There’s a house on my way home that has one of those Home Depot 12 ft. skeletons and they haven’t taken it down since Halloween, just dressed it up in holiday-appropriate wear and of course for June it’s all about Pride so please allow your dash to be blessed by 12 ft. Pride Skeleton
EDIT: Oct. 2023 Apparently this house is now for sale. Godspeed Pride Skeleton.
loved how he managed to get one last dig (affectionate) at stede before dying. truly iconic.
“i will buy this game and then i will DEFINITELY play it later!”
This post gets funnier over time
seeing people casually talking about spending $30,000 on a wedding makes me feel a special kind of nauseous when every single person i know has to debate if $40 on ordering pizza is worth it
I made a promise to someone a long time ago… to become the world's greatest swordsman.
Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro "Pirate Hunter"
ONE PIECE (2023) ☠ 1.01 "Romance Dawn"
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies
I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.
In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They're the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.
I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.
And it kills me that so many people don't know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.
Over the past decade, there's been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There's this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.
Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.
Don't fear age. Don't put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.
Beverly passed away in 2019, but she was one of many of my favorite, elder cosplayers that frequent DragonCon and remind all of us to keep playing as long as we can.
This person said this to me over a random tag I left on a photo months ago and I don't know how to tell them I have a debilitating mental illness that makes me unable to leave my house
Spent this entire day alone in bed crying so hard because OCD is ruining my life and I keep having paranoid breakdowns and then I see this.......at least it made me stop crying and made me annoyed instead so thanks
This is so good and succinct I wanted to reblog it
Second episode into Bocchi The Rock! and Bocchi has to get a job to help support the band. To say she's dramatic about it inside her head would be an understatement, but it seems Ryo and Nijika are here to support her. Baby steps, right? Interesting to see that Nijika's sister might be the first one to clue in just who Bocchi is.
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princessshikky asked:
Hello, Mr Gaiman!
There's been a lot of backlash against the art-generating AI recently, and while on some level I understand the reasons (the corporations train the AI using other people's art for free without permission, then charge money for using the AI), it just seems more about the AI existence in general than about evil corporations (and they are evil, don't get me wrong). I don't know, whenever I see another 'haha, here's a way to cheat AI and make the quality of its product worse' post on my dash, it just sounds like a luddite argument.
What's your point of view on the recent development of AI? I swear I'm asking in good faith, perhaps I just fail to understand the issue because I'm not aware of some underlying problems or arguments.
I guess the point is that the AI art isn’t generated by magic from a vacuum. It starts by taking actual art that actual humans made, and then, without their permission or payment of any kind, plagiarising it.
So from my point of view, if you make art and you want the machines that are plagiarising your art without permission or payment to be harmed and made less reliable when they come and steal your work, all power to you.
