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Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

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"I'm not reading all that" is one of the most egg-on-your-face responses you can give to something you disagree with. You are under no obligation to read something you don't feel like reading, but you don't exactly get to act like refusing to read bolsters your position.

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Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha

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What's cool about Gideon I think is that she's actually, in-universe non-conforming, rather than just being "butch" or "masc" to our sensibilities but relatively passé within the universe. We read Gideon as masculine, yes, but it's not like Gideon acts like Ortus, or Mortus, or Crux. Nor does she act like Aiglamene, for that matter. The Ninth to me presents a kind of monastic androgyny - everyone shaves their head, everyone wears baggy black robes, everyone paints their face. Gideon, with her "ridiculous" hair and aversion to skull paint, is therefore non-conforming to the gender of Ninth. She's also non-conforming to the gender of cavalier, it's not something she was raised in, it's something she struggles to "pass" as. Gideon is basically transcavalier. And I think that's cool! I've seen a lot of people posit basically "what would it even mean to be 'butch' in a post-gender society" and I think Gideon solves that equation nicely by being "butch" to us in the real world and being decidedly nonstandard for both Ninth cavalier and a cavalier in general within the text. You need to look beyond what we consider arbitrarily "masculine" and "feminine" in order to effectively analyze gender in tlt, and I for one think that's very interesting

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do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

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actually we don't talk enough about kiriona killing crux and how heartbreaking that scene it is. imagine growing up being beaten and kicked and kept prisoner and being locked away and told that you are nothing if not a big mistake. now imagine then finding out that it is just untrue. not because you have found your value as a person and bla bla bla but because it turns out that you're the child of like, the most important guy in the whole universe. you go back home and you finally, finally get to prove your abuser wrong! you did all of that to me and yet look! i'm actually so very important and i deserved to live amd you were wrong all along!

and yet that is not enough. you show to your abuser that they were wrong, like, you treated me like shit when i am a big deal, and they say, i don't care, that doesn't change anything. you are still something that deserved to get beaten and kicked and locked away. but, hey, since you're a big fucking deal, you get to kill this guy. you get to kill the man that has abused you all your life. you get to give the man that has been terrorizing you since childhood what he deserves. sweet revenge. it doesn't feel good. you are a big fucking deal and he is dead. you still were beaten and kicked and kept like prisoner. you still have been nothing if not a big mistake for much longer than you have been the child of the emperor.

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gideon the ninth: "ah, I understand," said palamades, "what's happening here is-" at this point, Gideon decided to think about how hot dulcinia was

harrow the ninth: "i hate you you stupid little bug" said mercymorn, to which thirty percent of your body started bleeding profusely. Ianthe, The Body, and your sword judged you very harshly for this. "now now everyone," said God, "play nice together" as Gideon's spear protruded between your ribs.

nona the ninth: "I sure do love life," said nona. "God, you're such a loser," replied her friends Chewing Cinderblocks and Hot Cheeto Dust. Cow Wall Flashback. Noodle barked. Cow Wall Flashback "man, we should really do something about the magic beam that makes people insane," said palamades to the local commander, He Who Crowns Headless Chickens. Cow Wall Flashback.

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this is how harrow the ninth went right?

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Interrupting my usual posting nonsense with some ISAT doodles I did a while ago

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he's fine don't even worry about it

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YOU play video games to feel powerful. I play video games to feel new, previously undiscovered shades of grief and sadness. we are NOT the same.

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You feel a tug on your stomach.

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every time someone calls a cis man an egg because he decides to deviate even slightly from traditional masculine gender norms, an angel loses its wings

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Saying this right fucking now.

I don’t want to see ANY of you touching that fuckass new Harry Potter series.

That woman has set us back YEARS. YEARS. And whose money is she using to do it? People who continually support her and her sorry excuse for a book series.

If you simply must watch it? Pirate. It’s not hard.

Do not give her money. Do not give her a platform. Do not contribute. Please.

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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit

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I feel like chatgpt came around and everyone immediately forgot what they were doing to get stuff done before. like writing centers, extensions, extra help, templates, office hours, beta readers, random generators, and art and writing prompts have all existed for ages. even if you were cheating there's always been sparknotes, photomath, copying, paying someone else to do it, faking that your grandma died, and whatever. all of that stuff is more reliable and doesn't fuck over the planet. and you might actually learn something

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i literally dont care what your excuse for using AI is. if you didnt put your own effort into making it im not putting my own effort into interacting with it.