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ToyaPandora

@toyapandora

Hello! I'm Toya (They/Them), 23 years old. My main blog - little bit of everything in here. Feel free to message/ask me!
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The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Hey, I usually don't make serious posts, but this one is a big deal to me and many other small creatives, so please read or spread the message, especially in light of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Google Labs is introducing a new ai that will just scrape your documents for ideas, plots, and other things to feed its algorithms. This information is stored SEPARATELY from your Google account. 

Google will be collecting this user data and have at their disposal the ability to have free scripts for any content they want to produce without giving a cent to the original authors of these scripts, novels, character organizers, fics, etc. that the ai would be heavily basing these generated stories on. But that's not all, these ai's are also showing these works to human reviewers in order to "help improve quality of products" sharing works without consent of the author with real actual people to see if the ai is responding well enought to the prompts and imput (aka the intire documents as this is a fully intagrated ai -_-)

The reason this is going to be so terrible is that not if but when Google decides to open a production company (youtube movies will be first but they likely will open another streaming platform) these scripts their ai wrote them are probably going to be almost wholly plagiarized from docs user content that was stolen, without paying an actual writer anything at all.

If you are at all creative in the slightest PLEASE get your work off of docs before the features are fully integrated, scrub your google drive, and move to another program. Mircosoft, Libre (free and open source) ANYTHING to protect your works and if possible move away from Google products generally. Use a different search engine even. I'm going to link two TikTok creators from who I found this information as well as a list of alternative products to use away from Google in hopes to avoid them. Make them feel the backlash. It doesn't matter if they already have your data take charge of your internet person and DON'T GIVE IN

  • Ecosia (browser)
  • DuckDuckGo (browser)
  • Microsoft Products (Not amazing but not drifting yet, I like the free version enough)
  • Libre Office (free & open source!!)
  • Waze (maps)

Please add on if you can any information or resources! Stay vigilant and stay informed

I cannot BELIEVE you guys actually signing up to netflix just because account sharing was banned. You need to learn about cool websites with many beautiful women who would love you message you and send you downloadable files.

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gidianthe

i'm like a werewolf but instead of turning into a wolf on the night of the full moon i dont do that and i just stay human

There should be nationwide solidarity protests for the LGBT folk in Florida.

We need to show we're united and supportive, that we aren't just leaving each other to the wolves.

I have a proposal...

June 1st. The first day of Pride. That's not to far from now.

What if we started Pride with protests in every major city and town that can plan a protest by then. With a matching boycott on everything online/offline for just that one day to match.

The feds and states get taxes on everything after all, it's not just the companies making profit.

And when you protest you need demands. You cant expect a government that historically has not protected you to just suddenly know/do what's best. And they need to be concise and focused on your specific cause.

Hypothetically speaking, what if these were our demands:

LGBT & Queer Rights Be Codified

  • ALL of the same full citizenship privileges that cishet Americans are automatically afforded by age, relationship, or birthright (ex: marriage, medical, spousal, & parental rights) - no longer 2nd class citizens.
  • Including bodily autonomy as a measure to guarantee that we can make our own medical choices & regulate what happens to our own bodies (ex: HRT, surgery, abortion)

Dissolving and barring any and all trans panic and gay panic laws.

Expand On and Codify Anti-Discrimination Laws

  • Barring discrimination against those who present or identify as any gender regardless of whether or not that aligns with their legal or physical sex
  • Religion must be explicitly defined as a non-valid cause for challenging the constitutional or federal freedoms of any specific group
  • Because of 1 & 2(below) we need a process to remove any government official when states systematically prevent citizens from challenging or removing corrupt officials that are directly challenging our freedoms.
  1. "Lower courts reasonably interpreted Supreme Court precedents as holding that unless First Amendment freedoms were targeted directly and specifically, antidiscrimination laws-promulgated at any level of government, and protecting any group-are exempt from normal constitutional limitations."
  2. Florida has no virtually no recall laws for governor

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If y'all like these I can make some graphics or something for reposts (or you can make them, whatever works best)

As a fellow queer person living comfortably in a protected state I'm happy to do what I can, just lmk #solidarity

Feel free to repost, y'all.

Nationwide Solidarity June 1st.

Use the tag #WrathWithPride2023

put the graphics on tik tok, insta, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Here's a 💐💐 for you! Hope you are doing well 😊 and if not, here's a big hug for you 🤗 Love you 💜

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Did you intend this for me? 😭🥰

This is my very first ask, and it's such a nice one, thank you ❤️

I love them 💐💐 I'm doing okay, but I'll take the hug anyway.

Much love ❤️ 🥰