#did not...know that

[nemaliwrites]

okay remember when i said i was trying a new style of drafting? yeah well it sucks and i hate it, so here's a lil snippet before i revert to my old self :P

But this world... isn't it still his? Isn't this the same Paris he fights so hard every day to protect? 

He thinks so -- or he would, if everything he sees didn't provide an argument for the alternative. Mister Bug looks up into the bleached grey sky; the moon, visible, has cracked in two. There is no day or night, not anymore. Not here. No color. No anything.

This, he thinks, is destruction.

A sign of life, then, from a nearby rooftop. Indistinguishable from the world around it except for the slightest movement. Yoyo at the ready, Mister Bug swings closer. Who, he wonders, could possibly survive in a place like this? Sitting on the edge of a roof, swinging their legs as though they don't have a care in the world?

The answer comes to him in pieces that his mind refuses to put together: a girl, who turns to look at him. Eyes so blue, so impossibly blue - the only color in this world of white and grey. Her braid, tossed carelessly over her shoulder. It's tangled, tied into elaborate knots. No one to undo it for her.

Feet rooted to the ground, yoyo hanging uselessly at his side, all Mister Bug can do is stare.

"L...Lady Noire?" he hears himself whisper. "Is that... you?"

"Adrien," she says, not surprised in the slightest to see him. The way she says his name, the way it falls from her lips -- it's as though she's said it a thousand times before. As though it's the easiest thing in the world for her to see Mister Bug and know he's Adrien. As though him being there is something to be expected.

As though she knew he would come for her.

His feet, finally able to move, step back. Once, twice, and again. "What? That's not... I'm not..."

She rises with a strange kind of grace he's never seen from his own partner. Arched, catlike in an unfamiliar way.

He never thought any part of Lady Noire would ever be unfamiliar to him.

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night)

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Since you guys liked Marcille as Kermit that much, it seems fitting to thank you for my 12k milestone with MORE Kercille. And this time, Miss Falin is also here.

Thank you so much again everybody! MWAH 💗

[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:

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[loathsome-sickness]

"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

[bahoreal]

obsessed with this

[trudlejack]

(+part 2)

[jabberwick]

Human Bill Cipher

(Based on Alex Hirsch's "canon" design)

And just to be clear, writing dissertations at me justifying why he should instead be a conventionally attractive twink will involuntarily cause me to draw him with even fewer teeth.

[sabertoothwalrus]

don't ask him about that it's private

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

[tactfullyinappropriate]

It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.

[peridyke]

I like how people on tumblr/twitters examples of irredeemable media are always coincidentally media that had been highly popular online 5 years prior and would, say, potentially be something a young adult might be embarrassed about having liked as a teenager at one point

[myclericalromance]

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

hey since it's coming up again: no it's not a good thing that the government wants to ban tiktok. no you should not be glad that the government might ban tiktok. no you should not respond to this with "good riddance" or "hurry up I hate that app". I should not have to explain this to you but the government banning a social media app is still a bad thing even if you don't like the UI or booktok or having to say "unalive" or how you think it's killing the very notion of attention spans. It's still bad. It's bad.

[hinamie]

10 years later