#machine valkyrie

[blueribbs]

MACHINE VALKYRIE 03 - STINGRAY

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

btw Dream Girl Evil by Florence + the Machine was written about lily evans

the way snape treated her like a perfect fantasy “dream girl” that he could project onto but the second she did something he didn’t like and shattered the illusion by being an actual multilayered human being he became enraged and turned on her

and the way the fandom does the same exact bullshit, treating her like a perfect saint mother and wife instead of an actual realistic human being with flaws and complexities, and then the second she doesn’t serve a man’s story (cough cough jegulus shippers cough cough) they turn her into a villain or toss her aside completely

[amoexii]

Saw this inflatable shell and immediately made this 🐚✨

[extraordinary-heroes]

Avengers: Endgame (Cover art by Mark Brooks)

[novankenn]

Unbreakable Machine Arcs

On their way to attend Beacon; Nora and Lie Ren are taken in by a large and loving family. It is during that long stay that Nora learns something special about herself.

An ability that once was common; that now lays forgotten and ignored. What does this discovery hold for her, and the people she has come to care for; that are tied to it?

Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five

[howlingday]

Day in the life of a Short Queen

Hey, this is a pretty fucked up and dark joke. If you don't find anything funny here, I understand you not liking and sharing this with everyone around here.

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Velvet: (Monologue) The first thing I do is put on my patch to indicate that I am no shorter than 6' tall. Then I step outside and I am immediately attacked for my height.

Ruby: How's the weather up there, Tallie~?!

Nora: (Hi-fives, Runs away w/ Ruby)

Velvet: I'm only half-tall on my dad's side, but they don't care.

Velvet: Around 12, I go to my favorite restaurant for lunch, but there's a discriminatory sign against people more than 6' tall. "No Talls Allowed". A group of Short Queens kick me out before I can walk in. Guess I won't be eating here today.

Velvet: On my walk home, I see something truly horrifying. Last night, the Short Queens destroyed the storefronts of every shop owned by 6-footers. They're calling it Kris-TALL-Nacht.

Velvet: Pyrrha, what happened?!

Pyrrha: Don't you get it, Velvet? (Points at 6) This is what's wrong! It's the TALL-ocaust! Jaune and I are leaving tonight, and you should, too.

Velvet: I think Pyrrha is overreacting.

Velvet: Around 3PM, I see my doctor about a height reduction procedure.

Neo: (Shakes head, Points to ears)

Velvet: NO! NO! THIS IS YOUR FAULT! I CAN'T BE THIS TALL!

Neo: (Points to door, ala "Get her out of here!")

Velvet: Later, I turn on the news and see Weiss Schneetling.

Weiss: FIVE FOOT THREE AND A HALF IS AS TALL AS THE PERFECT WOMAN CAN BE ALLOWED TO GROW! (Crowd cheers)

Velvet: She's becoming more popular by the day.

Velvet: Around 10PM, I lay down to go to sleep, but my room and home are suddenly raided by Short Police! They ransack everything and arrest me for being tall on a Thursday night. First, they came for girls taller than 6 and a half feet. I didn't think anything of it because I wasn't 6 and a half feet. And then they came for me.

Velvet: And then, there was nobody left..

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Tall: Salem - 7'4, Emerald - 5'5, Cinder - 5'7, Blake - 5'9, Yang - 5'7, Pyrrha - 6', Penny - 5'5, Ilia - 5'4, Goodwitch - 5'8, Winter - 5'9, Velvet - 6'4 Short: Neo - 4'6, Ruby - 5'2, Weiss - 5', Nora - 5'1

[dokidokitsuna]

Dream Team YRN

I procrastinated for SO long on these designs…maybe because I knew in my heart that my muse was not with me. XP I don’t know why the Dream Actor sketches always come out so wonky-looking…

Anyway, wanna hear how the story is going? Initially, I thought I could condense each Act into just 2 little chapters-- so since Act I contained Parts 1 and 2, Act II would contain Parts 3 and 4…Fast forward to the present day, and I’m praying that I can wrap things up by the end of Part 6. ^^;;; Despite that, I’m almost done writing it. This last part will cover these kids’ first entry into Blake’s nightmare, so I decided it was about time I finished drawing them, just so I can visualize them as I write.

[wraithwars]

one trope i love is an innocent, naive, doe-eyed hero slowly turning more jaded & hardened as time goes on & i need to stop using it but i love it so much

[ladyoriza]

and to swiftie on main again but. this is (imo) the best track on tortured poets in large part bc of Florence and of course she sounds 100000000x better live i am very glad i was watching a livestream today

(also she's really hitting that Val energy huh. reinforcing my choice to put this on her playlist)

[blueribbs]

veronica hale in her machine valkyrie, stingray, choking and tearing apart the kaiju-class chimera, ogreshark

[agentxthirteen]

Sharon-A-Day, Day 537 (6/21/23)

Secret Avengers 21. On sale 1/11/12. "Final Level"

Writer: Warren Ellis

Penciller: Stuart A. Immonen

Inker: Wade P. Von Grawbadger

Letterer: Dave Lanphear

Colorist: Chris Sotomayor

Editor: Tom Brevoort

This mission isn't going well...

[gaytruckerthoughts]

julian, half the time not spent having tummy time with valkyrie, waiting for me to get back from the shower:

apparently he would occasionally sit there and worry about me and blinky-blink at the door 😭😭🥰

me, scritching himb: i missed you too, jules. showering is just not the same without you yelling at me to get out of the shower

[umbry2000]

went to the arcade today for the first time in a few months. They updated the cabinets!!!!

[rainbowsuitcase]

Thinking about Steve Rogers who gets out of the machine, healthy and cured, and terrified that the next time he sees Bucky, he will realize he doesn't love him anymore.

He knows - he thought he knew, that it's not a sickness, that at least that one part of him is not something to be fixed, but the fear is still there, because what if. What if they were right?

But when he sees Bucky in the factory - I love you, he wants to scream. I love you, I love you, I love you. The world is wrong and they always have been.

He regrets not saying it on the train and he sinks the Valkyrie with it on his lips.

It echoes in his mind on the bridge and it sits at the tip of his tongue on the helicarrier.

He wants to scream it again in Bucharest, beg Bucky with it to remember, to come home.

He gets to say it eventually. Not loud, like he'd always imagined, but quiet. He gets to wake up next to Bucky, already watching him, bathed in the morning light, cradle his face gently in his palms and whisper it to him between kisses.

And Bucky doesn't say anything, but with the way he kisses Steve, he doesn't need to.

[novella-november]

See, here's the thing about generative AI:

I will always, always prefer to read the beginner works of a young writer that could use some editing advice, over anything a predictive text generator can spit out no matter how high of a "quality" it spits out.

I will always be more interested in reading a fanfiction or original story written by a kid who doesn't know you're meant to separate different dialogues into their own paragraphs, over anything a generative ai creates.

I will happily read a story where dialogue isn't always capitalized and has some grammar mistakes that was written by a person over anything a computer compiles.

Why?

Because *why should I care about something someone didn't even care enough to write themselves?*

Humans have been storytellers since the dawn of humankind, and while it presents itself in different ways, almost everyone has stories they want to tell, and it takes effort and care and a desire to create to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard or speech to text to actually start writing that story out, let alone share it for others to read!

If a kid writes a story where all the dialogue is crammed in the same paragraph and missing some punctuation, it's because they're still learning the ropes and are eager to share their imagination with the world even if its not perfect.

If someone gets generative AI to make an entire novel for them, copying and pasting chunks of text into a document as it generates them, then markets that "novel" as being written by a real human person and recruits a bunch of people to leave fake good reviews on the work praising the quality of the book to trick real humans into thinking they're getting a legitimate novel.... Tell me, why on earth would anyone actually want to read that "novel" outside of morbid curiosity?

There's a few people you'll see in the anti-ai tags complaining about "people being dangerously close to saying art is a unique characteristic of the divine human soul" and like...

... Super dramatic wording there to make people sound ridiculous, but yeah, actually, people enjoy art made by humans because humans who make art are sharing their passion with others.

People enjoy art made by animals because it is fascinating and fun to find patterns in the paint left by paw prints or the movements of an elephants trunk.

Before Generative AI became the officially sanctioned "Plagiarism Machine for Billionaires to Avoid Paying Artists while Literally Stealing all those artists works" people enjoyed random computer-generated art because, like animals, it is fascinating and fun to see something so different and alien create something that we can find meaning in.

But now, when Generative AI spits out a work that at first appears to be a veritable masterpiece of art depicting a winged Valkyrie plunging from the skies with a spear held aloft, you know that anything you find beautiful or agreeable in this visual media has been copied from an actual human artist who did not consent or doesn't even know that their art has been fed into the Plagiarism Machine.

Now, when Generative AI spits out a written work featuring fandom-made tropes and concepts like Alpha Beta Omega dyanamics, you know that you favorite fanfiction website(s) have probably all been scraped and that the unpaid labours of passion by millions of people, including minors, have been scraped by the Plagiarism Machine and can now be used to make money for anyone with the time and patience to sit and have the Plagarism Machine generate stories a chunk at a time and then go on to sell those stories to anyone unfortunate enough to fall for the scam,

all while you have no way to remove your works from the existing training data and no way to stop any future works you post be put in, either.

Generative AI wouldn't be a problem if it was exclusively trained on Public Domain works for each country and if it was freely available to anyone in that country (since different countries have different copyright laws)

But its not.

Because Generative AI is made by billionaires who are going around saying "if you posted it on the Internet at any point, it is fair game for us to take and profit off," and anyone looking to make a quick buck can start churning out stolen slop and marketing it online on trusted retailers, including generating extremely dangerous books like foraging guides or how to combine cleaning chemicals for a spotless home, etc.

Generative AI is nothing but the works of actual humans stolen by giant corporations looking for profit, even works that the original creators can't even make money off of themselves, like fanfiction or fanart.

And I will always, always prefer to read "fanfiction written by a 13 year old" over "stolen and mashed together works from Predictive Text with a scifi name slapped on it", because at least the fanfiction by a kid actually has *passion and drive* behind its creation.