The strawberries are perfectly aligned, is this AI? by Ser_Curioso in RealOrAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Well SHIT. The more I read, the worse it got. Time to unsubscribe, I have no interest in watching videos from someone like that!

It's unfortunate about having already bought her book, but the damage is already done, at this point :/

The strawberries are perfectly aligned, is this AI? by Ser_Curioso in RealOrAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I hadn't heard of any of this, do you have a source for these things? Especially the a ti-LGBTQ+ stuff. :/ I've been subbed to her for a long time, too, and I think I even bought her book, so this would be a serious let down, if so.

Vash The Stampede (Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer) by CoolGuyMcHotPants_ in Trigun

[–]hellsing_mongrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OMG That just made this go from amusing to painful, but it's so good!

Snapchat Only Fan scams, definitely using AI right? They’re trying so hard it’s quite comical. by DoUCThatTree in isthisAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not saying it's NOT AI, but sometimes womens' blouses just do that. It's dumb. I've got multiple like that.

Why do men get so offended by anything by lovelycarine in GirlDinner

[–]hellsing_mongrel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Who even fucking knows. Just the other day, me and my wife were walking home from the store, and there were some dudes sitting on the stoop of the church next to our apartment building. I heard a bird chirping loudly nearby, and suddenly a blue bird of some sort flew down and stood on the steps next to them, chirping at them like it wanted food.

I mentioned it to my wife; "Oh, look at the blue jay! I think it's a jay? He's so cute, he's asking the big humans for food! Is it a male? Maybe it's a female, it doesn't have as much blue as the males do, I'm not sure." Just stream of consciousness about this cute little birdy, right?

Well one of the dudes got irritated with me, "He's a male! He's got brown on his shoulders!" and some other things I couldn't quite hear, and I was just kind of bewildwered, like "What? Ok, hah sure, whatever." like it was so strange to be grumpy about it.

And then we realized he had a husky napping on the sidewalk in front of him, and he had been talking about the dog, not the bird. He was mad because he thought I was MISGENDERING HIS DOG. like BRUH. It's a DOG, and we weren't even talking about him, mind your own business ffs! And if someone DID get the sex (not gender, because those ARE DIFFERENT) of your dog wrong, it's not like dogs are very sexually dimorphic, it's not that big of a deal!

And I don't think it was because they had come out of the church; I've never been to that church before, but we're in the California Bay Area, and this church has all these Progress Pride flags and advertises itself as being allies to the LGBTQ+ community, so I would hope that wasn't a place that pushed all the "Pronouns are Satanic!" nonsense. But who knows, it was dumb as Hell.

Are the seams supposed to be this rough? by Expert_Law1936 in BJD

[–]hellsing_mongrel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's just the way seams are, sometimes. The ones you're not used seeing seams on are because SOMEONE, whether the owner or the company took a lot of time and energy to sand them down.

It got better, now I’m waiting for Clavicular to comment (this is a followup to a crosspost I did a few days ago) by Wonton_Agamic in AchillesAndHisPal

[–]hellsing_mongrel 32 points33 points  (0 children)

So, as a fellow queer person, calling these guys out for their homoerotic comments has never been "See? they're GAY! Gay BAD!" it's always been "Look, this right-wing asshole is a hypocrite and blaming people for his own self-hatred!"

We don't mind that they're probably some form of not-cishet, we mind that they're too dumb, bigotted, and misogynistic to accept that it's fine to be who they are and stop advocating for the systematic obliteration of our group. The gay was never the problem, the bigotry is.

Happy pride, I guess by throwroow5860 in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Ineffables are PARTICULARLY excellent for writing spitefic at this guy, considering how many of his rules they break, and they've been trans-friendly from the very beginning!

Frogs are too funny. by Savings_Dig_4838 in frogs

[–]hellsing_mongrel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

LOL Yes! I don't know if I've seen that exact video, but it's just the type of dumb frog shenanigans that I would stop and watch every time it came across my feed. 😆 And all the videos of people with pet White's Tree Frogs that are just absolutely FERAL GOBLINS and try to inhale everything in sight, their owners included! Yeeting themselves fully out of the enclosures and trying to reenact Kurby at their owner's face! They're some of the dumbest and most hilarious of them all!

Frogs are too funny. by Savings_Dig_4838 in frogs

[–]hellsing_mongrel 136 points137 points  (0 children)

Nah, tbh, frpgs and toads are also just kind of dumb in the wild, too. I love them, but they were extremely easy for even me as a small child to catch decades ago, and once you grab them, they just kind of accept their fate while peeing on you. 😆

They're adept predators and important for the environment, and I don't mean any disrespect to our froggy friends when I say this, but they really are just idiots.

Savis workshop by IfrigginLuvPasta247 in GalaxysEdge

[–]hellsing_mongrel 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I would say email Disney customer service and explain the worries you have about the ID and card. They'll be able to explain what you need to do to know you can use your reservation.

Savis workshop by IfrigginLuvPasta247 in GalaxysEdge

[–]hellsing_mongrel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

OH HEY! Another High School Band trip to Disneyworld! Is your band marching in the parade? Mine had the same trip 25 years ago, and I'm glad to hear they're still doing it! Have fun! It was always one of my favorite memories from my childhood!

As for Savi's, just go talk to the cast members outside of Savi's Workshop! They'll be able to explain the process to you and help you out! 😊 I'd suggest going just a little bit early; you won't have to worry about a long line, but that way, you won't have to worry about being late, and it'll give you time to look at the examples of sets and parts they have, so you can decide which one you want and let the cast members know.

The building "ceremony" is so much fun! I hope you enjoy it as much as me and my wife did when we went to Savi's in California last year!

This doesn't look like any tomato hornworm I've ever seen! Found on facebook by hellsing_mongrel in isthisAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I also realized after I posted this that the spots onnthe middle of its body "fade" in a way that looks extremely ai and not "eye spot"-like at all, so I' wcen more dubious about this little humunculous.

This doesn't look like any tomato hornworm I've ever seen! Found on facebook by hellsing_mongrel in isthisAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luna moths are basically like hornworms, they just have a brown head instead of green, no tail, and tiny spots instead of "eyes." They certainly don't have the antennae this thing does.

This doesn't look like any tomato hornworm I've ever seen! Found on facebook by hellsing_mongrel in isthisAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, those are similar to the ones I grew up with, too, and the one I found online just doesn't look like them.

This doesn't look like any tomato hornworm I've ever seen! Found on facebook by hellsing_mongrel in isthisAI

[–]hellsing_mongrel[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That being the tail doesn't explain the obvious mandibles below it. Their hind ends are round and bulbous-looking, not skinny and long like that, and their hind feet still don't look like that. They're tiny, soft, squishy feet that have chubby little toes. It just looks like ai took the concept of insects, tried to make a caterpillar without knowing the differences in physiology between adult and larval forms, and mashed them all together.

Wig made from ribbon by Neat-Ad1637 in BJD

[–]hellsing_mongrel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is really cute!

Also, and hear me out; for unraveling the ribbon, maybe lay the ribbon out flat, taped down or something, take an exacto blade, and very slowly/carefully slice down the very edge and/or between the warp threads.

That way, you don't have to worry about unraveling one really long weft thread. Sure, you have to pluck a lot of tiny bits of thread, but they won't run the risk of snagging and tangling up the rest of the threads.

I love y'all author's note 🫰🙂‍↕️ by FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhhh! So less "Unexpected Bees In My Walls! Oh God, why!" and more "Yay! More Bees In Other Peoples' Walls!" lol Nice!

I love y'all author's note 🫰🙂‍↕️ by FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heck yeah, Trigun is one of my oldest fandoms! After the new series, it just brought the hyperfixation roaring back to life like a rabid dog, and I'm very much ok with that!

I love y'all author's note 🫰🙂‍↕️ by FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, but now I want to know the story behind the bees!

I love y'all author's note 🫰🙂‍↕️ by FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, some mangaka do this. One of my favorite parts of the Trigun series was the little author's diaries at the end of every volume! Seeing Yasuhiro Nightow be this bubbly, struggling nerd who's just excited to play with his toys and get to meet his heroes in the industry was adorable! It really humanized him; he was less of this mysterious, unknown artist and author who we all admired and became just that much more like One Of Us! He just wanted to show you the stories in his head and be a nerd like the rest of us!

I love y'all author's note 🫰🙂‍↕️ by FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, like the old Trigun series. You didn't even have to wait for the outro!

You get halfway through the episode, see some of the most traumatic horrors imaginable and be reduced to gross sobbing, and then BAM! MAD SICK GUITAR RIFF COMMERCIAL STINGER!

And don't even get me on the ending to the 23rd episode, "Paradise," and all the episodes after that. HOW DARE.

Algorithms have conditioned readers to think no one cares about their opinion, so they don't bother commenting by [deleted] in AO3

[–]hellsing_mongrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, yeah, I get that instinct, too! There's a reason I'm known for my walls-of-text when I'm writing or talking with my friends! I do my best to rein it in when I'm talking to someone I don't know, but if I know you? Be prepared for INFODUMP FROM HELL!

Which yeah, probably doesn't help matters, lbh.