Eldritch Grandma

Eldritch Grandma

Sick of this website and the bastards who run it.
But I do occasionally write and talk about games and animation. Also, plenty of conversations and posts about teratophilia.
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The Dread Beast’s face didn’t shift at the news but his words held a condescending grin all the while. “Interesting. Determination truly does send fleets out to war. Or is it rage?”

“Beauty.”

“What was that?”

TailBlazer shifted his eyes to look up at The Dread Beast: Fimbulventir. “Paris started the Trojan War because of Helen of Troy’s beauty.”

The Dread Beast hummed. “In one sense. One could make the better argument that it was Menelaus’s feeling of slight that was the real match to the powder-keg in that situation.”

Volume 1 of Speak Not to the Gilded Dragons is out now on itch.io!!!

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Originally posted by excitementshewrote

Asked by Anonymous

I'm glad there's a trans woman playing a Barbie in Barbie, looking at how people with no critical thinking are treating the themes of the film the last thing I want to see is TERFs claiming the movie supports their ideology. (Also related: Even Andrew Tate's brother thinks it's stupid that 40 year old men watched a Barbie movie and are complaining about it being anti man. Fuck that guy, but still, wow.)

Honestly, people like Shapiro who knew they were going to hate the movie, still paid money to see it, and end up making gigantic diatribes about how much they hate it and how it’s *insert buzzword here* are the equivalent of media tourists who see a piece of media full of things they don’t like, they know they won’t like it, still pay money to see it (or still waste time looking it up), and end up making hour-long video essays about ‘How Did We Let *insert show/anime/game* Happen?’ or 'It’s Time to Finally Admit that *XYZ* Is Bad’.

You don’t have to watch everything you aren’t interested in/doesn’t appeal to you just so you can justify not liking it. Just know that you can’t call yourself an expert on it either. And you certainly don’t have to burn two Barbie dolls in a barbeque pit as a sign of 'protest’ like an early-era Nostalgia Critic sketch.

Asked by Anonymous

You gotta admit the Uzumaki trailer looks amazing, though.

Oh no, it definitely looks like this will be THE anime adaptation of a Junji Ito work to FINALLY get it right.

In fact, the initial teaser being so good is what led into the feeling of disappointment when we didn’t hear anything in the follow year/year-and-a-half until now.

margoterobbies Originally from margoterobbies

margoterobbies:

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Barbie Pink & Fabulous ― ‘Barbie’ Los Angeles Photocall
Barbie 1959 ― 'Barbie’ Bondi Beach Photocall
Barbie Day to Night ― 'Barbie’ Seoul Premiere
Barbie Sparkling Pink ― 'Barbie’ Seoul Press Conference
Earring Magic Barbie ― 'Barbie’ Mexico Premiere
Totally Hair Barbie ― 'Barbie’ Mexico Photocall
Solo in the Spotlight Barbie ― 'Barbie’ Los Angeles Premiere
Enchanted Evening Barbie ― 'Barbie’ London Premiere

takashi0 Originally from k9effect

k9effect:

I heard the most horrifying thing the other day.

I was scrolling on tiktok and came across a Bluey post, not unusual as I love Bluey, but this post specifically made my skin crawl. It was AI music using the voice of the young anonymous actress who voices Bluey.

The creators of Bluey have made a huge deal out of making aure that these kids stay anonymous because they understand how the industry can be so incredibly damaging to children. Their names aren’t even public knowledge. These kids are not only kept anonymous so that they can live as normal lives as possible, but they are kept anonymous for safety reasons. I’m certain you’ve heard the horror stories of children being groomed and endangered because they become so popular so young. Ludo Studios is trying to keep these kids safe. Evidence below (source)

A screenshot of a section within a Bounty Parents article that reads: "Who voices Bluey and Bingo? Recently, Joe revealed that the voices of the kids are played by those close to the show creators. “Bluey, Bingo and some of their friends are voiced by children of the production crew,” he said. However, the kids aren’t credited on the show as their identities are kept secret to shield them from the public eye."ALT

Hearing this kid’s voice used without her consent, without her parents consent, even without her knowledge and endangering her like this is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a very long time.

The worst thing about this? Everyone in the comments was going on about how cute she sounded “singing the song” and that OP should “make a version with Bingo”, who’s actress is even younger than Bluey’s voice actress. No one saw that there was something wrong with this. I am disgusted and horrifically disturbed.

“AI” isn’t “Artificial Intelligence”. There is nothing Intelligent about it. It is simply programs and computer mimicry that is marketed as “AI” as a selling point. It isn’t truly learning from anything to be considered intelligent. It is taking what you put into it and mimicing that. It is wrong and a violation of someone’s life 100% of the time.

If you are considering creating “AI music” or any form of “AI” content, please reconsider. You are causing so much more harm than you realise.

takashi0 Originally from kotamagic

gholateg:

kotamagic:

Dear Reddit and Twitter refugees:

You’ve probably already been told to change your icon, post and reblog stuff you like, Tumblr has holidays, etc.

But in case you weren’t aware before….

When AO3 (Archive of Our Own) goes down for any reason, Tumblr flips the fuck out and panics. AO3 starts trending almost immediately.

Do NOT try to calm your neighbors down! Panicking with them until AO3 goes back up is the correct course of action.

Thank you and have a day.

This is like when you see a bunch of people running in one direction… you do not ask WHY they are running, you simply run WITH the herd and if you have to stomp the life out of james earl jones then by GOD you do so.