Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
All the rest is darkness.
WHY DOES AN ICE CREAM SHOP HAVE A CUSTOM HOT DOG MIRROR ANYWAY, IM SCARED
hi this ice cream shop is in my town they have a custom hot dog sign because its part ice cream part hot dog shop <3
omg okay thats a relief, I thought they were that kind of ice cream shop that sells freak flavors like hot dog ice cream and pickle ice cream and coleslaw ice cream and whatnot.
companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn’t show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn’t actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️
You guys don’t understand just how much Tater hates being wet but I hope this photo illustrates exactly how sad she is that I’ve once again ruined her life by dunking her in an epsom salt soak
All the sorrows of the world in the tiniest possible package
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing
John Brosio (American, 1967) - Two Earthlings (2003/2009)
Opposite of “came back wrong” is “stayed exactly the same.” Oh you want so badly to pretend that you have changed. You changed your face, you changed your name, you started leaning into a whole new role, but I know you. I know you. I know who you used to be, and I can see that person shining through you still. You can fool the world you can fool your friends you can fool yourself but you will not fool me.
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
I actually want to reblog this again because I feel that my tags were beside the point. As an opera singer, my voice is something I have trained for over fifteen years to accomplish certain tasks. I am intimately familiar with its feel, its sound, its capabilities, in a way that most people are not familiar with their own voices. This is not a slight against non-singers; it’s simply the truth.
I’m also familiar with what it feels like to be judged for that voice and what I do with it. I’ve learned to stand my ground against it, and in doing so, have embraced it as something precious to me. That’s how it is when you’re judged for something: either you cast it aside, or you hold it closer and never let anyone tear you away from it.
Any singer or voice actor is going to feel the same way about their voice. Our voices are precious to us in a different way than an ordinary person’s voice is precious to them. They are the result of careful training and expertise. The actor who said it was like someone was puppeting their body was not exaggerating, either. Your voice is intricately linked with your body in ways that most people are not aware of. It’s not just your lips, your teeth, your tongue, your throat. It’s your lungs, your diaphragm, the way you stand, the way you hold your body. All these things are part of how your voice is produced, and no one is more aware of that than someone who has been trained to use their voice a certain way.
I don’t know if I’m explaining this right. But consider that the voice is a product of the whole body, from the top of your head to the tips of your toes, and understand that it is a much more intimate violation than it seems, to use someone’s voice like that. It’s unacceptable. Please don’t do it.
For those of you who don’t know Jennifer Hale is Commander Shepard and I know I’ve seen some AI generated shit on this site with her voice so this is a PSA to knock it off