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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 3h

See yes this....thematic pairs often as a kind of "argument" balanced between them reflecting contradictory but related elements I bounce around ...(For me at least) (And totally subconscious until it's not)

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 8h

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spinny 🔞✍️<^•ﻌ•^>ﾉ” @spinnakers.neocities.org · 10h

something that was very freeing for me personally was shedding the overblown myth that your OTP/ships represents you and the type of person you want to date. no BOTH of them are PARTS of me and i'm interacting with and working out complicated aspects of myself and my experiences

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 9h

There are a few documentaries and podcasts about this incident (heh) and the thing I always think about are the gay men who fought to get homosexuality removed from the official language declaring it a mental issue. www.thisamericanlife.org/204/transcript

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 8h

Ooh that sounds really interesting ...yeah u need to kind of understand what's at stake for villains too, otherwise there's really not a sense of suspense

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 9h

Course of action

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 12h

It's just that the go to for creating that logic is often default to sob story etc but oftentimes there are many other human emotional motivations that work just as well, and are just as cruel and illogical

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 12h

I mean I don't think that's what the advice is saying. The advice is usually that a character (as a fictional construction serving a purpose) must have a sense of internal logic that makes them tick. Oftentimes that logic IS cruel and senseless, but it must work with the elements of the story

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Gilded Pleasure @gildedpleasure.bsky.social · 19h

feel like it's worth pointing out that "realistic" and "interesting" are very often mutually exclusive, especially when it comes to the evils all of us are being subjected to on the daily these days. i agree with the post, i just reject the paradigm it's addressing

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 12h

They DID have terro and baking soda though which I picked up

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 12h

Went to the hardware store to pick up some diatomaceous earth, called ahead of time to ask if they had it, was told yes, arrived, they did NOT have it.......😭

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 14h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 14h

The sequence of Hephaestus making Achilles' new shield is so cool and artistic -- showing little scenes of life and thematically relating to the story, how incredibly unique

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

"All of them praised the bad ideas of Hector and not the good plans or Polydamas" HDKAKFJDAIDJDJFF NOT MINCING WORDS

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

Polydamas is always giving the most normal fairly reasonable advice and Hector is always like shut the FUCK up

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

(the trick to this, which anime creators also know best, is that the coolest guys also need to be shown in agonizing emotional anguish to make their Cool Moments Pop More)

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

It is actually an accomplishment that in a poem that seems to make pretty much everyone look as Cool and badass as Possible, they still manage to leave enough room for Achilles to come and steal the show with his aura farming or whatever the kids call it these days when he shows up

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

Achilles: because of my grief I will punish the people who deserve it the most: the WOMEN

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

Homer really gives him the most insightful passages, it's like he's speaking "outside" of the story sometimes

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

The entire poem starts with this is the story of the Rage of Achilles and he sure does rage. A lot. But also he has these moments of self reflection where he's like "I wish conflict and anger did not exist bc holy shit" and then goes back to having to live in that world

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · 15h

#iliad book 18: Divine Armor

Achilles grieves and also looks straight at the audience and is like "isn't life fucked up????????"

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