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The Moth to Flame Seyloy Discord server presents:

SEYLOY MONTH! Her Sky, Her Sea 2023

Hello and welcome, members of the Old Ones! This event is to celebrate our favorite duo of Zenith chasing, Horus slaying, gay panicking, beach smooching outcasts by expressing ourselves creatively in a wide variety of ways!

This event will be running throughout the entire month of November 2023. Mark your Focus calendars, get on your Waterwing, and join us for a month of adventure with our OTP! 

GUIDELINES: 

-This event is all about celebrating the relationship between Aloy and Seyka, therefore they must be the central plotline and focus of whatever content you create. And however you would like to portray their relationship is entirely up to you—friendship, romance, sexual—just have fun exploring their dynamics!

- Any contribution is welcome. Art, fanfiction, crafts, graphics, fanvids, songs, cosplay, fanmixes, crochet dinosaurs wearing hats—anything you can think of! There is no minimum or maximum content length, or anything like that. The prompt list is there to inspire you—but we are not the prompt Compliance Department; if your creativity leads you in a different direction, by all means, go for it! You can do as many or as few of the prompts as you want.

-You are welcome to include WIPs such as multichapter fics, or things you completed even months ago.

-Rate all entries appropriately. Trigger warnings for graphic, sensitive, trauma-inducing, potentially upsetting material are a requirement. NSFW works are gladly accepted, but make sure you label them clearly. **If your fic or piece falls under the Dead Dove Do Not Eat category--- best to ask a mod whether it's okay, as there are a few triggers that we will not repost, (i.e. anything with non-con or underage sexual content). We want this event to be safe for everyone.**

-You don’t need to submit your work to us, just tag it appropriately and we’ll share it (tags below) We reblog and queue our posts, so if yours hasn’t been reblogged yet, give it a bit of time (usually within 24 hours)

-If you wish to submit your work on Ao3, be sure to put it into the collection entitled “Seyloy Month 2023”

- Late submissions are permitted. We will still be receiving new content through December. You do not need to rush to get all of your work finished by November 30. Nonetheless, do your best to keep up with the assigned schedule!

- Don’t be a Clamberjaw. Be kind! No bashing of other contributors or their content. Remember we’re all here to have a good time and fully appreciate Aloy and Seyka together. And while celebrating them is the whole purpose of this event, bashing of other ships is not tolerated.

TAGS WE ARE TRACKING: #seyloymonth; #seyloymonth2023; #herskyhersea23

Please, be sure to include one of these within the first five tags of your post. This way it’ll be a whole lot easier for us to find your entry and share it here for all to enjoy! We would hate to miss out on your beautiful creations.

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That should cover all the basics!

If you have any additional questions that weren’t previously discussed, do not hesitate to reach out to our moderators for further clarification. We will try to get back to you as quickly as possible!

xoxo,

-The Moth to Flame Seyloy Discord server (Message @melusine0811 or @despite-the-nora for an invite!)

Prompts:

1- Her Sky

2- Her Sea

3- “She flies, she fights machines, and she has fancy moves!”

4- “You don’t seem so ordinary to me…”

5- Second kiss 

6- We’re on a boat

7- For Our Amusement

8- “We did it!”

9- “Don’t leave me waiting too long…”

10- Machines

11- “It’s a little snug…”

12- Seyka Sunday!

13- “Why do I feel like that too?”

14- Dinosaurs!…Wearing hats?

15- “And what if I do?”

16- Aloy came to the rescue!

17- “I always wanted a sidekick!”

18- Outcast behavior

19- Storms

20- “I was worried about you…”

21- “You have a Focus!” 

22- Part of You

23- “I AM calm!”

24- Confessions

25- The Stars in Their Eyes

26- “Legacy’s Light!”

27- “You know, I’m kinda glad you tagged along.”

28- Engineering/making things

29- Seyka saves the day!

30- The Idea of Home

#hfw #burning shores #seyloy #aloy #seyka #starting soon!

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There is no such thing as AI.

How to help the non technical and less online people in your life navigate the latest techbro grift.

I've seen other people say stuff to this effect but it's worth reiterating. Today in class, my professor was talking about a news article where a celebrity's likeness was used in an ai image without their permission. Then she mentioned a guest lecture about how AI is going to help finance professionals. Then I pointed out, those two things aren't really related.

The term AI is being used to obfuscate details about multiple semi-related technologies.

Traditionally in sci-fi, AI means artificial general intelligence like Data from star trek, or the terminator. This, I shouldn't need to say, doesn't exist. Techbros use the term AI to trick investors into funding their projects. It's largely a grift.

What is the term AI being used to obfuscate?

If you want to help the less online and less tech literate people in your life navigate the hype around AI, the best way to do it is to encourage them to change their language around AI topics.

By calling these technologies what they really are, and encouraging the people around us to know the real names, we can help lift the veil, kill the hype, and keep people safe from scams. Here are some starting points, which I am just pulling from Wikipedia. I'd highly encourage you to do your own research.

Machine learning (ML): is an umbrella term for solving problems for which development of algorithms by human programmers would be cost-prohibitive, and instead the problems are solved by helping machines "discover" their "own" algorithms, without needing to be explicitly told what to do by any human-developed algorithms. (This is the basis of most technologically people call AI)

Language model: (LM or LLM) is a probabilistic model of a natural language that can generate probabilities of a series of words, based on text corpora in one or multiple languages it was trained on. (This would be your ChatGPT.)

Generative adversarial network (GAN): is a class of machine learning framework and a prominent framework for approaching generative AI. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is another agent's loss. (This is the source of AI images and deepfakes.

I know these terms are more technical, but they are also more accurate, and they can easily be explained in a way non-technical people can understand. The grifters are using language to give this technology its power, so we can use language to take it's power away and let people see it for what it really is.

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... hideout ...

somewhere in Sweden

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going

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just the two of us…

patreon // check more of my work on instagram // buy prints here

#tlok #korra #asami #korrasami

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my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

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I will let a thousand innocent people die if there's even a chance that he will live. That is what it means to support him, you do understand that?

ROSAMUND PIKE as MOIRAINE DAMODRED The Wheel of Time 2.8 | "What Was Meant to Be"

#wot #wot S2 spoilers #moiraine #gifs #i love her so much

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*takes off my leather jacket to reveal a second, secret leather jacket underneath*

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Squeaky baby

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Baking :)

#spop #catra #adora #catradora #eeeeee love it

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I needed to see this :) time to spread it to others who may need it too!

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The Secret History, 1992. 

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just was practicing with faces

and Nona

#tlt #ntn

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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i need to eat a food. none of the food in the house is The Right Food. what is the right food? only god knows. and we're not on speaking terms right now.

#i call this toddler brain #every food i suggest is met with a loud “NO” in my head #it's very annoying