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I am currently reading The Heir to the house of Prince by elph13 on ao3, it’s so great ! I can’t stop reading it, and I feel constantly thursty to know what is going to happen next.

The pairings are not what I'm used to but it is so well done.

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It has been some months now that I am procrastinating to listen to the new The Cure album. And well, I should have done it before, and it is really really good.

I was scared to be disaspointed or to just not like it. And it is absoluty not the case, I'm so happy that I've finally taken the time.

But I did cry a bit

I think it’s normal for this band albums

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don't steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people's fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it's too late--before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can't believe I have to say this)

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okay so apparently the spotify ceo decided to be a dick and ban the free premium apk versions of the app, which i've been using for years

so now I'm upset, fuck all corporations who barely even pay the artists on their platform, but "they're missing out on revenue" it's disgusting

so now I'm back to torrenting albums and YouTube to MP3-ing hundreds of song like in the good ol' days like god intended

so fuck spotify, fuck corporations

I'd much rather support the artists I listen to directly, in a way that actually generates them revenue, but in this fucking economy idek how that would be possible

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I think about this dialogue from S1 all the time; to me, it succinctly sums up the differences between Erwin and Levi’s perspectives and motivations.

When it comes to Erwin, it’s much like what Armin said in S1: the people who are capable of making change have to be able to throw everything away and abandon their personal humanity in order to save the greater humanity. Erwin embodies this perfectly—he never hesitated to sacrifice the lives of others on behalf of a greater cause, and even knew how to inspire them into willingly self-sacrificing.

What was that greater cause? For Erwin, it was his dream of finding out the truth and avenging his father—it just so happened that this aligned with what was best for Paradis. If it weren’t for his own personal ambitions, I don’t believe Erwin would have had the same level of commitment or drive.

Erwin knew that all of the deaths of his soldiers and the civilians caught in the crossfire were potentially pointless (and we eventually see that catch up to him right before his death); but at the same time, he knew each death and sacrifice was a necessary step in uncovering the truth.

That’s not to say he saw no value in human life or that he was an evil person—it’s just that he saw more value in the bigger picture and the greater cause, and he didn’t have time to consider his personal humanity in that pursuit. Erwin knew that he needed people like Levi and Hange to stay alive in order to achieve this bigger picture goal since they filled in the gaps of skills he lacked himself.

This also isn’t to say Erwin is purely selfish, nor is he the only one with personal motivations—Eren was motivated by his mother’s death, Mikasa was motivated by protecting Eren, Hange was motivated by learning about Titans. The list goes on.

Levi is uniquely one of the few characters without selfish motivations and dreams (which is ironic since people view him as cold and heartless). Levi had no ulterior motives pushing him to the other side of the war, and nothing personal to gain.

He chose to follow Erwin because of that look Erwin had in his eye—the same look Armin had in his eye—hope for the future, like he could see something no one else could. Levi, simply, didn’t want to make choices he would regret, even though he openly admitted that he never truly knew or understood what the outcome of those choices would be. He believed that following Erwin’s command—and eventually choosing Armin—was the best way to do this.

Levi doesn’t view the lives of his comrades or squad members as disposable. He has a fiercely protective and loyal nature. We see this time and time again—when he adamantly tells a dying soldier that his death wasn’t in vain and that he’d made a difference, how he doesn’t ever truly forgive Annie and Reiner for the lives they took from the Scouts, and his incessant need to avenge Erwin’s death, to name a few.

To me, Erwin and Levi are somewhat of a yin and yang in this way—Erwin was willing to do everything it took to achieve his dream, no matter the sacrifice, and Levi was willing to do everything it took to make sure those sacrifices weren’t made for nothing.

Erwin had to be willing to send people to their pointless deaths; Levi had to make sure those deaths weren’t pointless in the end.

This is a little bit of a half-baked ramble, but I always found this exchange so interesting and telling.

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Shizuku Tsukishima visiting Iblard in "Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば, Mimi o Sumaseba)" by Yoshifumi Kondō (近藤 喜文, Kondō Yoshifumi).

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So I had never watched Whisper of the Heart before I started this Ghibli project and omg it's so cute!!

Anyway here's Shizuku and Seiji on a library date, because they deserve nice things <3

(I would just like everyone to know that these bookshelves were an absolute pain to draw. Way to many straight, parallel lines)

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icl if Theseus had died in FB4 it would have pissed me off. because wdym credence died in FB1 (so sad for newt), leta died in FB2 (so sad for newt), the qilin and credence died in FB3 (so sad for newt), and then theseus I am sure was set to die in FB4 (so sad for newt, I guess???). could we see something more fun and exciting please (if theseus dies i will eat me leg)

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i’m sick and i’m bored so here’s what i think aot characters would wear to bed :p

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fanfic writers are so fucking awesome man. they write novel length fics that are sometimes even better than some published bestselling books written by professional writers. like fanfic writers are professional writers to me and they gift us their masterpieces for free. they give us something we can look forward to after a long day. something from which we can seek comfort when life is hard. something that can be our own little getaway. in a world of capitalism, despite everything, they give us all of these for free. like holy fuck. shout out to every fanfic writer. I wish all fanfic writers a very ‘I love you with all my heart and soul. I thank you from the bottom of my heart’

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I'm a specialist in regard of binge watching something for one or two week and then forgetting it

I watched the six seasons of Downton Abbey and read some perfectly sweat and adorable fanfictions.

Now I'm going to forget everything about it and watch it again in some months/years

Me when I'll watch it again and will have no memory of anything:

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I'm slowy drifting more and more into the marauders fandom

kinda scared honestly

but I'm enjoying it

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Jackal and Zina's reunion in ep.10 (per request)

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Jackal's "the audacity" scoff in ep.1

Jackal's "get tf out of my way" shove in ep.3

Jackal's "challenge accepted" sniff in ep.9