So many people who love generative AI don’t have a creative bone in their body and can’t imagine anyone actually enjoying the time and effort it takes to write something or draw something.
for all their talk about “now anyone can make art”, they don’t actually want to make art, they just want to have art
This post is getting a good bit of notes, but I think these tags sum it up best. When people point out that the genAI stans literally did not write anything, a lot of them get defensive like “BUT I TYPED THE RIGHT QUERY INTO THE TEXT GENERATOR SO I STILL DID SOMETHING!!!”
That’s like saying you made Chinese food because you picked up a phone and told the guy on the other end what you wanted! (Except at least you’ll get what you expected from a restaurant order, whereas AI still hallucinates bullshit quite a bit)
my reading of Wake Up Dead Man is that Benoit Blanc’s mother has recently died and his approach to the entire investigation is informed by this
when introducing himself to Father Jud, Blanc says “my mother is—was very religious” which is not a slip you make if your mother has been dead for a long time (compare to Knives Out where he says “my father was a police detective” with no hesitation)
his litany against Christianity in that same scene feels very personal, which could be for any number of reasons, but I think the line I mentioned in the previous bullet point is meant to provide context for it; he’s expressing anger towards his mother and her loyalty to the church during her lifetime
similarly, when Blanc has his “road to Damascus” moment and his speech about giving grace to those who deserve it the least but need it the most, he’s not really (or at least not only) talking about Martha; he’s realized that he needs to find forgiveness and grace for his mother as well
Blanc’s mother being dead would make him a thematic parallel to Monsignor Wicks, whose own unresolved trauma with his deceased mother informs his hyper-religious worldview (which stands in opposition to Blanc’s hyper-rationalist one)
it also seems very intentional that when Father Jud prays for Louise, it’s because her mother is dying and she doesn’t want their last words exchanged to be in anger
Mulder and Scully are sitting in their car and they’re both thinking “am I a lesbian” and neither of them will say it. Mulder stays in the egg zone because being a woman “seems like a lot of effort,” failing to realize that trans women can be butch & Scully likes to pretend she’s simply career driven with no time for a man. But there’s still that inexplicable longing. Their weird little tension. X files is yuri to me
I want to stress that if Mulder ever transitioned she would look exactly the same. Mulder already looks like those 90s butches. You know.
[ID: photographs of K. D. Lang and Fox Mulder, respectively. They have the same haircut and face shape. They’re sitting with similar posture, wearing light blue jeans, and a brown sweater/jacket over a light grey shirt. /end ID]
i got a 100% on this bostonian-to-english quiz but i grew up near boston….. i’m curious what you guys get. there’s a couple things in here i didn’t even know are regionalisms + a couple things i hadn’t heard before but could parse pretty easily from context. tag/reply with what you got and if you’re familiar with the area or not!
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