Ent from the dawn of time

Ent from the dawn of time

ganondoodle:

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Return of the King

(and progress pics, i still think my sketches contain a dynamic i lose when trying to render it … gotta work on that :,) )

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krystal-prisms:

im-a-dragon-cawcaw:

that-house:

guiltiest-gear:

that-house:

guiltiest-gear:

that-house:

guiltiest-gear:

guiltiest-gear:

Any character can have big naturals if you imagine hard enough, like Walter White

Oh so people will reblog among us yaoi but not Walter White Big Naturals huh

Subject: above post

Dear @guiltiest-gear,

Hi! This post is alright but what really intrigues me is your mention of “among us yaoi.” If you don’t mind, could you elaborate on that subject? Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

@that-house

Subject: Re: above post

Dear @that-house,

Thank you for asking and for your continued interest in my posts! Among us yaoi is gay sex between two crewmates, perhaps including the impostor as well. Hope this answers your question.

Sincerely,

@guiltiest-gear

Subject: Re: Re: above post

Dear @guiltiest-gear,

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly! Your response answers some of my questions but raises an important follow-up question: is among us yaoi a form of yuri? I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

@that-house

Subject: Re: Re: Re: above post

Dear @that-house,

Thanks again for your questions! Among us yuri could technically be another form of yuri, as crewmates and impostors are often not depicted as either male or female in any clear or obvious resemblance. Although one could investigate the genders of said crewmates to give an exact determination of whether it would be yaoi, yuri, or straight sex, it matters not in the end. Love is love after all. Thank you again for your continued support.

Sincerely,

@guiltiest-gear

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: above post

Dear @guiltiest-gear,

This world is so full of wonder! Thank you for explaining the complexities of among us yaoi and/or yuri to me. Please never email me again, as this was a harrowing experience I do not wish to repeat. Thank you and goodbye.

Sincerely,

@that-house

AND SCENE! OK EVERYONE THAT’S A WRAP FOR TODAY, GREAT JOB OUT THERE. JADE, I LOVED WHAT YOU DID TYING THE CLASSIC “I SEE NO DIFFERENCE, LOVE IS LOVE” MEME INTO THE EXISTING DISCUSSION, FUCKING PHENOMENAL IMPROVISED LINE. WE’RE GONNA RUN THIS CUT BY SOME TEST AUDIENCES AND SEE IF WE NEED TO DO A RESHOOT, BUT GREAT JOB TODAY. AWESOME STUFF. I’M GONNA GO DO A LINE OF COKE IN MY OFFICE. PEACE

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Oh so this is what we’re doing now

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m4rms:

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so paper-thin you see right through it

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55bata6rou:

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Hi Sam! Because I just saw the post on ao3 and donations, and a different post about ao3s updated statement regarding chatgpt/ai generated fiction, and you generally have a good read on things like this - what's your opinion on it, and how its meant to be interpreted?

(I want to good faith believe, and its a complicated/ongoing topic, but wanted to hear your thoughts)

Answer:

copperbadge:

I don’t know which post about the update you mean, Anon, but I assume the update referenced is the one the OTW posted on 5/13 about AI scraping and ChatGPT. I do have some thoughts but I want to go through the post a little because I don’t think I’m actually needed to interpret this one – I think with some critical thought anyone can, but a lot of people don’t get critical thinking training in school, so I want to do a little demo of it.

Pre-emptively, this is a list of things I’m not an expert on: copyright law, data scraping, AI, website design, and the legality of certain forms of freedom of expression. But honestly for this you don’t need to be.

First and foremost, we really have no reason to disbelieve OTW when they speak on this subject. While there’s debate and discussion about AO3 and certainly it’s imperfect in a number of directions, they are pretty transparent, generally speaking. I don’t believe there is a reason to approach AO3 with an assumption of disingenuity in a general sense. However, the organization is run by humans, who are imperfect and can sometimes be deceitful, so it’s good to always approach public statements with a critical eye.

So the post is talking about two separate but related issues: preventing AIs from scraping AO3, and policy on AI-generated works being posted. What we are looking for, from both, is a combination of things: we want what they’re saying to make sense both in the world, and within the statement – no contradictions, nothing that seems illogical, nothing that seems like baseless assumption or generalization. We want simple prose, and we want a look at the reasoning behind the actions they’re taking.

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mikaikaika:

Due to the server issues, QSMP Members have just resorted to Gay RPing irl

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theskywaker:
“ zelda’s quest (in another universe)
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theskywaker:

zelda’s quest (in another universe)

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nitrogennightmare:

thisdiscontentedwinter:

poetry-protest-pornography:

Oh, I love this an inordinate amount.

This guy covers children’s songs in the style of various artists, and he’s incredible.

I’m weirdly emotional about it?


This is amazing!

This is the exact opposite energy of the “what happens after the camera cuts and you’ve destroyed you labtop for 5 seconds of entertainment”

This guy not only wrote a whole song but dressed up and FILMED it! For what! For 1 and a half seconds of MY entertainment! That must have been HOURS of shooting and editing! I’m touched, this is art

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kalessinsdaughter:

The other day, I went down the rabbit hole of “cute donkeys” and came up with my head full of things I didn’t know about mules (the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey), and why they were once so coveted as work animals.

Brace for info dump, while enjoying this lovely photo of a trio of draft mules.

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The explanation is hybrid vigour, when hybrid offspring have enhanced traits compared to its parents:

Mules are stronger, hardier, healthier, have better enduranve, harder hooves, sturdier skin and can handle extreme weather better than horses or donkeys. They are also more patient, more intelligent, and easier to handle than either of their parent species. Horses may be faster, but that’s about the single thing they’re better at than a mule of the same size.

So mules, being all around nicer to work with and getting you more work for the same amount of feed, and with less hassle, were preferred for just about every job purpose.

Habby du Magnou, a Poitevin Mulassier mare, and her daughter Lady du Magnou, a rare Poitevin mule

A bay roan mare with a young buckskin mule coltALT

But since horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys have 62, mules end up with 63 chromosomes, which means they are almost invariably sterile. That’s because biology gets very confused when trying to split an uneven number of chromosomes neatly in half to create germ cells. There are a few documented exceptions of fertile mule mares (never stallions), but they are very, very rare. So you have to keep crossbreeding the two parent species to produce them, usually by breeding a donkey sire (jack) to a horse dam (mare). This is because it’s easier for a 32 chromosome egg to incorporate a 31 chromosome sperm into a viable zygote (fertilised egg) than vice versa.

Because of this, there was (and still is) in France a breed of absolutely massive draft horses, the Poitevin Mulassier, and a breed of big-ass donkeys (pun intended, but honestly, it’s arguably the largest donkey in the world, and it’s shaggy like Highland cattle), the Baudet du Pitou, two breeds whose main purpose was to breed the enormous and super-strong Poitevin mule.

The Poitevin mule

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This absolute unit was the must-have work-animal for all kinds of farm and industrial work for centuries, and a significant French export, until mechanisation made these magnificent creatures obsolete.

With no demand for the Poitevin mule , its parent breeds dwindled, almost to the brink of extinction. Determined conservation efforts during the last few decades are slowly bringing their numbers back up, but they’re very far from their heyday, when some 20,000 Poitevin mules were born annually.

The Poitevin Mulassier

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Both the parent breeds are still endangered, which means most of the current effort is directed into bringing up the numbers of Poitevin horses and Pitou donkeys. This means breeding horses to horses and donkeys to donkeys, with very few breeding opportunities allowed to produce the Poitevin mule. Only about 20 of those are born each year.

The Baudet du Pitou

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callmebliss:

seasonal-ghost:

“There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course your heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.”

Hugh Laurie  (via epionne)

Vulnerability, need — and hope

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