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Somebody's chopping onions in here *snif*

I just love it!!

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Generative AI is theft. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about AI baby John Steed and baby Emma Peel. Probably not good but I don't know. 🤷‍♀️

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Another day, another Emma Peel ass kicking.

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What could possibly go wrong? <sarcasm>

But seriously, this is extremely creepy and also illegal.

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LOL @sahakead this is how you show you have no clue how entertainment industry contracts work without saying that you have no clue how entertainment industry contracts work.

Tennant can say what he likes about JKR because the disparagement clause in his HP contract has likely expired. He is in no legal or financial jeopardy for saying shit about JKR.

Tennant's contract for GO is still very much active, along with the disparagement clause that it very likely contains. Tennant legally cannot say anything against NG right now. When the disparagement clause lapses, he'll be free to say whatever he damn well pleases, and I would be very surprised if Tennant continued to say nothing at that point. (This of course assumes that the disparagement clause isn't in perpetuity, in which case Tennant won't be able to say anything for the rest of his life.)

The fact that you assume that Tennant is holding his tongue because he somehow supports NG or is sexist against JKR (or both) shows how little you have observed about David Tennant. Tennant took down his podcast episode where he interviewed NG, and he (and Sheen) literally said that the conditions under which GO3 was being made were "difficult, complicated, [and] disturbing." That doesn't sound like support for NG to me, and if it does to you, you need a refresher in reading comprehension.

Call me all the names you want, but at the very least don't wave your ignorance around like that. You're going to do yourself an injury.

To the people who are shitting on David Tennant and Michael Sheen (up to and including death threats, for Pete's sake) for not saying much of anything RE Neil Gaiman:

You do realize that both Tennant and Sheen probably have clauses in their contracts that prevent them from saying anything much, right? And that their most recent statement—vague though it is—is probably an indicator of what they actually do think and an indicator that they wish they could say more, right?

Like, these are two guys who are not averse to standing up for people, and for standing up for people in public. I don't think they're holding their tongues about Gaiman because they want to or because they support him in any way; I think they're doing it because they have to.

I would love to hear one or both of them say something more specific in condemnation of Gaiman. We all would. I also think that they would if they could, and that they will when they can.

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If the sole basis of your meta is an appeal to what an artist said about the text, then your meta is weak. Especially in treating of film and TV, where determining the single author of a text is pretty near impossible. To whom do we appeal? The writer? There are ten. The showrunner? Their vision is interpreted by others. The director? There are four or five or more. The actor? They're speaking words written by other, relating to other actors, and are interpreting characters through their own sensibilities, through the directions of the director, through the concepts of the writers.

Who is the author? Who do you appeal to?

There's just the text. Does it work with the text? Is it based in the text?

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Saw a screencapped tumblr thread on FB today (which I can no longer find) that went something like this:

OP: Character is neither 100% good nor 100% evil

Internet: Prepare for Discourse baby

reblog #1: Character is 100% evil

Internet: Aw my sweet lil uwu guy

reblog #2: Character is 100% good

Internet: Okay but on page 27 of issue 9342 they said this one bad thing that one time so actually they're evil

in the tags of a reblog of reblog #2: Character #1 is a white woman, character #2 is a white man, and character #3 is a poc

(Apologies to the OP and the original rebloggers. I couldn't find the thread. If anyone has the link please let me know so that I can replace this with the actual thread.)

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Just when you think that tumblr search can't get any worse, it suddenly does.

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izzy hands would have stepfordized ed teach into permanent and unquestioning blackbeard in a heartbeat if that had been an option for him

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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To the people who are shitting on David Tennant and Michael Sheen (up to and including death threats, for Pete's sake) for not saying much of anything RE Neil Gaiman:

You do realize that both Tennant and Sheen probably have clauses in their contracts that prevent them from saying anything much, right? And that their most recent statement—vague though it is—is probably an indicator of what they actually do think and an indicator that they wish they could say more, right?

Like, these are two guys who are not averse to standing up for people, and for standing up for people in public. I don't think they're holding their tongues about Gaiman because they want to or because they support him in any way; I think they're doing it because they have to.

I would love to hear one or both of them say something more specific in condemnation of Gaiman. We all would. I also think that they would if they could, and that they will when they can.

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Unmarked masked men (aka secret police) claiming to be ICE arrested Brad Lander, the NYC comptroller and current mayor candidate, and refused to identify themselves or produce a warrant when asked.

Shits bad, y'all

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The real horror of a Stepford Wives situation isn't 'the suburbs are creepy' or even 'conformity is creepy' or 'I don't wanna be replaced by a robot'

The horror is the idea that you might choose to spend your life with somebody only to realize they don't actually want a partner and friend, somebody with ambitions and thoughts and joy. They want somebody productive, compliant, and sexually available, and all your internal life is nothing but a barrier to that. That the person you love only loves what you do for them, and the less of the an actual person you are, the happier they are.

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Change all your passwords now.

This is not a drill.

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Happy 100, Edward Gorey!

(Yes, I know he's already dead.)

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The generative AI techbros have forgotten one of the cardinal rules of computer science: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO).