guess which show I binged while sick…(can’t fucking watch anything without thinking up a dp au for it)

danny phantom teen titans crossover au idea

 Vlad tricks the Fentons into sending danny to Hive Academy (so he can learn to be his evil apprentice/son or some shit). maybe by saying that its a super prestigious school that anyone would kill to attend, or like, its a school that specializes in helping troubled youth and setting them up on the path to successes (yeah successful super villains), or some other vapid nonsense.  either way Jack and Maddie fall for it and decide to send Danny there.

Danny probably doesn’t know exactly what Hive Academy(H.A.) is about, but he knows enough to understand that he doesn’t want anything to do with the place. maybe cause Vlad said something to him, or he overheard Vlad talking to someone about him attending. but he doesn’t get a choose about going, cause Jack and Maddie think it’ll fix danny’s school problem.(it won’t, its just replacing 1 set of problems for another)

from there, there would be a lot of danny+sam+tucker freaking out about danny not being there to protect the town from ghosts(maybe Jazz and Valerie too) And them trying everything they can think of to get danny out of it. nothing works but they still try.

after that Im not really sure about the specific stuff. Danny would probably do really well at H.A. cause the whole point of the place is to teach super powered kids how to use those powers (even if the reason completely clashes with danny’s morals) And then maybe Danny meets another kid there that doesn’t want to be a villain so the 2 of them team up to… idk,  rat the school out to the heroes and shit happens from there.

Danny would totally top the hierarchy there with his range of powers and experience. Perhaps he might’ve tried to limit what abilities he used at the school (trying to pass as meta-human, using his powers in human form only) but after a while he starts lowering his guard around other kids (Danny’s no longer the weird kid with powers, here he have other kids going through similar things as him and they’ve accepted him into their group) he’ll loosen up and reveal more of his abilities.

Teaming up > maybe this could be during the episode where Cyborg infiltrated HA?

Also I just realized that Vlad’s plan would backfire on him, Brother Blood defintely won’t let go of Danny once he saw the Danny’s abilities.

you make a good point! Danny would totally be the one of most popular kids at H.A. 

Even if he limited himself to just his base 3 powers (intangibility, invisibility, and flight) he’d probably still be the best fighter there. cause like Danny has actual combat experience against opponents that want him dead(-er than he already is) in situations where he can’t use his powers (like in “Pirate Radio” or “Maternal Instinct”)

as for being accepted into a group I feel Danny would be too on edge (most of the kids are villains in training) to ever ‘join’ any group. but he’d probably chill out enough to be like that loner kid that isn’t part of any 1 friendgroup but floats between all of them.

also in the Teen Titans show everyone’s always in their hero or villain get ups, like they don’t bother with any secret identity stuff. And even in H.A. they’re in villain outfits. so Danny would likely just go as Phantom under like a fake name and wear something over his jumpsuit to hide his symbol. (Vlad’s the one that sent him there, so he had to fill out all the paperwork. He probably put down his name as like… Daniel masters apprentice of Plasmius or something)

I don’t think Danny would team up with cyborg in the 1st H.A. episode (feels too easy) I think what happened to H.A. 1.0 would give Danny the idea to rat out H.A. 2.0 to the heroes and that’s what would cause the bumblebee episode.(not sure if Danny should still be at H.A. at that point or if him and his accomplice should have already left by then)

oh! and yeah! Brother blood would totally be an issue for Danny and his fellow hive escapee. maybe if the story goes beyond the point of Danny rating out H.A. he could be like an even crazier fruit-loop that Danny and his ex-villain friend have to deal with on top of Vlad.

Hehehehe @tkdrawsstuff alternatively,, Danny capitalizes on the fact that Vlad has been boasting about his “prodigy boy” and really gassing him up to the uh, his evil peers or whatever, and he just.. takes the opportunity to mess with them.

He accidentally becomes one of the academy’s most promising students and he’s wearing this the whole time. King shit.

I am loving this

If you write it i promise I’ll make you fanart and comments

Its too good

I'm thinking about AI again because we're in the Nexus that creates Torment for profit.

And there's a thought rattling around in my head over the fact that a lot of the issues with AI are not brand new to the technology era--a source of chronic and easy misinformation; a technology that causes people to withdraw and isolate and often self-harm; an environmental scourge; an absolute machete to critical thinking, disciplined learning, and meaningful study because why bother with hard and long tasks when you can get fast and easy dopamine hits--all of these can be applied to social media as well.

But something makes AI so foot-to-the-gas-pedal worse in such a festering and pervasive and sudden way, and I think my conclusion for that lies in this emergent technology debuting to the public already under the control of big tech mega-conglomerates who--and this part is critical--were absolutely panickingly desperate at the exact moment ChatGPT hit the scene.

And I'm going to bother you with graphs about this. Because I think it will help explain a lot of the Full-Shove-Down-Throatedness you've no doubt noticed with AI.

And like to back up a second--modern social media is controlled by these exact same mega-conglomerates. But the social media platforms didn't start that way. They were a lot of guy-in-his-basement style inventions--tumblr included--which developed to serve an organic and natural niche people wanted. No throat-shoving yet. Most of us (tumblr demographic) were probably sparkle-dogging on deviantart and--yeah whatever--superwholocking over here. And that was by no means perfect or necessarily even good but there was opportunity to ease in and learn the good and bad.

THEN the mega-conglomerates got it and Facebook is a festering cesspit and Twitter is Like That. But there was a bit of a gradual enshittification there, and I imagine most people following my blog are old enough such that you were able to recognize what enshitted itself and disengage appropriately.

AI--for all the way its ills mirror social media--was born a fully formed fucking asshole directly into the cradles of big tech. And it's weird to consider the technology behind LLMs is not, inherently, evil. And that feels weird because it never really had the chance to exist in the public eye in any capacity before it was the throat-shoved and desperate weapon of big tech downright begging you to rot your brain out your ears and steal your work and pollute the earth and stop thinking and stop trying and stop learning.

Which maybe then begs the question, WHY the crazy desperation? Why the complete disregard for sense, law, legal ownership, and customer voices? Why does 'fetch' need to happen and why do Tech CEO's talk about it like they're gonna bite the cyanide pill in their molars if you don't buy a fucking gemini subscription.

Well I promised you graphs.

Here's your first graph. And here's a little fun fact for those following at home: ChatGPT came out Dec 20, 2022.

This graph shows the stock price for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta (nee Facebook) between August 2016 (10 years ago) and Dec 20, 2022.

Now see that peak right before the start of 2022? Cover the downward side of it with your finger. Go on. Don't you see a beautiful exponential future of infinite growth? Don't you love when exponential growth is forever? Some of those returns were 400% in just 5 years. Sure, Covid caused a blip but what's a global pandemic in the face of a bullish stock run?

Okay now uncover the right side. That side is the screaming crying sobbing coaster of rich people feelings. And they were so very in their feels.

I'm zooming in on the graph for you. Welcome to November 2021 to Dec 20, 2022.

If you bought Amazon at peak? You were down 50%. Meta at peak? Down 60%. And every rich person investor is a money genius until the market turns, at which point it's panic to right the ship.

There were whispers of recession all throughout 2022 and it made the tech market crumble, because tech stock prices are highly speculative, and they ride market whiplash with more aggressive slingshotting than companies grounded in material value.

And then something happened on Dec 20, 2022. Obviously you know, I've said it 3 times. ChatGPT released. And oh boy.

Companies started promising AI. Investors started listening. The stock prices got happy.

Welcome to the graph 2022 to current day

And if the dance is working, they don't fucking stop dancing.

Do you WANT AI? Do you NEED AI? Will it actually help you? Might it in fact harm you? Will it harm the planet? Will it harm learning, and discipline, and the vulnerable, in the exact ways big tech companies are shoving it down people's throats?

Who give a shit! Whogiveasshitwhogiveasshitwhogiveahit. Money up! Desperate crying tech company HAPPY now. Money happy now!

Now the entire 10 year graph looks like this

And that scary scary scary scary drop off in 2022 that course corrected itself nigh exactly on December 20, 2022?

Well, you love AI, don't you? 🙂 As long as it's shoved down your throat.

Shixiong!Shen Yuan thinking to himself after bonding with Luo Binghe: it's a shame I don't have any female relatives in this life who could marry him. Maybe I'll have a daughter one day, and she can marry Binghe, and then our bloodlines will be intertwined? Oh but any desirable woman who could be my wife would also want to marry Binghe, so I guess I'll have to stay single forever. I guess I could adopt a daughter? I don't really know if a good opportunity for that will come up... I know! I'll use that one Magical Plot Device Item to make a female clone of myself, raise her as my daughter, and then one day when she's all grown up she can marry Binghe and then Binghe and I will be in-laws and officially family! Although now that I'm thinking about it, I'm a modern man and I guess it is kind of problematic to raise a kid entirely so she can marry a particular man one day. I mean it's Binghe so it's not as weird or creepy as it would be otherwise, because naturally everyone wants to be Binghe's wife, I wouldn't even need to suggest it to her it would just inevitably happen. Still, though. Probably not the best thing to plan out... I guess we'll just have to settle for being sworn brothers? Kind of a letdown.

Shixiong!Shen Yuan out loud: Binghe, it's a bit sad that we'll never have a child that combines our bloodlines together, isn't it?

Binghe about to try unholy things with his blood.

Binghe, outloud: "Immortals live a long time, Shixiong. As long as you're with me, there's no telling what may happen."

Shen Yuan, internally: (What a good friend, still thinking of me for the distant future! I'm sure he'll be busy with conquering, making an empire, and the harem, but he might still spare a thought or two for me.)

Lesson #27 Brain freeze

A bit absurd but I hope it’s still funny lol

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So--when I was in my mid-twenties and the Disaster Ex tried to make me kill myself, the local mental hospital didn't have any beds open in the usual ward for attempted suicides.

What they did have was a single spare bed in the small, comfortable, quiet, wildly expensive facility for girls with eating disorders.

They asked each of the young women currently living there if it was acceptable that I might occupy a bed in one of the rooms for a while, just the long weekend while I was waiting for a doctor's evaluation. I hadn't been violent, I had gone with the cops without putting up any fight at all, and I was still and I was small and all those things were sufficient for me to be deemed safe. So up they sent me, to somewhere high in Western Psych, above the smells and sounds of the denser-packed wards, above where the care workers were harried and frustrated, to a gentle space with seven or eight young women in it.

I was five foot three, and I weighed about 115 pounds. I was underweight for my frame, as a fair amount of that weight was martial arts muscle; I would probably have been ten pounds heavier if I were healthy, with the amount of activity I got.

I was at least two inches shorter than pretty much every other young woman there, six or seven inches shorter than one of them, and I had at least thirty pounds on several of them. The tallest was not allowed to walk, she had to sit in a wheelchair and be pushed around, because her condition was so advanced that the motion would undo what good her hard work had done.

And over the course of the four or five days I was there, multiple of them came up to me alone to quietly tell me that I had the *perfect* body, and they wished they could be as skinny as I was. That I needed to live, because I was beautiful, and if they were as beautiful as I was, they wouldn't need to be here.

Their eyes were on me all the time, in the hours that I wasn't sleeping. I spent a lot of time sleeping, and we took our meals separately (I not needing to be monitored while I ate, and not having my food weighed), but we spent a fair amount of time sitting around in the little shared living room space, talking about movies and magazines and books we'd loved, talking about our families. I didn't talk about my family; they didn't pry.

They were all so fucking nice.

And I could have broken any one of them over my narrow knee. They each thought they were bigger than I was.

Their brains lied to them, every time they looked at a mirror. Every time they looked down at their own thighs. What they saw was not what I could see. They had bright, beautiful eyes in dark hollows, and I could count their vertebrae, could see their ribs winging when they breathed, could see the motion of every tendon on the backs of their hands.

They weren't celebrities. They weren't being paid to have particular bodies, nor were they deep in the toxic sea of having strangers take photos of them to sell to gossip rags if they stepped out of doors in old jeans. They had families and loved ones who were doing everything that they could to protect them, to uplift them and help them be healthy. They were just everyday people--a nurse, a couple of students, a couple of recent college grads, a young woman who had decided it was time to really get help because she wanted to be a mother--and still they'd been so injured by the neverending fucking deluge of body-image bullshit that they were dying of it.

That was in 2009. Things are worse now. I think about them still. I hope that they're all right.

And in case some people aren't aware: anorexia is deadly. There is a point at which your body looses the ability to digest food and you are no longer capable of improving.

“Kids shouldn’t have to know about that.”

Okay so actually letting a serious topic be vague and confusing is much more scary for a child than explaining it in calm language they can understand.

When you are in a safe place, explain the serious topic in a way the child can understand.

Anticipate age-appropriate fears the child might have so you can assuage those that are not a threat.

Anticipate fears that are realistic, and give the child clear direction about what to do, and what happens next.

Reassure the child that they’re safe and loved, validate their feelings, and see if they have follow-up questions. Give them the option to take space to process, or to stay near you to feel safe.

These things are principally the job of the child’s parent or guardian, but in some cases directing the child to that caregiver is difficult or impossible (parent refuses/confuses the child, parent is absent, child’s questions are specific and relevant to a situation their parent was not present for, etc.) so I think all adults should be prepared to have these conversations with kids.

can someone explain what he's talking about i got distracted by his giant jiggling honkers badonkers

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the slut is back !?

Corporate and you: how to handle large scale group organizing and master bureaucracy without going fucking insane.

So, couple disclaimers at the beginning. This is the how to survive Corporate and why you need to learn bureaucracy rant I mentioned a few days back. This is based on my 12 years working (and thriving!) in a Corporate environment based around the US but not being physically living in the US. It's also the result of 20 years doing consistent activist work with large scale organizations and doing mostly logistics support.

Full disclosure, the realization this rant needed to exist came from a very popular blog chronicling a Bad Work Spiral and a friend sharing that with me, and me having a Weird Uncomfortable reaction to it. I will not be linking to this person because they're already having a really shitty time of it, and having a random stranger they don't know from Adam writing commentary on how to avoid landing in that kind of situation seems to me deeply unkind.

I want to be clear and upfront about this from the beginning: these observations are not meant to absolve an abusive, toxic workplace just because it's Corporate. What I'm trying to do is give you tools to navigate boundaries in Large Groups Of People, of which Corporate is one of the most common places you will find yourself in. Not knowing how to navigate the dynamic makes you vulnerable to exploitation; it never makes you responsible for it.

So with that in mind:

What the fuck is Corporate?

This is… not a good idea.

(Also if anyone suggests a rapier they legally have to watch the video again until you understand why that wouldn’t work)

Gets abducted by aliens and put in a zoo and slowly figures out how their language works and starts writing swear words on the glass when the alien children walk by

The aliens are like wait you can write and I’m like yeah I can talk too and they’re like why didn’t you say something sooner and I’m like well I figured you wouldn’t let me go since you’re clearly willing to kidnap a sapient being so I’m just taking revenge by making your toddlers more annoying

The aliens are like we didn’t know humans were sapient and I’m like did you miss all of that human civilization literally everywhere and they’re like what and I’m like look at the planet at night and they’re like holy fuck those lights are people we’ve been trapping and releasing people and meanwhile I’ve returned to writing swear words on the glass with my little alien sharpie

I glare at you from across the enclosure for ruining my alienthropology research by making them aware of being observed

Ignores you and keeps teaching a child that speaks alien sign language all the rude words for alien genitalia through the glass

Continues to glare with a twitching lip because that’s actually really funny

Black Homeowner Receives Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members

Black Homeowner Receives Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members

Maybe a bit of a warning before firebending, Itijuk?

i love the french, i love the way they pronounce Rs like they're disgusted with them

the english meanwhile seem to have developed some sort of phobia about them

When we were discussing the surgery I'd need for my sleep apnea, the surgeon told me I'd never be able to speak French properly because the French R is a uvular sound and I'd no longer have a uvula.

... that's okay? I'm not French? I don't speak French? I've always thought it was the weirdest thing for him to say!

Huh. Didn't know you could have French surgically removed.

sorry i just cannot get this out of my head. Like, "oh you speak french? i hear there's an operation for that"

Honestly dont know where to begin with this one but i'll try

Someone asked how much for mpreg, I needed money, so I held an mpreg raffle where people could enter by sending money and the name of the person they wanted pregnant, count binface won(?), I started questioning if it even counts as Mpreg since count binface is famously an alien from outerspace

If you'd like to help me stay away from mpreg in the future considering donating to my kofi

Hey bro you okay you've reblogged count binface mpreg everyday for the last 9 days