#it is so much and it's dishonest work

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

how i write fic:

decide that characters need to be horny for one another

start creating backstory so that everyone else will understand why these characters can believably be horny for each other and also i don't have to deal with arguments about ages because i explained it right there

forget about backstory and just start writing sexual tension

forget about sexual tension and just start writing emotional warfare

whump

AU tangent for this AU i am already writing

realize that as much as these characters do in fact want to have sex, i am somehow incapable of writing that, despite the fact that this is why i started writing the story

[transsongtaewon]

[trappedinaday]

Finally got looks I’m happy with! Not looking forwards to figuring out most their legs... but like lemme be proud a minute.

[izzyspussy]

honestly my real opinion on ai is not even from an ethical standpoint. my opinion on ai is that because it isn't actually artificial intelligence that is a misnomer it's not intelligent and it doesn't think it is therefore just plain not good at most of what we're currently using it for outside of like hyperspecific applications that i know nothing about and never will. it simply can't do the job man.

[dreamersneverlose]

For the first time in a long time, I haven’t the faintest idea what life is going to look like 1, 2, 6 months from now. How terrifyingly beautiful this will be.

[lavendeerlesbian]

@steampunkette

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Half of this man's arguments against sex differences in humans is... talking about animals. Why?

He uses sex and gender interchangibly and assumes that people who argue about only two sexes are actually trying to claim that there are only two genders, which is false and ill-informed.

His very first argument that supposedly "blows dimorphism out of the water" is that some people are infertile and don't produce either gamete... Ignoring the fact that said infertile people are still BUILT TOWARDS the production of those gametes, even if on an individual level they cannot produce them.

He tries to claim there is true hermaphrodism in humans, which there is not (and none of his sources support, either).

Despite all of this, he still acknowledges that humans are a dimorphic species which accidentally also acknowledges that there are only two sexes (lmao).

He believes in brain sex and uses sources that support that idea even though it has been long since debunked.

He talks about gender identities in animals (what???? That isn't a thing?).

He argues about natural variation in animals with emphasis on how it's not a disorder but a natural variation, and then refuses to acknowledge that intersex disorders are NOT natural variation and ARE in fact disorders.

I love how he says that the SRY gene is not just a magical on/off switch for male vs. female and then goes onto describe the SRY gene as an on/off switch for male vs. female.

He even called an androgen insensitivity disorder in women a condition that magically makes her male???

Then he started arguing that hormones make someone male vs. female but ALSO everyone has all the hormones at all times so hormones cannot possibly account for male vs. female sex (???).

Just about the only thing he said that has any merit whatsoever was one throwaway line about how some people have partially developed ovaries and testes at the same time, which would actually lead to ambiguity between the male and female sex. However, those individuals would still be categorized as male or female based on other factors (most likely if they produced sperm or eggs - again hermaphroditism doesn't exist in humans and no human can produce both - or genetics).

TRAs cannot think critically, have to assume that radfems define sex as XX or XY with no variations, have to assume that radfems are trying to dictate people's gender identities or their personalities or whatever (which would require that radfems believe in gender at all?), and have to assume that radfems have 0 understanding of biology.

Also, just as an aside, just because someone has a degree in biology doesn't mean they magically know everything about that subject. Which the guy IN THE VIDEO admits, because his particular field of study within biology was in anthropology (NOT genetics or hormones)! I also have a bio degree (BS in general biology), and the only reason I know as much as I do now is because I've read more on the subjects after graduating.

Good god, learn to think critically.

[yellowocaballero]

ok so im not very far into trigun (which. you convinced me to read/watch) but ive seen you talk about vash as a christ/messiah figure which. means im kinda obsessed with how you described his impact on the world in no name on the bullet (christ healing the lame, christ feeding the thousand... christ delivering his people from evil.) did you have any specific biblical references you kept in mind while writing?

i also think its super interesting how the fic seems to focus more heavily on healing as opposed to how (what ive seen of) trigun is a lot more gunman focused - is part of that influenced by how knives is a pacifist in a "cold turkey" way, or a choice on your part? i think it makes an interesting dichotomy, christ the gunman and satan the physician

I've gone my entire life without recommending Trigun to anybody, because I always felt it was too weird and ultra-violent and love-it-or-hate-it to actually ask people to watch it. Look at me now. Getting at least 3+ people into it. Boo boo the fool. Also I'm sorry that this response is so long skull emoji.

I'm ex-Catholic so you have asked the right question lol. Vash is very inspired by the Old Testament God. I have a strong mental image of him obsessing over the Noah's Arc story in his cute children's Bible. Sodom and Gomorrah is brought up again much later, in an extremely important way. Garden of Eden and Paradise, as the show does. The Plagues where every firstborn son dies. These is all imagery that Vash specifically evokes on purpose. Vash...uses the Bible to understand his own experiences and feelings and desires (that's the most neutral way to phrase it), but like a lot of people he uses the Bible/God partly as justification for his actions. God destroys cities for being sinful, and Vash is the closest thing to God this planet has, so he's entitled lol. God Complex McGee up in here.

And Vash's cult has no Jesus, because there is no forgiveness for humanity, and no way for them to be saved. Which is how you know that Vash's Jesus-ey actions as described in the story are very deceitful on a lot of different levels. Kind of like regular Vash lmfao - as I said earlier, he's VERY much also a messiah deconstruction. Vash is a pacifist partly because he needs it - he needs to be believed that people can be saved, that the world can be good, that nobody has to die, because otherwise the world is nothing but an endless parade of misery and death and his own suffering. It's about saving his own soul, and the memory of Rem.

For me, on a writing level: Cain and Abel, obviously. 'My brother's keeper'-ass mofo lmfao. It's more themes for me, though - redemption, salvation, forgiveness, original sin, sin in general, guilt, fate. Knives is pretty obsessed with all of these topics. I make fun of him for it. None of it's healthy. But Knives embodies a few other Christian ideals that I don't make fun of him for, such as the importance of good works and good actions, and dedicating his life towards helping others without the desire for a reward. There's also some subtle 'shepherd and his sheep' stuff going on later.

Re: the gunfights: can you IMAGINE Knives carrying a gun. He is WAY too proud of his own #biologicalsuperiority and #ultimatelifeform and #impenetrabledefense (literally Shadow AND Gaara-ass mofo) to rely on cheap human trinkets like guns lol.

The plot has more action than my usual (yay! - that was what I was working for lol), but it's based off the skeleton of the Stampede plot, which is genuinely a lot more space opera than Western and as such its action looks different. Turns out that when you remove the Gung Ho Guns from a story, there are a LOT LESS gunfights, lmfao (I don't know what kind of errands Vash sends the GHG out on, I am afraid to find out). So partly there's less gunfights because a) Stamp plots don't require too many gunfights, and b) without a Gunman (TM) there's no reason for the group to use guns to solve their problems if at all possible.

It's also just that, basically, Vash's plots are partly man vs self and partly man vs other. When a character is level 99, the tension of the fight scene isn't if they'll win the fight - it's if they'll win the fight under their self-imposed conditions. In Vash's case, the Q in every gunfight is 'can Vash win the fight and save people without compromising his principles?'. For Knives, he is so ridiculously OP that it's impossible to write a fight scene with genuine tension, and he doesn't care nearly as deeply about casualties. So the most engaging plotlines for Knives are entirely man vs self, which tends to shake out into a lot of trolley problems lol. That's the answer to your Q from a writing perspective.

So it's mostly a choice for plot/writing reasons. But YUP the dichotomy is SUPER JUICY, and the fun part of the story is reading the Ultimate Killing Machine be forced to do literally anything else than Ultimate Kill - to do the only thing he wasn't meant to do. Because doing what he was meant to do reduces him to a biblical figure instead of a person - it makes him just a devil, who's never exercised the free will God gave him, and as such can't be called sentient. It's not what Rem would want. And it's a very juicy juxtaposition to somebody who interprets his own meaning in life as a Christ figure as a divine compulsion to brutally murder orphan.

[orpheusilver]

"i dont think anyone actually believed it. he just said it."

[chemicalbrew]

achievement get (for the billionth time): take one look at an assignment and get severely overwhelmed AND discouraged for the rest of the day and do nothing

[grotto-esque]

I think... people should cultivate a skeptical, questioning mentality towards news reporting, and perhaps especially if that reporting confirms your worldview.

[valla-chan]

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[bitegore]

At some point (not rn) I'm going to open one simple 3d model, probably only feral/mech/furry type bodies because human style faces take too much fiddling, + set of final renders commission. If you're interested reach out to me now and I'll make a list of who to get in touch with.

[nuala-luna]

Ok I’ve passed the stage of being sad about being alone. Now I’m just really really fucking angry

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

This was known at the time. Also known at the time: Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization NOT a government) were responsible for the attacks.

Osama bin Laden (born and raised in Saudia Arabia) was the son of a billionaire who used his inherited wealth to found the terrorist group al-Qaeda

None of al-Qaeda's founders were Iraqi.

Saddam Hussein/the Iraqi government had few if any connections to Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda

They were completely separate individuals/organizations.

Iraq was not involved in the Sept 11 attacks.

Iraq was not involved in the Sept 11 attacks.

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[fellator]

but also im kinda sorta worried about him because a lot of the things he said (not only this specific time, but also like. all this time they've been fighting) really sound like the way i operated when I was having Really Bad depression and being sort of a fucking asshole about it

[nomairuins]

i am okay tho i just have momeys sometimrs . please do not ever worry abt me guys