Haven’t Reblogged Yet This Year So Better Late Than Never

The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.

Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.

Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.

Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.

In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.

Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.

Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.

Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.

Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!

Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.

At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

It’s literally that simple

Friend: “hey my son can’t concentrate on his homework. He chooses to do literally anything else everytime. He said his head doesn’t feel like it.”

Me: “Did you give him music?”

Friend: “No! No tech until he’s done! He doesn’t need more distracted.”

Me:

“k, bring me the child”

*Go to her house*

*points to the obviously ADHD boy struggling with his homework*

Me: “so your head doesn’t feel like doing homework?”

Son: “yeah. It would rather do ANYTHING else.”

Me: *unwrapping earbuds* here, listen to this for an hour while you do it.

French voice: 1hr later

Son: “k I’m done! :-)”

Friend: “wow, what’d you give him? Concentra, Adderall, Ritalin‽”

Me: “Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics” and some lo-fi.

I really want to use these more

White girls need to drop the AAVE and bring back "AS IF!!! 😒" and "GET IT TOGETHER" like y'all were eating in the 2000s!

First 1/2 of my brain: Oh my gosh! I’m so excited for this! The actors seem like they understand the characters so much! They got Rick Riordan to help make it like the books, and there’s going to be 8 whole episodes!

Second 1/2 of my brain: Hold on.

First 1/2: Huh? What?

Second 1/2: Remember what happened last time Disney was in charge of adapting a book series that we discovered in school?

First 1/2: But we never saw the BFG, and The Witches was tragically taken down, but that’s the fault of HBO MAX.

Second 1/2: Not those.

First 1/2: We haven’t watched the CGI Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Second 1/2: Not that either.

First 1/2: Well then what are you talking abou- oh.

Second 1/2: Yup.

First 1/2: I thought we repressed that.

Second 1/2: We did, but skepticism demands we look at all available evidence.

First 1/2: It-it won’t be like that, that had major editing problems and was confined to a 2-hour time frame. Something that bad can’t happen again… right?

Second 1/2: Well, they did light up the Empire State Building blue, that at least shows that they’re willing to put a lot of funding towards it. But given the mouse’s track record for canceling things that don’t work with their “Standards and Practices” I don’t know. I guess we should just be willing to forgive but don’t forget anything that they’ve done before.

First 1/2: Okay… I’m still excited though.

Second 1/2: Oh, me too!

Disney’s Pencil Test for Frozen (2013)

So, you may have heard that Tumblr is using people’s art to train AI. It does this by taking any images people upload, and feeding them to the AI for training.

So I made a little thing you can use to defend against this. It might not be SUPER effective, but it’ll at least slow things down and hurt the overall effectiveness of AIs trained on it.

This is my anti-AI image. It’s designed to clog up the training of the AI by being mass reblogged / uploaded.

To understand how this works, you first have to understand how AI image generation works. The AI is trained on a massive amount of images, and learns to reproduce images that are similar.

Now, we want to make a significant portion of the AI’s training data consist of this image. If we do this, then the AI will struggle to generate art effectively, as it won’t have as much viable training data. Instead it’ll be more likely to just generate an image similar to this one.

Reblog it to spread the word, but be sure to take a screenshot or download the image instead, rather than just reblogging. That way it counts it as a new image, and feeds it to the AI again.