What the hell? In this Norwegian apt., you have to walk thru a common area, past your neighbor's apt. to get to the bedroom.
So, from your living room-
You exit your own entrance alcove-
Out to the common hallway. So, that's your apt. entrance on the left, the neighbor's door in the middle, and your bedroom door on the right. Plus, you'll need to carry your keys so you don't get locked out.
If you need to use the bathroom during the night, try to be quiet about it, so you don't disturb the neighbors.
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Astarion is such a fun character because he's just so awful and so petty and so judgemental. He's so proud. He is like a horrible haughty cat in person shape. (Probably the kind that needs 3 people in body armour to trim its adorable little murder mittens.)
I really like his writing...! I just recently got the scene in which he says he would want to watch Tav hook up with their partner (Karlach, in this case, who is objectively much hotter [ba-dum tsss]), and then with his next breath he sneers that he's sure it will be 'adequate,' rather than 'fun.'
It's so good because he doesn't even have to like Tav here. (Much like how he doesn't even have to like Tav when he dramatically declares his love for them.) He just can't help but comment, because he's gonna be insecure and weird about the slightest possibility that he might not be preferred (not just wanted, but preferred) by someone. This makes sense for a lot of consistent character reasons, and it is also, in this moment, very funny.
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.. what kind of whale are you : BELUGA
You're so cute awwwwww so cute! Look at you! So silly! :p You have many friends because you're so nice!
BELUGA FACTS: Both captive and wild belugas have been known to mimic the rhythm and tones of human speech. Belugas are dependent on pod socialization and hunting, though they frequently move from pod to pod. They are known for their uniquely friendly behavior-- synchronized hunting and diving, amiable curiosity, 'playing' with bubbles or debris, imitation, seeking physical contact with one another, and even expressing affection by touching mouths.
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A little bit snug.
https://www.openrent.co.uk/.../3-bed-flat.../1394791...
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you said you think gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain. i dont disagree and i kinda see what you mean already but please elaborate
it was a silly and tongue in cheek way to say that a lot of people are getting mad about it in a way that implies reactionary views on art, and that there's no way to say gay sex cats isn't art that wouldn't also imply that the fountain isn't art. a funny meme image is a funny meme image, but it is also funny to overthink and recontextualize them as art.
and the reaction makes the comparison even more apt. neural net generated artworks are anonymized mass produced images, vast majority having no artistic pretension or meaningful content such as a thomas kinkade painting. gay sex cats was made with no intent to be art, but the discourse it has with audience reaction and its appropriation in derivative works make it so. why is gay sex cats not art if people talking about it negatively allow it to be called art? is art only things you find beautiful and valuable? if so, what is value and beauty, and how do you draw the line? if gay sex cats was still ai generated but had more "aesthetic qualities" would it be art? if someone copies the original image by hand with all its ai generated faults where is the value generated? does the original still have no merit of its own, even after appropriation as a digital ready-made?
but the main reason as to why gay sex cats is comparable to the fountain still is because it made a lot of people with bad takes on art really really mad. and that the pissed off tags wouldn't look out of place as reaction to modern art in the 1920s. art is a flat circle
EDIT: well. putting an addendum because in retrospect more people took either or both the op and image in face value and much more self serious than ever intended. a lot of people understood the tone i was getting at, and i still stand by the questionings i added on, but still for clarification. the original comparison is not serious. it's self evidently ridiculous to compare a meme image to a historically significant artwork, the comparison was only drawn because they were both controversial to an audience, who reacted denying their status as respectively as an image and as art, and that it was funny that the negative reaction people had to the original image explicitly denied its status as art, even if the meme never had pretension to be art, so it was funny to draw a comparison and iterate on that.
i did think it was valid to bring in questionings about art and meaning because that's the reaction i saw most and wanted to make people think about the whys, and that also i do not think it's valid to base your dislike on ai art on either grounds of questioning its position and value as artwork, or even as a question of ip theft. regular degular handmade art can be soulless, repetitive, thoughtless, derivative, unethical, open and blatant theft, and much more, and that does not make it any less of an artwork. neural nets are tools that generate images by statistic correlation through human input.
the unambiguous issue with neural nets in art is its use as a tool by capital, to threaten already underpaid and overworked working artists and to keep their labor hostage under threat of total automation. in hindsight i regretted not adding the paragraph above as it was a way in which people could either misinterpret or assume things about me, but hindsight is hindsight and there's no way to predict how posts would blow up. so shrugs. i had written more posts in my blog that elaborated on that because asks would bot stop coming. and i think my takeaway is that people will reblog anything with a funny image without reading the words around it, or even closely looking at the image.
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