#and every time i just think

[sarah-sandwich-writes]

Got a comment that said they liked the fic but weren't expecting to I guess? Bc while they like both, they thought soulmate AUs and slow burns were antithetical and I just

That's the problem!! That's why I wrote it!!!! Too many people think soulmate AUs are just a quick easy oh they found out they're soulmates so they're together now the end

No??? 1) that's not satisfying and 2) that's not how people work??

That kind of soulmate AU makes me so crazy bc like, if you're not going to do the work of showing what makes these people soulmates then what's the point? I want to feel it!! As the reader I should be able to read the story and then pinpoint the ways they fit together like puzzle pieces. If you quit at and they were soulmates then like lol what are we even doing here?

And people are messy! People lie people do things that make no sense bc they're scared or they think it's expected or they're trying to make someone they care about happy. You don't have to: their eyes met and they knew in their soul exactly how perfect this person was for them. Add some deflection. Add some confusion inherent to living. Add a barrier and some miscommunication and root it in who they are as people. There are a million ways to tell a satisfying soulmate story but very few of them end at the meet cute imo

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[everchased]

THAT one's goin on the list too now!

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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[gongyussy]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[birdmenmanga]

they are putting yaoi in the city art museum and censoring nsfw content with heat-responsive material so you have to put your hands on it to see dick

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[mellosghosts]

in my heart this joke is in the movie, but unfortunately im afraid only we, hughjackmaniacs, would get it 🥀

[butchdarling]

[aleatoryw]

getting blazed as fuck in public, thinking "boy I sure hope no one knows how high I am right now", and then having the jumpscare of your life when duolingo gives you this notification

[lazylittledragon]

dndads s1 you're so special to me

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

more:

[thunderboltfire]

I have unwittingly witnessed a new level of the absurd. Behold, the AI-generated equine anatomy models.

Ah yes, my favourite parts of the equine body. Paster and... *looks at the smudged writing on hand* boob. At least this one looks purely decorative and the being actually looks like a horse. But don't worry, it gets worse.

If we completely ignore the hipopotamus musculature of this one, there's still a lot of things that don't make sense in this one, like a tail that ends in a series of bone spikes and a complete lack of molars. You could make a cool pokemon on the basis of this, but it's not even in the realm of being an actual anatomy help.

I'm firmly convinced this is not a horse, this is something that really, really wants you to think it is a horse. The more you look, the more things look... wrong. The more details turn out to be shifted, bones crammed in to fill in the familiar form, its shape merely implied so that the human mind fills the gap. Of course the text seems like gibberish, because its anatomy is incomprehensible. it's either a parasite or a monster and in each case, it's an eldtrich body horror. I'm kind of angry at how well this joke writes itself.

[exxcidio]

getting ready