#i love over analysing characters

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I went to see challengers however long ago going in almost completely blind to what it was.

Someone please tell me why I haven’t stopped thinking about it since seeing it?!?

[yesterdaysnewts]

i love it when in fandom you have this one guy where most fan work of him present him as this troubled guy haunted by the demons of his past and they use catholic imagery and all that but then you watch the show or read the book or whatever and hes literally just a whore with daddy issues

[chloeseyeliner]

oh my god.

i am never getting over young royals.

[fragmentedblade]

Torn between "they're woobifying Aventurine too much to appeal to people who can't stand the idea of liking villainous characters" and "they're heathclif.fying Aventurine and that's catnip to me"

[radlymona]

No one will ever understand the Criston/Alicent/Rhaeynra/Daemon love square like I do

[lionofstone]

at the end of the day, i’m a fan of silly little action movies. that’s just how it is

[transsexualcoriolanus]

fascinated with the fact that it’s the surrendering of coriolanus’ “fatal flaw” that leads directly to his death. i’ve seen people call it stubbornness, pride, violence - either way, these are all things that coriolanus surrenders leading up to his death, when he changes his mind, goes back on his word (which we know he values from act 1: “i do hate thee worse than a promise breaker”) and chooses peace. and if he hadn’t, he would have survived, at least for a little longer (aufidius almost definitely would have killed him eventually but this is still what directly led to his canon death). his “fatal flaws” were really what kept him alive, and surrendering them and choosing to do the right thing is a death sentence for him

[feralthembo]

Im trying to understand how u can see this

And NOT acknowledge that those are clearly just ghost nazis. Without drawing a swastika this aint getting any more clear for yall. So if you arent seeing it, im guessing its intentional.

[thatgirlwithasquid]

Ten fandoms/ Ten characters/ Ten tags

I was tagged by @jaylikesrainbowtigers so thank you, tag games are fun ^-^

Stranger Things - Chrissy Cunningham

2. The Maze Runner - Gally

3. Teen Wolf - Stiles Stillinski

4. In The Flesh - Amy Dyer

5. The Order - Randall Carpio

6. Kingsman: The Secret Service - Eggsy Unwin

7. Marvel Cinematic Universe - Tony Stark

8. Detroit: Become Human - Connor

9. Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared - Red Guy

10. Five Nights At Freddy's - Mike Schmidt

tagging: @half-oz-eddie @adelacreations @chickensoupleg @hephaestn @hellcheercaine @eddiebillysteve @ginalinettiofficial aaaaand i'm now stressing over tags so thats gonna be it. its ten in spirit ^-^

Of course, anyone else wanting to do this should consider this me tagging them, and if anyone I tagged doesn't want to join that's fine

[balmungkriemhild]

thinking about that “describe that female character without fandom terms” post again. all i’m saying is that if my oc’s get popular and people just reduce my female oc’s to shit like “girlboss” or “sopping meow meow” i’m becoming a terrorist

[happyendingsong]

someone in the tags of prev took it as a launching point to compare shiki w beat ( :) 👍! ) but fairly firmly lands on it being shiki's fault she and beat aren't close in neo because shiki's such a selfish bitch ( :( 👎! )

trying to pass off beat not knowing who in universe hello kitty is as shiki's fault for 'prioritising herself' is so funny please. i think if one of your multiple soul bonded besties invented in universe hello kitty, it is YOUR moral obligation to know who in universe hello kitty is. that's on beat.

[ifeelfreewithoutmyshoes]

Someone has probably thought of this before but I just realized,, I wonder how much Jin Ling actually knows about his family?? Like obviously Jiang Cheng didn’t speak about the good times with Wei Wuxian and he probably spoke highly of Jiang Yanli,, but I wonder how much he actually said?? How much could he actually speak about either of them before remembering became too sad too much?? I wonder how many small stories Jin Ling knows, how many anecdotes? He probably know the base version of what Jiang Cheng portrayed but not them as actual human beings and that’s so fucking sad

[charliespringverse]

telling my therapist i view all my interactions as if i'm reading a book and all the people (myself included) are characters i have to analyse and worrying he'll think there's something wrong with me as if he doesn't already have a big ol' list of all the things wrong with me

[sammyloomis]

*thinks about moze, gaige, lor, troy, or tyreen for any length of time* GOD...... MICROWAVES THEM.....

[weareuniqueandimportant]

EMPATHY GLAMORIZATION IS NOT ABOUT EMPATHY BUT SUPERIORITY TORWARDS APATHETIC PEOPLE BIGOTRY TORWARDS THEM TYPICAL BIGOT EVIL. SIMPLE AS THAT. IF YOU SEE THEM AS LEFTIST YOU'RE NO LEFTIST YOURSELF. HORRIBLE. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE ONLY EMPATHY AND BAD TO THINK EVERYTHING YOU DO IS SUCH ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE CLEARLY BEING APATHETIC IF ANYTHING WHEN THEY DO THIS...

COMES TO SHOW BIGOTRY TORWARDS CRAZY AND DISABLED PEOPLE ASWELL AS PARAPHILIA PEOPLE ISN'T TAKEN AT ALL THE SAME AS SEXISM RACISM AND QUEERPHOBIA... OR PERHAPS... LIKELY... THEY ARE ALL THE BIGOTED THINGS EVIL AND TAKE NONE THAT SERIOUSLY... BELITTLING DOWN THEIR PAIN AND DAMAGE...

[lumsel]

chinese room 2

So there’s this guy, right? He sits in a room by himself, with a computer and a keyboard full of Chinese characters. He doesn’t know Chinese, though, in fact he doesn’t even realise that Chinese is a language. He just thinks it’s a bunch of odd symbols. Anyway, the computer prints out a paragraph of Chinese, and he thinks, whoa, cool shapes. And then a message is displayed on the computer monitor: which character comes next?

This guy has no idea how the hell he’s meant to know that, so he just presses a random character on the keyboard. And then the computer goes BZZZT, wrong! The correct character was THIS one, and it flashes a character on the screen. And the guy thinks, augh, dammit! I hope I get it right next time. And sure enough, computer prints out another paragraph of Chinese, and then it asks the guy, what comes next?

He guesses again, and he gets it wrong again, and he goes augh again, and this carries on for a while. But eventually, he presses the button and it goes DING! You got it right this time! And he is so happy, you have no idea. This is the best day of his life. He is going to do everything in his power to make that machine go DING again. So he starts paying attention. He looks at the paragraph of Chinese printed out by the machine, and cross-compares it against all the other paragraphs he’s gotten. And, recall, this guy doesn’t even know that this is a language, it’s just a sequence of weird symbols to him. But it’s a sequence that forms patterns. He notices that if a particular symbol is displayed, then the next symbol is more likely to be this one. He notices some symbols are more common in general. Bit by bit, he starts to draw statistical inferences about the symbols, he analyses the printouts every way he can, he writes extensive notes to himself on how to recognise the patterns.

Over time, his guesses begin to get more and more accurate. He hears those lovely DING sounds that indicate his prediction was correct more and more often, and he manages to use that to condition his instincts better and better, picking up on cues consciously and subconsciously to get better and better at pressing the right button on the keyboard. Eventually, his accuracy is like 70% or something -- pretty damn good for a guy who doesn’t even know Chinese is a language.

* * *

One day, something odd happens.

He gets a printout, the machine asks what character comes next, and he presses a button on the keyboard and-- silence. No sound at all. Instead, the machine prints out the exact same sequence again, but with one small change. The character he input on the keyboard has been added to the end of the sequence.

Which character comes next?

This weirds the guy out, but he thinks, well. This is clearly a test of my prediction abilities. So I’m not going to treat this printout any differently to any other printout made by the machine -- shit, I’ll pretend that last printout I got? Never even happened. I’m just going to keep acting like this is a normal day on the job, and I’m going to predict the next symbol in this sequence as if it was one of the thousands of printouts I’ve seen before. And that’s what he does! He presses what symbol comes next, and then another printout comes out with that symbol added to the end, and then he presses what he thinks will be the next symbol in that sequence. And then, eventually, he thinks, “hm. I don’t think there’s any symbol after this one. I think this is the end of the sequence.” And so he presses the “END” button on his keyboard, and sits back, satisfied.

Unbeknownst to him, the sequence of characters he input wasn’t just some meaningless string of symbols. See, the printouts he was getting, they were all always grammatically correct Chinese. And that first printout he’d gotten that day in particular? It was a question: “How do I open a door.” The string of characters he had just input, what he had determined to be the most likely string of symbols to come next, formed a comprehensible response that read, “You turn the handle and push”.

* * *

One day you decide to visit this guy’s office. You’ve heard he’s learning Chinese, and for whatever reason you decide to test his progress. So you ask him, “Hey, which character means dog?”

He looks at you like you’ve got two heads. You may as well have asked him which of his shoes means “dog”, or which of the hairs on the back of his arm. There’s no connection in his mind at all between language and his little symbol prediction game, indeed, he thinks of it as an advanced form of mathematics rather than anything to do with linguistics. He hadn’t even conceived of the idea that what he was doing could be considered a kind of communication any more than algebra is. He says to you, “Buddy, they’re just funny symbols. No need to get all philosophical about it.”

Suddenly, another printout comes out of the machine. He stares at it, puzzles over it, but you can tell he doesn’t know what it says. You do, though. You’re fluent in the language. You can see that it says the words, “Do you actually speak Chinese, or are you just a guy in a room doing statistics and shit?”

The guy leans over to you, and says confidently, “I know it looks like a jumble of completely random characters. But it’s actually a very sophisticated mathematical sequence,” and then he presses a button on the keyboard. And another, and another, and another, and slowly but surely he composes a sequence of characters that, unbeknownst to him, reads “Yes, I know Chinese fluently! If I didn’t I would not be able to speak with you.”

That is how ChatGPT works.