you're killing me smalls

The last time I read a nejiten fic I think it was about… pirates? And another one about the glass ceiling something?

post-700:

Kunoichi  by Giada Luna - Tenten-centric. it gets better and better. (Very deep characters.)

Haven in Hell  by ProfessionallyCrazedNarutoFan - not quite post-700 but I especially love pt 2

Grasping For Strings by KNO

Right, Wrong, and What Falls Between - I wrote about 3 different storylines, postwar, plus

Like the Sun Faces the Moon - a series of Obon, through the years

A variety that’s not postwar:

I’m going to skip people like Goldberry and NessieGG because you can probably just stay on their pages for days, but here are some that you might miss:

this tornado loves you  by hyperphonic - Part 7 onwards - lots of very fluffy domestic NejiTen

Subtext by KNO - Neji and Tenten as famous TV costars

Syndicate  by Tanya Lilac - Tenten goes undercover on a mission [one of my favorites - this is like a drug]

In case you guys haven’t read my fics yet, here’s a list of all of them. ;)

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f/2.8, ISO 100 And she knows every curve of his face. Tenten keeps him a secret, and likes it that way (because he is untouchable like that, and admiration from a distance means she won’t get hurt).

Elf Prince, Digivolve! Her eyes are wandering over his chest, discreetly, and she hopes he doesn’t notice. Digimon aren’t supposed to look this sexy. [Featuring Elf!Neji.]

On Being Nejiko In which Neji finds himself on a seduction mission. As the woman. Doing the seducing. [Featuring Nejiko-Ten-Neji]

The Cheap Way Out in Life They’re newly married, and already, she’s on the threshold of change.

Complexities of Blackmail [Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.] Lieutenant Tenten finds herself caught in a web of blackmail when Lt Hyuuga Neji stumbles upon her doing what she shouldn’t have been. Mere rivalry between old teammates turns into something deeper, much to Tenten’s horror and bewilderment. – in progress. WARNING: controversial content.

Hello Wizard World Strange things are happening in Surrey. Cloaked figures are appearing at random and waving little sticks, doing very awful things to people they cross. Tenten bars herself at home on Privet Drive, and hopes for the best.

Nights in the Sleepless Town They had two years, but sometimes, that was all the time it took to fall.

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CyberneticSky: Ten Counts to Heaven He wonders what it’s like to be truly human, to feel. She streaks into his life with all the sunniness he doesn’t have, and shows him how. [Featuring cyborg!Neji]

The Problem with Hats Broken a/c, a tipped-over Weinermobile, and a girl who can’t seem to stop bugging him. It seems as if Neji’s day can’t get any worse than this.

Like the Sun Faces the Moon Someday, I’d like to give you my family name. [Obon over the years.]

Racetrack to My Heart Ino takes Tenten to a blind date - except it’s not quite blind, and not quite what the latter expects.

In Coffee City, We Borrowed Heaven It wasn’t as if he wanted to take this class, anyway. Reproductive Health 1101 was for people who couldn’t look up information on Google. Or someone who needed a science module to fit in his already-packed schedule. Hyuuga Neji belonged to the latter group of students, and he was in no mood to explain himself.

天涯海角) Edge of Heaven, Corner of Sea Because he was too important to her, because he haunted her thoughts, night and day, and the twilight between.

Springtime of Manhood It began with a tug on her pants. It always began with a tug on her pants. [Tumblr-only, NSFW - explicit smut]

Between Skin and Shadow It was late by the time they finished dinner, and did the dishes. [Tumblr-only, NSFW - explicit smut]

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Goldilocks By A Different Name Tenten discovers that someone has been living in her apartment when she goes away on long missions. – a series of fairy tale-inspired oneshots

Right, Wrong, and What Falls Between What is, what was, what may have been. – a variety of drabbles

Postcards from Moments in Time But he is also the reason her heart is broken and she dares not offer it again. -- interconnected drabbles 

We Aren’t So Different But love is blind, stupid, and merciless, especially when she looks at those rosy cheeks and sunset eyes. [ShiraSenYome, with a dash of NejiTen]

Recollections of Heaven “Do you think you’ll ever wind up in a Bingo Book?” – interconnected drabbles

Close Knit Shinobi The rise in popularity of all-male knitting groups is an unexpected phenomenon across the world. Not surprisingly, Konoha has its very own. – crack!fic

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How to help the non technical and less online people in your life navigate the latest techbro grift.

I've seen other people say stuff to this effect but it's worth reiterating. Today in class, my professor was talking about a news article where a celebrity's likeness was used in an ai image without their permission. Then she mentioned a guest lecture about how AI is going to help finance professionals. Then I pointed out, those two things aren't really related.

The term AI is being used to obfuscate details about multiple semi-related technologies.

Traditionally in sci-fi, AI means artificial general intelligence like Data from star trek, or the terminator. This, I shouldn't need to say, doesn't exist. Techbros use the term AI to trick investors into funding their projects. It's largely a grift.

What is the term AI being used to obfuscate?

If you want to help the less online and less tech literate people in your life navigate the hype around AI, the best way to do it is to encourage them to change their language around AI topics.

By calling these technologies what they really are, and encouraging the people around us to know the real names, we can help lift the veil, kill the hype, and keep people safe from scams. Here are some starting points, which I am just pulling from Wikipedia. I'd highly encourage you to do your own research.

Machine learning (ML): is an umbrella term for solving problems for which development of algorithms by human programmers would be cost-prohibitive, and instead the problems are solved by helping machines "discover" their "own" algorithms, without needing to be explicitly told what to do by any human-developed algorithms. (This is the basis of most technologically people call AI)

Language model: (LM or LLM) is a probabilistic model of a natural language that can generate probabilities of a series of words, based on text corpora in one or multiple languages it was trained on. (This would be your ChatGPT.)

Generative adversarial network (GAN): is a class of machine learning framework and a prominent framework for approaching generative AI. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is another agent's loss. (This is the source of some AI images and deepfakes.)

Diffusion Models: Models that generate the probability distribution of a given dataset. In image generation, a neural network is trained to denoise images with added gaussian noise by learning to remove the noise. After the training is complete, it can then be used for image generation by starting with a random noise image and denoise that. (This is the more common technology behind AI images, including Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. I added this one to the post after as it was brought to my attention it is now more common than GANs.)