1) Warrior Cats
I know this probably reveals a lot of things about me but these cats are part of my soul at this point. They were the first books that really got me into reading (even though objectively they are not that good), but I just loved the cats killing each other! It helped that I related so heavily to many of the characters.
2) Percy Jackson
Read the whole series, loved it! I was (still am) hugely into mythology so it was kind of the perfect storm. Nico was my favorite and the character I related to the most, and it was nice to have representation when I was younger.
Apr 19, 2025
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One of those things that makes me wonder. Am I a freak because I read Warrior Cats? Or was I into Warrior Cats because I was intrinsically always a freak?
I think I read all forty that were out at the time at least twice. I’m not ashamed to be a Warrior Cats kid. They had a surprising emotional depth. I stood in the eye of the fandom hurricane and did not become a furry. By age 9, Warriors had taught me to draw, to write universes of original character cat fanfiction, to lead an online roleplay group of 20+ with ease, and how a cat might dress a battle wound using medicinal herbs found only in Britain.
Apr 16, 2025
Even though the first series is kind of flawed until The Titan’s Curse it still holds up really well. Heroes of Olympus was just as great as I remembered it and now I’m getting to read Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard and the Trials of Apollo for the first time, both of which are fantastic series. I’m halfway through The Tyrant’s Tomb for Trials of Apollo and I love how each book has featured different returning main characters from PJO and HOO in each book alongside the two recurring main characters, Apollo and Meg McCaffrey who might be my favorite characters of all the books. Also, Rick Riordan has started to write a second pentatology for the original Percy Jackson and the Olympians series that I’m really stoked to start after I finish Trials of Apollo.
Feb 9, 2024
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you best believe my ass was pretending to fight as a cat and eating leaves i found in the woods
Feb 23, 2024
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I love these movies dude I’m so serious
Apr 19, 2025
A.I. as it exists currently will never be capable of truly mimicking the human mind, including the many emotions we feel on a day to day basis. Right now, A.I. is mostly just advanced algorithms that rip things from whatever its source material is or takes what it can from the wealth of all human knowledge that is the internet. Because of that, A.I. cannot grasp the human experience. It can pretend to, by pulling a post from any social media website and saying “well, when this situation happens, most people tend to feel X“ but that’s not real emotion, is it?
However, technology is constantly evolving. If at some point in the future, some tech bro can figure out how to perfectly and consistently create digital neural networks that mimic the human brain, then yes, that A.I. might be able to feel emotion, though it will never be “human emotion” as A.I.s will never be truly and completely human in the sense you and I are.
So I guess it depends on what your definition of “emotion” is. If you mean emotion as in “the full sensory and mental experience that emotions spawn in humans,” then the answer is no, an A.I. will never fully experience the complexities of human emotion. If you mean emotion as in “When X stimuli occurs, I react X way,” then yes, an A.I would be capable of that.
Overall, A.I. bad, humans good.
For some media to peruse, I’d recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick (if you haven’t read it already) as well as anything related to Bladerunner (which is based on the aforementioned book).
This is a great question, thanks for asking it!
Apr 19, 2025
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I love up cycling things that don’t fit anymore and personalizing my clothes :)
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