#Loss of originality

[feral-pixie-dream-possum]

When you think about it, AI stealing creative work is oddly fitting to the current culture.

Think about tiktok and instagram, where to make a video you have to add only a small portion of it and you can get views. Especially music or someone's voice. The norm is to copy, they are trends and you get views by doing it.

Don't have an idea? No problem, just film yourself watching a video and you get the views, even if only some people actually look at you.

Of course, art theft has been around forever, and so has stealing other types of content for views. The current platforms make it more acceptable by shrouding it with people adding something to the content.

No wonder AI is so popular. People have been taught that they're the creators even if the content is largely not theirs.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[factual-fantasy]

Following the release of TADC episode 5, I have made a liiiiittle change to my AU.✨🐸🤝🐰✨

[shoukohime]

babygirl the way you forsake your happiness on your relentless quest to vengeance, your complicated relationship with gender and the way you're covered in blood have bewitched me body and soul

[two-bees-poetry]

the daisies and the drowned

days 5 and 6: nowhere town, apokatastasis

[nebulaahh]

On Grief

or, On the Best Friend You Met in Middle School who will Never Graduate College

giuliano macca / wendell berry / janice / kate elizabeth russell / langston hughes / benjamin alrie saenz / gustav klimt / @ whitealbum / @ robertszombie / beau taplin / stephen king / theodor kittelsen / @ nebulaahh / arch budzar (taylor swift) / @ inanotherunivrse / unknown / @ nebulaahh

[p12lysanderdelanne]

mech listen, stairs. i am TELLING you

[evenlis]

Knew it was too good to be true, I thought I found my missing piece in you.

-Evenlis

[coffee-and-catnaps]

Loving you wasn't a faucet I could turn on and off

It was a wave that overtook me and thrust me upon the reef

Find what you love,  and let it kill you

How I wish to drown in you again.

[foamloam]

Sea, Swallow Me - Cocteau Twins

[burr-ell]

What I love about Spy x Family's recent chapters concerning Martha and Henry—two secondary characters with little direct connection to the plot as we've known it—is that Endo's taking the opportunity to once again hammer home what the story's actual stakes are. The idea of potential conflict between Ostania and Westalis isn't just window dressing for a wacky wholesome badass family gimmick—the previous wars are real events that various characters lived through, and all of them are in some way affected by it and have good reasons to want to avoid another one. This is primarily an action-adventure/slice-of-life manga with a lot of sendups to spy movies and pop culture of the 60s, but I think those things hold much more weight with the thematic underpinning of the horrors of war and the ruin it leaves behind.

[izuizzy]

“First Word” 💙💙

made a comic to express the relief and joy sonic felt when talia finally spoke for the first time once she became more comfortable. [read from left to right]

[white-hole-station]

One of these days I need to write an actual essay-style meta on how much Outer Wilds is a game about grief. It's not just that it depicts a lot of loss - it intentionally tells such a wide range of stories about how people and communities handle a loss, in all the different forms that can take, and all the different consequences that can have.

There's the Nomai, losing contact with the rest of their culture and each other, and coping with their loneliness and mourning in the little out-of-the-way journal entries and big scientific projects alike we see in their texts.

There's the Hearthian village grieving Feldspar, and the range of ways we see them and their disappearance talked about: a temporary setback, a death, an ascent into legend, or just the empty, missing space where a friend used to be.

There's the devastation of the owlks, compelled to bet the existence and comfort of their very home on an objective that later betrayed them, and reacting in anger and abject sorrow once they realized what they'd done, and in fear of the somehow even greater loss the Eye promised.

There's Gabbro, aware of the loops and the supernova and maintaining a calm that often rides the line between peace and forced apathy - because there's just nothing they can do to stop it, and on some level they already know that, and have either grieved it already, or are deciding simply to avoid that grief indefinitely.

And then, of course, there's the hatchling. Faced with the slow unfolding of final, utter loss, at the very beginning of their career. I will never get over that, how much grief was forced into their young brain to be processed, how much they had to come to terms with something no one is supposed to be able to handle, even if they have infinite time and space to do it.

Outer Wilds takes all this grief, and paints it on a backdrop of spinning planets and glittering distant supernovae. It never shies away from the reality of how bleak and heavy it all is, but it leans so much into the beauty of it, too. In order to lose you first must have loved. There is so much to love about this world, about its planets and its people, past and present. It deserves an essay. It seems I can't even post quickly about how much it means to me, without almost writing one.

[loveelizabeths]

love is what we choose to remember.

love elizabeth s.

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

greatest tragedy of fantasy high fr