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Very auspicious. It was 🥰 seeing Vasilisa turn up just hours after having re-read her tale.

@Ten I was tired of opening jars for other people.

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✅ Raining in the Mountain
✅ La Jetée
🇯🇵 Battles Without Honor and Humility
🤥 Pinocchio (2022)
🚣‍♀️ Céline and Julie Go Boating

Ah, La Jetée. It’s dream logic is as deft as its execution. 💕

I’d forgotten how massively influential this photo novel was to my own filmmaking experiments back in the late 90’s. In the early naughts, I wrote (and with a friend, photographed) a photo novel of my own, complete with a unicorn (of a sort) and a werewolf (of a sort).

Post-production never happened. I was in law school, and then I was homeless and poor, and now I am shackled to a very hungry career. But the negatives exist; anything is possible.

All of the stories I tried to tell were queer and filled with trans longing, whether they were about human-sized puppets animated with the swappable souls of birds, or, in this case, the romance between an ugly unicorn and a lonely virgin.

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(Well, queer or ribald musical comedies starring a mixed cast of humans, stuffed animals, and computer-animated sock puppets).

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✅ Raining in the Mountain
✅ La Jetée
🇯🇵 Battles Without Honor and Humility
🤥 Pinocchio (2022)
🚣‍♀️ Céline and Julie Go Boating

Ah, La Jetée. It’s dream logic is as deft as its execution. 💕

I’d forgotten how massively influential this photo novel was to my own filmmaking experiments back in the late 90’s. In the early naughts, I wrote (and with a friend, photographed) a photo novel of my own, complete with a unicorn (of a sort) and a werewolf (of a sort).

Post-production never happened. I was in law school, and then I was homeless and poor, and now I am shackled to a very hungry career. But the negatives exist; anything is possible.

All of the stories I tried to tell were queer and filled with trans longing, whether they were about human-sized puppets animated with the swappable souls of birds, or, in this case, the romance between an ugly unicorn and a lonely virgin.

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AI art is the latest tech bro disruption of a market, destroying actual value for those involved and sending money to the idle rich. It's built upon the stolen works of others which they use to train their algorithms, and then they charge non-artists for the privilege of using their products. And no one will take action until the market for mid-tier artists is destroyed.

We've seen this song and dance for two decades now. We know how it ends.

@JenWojcik Been super curious about this. Nice to see irl examples.

@theconfusedyeti@tech.lgbt @bumpus What she said. It helps to demonstrate how thin the line between the two sides of the coin is, and how easily it can be traversed. But beyond that … there be dragons.

@siege@octodon.social Thank you. The copy I had received previously was 🏴‍☠️. Glad to be able to right that wrong.

✅ Raining in the Mountain
🛫 La Jetée
🇯🇵 Battles Without Honor and Humility
🤥 Pinocchio (2022)
🚣‍♀️ Céline and Julie Go Boating

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i love trans men’s version of masculinity. it’s like they curated all the really cool and good parts, amplified them and left out most of the shitty toxic parts; (those who believe the toxic parts are a necessary part of masculinity notwithstanding).

if i were a man i’d totally want to be like a trans man.

@rooster @taedryn I love it too. It makes me want to buy heels, gather four of my shortest cis ladies, and see what the world looks when you’re strolling around at 6,6”. 🗼

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I just posted this deep in a thread, but realized that many of you might enjoy seeing it on its own merits. I think I found this on one of the #trans #meme subreddits. First time I saw it, I just started crying (in a good way).

@taedryn @rooster @aprilkirby @AlwaysAutumn@mastodon.lol @SymTrkl@eldritch.cafe @NineIsntPrime@tech.lgbt @sstrickl @daisy @you_jo_girl Feel this. I’m 6,2”, and trying to own it. 🌱

@h5e Right? I feel like we sometimes focus so much on our messy relationships with others and with ourselves that we forget to talk about our messy relationships with books. 💖📚💔

I’m all about it: I’m in a polyamorous relationship with 1,000 books, and I’m not afraid to talk about anymore! 🐙

And of course, shelves and shelves and stack and stacks across several rooms of books that I have no specific intent to read, but rather something more like a generalized potentiality.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.