#do some self reflection

[gongalicious]

Please stop

Me and some other fans have noticed an uptick in some disturbing behavior from some Vinesauce fans and I want to speak up about it. Please, stop making sexually explicit posts/art about Vinny and Joel. I know for a fact both of them have stated their discomfort about this content throughout the years, and yet I keep seeing people either drawing them in a sexual way or just posting fucked up shit about them on public platforms. If you feel the need to ask me for proof of them saying that, you are part of the problem. They shouldn't have to say that they don't want people making explicit posts about them, that should be common courtesy. If you don't want to stop, I can't stop you. But at least don't publically tag your delusional fantasies for everyone else to see. Keep it to yourself. These are real people, with real lives, and real feelings. Online fandom may have made it seem acceptable to act like this in recent years, but it's not. IT IS ESPECIALLY WRONG WHEN THEY HAVE ALREADY SET THEIR BOUNDARIES ABOUT IT BEFORE. It's disgusting that so many people think it's okay to go past someone's personal boundaries for their own pleasure. Real, living people are not your OCs that you can dress up and parade around in whatever way you want. If you want a character that you can make that kind of art about, make an OC. Find a TV show or movie. A book, a comic. Anything else. And, If someone asks you to stop doing something that makes them uncomfortable, listen to them. It's that simple. I recognize that many of you are young and have been conditioned to see this stuff as normal, but the sooner you grow out of that the better it will be for your own life and relationships. If you are a full ass adult and still think acting like this is okay, then I don't know what to tell you. It doesn't make sense that so many of you claim to be fans and care about people while repeatedly doing things that make them uncomfortable. They are regular people and deserve to be treated with the same respect as anyone else. If you would probably get in trouble for sexual harassment in real life, don't say that same shit online. Respect people's boundaries in the same way you'd want them to respect yours.

[keen-eye]

every time a queer person agrees with sam takes by the dean cult that is straight dudebro redditors, bigoted conservative fathers, and tumblr deangirl festishizers, an angel loses it’s wings

i’m talking about hating sam for not kissing their king’s ass & validating his entitlement as much as they do and “allies” saying that d*stiel is great representation while refusing to acknowledge any of sam’s arcs as queer allegories

at least the first 2 shamelessly admit that misogyny is the main reason they hate sam (nagging, prissy, hysterical woman) and love dean. get on their level! smh

[wombtowaste]

not to be a hater but the way cis men handle being broken up with (usually by a woman) is so fucking irritating. Especially when the guy is avoidant. So you have no problem hurting someone repeatedly to the point that they dump you, but you have an issue with them breaking up with you after repeatedly trying to tell you how you're hurting them and trying to fix the issue? And now that girl you were codependent on left, you can "never love again" and "she doesn't know how bad she hurt me"? Cry me a fucking River

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The Master about the Doctor when they're not around: *heart eyes, but with panic in his voice as he thinks about the Doctor possibly dying* A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about...

The Master to the Doctor's face: *points a weapon at them* Killing you once was never enough for me, Doctor. How, how gratifying to do it three times over.....

And it's in the same fucking story.

[bitterrfruit]

people using ai to generate fics is terrifying because large language models are getting better and better at approximating real writing, for the very reason that they steal more and more work from real writers every second.

ai generated writing has become sophisticated enough that often you truly have to rely on a gut feeling that what you’re reading isn’t written by a human. as @bi-writes says in her post, it’s the same as ai images that just have a certain look to them. sometimes there are specific “tells” you can pick out as evidence, but sometimes there aren’t.

ultimately what ai writing lacks is a true understanding of what is being written.

crucially, large language models aren’t actually intelligent. the way they work is simply predictive text on steroids. they generate words based on the words that come before - when they start a passage of text, they don’t “know” where it will go. this is why sources like chatGPT consistently give incorrect information, it doesn’t know what it is telling you, it is only regurgitating words in a human-like order based on the swathes of information it has stolen from other sources.

one thing ai writing will always lack is a true thought-out plot. it will constantly repeat itself. it will have plenty of adjectives and similes and “creative” synonyms, it'll be rife with cringey wattpad tropes as bi mentioned, because it is entirely unoriginal.

what frightens me is a future where the difference becomes indistinguishable to laypeople or casual readers, especially those who aren’t writers themselves. making accusations is near impossible without evidence and we don’t want a world where real art is dismissed simply out of ai paranoia, but the thought of a future in which real authors are sidelined in the industry because readers are sated by robot-written slop is genuine nightmare fuel.

all this to say, i guess, is human writing can never be genuinely replaced if readers and writers are aware that ai generated work is hollow, meaningless, unoriginal garbage whose very production is harming our planet. or, rather, that readers continue to care that the art they consume is produced by a human being.

i honestly don’t know how anyone can stomach to read or enjoy work produced by ai knowing that there is no human feeling behind its creation. all i can do is hope the majority feel the same.

[yabagofmilfs]

this is such an interesting read on a couple different levels. amazing to see such a culture shift in a relatively short period of time.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Assisting Acquaintance Acquired.

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[mamawasatesttube]

tim kon cassie trio on the mind today. not a love triangle, not a polycule, but a secret third thing (when a gay man, a lesbian, and their pet bisexual freak love each other very much...)

[origami-butterfly]

Reminder for pride month that queerness is not limited to whiteness and if you erase non white queers, when talking about the community, every queer person who isn't white gets to throw rocks at you and shoot you out of a cannon 💖

[jynxedshapeshifter]

Something that fascinates me about the fact that people complain about TGAA making them uncomfortable isn't just that there are parts of it that are supposed to make you uncomfortable but also guess who else is uncomfortable by the same things that tend to make players uncomfortable? Ryunosuke and Susato. They literally point it out when something seems off to them (Pat's treatment of Roly, Joan's abuse of John, the casual racism from the English on MULTIPLE occasions, Sholmes referring to Joan as a "beast," the casual sexism/misogyny Susato is subjected to in both Japan and England, and the blatant classism from both van Zieks and the jurors).

The things that are supposed to make you uncomfortable because you're playing as a Japanese character studying in Victorian England. In Victorian England, things like domestic abuse, fatphobia, misogyny, and plenty of other concepts shown in TGAA were socially acceptable. If you're uncomfortable with heavy subjects like are shown in TGAA being portrayed in fiction to the point you HAVE to complain about it, TGAA isn't a game for you.

Like this is a screenshot I got during my first playthrough of TGAA.

Like this stuff is supposed to make you uncomfortable. I don't know what to tell you. TGAA is a period piece; the court side of stuff isn't all that accurate, but basically everything else is. I genuinely don't know what to tell you if media exploring uncomfortable parts of history makes you so uncomfortable you have to yell about it.

[skiptoyuri]

i find shima believing his behavior around mitsumi to be part of his facade so interesting bc like. his M.O. wrt kindness is typically far more detached, no? he's not going out of his way to explicitly befriend everyone, he's not trying to include them in every conversation, he's not alluding to them hanging out (in group settings mind you!!) being like a date, etc etc... its crazy that he can do all those things and still be so blinded by self-loathing.

i think theres also something to be said about how he can so easily take mitsumi's word as gospel when they break up and then proceed to not really. trust that her reasons for liking him are genuine as well. let's dissect this guy like a frog.

[purplecatghostposts]

*Holds up Félix and Chloé* It’s not obvious because it’s all WIPs and very little has been posted but I care them so much. I love putting them in a room together and locking the door to see what happens. They’re two somewhat territorial cats who are fighting one minute, then totally chill the next. They’re judging each other. They like to hang out and judge other people. They’re mocking each other one minute and then planning each other’s parents’ (Andre and Audrey’s/Colt’s) murders. Amélie invites Chloé over and treats her like a daughter. Chloé is breaking down crying in Amélie’s arms because she feels loved one moment, then smirking at Félix because she’s stealing his mom five minutes later. Sabrina knows Félix by his full government name due to Chloé’s ranting but has never formally met him. They both love Adrien so much but they’re not the greatest at remembering to tell him. They both have so many issues. They complain about each other. They have blackmail material for days. They would kill for one another if it came down to it. Do you feel me. Do you get me. Did any of that make sense. I know I’m taking a five second interaction and allusions to what their relationship was before and blowing it up out of proportion but they interest me so MUCH and I WILL make headcanons about it.

[arthur-lesters-left-arm]

arthur lester? i barely know her!

[howfrightening]

the peace that i feel knowing that every voice that hates on hmoney doesn’t matter, and that the majority of audiences like it and want it back and so do the inventors of the ship- the actors themselves🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ never underestimate the love a gay has for that one token “straight” couple.

the way that the hetty and trevor relationship compliments each of their character journeys so well without over taking their main plots and lets them be awful and human, but then also grow is so good. i need to yap more about them honestly.