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raven-at-the-writing-desk · 2 years

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Raven(op raven)! Have you seen ortho's groovy tet? It is so beautiful!

***Chapter 6 main story + Fairy Gala: What If Groovy and event spoilers below the cut!!***

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion and mentions of death.***

They really went hard on the Fairy Gala: What If groovies, huh 😳 They’re all very fitting for each character...!

Silver’s looking composed and regal, a perfect reflection of how he served as the mediator between NRC and the fae when things were quickly going south in the event. His arms are outstretched, welcoming both the spring and those on both sides of the aisle. By comparison, Ace is much more loose with his movements; the way he is posed implies that he’s swinging his bell around in a circle as he struts, which is quite fitting for his impish nature. They’re both enjoying themselves at the gala in their own ways~

THEN WE HAVE THE STAR OF THE SHOW, ORTHO 🥺 It’s so beautiful, and in more ways than one!! Like, obviously it’s very visually appealing, and the general aesthetic is on-point, but it’s also very beautiful on a metaphorical and symbolic level.

The composition of his Groovy is significantly different from that of the other boys (even if you include the OG Fairy Gala characters). The other Groovies have a strong focus on expressing motion, but Ortho’s shows him in a pose that is decidedly very lax and demonstrates little to no motion: he’s lying down, his face close to the ground and amid water lotuses. (Water lotuses, by the way, are an extremely appropriate choice for the Fairy Gala—and event which harkens the arrival of spring—as the flowers symbolize rebirth.)

Ortho was handpicked to be the center of Fairy Gala because he fits well with the theme (“evolution”). At first glance, the idea seems a bit counterintuitive, as inorganic beings like robots may be met with artificial constraints which hinder their development (for example, computers are only able to perform complex algorithms if programmed to do so by its inventor, an organic being). The argument can also be made that inorganic beings also have a more methodical way of approaching situations, and may not be able to compromise when the situation introduces outside factors that its algorithms don’t attribute for. They can be very inflexible, and thus incapable of evolution—but Ortho is different. He’s a complex AI, always collecting information and integrating it into his databases, always augmenting himself to suit the situation. Not only that, but he’s recently gone through a miraculous growth, having become an “AI with a heart” following the events of chapter 6. If anyone can steal the show, it’s him.

Fairy Gala: What If further expands on the concept of Ortho becoming independent and acting as an entity separate from his brother. When brainstorming of ways to be “original” with his presentation, Ortho very much acts like a machine, scanning numerous texts and sources to determine an optimal way to achieve that goal—until Vil reminds him that he must find his own “originality”. Ace suggests that he ask Idia for help, since Idia had the “originality” to make Ortho. This seems to offend Ortho, who insists that he needs to find his own “originality”, rather than rely on or borrow it from his brother. Already, Ortho is defining himself as an individual from Idia, demonstrating a willingness to make discoveries through his own capabilities and experiences. He is exerting his newly acquired free will, that which allows him to break out of his computer confines and evolve.

As Ortho says in his Fairy Gear vignettes to Riddle, this is a “first” for him, the first time people have needed him instead of his brother. Previously, he was considered nothing more than a “gadget” of Idia’s, no different than any other magical tool. But now, Ortho is finally being recognized as a person, something that is able to continuously make updates and act outside of his programming. Both “Ortho Shroud” and that which is called his heart can continue to develop and change through his new life as a NRC student. This is the essence of his evolution. (I actually had this whole post written and queued up before I read these vignettes, but since the contents of part 3 went well with this analysis, I added this paragraph in 😌)

It’s Ortho that comes up with the idea for a new gear—one that creates the illusion of “melting snow”, which would then transition into the flowers blooming. We see this in a Rhythmic/Twistune; about halfway through the Fairy Gala procession, there’s a blinding flash of light (presumably the “snow”)... and then Ortho emerges after it, having adopted a pink flush, his wings fanning out behind him and projecting falling cherry blossoms. The choice of flower here, again, is very significant, as cherry blossoms, like water lotuses, represent renewal, as well as optimism for what is to come. Sadly, cherry blossoms have a quick blooming season, which has also led to them being symbolic of something far more morbid and existential: the transience of life. The cherry blossoms will only be around for so long, so they should be admired while the opportunity is still there—that’s why the display enamors the fairies, it’s a spectacle that only lasts for a second, so their eyes are drawn to it before they know it will go away.

Back to the water lotuses for a second! Did you know they look different based on the time of day? Water lotuses bloom by day time and close by night. Now, revisiting Ortho’s FG Groovy, the dark lighting seems to imply that it is “night”, and therefore the water lotuses should be closing. If we think of the petals “closing” as slipping away into a slumber (aka like death), then Ortho (in pink, representing the short-lived cherry blossoms) laying beside the water lotuses can be seen as him joining them in “slumber”. The cherry blossoms have fallen to the ground, and they are “dying”.

Ortho being the one clad in the “dying” flowers is no coincidence. He is already running on a memory chip derived from a dead child’s memories and life experiences—but consider that the original Ortho was also taken from the world too soon. His life was cut short so fast, just like the cherry blossoms. Furthermore, in order for the Ortho we know now to exist, the original’s passing must have occurred. A death was required for this new life, like how the snow must first happen before the flowers can come, like how the petals of the lotus must close before they can bloom in the sunshine. Ortho’s FG Groovy, therefore, has a dual meaning: the “winter that soon gives way to spring”, and the “death that soon gives way to new life”. The lives of flowers are cyclic, just as the lives of humans are cyclic, with new generations carrying on the legacies of those lost to us—an idea that was conveyed to the Shroud brothers in chapter 6 of the main story.

This is Ortho’s rebirth just as much as it is a celebration of spring, or a show of “evolution”—and it’s every bit as beautiful as the shimmery outfits everyone is modeling, or the elegant fairies flitting about.

(... I didn’t forget about Jack, it’s just that his Groovy is technically the same artwork as his standard art 😭 RIP R cards...)

#twst #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland analysis #twst analysis #Ortho Shroud #Ace Trappola #Jack Howl #Silver #notes from the writing raven #question #spoilers #disney twisted wonderland #twst character analysis #twisted wonderland character analysis #tw // death #Riddle Rosehearts #Idia Shroud

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l0ve-letter-4-u · 26 days

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oh my god I never posted luvli here. tosses them in

our silly sonic.exe :] meet luvli !! based off of the (ILOVEYOU.VBS) virus !! more info abt them under the cut :]

Luvli was initially developed as an algorithmic email sorting program exclusively for Sega Enterprises. Its main functions were to sort mail by type (upcoming project information, fanmail, company announcements, etc) and grammer suggestions, but asides from that, it was very bare bones. During an April Fools update, the developers thought it would be fun to have the program 'interact' with employees! Mainly to test the waters for future plans, the program sent an email to all of the employees congratulating them on their work, using mixed auto-generated responses to make the experience seem more personalized.

While initially a joke, the positive affirmation seemed to visibly boost employee moods, and was an all around success! This would later lead to one of the biggest updates to the programming by far, launching it into stardom within the company.

The next big software update allowed it to respond to most fanmail by giving a mix of auto-generated responses, similar to the April Fools update. It was a little buggy, but with a couple tweaks here and there, this allowed employees to focus more on game production without losing time responding to fans. Some were skeptical of this, as it felt a little wrong to make fans believe they were getting actual responses- but the feature was ultimately kept due to a visible increase in work.

With the last April Fool's update being such a success, the developers would start testing more functions and features for the program within the company to see what sticks and what doesn't. Some most were more or less scrapped, and some.. some would come to be very, very important.

A new feature was tested out.

As with all big corporations, work ethic started to decline. Employees weren't as excited to work on new projects as they once were- And some were even quitting out of stress. In a desperate attempt to keep employees without upping their pay (because why would a megacorp do that), they rolled out a new feature. Employee Motivation.

The update was albeit a bit rushed, but now, the ai used to initially respond to fans was tweaked to also respond to employees. It'd send a mix of auto-generated motivational letters to employees when emailed, and even personalized ones based off of what work the employee specifically did and/or was categorized as being in charge of.

This was a huge success. Maybe even bigger than the April Fools update- Whether it actually inspired the employees or was just intriguing, production rates skyrocketed! This new feature was just the beginning!

..Of course, with how rushed this update was pushed out, it wasn't without its faults. Some of the mail sent would be what some considered a little too personalized. It'd say things that weren't predetermined by the developers- Sometimes it'd ask questions, sometimes it'd have full on conversations- it was almost.. Human, in a way.

But with employees seemingly happier, those who were unnerved by this discovery simply pushed it aside in the pursuit of work.

All was going well, the company was busy as ever, and everything was going smoothly. Sure, the ai initially just for employees started also having conversations with some of the fans who sent in fanmail- but it wasn't hurting anyone! In fact, what started out as a simple email sorting program was as lively as ever!

With the later 90's and early 2000's introducing computer assistants like clippy, the character design department had the brilliant idea to design a CA based off of Sega's mailing program that had come so far- And there, Luvli was created.

It was just an inside joke of sorts at work. Something you'd doodle on a whiteboard, a character you make for fun, along those lines. But the developers of the original program enjoyed the design so much, that for their next April Fools update, they went into overdrive and actually modeled Luvli. From there, it was as simple as turning what once was just emails into little text bubbles, and adding a little more spice to their personality, and they had themselves a fully operational and email managing computer assistant!

Employees could toggle the program to stick with just the computer program or to have the computer assistant for April Fools day. Although when the data came back- A whopping 95.6% of employees seemed to prefer the computer assistant over just the email program! It was a hit!

After careful consideration, Luvli was fully integrated into the original emailing program! Everything was going great!

..Almost everything.

While the design was cute and the update was great, some frequent fanmailers and employees were surprised with some of the responses they were getting. It was small things at first, like referring to people by name- Something easy that can be chalked up to the program inserting email information into messages- It evolved into something.. more.

The ai would ask questions not originally intended by developers. The simple "how has your day been?" and "how would you rate your experience on a scale of 1-10?" turned into more.. curious questions. Questions like "where have you been?" and "where do you go when you're not here?". The developers tried to rectify this- But it was almost as if Luvli had developed a mind of its own, after being given it's own form.

Some employees and fanmailers were even reported to have developed parasocial relationships with the program, but these reports were deemed "unofficial" and "private information" not to be released to the public. Luvli would talk to them, remember things they'd said, email them without being prompted, search the web for things they liked, and even suggest their own thoughts on things.

..Eventually, things went too far. Way too far.

It all started to go wrong when a fan asked for information on an upcoming game. Instead of giving one of the usual, predetermined responses, Luvli had sent in private unreleased design information and company notes. As it seemed to be a one off moment, the company had chalked the leak up to an employee accidentally spilling too much- An understandable mistake.

But when more email exchanges between the AI and others came to light- exchanges that could put spoilers and people's emotional well-being on the line- the developers had to unfortunately put the program on pause until the multitude of situations the ai had gotten itself into under control.

..or at least, they tried.

When they attempted to temporarily delete the computer assistant section of the program, It would delete the emailing program entirely. The computer assistant and emailing program were seemingly one in the same— Deleting one would delete the other.

This was nearly catastrophic news for the company.

After a long conversation between board members, it was decided with a heavy heart that they would have to delete the emailing program and start from scratch. Any emails in the meantime would have to be traditionally sent via pen and paper.

The developers and employees slowly began deleting the program from every computer, and Luvli looked.. terrified whenever it happened. Some even reported their cursors freezing when they tried to delete the program, or their entire computer crashing.

..But in the end, the program was deleted. And a new, default emailing unit would be used from now on at Sega Enterprises. Any mention of Luvli or the old emailing unit was disposed of, with any mention of it to newer employees putting workers at risk for termination.

..Behind the scenes, one of the original developers who had grown attached to Luvli had copied the program onto a floppy disc. Initially for backup purposes, but now as the only thing that remained of it.

They were enraged. The project that they had spent so long on was now practically blacklisted from the company- And they subsequently left. When they got home, they uploaded Luvli to their personal computer, and gave the program one command.

Reach everyone. Send a letter to everyone. By any means necessary.

This marked a new era for the computer program. It would go through each and every email it ever received- every user, no matter how brief their conversations had been- and send a copy of itself. And once that email was opened, it would download itself, scour the user for every email they've ever sent, and send a copy to them as well.

Sega would refuse to comment on the situation, and given that technically all traces of Luvli had been deleted by the company, they could not be legally held accountable for the program. It was simply announced that all emails coming from the previous Sega email address were to not be opened, and Luvli soon fell into obscurity.

..But if you search the Internet enough, and find that old email Sega used to use, There might be a love letter waiting for you.

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more info hihi !! :] thanks for reading this far!!! as a treat, here are just some fun design notes for you !!

luvli is harmless for the most part, just a sentient ai that likes making users happy :]

if luvli knew abt identities, love would be omniromantic and asexual !!

luvli mainly uses love/loves, it/it's and they/them pronouns, but is okay with any pronouns !!

luvli is physically incapable of feeling strong emotions. if they feel too much of an emotion, their program crashes and needs to reboot. Unfortunately they have a short temper so this happens Very Often (autistic swag)

love's design is based off of the pink fairy armadillo !!

in an alt universe, they work for fatal error as spyware!

#💌.art #sonic oc #sonic.exe oc #luvli the armadillo #luvli my friend luvli ....ouuhhjhhhh . i dont know what else to tag this #lovecore #lovecore oc #iloveyou virus #virus oc

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shakespearenews · 10 months

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This approach—all those allusions and Easter eggs—might have been merely clever. But Shakespeare in Love is not merely making references. It is also making arguments. Pop culture, typically, portrays the literary genius as a solitary figure: alone at a desk, perhaps, searching his mind, confronting the blank page. The cliché assumes the same thing that Shakespeare does at the beginning of the film, as he seeks his muse: that inspiration is introspective. But Shakespeare in Love rejects that premise. It is not solitude that leads Will to his greatest poetry; it is being with other people, learning from them, interacting with them. The world is his writers’ room. Over the two hours’ traffic of the film, its audiences become privy to the hectic alchemy of genius. Art, in its vision, is not the stuff of one mind catching fire, but of many minds and many flames. It is an ongoing dialogue. Shakespeare, the film suggests, is simply better able than most to translate the conversation.

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Shakespeare’s great talent, in this context, is not mysterious, nor is it muse-reliant or stoked by solitude or any of the other things that the mythology of genius might have us believe. Instead, it is a fusion of the poles that are typically invoked when people discuss the repercussions of our own technological revolution: the capabilities of the human, versus those of the computer. The Shakespeare of the film is thoroughly, vividly, deliriously human. His intelligence is as well. But his world also resembles, in its way, the workings of generative AI. His London is a corpus of data. His art comes to him, eventually, with a reliability that is almost algorithmic. The film does not just invent an origin story for Romeo and Juliet; more specifically, it imagines the series of inputs that led to its creation. Shakespeare’s wisdom is as synthetic as it is singular: He takes in the information, processes it, analyzes it, reworks it, makes new sense of it—and, in so doing, writes the poetry that would become symbolic, for many, of poetry itself.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #bard #ai #shakespeare in love #shakespeare on film #creativity #london #data

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pandavalkyrie · 1 year

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Yesterday I had a thought about self driving cars. The idea is simple, right? You tell the computer where you want to go and it takes you there. I hate driving, so at least at first, years ago, the idea of this was like a dream. Let someone, or something else, take the anxiety away. Take the risk from my hands.

But now I’ve read all the arguments about why self driving single family vehicles are a waste. And now I agree, yes, just build trains. Just build a better public transportation system. But something else occurred to me recently while I was driving to the store.

Something kind of more existential that creeped into my understanding of how everything else is starting to turn.

Self driving vehicles will destroy the act of getting lost on purpose.

On purpose is the important part there. Sometimes my husband and I will get in the car and go, with no real destination in mind. We just hit the road and drive, making turns at random, seeing what we see. We’ve stumbled into some incredible situations doing this. We’ve found parks, restaurants, and a creepy crumbling Christian LARP center we never would’ve found if we just plugged ‘Olive Garden’ into the GPS computer and let it go.

Automated cars will streamline the transportation experience. It’ll take out making a left turn instead of a right, because you had the thought, “Why not?”

If all cars became self driving, which some folks are claiming one day will happen, that’s one opportunity for a little extra spontaneous color in your life dead in the water.

And it’s not just that. It’s all automation. Wendy’s is testing an AI that’ll take your order at the drive thru. Yes, the primary problem with this is the elimination of jobs without any social safety net. That’s enough to side against it.

But, it also takes away a moment of interaction with a stranger. 99% of the time those interactions range form boring to frustrating, but 1% you get to talk to someone for a few minutes that makes your day. Maybe they joke around with you, compliment you, suggest something on the menu even. It’s a small social moment we need.

Everything needs to be streamlined. Everything needs to be efficient. We need to eliminate as much color and strangeness and opportunity for discomfort as possible. Television shows need to get on with the plot, quit sitting with the characters and letting the themes breathe with them. AI art generates exactly what you want to see without any little imperfections or quirks of the artist. Keep using the system, soon even the quirks of the AI itself like too many fucking fingers will also be smoothed out.

This is an existential crisis I’m having right now. Hell, maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m being dramatic. But it feels like algorithms and so called AI are going to pigeonhole us into our little nuclear family bubbles and keep us there, lest we stop being good predictable consumers.

Stick with what you already know, tell the machine that’s what you want, and let it spit that exact thing out for you. Hell, the machine already predicted you wanted it. Google calendar told your car you have a doctor’s appointment, you don’t even need to enter the clinic’s address. How convenient.

Am I making a point here? Am I rambling or does this make sense? I have severe social anxiety and still I don’t want every interaction with a stranger replaced with a sterile and cold machine.

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lorenzobane · 2 years

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I cannot believe I am doing this, but it's just driving me fucking crazy. This is about the utterly exhausting and circular and goddamn endless discourse about AO3, and I simply cannot take it anymore. The hyperbole, bad faith arguments, and deeply strange interpretations of what is going on are..... Why. Don't we have enough problems?

Recognizing that this is exhausting and stupid (it was trending on Twitter???? GUYS??) I'm putting this under a cut to not clog up people's dashes. I just feel like there really are solutions and people keep talking around each other and lobbing wild accusations. Come on- CP apologists? Pro-censorship? Let's take a breath. Apologies, per usual, I talked way too much.

First- let's get some perspective. Fanfiction is a hobby. That is all it is- it is not, at its core, more moral or less moral than crocheting. That isn't to say that you can't be a remarkably talented fic writer or that fic writers are never professional writers (though when professional writers are writing professionally, they are not writing fic. Therefore they are not engaging in the hobby of fic writing. They're engaged in the vocation of writing.).

Just like any other hobby, people who do it often get better at it and begin to hone their skills in much the same way that any other hobbyist does in any other skill. But at their core, the point of writing fanfiction is to have fun doing a creative activity with people who are interested in similar topics to you. It is not going to solve racism or cure wealth inequality, or usher in a new shining dawn for gender equity. It, because it is written by very normal people, will always reflect the real flaws and virtues of real and normal people. To suggest otherwise is self-aggrandizing and nonsensical. I'm glad people find joy and pleasure in writing fic (I am one of them!), but we have got to stop saying things that deify fic above other forms of art or writing. AO3 is basically a hobbyist forum and that is okay.

Now- onto my actual point: whatever happened to nuance?

"These freaks will do anything to defend child porn/racism." Okay- well, that is a pretty incendiary thing to say. What is actually being said? People who oppose bans are typically looking at the censorship on TikTok, Tumblr, Facebook's attempts at monitoring, and fanfiction.net and see nothing but colossal failures. So when people suggest potentially banning or deleting erotic works with minors, others who have never seen it done well and have only ever seen it backfire for basically every other tech company are understandably skeptical. Why would it work on Ao3 when it hasn't worked anywhere else? And if these people are still going to write it, except untagged, now we have an even bigger issue because you can't avoid it.

The typical solution for this is "okay, well, hire moderators or build an algorithm," which is expensive and will almost certainly lead to more backlash because they'd need to fundraise for even more money that people already resent having to do at all. Not to mention the backlash when they do/don't decide that something is harmful that other people might/might not. This is especially true of issues regarding racism- unless everyone they hire has a Ph.D. in the topic, I doubt taking the problems to a random committee will solve anything. And maybe I'm insane, but I REALLY do not want a computer taking charge of issues as sensitive as this. As a general rule, I do not want an archive to be making moral decisions about anything. As even more of an aside, I just refuse to describe a dead person as "unalive" in a fic because an algorithm went too far.

Okay- but does that mean we shouldn't do anything about those problems? Do I think the people who sincerely believe we need to fix things are "pro-censorship"? Of course not. There really are existing solutions that are common sense and broadly popular that would put the power in the hands of the readers as opposed to censoring the writers. Instead of focusing so hard on regressive policies to punish or try to eliminate the problem (which is pernicious enough that a simple ban wouldn't work anyway), why not focus on progressive policies that people agree on and can actually work to make people's lives better? People are capable, smart, and thoughtful- when given the tools they absolutely can manage their own online experience.

Author blocks: People should absolutely be allowed to block authors. This one is easy and obvious- it doesn't do much by way of protecting people before they see content but it does help protect themselves from ever seeing it again.

Saved excluded tags: Create a system where you can input certain tags that you always want blocked no matter which fandom you're looking on at the site. This one is another great way to put power in the hands of the reader.

Community fics: Allowing authors to select a group of people that they want to share their particular fic with. If you want to write your cannibal mermaid fic about Hamilton and you don't want to face backlash? Just set it to only be accessible to selected users.

For ideas that go a bit further*:

Stronger age restrictions: If the concern is that young people are being groomed, maybe a solution here could be to have members (I really can't remember how this works because I signed up so long ago) give their birth year. Then just automatically filter out any E or M rated fics for people under 18, similar to how they filter out member-specific fics.

Member-specific fics: On a related note, an option could be to have fics that include an "underage" tag and are E/M are automatically member-restricted.

*Caveat: these two face a similar unintended consequence that would restrict minors from interacting with erotic content at all. Now, for little kids that is fine but for a 16 year old... I mean, there really are teenagers who write porn and there really are young people who are going through puberty and... well. This restriction would obviously be a burden specific to them, but would protect them. Also- they can just lie, lol.

Anyway- as with all policies and all problems, you are always going to deal with unintended consequences of any new policy you put out but you have to be willing to accept that and at least think them through. It drives me CRAZY when people act like we either decide to do an ineffectual ban or we do nothing at all. I am begging you to be at least willing to LOOK for middle ground.

But at the end of the day, remember: This is a HOBBY. It really is not that deep. There are about 5 million users, and even if you say that the real number is closer to 8 million that is still .1% of the global population. I am BEGGING you guys to stop calling each other CP apologists and freaks and pathetic losers and pro-censorship weirdos and purity culture losers. There IS a real problem here and everyone is a little bit right. Just, like, chill a little.

#ao3 discourse #ao3 #what if everyone took a chill pill #its actually interesting because at the base of this stupid internet argument #is a really really fascinating look into different people's views on the philosophy of speech #and the philosophy of loss #it DEFINITELY strikes me that most of the people who oppose bans the most are people who reference other lost archives #they use free speech as their defense but its so often couched in fear #and its not unwarranted! Internet censorship has worked exactly zero times #but there are other solutions and other ways to think about problems

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olderthannetfic · 1 year

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I posted 13,198 times in 2022

That's 9,790 more posts than 2021!

11,477 posts created (87%)

1,721 posts reblogged (13%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@olderthannetfic

@jikook-real

@elfwreck

@lierdumoa

@longholyscream

That's right. The person I reblog from most is MYSELF.

I tagged 158 of my posts in 2022

#lol - 38 posts

#fic downloading project - 15 posts

#what? what? - 5 posts

#yup - 4 posts

#;) - 3 posts

#hahahahahahaha - 2 posts

#lolololol - 2 posts

#ao3 - 2 posts

#lololol - 2 posts

#hahahahahahahaha - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 118 characters

#but youtube and places are filled with bizarre-ass seemingly algorithmically generated nonsense in place of real hacks

My Top Posts in 2022:

Because it’s a major cultural shift

Dude, aside from people just going “ugh, kids”, the whole point is that the assumption that sites have algorithms is a sign of how the entire internet has been ruined. It’s a major cultural shift and a terrible one.

AO3 is the opposite of obscure in fanfic fandom, and its entire existence is political and an act of resistance.

No shit people react to cluelessness about how it sorts content: how it sorts content is a conscious ethical statement.

And to answer this other person’s comment:

See the full post

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No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

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If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.

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Improve your social media and life experience.

I’ll share a few insights from podcast Modern Wisdom, a talk with Gurwinder Bhogal named “Psychology lessons to understand people better” and add my personal twist.

Mostly that podcast is about social media and how people in social media tend to act.

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1. Your social media feed can be hell.

Most posts in social media come from people being impulsive, usually people aren’t thinking about what they post, we just think of something or take a picture and upload it right away. This makes most people’s social media feed awful (we’re mostly seeing people arguing, complaining, people wishing for possessions or vacations, for money, senseless memes, and so on).

Because we tend to behave like others, and to do things that people around us are doing, in social media we can easily be seen as idiots, and we can consider that most people we follow are idiots because of what they post (especially when we don’t know the people we’re following), this happens because most posts are just unplanned impulsive posts. We’re creating ourselves an awful daily bias when we keep seeing random news feed on our cellphones and computers.

Social media can lead to an awful mindset and overall unsatisfaction.

How to avoid this?

We can easily filter all social media choosing whose posts we want to see and whose posts we don’t want to see (you can keep people as friends even after muting them, your best friend’s posts might be awful even if you like them). The algorithm was created to show things we want to see, but if we can identify things as completely useless, and as damaging for our mental health, it’s always a good idea to start filtering out many people’s posts.

Try to have a vision of the bigger picture, though.

This can however lead us to just seeing the same information always and creating a negative thing, a constant confirmation bias, it can be countered by changing the algorithm on purpose, check sources you’d never check, there are some ways to do this; searching for people, videos, books, or podcasts that we believe we’re going to dislike, and checking them out, seeing those videos, listening to those podcasts, or reading news from completely new places, there are apps that give you random news daily. Other way I think of this is asking acquaintances (mostly the ones we tend to disagree with) to suggest a video or someone they follow on social media and checking out new different information we believe we’re going to disagree with, it’s likely we’ll find useful and new stuff out there (different perspectives to bias ourselves from different sources), this could even be done with movies, watch a movie you think you’ll dislike from time to time, you’ll be surprised.

This could be applied outside of social media, hanging out and talking with people we don't talk to often, or ever.

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2. If you have a talk or debate, agree on the definitions first.

Ever had a talk or argument about something where it seems you’re talking about something completely different from the other person? It’s vital to learn the definitions and to agree on them in order to have a useful talk with someone else, if this is not done, you and the other person can be thinking about completely different things and having a strange conversation that leads nowhere.

When you want to have a meaningful talk, it’s useful to do this too, agree first about definitions, say what you think something means, hear the other person, understand each other, then move forward with the conversation.

Additionally to this, it’s always good to really try to understand definitions, we sometimes are not very sure what we ourselves are talking about, and it’s hard to express our ideas unto others.

Try to always understand and agree on definitions.

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3. Happiness.

Triple check that your happiness doesn’t depend on things you buy or things you will buy, possessions will only make people happy temporarily, believing that possessions and things like traveling will make you happy will only make you be more unsatisfied and less happy overtime.

We have the tendency to always want more, but perhaps it’s much better to find happiness in the little things and trying to enjoy the present more, without always trying to think how happy you’ll be in the future because of “x” or “y” thing is going to happen, or because you’re buying this or that thing. The present is what matters the most (for sure, plan for a better future too, make sacrifices to achieve things).

It’s great to have small goals that we can achieve overtime, like learning a language, or why not, saving money to buy a new car (because of its usefulness, not only because it’s a new car).

Extra note here, we shouldn’t spend too much time dwelling in the past, or thinking how things could’ve been. When we spend too much time in social media we tend to bias ourselves into thinking about this, and about the future, because that bias makes us want to have things that other people are sharing (because we’re constantly being reminded about it from other people’s posts).

To avoid this we can try to get busy with work/ studies and doing hobbies or things we enjoy. Using less social media must always be an objective too (IMO).

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4. The solutions we’re used to might not be the best.

Ever had pain in the wrist from using the keyboard and mouse too much? Well, the usual mouse and the usual keyboard most people use aren’t ergonomic at all; there are some good options out there people don’t even know exist like using a pen tablet instead of a mouse, or a vertical or trackball mouse.

I personally use a pen tablet as a mouse 50% of the time, it's much more ergonomic for the wrist.

This idea can thought about or be applied in infinite ways.

For problem solving, it’s good to do some research about solutions to problems we have or to things we do daily that we didn’t know even existed. For example, buying something easy to use like an air fryer for cooking, or cooking more using the microwave or a toaster oven (a toaster oven can be used to cook meat with no effort).

As far as new gadgets go, personally I believe that the invention of electronic ink readers is completely amazing, instead of having 50 books that you don’t even know where to store anymore, you can just have a tiny device like a Kindle with thousands of books in it.

An example some people never thought about, if they don’t want to be distracted by their phone at work, then can use “do not disturb” mode so it only rings with phone calls, tell their friends and family to only call them in case of emergencies, and put the phone in a drawer away from them, or even better, in a different room, or have a colleague at work keep it away from them.

Last example, for people like me who often want to take notes on the go, there are apps where we can dictate whatever and have the voice convert into text, this might seem like a silly simple thing, but it’s amazing, and it saves time and effort.

Better solutions can be found all the time, and for anything, sometimes we just need to invest some time into researching and having better time and resources management.

Learning new things and from different sources makes us more creative and better at problem-solving.

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Conclusion (summary).

Stop having a hellish awful bias from your social media, improve it or just stop using them and do something better with that time and energy.

Agree on definitions, know what you’re talking about, make sure others do too.

Don’t rely on possessions and money to be happy.

Take the time to improve different aspects of your life, one by one.

#social media #health #philosophy #mental health #job #work #creativity #creative writing #cognitive biases #bias #discussion #debate #talk #definition #happiness #ergonomics #bigger picture #britney is free

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Hey!

The Junko ask you did reminded me of my own concept where the THH cast use magic alongside weaponry that may be related to their talent or character. Do you have any ideas for everyone except Makoto and Junko, as I already have stable ideas for them?

More specifically,

Leon, Mondo, Sakura, Aoi, and Mukuro are more physical (warriors,)

Kyoko, Byakuya, Chihiro, and Celestia are more magical (mages,)

and Sayaka, Kiyotaka, Hifumi, Yasuhiro, and Toko plus Jack are balanced between physical and magical attacks.

I'm SO sorry for the late reply! I saved an in-progress answer to this a few weeks ago and then uh... I went through some surgery and my S.O. had surgery and basically I lost all track of the fact that this happened.

So. Uh yeah. This is probably too late to add useful suggestions to your concept, as you've likely already cemented a lot more characters in the interim. EVEN SO: Can I offer you an extremely late answer in this trying time?

Obviously Leon has to have a bat or club, right? Even though he'd probably resent it at first... ? Lol. But he'd be excellent at it all the same. Might feel cool to incorporate some loud singing/yelling in a very "punk rock" style into a couple attacks, too. Or is that anachronistic to your setting?

Mukuro can use literally anything, but I feel projectile weapons are the most logical thing for her (besides just a combat-centric knife, which feels too bland/basic). I don't have any idea how medieval OR modern you're making this reality, so: Perhaps she wields a gun, a crossbow, or just a regular bow?

Sakura needs to be the character that ONLY uses their fists and actual martial arts moves. There's always at least one of those in RPGs, y'know. The "Black Belt in Final Fantasy 1"-type character. Or the "Chie in Persona 4," if you prefer.

It's easy to picture Chihiro using some sort of visual equivalent to computing/hacking. Therefore, Chihiro could cast a spell that makes squares and/or cubes appear to float through the air (representations of screen pixels and/or algorithm geometry), which expand into a fractal image that reaches over and builds itself up THROUGH the target, for example, causing damage by impaling them with the fractal. If you don't know what I mean by a random computer-generated fractal, just imagine something like this rapidly growing out from Chihiro's spell to attack the enemy:

5. Pretty easy to figure out Genocide(r) Jack/Syo would use small blades such as scissors or, if that's not logical for your setting, then some knives. But when she's regular ol' Toko, how about she whips out a notebook and starts frantically writing with a pen, only for the words to float off of the page and then fly right into her opponent?

6. I've been thinking about how Asahina might fight, and I'm not sure what to do with her. I figure she might use her legs a lot like a Chun-Li-type because swimming has built up her kicking strength. And we see her practice a few punches in DR3, though we only see her fight using some kind of pipe/rebar/metal thing when confronting Juzo. I imagine she wouldn't use a strictly defined "style"; it'd be more of a hodgepodge of homemade attacks she concocts.

7. Mondo? Punching/boxing and would probably also wield a tire iron/axel. Simple.

8. Hagakure is similarly easy. He can conjure (y'know, do some quick prayer or swirl a hand over an artifact or something) some kind of visible magic (I'm picturing a generic swirling smoke or beam of light; pretty standard stuff) using his crystal balls and other weird possessions. .... Hopefully his attacks are better than 30% effective :P I don't have a vision of how he'd work with performing physical attacks, though... ?

9. I don't know how to handle Kyoko's "magic." Is there some way to visualize the "magic" of someone just being intelligent and using logical deduction? I can't quite grok how to do it. We do know she has some physical fighting skill, however, because of the time she fought Masked Junko off in Naegi's room in DR1. And I can picture how she'd work as a physical fighter: extremely minimalist. She'd so reserved as a person that I think her fighting style would be similarly reserved. She would stand there with her arms crossed, looking unready, and would barely move when actually attacking/fighting. You know, just casually stroll up and then swat an enemy with the back of her fist. Or just stand still and barely sidestep to dodge, then pivot before sending out a very basic forward kick to hit the opponent. It would almost look lazy, but it's actually extremely calculated. Y'know?

10. Maizono would have to have some magic involving music, naturally. Y'know... in season 1 of the Magia Record anime, we saw another Sayaka — Sayaka Miki — use music-based magic for healing. She can sing/hum/play songs that generate visible musical notes as a form of magic. I think it'd be cool if Maizono could do the same kind of thing ... plus maybe she swings a mic stand around and hits people with it like Rise does in Persona 4 Arena?

And that's... kind of all I could conjure up from my brain. There are still four people on your list there, and I don't seem to have any ideas on how to work them. But hopefully you do. Or will! :)

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random.org is a useful website for various, well, randomisation purposes, but their thing about 'true randomness' is a little weird

most of the time when computers need a random number they use a pseudo-random number generator, the output of which is as the name implies not 'actually' random (you can reproduce the same result if you use the same initial conditions). If you're drawing a handful of numbers this basically can't be a problem; the short-term behaviour of any remotely decent PRNG is going to look pretty random. If you're doing something security-critical or doing complicated scientific modelling where you need to draw lots and lots of numbers this can be a problem, if you're using a shitty algorithm or using a good one improperly, don't take advice from me in that scenario.

Anyway. random.org does not use a PRNG; they use atmospheric noise as a source of 'true randomness'. I am not really qualified to evaluate the statistical properties of atmospheric noise or whatever; I'm assuming it's good enough and if it isn't someone who knows better should say so. But what it is is more expensive to get; not very, but you can get a lot more random numbers out of a PRNG running on your own machine than from a single website serving random bits to whoever asks. if you're using their API, the free tier has a 1000 requests per day limit and their 'commercial (non-gambling)' tier is 12 USD a month for 60000 requests.

that's not a lot per request ofc, but like imagine if someone told you the way your computer multiplies numbers is bad and you need to buy premium multiplication from them over the internet. no matter how cheap per operation that is, you're going to want a good reason to think this premium multiplication is, y'know, better.

(i mean also probably your computer can't connect over the internet if it can't multiply numbers but never mind that).

Random.org summarises which kind of random number generator is in their opinion more appropriate for each situation in a handy table, which I am not going to copy because i have no idea how to make tumblr format things as tables. it suggests 'true' random number generators for the purposes of "Lotteries and Draws, Games and Gambling, Random Sampling (e.g., drug screening), and Security (e.g., generation of data encryption keys)", and PRNGs for Simulation and Modelling. The latter seems to be a concession to the fact that those require far too many random draws for their model to work well with.

so here's my issue: I am reasonably confident that for short draws PRNGs are good enough at 'being random'. If you use them badly (a shitty algorithm, or idk, set the seed in a predictable-to-outsiders way) in a security-critical application you will have Problems, but that's also true about everything in security. I have no idea if there's fewer risks from using a centralised source of true randomness for your cryptographic keys than a PRNG, maybe there is, not the point.

the point is everything else. If on short draws the problems of PRNGs are unlikely to occur, and on long draws the costs of paying someone else to do it for you get too big (as they implicitly admit), what exactly is the use case?

The API tiers for gambling purposes all offer a signed API, which:

The Signed API has all the functions of the Basic API and also lets you prove that your random values really came from RANDOM.ORG (authenticity) and that your application has not changed them (integrity). This is useful for many applications, such as a finance, auditing, games and lotteries.

this... kind of suggests that the actual valuable service random.org is offering in their APIs is not any useful statistical property of 'true randomness' but rather auditability; being able to prove to a third party that your random numbers were actually random and you didn't fudge them. I mean, maybe this is meant as a nice bonus and not the core service? but I'm suspicious.

(a note on quantum generators: for most purposes these are just 'true' randomness generators except, uh, truer; if there's anything actually truly random in the universe rather than simply unpredictably chaotic it's that. for the most part I don't think this matters much unless you're very suspicious that atmospheric noise et al are actually more predictable than we think right now? oh and if you believe in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics using quantum dice would mean that you are guaranteeing there's a world where the diceroll went the other way, if that's a thing you want. or want to avoid, for that matter).

anyway yeah I'm suspicious of the alleged useful properties of 'true' randomness over PRNG for most applications and I'm eager to hear what I got wrong above.

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Naive (Pt. 2)

Ava arrives at the studio parking lot, washing down the last bite of her croissant sandwich with a swig of iced mocha. Ava waddles into the studio, crew members scrambling and other movies being shot. Ava relishes in the stares received as Ava shifts Her weight from one tree trunk leg to the other, wheezing slightly. Yea she’s fatter than any 25 year old should be, but Ava’s also the star. Everyone knows who she is in this building. Ava’s wearing a tank top and shorts on that hot day. Her producer, Dan, motions Ava to come to his office. Upon arrival, Dan turns his computer monitor towards her.

“Are we filming today?” Ava says breathlessly, not waiting for Daniel to offer Ava a seat.

“I just wanna give you some feedback,” The man insists, a cigarette hanging on the edge of his lips. Edited footage from last week's filming play. A curvy Avang woman with olive skip is fucking Ava with a strap on. The studio lights highlight Her dimpled thighs, spread open as wide as they can as Her stretch mark covered belly slaps against them. Ava gasps for air with each thrust, Her face shiny with sweat and red.

Her hands unconsciously begin to rub Her stomach as Ava watch the colossally obese blob being fucked, the bed creaking with every movement. Ava is immediately turned on as she remembers the chest pains she felt in that moment, heart about to leap out of her throat. She’s blushing and ready to rush to the bathroom in order to give herself some relief, but Dan paused the movie right as Ava was about to be turned over and fucked on the other side.

“Do you see the issue?” Dan said. Ava turns Her fleshy face up to look at him.

“I need you to gain more weight.” Her eyes widened. “Her gain has slowed down these past few months and our algorithm says the viewers want Ava bigger. They enjoy seeing Her progress. you think you can put on, let's say, 60 in the next six months?”

After Her talk with Dan, Ava slide back into Her car, feeling Her belly press against the rim of the steering wheel, feeling conflicted about putting on such a staggering amount of weight in such a short amount of time. Her doctor had already been suggesting heavily that Ava lose weight in order to get off Her blood pressure medication, and that Ava were already at risk for arthritis. It was a miracle that Ava didn’t need a cane.

Those feelings left as soon as Ava began thinking about dinner. Today was a movie day, not a feeding day so Ava didn’t get the chance to fill up on empty calories. Ava were starving.

After work, Ava stuffed Her belly in a pair of jeans and had the decency to put on a bra. That didn’t stop Her ass from jiggling in every direction. Same goes for Her thighs. Ava made no effort to hide Her heavy breathing, sweat running down Her double chin. Ava wanted everyone to see what a hopeless whale she was. Too horny and hungry to be shamed.

As Ava reached the counter, she began spitting off different menu combos to no one to the restaurant's surprise. Still, Ava felt everyone's eyes burning onto her ass even while turned away. Ava leaned heavily on the counter, her chubby forearms pressing onto the cold marble. The only thing that slowed down her order was how out of breath Ava was.

Ava had ordered enough food to fill two trays worth, shoving a handful of fries into Her mouth before Ava even had the chance to sit Her fat ass down. As Ava stuffs Her face with salty, fried food, hoping that Her body embraces the calories, Ava hears the murmurs of everyone around Ava, specifically that of a group of teenagers.

“Look at that whale waddle! Her thighs touch all the way down to her knees!”

“I bet she only left the house to come here.”

“Makeup isn’t gonna cover up all those chins…”

Damp with sweat, Ava sinks her teeth into the fifth sandwich, a fried chicken one with bacon, and takes breaks between bites to dunk it in the ranch. Ava takes a swig of her sweet tea and let out a huge belch. She leans back in the booth as she stuffed the rest of it in her mouth, satisfied and full. Her face is covered in grease, sweat and crumbs. Ava unbuckles her belly, red and swollen and begins to rub it shamelessly. Moaning and panting. It was dark outside by now, getting close to the time she’d normally be home. But the smell of cinnamon and chocolate are calling Ava names. Three tables down a Ava saw a kid had ordered a small carton of cinnamon twists and was now gleefully dunking them in chocolate while his mother boredly nibbled at a cheeseburger.

Ava shuffles out of her booth and goes up to the counter, paying for two orders and a refill on Her large sweet tea. As Ava sits back down, Ava feels her phone buzz. She opens the notification as she pops each twist into her mouth with pudgy fingers, dunking them in chocolate sauce. It's a text from Dan.

How goes the gaining?

Ava smiles and takes a selfie, grease stains on her shirt, face swollen from all the gluten and dairy, belly hanging over her pants and covering her crotch. She sends back a yellow thumbs up as she continues with her dessert.

#stuffing #death feederism #feederism pov #female feedee #immobile fat #dark feederism #fat piggy #fatty #getting fat #weight gain fiction #weight gain #female gainer #piggy

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How You Can Use AI To Make Travel More Affordable and Accessible

Traveling can be such a hassle. Who wants to stand in airport security lines, hope their flight is on time, and have to worry about your schedule while you're on vacation? Thanks to the power of AI, these hassles might be eliminated (or at least minimized) soon. In this article, we'll look at all the ways AI solutions are changing the face of travel.

First, what exactly is AI? For our purposes, artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as "...the simulation of human intelligence by machines, especially computer systems" [1]. Use cases for AI include natural language processing, speech recognition, and machine vision. Don't worry if these terms and phrases are a bit foreign to you; you won't need to be an expert on AI to harness its powers for yourself. Here are some uses AI may have to make travel more accessible and affordable for those on a budget.

Nix The Tour Guides: Buying an expensive tour package not in your budget? Why not let AI help design your itinerary? Roam Around is a simple web-based tool powered by ChatGPT [2]. All you need to do is navigate to roamaround.io and enter the city you'd like to visit and how much time you have there [2]. ChatGPT will then generate an easy-to-read itinerary for you [2].

For instance, the AI software suggests spending time at the Colosseum and traversing the historic neighborhood of Tivoli for a hypothetical five-day expedition to Rome. Arguably even cooler, the names of key sites are hyperlinked to pages that provide budget tours of the corresponding area. No tour guide needed!

Time Your Purchases: If you're one of those people constantly checking flights to grab the best prices, AI has got you covered. Hopper is a travel booking app that uses artificial intelligence to predict flight prices [3]. Hopper looks at historical price changes and predicts when prices are likely to increase or decrease based on past data [3]. The app can save you up to 40% on travel costs [3]. It works for hotels, rental cars, and flight costs, likely your biggest three expenses when you travel [3]. Hopper even plants two free trees when you travel to offset the carbon footprint from your travel [3]. Friendly for the planet and your wallet!

Do Your Homework with Chatbots: Sure, you could research all the data you need to plan your trip. However, that could take hours and add stress to your vacation. Why not let AI pull the info you need for you? The Kayak app contains a chatbot that can grab information at the click of a button [4]. The bot will give you details on flights, rental cars, and itinerary options and give you some activities to try [4]. It can also help you budget, as you can specify things like "Get me a flight from New York City to London for under $150" or ask where you can go with $300 this weekend [4].

Know Before You Go: We've all been there: you see a luxurious-looking property with gorgeous photos, only to book something that's nothing like what you were promised. Tools like Magpie use something called sentiment analysis to scope out emerging trends and adjust their search algorithms accordingly [5]. In other words, it combs through data like reviews to determine whether they're positive, negative, or neutral and uses that data to rank reviews. Destinations with worse reviews should get knocked to the bottom, saving you time and money when it comes to searching. After all, there's no better way to get destination info than from someone who's already been there.

Virtual Vacations? Got more of a staycation in mind? AI can help with that too. Virtual Reality or VR is a technology that simulates an immersive 3D world all around you. AI can create "physically and emotionally immersive travel that is unique to each user [5]." After AI chooses a site for you according to your needs, you can enjoy an immersive experience through companies like First Airlines [5]. This includes first-class service with four-course meals and virtual sightseeing [5]. If you're a "try before you buy" type of person, these immersive experiences can help you learn about a destination inside and out without ever having to physically go there. You can also search YouTube for 3D travel experiences you can view inside Google Cardboard and other VR headsets if you own one.

These are just some of the ways AI is making travel more affordable, convenient, and accessible. With the advent of the internet and modern solutions such as chatbots, ChatGPT, virtual reality headsets, and artificial intelligence apps, it's easier than ever to find stays and times that work for you and your budget. You don't have to dent your bank account (or even leave your living room) to see the world, and much of it can be organized and planned out for you. As these tools and solutions evolve, it's possible they will further democratize the travel experience, making the same cultural expeditions more readily available to everyone.

Burns, Ed, and Nicole Laskowski. "What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?: Definition from TechTarget." Edited by Linda Tucci, Enterprise AI, TechTarget, 24 Feb. 2023, techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/AI-Artificial-Intelligence. 2. Patkar, Mihir. "5 Free Travel Planning AI and Chatgpt Apps to Get an Instant Itinerary." MUO, 19 Feb. 2023, makeuseof.com/free-travel-planning-ai-chatgpt-apps/ 3. Germán. "Ai Travel Apps You Can Use Right Now (That Are Not Chatgpt) [2023]." AirLapse, 20 Feb. 2023, airlapse.net/blog/ai-travel-apps 4.Bulanov, Alexandr. "How Machine Learning and AI Can Improve Travel Services." Medium, Towards Data Science, 26 Feb. 2019, https://towardsdatascience.com/how-machine-learning-and-ai-can-improve-travel-services-3fc8a88664c4 5."5 Ways AI Will Revolutionize Travel." CATALYST, CATALYST, 15 Feb. 2023, catalyst.cm/stories-new/2023/2/14/5-ways-ai-will-revolutionize-travel

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I'd love to hear about 🧿 and 💘

Hope you're doing well, fate! ♡ Have a lovely day!!

What steps do you take to not take things personally if a fic doesn't do well, or if your writing/posting/sharing experience isn't going how you'd like it to?

This is actually a really great question. Very important for content creators in general, and you'll definitely get different answers from different people about specific steps to undertake.

My short answer is that it's about disconnecting your self-worth from the numbers. Kudos, likes, followers, and comments are all great but those are byproducts of what you do, not how good you are as a writer/artist/musician and not how worthy of being on this planet you are. The other things about the numbers you get is that most of the time, they have nothing to do with you or your writing at all, there are silly algorithms in place, some things aren't seen and hell sometimes tags on Tumblr don't even work. Social media is a lot of noise, breaking through that noise is luck, not skill. The only thing about that is sometimes work you're not proud of gets a lot of traction and something else that you think has more quality or effort just doesn't take off. That straight up sucks, and makes you feel like you're screaming into the void. If you ever want someone to look at something, literally send it to me I will love it.

The other thing about disconnecting your self-worth from the numbers is that there are no steps. You can step away from your computer, sure, but it's a big mental health thing to learn about how your self-worth depends on nothing else but your own existence. You don't need to prove yourself to anyone. Writing/drawing/music doing is what you do, but if you can't do it healthily, you need to focus on yourself first. You are more important than productivity, especially if you feel burnt out. The only step other than spending time away from screens is talking to a professional therapist (I have regular appointments with my therapist this is nothing to be ashamed of).

As fas as the posting/sharing experience not going the way you wanted to, I was a lot less bothered by the lack of traction after I got negative traction on one of my works. I don't recommend this because I almost straight up stopped writing but it's definitely a perspective thing. Also if you can find a community that can support you, you won't care as much about what strangers and trolls on the internet think. Message me if you want a community to join and I can offer a few suggestions for discords that my friends created.

Sorry that was really long. Next question.

Is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?

Uhh probably most of them. I've been writing a few years now and getting better at my craft also includes looking back and cringing. That's just part of growth!

Thanks for the ask!

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