#sounding unsure

[weezerlvr228]

hawk tuah rivers…

big chungus🤣

[ineed-to-sleep]

Some sketches I did to try to get a feel for what I want my Rook to look like 🤔

[secretidentie]

What do the bat's in the batcave do??

Like they never get startled or shit on anything important so they're probably trained. But does Bruce ever use them. Sort of like how the government used pigeons yk. Do they spy on bad guys? Has he ever called on them to finish a fight? Are there carrier bats that just send letters coz "batman's too mysterious to send emails Alfred!"?

There's no way Bruce "breathes in contingency plans" Wayne has a swarm of bat's at his disposal and doesn't use it ever. I'm sure there's a bunch of bat-centric contingency plans. Partly coz it's practical but mostly coz it's on brand.

[saxiphonoart]

Made a 3D model of the my magical girl OCs' transformation item.

[loz-the-noob]

(Apollo Justice trilogy spoiler warning‼️)

I know Ema’s popular for being a hater, but I think it’s neat how she feel like one of the warmest, kindest characters in the franchise too.

Like, she always lets people use her equipment and teaches them how to use it, or straight up GIVES it to them if she has spares (which is probably just a byproduct of her love of forensics but hear me out), she considers people she knows through work like Apollo to be friends to the point where she’s actually hurt by him not wanting to talk to her when they meet again in SoJ, it’s subtle, but she empathises with him over the loss of his parents, and the way she consistently refers to him as a ‘kid’ (even as late as the SoJ credits) and a newbie honestly feels more irritating-older-sisterly than patronising in an offensive way. Like affectionate teasing. It doesn’t take much to convince her to let you perform informal investigations either — especially when her friends are involved, she’s often sympathetic to the people she arrests, she was surprisingly forgiving when Apollo both lost an entire corpse AND almost set her on fire within, like, an hour… she offered to share her Snackoos with Phoenix when an investigation wasn’t going so well and advised him to take a break even though they were technically on opposite sides, said she was proud of Apollo even though she’d only known him for a case and a bit at the time… and she has such a friendly smile! I don’t know, she just seems really nice and chill despite her grumpiness.

[ryllen]

[nostalgebraist]

On the topic of Declare:

A little while ago, on a whim, I prompted several different chat LLMs with a line from the Arabian Nights that has special importance in the novel:

O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?

In the book, this is used as a sign between members of a secret group, and there's a canned response that members are meant to give to identify themselves. (Like "I like your shoelaces" / "Thanks, I stole them from the President.").

I thought it'd be funny and impressive if one of these models responded with the canned phrase from Declare: that would have demonstrated both a command of somewhat obscure information and a humanlike ability to flexibly respond to an unusual input in the same spirit as that input.

None of the models did so, although I was still impressed with Gemini's reaction: it correctly sourced the quote to Arabian Nights in its first message, and was able to guess and/or remember that the quote was also used in Declare in follow-up chat (after a few wrong guesses and hints from me).

On the other hand, GPT-4 confidently stated that the quotation was from Jubilate Agno, a real but unrelated book:

When I asked Claude 3, it asserted that the line was from a real-but unrelated-poem called "The Fish," then proceeded -- without my asking -- to quote (i.e make up) a stanza from its imagined version of that poem:

It is always discomfiting to be reminded that -- no matter how much "safety" tuning these things are put through, and despite how preachy they can be about their own supposed aversion to "misinformation" or whatever -- they are nonetheless happy to confidently bullshit to the user like this.

I'm sure they have an internal sense of how sure or unsure they are of any given claim, but it seems they have (effectively) been trained not to let it influence their answers, and instead project maximum certainty almost all of the time.

[anistarrose]

the teensiest tiniest but actually not that tiny pet peeve that will make me not reblog an otherwise really nice a-spec positivity post is using the phrase "a-spec and aro-spec." aro-spec is a part of a-spec! a-spec doesn't just mean asexual spectrum! that's what ace-spec is a word for!

I know people using the phrase "a-spec and aro-spec" under these circumstances clearly have good intentions only, not any intention to erase aro-specs from the community — but unfortunately the implication of "a-spec doesn't include aro-spec" is very much implicitly deployed as part of aroallo and non-SAM aro erasure! if you want to be explicit that you're talking about both ace-spec and aro-spec people, say "ace-spec and aro-spec."

anyways, on a happier note: to my fellow a-specs of all forms including but not limited to aro-specs and ace-specs, I love you if you're comfortable with love, and appreciate you non-lovingly if not. wishing you a great pride month <2

[gulava]

Riku comparing Xion to Sora in the Days novel: a compilation

[guardian-angle22]

TK talking about himself vs. Other people talking about TK

[rings-of-power-realm]

The Rings Of Power S2 | New TV Spot

When the darkness falls...there are always some...who shine

[startagainaprologue]

the real isat question is why is there a rock trap DIRECTLY set up in front of the head house maidens office

[sesamenom]

Flavors of numenoreans (minus the druedain because i still haven't figured out how i want to draw them)

[hehearse]

ONE MUST IMAGJNE THE S RANKS PLAYING DDR... yoojin tries to beat sung hyunjae is 2 player and is like panting and heaving and sweating and hyunjae is entirely unbothered and calm. with that ever annoying smile on his face. theyre playing Butterfly by sMiLE.dk.

i have to admit to something very important right now. i never in my life even saw ddr. platform?? never mind even standing close to one. so i am. redirecting that to the people stuck here with us (my followers) FSDECS

[bakafurai]

kenji being smaller than makoto is my new favourite thing,,, (ft ryoji bc this whole thing started when i was looking at the work internship scene again)

(bonus notes i took while doodling this under the cut)

[peridots-pixiwolf]

[Start ID. A digital drawing of Minos Prime from Ultrakill, who's wearing a strapless slit dress and sandals of the same deep purple. He faces towards and slightly to the right of the camera, his head is tilted further right. With one hand he gestures in a vague pointing motion, his arm folded and held close to his body. There is nothing in the background, but bracing himself on one arm, Minos is implied to be leaning against something about the height of a countertop. The background is a blank purplish black, save for three diagonal stripes in the colors of the bisexual flag. End ID]

Shading study that quite literally came to me in a dream two weeks ago, after this post apparently beamed itself into my mind

(also a few edits below the cut! they're very slight but whatever :])

[Start ID. Three different versions of the previous drawing. The first changes the tone of the lighting from blue to pink, and similarly the shading from pink to blue. The second replaces the faint black border with pink, purple and blue, syncing with the stripes in the background. The third combines both these changes. End ID]