I'll *NOT* be reblogging AI art in any circumstances. If I do, it's because I don't have the required skills to recognize it or it wasn't tagged as such. In this case, please contact me so I can undo the reblog.
I support artists with my whole heart and soul and I'm aware of how harmful AI art is as a tool that simply steals and steals. I don't want to feed the machine either.
This is not a call out post, of course. This is just my position as someone who follows many artists and supports their work.
reminding me of that post abt AI making me believe in the human soul because now I know art made without it.
you can't have good FANfiction from a bot that has no emotions or connections to media - something that literally cannot be a fan
AI is the byproduct of content culture and is being used to actively kill two things central and implicit to being human... art and storytelling.
There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"
I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.
i feel like this is what Midnight Mass got right, everyone who is transformed desperately clings to their humanity and their beliefs, but the animal drive ultimately takes over for almost all of them.
Modern vampire fiction: Vampires are scheming masterminds whose plots cannot be fathomed by mortal man.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897): Most people become mindless animals when they turn into vampires; Dracula is exceptional in that he retained any intelligence at all, but he's still dumb as hell, and his schemes literally only work because he's rich.
merlin fandom brainrot is hitting me again and yes these fics are all incredible (ESPECIALLY ones written by OP oh. my. god)
We're TRENDINGG for no REASONN just like god DECREEDD, so here are 5 fics that would steal your breath away:
1. My breaths are run by your compass by regulusrules. [T] [20K+] [post-camlann fix-it] [golden age but merlin stabs arthur in his heart first].
Not because it's my fic and it's genuinely so insane you won't believe it, but honestly, it's the best idea I've ever come up with, even better than the widely beloved my heart is readily yours. For me, it's the perfect continuation of their story, and the most unhinged plot twist you could find in a fic.
2. Half of my soul by @clockwrkpendrxgon. [G] [2K] [MCD] [golden age growing old together]
This fic is half of my soul, or what the poets say. It's so much better as an ending than what they've given us. At least this is filled with such golden love it makes you ache. At least this makes sense.
3. from hearth and ashes, we’re reborn by @remuscariad. [G] [5K] [canon era magic reveal].
This fic is so good you'll be on your knees from it. The prose, the characterization, the tropes used... it will linger in your mind and fester there from how beautiful it all is. And the art in it by @onepeppercorn... stunning.
4. Our broken pieces by @aramblingjay. [T] [10K] [canon era established relationship]
You can pry this fic from my cold dead hands. I will never stop recommending it until it gets the fame it deserves. One of the most beautiful fics ever written about them, and genuinely encompasses their characters so perfectly.
5. gentle as an early spring breeze by @prattery. [G] [2.5K] [canon divergence golden age]
They are alive and in love and we're all living in this fic because it's what they righteously deserved. The way their life was written here and the love between them... I swear this author could write anything and I'd kudos it before even reading it.
I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat.
Some people are always like "You couldn't make Blazing Saddles nowadays because of woke" but that's silly. Clearly they didn't watch the same Blazing Saddles as me cuz the one I watched was a slapstick summer comedy about how racism is bad. Hell, if they made Blazing Saddles today those same assholes would be whining about how "racism is bad" is part of the woke Marxist agenda or whatever.
Y'know what you couldn't make today? Shining Time Station. If they tried to make Shining Time Station today those same assholes would be like "Hmm, this George Carlin guy said bad words and doesn't like Jesus. We don't want him around our children." And that'd be it for Mr. Conductor.
VERY important for ONE person on this website I can no longer find
idk someone asked for the jacket Sloane wears in Ferris Bueller's Day off and I bought an amazing one from LeatherCult (also linked is ferris's jacket)