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wanted to preserve this scene.

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I love the practice of requisitioning, remixing and reworking books, comics, movies etc. through any means you like, but I hate hate hate the way so much vocabulary that used to be rooted in individual creativity has been taken over by this kind of fucked up deference to mainstream publishing and ip.

easy example: everyone calls the characters they work up for their projects 'OCs' now. that genie is out of the bottle, I'm not even going to try and cram it back in. it's universal terminology. but I do want to reflect - why is the default position to assume that when someone says 'my characters' they mean something derivative, unless they specify 'my Original characters'?

similarly, all character relationships are 'ships'. but what's wrong with that? you say, it's just short for 'relationship'. and you would be right, by merit of completely ignoring the fandom ancestry and common understanding of that term in order to win an argument. because you know as well as I do that 'ships' aren't 'relationships', they're hypothetical romances that the speaker is rooting for. so why do I keep seeing people talk about shipping their OCs? why is a hypothetical relationship entertained and enjoyed by the creator of the work described using fan terminology?

I have for real no joke seen people talk about their 'headcanons' for their own characters, in their own stories. that's not a headcanon babe, that's canon!!! that's YOUR WORK. moreover, why are we even talking about the canonicity of your personal original writing? this isn't the star wars extended universe, why are international franchise IPs setting the baseline for the relationship you have with your writing and the terminology you use to conceptualise it?

tbc this is not a 'fandom brainrot' post. because I don't think it's fanwork that's the root of the problem. I think it's the insidious creep of capitalism and the ever more draconian weaponisation of copyright law that has rewritten our capacity for talking about creative work so that it revolves at all times around ownership and precedent. there is a deep learned anxiety about describing fictional works as fictional properties, that echoes in our vocabulary as we constantly make clear what is owned and what is not, what has been established on the record and what exists in the realm of speculation.

the reason 'fandom brainrot' is such a compeling stand-in for this issue is that it's really just one step downstream from all that voracious rent-seeking behaviour by publishers. if the only things you ever read or watch are in the milieu of those franchise copyright lawyers, that is the understanding of fiction-as-property you develop. if you're not exposed to a broader spectrum of art and artists, living and dead, who talk about their work as work - as expression, as experimentation, as a personal process and as a shared space with their audience - you will quickly be alienated from your own creative practice by design.

the point i want to make is this: going off the beaten track, exploring outside the franchises and bestsellers and box office babies, is not just a matter of good taste. imo it is a necessary act of solidarity with artists who still live, work and speak as individuals. it's a healthier environment for you as an artist. you deserve a relationship with your own work, not a ship.

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y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

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I think when you correctly identify a trauma that is the base of a woe of yours it should just disappear. It should be like "aaahh. you got me" and vanish and leave 100 dollars behind

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as a pathfinder 2e player my daily routine consists of beating up random d&d 5e players i see on the street for being wotc bootlickers and then i go home to my tgirl dom who plays exclusively avantgarde indie ttrpgs where you dont even roll dice and she calls me a good girl for sucking on her strap. and she says ill get an experience point (1) if im really really good

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Isekai just seems like a profoundly sad genre of fantasy by design. Yes you have rad JRPG powers now and you get to hang out with big tiddy elves who love you but do you not have like. Friends that you mourn. Family that you miss. Habits that you can’t practice now without tripping. Familiar sounds and smells you’ll never know again

Either you did and you don’t care in the face of JRPG powers and elf tiddies, or you didn’t, and both options are profoundly sad in their own ways

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(responding to getting flirted with) heh well, youre pretty sexy yaself baby, (lowers sunglasses to reveal my wicked eyes) im not feeling well, i might die soon

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i hate to put a damper on the silksong hype but y'all might want to check this out

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From what I've seen, the two types of Deltarune theory are basically:

If we consider Dummied-Out Dialogue 'A' along with Concept Art 'B' and Thing That Happened In Homestuck 'C,' and we assume that Jevil has a connection to the alleyway due to the Everyman graffiti, and then we do a tarot reading using the official Undertale Major Arcana (supplemented with the minor arcana from a standard Rider-Waites deck), we MUST confront the possibility that the Roaring Knight is actually Milk Looker.

I know this sounds crazy, but based on his behavior, I've been wondering: what if Asgore isn't over the divorce?

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some of you make posts like dwarf fortress artifacts

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It is wild how confident these Owners often are. Please Gordon Ramsay tell me why my restaurant is failing, wait what the fuck do you mean it's my decisions and the way I do things? Suck my cock, you know nothing about REAL food, you pretentious fuck.

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the world gets a lot easier when you learn to be wrong without getting pissed or doubling down. saying, ‘you’re right, that makes sense, I was misinformed, thanks for telling me’ instead of going to war over something your ego’s latched onto will save you time, energy, and the embarrassment of sounding like a whiny little bitch

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pro tip you can just grab a bunch of random parts from dumpsters and hardware stores and computer stores and just attach them together haphazardly and then put it in your suitcase and take it to the airport and get arrested pretty much 100% of the time

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Nothing in the world feels as unjust as the fate of the Disco Elysium developers.

Imagine you build this in-depth fictional setting over the course of decades with your friends, and then decide to turn it into a game for fun. You end up creating one of the most celebrated and well-written RPGs of all time and become celebrated for reviving a dying genre.

A few months later, you're fired from the company you founded for criticizing the new direction its taking. The company has the copyright not only to the game you made, but literally everything in the world of the game, which spans decades of lore you built for no profit with your group of friends.

Like, this is a nightmare that I didn't even know existed before I ran into it. To have, what is essentially a passion project that branched off from a TTRPG campaign, be pulled from your hands by a corporate entity that only yearns to abuse your creation for maximum profit. I couldn't imagine myself going on creating anything after that.

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“your nipples are showing” ok? say thank you

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Now that i think about it I think about it i suspect the environmental concerns over ai might just be borrowed rhetoric from critque of NFTs and other blockchain tech. Which is funny because llms/image generation models are something that (like most other digital technologies that people seem to forget about) can have some pretty harmful effects when used at large scales. Meanwhile blockchain stuff is somewhere around 5-6 orders of magnitude worse in terms of power use per individual action*. That's the around difference between running a lightbulb for a year and running a lightbulb since the invention of agriculture.

*for chains that use proof of work, like bitcoin and pre-2022 ethereum