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Me six days a week... Tuesdays I spend at the one local coffee shop miraculously capable of holding the correct energies to get shit done

Enjoy this meme I made instead of writing

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This song still lives on my playlist. I remember the mall foodcourt tvs playing this on whatever weird mall channel they had. 20 yrs ago I was a 14 yr old mallrat making the most of every coupon and sale I could. Back then 30 bucks was enough for an afternoon at the mall if you played your cards right.

I remember how fucking massive this video was 20 years ago when YouTube was in its infancy so it’s cool to read trivia about it. For anyone old enough to remember, it’s definitely giving VH1’s Pop-Up Video.

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Early authors who canonized the literary vampire were in fact quite obsessed with sexual devience and used a vampire drinking blood as an allegory. AN ALLEGORY TO SEX. It is written intimately, often nonconsensual or dubious consent at best, and often ending in death especially for female victims(which is a huge trope of gothic literature).

people are always like "Oh a vampire wouldn't get horny while drinking someone's blood, that's like getting horny while eating a sandwich" and like man have you never had a really good fucking sandwich?

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*Me sitting at my laptop playing god with my own creations* Hey no wait... don't do that!

*Me continuing to type the character doing the thing* Wait, wait let them cook

*Me later* Why did I let you do that?! It was a terrible idea! Hm... what if you did it again with higher stakes?

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What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

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Sat down and was instantly compelled to doodle these two. I feel like 003 surprise lifts the boys, especially when they're treating her like glass. I know I'm in rarepair hell with these two, but I think they'd be cute and wholesome.

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Here's some art of Hal and Mels, but in symbolic presentations of how the prophecy about them paints them, i.e. some early proto-characterization that has evolved intoa more subtle contras. And of cohrse they are replicating the pose from one of my favorite paintings, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederick William Burtob

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the symbiotic relationship between tumblr and AO3 should be studied in a lab

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🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

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We are at the point that this kind of thinking has infiltrated so much of the younger members of fandom.

Honestly, as someone who intends to get published someday. I know exactly what kinds of whackadoo shipping nonsense may come of my work. And I've made peace with it because I respect my right in my fandoms to ship whoever I choose.

I'm going to be real honest when I say this. Creators of original media should probably limit their interactions with fanworks. Especially fanfic. Keep your expectations for a fandom of your own work to yourself. Is it a pain in the ass to see someone like Suzanne Colllins deal with the young Snow fangirls? Absolutely. But I also know, that she knows that it just isn't possible to police the fans of your work. Do you want to be the next Anne Rice? So obsessed that fans are enjoying your creation that you sue people for writing fanfic?

There is no way to decide who becomes a fan of your work and what they do with it. You either make peace that some fan will make you uncomfortable, or you will grow to hate your own fans. And there is nothing sadder in a fandom than watching the creator of the original media lash out at their fans. We all know how Butch Hartman reacted to trans!Danny AUs.

Every original media creator must accept that their fandom is going to take their characters and do some crazy shit. It's what fandom does. And if you have a problem with how fandom engages in media do not create original content.

general techniques to avoid gross shipping of your characters

have most characters be non-minors, around the same age range. this is mostly to minimize underage nonsense.

while family relationships are important, save them as background elements, explored every now and then. focus mainly on the bonds of non-related characters and how their different backgrounds play off each other.

limit the overly edgy tone, where pain and suffering are near-romanticized. try to emphasize wholesomeness, health, and the various ways characters can have good relationships despite their differences. a lot of nintendo franchises are good examples.

avoid creating significant characters who are utterly irredeemable with harmful ethics. (for me personally, i limit elements such as abuse and discrimination for background conflicts while presenting more interesting, morally gray arguments, where either side is right/flawed) if you’re going to have a villain, either make them team rocket goofy or classic disney fun.

just. try not to have characters + relationships rely on racial tropes. if you overly rely on a tough dark-skinned / dainty light-skinned formula, you’re going to see some racist shipping. mix it up. round ‘em out.

same goes for gendered tropes. if a dude is downright violent and irresponsible and a level-headed girl has to put up with his flaws without him facing consequence, that’s a downright unbalanced relationship. and do keep in mind that if two boys utterly despise each other, people will absolutely take that a certain way. again, with #3, try to play off disdain as comedic or with exception rather than constant seething hatred.

obviously these aren’t hard and fast rules, and what/how you create will vary. but it’s how i generally approach my work

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I am so tired of blocking people who use AI to create a fascimile of media. They're like those scam calls of "your extended warranty..." How dare you pop up on my dashboard with these abominations and call them art...

It's about as sad and disturbing as Frankenstein taking dead body parts, stitching them together, and pronouncing himself a creator of life. No. WRONG. That's necromancy! You didn't create anything! You took bits and pieces from the dead, fused them into a new model and then used a shit ton of electricity to wake it up. It's a monster because it was not born naturally. And making it an adult at birth skips every crucial experience that comes with growing up.

AI is no different! Some dudebro took the work of a bunch of artists, told a program to catalogue and blend, and hit generate. What you get is an image that looks like art, but that uncanny valley feeling is present when you look at it. Reminding you it's a haphazard almagamation of someone elses's work put together and forced into existence.

I really need tha AI users to quite pretending AI vs real artwork is in any way similar to baking a cake from scratch vs using a boxed mix. No. In terms of art. From scratch is akin to traditionally made art while the box mix might be digital art. The cake is still a cake, one just comes with less steps and is faster/easier/more accessible for some. Neither is 'less or more' cake than the other. And where does AI generatiom fit into this metaphor? It's like someone going around a room full of cakes, cutting a small piece from each cake, then gluing them together into a vaguely cake shaped thing. But they would still say, oh yeah I made this cake myself! And it's literally just made up of a dozen slices from the cakes everyone else already made.

It's gross.

It isn't art.

Stop pretending it is. Please.

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I rewatched The Owl House and Hunter never ceases to break me. Anyways have some art of him losing his cool after Hollow Mind.

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Alright! Sorry for being so absent today! I was building a tool so you can all check your own names on demand.

I am asking that you not talk about it on Hugging Face. I'm sure word will get there eventually, but I'd like to avoid them accessing this as much as possible. Feel absolutely free to spread around Tumblr.

Tool is here! Use page 1 to search by username. Use page 2 to search by work ID (which you'll need to do if you're looking for an anonymous work).

That said, I did pay out of pocket for some of the accounts I've needed to do all this. If I need to, I'm fine with eating that cost, but I am going to ask nicely that if you feel like kicking in toward it, you donate to the Ko-Fi I made specifically for this technical project. I was hoping to get a short-term membership, but I was only able to buy access to host this for a full year lmao. BUT regardless, this is freely available to everyone. Do NOT feel like you need to donate if it'll put you in a bad place or even if you just don't want to. Just figured I'd ask instead of quietly sucking up the $180.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the cost to host the tool! I appreciate you so so so much. As of this edit, I'm at $185 total, and right now, I don't expect to have to pay for anything else to keep this available.

I gave the tool a quick test, but please come yell if it stops working. I'm around; I'll fix as fast as I can. It's slow as hell, but it does load eventually. Give it up to 10 minutes, and if it seems down after that, please alert me via ask! Anons are on.

Now with all that being said, time for me to start focusing on how we stop the next scrape.

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can’t stop thinking abt this ship, i’m so in love w them!!!

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exactly

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Normies in fandom spaces who ignore long standing fandom practices and ettiquette are basically the equivalent of an invasive species encroaching on the habitation and hunting grounds of a completely unrelated species.