Fun fact my grandparents’ first date was to the grocery store and the encounter that initiated my parents’ relationship was also a run-in at the grocery store so if you ask me, grocery store based relationships are rock solid
Why would you leave a story like this in the tags??
‘Cause I was too busy trying to manifest my grocery store boyfriend
anyone else incapable of not thinking “wow the amount of people and layers of work that went into this” anytime anything ever happens or exists? and i mean anything. think about any random thing right now. think about the phone in your hands, your favorite blanket, a game at a stadium, an arctic expedition, an app nobody uses. all the designers, planners, organizers, manufacturers, sailors, pilots, drivers, any and everyone involved in getting that thing to you or to exist. everything manmade that exists in this world wouldn’t be possible without hundreds or thousands of people being involved in its process. and I think that’s nuckin futs
I highly recommend the book Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs! He decided to personally thank every person involved with the production of his daily cup of coffee and quickly realized how difficult that really is! He started with his barista and tracked down everyone from the farmer who grew the beans to the driver of the truck who delivered them to the cafe to the construction worker who paved the road for the truck to drive, and so on. It’s an excellent read :)
it’s so stupid that you can’t think your way out of the mental health trenches. like you can know exactly what is wrong, why it’s upsetting you, and you can walk yourself through all of it logically and Understand it but your brain just responds like
I got a deviantart account to look at creature designs and immediately learned that deviantart in 2023 is like 85% AI generated fetish porn
In hindsight I don’t know why I did this because every time I visit that website I learn about a new fetish no matter what I was seeking to find.
anyway forget the intellectual property debate, we need to scour AI art from the face of the earth because it’s creepy, soulless, and ugly as shit from a butt
Why has AI art been getting…worse? Not in terms of things like “can it draw a hand or not” but in terms of like…being appealing in some way. The uncanny valley effect has gone WAY up for me
AI has been getting worse because we’re now at a point where it pulls source from previous AI art, giving it a very disturbing effect.
My kiddo uses a term “inbred AI art” to describe this.
…I see.
It’s called ‘model collapse’ and really it’s the thing that’s going to kill AI for people who just want to steal art and not put effort in.
I am simply not interested in taking sides when it comes to aziraphale and crowley’s little cosmic divorce. this is a jane austen romance, which means that both of our romantic leads need to grow and change before they can have their happily ever after. the problem isn’t that one of them is Right and the other is Wrong, the problem is that they’re each prioritizing a different problem and then approaching the problem they’ve backburnered with a long-standing habit or belief that they need to grow out of before they can succeed.
aziraphale is correct that heaven needs fixing! we can quibble over whether accepting a job as the boss is the right way to do that, but ultimately leaving michael or whoever in charge is going to lead to armageddon 2 armageddon harder. it simply will not work. the problem is that he’s fumbling the relationship with crowley because he still needs to get over the idea of there being an inherently good and bad side and he needs to stop thinking that it’s crowley being a demon that’s keeping them apart. it’s his own black and white logic that’s doing that.
meanwhile, crowley is correct that he and aziraphale need to Name The Relationship and stop fucking around, and also that heaven and hell are the same institution with different labels and it’s insane to think either of them is Good. but his impulse to respond to everything by trying to grab aziraphale and run is not gonna cut it here. “you can’t fix an institution from the inside” is a philosophy of dubious value if your alternative is not attempting to fix it at all. if aziraphale is being held back by his cops and robbers mentality, crowley is being held back by cynicism and fear. they both need to let go of their flawed moral philosophies and emotional bad habits if they want to keep the world safe and be together! that’s the point of the story splitting them up in the first place!
