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did you get on tumblr just to hate on AI?

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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not a hot take: but a good female characters can be annoying, that is something people have to accept. yes madel(gravity falls) is annoying. she is also thirteen. yes annabeth is annoying(no she aint), she's also beem through war.

character are allowed to be annoying because people are annoying.

Hot take (I think?), but your characters don't need a significantly tragic backstory to be well written. In my opinion, a well-written character is one who's realistic, sad backstory or not. Also a good female character doesn't always need to be exceptionally physically strong.

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THIS I MEANT THIS BULU

Something I realized about Superboy Prime

I learned this from watching “The Panda Redd” on youtube in his DC comics discussions but Superboy Prime is the perfect critique of toxic masculinity and toxic comic fans. Like, most of the times when a writer tries to cover toxic masculinity in their works, it backfires because they end up making people like the ones they’re critiquing think the character is super awesome and “it’s totally like me!” but Superboy Prime is so hateable and pathetic.

He has so much power and caused so much destruction but at the end of the day, he fails to be intimidating because he says shit like “I’ll kill you to death!” and “Everything was better on my world!” he doesn’t have grand villain speeches. He sounds like a toddler having a tantrum and is basically DC holding a mirror to toxic fans and those with toxic masculinity and saying “This is you. You’re an overgrown, whiny jerk and you need to cut that shit out.”

Now, why do I bring this up when Panda Redd and Linkara have already covered him? Because I realized something. One of the toxic fans that Superboy Prime represents are the ones that killed Jason Todd and in his big villain turn, he brings him back to life.

See, when Jason was first created, he was a carbon copy of Dick Grayson. Hell, he was even part of an acrobat family called “The Flying Todds” and his parents died the same way. The only difference was that he had red hair. No one minded…until post-crisis where they not only gave Jason his own backstory and personality but used him to discuss darker topics like abuse and homelessness. That’s when the most toxic aspects of the DC comics fanbase came out and started throwing a fit. They would send angry fan letters to DC offices, leave angry phone calls and basically broke down the ones in charge until they finally said “Fine! We’ll kill him off but only if it’s something you really want!”

And despite what many believe, it wasn’t that many people calling the number to kill Jason off. It was mostly just a few people repeatedly calling the same number over and over again. There’s even a story of one guy rigging up his phone to his computer to call the “kill Jason” number again and again.

This adds all the more delicious irony when Superboy Prime, punching reality in a fit of nerd rage, ended up undoing one of the most famous events caused by toxic fans. Not only did the representation of those fans bring Jason back to life but they made him more popular than ever before and a beloved member of the batfamily.

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me and my friends(romantic) @cozmezzz

the joy of realizing someone is a similar type of freak as you

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how bad will it be if i post my batfam selfinsert, where i just am there because i want a family, and still have alot of issues and am just a bitch but so are the rest of them so we try to be better failing miserably?

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here come the sun playing as i finally see my friends again at the end of this term. like in a movie, where the group finally reunites after a long battle where they almost lost.

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YEAH! LOOK AT MY GOOGLE DOC SO FULL OF WIPS THAT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY! DONT YOU KNOW TRUE WRITER CRY TEARS OF BLOOD JUST TO WRITE A SINGLE 1000 WORD SCENE! THEN CRY MORE. THAT WHAT MAKE WRITING HUMAN! THE PAIN!

no way ppl are using ai to write ao3. what happened to being a tortured writer. what happened to blood on the page. what happened to the ao3 curse. people used to get run over, have their houses burned down, break their entire spines and they still put in the work to finish a chapter. fuck you, using ai. y’all are weak

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sometimes you just need to roleplay a very toxic relationship wth your bestfriends making everyone of you friends think you are actually fighting over something as stupid as you makeing new friends in college that arent her. and sometimes thats enought to make you feel better about being in college

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i just realised i have the power to write what i want here. i am free. i will be hateful doe. not to people specifically just generally. like the rat who ran inside the fucking building when it saw me instead of into the swear. like bro! i needed to go there! you know me. we see each other everyday. why tf you changng the routine???

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ok this getting a bit much.

yall why tf has the jimmy hate disappeared? like why tf are yall making cute content with him? i've seen so many posts with that and the comments dont go "ew im sorry you had to draw them any more"

like i get it.he's a character you have your heah cannons,but do not take it away from the story.

is it weird im mad about a fictional evil man? yes definatly.

but holy shit with stuff going on around me i can't even stand people supporting fictional creeps.

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I'll probably do a part 2, I love so many books

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part 3 of the 2023 version of this post: adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 2: young adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

yerba buena by nina lacour

if we were villains by m.l. rio

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin

i want to be a wall by honami shirono

portrait of a thief by grace d. li

the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhadar

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

love & other disasters by anita kelly

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

boyfriend material by alexis hall

almost like being in love by steve kluger

the charm offensive by alison cochrun

something wild & wonderful by anita kelly

red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston

something to talk about by meryl wilsner

honey girl by morgan rogers

one last stop by casey mcquiston

once ghosted, twice shy by alyssa cole

kiss her once for me by alison cochrun

a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow

finna by nino cipri

every heart a dooryway by seanan mcguire

the starless sea by erin morgenstern

under the whispering door by tj klune

space opera by catherynne m. valente

light from uncommon stars by ryka aoki

dead collections by isaac fellman

the city we became by n.k. jemisin

light carries on by ray nadine

an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green

feed them silence by lee mandelo

summer sons by lee mandelo

upright women wanted by sarah gailey

lavender house by lev a.c. rosen

fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

a master of djinn by p. djeli clark

witchmark by c.l. polk

a marvellous light by freya marske

a restless truth by freya marske

when women were dragons by kelly barnhill

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

a lady for a duke by alexis hall

infamous by lex croucher

passing strange by ellen klages

even though i knew the end by c.l. polk

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

whiskey when we're dry by john larison

wake of vultures by lila bowen

silver in the wood by emily tesh

the once and future witches by alix e. harrow

the kingdoms by natasha pulley

a tip for the hangman by allison epstein

she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan

the song of achilles by madeline miller

spear by nicola griffith

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

some desperate glory by emily tesh

all systems red by martha wells

a psalm for the wild built by becky chambers

the mimicking of known successes by malka older

winter's orbit by everina maxwell

fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

legends and lattes by travis baldree

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

other ever afters by melanie gillman

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

a strange and stubborn endurance by foz meadows

the unbroken by c.l. clark

real queer america by samantha allen

fun home by alison bechdel

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

better living through birding by christian cooper

why fish don't exist by lulu miller

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fuck yes. oh my god. maybe i peaked early or i dont have time to write . but i seem to be writing worse like what??

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

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I just know Laswell likes These Boots Are Made for Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra. She dances to that shit with her wife at parties and laughs when men gawk at them.

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I’m so excited this is insane

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reblog to give the person ur reblogging from an ikea shark