting out into the desert. Unknown to her, the leader of Crystrium felt his heartbreaking, yet again he had to stay behind while she fought for this world. This time it was to save Data..if anyone could bring him back, it would be her. It was obvious to everyone just how deeply she cared for the other. Hand gripping the staff, he reached up and touched his chest. Holding back tears at, her form retreated into the desert. Hours had passed since Data had fled, so any traces he had left behind would be completely and swiftly covered by now. Fortunately, the warrior knew him well, and recalled that he only went to a few places around here.

Data please..don't go where I can't follow...you are not a monster.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[sateurn]

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These sobs really limited my tags?????

I have so many more thoughts this is so so much less than 1/2. Broski. Big dislike

[girls-and-honey]

my boss just said ‘manifesting this for us’ in the group chat and she’s being 100% serious