This kid – who is now probably around 73 years old – is going full method actor trying to make the sale for these Space Patrol helmets.
The colander helmet on the right foreshadows Pastafarianism.
literally me reacting to men telling me “stories”
Nova keeps asking to come out and then getting really excited and chases me to give lots of bleps?! Look at this guy!
omg cuteness overload
sixappleseeds asked:
it's not a ~pairing but, miles & ivan
gurguliare answered:
it COULD be a pairing but i will not inflict that on you:
As a kid, Ivan had thought Cousin Miles might be good for something: not when Miles was five and always either in the hospital or launching himself hospital-ward (ward-ward?) from a homemade trebuchet, and not when Miles was twelve and conscripting him and Elena for blood feuds—but at some point, Ivan was sure, he must have believed in a use Miles had. It couldn’t have been that Miles was one more body between him and the throne, because Miles’s height meant that flung crowns tended to miss him; it couldn’t have been riding the coattails of a brilliant career, because you only had to look at Miles to see he and everyone who had ever taken an order from him, or given him one, would be courtmartialed before 30. And yet he knew he had had some expectation, or some greedy, absent hope, because why else would he feel—not resignation—but disappointment, as the years slid on and no Miles-given gift came?
Years? What about hours? The water in the pumping chamber bubbled around his face. Maybe he had expected to be useful to Miles. Now that, Ivan thought, was strange.
What is teaspoons?
I’m training a neural network to generate cookbook recipes. It looks at a bunch of recipes and has to figure out completely from scratch - no knowledge of what English words even are - how to start generating more recipes like them.
It has to start by figuring out which words are used in recipes. Here in a very early iteration, you can see the first somewhat intelligible word beginning to condense out of the network:
4 caam pruce 6 ½ Su ; cer
1 teaspoop
sabter fraze er intve
1 lep wonuu
s cap ter
3 tl spome. 2 teappoon terting peves, caare teatasing sad
ond le heed an ted pabe un Mlse; blacoins d cut ond ma eroy phispuz bambed
1 . teas, &
It’s trying SO hard to spell teaspoon. Teaspoop. It’s hilarious. It gets it right every once in a while, apparently by sheer luck, but mostly it’s:
ceaspoong, chappoon, conspean, deespoon, seaspooned, ceaspoon, tearpoon, teasoon, tertlespoon, teatpoon, teasposaslestoy, ndospoon, tuastoon, tbappoon, tabapoon, spouns, teappome, Geaspoon, leappoon, teampoon, tubrespoon…
It reeallly wants to learn to spell teaspoon. There are a lot of almost-teaspoons beginning with c… maybe it’s a mixture of teaspoon and cup. There are a few others that might be a tablespoon attempt.
Up next:
pupper, corm, bukter, cabbes, choped, vingr…
Rainbow – a free pattern for stripey knit socks by Michaela Richter. Instructions available in English and in German.
Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, DS1920s
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Benjamin Sisko, Jadzia Dax, Odo, Kira Nerys, Miles O'Brien, and a variety of convenient characters, insectoid and otherwise
Additional Tags: AU, Alternate Universe, Genteel Interbellum, sort of, Jeeves and Wooster - Freeform, Wodehouse, Pastiche, done with love!
Chapter 4: newts and darts.
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