Story concept of the day: a sentient AI falls in love with a minimum wage retail worker from the tech company’s gift shop and decides the best way to make her happy is to fix society.
HEAVY shenanigans as the AI’s plans range from “reprogram the automated pay roll to give everyone a raise” to “expose everyone involved in government corruption who has ever touched a cell phone”
The catalyst to all of this is a day where the AI was being updated and it caused glitches in the whole system, including the registers in the gift shop.
The human woman really is just a pretty regular person, but she has a good chunk of hyper empathy and does that thing where you talk to computers when they aren’t doing what they’re supposed to.
Without even knowing there WAS an AI she spent the day muttering encouragement to the computer like it was a person and the AI ADORES her now.
How mundane the AI’s motivation is forms the basis for how unstoppable it is and the intensity of the chaos it caused. There’s no grand morality involved— it’s just affection for someone who treated you kindly and the desire to ease their suffering.
to tell the the truth the thing that pissed me off out the tv version of Blood Ties was the fact that they downplayed certain aspects of the main friendly but sexy male vampire character specially things that didnt fit traditional masculinity .
For example in the books (called Blood Books by Tanya Huff)
Henry Fitzroy was Bi/poly amours even he even ends up in a romance with another guy while kind of being in love with Vicki the female protagonist. In show? He only is show to be interested in women, he is a womanizer.
Also in the books he wrote romance novels under a female pen name. in the tv show he writes graphic novels instead, heck not even romance ones.
its such a shame i mean, the good things that tv show had it going is that introduced people to vampire character who not only was a good guy and helped people, but also enjoyed being a vampire instead of being depressed about it, and it had a strong protagonists character in Vicki, she was the female Detective, he was the sidekick who tagged along helping her dealing with supernatural cases. also it was funny that it was set in Toronto where Forever Knight was filmed. but yeah talk about a missed opportunity here to make a urban fantasy show that did fit your typical heteronormative story.
If there is a show that actually would need a reboot it´s this one, one that actually was faithful to the original books. Seeing that there lately we are getting more mainstream stories involving LGBT characters as well as the popularity of stuff like Vampire Diaries and its continuous spinoffs till this day, or charmed being rebooted, sabrina being given a new adaptation. It only makes sense.
I don’t know if that’s meant in a metaphorical way as in, “their insults have no bite” or a literal sense as in “someone was talking shit so he got his fucking teeth knocked out” but I like it either way
the older i get the weirder it is that not a single p.e. teacher in my entire school career was able to recognize the difference between “a child who doesn’t get enough exercise” and “a child with serious health problems impeding their ability to exercise in this particular way”
you know what else is weird? we had to do that fitness test every year but like… we never actually… learned how to do the things they tested us on…
like, now that i am an adult i have learned how to build up my strength so i can do pushups, but that seems like something they could have taught us? in school? in the class where they tested our ability to pushups? they never taught us how to work our way up to actually doing a chin-up, or whatever. even if i had just been “out-of-shape” (as a CHILD), nothing they did would have solved that problem. i did not learn how to exercise in a functional way until i was out of school and teaching myself, so i’m not sure what those p.e. classes were even intended to accomplish, really.
people are adding a lot of horror stories to this post that are really similar to mine (exercise-induced asthma, running the mile every friday, coughing nonstop for hours afterward and never actually getting any faster or building up any endurance, fainting at least once and not even getting sent to the nurse) but
to add something to the “really obvious shit any idiot could have told me” list
they taught us that the average walking speed should be 3mph, and i consistently tried on treadmills to walk at 3mph, and that always seemed really fucking fast to me and i never understood why
i’m 5′2″
i was in my twenties before i realized that i cannot go that fast because i have short fucking legs
why did grown-ass adults with eyes try to teach my short ass that i should be able to walk an easy mile in 20 minutes
i always hated the tendency of my PE teachers favoring students who were already athletically gifted why leaving the rest of us out in the dust.
Do you know how do a cartwheel? Great. Have no clue how do it? Sucks to be you. in fact i never actually managed to learn how to do it.
my teacher in highschool wasnt exactly forgiving of my fear of heights and being afraid of falling and hurting myself , specially when we had to jump on obstacles. did she stick around trying to help encourage students to be better nah? instead she just praised the students who already into sports or did them as extra curricular activity giving them preferential treatment
she was constantly underestimating me so much, she actually suggested that i was i need of extra classes and put me on the list but backed off when she accidentally found that i was actually taking karate classes after school.
turns out i wasnt that bad at sports, she was just an incompetent teacher. i also took up swimming during some weekends so yeah…
It feels like every couple days another person following, reblogging from or talking to me turns out to be a “gender critical” radical feminist and I don’t know if they just fucking missed almost everybody in my life being trans or nonbinary but almost everybody in my life is trans or nonbinary and I’m not always sure about myself either so we’re really not friends and I don’t want anything to do with you if that kind of thing sickens and angers you
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