I’d like you all to think of a lot of low paying service jobs that could be helped by AI. Or physical jobs that are sometimes done by robots like cleaning that could be made better with AI.
Instead, the techbros of the world have decided that the best use for narrow AI is to replace all our creatives, with AI that churns out recycled garbage and can’t make a single joke.
Also yes, that is Grey DeLisle, better known to some as Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Voice actors seem be leading the charge against this for obvious reasons.
There’s a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a “duet me” challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO
YES, but without all the special bits they were allowed before Brexit
So UK adopting Euro, Schengen, etc etc. Being one more from the club and not demanding being treated as the very special specialest little boy anymore.
Seriously, some of you may be too young or too non-EUpean to remember, but for most of my life, the news about the EU always been something like
The European Union approves a directive to forbid kicking little kittens in their little soft heads
The UK had forced an opt-out so the British could keep their god-given right to kick little kittens in their little soft heads
We have to keep reblogging this so future historians will read it and puzzle endlessly over its meaning
The heavy implication that historical ‘abstract’ poetry that people have been analysing for ages without being able to conclude the meaning could have just been shitpost level in-jokes between poets is sending me.
btw its always morally correct to reblog your own art or writing onto the dash. you are always right to do this. and if people get annoyed then too bad. this is not a satire post or sarcastic this is genuine. reblog your works. and every time someone complains that you reblog your own stuff too much do it again. be proud of what you create.
Had Padmé been 20-30 years older than anakin instead of 2-3 it wouldve fixed a significant portion of the franchise, including padmé’s own chracterization
he whole “‘woah we’re doing something we shouldn’t this is going to ruin both of our lives” doesn’t ring true in the original movies cause they’re just two beautiful young people doing what they’re supposed to do in a story. the cliché kills the dramatic tension. give me a 45 year old woman ruining her career life and reputation because a dumbass 19year old monk is pathetically throwing himself at her feet THAT’ll give the audience something to be anxious about. It’s not something people expect to happen.
Would also explain why all the authority figures are like “Sure, lets put this notoriously disobedient and hotheaded beautiful youth as the sole escort of an equally beautiful young woman who’s had the entire world on her shoulders from childhood. no prophecy twins will result from this”. i could see obiwan allowing it because he can’t deny anakin anything, but what about the rest of the jedi council??? What about padmé’s own people? The choice of anakin as bodyguard looks like bad optics even if nothing actually happens. What about her reputation??? It would’ve been satisfying if they’d actually leaned into it instead of vague hints. Like padmé says its improper but nothing in the surrounding world actually makes it seem that way. The prequels at least didn’t do a good job establishing the jedi as sexless and chaste. They just seem like cool hot guys with swords of COURSE they fuck.
but if she’s 45, even if she’s beautiful, a lifetime of dutiful service to the republic would make most people go “ah she would never sleep with a teenage monk, doesn’t matter if he asks”. Plus the general social standards of star wars being actually identical to those of our own society they’ll probably be like “well what would a 19year old even want with a middle aged woman?” the thought wouldn’t even occur. She’d be desexualized by virtue of her age so of course give her a hot young bodyguard no one (including the audience) is gonna see potential for impropriety
AND NOW WE COME TO ROTS. Its not impossible for a 45 year old woman ti get pregnant (average menopause is 50 i assume also in space until proven otherwise) but it is rarer, and it would make sense of anidala not to have been expecting it. It would also underline, again, that this pregnancy is a genuine threat to their lives and careers, because two young people in love secretly married having a baby is literally fine. its normal. the audience will forgive and even applaud even if the wider society in the movie doesn’t. but a 45 year old senator with a secret baby?? that she’s KEEPING?? like already in the original she shouldn’t have kept the baby but the movie is christian and the audience too the vibe is “noo pregnancy is beautiful its luke and leia awww”. We should be SCARED about the pregnancy.
And then, anakin having nightmares about padmé dying in childbirth are no longer obvious prophecies. like young padmé is healthy and rich, she’ll have the best medical care theres no reason to think her pregnancy will have complications. It’s actually kind of stupid and dismissive for people to say anakin’s nightmares are nothing to worry about, especially considering he’s had them before! but if padmé is pregnant at 45 the risk of complications is very high even with good medical care, and it would make sense for anakin to just have regular nightmares about it. The pregnancy is not a good thing! its a big risk they’re taking in a lot of ways!
It also complicates the “unavoidable fate” thing they did in rots. Like in the original had anakin not tried to do everything to prevent padmé dying in childbirth she actually wouldve been fine. She died of grief while fully healthy which i think everyone can agree was fucking stupid. But if anakin’s descent into the dark side, 100% ensured padmé dying (strangling a 45 year old woman who’s already endured a huge amount of stress and throwing her to the ground? narratively speaking, either she’s not making it or the baby isn’t), i think it would be good if we weren’t told with absolute certainty “had anakin stayed a jedi she wouldn’t have died”. It would be more compelling if we didn’t know for sure!!
Plus it would make anakin’s freakout so much easier to empathize with. Like sure its scary to think of your loved ones dying but the whole movie she’s presented as obviously not at risk. Anakin worries but we don’t. We should worry! Are we so much better than him? Wouldn’t we also be desperate in his position? Or alternatively we refuse to sympathize with his decision to fall in love with a middle aged woman which is uncomfortable and leads us into much more complicated moral questioning than “become evil or stay good?”. It would add drama either way!
And it would make both padmé and anakin so much more 3 dimensional as characters. Now they’re making strange, emotionally driven and unexpected decisions instead of following the script for romantic lead 1 and 2. Padmé has actual depth and complications! She makes decisions we can’t necessarily appove of, keeping the baby becomes a genuine decision with genuine cost instead of “duh, what else is she gonna do?” Her falling in love with anakin actually adds depth to her character and tells us something about who she is instead of turning her into a cliché. Replaying the trilogy in my head with older padmé instead of young padmé she immediately feels like a character with agency instead of a cardboard cutout of the ideal dead wife.
Even in the delicious wonderful scenario where obiwan and padmé have an affair after anakin joins the dark side, if padmé is young it doesn’t feel like a decision she’s making so much as the circumstances acting upon her, it feels like obiwan is betraying anakin but it doesn’t feel like she’s actually betraying anything? she just doesn’t have enough agency for that to be the case. Giving in to emotion is what a romantic heroine is supposed to do. But older padmé sleeping with obiwan after losing her extremely young husband to the dark side while at most 5 days away from giving birth is like…an actual decision. A complicated woman making unsympathetic choices, giving in to emotion when what’s expected of her is dignity. For the THIRD time, she acts out of feeling instead of reason and seals her fate. Its kind of a misogynistic character arc but i don’t care id watch the shit out of it. And she HAS a character arc now, instead of nothing.
(Sorry, I’m not alt-texting this shit. If someone else wants to, that would be great.)
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Prominent asshole, Proud Boys boot-swabber, and mobile milkshake platform Andy Ngô told a shitton of lies about trans journalist Alejandra Caraballo. She covers things he’d rather not see talked about, like the tweet he quoted, and these:
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So Andy decided to complain to Elon, who of course has never met an alt-right bully he didn’t want to suckle the toes of, and so he immediately went about trying to make the site deliberately more dangerous for marginalized people reporting on the shitty things that bullies do:
Of course…
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I mean, he CAN, but his app will become unable to be downloaded from both app stores and will probably just straight-up stop working on iPhones if he does.
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