#Text to Voice Generator

[paintedcrows]

He may be a God, but I am a Scientist

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[teemdark]

I'm so ready to fight my worst enemy (dad)

[tpup]

toxic trait: Im bad at sexting

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A gift horse for @piosplayhouse

[lavendervirgos]

men whimpering and moaning, gripping the sheets and gasping for air. That's it. That's the post.

[reunitedinterlude]

lofi phantasy: the album

track 1: lazy saturday

[laughtalelogs]

just discovered zosan doujinshi

see y’all in 7 business days brb I gotta binge

[tanadrin]

the things which i think are harmful about social media are not specific apps, and short of banning all social media including tumblr (functionally impossible at this juncture), select bans of individual apps are not going to substantially mitigate those harms.

the only way to really deal with the problems of social media is for the culture to develop better discursive antibodies to the kinds of bullshit which spreads on social media--very old forms of bullshit, as a rule, which have diversified a little bit in the new environment, but which are not deeply ontologically different from the kinds of bullshit that led people to do believe stupid nonsense in any other era of human history--and for people to get better at messaging through and around social media. this is essentially the same thing that has had to happen in response to the rise of every form of mass media throughout history, though, and i think it's easy, when confronted by the challenges of a particular form of mass media, to overstate the ways in which this particular form is uniquely toxic or uniquely dangerous.

and fifty or a hundred years on from the introduction of many new forms of media and entertainment, more sober reflection has often lead us to realize that the arch terms in which we framed the dangers of those new forms were wildly overblown, and were as much the product of older generations' small-c conservatism and disdain for anything young people liked as they were for any actual social ills those new forms produced. there are a lot of millennials, on bluesky and elsewhere, who seem to think that they could never turn into grouchy old farts who reflexively disdain anything new that doesn't appeal to them, and i think they are probably incorrect in that assumption.

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Ever since I returned, there's been a filth in me. I feel it in my very lungs. I cannot get it out - it will never out, this death that reeks within me. There are some things even the Moonmaiden cannot heal. There are some things she would never accept in her devoted. I should never have come back

Isobel's VA Mia Foo appeared as a guest on the Jen & Aliona BG3 stream here (YouTube VOD here) and, among other things, did a little dramatic reading of the diary you can find in Isobel's room in Last Light Inn. So of course I'm clipping it and adding it to my Isobel voice lines collection. This is as clean as I could get it considering it's being recited into a PS5 controller mic while the game goes on in the background, but honestly I feel the music and sound effects add a nice atmosphere.

[fernsproutxx]

WAIT FUCK DUDE I JUST REALIZED THAT ALL MY WIP PAGES OF THE “THAT UNIQUE PLACE” COMIC ARE INSIDE MY DEAD TABLET FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK—

AND MY ANIMATIONS TOO I’M—

[vaguely-concerned]

illario was so right... this one traumatized crow boy really can contain such a universe of pure and childlike wonder at the mere existence -- the concept! -- of wyverns. even through the horrors

[wildsaltair]

I’d like to thank Maximus Decimus Meridius for inventing loyalty and emotional intelligence and devotion and goodheartedness. and also sex

[radley-rambles]

I don't understand people who say things like 'but it doesn't matter if we don't pay artists/writers for their labour, or use free AI programs to replace artists/writers to improve our profits, because in a perfect world everyone would have UBI so it wouldn't matter xxx'

like. yes. but until we reach that perfect world, artists and writers need to eat?

why are you promoting AI replacement of creative people instead of working towards UBI? Until we have UBI, supporting generative AI in the creative field is no different to supporting supermarkets laying off all their till staff to turn to self-check out, or supporting factories who shut down and move overseas to exploit workers in countries with fewer human rights legislations?

Yes, in a perfect world, everyone would receive UBI. Therefore, people across the globe couldn't be exploited by corporations, and artists could create for the joy of it, in whatever way we desire - including with AI!

But we do not live in that perfect world.

Do you seriously expect this move towards generative AI to encourage people to support UBI, as opposed to people being forced into jobs they hate to make ends meet or no longer being able to support themselves financially?

Especially all the disabled people who make a living creating art and writing/editing, because that is, in fact, a career that is often far more available to disabled folks than a regular 9-5 or a retail job where you're expected to be on your feet all day (miss my disabled ass with the 'anti-AI = ableism' stance lmao).

This is not going to create your army of revolutionaries. This is just going to result in more independent creators being crushed under the boot heel of capitalism, as anyone who would've hired them flocks instead to the free alternative, and they're forced back into an incredibly exploitative labour market.

I agree that generative AI by itself is just a tool and is not inherently a problem.

But it is being abused, in ways that hurt creators.

If you support generative AI... what are you doing about that?

[anathemafiction]

It's so hard to convey someone being disappointed in you without actually saying it. I've re-rewritten this scene three times, and it's still not right. 😩