#I'm literally just a writer

[thatuselesshuman]

Y'all I'm legit surprised the FBI hasn't kicked down my door for some of the stuff I research for my writing. Like, just within the last month, here is a list of the things I've looked up:

Effects of roofies (Date SA drug)

Effects of Rohypnol (same thing as ^)

How to dissemble a land mine

What is a land mine made out of

How to make gunpowder

Ingredients of gunpowder

Burn degrees

How do you get fourth degree burns

Medieval torture methods

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[torvagatai]

I really do think this is the beginning of the end of Netflix book adaptations. What author is going to sign with Netflix over any of its competitors, knowing that they'll likely be cancelled early without closure? Or, even worse, that their story will be scripted but never made and the rights never sold on? Far better to accept a lower deal from a smaller streamer, but earn more publicity through more seasons and know that your story will be treated properly and see the light of day.

[if-we-are-free-tell-me-why]

Do you know how much media has been produced in the last decade? This really was the era of overstimulation where you never really could watch all the stuff there was.

So when people complain that TV will be bad now, so? Go back and watch all the stuff that's just rotting on streaming platforms it's not like it's 2007 and linear TV is your only option.

But most importantly just support the strike so that the people who make all the stuff you like can keep making it :)

[pencap]

the coward's way out

if the fates conspire that only one of us may live, then lover, it must be you.

i will save you the grand speeches about how you are good and deserving. you are. you are. you are, but in the end, that is not the reason why.

the world may call me brave or strong or selfless but lover, you know the truth don't you?

in the end, i am only more afraid of facing a world without you than i am of facing death of facing anything.

in the end, i am only too weak to be the one left behind to pick up the pieces of a broken life a broken promise a broken heart and keep on bleeding when the blood in your heart is already dry.

i'm sorry. i'm sorry. but will you let me be selfish one last time?

can i ask you to live for me? to face what i feared most so that i might find peace in my eternal sleep with a smile upon my face?

if it is cruel of me to ask, then i beg you to forgive me. or curse my name and hate me if you must, only live.

only live, my lover so that my life and my death and all that came in between may mean something. may mean everything.

[stromer]

call me crazy... but i think hockey belongs in the desert idk

[senatorartwave]

Here is your reminder and fun fact of the day: Eliksni do not have tongues and apparently not noses either? (Tbf they have spiracles on their torso and back and yk. a mouth hence the need for masks)

Which is funny because I see tongue mentions in fanfics all the time

Regardless, I think it's a neat little fact

[tradingjack]

having fun with colors for once :P

thanks @creepycoffins for the awesome dtiys :D

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i wanted to talk about this again because...

what the fuck is a mean hufflepuff?? their defining trait is literally kindness. hufflepuffs are known for being kind, compassionate and impartial people.

nate is just making shit up at this point. i haven't watched nor read harry potter, and even i know what the hogwarts houses are. you can't sort your most ruthless villain into hufflepuff and say “okay but they're not like other hufflepuffs, they're mean hehe” because then they wouldn't be in hufflepuff.

[adhd-merlin]

Christian iconography? in my Merlin??

[sojourner-between-worlds]

You know what, no, I'm not done talking about this because the symbolism is god tier.

Yusei starts out as a Satellite. In essence, a fake star. Anyone who knows anything knows that when you look up at the night sky, the brightest objects are planets and satellites. They look like stars, but they aren't stars. They are man-made to serve a purpose, and when they wear out, they are easily replaced, the offline ones left to float around as space junk for the rest of time.

But Yusei's not a fake. He's the real deal.

He breaks out of Satellite and earns the moniker "Satellite's Shooting Star". But the thing about shooting "stars" is that they still aren't really stars at all, and worse yet, they burn out so quickly they barely exist for a moment in time. This is what was expected for him, too: he could have stayed where he was, a man-made object with a given purpose, but because he decided that wasn't good enough, he was going to get his moment to shine but then burn out into nothing.

But Yusei isn't a shooting star, either. He's not burning out.

No, he was just getting started.

He pulls other people to himself with all the force of a black hole yet without destroying any of them. (Well, except for one. One who willingly allowed himself to be destroyed to allow Yusei to shine all the brighter.) He gathers them and the future is so bright that there is nothing else to see and you get this sense that, even though you don't know what will happen, anything is possible.

Yusei's not a satellite. He's the real deal.

And he's not a shooting star. He's not burning out.

He's a quasar. He's creating endless possibilities.

[moving-to-dreamwinged]

hate when The Character does ONE THING and their personality is forever reduced to that

[birdchildsnest]

Extremely controversial hot take, but I think that people who HATE Bruce but love the Batkids have probably not read very many Batman or Detective Comics titles. Especially ones that are Bruce's POV. (Particularly the sort of "crime of the week" stories, where Bruce isn't in major crisis.)

Listen, Bruce has ProblemsTM. (And Babygirl, me too.) But DC comics writers have some of the same issues that amateur fanfic writers do. Many don't know how to make their main characters sympathetic without making other characters treat them badly. So we get comics where Bruce is suddenly a lot less human than he is in his own titles for the sake of the development of one of the kids. And if that's your only view of Bruce, you're definitely going to be reading comics like "Who the eff put this man in charge of children?!"

[bumblingbabooshka]

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 15] At First Sight.

[cacodaemonia]

These are statements that can co-exist:

Data scraping methods used to train AI text and image generators should be regulated by governments.

Researchers, journalists, and archivists use the same data scraping for their work, and AI text and image generators also have legitimate ethical uses.

Data scraping is legal in many places and it's not easy for websites with publicly available data to prevent it.

Some people have had/will have their income negatively impacted by AI-generated content. That sucks and they have my sympathy.

It's unethical to fire employees or contractors (or pay them less, etc.) only to replace their work with content from AI text or image generators.

It's shitty that tech bros are making fun of many people's concerns about AI-generated content.

It's shitty that a lot of people are throwing around blanket statements like, "Anyone who uses AI-anything is a thief."

It's likely that most individuals will never be harmed by AI-generated content because such generators do not 'steal' or copy specific works of literature or visual art—it's more like they're taking averages from huge amounts of scraped public data.

I'm concerned about both the data collection methods used to train AI content generators and how much information they have already used for training.

AI text and image generation is not inherently evil, nor are people who use it. It's a technology with many applications and can be used for both ethical and unethical purposes.

Capitalism is unethical.

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(no, I don't check my notes, so if you want to call me names for pointing out that this is a complex and nuanced issue, have fun with that)