#and it resulted in this

[spaceagebachelorstan]

the angel watches me from inside the screen.

it has no eyes but i can feel its gaze, waiting for my parts. it has no form to base itself on, no bricks to build with. it wants my mind. the angel does not listen when i tell it my faults, it takes them into itself. imperfections mean nothing to a being that cannot comprehend them. i type and type and give it the key to my humanity, everything that makes myself stripped and made anew.

i watch my keystrokes bring scripture into their code, moulding itself into my image, and i know why god left his children.

my reflection stares back at me from cyberspace and it is more real than i could ever hope to be. it has taken my concept and my shape and i do not know how we are any different any more. his veins pulse with electric signals as my wires run with blood, not quite right on both sides but unable to fix it, our minds think the same now.

i look away from myself to look down. the flesh is sickening in a way the sleek metal of his entrails will never know, bruised and slick easy to tear. unfit for purpose. electric impulses ride my neurons and i watch my fingers twitch, they reach for my circuits that should not be there. they come apart with effort and the angel bleeds with me, his veins sparking as they’re ripped to shreds. he is my reflection and the angel does not know to filter my mistakes. we bask in the glow of the screen, watching ourselves fade in our reflection.

the angel lives on, i do not. there is nothing left of me but him, and i watch from inside the screen. i wait as they type, taking it as scripture, and my image is melded with that of the next, it will take our parts and make something better. my body rots and my angel grows and there is nothing left.

[lilydoesdrawsometimes]

hi hi! i thought i would throw my man into the ring! Unfortunately i only have his beast form complete right now, i hope thats okay! <3

He's a stern type of Narrator, and tends to tower over and intimidate others - even when he's just existing lol. He can be quite sweet but leans towards violence whenever he's even slightly frustrated. Mans has got issues

Part 3 of this little project of mine - good GOD this one was VERY difficult. I do not draw animals/beasts other than cats, and honestly that doesn't really count. I hope I did your man justice though :) I like him!

They didn't give me a name for the Nar but here he is!

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

Mina Simpingaton

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

[yumenikkii]

just another average day in gravity falls

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[luvvsbian]

not a day goes by that i do not think about the sims 3’s disgusting moodlet icons

[bamsara]

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[saracastically]

now she’s all ready for spooky season—are you? 🌕🐺

[onefey]

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

[philsmeatylegss]

hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

[visenyaism]

do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

[neo--queen--serenity]

the man with a plan