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I swear to god my backyard is where bees come to die
There are no flowers, there is no grass, no colorful stuff that could be mistaken as plants, but they just keep showing up, tired, injured, just walking slowly or standing still in the tiled floor, sometimes I go and give them some raw honey or sugar with water, or I try moving them to the shade if they are standing in the sun, but I can't really do anything significant, if they can't fly away or find their hive they will eventually just die, and it's happening a lot more often lately, like something is disorienting them or hurting them, and I don't know what it could be.
sea slugs. I stacked them sorry
BREAKING NEWS:
Handsome boy even more handsome after haircut
ALL HAIL THE SMUG JUG
Friday, January 12.
This jug is pretty, pretty smug.
And that there is the long and short of it. You either like it or you don't. Think what you want, the jug careth not. Just look at it
They killed the olive trees. They killed the little children. They killed the unborn. They killed the father. They killed the mother. They killed the journalist. They killed the journalists entire family. They killed all the aunts and uncles. They killed the doctors. They killed the soul of his soul. They killed the groom. They killed the bride. They killed the cats. They killed the elderly people older than their apartheid state. They killed the thousands of memories painted on the walls. They killed 30,000+ Palestinians that we will never get back. [@/ missfalsteenia on X. 01/07/24.]
Thursday, January 11.
Beauty, sensuality, art for art's sake.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But it was the most Victorian of times, that much is certain. There was also a lot going on during this period, not least the emergence of a dark, elaborate, and literary fashion—one that would leave its mark well beyond the close of the 19th century.
We have curated just a few of these opulent delights for you this Thursday, January 11, in the hope that you live romantically, sensually, and broodingly. Like the bon vivants you so deserve.
A Cavatina, 1888, Briton Riviere. @eirene
The shitty thing about the AI voice acting "agreement", beyond the fact that it was done without the input of the majority of people who would be affected, is that a lot of people have exactly WHY it's such a raw deal exactly backwards. It's not labor being eliminated to cut costs; it's labor being CHEAPENED even when there may very well be more of it involved.
There are lots of claims going around that AI voices are TOTALLY different from other voice synthesis we've had before because they let you just plug in a script and get the perfect read out, and that's just...not true, at all, unless you're really, really lucky. Sure, it's smoother and more intuitive work (generally) and more natural-sounding results than older iterations of voice synthesis, but there's still a LOT of specification and tweaking involved in getting it to consistently sound more like a person than a computer, let alone actually sound like a decent director might want.
In fact, one of the most effective ways to get an affect more dynamic than slightly-better-than-TikTok-TTS, is to.........have an actual human person perform it and use the synthesizer to follow along with it in a different voice!
In other words, in order for this to actually be a thing, you still need a voice actor who can give a convincing performance. And you need them to be willing to work for peanuts because their voice won't be in the final product. You need them to be willing to be denied credit because their voice won't REALLY be in the final product. But you also need them to be competent and give a good performance, because the synthesizer will follow along with them, whether they do it right or wrong. The only thing they can skimp on is things like vocal technique - you know, the way you do action scene after action scene without losing your voice by the time you're 45?
In order for this to be cheaper than just hiring a fucking actor, people in the process necessarily have to be criminally underpaid.
And yet, somehow, it's been given the go-ahead anyway!? Genuinely, fuck that.
I love how extremely bored and disinterested they all look, like: can I go now? 🙄
My favorite inadvertently creepy photography convention from Victorian times actually is the "hidden mother" photograph. As we know, taking pictures of wiggly babies is hard, especially if their mothers aren't holding them. But for some reason people keep insisting on having baby photos taken with only the babies.
The Victorian solution to this...was to just throw a blanket over the mother and pretend she wasn't there.
I made this years ago in Flipaclip
Song: Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world · Will Wood
S H R I M P
tumblr users will see the word shrimp and black out and hit reblog without reading the rest of the post
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I'm surprised I haven't seen any Steamboat Willie art featuring Oswald the lucky rabbit, since his first design is public domain too
is it normal to not want to report the spam bot accounts because I feel bad?
Idk I'm like, yeah sure buddy there are hot milfs who want to spend time with me, sure little guy, keep it up, you are doing great, great job!
like I imagine them like little robots whose job is to advertise shitty scam websites but they don't actually know what they are doing or what the words mean
maybe I'm a little delusional
Thank you <3
I'm sorry for asking but do you need advice on how to use Tumblr well? I saw that you are new and I want to help.
no, it's fine actually, If I want to start posting stuff, is 1 post a day fine or can I post more? (sorry about the bad English I'm not a native speaker, honestly I'm not that good at grammar in Spanish either xD)
I'm sorry for asking but do you need advice on how to use Tumblr well? I saw that you are new and I want to help.
no, it's fine actually, If I want to start posting stuff, is 1 post a day fine or can I post more? (sorry about the bad English I'm not a native speaker, honestly I'm not that good at grammar in Spanish either xD)
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i deserve a gold star for being so sweet and nice and not killing
If you're new to Tumblr I recommend changing your pfp so you don't get mistaken for a bot, bots often times have default pfps.
Thank you!, I'm thinking about maybe making my own blog but I didn't think of anything yet, maybe I'll just post about some random thoughts I may have, I'll change my pfp and stick to liking and reposting for now, I'm mostly here for writing advice and reading practice.
yo, I'm new in tumblr (I used to read tumblr post in reddit) what the hell is this, it looks like it's gonna tell me to be not afraid :(