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Mostly Hannibal inspired art

@meres-argias / meres-argias.tumblr.com

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Mandelbrot Christmas Tree

made using the orbit traps: star and cross.

More about fractal orbit traps and some easy interactive examples here.

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meres-argias

I’m half a year early, but this is relevant to my interests, so I will sit on it until the time is right.

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Three bad recipes generated by neural network

I’m training a neural network to generate recipes based on a database of about 30,000 examples, and although the network has managed to produce identifiable recipes, and even sometimes sort sweet from savory, it hasn’t actually managed to produce any good ones. Only a very few of them are technically doable. Three typical examples:

Citran Barbecued Mube game, ethnic       —-CAKE—- 1 pkg cornstarch 34 oz ginger 1  white sage 2 large red potatoes, peeled 1  magazine bread; chunks 1 cup shredded corn peas 4 cup liquid ice cream Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove the casserole from the refrigerator and heat soup for 20 min. Serve with nuts, chopped caczooled and serve with the rice and oatmeal. From: Fial Hosselr                        Date: 24 Jul 96
Grilled Snailsed Butter crockpot, vegetables, crockpot, rubbing holiday, meats 2 lb shrimp; cut in ½ cubes 6  cloves, minced 2 teaspoon apple juice ¼ cup mushrooms 1 lb tomatoes, nuts.   plastic 1  Strawberries 2 each pinto beans; sliced 1  plum tomatoes, (no carri-fater) 1 pkg unknown yogurt fillets, thawed Pour noodles and cauliflower through a wider measure just on high speed until stiff. Flavor radicchio mixture with the wine and continue simmering until mixture is desired doneness. Reserve side of bowl mixture. Chill until circle is reamy inricating. Serve on ranged removable pieces.
Smushed.I’s Bried, Heritame Sprigs cakes, pies, pastries, extract 2  eggs 4 tablespoon water 1 cup dried butters and firmly beaten 20  eggs 4 oz fresh chopped nuts (approximately 10 minutes) 2 tablespoon grated zucchini 20 oz almonds, rough 1 cup seasoned baking powder
Sift milk in crockpot. Turn dough.
Add egg powdered sugar and whipped toppings. Serve immediately.
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meres-argias

I could not stop thinking about the grilled snailised butter. Yes I know the neural net said “snailsed” which might be because it doesn’t know how to spell snailseed, but what if it meant snailised.

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Me, yesterday, eating an entire baked brie for dinner: Being an adult is GREAT
Me, today, with an upset stomach: why didn't anyone stop me from doing that
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Deep Frog

do you think this is what lovecraft meant whenever he described something as being beyond description

“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”

— H. P. Lovecraft,

At the Mountains of Madness

This.. actually makes a fine reference to what a lovecraftian eldritch abomination SHOULD BE. not just.. tentacles and darkness. Perpetually changing, not cemented in form, with an otherworldly feel to it. Completely unrecognizable by most human descriptions, and only able to be viable perceived by those fine enough to be an adept wordsmith.

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canofstars

I think that this is very nearly an ideal representation of a lovecraftian eldritch horror, because the video that we see is (I’m fairly certain) footage that has been fed through Google deep dream.

The reason the frog looks so weird is because the program is trying to look at the frog, figure out what it is, and then overlay other images of the same thing.

The the thing about lovecraftian horrors issn’t just that they look conventionally weird or gross or scary. Instead, they are things that are so utterly alien that the human mind cannot properly comprehend what it is looking at. They defy description because they defy understanding.

And here we have a video of a computer, a simple silicon substitute for the human mind, struggling to understand what it is looking at, in much the same way that you would be hard pressed to understand a shoggoth.

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Willem Arondeus was a Dutch resistance fighter who gave his life trying to protect his Jewish countrymen from the Nazis. Born in Amsterdam in 1895, Willem was one of six children. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents encouraged his creativity, until he came out as homosexual at age 17. In a time when nearly all gay people were in the closet, Willem’s parents could not accept his choice to live openly. Their rejection led Willem to run away from home. On his own, Willem took odd jobs and eventually became a successful visual artist and writer. He was commissioned to paint a mural for Rotterdam’s town hall, in a style that combined modern abstract painting with a traditional Dutch motif. Willem was a well-respected author who published a popular biography of Dutch painter and political activist Matthijs Maris. In 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Willem immediately joined the resistance movement, and urged his fellow artists to fight against the Nazi occupation. WIllem published illegal anti-Nazi pamphlets calling for mass resistance against the Germans. Willem was especially committed to saving Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Bringing in others to the cause, Willem arranged for Dutch Jews to be hidden in people’s homes. He used his artistic skills to create false identity papers. In 1943, Willem hatched a brazen plan. Dressed as a German Army captain, and with 15 men behind him, Willem boldly marched into the Public Record Office, where lists identifying people as Jews were kept. Willem drugged the guards and planted a firebomb. The resulting blaze destroyed tens of thousands of documents, and delayed or prevented many Jews from being identified by the Nazis. Unfortunately, Willem was captured by the Germans and sentenced to death. Willem’s last words before being executed in July, 1943 were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.” In 1986 Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations. Because of his sexual orientation, Willem’s story was omitted from Dutch history books. Only in the last 20 years has his courage become widely known.

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vastderp

i have never heard of this!

gay hero 💖💖💖

“Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”

Damn.  Just.

Damn.

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studysection
Hey guys! As a writer myself, it’s hard to have a lot of resources for writing in one place. That’s why I decided to create this masterpost, and maybe make more if I find future resources. I hope you like it, and expect to see more masterposts like this in the future!

Generators

Character

Names

Plot

Setting/World-Building

Prompts

Misc

Some Tips

Just a few I found from the writing tips tag!

Vocabulary

Some Advice

Playlists

Websites and Apps

For Writing

  • ZenPen: A minimalist writing website to keep you free of distractions and in the flow.
  • The Most Dangerous Writing App: A website where you have to keep typing or all of your writing will be lost. It helps you keep writing…kind of. You can choose between a time or word count limit!
  • Evernote: An online website where you can take notes and save the product to your laptop and/or smartphone!
  • Writer, the Internet Typewriter: It’s just you and your writing, and you can save your product on the website if you create an account.
  • Wordcounter: A website to help check your word and character count, and shows words you’re using frequently.
  • Monospace: An Android app for writing on the go when you feel the inspiration, but you don’t have your laptop on you!

For Productivity

  • Tide: An app that combines a pomodoro-esque timer with nature sounds and other noises! (Google Play / Apple Store)
  • ClearFocus: An Android app with a pomodoro-type time counter to let you concentrate easier and stay productive.
  • Forest: An app with a time counter to keep you focused and off your phone, and when you complete the time limit, a tree grows in your garden! (Google Play / Apple Store)
  • SelfControl: A Mac downloadable app that blocks you from distracting mail servers, websites, and other things!

Prompt Blogs

Writing Tips Blogs

Reblogging to save a writer

Hey fellow writers! Enjoy!

reblogging so i never lose this

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hannibal really is a profoundly queer narrative, isn’t it? suppressing yourself so tightly, masking your authentic self to fit into societal expections. you feel sick and angry with envy when you see others embracing themselves and you’re so desperately holding yourself back.

and that feeling, that gorgeous, dizzying sense of relief and joy when you finally accept yourself and revel in who you truly are.

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Temple of Horus, Egypt

its horus he’s here

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valarhalla

Guys no, it gets so much better. 

A small fat bird, like the above, is the hieroglyph used in Ancient Egyptian to mean “wicked” or evil”.

The phrase above him (the inscription should be read from the top down) is “Nb s3″ or “Lord of the son of”. Genitive is usually implied in this sort of phrase without a connecting word, meaning:

This birb has literally created the sentence and declared himself “ Lord of the Son of Evil”

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casual isak and even

*whines* Just look at theeeeem!! They’re sooooo cuuuuute!!! :D I feel great pride to know that I watched their season as it unfolded and had to deal with waiting for each freaking Friday and freaking out over instagram posts and facebook chats haha! :D

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