#paragraph 2023

[triviallytrue]

As a general rule, internet content moderation is opaque and inconsistent and arbitrary - we don't know who makes these decisions, we don't know how or why they're made, and we have little or no recourse when we are treated unfairly. This is unacceptable, but it's also universal on every site larger than a medium sized forum.

Internet content moderation does not scale. It cannot be scaled. Whether you are tumblr and barely scraping by or Facebook with more money than god, the bare legal minimum of keeping child porn off your site is maybe achievable, if you invest a huge amount of resources into it. Anything beyond that is nigh impossible.

So yeah, we are all forced to accept these miserable systems of content moderation that are completely unaccountable, not because the people running them are malicious (though that may also be true), but rather because the problem is basically unsolvable

[blueskittlesart]

Linktober day 27: plants

I think zelda would be the type to keep sketches and research notes in her journals along with the more personal notes we see in totk/botw :) (also yes i did write several paragraphs entirely in the hylian alphabet and no i dont remember what the hell they say. good luck figuring it out)

[royalarchivist]

Jaiden: [Reading Pomme's sign] "Rest in peace, Bobby <3" Rest in peace, Bobby! [Reading Leo's sign] "For Bobby, from Leonarda" Awww, that's so nice. [She opens the trapdoor to the grave] Can I get in here?

Jaiden: Oh, Bobby... Bobby! My baby! Poor thing... Oh, there's a couch. I love you, Bobby! I miss you every day. But... I'm doing well, despite that.

Jaiden: People think that I be goin' crazy! People think that, "Oh, I'm gonna turn evil!" No, I'm- I'm- I'm- I'm doing fine! I'm doing fine! I'm doing completely fine! Jaiden is a healthy being! No mental illness here! [She quietly laughs] Absolutely no mental illness in this body! [Laughs] Healthy!

[hayden-christensen]

Obi-Wan reached out, then hesitated. He felt a strong urge not to wake the boy, to let him sleep like this forever, to forever anticipate a great adventure, forever dream of personal triumph and joy. This feeling held too much sentiment and weakness to be allowed, but he allowed it nevertheless. This must be how a father feels, looking down on his son, worried about an uncertain future, Obi-Wan thought. I would hate to see him fail. But I would hate far more to lose this boy. I would almost rather freeze time here, and freeze myself with it, than face that. — Greg Bear. Rogue Planet.

[weepingfireflies]

Split Attraction Model (SAM) & More on QPRs

Edit: Thanks to @klavierpanda for correcting me! Romance-positive is supposed to be romance-favorable. I can't edit the photo right this second, but I will when I get a chance.

[yeyinde]

i can't talk right now. this fic just changed me fundamentally as a person and now i feel like a hollow shell of my former self.

[pmpwbrrs]

I am NOT going to finish this even the thought of it makes me tired + its been so long.. i draw everything differently now + oh my fucking goooododddddddddDDDD + lyrics are not on point + i would rather eat a sock than continue working on this 😢

So I'll just chomp it all up into gifs and plomp it all here and finally close this coffin

The point was that Pebbles is just reliving main moments of his life. Everything flashes before his eyes, but distorted and strange and not all the way through, because the rot has eaten out of him almost everything that was responsible for his memories. He can't even remember the faces and names of his loved ones. But even so, shame and guilt and pain still suffocate him.

[alan-without-the-an]

cringetober day 12: niche interest

i like keeping rocks as pets and giving them personalities, and knuckles already has a rock collection so

and also barry is there, but tbf i think they would also be interested in rock keeping

(unrelated rock talk under the cut)

speaking of rock keeping, this is Henry!! he has goals of world domination and cannot be left unsupervised lest he begins his evil plans

and this is Herolld, owned by a friend currently but i love him all the same. he looks grumpy but he's a real sweetheart and accompanies said friend during her travels

the main rock family also has hector, herman and rob. but i dont have photos of them :(

there's also some miscellanious rocks that were given to other folks for them to keep:

here's Herscherik (also known as Hershey). He likes tea and piano music (if I'm not mistaken)

and also Hank (top left), Hope (top right) and TBH (bottom)

Hank's codename is cooldude27 and likes rock music, Hope loves to eat air and TBH likes fluffy things

(We also had a Herlock Sholmes rock that sat at the side of the stairs for a while but he went missing before we could take pictures of him)

credits to @wiewooeee for all the rock faces (dont follow them- their words not mine)

[ants-personal]

oh i just knooow that one day chris felt brave calling benson a fag cause he offered to help randy to simply take out the trash

last time it ended with the bag ripping spilling garbage everywhere and randy hiding tears as he cleaned it up he had asked benson to stay cause really he didnt want to get attacked by a raccoon or one of those really big rats and whos benson to pass up a smoke break and just being near randy plus its one if not the first time randy asked him to stay with him

Chris asks if benson is only helping cause he knows randy sucks off hardy and wants to do the same to him at the dump like the couple of fags they are and really benson was ready to stab christ to death right then and there in the kitchen with the shity rusty pair of scissors or dunk his head in the fryer neck cracking with a hard pop he only doesnt cause when he takes a glance at randy he sees the rage he so rarely sees in his cold eyes posture ridged and like he make actually lunge at chris. He it brings his anger down to a simmer he wants to see what randy will actually do hes more interested in that now than the violent thoughts. Randy grinds his teeth like hes testing the words out first.

"You shouldnt be rude to benson he hasnt done anything to you" Whether a warning or simply a weird way of pleading with chris to be nice benson is left a little disappointed not even a curse word but he did stick up for well benson not himself one step forward two back chris laughing hes bound to make more comments or a bigger scene when randy glances at benson with a minute tilt of his head towards the door any normal person probably would have missed it but benson hasnt and never will be normal and so benson follows they dont say much randy apologizes about chris benson says tells him not to its not his fault chris was born with an ass for a brain randy even laughs a little and bensons anger nearly dissipates

nearly hes still mad and chris really needs someone to knock him down a peg or two so on their way back in benson hangs back randy doesnt ask and he makes his way to his car and then the front of the resturant checking the windows and spots chris he is fully invested with jess on the counter and thats when benson takes out the hunters knife and plunges it deep into the front tire of chris's truck the air hissing is satisfying enough and he makes his way back inside through the back

and when chris sees his truck lopsided as they leave for the day he freaks out and turns to benson with an accusatory look hes about to open his stupid mouth and the knife still in his pocket calls for him when randy points out a very sharp rock that just happened to be near that tire hardy calls chris an idiot for popping his tires on rocks of all things

randy stands next to him when he looks at randy he finds randy meeting his gaze with a sheepish smile benson has a feeling randy knows he must know and he just helped give benson a cover story god he wants so badly to reach out grip randy's shoulder and let him know how much of a good boy he is but he doesnt do any of that and randy tells him goodnight and walks off towards his own car

[sampegger]

omg hello everyone. now that i have people following me i would like to also let u all know that i DID in fact document my entire experience as someone watching the cw's supernatural in 2023 by briefly writing my thoughts in my notes app after every single episode in real time. PLEASE ask me to post my real time reaction to any episode and i will very gladly oblige. i have nothing else to do with them please they must go somewhere

[petit-papillion]

2023 F1 Driver Rankings | The Athletic

Source: The Athletic

[goofy-episode]

I have a love-hate relationship with At All Costs as it's presented in the movie - I love Asha's parts, but hate Magnifico's.

If we didn't already know from the opening song and her overall demeanor, this song further establishes Asha as someone who genuinely and deeply cares about the people of Rosas and considers their wishes beautiful and sacred. Also, when Asha finds her grandfather's wish and his face smiles up at her from inside the orb with such love and she tears up to have found the thing he's been wanting for so long and she sees how beautiful and wholesome his wish is - that part is filled with so much emotion and love, it made me cry both times I watched the movie.

Magnifico however... the fact that this is some kind of recycled love song does him no favours. His expressions, words and tone of voice all sound as genuine as Asha, but that doesn't fit him. I understand he's a pretender, but in most other scenes he seems kind of bad at it: he's passive-aggressive about Asha's flipbook animation, he snaps at her rather quickly when she questions him, he comes very close to opening the book before Amaya stops him, and the list goes on. So for him to suddenly deliver a convincing performance of being kind, gentle and filled with love and childlike wonder for the wishes just doesn't feel right. This song could've been improved if his lines foreshadowed his true colours - like a hint of disingenuous tone when he talks about how much he "cares". Instead his lines make me feel nothing because they're disconnected from who he is.

TL;DR while Asha's part portrays her character well and connects emotionally with the audience, Magnifico's part does neither.

[tangledstarlight]

something something juile's 'i write music in the same room that he did' is the same as 'luke introduced you to rock' in terms of lines the show just throws at us and never mentions again something something

[rosenecklaces]

@elriel-month day four

ELAIN ARCHERON & AZRIEL | WELCOME TO ROSEHALL

...Never seen his hazel eyes so bright, the hues of green amid the brown and gray like veins of emerald.

The first time the women he loves, more than life itself, met eachother, was at the exact moment dusk was settling on the horizon. His little fawn glowing in forever vivid golden brown curls and pale long gown while his mom, the lady of Rosehall state, solemnly held her soft hand on hers, smirk forming on her lips with dark eyes shining as she asked "would you like me to show you my garden?"

— peace & quiet

[autoexsanguine]

what if we were both abandoned by god and reality and left to decay eternally no longer tethered to the world by perception of the mortal or divine

and we were both she/its

and left there for untold aeons entwining and devouring each other endlessly, warped by our own and each others' perception until we could no longer be meaningfully separated, we became an ouroboros of twisting otherworldly decay, aberrant to the reality that rejected us, poison to all that is, something now beyond heaven and earth and all the hells, which could not be unmade or contained and which corrupted all it laid eyes on, all that laid eyes on it?