#aya abstractions

[ataraxiaspainting]

Can you write for black swan as a yandre?

Lovers Forever, Until The World Falls Down.

Yan Black Swan x F Reader.

Synopsis: Her tarot cards are just as well used to predict the past as they are to predict the future.

Warnings: Yandere themes, unhealthy relationships, manipulation, major spoilers for Honkai: Star Rail 2.0 and 2.1 Updates, implied stalking, and mentions of violence/character deaths.

Word Count: 1.3k.

*~*~*~*

When Black Swan’s eyes first lay upon you, she has multiple impressions of you.

The Remembrance has caused her to have manifolds of judgments, some lapses and others more thorough. But never once did the Remembrance ever cause her to be so deeply enveloped in someone that she would proudly showcase what Fuli has blessed her with.

She knows what you are, all of you. Your past, present, and future… all of it is seen within the eyes of the Garden of Recollection.

It is only natural for her to want you to know her as much as she knows you. With social creatures comes the need to connect. When it comes to Black Swan, her wants and her needs are equally important, and thus she has no need to separate them.

“What brings you to me, fair maiden? What ails you?”

The only sounds that arise from you are slight grumbles, and the only fresh sights she has of you are fading tear stains on your cheeks. As a response, she repeats her words softer this time, crosses one of her legs over the other, and rests her head on one of her gloved hands.

“I want…” You start, clenching your nails into your palms so deep they almost bleed. “To know the… thing that killed my friend, Memokeeper.”

In her other hand are a few of her beloved tarot cards, tucked so lovingly between her pointer and middle fingers. 

“Ah,” Black Swan lets out a sigh so gentle you do not hear it. “I presume you are speaking of Miss Robin?”

You nod, looking down at your lap as she lays out the cards in a simple, singular motion on the table.

“Who else would I be talking about?” Your tone is that of an angry hiss, but she knows it is not directed at her. For you, you two had only just met. But to her, with the powers that come with the followers of the Remembrance, it feels like she has known you your entire life.

Black Swan’s gaze is all-seeing, and nothing that is not in the dark can be unseen once she has seen it–even when she wishes it were otherwise, like that dance she had with that Galaxy Ranger.

She wishes now that perhaps she was dancing with you instead.

“Pick a card,” The Memokeeper requests, her now free hand gesturing towards the sight she had just made. “We’ll continue from there.”

“Why?”

She shakes her head slightly as she closes her eyes for a moment. From that expression on your face, she can tell that you have to stop yourself from scoffing at her. “Just trust me; I don’t mean any ill will towards you… and nor will I harbor any.”

“I’ve heard odd things like this about you, Miss Black Swan, but I didn’t think they would have been true.” She knows the comment is not an insult, but it is not a compliment either. “Do people blessed by the Remembrance always act like this? I’m… just curious is all.”

When you point to the card on the center’s right. “Are you planning to replace me already? I thought we were getting along quite well…” 

She turns over the card as her palm faces you, and that causes you to loudly gasp. 

“The Eternal Freeze… Jarillo-VI.”

She turns over the card on the center’s left without asking you to pick another. She stifled a chuckle.

 “Cocolia Rand. A Silvermane Guard trapped in what looks to be a block of ice…”

One after the other, things are revealed. It is faster than either of you could catch your breath. It is faster than what you wanted it to go. It is not faster than the realization that hits when Black Swan connects all your memories into a perfectly completed puzzle.

“Stop it-”

“You have lost someone before, haven’t you?” She can imagine… no, presume, the suffocating atmosphere surrounding you, as you appear on the verge of gasping for air. “You couldn’t save them either… Am I right, Miss [First]?”

You don’t answer, but you don’t look angry anymore. Despite the venomous nature of her words, her tone manages to grow even gentler as she utters them.

“Despite everything you tried to do, you couldn’t save them… Who were they, if you don’t mind me asking such a thing, oh dear citizen of Belobog?”

You avert your gaze from her, once again opting not to respond. Black Swan patiently waits, arranging the cards in her hand to create a semi-circle. As a Memokeeper, she has acquired numerous lessons from the Remembrance, but the most valuable one is knowing the significance of patience.

The fingers that wrap around your own are both warm and freezing cold.

“My… partner.”

She tilts her head to the side, her lips pursing up into a kind smile. “Ah… I see… I didn’t know.” She lies. “I’m sorry for your loss. But… my apologies for saying this… if you couldn’t even save your partner from the blizzard, I believe you cannot avenge Miss Robin’s death.”

Your eyebrows simply furrow like she expected them to.

“For Peniconians, death is a grand illusion, a state of falsehood, something that is not supposed to exist within the Dreamscape… thus, something much more powerful than you or I or even the Family had to break the rules of the Harmony and become… well… Death.”

When Black Swan’s eyes look at new tears as they start to fall, she has only two impressions of you, the others fading away like an amnesiac’s memories.

“I don’t mean any harm when I tell you this. It is the truth, plain and simple.”

Her hand squeezes slightly against yours. Once again, you do not respond.

“You do not have to fight something you cannot defeat.” She scoots her chair slightly closer to your side of the table.

She is met by a few more moments of quietness before you ultimately choose to break the silence. “Her death will be in vain then. Just like theirs. I do not want to be a coward anymore.”

Another sigh escapes her lips, and once again it is not out of exhaustion but rather curiosity.

Her grin remains unwavering, just as she had taught herself to. “You were never a coward in the first place, dear.”

Black Swan continues to move her chair quietly, but not at all subtly, until your thighs touch hers.

“I really won’t be able to… at least help the Family?” You ask. “I am really not… useful?”

“You’re useful in other ways to the people you love and trust, and those who reciprocate.” Her initial judgment is that you require safeguarding from the dangers of the world. It is in your best interest, her best interest, to remain inside a safe and small space, as there is a risk of you inadvertently harming yourself while attempting to assist others.

“Am I?” You mutter, clasping your hands together. “Am I… really? People… really like me?”

She affirms with a slight movement of her head.

Black Swan's second opinion of you is that you pose too great of a risk to be released, as it would result in her being left alone without any chance of ever seeing you again.

It is selfishness that prevents her from showing the two remaining cards, both hidden elsewhere. One of which has the depiction of you dead, and the other has you smiling proudly as she watches from afar in hiding.

The Remembrance has taught Black Swan how to be many things, but it is Black Swan who has taught herself how to be selfish.

#i can fix her i swear #yandere #yandere x reader #aya abstractions #yandere honkai star rail x reader #yandere honkai star rail #yandere hsr x reader #yandere hsr #yandere black swan #yandere black swan x reader #black swan x reader #honkai star rail x reader #hsr x reader #300 followers event

[remembranceusa]

Aya Takano, The Weightless Room.

[tinogiehd]

wait so is creation myth a song fic?

naur it’s just inspired by I know the end

#and abstract by hozier But we don’t need to talk about that one #aya asks #fic talk

[blindbabybutterfly]

Hi 👋🏽 guys,

I’m coming back to y’all in my dearest obscure corner of the internet to share with y’all my last little silly love song.

If it tickles your curiosity, give it a listen, show it to your next door neighbor, play it with your friends, dance on it with your grandma, scare your momma with it…

Thankfully yours (I wonder 💭 what that means)

#blindbabybutterfly #orca vibes #lofihiphop #lofi anime #aya takano #kawaii #superflat #alternative hip hop #lofi and chill #mac miller #lous and the yakuza #j dilla #common #erykah badu #lauryn hill #kid cudi #asher roth #brockhampton #kevin abstract #takashi murakami #indie music #easy listening #jazzhop #cratediggers #toulouse #liv.e #pink siifu #maxi #my music #soul sampled beats

[sweetbottletops]

At this rate Aya is going to have to expose Koga at increased strengths two or three more times to her friends so they can build up an immunity to her rizz.

Ch. 64

In some ways it’s like Aya wanting to share her favorite song. Look how proud she is. She’s come a long way from giving the shop “guy” updates. And they think she’s cool too.

(How soon til her friends see Koga in full form and roll back the tape to realize there’s always been only one part time employee at the CD shop to have been crushed on?)

It’s clear to me Koga’s heart isn’t into college. She didn’t wake up one day desperate to get an earth science degree. She isn’t framing this as win/lose for a future unnamed career. She had a change of heart when she found out Aya is going down down the collage path and is willing to make herself uncomfortable following her. She has to win for that.

At first she was going to say no in some fashion, but something changed.

At the time the “love” exclamation during the Joan Jett serenade seemed abstract, but since then she’s done several things out of of her comfort zone that make it clear she made a choice. Her public gift giving. Her choice to stay longer with the group after the trip and being shy afterward about enjoying it. Her immediate pivot to entrance exams after having no prior interest. Inviting herself to Aya’s home. The way her interest seems untethered to college itself.

Her main example of love so far is Uncle Joe sacrificing his dreams to stay with her. Joe and Kanna splitting up despite being lovers. Of being a central figure in that. She’s always been aware of what happened. As she’s gotten older she grown more cynical in some ways.

Love has been sacrifice. It’s been staying.

Throwing herself headlong into a way to stay with Aya seems like her method.

Aya knows what makes Koga tick. What makes her happy. And hopefully she’ll start picking apart this college moonshot Koga is going on until she’s at least articulating her reasons. Koga really is the person who just *snap* buys a new fridge without consulting the roommate. She’d definitely just decide to stay with Aya in the most hardest and unnessisary way possible without having a discussion first.

The two things that make her happy she already has at hand.

#tumblr ate my post #the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all #arai sumiko #green manga #omg ate it again #it was that good it came back for more #sweetbo reads

[sidestepping]

Wip W...ednesday (almost)

I was tagged by @kittlesandbugs and @the-rebel-archivist and for ONCE I do have something in the wings (slowly...), so. Thank you so much for thinking of me!!

I think the usual suspects have already been nudged but I'll tag @astarien, @rab-bitly, @eydika, @cowboyan, @askweisswolf, @lazyvoyager, @westealtoys and @aya-m3k. Show me what yer working on if you like 👁️👄👁️ (fuck these are terrifying on desktop)

ANYWAY. Working on my second chapter for this fic, Astarion POV this time, Baldur's Gate 3, here's a part of the wip:

(ASTARION)

You are free. Tonight and every night you are free. As long as you do not sleep or remember or think or tremble you are free. As long as you are fed you are free. Shut your ears, open your eyes, sharpen your blade. In all the ways that matter, in the only way that matters, you are free.

Free, you stalk the forest. Free, you lift your face, and breathe the heart-pumping heat of life, blooded rich with wildlife. Free, you hunger, you gnaw, you salivate.

Despite the crash, despite the goblins, despite the fear that make thinking creatures quake and flee, the underbrush around here still teems with vermin—blissfully unaware, ruled only by habit and need, and ripe for the taking.

Ripe. That’s funny. You don’t remember ripe, do you? The sweetness of fruits, of good wine, of bleeding meat or yielding flesh. What you still have is its abstract idea—its bursting, its melting. The colors you can’t quite reach. The mess it leaves behind, delicious enough to lick clean.

Tonight will not be ripe, because it never is. It won’t melt, and won’t delight. But it will struggle and whine, mindless though it is, it will split and fuel, paltry though it is, and is that not enough of a substitute, this bleeding, this excruciating pain, inflicted on what is leaner and emptier than even you are?

Is that not joy? Wild joy? Technically, you don’t remember joy either. But close enough.

#astarion #bg3 #wip w #in the live of night #in this one nettie will die horribly. normal decisions to take at the grove

[katalinhunter]

Cross

Time and its paths and the ways everything is woven together. What should be a nice and simple linearity hadn't proved to be so. In the abstract it's easy to accept that the flow of time is relative, with certain locations moving along at a different rate than others. It gets a little more complicated when you have to deal with that fact personally.

Especially when you're missing some of the details.

Things had been calm and idyllic, a well-deserved period of relaxation and revelry. They were between missions and crises and were preparing for their next performance - then she woke to the sounds of recuperation: a background thrum of machinery, the lapping of medicated water within healing baths, familiar voices speaking softly.

Katalin stretched out on the bed and took a quick inventory of everything. No, nothing broken, no signs of any trauma, major or minor. At most her throat was a little scratchy which, recuperation seemed a bit much for a sore throat.

She swung her legs off the bed and laid her feet on the ground, attracting Aya's attention. "Oh... Speak of the devil..." the au ra scientist had muttered before moving over to check on her. The usual question of how are you feeling followed by a more specific one asking her to remember her name.

Had there been a head injury? Apparently she had been out for two days.

No. There was someone, something else, this... Harle. She couldn't quite make clear the details but it sounded like she had been possessed for a while. It may have dealt with voidsent, ghosts, spirits, there was a bit of talk about other timelines, she wasn't clear on the who or what. Either way she seemed better now; even the sore throat had faded with a bit of water.

Katalin had been out for more than two days. In a strict calendar sense, at the time it had been nearly 10 moons since her last memory. In a more relevant sense, years of memories were gone - more.

Sometimes timelines cross. In her case they also crashed.

#ffxiv #ffxiv rp #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2022 #prompt 1 cross

[a-skykid]

This post shows how difficult is it to draw skykids and why.

Kami: Easy to draw, simple tracing, shapes and lines

A Skykid: For novice artists, more curves, technology of shadows and tone

Aya: Advanced, more focused and precise drawing, technology of colours and more detailing

Bean: Abstract, more drawing tools required, the technology of blending, sketching and doodling

Korro: Talented, advanced colours, the technology of measuring, pastels and format

The Corrupted Skykid: Artist, excessive writing and sketching,

the technology of sketching apps, photo editing and advanced measuring

Viola: Pre-True Artist, semi-realistic art, the technology of painting, all perspectives, color oils and watercolors

AURORA: True Artist, the pinnacle of art, the technology of dimensions, maximum level of all drawing techniques and realistic detail

Extra Artists

The Shattered Skykid: Distorted, the master of shattered, broken and cursed art, the technology of symmetry, advanced

geometry and empty spaces

HOPER: Textian, the pinnacle of typing, inkwriting and creating words, the technology of letters, inkwriting and dictionaries

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #thatskygame #skykid #sky #art #gaming #moths #sky cotl meme #comics

[sappymix1]

sappy my sappy i love you for your body horror swag. i justwent back through your fics to find a scene bc anon reminded me of it bc i love it so bad

His lungs were too big for his chest, butting up against his ribs and, slowly and then abruptly all at once, the picture of Dream’s hazy face in his fuzzy brain was replaced with the mental image of his ribs cutting like knives into the flimsy flesh of his lungs as they tried frantically to expand. He took a shuddery, too small breath. What would Dream say, if he told him that he thought he was going to drown on his kitchen floor? 

u are so endlessly awesome to me that's all

aya :((( ily sm you’re so sweet also the way i could not work out what fic this was from 🙈🙈🙈 no memory of that scene at all.

but omg i loved your snippet sm i loooooove a nightmare sequence like the melding with reality and everybting being kind of blurry and violent and all this like abstract imagery like fuck it’s so good!!!!!! it’s so fun and creative i love it

#asks #aya tag

[bijoyconverterf]

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[ataraxiaspainting]

Presentiment of Massacre.

Yan Geto x F Reader.

Synopsis: Of all the people in your village, why were you the only one spared?

Warnings: Yandere themes, kidnapping, manipulation, major spoilers for the start of JJK S2, some not SFW implications, and violence/slight gore.

Word Count: 900.

*~*~*~*

“You can see them, can’t you?”

The man is tall, so much taller, so much taller than you who is curled up into a ball in the corner of your home, to hide, an intention that was more or less popped like a balloon. He is so much taller than the corpses littering the floor with their blood, their vomit, their tears. Gazing at the disarray with a mix of revulsion and frustration, he found himself devoid of any trace of it on his person, his exasperation evident as he muttered the word monkeys repeatedly along with quick, muffled talks of cleaning and baths and stains.

“Miss. You can see them, can’t you? The beings around us.”

As he receives no response once more, he pivots. A terrifying grin adorns his face, an unsettling visage that seems to transcend the boundaries of humanity. It appears as if it is a mere appendage, capable of detachment at whim, akin to a magnet or a metallic fragment. This facade, a deceptive guise, conceals the malevolent demon lurking beneath its surface.

“...I… Please… Please just ge-”

“Answer my question.” Interrupting, he maintains a sickeningly warm smile and tone, though his words possess an entirely different temperature. They are demanding. Frigid. For nothing burns quite like the icy cold. “I know you can, from the way you are looking around the room and hiding. Stop pretending you can’t.”

Even when his gaze was averted, his vigilance never wavered, always deciphering the motives behind your awkward, apprehensive behavior. He possesses an uncanny ability to interrogate as if presiding over a courtroom, posing probing inquiries that unveil the heart of the matter. Every response you offer seems to hold the power to determine your verdict: a life of freedom, confinement, or even death.

Opting for honesty may prove beneficial. It could potentially strengthen your position, although there are no guarantees. Contemplating the act of praying, you ponder its efficacy, hoping for assistance from any divine entity that may exist. You certainly wouldn't want to become another disfigured body within the grasp of the beast behind the man's monstrous jaws.

So, after weighing all of this out, your lips part instinctively.

“Ah, I knew it. Unlike these monkeys, you are worthy.” As a reaction to those two sentences, about a million thoughts and questions sprout in your mind. “You will be spared if you join us. You do not want to be rotting on top of these filthy monkey corpses, do you?”

In an instant, you vigorously shake your head, causing a fleeting sense of dizziness, as you promptly respond to his inquiry this time.

“I’ll… I’ll… do it.” As anticipated, the act of surrendering proved to be a complex experience, simultaneously challenging and effortless. This situation resembles a collision of opposing forces, resulting in a powerful and explosive event. However, due to an innate instinct and the familiarity acquired from past encounters with your inebriated father, you find yourself succumbing once again. “Anything.” You don’t think of saying that word specifically, and you regret it later than sooner. “Just… Just please. I want to live.”

A gentle pull brings you to your feet as his hand reaches out to grasp yours.

“I am glad you accepted my conditions. Very glad.” The man brushes his side bang out of his face, his grip becoming slightly looser. “I am Suguru, Suguru Geto. Now, what is your name, my new recruit?”

“...[First].” You whisper your name so softly, questioning whether Geto caught it. “Do I… Do I have to use that too? Because…”

“No, you don’t. Though if you want you can be taught to wield something, something weaker than this.”

He responded to your question as if you were a young child inquiring about the purchasing of infants from a retail establishment. “...But do I have to?”

Geto shook his head and called the beast with two waving fingers. It is a dragon, you think, from how long it is and how it has large white scales, even whiter teeth, and long golden hair partially stained red, and how its large blue eyes stared into your soul.

“That depends on the future.” He says, his grip dwindling even further. The monster disappears with another wave of his hand. He chuckles. “Depends mainly on what you do, and why you do it.”

“…What do you think I would do?”

“You’re not good at hiding your emotions, you know.” Something creeps up your thigh, and before you have the chance to scream he puts his hand on your mouth and his other hand grabs one of your arms. “That gives way to not being able to hide your plans very well. You’re planning on running the first chance you get, aren’t you? Before you do such a silly little thing, I must tell you that I can give you protection, and luxuries beyond your imagination… everyone and everything will bow down to you.”

He looks down at the slimy red thing with at least six eyes, the build and size similar to that of a basketball. Its lips were sucking on your flesh with words like love leaving them in between moments. That was the answer to your unspoken question.

“All you have to do is follow me, okay? No matter where I go, follow me. Do that, and your life will be so much better.”

From the look in his eyes, you already know he had already made the decision for you.

#aya abstractions #yandere #yandere x reader #yandere geto #yandere jujutsu kaisen x reader #yandere jujutsu kaisen #yandere jjk x reader #yandere jjk #jjk x reader #yandere geto x reader #yandere suguru #yandere suguru geto

[remembranceusa]

Aya Takano, The Moon Looking From Earth.

[tinogiehd]

Top three songs:

i hope you explode.

#abstract movement and sunlight #aya asks

[jcmarchi]

More Super Models is All We Need

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More Super Models is All We Need

Five major foundation models released in a single week!

Created Using DALL-E

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Edge 371: Our series about reasoning in LLMs continues with an exploration of the Skeleton-of-Thoughts(SoT) method. We review the original SoT paper by Microsoft Research and the Dify framework for developing LLM applications.

Edge 372: We review the research behind CALM. Google Deepmind’s technique to augment LLMs with, well, other LLMs!

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📝 Editorial: More Super Models is All We Need

The release of new foundation models is nothing new in this ever-evolving generative AI market. Yet, last week felt quite overwhelming. I sat down to write this editorial on Friday morning, afraid that I might have missed some new announcements at the end of the week. This fear stemmed from experiencing one of the most impressive weeks in the history of generative AI technology. In just a few days, we witnessed the announcements of five mega generative AI models by some of the major players in the space. What is even more impressive is that each of these releases is pushing a specific line of innovation within generative AI, rather than merely copying others.

Let’s do a quick recap to put things in context.

OpenAI’s Sora: OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video generative model that can create astonishingly real videos. The key highlight here is, obviously, OpenAI’s push for innovation in the video space.

Google’s Gemini 1.5: Just a week after releasing Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Google unveiled Gemini 1.5, its new-generation multimodal model which boasts an impressive one million tokens. Gemini 1.5 includes several innovations, such as a new mixture of experts architectures and, obviously, the large-scale context window.

Cohere’s Aya: As a competitor to OpenAI, Cohere has dived into open source with the release of Aya, a new multilingual LLM supporting 101 languages. The key innovation here is Cohere’s push into open source and the wide support for different languages.

Meta’s V-JEPA: Meta AI released the code for V-JEPA, a non-generative model capable of predicting missing parts of videos using an abstract representation space. V-JEPA represents another step in Meta’s vision of enabling self-supervised learning as the core foundation of AGI.

Stability AI’s Stable Cascade: Stability AI has open-sourced Stable Cascade, a new text-to-image model. What’s new here? Well, Stable Cascade is based on the new Würstchen architecture, which enables efficiency and speed in large-scale image generation models.

How’s that for a single week? These releases are not only likely to play a significant role in the next generation of generative AI applications, but they are also championing new and unique innovations in the space.

Keep the supermodels coming!

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🔎 ML Research

V-JEPA

Meta AI published a paper and source code detailingVideo Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture( V-JEPA), another model towards their self-supervised learning vision. V-JEPA learns by predicting missing types of videos in an abstract representation space —> Read more.

More Agents is All You Need

Tencent AI Research published an interesting paper proposing a paper to enhance the performance of LLMs using a sampling and voting method. The technique seems to scale with the number of agents initiated and its performance is also proportional to the complexity of the task —> Read more.

MGIE

Researchers from Apple and UC Santa Barbara published a paper detailing MLLM-Guided Image Editing(MGIE), an instruction-based image editing model. MGIE takes expressive instructions as input and derives explicit guidance —> Read more.

MOEs and Scaling Laws

Researchers from Google DeepMind and several universities published a paper that highlights some insights about the scaling laws in mixture of experts(MoEs) architectures. The core contribution of the paper shows that MoE architectures result in more parameter scalable models —> Read more.

GraphRAG

Microsoft Research published details about GraphRAG, a technique used to build knowledge graphs in private datasets using the context knowledge of LLMs. GraphRAG improves over traditional RAG techniques when operating in complex private datasets —> Read more.

🤖 Cool AI Tech Releases

Sora

OpenAI unveiled a preview of Sora, an astonishing video generation model —> Read more.

Aya

Cohere open sourced Aya, an instruction fine-tuned, multilingual LLM with support for over 100 languages —> Read more.

Gemini 1.5

Google unveiled the next version of Gemini just a week after its prior release —> Read more.

Chat with RTX

NVIDIA launched Chat with RTX, a demo to run an LLM agent in a local computer and personalized with data stored in a Windows PC —> Read more.

Stable Cascade

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ChtGPT Memory

OpenAI announced new memory capabilities for ChatGPT —> Read more.

LangSmith

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FlyteInteractive

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📡AI Radar

Sierra, the company started by former Salesforce Co-CEO and OpenAI board member Bret Taylor, came out of stealth mode with a $110 million raised.

NVIDIA surpassed Amazon and Alphabet to become the fourth most valuable company in the world.

GPU platform Lambda announced a $320 million round.

LangChain raised $25 million in new funding led by Sequoia Capital.

Apple is reportedly working on a new AI tool to compete with GitHub CoPilot.

Guardrails AI, a company building a platform for safeguarding foundation models, announced a $7.5 million series A.

AIX Ventures raised $200 million for its second AI-focused fund.

Zocks, an AI platform for extracting structured data from conversations, raised $5.5 million in funding.

Zylon, the makers of PrivateGPT, raised $3.2 million in a pre-seed round to bring generative AI to SMBs.

Conversational AI platform raised $30 million in new funding.

AI VC firm Founderful is raising $120 million to invest in Swiss AI startups.

Sequence analytics startups Motif Analytics announced a $5.7 million seed round.

AI marketing platform Alembic announced a $14 million Series A.

ZenDesk acquired AI-based customer service platform Klaus.

Travel startup Layla announced the acquisition of AI-powered travel planning bot Roam Around.

Vector search startup Marqo raised $12.5 million in new funding.

AI gaming platform Ultiverse raised $4 million from strategic investors.

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25, 18, 8 and 1 :>

HENLO!!!

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one uhh lemme think 0-0 OKAY I JUST CHECKED and i created nameerah dharii this year!! she’s a jedi master, a mirialan and the master of my oc aya :D she’s a badass middle eastern grandma (loosely inspired by my favorite overwatch character 😔). she has a very wry sense of humor, she’s very wise and kind, though she used to have quite the anger problem when she was younger. also, like most of my ocs, she is bisexual 😌

18. a memorable meal this year? i had quite a few actually, but the ones that immediately come to mind are dinner at this place in egypt where i tried molokhia for the first time (it was yummy i had it with rabbit) or when me and my roommates ordered bad pizza and had our first movie night :3 it was rlly fun!!!!

8. game of the year? def totk even though i haven’t finished it SHDKDJE it’s the one ive put the most time in!! i haven’t done a whole lot of gaming this year but i am enjoying totk while i wait for silksong

1. song of the year? ugh there are so many good ones i can’t do this!!! tie between the birds are singing at night by lord huron and abstract (psychopomp) by hozier

#IM SO INDECISIVE SORRY #ASKDNEKDJD #THANK YOU ANON i love talking im talkative i love talking #kissies for you !!!!! #anon #ask #ask game #have i ever posted nameerah??? omg #nameerah dharii

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"Oh sorry about that dear. Didn't mean to scare you." Saya would then walk into the room and let out her Eevee. Watching as her pokemon started to run around and play, the wolf turned to look at Aya. "I'll be sure to hold back that side of myself a bit better."

Folding her arms, the wolf would sit down on a chair and pat the one next to her. "I'm glad you like it. And you can invite Maria and Louise to bring their pokemon to play. And you can even have sleepovers in this room too."

" Oh, no, don't worry. Just wasn't expecting it, was all. " Besides, she's already seen plenty of scary things, in her life. Some things being genuine nightmare fuel, or just far too confusing and abstract for her to really understand...like cookies with salsa. Seriously, who does that?

Noticing the wolf's motion, she'd walk on over to join her on the other chair. " That's a good idea, actually! In that case, I'll make sure to call and invite them, later. They got an early winter break, so they should available, today. "

#moonlitsorceress #{ask answered} #{drevis tragedy: ic}