#slug experience

[balkanradfem]

I am reporting live from the SlugVillage, which is something we all agreed to rename this city into. There are slugs wilding in the streets, there are slugs on every strand of glass, if you stop and stand anywhere for a minute, a slug will find you. And climb you.

In this time of slugness I am still determined to grow those damn beans if it's the last thing I do, so I have been in the garden every morning at 6am, and every evening at 8pm, collecting endless amounts of slugs and relocating them to places that are not my garden. I have now confirmed that there is a limit of how many slugs a person can experience in a day without getting mentally affected by it; unfortunately I have breached this limit on the first day after rain. I come over there and there's a conference of 320 slugs in my strawberries, they're all discussing which ones of my plants to devour first. I have been trying to appeal to their emotions; every time I see them eating a baby plant, I go 'That is a baby! How could you?' and thus far they did not care for my antics. This morning I've seen a centipede strolling in my garden and I went 'What a beautiful and sleek creature, bless you!' and I don't even have a special place in my heart for centipedes, I was just so damn happy to see one creature that isn't a slug.

Other gardeners have also been doing the same thing as me, and constantly complaining about the biggest epidemic of slugs this place has ever seen. One of them is very smart, so she poured down sawdust around each of her bean plants, the idea being that slugs won't touch sharp stuff.

Yesterday morning I saw a slug going 'sawdust shamwust I have a bean plant I need to eat'. It slid directly on the sawdust without a care in the world.

I've even seen them eating potatoes! I could not believe my eyes, what are the potato bugs supposed to eat? They're gonna be out of a job! The slugs are not considering the economy and the potato bugs will go unemployed if this continues.

I believe that slugs need their designates spaces, that is not 'the community garden' and they need to change their dietary preferences because we all know this is not about survival. I've seen them eat nettle. They'll eat anything. But the garden is 'snacks', this is their version of gorging on potato chips and fries, they're eating fast food produced by human gardeners, it's not sustainable. They need to go back to their roots and by this I mean spain from where they were imported from and became invasive species immediately.

The only thing that could stop the slugs is scorching sun that makes it too hot and dry for them to live, but.. the forecast says rain. We shall continue being in the slug era.

[blessedwithpolls]

I love going on tumblr and being slapped in the face with some obscure meme that appears out of nowhere overnight, and then you don’t really learn what it means or where it comes from, and maybe you don’t fully understand it, but you just kinda have to play along

[redslug]

The more I look at this, the more i think that i don't actually mind it flickering so hard. Kinda sells the illusion of every frame being hand drawn

I'd certainly take this over animatediff destroying small details in the name of temporal consistency

[stuckinapril]

I do the opposite of doing too much. I will lie down on the ground for hours. I will say nothing about something for as long as I can. I will be in a state of inaction for days. I do the bare minimum. If even that

[dragonkick-bootshine]

blorbos from my hospital 🏠

[path-of-payment-raise]

Day 3 of me being a single mother of the most cruel and fucked up slug pup

……this little hyper violent plum loves throwing creatures off the cliffs…….

Also I had no fucking idea that you can eat bats wings and left it’s wingless body what the fuckkk

[theclosetedskeleton]

How are we feeling about the new jello biafra song me personally im feeling GREAT. Anyhow oc for the song/album its from

[aro-culture-is]

Aro-culture is trying to understand why society created the most ridiculous rituals and signs for romance and not finding a single answer/or that makes sense.

(No seriously, all the explanations I find are dumb. Send help)

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[akkivee]

Intensely Spicy Curry Training: Hypmic Curry Drama Track TL

Kuukou: Y’all sure took your sweet time getting here! I’ve already got everything prepared!

Jyushi: But didn’t you tell us to meet you at the temple?

Hitoya: If we’re making curry, why the hell are we way out in the mountains to do it?

Kuukou: Because I just had a great idea. Check this out!

Jyushi: Ooooh, look at all this meat! So, we’re going to be using all of this in our curry?

Hitoya: Beef and chicken, huh? I guess it would make sense not cook these while inside your temple.

Kuukou: You’re half right, and half wrong.

Jyushi: What do you mean?

Kuukou: I don’t plan to make just any ol’ curry. Now it’s time for the both of y’all to mince the hell out of this meat!!

Hitoya: I didn’t know whether to expect if a corrupt little monk such as yourself knew how to cook, but I’m surprised. Instead of using something pre-made, if we pound and mince the meat ourselves, we’d get a far more superior product. Is that what you were thinking?

Jyushi: Oh, I see! That’s amazing, Kuukou-san!

Hitoya: So, where’d you put the food processor?

Kuukou: Ah?? The hell are you on? You’re grinding this meat with your bare hands.

Jyushi: …Eh?

Kuukou: Jyushi, you’re on beef! Hitoya, you’re taking the chicken! Punch it with everything you’ve got and make minced meat out of it!! This is a new training session I thought up!

Hitoya: What the hell is this fool saying??

Jyushi: B-But there’s so much meat!! Grinding it by hand is impossible!!

Kuukou: I don’t want to hear any complaints!! You don’t know that unless you try!

Jyushi & Hitoya: *reluctantly pounds the meat by hand*

Jyushi: *tearfully* …My body’s going to become minced meat before the actual beef!

Hitoya: Damn it, I can’t believe I let my guard down like this…! I shouldn’t have expected we’d simply make curry…!

Kuukou: You can’t expect to get anywhere with a weak spirit behind weak fists like that!! Lemme show you how it’s done!

Kuukou: *starts punching*

Hitoya: You bastard, those are vegetables!!

Jyushi: E-Even I could mince a tomato by hand!

Kuukou: It doesn’t matter either way!! Whether it’s vegetables or meat, all that matters is the heart you’re putting behind it!!

Jyushi: T-That doesn’t make any sense…!!

Kuukou: “Enlightenment can be attained through one thousand fists!” Don’t just keep yapping and put some energy into your hips and legs too!

Hitoya: Tch, I don’t see any way out of this… Then, I might as well get it over with…!! UWOOOOOOOOOAAAARRRRGHHHH!!!!!!!! *maximum effort punching*

Jyushi: H-Hitoya-san??

Kuukou: Hyahaha! There’s the effort I wanna see!

Jyushi: Guh… Because My God has unshackled the chains binding his true power, I, too, must unlock mine to continue alongside him…! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!! *maximum effort punching*

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Jyushi: I-I can’t move another inch…

Hitoya: Ugh… I can’t even take the cap off my water bottle…

Kuukou: *sighs* It’s pretty pathetic to be that exhausted just from cooking.

Hitoya: You…!!!

Jyushi: But, I think it would be really nice if our training efforts could be felt by those eating our curry…!

Hitoya: …Well, I don’t think I’d say it like that, but I agree with the sentiment.

*the trees rustle and the birds chirp and there is peace*

Kuukou: The fuck are y’all talking about? There’s no point to this if the people who eating aren’t going through training too.

Jyushi: Eh?

Kuukou: Training can only be felt when you grow from the trials you’ve experienced yourself. Hopping off from other people’s efforts won’t mean shit.

Jyushi: B-but I mean, we’ll still be serving the curry to others once it’s finished cooking, right?

Kuukou: Yup. Which is why I’ve got…!

Hitoya: UWAH!! MY EYES!! IT’S IN MY EYES!!

Jyushi: That powder…!!

Hitoya: It’s red chili pepper!! Jyushi, run!! Move upwind so it doesn’t blow and stick to your mucous membrane!!

Jyushi: Eeek!!! *runs away sobbing*

Kuukou: HYAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Hitoya: Kuukou, you bastard, what are you doing? Are you trying to ruin everything we worked on??

Kuukou: I���m not ruining a damn thing! This curry will be spicy so I can provide a remote kind of training!

Hitoya: Stop fucking around!! There’s gotta be a limit!!

Jyushi: *runs back over* I think there’s more chili pepper powder than ingredients now…!!

Kuukou: Then it’s just right! Now try it.

Jyushi: NO!! I will not be eating!! I absolutely refuse!! Don’t even try me!!

Kuukou: Hey stupid, watch it, that’s dangerous!! Stop fighting me and just—Ahh??

Jyushi: T-The inside of the pot is pitch black……!!

Hitoya: Obviously. Chili peppers burn easily. Haah… Let’s just remake the curry.

Jyushi: But doesn’t that mean we’ll have to mince more meat??

Kuukou: Whatever, I was thinking our “Intensely Spicy Curry Training” was made too halfheartedly anyway!! Time to give it all I got and win this championship!!

[cinnamon-flame]

Guess who got sucked into Rain world! I can't believe I missed this game, the lore and the ecosystem was made for me yet somehow I didn't get into it until now. And don't even get me started on the music! It's sooo good

Also, a new oc just dropped!

[better-call-mau1]

Sabine: I spent five years fighting alongside someone who called himself “Jabba the Hutt.” But just when I realized that I’d fallen in love with him, he was taken from me...and I haven’t seen him since.

Leia:

Leia:

Leia: Uhhh...yeah. That’s a real shame. Huge bummer. The galaxy is definitely worse off without Jabba in it. They should totally lock up whoever was responsible for...ya know...putting an end to him.

Sabine, sobbing: Someday we’ll be together again...I just know it...

Leia: I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

[redslug]

Helping Neuroslug help me

Admittedly it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out and start using inpainting, but now that I've had a taste of it my head is spinning with possibilities. And so I'm making this post to show the process and maybe encourage more artists to try their hand at generating stuff. It really can can be an amazing teammate when you know how to apply it. For those who didn't see my first post on this, I've trained an AI on my artworks, because base Stable Diffusion doesn't understand what anthropomorphic insects are. That out of the way, here we go:

I noticed that a primarily character focused LoRA often botches backgrounds (probably because few images of the dataset have them) so I went with generating a background separately and roughly blocking out a character over it in Procreate. Since it was a first experiment I got really generous with proper shading and even textures. Unsurprisingly, SD did it's job quite well without much struggle.

Basically masked out separate parts such as fluff, skirt, watering can, etc. and changed the prompt to focus on that specific object to add detail. There were some bloopers too. She's projecting her inner spider.

Of course it ate the hands. Not inpainting those, it's the one thing I'll render correctly faster than the AI does. Some manual touchups to finish it off and voila:

The detail that would have taken me hours is done in 10-20 minutes of iterating through various generations. And nothing significant got lost in translation from the block out, much recommend. But that was easy mode, my rough sketch could be passed off as finished on one of my lazier days, not hard to complete something like that. Lets' try rough rough.

I got way fewer chuckles out of this than I expected, it took only 4-5 iterations for the bot to offer me something close to the sketch.

>:C It ate the belly. I demand the belly back. Scribble it in...

Much better. Can do that with any bit actually, very nice for iterating a character design.

Opal eyes maybe?

Lol

Okay, no, it's kind of unsettling. Back to red ones. Now, let's give her thigh highs because why not?

It should be fancier. Give me a lace trim.

Now we're talking. Since we've started playing dress-up anyway, why not try a dress too. Please don't render my scribble like a trash bag. I know you want to.

Phew

I crave more details.

Cute. Perhaps I'll clean it up later. ... .. . SHRIMP DRESS

[supersecretnerd]

Ok so these designs are cute as hell, the Internet is just mean

I have too many thoughts about a game I still need to watch

[an-unraveling-unknown]

Here have my unasked for Baldur’s Gate 3* lukewarm take; Astarion is so deeply cat-coded its absurd

[ssluggishh]

hi gwen

hi sorry for taking so long to answer this. unfortunately, a day or so before you sent this, gwen had a molt that went wrong and she ended up passing because of it. its been a couple weeks now, so i figured i should say something in case it looked like i was ignoring you 😭😭 i just needed time to come to terms w it first. i appreciate your interest in her !! it was very sweet and your asks made me smile every time :]

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Bluhhhh, went on a spur of the moment karaoke date tonight with someone I started chatting with on Bumble earlier today. He mentioned he was going to karaoke and said to feel free to join so I thought, "Fuck it" and went. The heat was so miserable in my apartment that is was a relief to have an excuse to drive with the AC on anyway.

Got to the venue and he was cute enough, a little bit goofy. Was feeling ambivalent but not negative about the vibe. We both eventually sang one song each and then decided to head out. He said he didn't have a car and that it was a 20-30 minute walk, so I offered him a ride.

We parked in his neighborhood and chatted in the car for a bit. Then he asked if I wanted to make out. I agreed. Sure, why not. It's my birthday weekend (not that I had mentioned this fact to him), I deserve a lil smoochin', right?? And y'all.

It. Was. Terrible 😒😦😫

Just. Okay. First off, I'll fully admit that my car is not ideal for making out in. It's small and boxy and the front seats are far apart. So that's already a bad start. But the car wasn't the real problem.

It was the tongue. The TONGUE. Storming into my whole mouth like an angrily invading slug almost immediately. No subtlety whatsogoddamnever. After a minute I literally had to just push him back and say, "Too much tongue there, bud." Because I couldn't stand it any more. He eased up a bit, but it was still... not great overall. Thankfully he at least knew better than to start honking on my tits immediately 😂

After a little while he asked if we could move to the backseat, which I told him was a terrible idea because it was currently covered in a big doghair cover with a bunch of straps and buckles. And also because I didn't want to get too wrapped up in anything too quickly- which was true, but also just wasn't feeling super confident in any other techniques he may have had if his kissing habits were any indication. Also also, I'm not fucking 19 any more and I don't want to make out in the backseat of a car on some dark street where cars keep driving past? I pay rent so I can make out and get freaky indoors?

Anyway, me saying I didn't want to do anything in the backseat broke the spell and he decided to head out. Not sure if he truly thought he was gonna get hot backseat action or what. We'll see if I hear from him again. I'm kinda not sure if I want to 🤔 my whole car smells like bad cologne now, too.

Didn't help that I kept thinking about how I'd still rather be kissing D instead. Which, yes, I'm aware is dumb. It constantly begs the question "Did I not like this person because they aren't for me, or just because they aren't him?"