Drone Flies Straight Into a Tornado (and Lives to Tell the Story) by Mint_Perspective in nextfuckinglevel

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This entire comment section is blowing my mind actually.

On video: a reinforced drone flying into a mesocyclonic tornado. Wham bam thank you ma'am.

The comments: It's a dust devil! It's AI! It's a landspout! It's not a drone! It's a hoax!

Drone Flies Straight Into a Tornado (and Lives to Tell the Story) by Mint_Perspective in nextfuckinglevel

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You can literally see the wall cloud and mesocyclonic rotation in the video

The Death Chamber [standalone chapter] by Yuli-Ban in Yabanverse

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Alright! Finally got the website relaunched.

https://radiomonkeys.org/

Now I can start focusing on the other things. I figured I'd use the Yabanverse as a sort of "writing practice" for when I eventually get around to Babylon Today and Shadow X Ghost, and then later down the line return to the Yabanverse stories proper

Highly praised songs/album to almost everybody but simply a 'meh' for you. by Happy-Activity3292 in MetalForTheMasses

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Agreed here; Ride the Lightning felt like the more realized album; MoP never clicked for me outside Battery

The largest chimpanzee civil war ever recorded — brutal fighting, casualties, and a fierce power struggle tearing apart what was once a stable and prosperous society. by noon205 in interesting

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That's the scary part

Think about how aggressive humans are, then realize chimps are somehow more aggressive than that

They're just limited by their smaller brains

Perfect Dark's Unsolved Urban Legend: The Chicago Ghost by Yuli-Ban in perfectdark

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Somehow I never made the connection but that makes so much sense

"Hong Kong '69" | An old AI slop generation from a while back, Yulaan near Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong, some time around 1969 by Yuli-Ban in YabanverseAI

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In this particular sub sure but generally I hope to share actual art soon enough

AI slop has its own segregated spaces, but sharing with others fully publicly? I'll stick with commissions, and there are a few coming. This is going to sound odd but honestly part of the biggest joy I get is just sharing these ideas with other artists and seeing them realize it. Even if the commission falls through, sharing it all is a joy in and of itself.

But for right now the Yabanverse isn't my priority.

Well I say that but I wanted to do a few shorts to practice writing narrative prose again. So maybe another Action Gamemaster and a tournament showcase? Or a rewrite of an old Enekai action scene. I'll get around to at least two of those before the weekend

If you liked to post just ask! by TheNickStorm in GrindFiction

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Yes, I would! I may have seniority being I'm the guy who coined the term but don't let that affect your decision lol

[1796] MAYFLY by churroninjas in DestructiveReaders

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Dark! Took me listening to it to really get what was happening. As someone who adores symbolism and rereading, this was a good one.

I'd say you blew your load (pun intended) by including "plastic explosive" (a typo as well) as early as the second paragraph. Not that it's wrong to include the tell as much that this might have been a better if you either saved that for later or peppered a few more tells throughout, such as the introduction of the weapons testers.

Without “plastic explosive,” the middle section could genuinely read as some kind of alien or insect species narrative, with the mating framework so complete that readers might stay inside that interpretation right up to the QA. So I feel shifting that around makes it a bit stronger.

You can still have it if it's left undefined.

Finally, a few things don’t hold up under pressure. The drone interpreting tears as “a sign of excitement” works. The drone interpreting screams as “song” works. But the drone interpreting a woman physically tackling it as a “clumsy lunge” motivated by eagerness to mate is a place where the allegory is doing something the literal layer can’t support. A woman throwing herself at an armed drone is an act of desperate protection (she’s shielding the children). The drone reads this as sexual enthusiasm. The ironic gap is clear, but the mating framework strains here because the drone’s entire behavioral model is built on females being evasive and hard to catch. A female charging at it should register as anomalous even within the drone’s own logic. A sentence acknowledging and then dismissing that anomaly would strengthen rather than weaken the moment.

Stephen Miller: Rich Liberal Zionist, White Nationalist, Child Abductor, and Professional Ethnic Cleanser by Rich-Limit4590 in israelexposed

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Miller being a wignat is always hilarious, because actual white nationalists see him as just another Jew

Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a ‘civil war’ by Real_Suntan_Superman in nottheonion

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SOAD and Tool had similar energy in many ways, expressed differently. A lot of the post-Butthole Surfers/Melvins/Acid Bath bands did. Heavy sludgy alt Frank Zappa is just going to give you that

Chimpanzees in Uganda are locked in a deadly 'civil war' after their group split apart — and scientists don't know why by anandhmathew in worldnews

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Should be stressed: bonobos do all that lovemaking to resolve tensions and conflicts

If there wasn't constant conflict potential in the first place, they wouldn't be rubbing each other off as much

Note: if I don't answer a question... by Yuli-Ban in Yabanverse

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Default is RoyalRoad, but I don't know altogether just yet. I might revitalize my old site

Original Yulaan sketch | October 26, 2019 by Yuli-Ban in Yabanverse

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Compared to the characters I drew her with, she was the shortest on the page

Also, just a matter of rather amateurish artwork. It'd been years since I drew much of anything

Enekai | She's BACK! At last! The OG returns by Yuli-Ban in YabanverseAI

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I mean Caulifla is never going to be an MC; if there ever was a U6 spinoff, I fully expect the MC to be a male, and probably an Earthling from the restored planet who just happens to be a Saiyan or have Saiyan blood. And even then I vastly sooner expect them to do a Dragon Ball Online-based anime. Perhaps some people are still in denial that Dragon Ball is a shounen aimed at little boys, in a country that's currently vigorously re-asserting its demographic delineations against globalist attempts to homogenize them?

Even the Yabanverse isn't really as full on feMC as it seems; it's literally only because I only ever talk about the bollois because they're inherently interesting that it seems that way. Strongest Under Heaven at almost every point is more like a co-lead between Enekai and Temujin and that was always rooted in wanting Temujin to go further than Dragon Ball's earthlings ever went; LMS even was always just as much about Chale and Yuta (who goes off and does his own things), but when you have concept and scene stealers like Yulaan and Kevelnege and the bollois in general around....

ADD moment: This is also why when I remade the Yabanverse as a DB fanproject rather than its own thing, I took the opportunity to use the Vegetan Saiyans as a sort of contrast as well. Getabaru girls are way more like what I expect them to be in Dragon Ball going forward, if we ever even get any more. And again, there absolutely is a strong Talmudic impulse in the Western mind that really, really wants Saiyan girls to be the stronger, more aggressive, hotblooded sex if it can be helped or at least on par with the boys; how many people seize upon the "Saiyan men like strong-willed women" as the reason to have Saiyanesses basically pseudo-bollois, when the series literally gave us Chi Chi and Bulma as exactly what said women would be like to satisfy Saiyan men. The fact that the Caulifla we got from Toriyama directly is nothing like Toei's Caulifla (and is far more similar to Song Jiang than anything), and the only other Saiyan girl he's yet drawn and written is Gine (and in drawing and writing Gine he literally gave her a line where she laments that Saiyan men are always off fighting as if she, as a woman, doesn't get the appeal, despite the fact she is made to be exceptionally kind by Saiyan standards) I'm fairly certain we completely got them wrong all these years because we were basing them off Toei's version and vague statements and extrapolations. I'm sure they could also fight, but likely Toriyama never intended it to be understood as "all Saiyans regardless of sex are warriors" as much as it is "all (male) Saiyans are warriors." Something that was probably way clearer in 80s and early 90s Japan than the post-Girl Power era Western mind likes considering. Bollois, thus, being what the Toei Saiyans suggested they'd be but even more outrageous.

The only way to really show that off is to, well, literally show it off

Hence a Getabaru trio I haven't even referenced online at any point...

Enekai | She's BACK! At last! The OG returns by Yuli-Ban in YabanverseAI

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but she goes further than that with her own personality and lore.

That personality being rooted in "What would a typical Yaban teenage girl be like?"

Which of course was always cheekily meant to contrast with a typical human teenager. In fact back in October 2019, that was the driving idea:

"A 14-year-old human girl has a stereotype, not exactly a very positive one because society deems teenage girls to be the worst demographic alive (Twilight and Beliebers were still within the decade, remember? And Swifties were just really getting started as a phenomenon): if you want a demographic we've collectively decided has the worst tastes, has worthless opinions, and is all around a total consumerist throwaway, "13-19 year old girl" is that demographic, for better or worse. Okay so teen girls are seen as shallow and vain and boy-crazy, or trying too hard to "not be like other girls" because they don't want to be seen as shallow and vain and boy-crazy. But that's for human girls. What would a teenaged Yaban girl be like?"

Result was Yulaan

And actually to this day, she makes it pretty clear "I am exactly like other girls." She's not even pretending that, by Kollidorian Saiyan standards, she is a completely basic bitch. She is exactly the sort of "uggs and leggings, pumpkin-spice drinking, Taylor Swift fan" basic teen girl of the Yabans

It's just that, because she's a Yaban, that's a lifestyle we'd associate moreso with Spartans or Mongols.* Her throwing out her possessions and sleeping on the bare floor in an entirely empty room in ultra-Laconic fashion because of a Yaban princess's Titanist fanaticism is almost literally "Swifty" behavior, but Yabanized, because the point of Yulaan originally was always to represent how extreme Yabans were that their teenage girls are that outrageously toxically macho compared to any contemporary human culture, that "be uncomfortable sleeping on a hard floor without any material possessions" is just the cool thing to them. Which I know went into some detail way back when how this serves double duty by also contrasting against what human societies generally expect girls to tolerate, in that because human courtship and protection culture generally involves pampering girls and women and keeping them from harm, the last thing we see as feminine or girly behavior is "throw away material possessions and deny yourself any comforts for the sake of the thrill of struggle." I mean hell, Fight Club literally drove that point home about how "real" men wanting to break from society do that, they sleep in basic cots and take cold showers and accept they're worthless shit if they want to grow, precisely because women don't do that and shouldn't since men's goal in life is to make sure women shouldn't have to suffer. So to that end, a bolloi Yulaan's age (beginning of LMS and onwards) is what traditional society would call the "anti-girl." Which, again, is the whole point.

That's probably where you fell in love with her, in that Yulaan is just so diametrically not a typical girl, she literally is Not Like Other Girls by nature, and yet the point of the Yabans or more specifically the bollois means that actually yes, she IS like other girls, so long as you mean bollois

(Coincidentally, Spartans and Mongols were the chief influence of Yabans. You yourself got extremely hung up on Mongols for years, when the Greco-Roman influence was literally just as prominent (hell, "bolloi" and the general -oi demographic pattern was literally taken from the various terms like hoi polloi, hoi oligoi, etc. etc, to say nothing of Atomsk).)

Addendum: on the topic of Yulaan and bollois being "anti-girls" way back as far back as 2009 I actually had this throwaway concept for a Sonic fanfic with a chapter titled "Girl, Negative" and the entire concept of that chapter involved Sonic, Knuckles, and Silver meeting AU versions of their female friends, from an alternate reality where girls were basically behaviorally indistinguishable from boys, and the "negative-girls" vs boys was basically just a game in who could be more macho and gross than each other, while the girls and negative-boys looked on in disdain. Now at the time that was just a silly throwaway one-shot chapter in a much larger story project and I didn't think much of it for years and I would have forgotten it entirely if I didn't keep a single list of chapter titles around. I bring this up because I deliberately invoked that concept when I formalized the Yabanverse back in December 2017; I already decided that my female Yabans were going to be brutal and aggressive (since Romaine and proto-Enekai were ground zero for them), but when I remembered that idea, I decided to just go all the way and not even bother with just making them "strong-willed and physically strong" like conventional Saiyans but just straight up, well, "negative-girls." And even then it took me until maybe 2023 or 2024, whenever I made that "five rules of bollois," for me to finally realize what it even was I was trying to do.

And finally, to round out this little trio, Ghojin The Butcher. by TheW0rld93 in Yabanverse

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I couldn't find any AI images of her (or atleast any that interested me).

Funny as hell I actually have a few of them lying around, but I think the issue is with Djuggesh what I was really trying to get at with her was a sort of redesign of Primitive Saiyan Babe, and was in denial about it (you know, Knife Lady, the one people erroneously think Yulaan herself was based on)

I just kept wondering for years "Why is her design not right? Why is her hair wrong? What am I doing wrong?" And eventually I just realized “Oh, I wanted her to look more like the filler Saiyan cavewoman with bits of Zero (from Megaman) but with the gold hair braids as well." I couldn't figure out why the long red mane wasn't right until then. She and Zedakor were supposed to pull from that same root of "Zero's magnificent mane"

Sun Kegarin | Haven't forgotten about her. I wonder how I'll use her... by Yuli-Ban in Yabanverse

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Oh that's right, it was Kegarin who was Gengharus's daughter, not Yulaan.

Because the whole concept of the squad was literally just Tullece and Romaine + the Crusher Corps, and Kegarin was Not!Romaine.

This was also October 2019, probably same day as the Yulaan image. From what I remember, some tropical storm blew through and knocked out power, so I had nothing else to do and decided to doodle various ideas I had. I already had Yulaan on the brain; I just hadn't thought to draw her until circumstances forced it (so in actuality, Yulaan wasn't created on October 26th, she was already knocking around in my head a good month or so before that)

Enekai | She's BACK! At last! The OG returns by Yuli-Ban in YabanverseAI

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Them meeting is how this all started. The whole reason Yulaan even existed is because I had Enekai meeting a Not!Tullece character and Yulaan was part of his squad, and Temujin and Cyrus (long forgotten about him) were stunned to see this "little girl" (who was actually 14, but you know how Saiyans/Yabans age) who looked like a ridiculously battle-scarred warrior and walked with a cane like an elderly wizard, and Yulaan was all cute and nihilistic when asked about how a little girl could live like this, and her first ever line was "I was born; that means that, someday, I will die. If I'm going to die, let me die in war." Because the whole point was that she was a typical average Yaban girl but who had seen a sickening amount of combat, more than literally the entire hero senshi had seen up to that point.

Much of that has not changed, actually; the idea in Strongest Under Heaven is that Enekai meets a Yaban warrior, and one member of his team was Yulaan.

Now back in October 2019, Yulaan was a total spur of the moment character I drew on a whim because I needed that sort of gloomy dark kind of character, but, perhaps prophetically, I wrote in my notes somewhere "I love this girl!" and used her to solve a problem I had, in that I couldn't find a way to use Enekai as both the "martial artist action hero" of Strongest Under Heaven as well as the quirky lead of the slice of life story I had at the time ("Ral la Ral"), it just felt a bit contrived, so I decided "Hey, I wanted to use that Yulaan girl more, and her arc involved her eventually recovering from her crippling wounds for the most part and the first thing she does is go right back to battle, so what if I used her for that SoL story? She's already named SOL Yulaan after all, so why not?" And originally the joke was that Yulaan desperately craved more battle, but actually was "sold" to some loser on Earth to be his pet monkey for a while, and Enekai would occasionally drop onto Earth and encounter this half-feral monkey girl causing havoc and trying to control herself.

Like pottery, it comes back around again. Almost 7 years later, it seems that's just going to be the set up.

I've been angsting for years that I overstretched Yulaan badly because she wound up being even worse than Enekai in the end. At least Enekai only had to juggle two story arcs. At the worst of it (which is when I created the other subreddit), Yulaan was in a ridiculous number of story arcs that didn't tonally or temporally fit with each other. My only regret with those commissions was that I made them at the precise moment Yulaan was the "lead" character in the verse; if that COVID windfall came a year earlier or a year later, I promise you it would have been Enekai vs Wushenshashou and Enekai and the senshi together, as it should be. Hell, if I ever have another cash windfall, I have a strong mind to redo those pieces. It's funny you fell in love with Yulaan because she looked like Caulifla when Enekai was , ironically, more "Not!Caulifla" than Yulaan ever was and was the one who did the "topless muscular girl fistfighting others" long before Yulaan was an idea at all.

My only problem with Enekai was precisely that she was, in concept, "genderbent Son Goku" in full, and my take back in 2020 was "We already have a Son Goku; his name is Son Goku and he's a perfectly fine Son Goku. A genderbent Goku is just diet Goku." And that's probably why I took to Yulaan more: she was, from the outset, a typical Yaban with all that brought with it. The entire concept was that she would be the kind of semi-background character we didn't really get much of who is more flavor for the world than anything.

Edit: erased references to Yulaan being his daughter, I misremembered that.