Lenore_Lesso

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

Wife: GETMO? Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO. Me: GETMO? Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On

I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.

>>"How can we give the fictional robot a panic attack, without making it look too human? What are the possible symptoms that can be? What can it feel like?"

>>My thoughts on this topic revolve around the idea that-- Caine is, essentially, an AI designed for creativity. And if the main-system starts to mmmm "panic"- so do its creative subroutines. Its start overworking- The musical subroutine goes beyond it's limits and begins to check key and phrases in the creaks and ambient noise of the circus ("THE WORLD HUMMS IN G MINOR")-- and so on and so on. Ah, and glitching of course!

>>And instead of breathing techniques (bc y'know, Caine can’t breathe- and don't need to do so, he's an AI in the digital world), he taps out some incredibly complex rhythm to calm down his subroutines.

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>Sorry if my thoughts are not entirely coherent--- this whole text is copy-pasted from my notes without editing.

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