#i Could write an essay about this

[queenlokibeth]

Something something marie's first time using her powers in the show being when she accidentally hurts those she loves something something the last time she uses them is when she accidentally hurts someone while protecting someone she loves something something i'm gonna go scream

#jordan li #marie moreau #gen v #i could write an essay about this

[cutemeat]

theres not nearly enough appreciation for how the dee/charlie relationship is SUCH a perfect satire and subversion of how m/f relationships are treated in film and television

#i could write an essay about this #and maybe i will #chardee #cuz i hate when i see ppl going ‘ugh i hate how Times Up ruined/retconned chardee!’ #but it litrlly was retconned as early as Gets Held Hotsage Rules the World AND Misses the Boat like… #ruined? sure. retconned? nah #even Tends Bar basically retcons chardee as anything mutually romantic #but even an ep like Solves Global Warming affirms their relationship is better off n more entertaining when its not romantic/sexual #like thats the whole point imo #its litrlly meant to be satirical/is making some commentary

[misfithive]

YR S2 “I lied” thoughts (ramblings)

This is random and I’m sure been discussed but i think it was really important that Wille said “It was a moment I didn’t want to share so I lied about it”. He could have easily said he was told to do it or blamed someone else or just been more passive about what happened. But it was important for him to actually take accountability and take back control of the situation.

It’s esp important to Simon that Wille acknowledges he did have a choice. It was obviously a really messed up situation and it makes sense why he denied it. But owning the decision and giving a real reason is important in gaining Simon’s trust back bc he is taking responsibility and not just blaming his circumstances. Bc yeah his circumstances are not ideal but it’s always gonna be that way -Simon needs to be able to trust that Wille is going to be there for him, have integrity, and make his own decisions regardless of the circumstances. It is kinda a lot to ask given the extreme of being a prince but Simon has always treated Wille like a regular person. It also wouldn’t be an fair/healthy relationship if Simon was just always having to bend to Wille’s circumstances.

#idk why im thinking about this still #but honestly it is really good leadership and also shows he would make a good prince/king #i could write an essay about this #even the fandom wants to make excuses for wille myself included sometimes lol #but Simon’s needs matter too okay #young royals #wilmon #young royals wilhelm #young royals thoughts #wilhelm and simon

[tvisnoton]

Ranpo is one of the most complex characters in all of BSD, I'm so serious. I can talk my shit if yall want.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #ranpo edogawa #ranpo bsd #i could write an essay about this #im not joking #dazai is pretty complex too but its like a pseudo complexity #dont get me wrong i love dazai #but ykno #worlds greatest detective

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

"Haunted" by Melanie Martinez is such a Mushitarou song. It suits him and his backstory/situation so good help.

#I could write an essay about this #I want to hug Mushitaro so bad #He deserves so much better #bsd #bsd oguri mushitaro #bsd mushitaro oguri #bsd mushitaro #mushimizo #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #bsd manga #songs #bungou stray dogs manga #bsd s4 #bungou stray dogs season 4 #bungou stray dogs s4 #bsd season 4

[ionianodyssey]

I think the ai talked about in the post where you said you hate ai bc you are in tech industry, is talking about stuff like video game enemy ai & pathfinder. And what about ai finding cancer while still in its early stages & saving lives?

When a tool for solving problems is used for good. It's good.

To get into a little bit of detail: AI is a very large and ambiguous set of tools that can be used to solve problems. Depending on who you ask, they'll give you a different definition of AI. Even if two people gave the same definition, neither of them could come to a consensus of what problem solving tools are AI and which ones aren't. A big part of why it has such an ambiguous definition is that what constitutes "AI" 100 years ago was literally just the 1920s version of a computer. With each generation, there's a general trend of "the problem solving tools our parents created aren't actually AI, so let's make new and better problem solving tools and call them AI." If you asked an AI researcher today if they consider video game pathfinding or video game AI to be AI, they would probably tell you no.

A lot of AI research in a nutshell is some very smart people trying to find new and hopefully better ways to solve problems. But for the past few years AI has become more and more of a buzzword in the business sector, which has leaked its way into research, and now a lot of very smart people are throwing their head at the wall inventing things that already exist. But because they can call it "AI" because it uses more recently developed ideas, it's considered Good and Very Cool. I don't really agree with this, and I've seen university professors and deans that are so absorbed by the AI bubble that they're trying to make everything under the sun run on AI. Reinventing the wheel. This sort of creates a feedback loop where software engineers are taught that anything called AI is The Best. And so they try and make everything AI. And this slowly trickles down into the corners of the internet and public thought until (sorry for the jump in my reasoning) dudes in their basements start trying to make AI things that are just reinventing the wheel, unnecessary or just outright harmful. And feeling like the one voice trying to say "maybe we give this word far more credit than it deserves" in a crowd of tech bros is just a real drag, you feel? But the difficult part is that there is a bubble going on, and one can genuinely make money from this, fueling the bubble and lining your pockets if you know when to dip. So, under capitalism, everyone is incentivized to invest into this newfangled tech with a very misleading name.

But credit where credit is due. AI, GPTs, and a lot of the new forms of AI being improved and put into use have already found innumerable uses to help people with disability, as well as use in the medical field. Which brings joy to my heart, knowing that enough people have cared about these derpy little machines long enough, believing that one day, maybe they will be able to think. That we were able to create some genuinely interesting tools that would've blown alan turings mind.

TL;DR AI under capitalism is often bad, but it still does good, which is very cool. We're in a tech bubble.

#i ramble #i hate the ai bubble #but anything that can be used for good is good if its used for good #i wasn't being nuanced with my previous post #i skipped over some personal examples and frustrations for the sake of brevity #i am happy to go into more detail given a lot more time #i could write an essay about this

[feralshadowdemon]

all the bsd characters give off varying degrees of neurodivergent

#shitpost #bsd #bungo stray dogs #alistair talks to the mirror #i could write an essay about this #not actually but. in my heart maybe

[snobgoblin]

#its just a fact #the powerpuff girls #ppg #mr green #mr green ppg #ace ppg #ace copular #professor utonium #ppg memes #i could write an essay about this

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

First kill is great, you guys are just fucking mean

#I could write an essay about this

[whirling-fangs]

↺ : My muse and the past. (Do they live in the past and struggle to let go of past grievances, or move on more easily, is there anything in their past they want to forget, e.t.c.) 

Headcanon meme from ages ago

Inosuke almost never thinks about the past. His mind is, in many ways, similar to an animal's. He rarely reflects upon the past, neither does he project himself in the far future. He ensures his survival day after day, night after night.

As he comes into contact more with humans, however, he starts to understand the importance of the past. He likes to brag about his achievements, which forces him to reminisce distant events. His childhood memory is rather foggy, even more than usual for a boy his age, but he relies mostly on the feelings and sensations rather than the actual images.

Until the Natagumo Mountain incident, Inosuke had never dwelled over any event for so long. He lost a little piece of his "innocence" on that day, after such a close brush with death. The long lost memories that flickered before his eyes, right before the demon crushed his skull, made him realize that there is more to his life than the day he's currently living.

Ever since that day, Inosuke finds himself thinking about the past more often. Random, meaningless memories spring to his mind, along with deeper ones. Every time he's forced to lie in a hospital bed, with nothing but his mind to keep himself busy, he finds his brain assaulted with the past.

Inosuke never thought about the past because he didn't have the luxury to do so. As he abandons his wild life, and becomes more accustomed to having his basic needs fulfilled without having to fight for it... the past becomes more proeminent.

And more often than not, Inosuke finds himself wishing that he could make it all stop.

#boar compendium / headcanons #[[i can't believe i left this gem of an ask in my drafts for so long ;-; #i could write an essay about this #how inosuke was literally a wild animal with just a few occurences of human thoughts #but the humans had to barge in and make him THINK >:[ ]]

[tardis--dreams]

I have so many thoughts on kang yohan but lucky for you they're all incomprehensible so I will keep them to myself

#I do character analysis in my head like 17 hours a day #Love the symbolism and the nuances and everything #I could write an essay about this #If i was still in literature studies (and tv shows are arguably a part of that) I'd write a paper about this #But alas I'm not #So my thoughts will remain unstructured #shut up amy

[mythicalthing]

I feel exactly the same way as you do on those tags, about being hurt by the attitude toward her thing with Matty. It stings

Hi friend, sorry that I'm just seeing this. Thanks for sending :') it's really tough because I can appreciate the self reflection that she does in the album, but listening to but daddy I love him is just really frustrating and not like the person that I admire. I know we make mistakes, but the way she made concerned fans feel is something that's hard to let go of

#i could write an essay about this #asks #anon

[feelboss]

the core thesis of bg3 is how someone, multiple someones, who have no sense of self outside of an outside influence, can learn to find who they really are when they're free. the entire concept is about breaking free from pain and manipulation and discovering who you actually are on your own. its a thing for... all of the companions and a lot of the npcs.

#bg3 #i could write an essay about this #i won't #but i could #i mean actually i might #but i won't really. #but i might.

[spn2006]

the fact that eric kripke isn't even christian really adds something to the way christianity is depicted on supernatural. because its really not about being christian at all, but about living in america, a country dominated by christianity, and having to decide for yourself how to handle that. faith is huge in supernatural, and the mythology of the show is very bible-centric, but notably, christ is never there. even sam, who starts out revering the angels, who once said he prays every night, doesn't actually call himself a christian or imply that he believes in jesus--the show is steeped in christianity and biblical lore and yet neither sam nor dean are christians. in fact, over and over again the church itself is depicted as a haunted house that sam and dean will only ever enter as strangers, as outsiders. priests, preachers, faith healers, chapels, crypts, etc. are all just iconography that create an intense sense of unease that sam and dean respond to instantly. as a jew, its very relatable. an essential part of living in america when you're not christian is that exact sense of unease, of knowing that the culture of your country has ensured that you'll get knocked over by christianity no matter where you go, that you'll see hundreds of people truly believing they're good people while doing awful things in the name of their god, and you have no choice but to confront that. kripke gets it

#i could actually write an essay about this #kripke is jewish and so is sera gamble #and when i rly think about it i think the show is very jewish #in that its a rejection of the christian interpretation of god and free will #its all about questioning what's put in front of you and i think that's a big part being jewish to me #anyway! #rambles #spn #supernatural #spn analysis #spn meta #faith #christianity #theology #kripke era #eric kripke #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #zachariah spn #uriel spn #anna milton #american gothic #fav #🔪

[foxstens]

and don’t even get me started on the lore and the themes and on how emotionally powerful this game can be

#my posts #gameblogging #liveblogging rain world #i could write an essay about this #and maybe i will after i play through all of downpour #but i watched this video called 'rain world and emotions in level design' or smth like that #and it left such an impression im never not thinking about it #and when i got to /that/ room in 5p during my gourmand run #i just sat there and listened to the music and freaking cried #it had been building up as i went through the area bc i went through some of unfortunate development #and i paid a lot more attention to the background art while going through the memory conflux? and all that #but f u c k that was such a moment #its still my absolute favourite area #by the way that's the second time the game made me actually cry #the first time was the first time i saw the opening cutscene and heard 'pictures of the past' #before i even knew enough about the game to be emotionally invested it affected me that much #yea... i think this game is kind of special to me

[akajustmerry]

She cried for other reasons too — that the “Succession” chapter of her life has ended. “I’ll never have an opportunity to speak those lines, or get given new lines, new jokes, new worlds for Shiv and Roman to exist in together,” Snook says. “Just sadness for never getting a moment to play with these brilliant actors again.” (When I tell her that Culkin had said to me that perhaps Shiv and Roman might make up at some point, Snook brightens. “I feel like Shiv and Roman would reconcile in a way where he would be the shitty but great weird uncle for her kid, and there might be some sort of strange little family unit that gets splintered off.”) - Sarah Snook, Variety.

Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy and Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy | Succession (2018-2023)

#successionedit #sarah snook #kieran culkin #roman roy #shiv roy #succession #tv #could write a dissertation on how i feel about roman and shiv but it would just be an essay on why i love my brother (and hate him lol) #/