#feeling controversial i guess lol

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

[lesbiancarat]

want to give my two cents on the AI usage in the maestro trailer--

i think seventeen doing a whole concept that is anti-AI is very cool, especially as creatives themselves i think it's good that they're speaking up against it and i hope it gets more ppl talking about the issue. i also understand on a surface level the artistic choice (whether it was made by the members, the mv director, or whoever else), to directly use AI in contrast to real, human-made visuals and music in order to criticize it. i also appreciate that they clearly stated the intention of the use of AI at the beginning of the video

however, although i understand it to an extent, i do not agree with the choice to use AI to critique AI. one of the main ethical concerns with generative AI is that it is trained on other artists' work without their knowledge, consent, or compensation. and even when AI generated images are being used to critique AI, it still does not negate this particular ethical concern

the use of AI to critique also does not negate the fact that this is work that could have been done by an actual artist. i have seen some people argue that it's okay in this context because it's a critique specifically about AI, and it is content that never would have been done by a real artist anyway because it doesn't make sense for the story they're trying to tell. but i disagree. i think you can still tell the exact same story without using AI

and in fact, i would argue that it would make the anti-AI message stronger if they HAD paid an artist to draw/animate the scenes that are supposed to represent AI generated images. wouldn't it just be proof that humans can create images that are just as bad and nonsensical and soulless as AI, but that AI can't replicate the creativity and beauty and basic fucking anatomy that's in human-made art?

it feels very obvious this was not just a way to cut corners and costs like a lot of scummy people are using AI for. ultimately it was a very intentional creative decision, i just personally think it was a very poor one. and even if some ethical considerations were taken into account before this decision, i certainly don't think all of them were. at the very least i feel like the decision undermines the message they want to convey

i would also like to recognize that i myself am not an artist, and i have seen some artists that are totally on board with the use of AI in this specific context, so clearly this is not a topic that is cut and dry. but generative AI is still new, and i think it's important to keep having these conversations

[tetras-stuff]

been talking a lot on here about jill valentine and her potential as a character but another character i think is often underutilised and disappointingly written is actually wesker. I would love it if they explored the real relationship dynamics between him and STARS, especially Jill and Chris. like it would be so much more interesting if he actually really liked them and maybe even misses his STARS days in his own way, but regrettably has to betray them and move forward with his plans because he genuinely 100% believes he is in the right. it would be gutwrenching if he, Jill and Chris all felt the weight of responsibility over friendship and commradarie, if they had to choose between personal feelings of "but I don't want to hurt you" and taking down who they see as the bad guy.

I mean, in Lost in Nightmares, they find the stuff about Project W. It would be cool if they reacted to this, if they tried to make those connections. It would be so interesting to see Jill and Wesker's dynamic change once she throws them out of the estate - having to work together, begrudgingly trying again to trust each other despite the constant betrayal. If Wesker truly believed he was in the right, it would be easy to try and convince Jill that his plan is the right one after all she's seen (e.g. seeing the effects of chaotic infection, seeing how quick humanity turns on itself, and knowing Wesker may have a way to finally control that chaos and maybe even take the pressure of heroism away from her). It would be a really fascinating portrayal of villainy coming from (twisted) good intention, and it would be kind of cool to see Jill becoming more morally grey.

It would also be interesting to explore Wesker's self-realisation as he slowly loses himself to megalomania in the exact same way Spencer did. Does he feel self-hatred because of this? Would a part of him feel relief at his death once he was mutated beyond recognition? Can he feel anything at all, is there humanity in him??? when he looks at chris, does he feel resentment for the person he could have become, or hatred that he could never have been what Chris is?

cartoonishly evil villains are fun, but I wonder if they'll explore any of this as they try and make the remakes a bit more serious (emphasis on a bit)

[icewindandboringhorror]

Misc. photos from the past year or so ~

[andromeda-nova-writing]

If you have been paying any attention, I’m a big lifelong Beyoncé fan. September 4th is her birthday so I’m using writing as another excuse to listen to her music on repeat. Give me a character and a song from this list. I want to see what I can come up with. (I recommend every song on this list btw. But that might be obvious lol)

CUFF IT

Crazy In Love

BODYGUARD

Love On Top

Baby Boy

MY ROSE

DAUGHTER

ALLIIGATOR TEARS

Pray You Catch Me

Sandcastles

Jealous

I Miss You

Start Over

Sweet Dreams

Flaws and All

Freakum Dress

Resentment

Listen

Poison

TYRANT

[anonyanonymouse]

🙈

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[unproduciblesmackdown]

fun when going like shoutout to [the central characters are children] in horror Inherent Win and being like "goosebumps for example as horror with children's pov for characters & primary audience alike. winning" then the other day actually listened to an interview w/ r.l. stine and first of all great b/c just like with the books it's like oh he's just continuously very funny to listen to. then he was saying like oh yeah i had terrible parents, anti role models examples of what Not to do, and the horrors of that are comedy to me really and it's like ah lmao. well no wonder goosebumps gets it (not all Ways A Constant Force Of Parental Authority Is Removed From A Child Main Character's Story (or is it??) is the same) and shoutout to jovial bob

[chaosthatsmellsgreen]

oh i love Dean to hell and back (heh) but man he pisses me off these few episodes

the reaction is exactly why Sam was scared to tell him anything (he even says as much)

he's not open to reasoning, he's not interested in Sam's side of the story - he says he is, but when Sam tells him he's tired of explaining himself, that it doesn't even matter because he's done doing what he's been doing, Dean immediately makes it clear that he wasn't really interested in understanding anything, that that's all he really wanted to hear

Sam Winchester, always scared of being a freak, finding out about the demon blood, about being less than human, different from human; like i said in a previous post, he's constantly pushed against everything he believes in, everything he wants for himself, everything he wants to be and he must be terrified

and he has to deal with it alone because Dean just doesn't have the emotional capacity to help him - and i don't mean that in a derogatory way, he doesn't have to, he's going through enough shit himself, poor bastard is fresh out of hell ffs, but that doesn't change the fact that Sam has to deal with his own problems alone, PLUS has Dean going ballistic on him about it

Sam, who most likely went through pretty much the predicted route from Mystery Spot after Dean died, trying to bargain with any demon he could find, trying to open doors to hell so that maybe he can find Dean and drag him out, pushing away anyone who would've genuinely cared about him (Bobby), he basically went down the deep and as expected - i mean we saw this scenario played out in s3, we don't have to see it again to know exactly how it goes

he's pretending like Sam wanting to save this one guy, Jack, is strictly because of his own mistakes, and not because that's how Sam is i mean they've been having this argument since season 1

and i get Dean! (that's the annoying part ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ) he's been scared of this happening since he first found out about Sam's visions, it was his dying wish for Sam not to go any deeper into this hole and yet he did and then lied about it he has every right to be angry. it's probably just my preference in character that he makes me mad about this more than Sam does with his own fuckups in s4, as opposed to being able to really argue for one of them or the other

the truth is, in the grand scheme of things, heaven and hell are pushing them in two different directions, and this influence, plus their personalities, plus the things they've always been in disagreement over just deepen this distrust and distance between the brothers and it makes me sad

although i have to say, both Dean and Sam are actually trying way harder to fix things than i remembered

[angeltannis]

Getting into a popular franchise years ago and becoming really invested in ships that had 0 canon potential, then living through that franchise’s spectacular bellyflop from grace, and now through attempts to pander to you by out of nowhere teasing those old popular crack ships you never expected to have any chance in hell of becoming canon, has certainly been an experience

[allylikethecat]

K, L, E!!

YES OH MY GOSH HELLO ANON thank you so much for indulging me and sending questions from the Fanfic Ask Meme!! As always, I LOVE chatting about fic (mine and other peoples!) and I get so excited when people send me these! If anyone wants to send anymore, or reblog it themselves, the list can be found HERE.

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

This is a hard question because I feel like all of my fics are pretty angst heavy? I know I published it anonymously, but I think Immoral in a Stranger's Lap was probably one of the most painful, especially because it didn't really have a resolution or a happy ending, the same goes for (Sometimes). It's still in the early stages of outlining, (and I'm writing it because I am firmly in the we need more mpreg in this fandom camp) but the Teen Dad Fictional!Matty fic is also shaping up to be pretty angsty - it's looking like it's going to be a split narrative alternating between 16 year old Fictional!Matty dealing with teen pregnancy and present day thirty something year old Fictional!Matty trying to get pregnant on purpose and struggling to do so which I know deals with a lot of really heavy and painful topics.

L: What’s the weirdest AU you’ve ever come up with?

I feel like all of them 😂 But I guess, since it's not really popular in this fandom I'm going to say omegaverse even though it was very common in my other fandom experiences.

E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?

I'm choosing to talk about Small Bump because I was working on Make Way for Ducklings earlier and clearly have mpreg on the mind. If I were to writing a sequel to that one, it would be dealing with Fictional!Matty's postpartum depression.

Thank you so much for sending these in! Thank you so much for reading and taking the time to send this ask, and for your continued support! I'm really grateful for the people who have not only taken the time to read my fics, but who have also taken the time to engage with me! I really appreciate you! I hope your Wednesday is going well and that you have a great rest of your week!

❤️Ally

[padfootastic]

Thoughts on those things about Sirius being more motivated during the Wars by his loyalty to his friends than morality? On one hand, I am a sucker for “loyalty above all, I’d do anything to keep my people safe, I’d burn the world for them” characters, but like, I’m 80% there’s no canon basis for it. Sirius being morally grey is my absolute favorite, but I think it might contradict canon

oooooh see this is an interesting one, because i’ve expressed conflicting opinions, yeah?

canon tells us that he’s the morally upstanding by guy, and i tend to agree. he skipped harry’s first birthday for an order mission; left as soon as he could for the order post-poa; offered his house for them; and fought (and died) for them even as an escaped convict on the run.

he didn’t even have to do a quarter of that. the man was privileged as fuck with equally privileged friends (well. with james, which is enough, i think) and neither he nor james had to fight, ykno?

but i do think a large part of it is also due to his loyalty for his friends. i said a while ago that i think his morality was shaped? influenced? by james (and got vagued for it too lmaoo) and i don’t mean that in a ‘sirius wouldn’t know morals if he didn’t know james’ but that there was definitely an element of modelling in there.

i feel like,,,with the black upbringing, the importance of family was hammered into him. except, his mind interpreted family not by blood but by choice. so the marauders and lily are his family, and he would anything he could to save them.

[heartshapedracetrack]

Literally hate football so much for being so money hungry and morally corrupt

[alchemiclee]

theres some people that are very against pirating anything like games, and I agree that it's good to pay creators for their work (especially as a creator myself) but sometimes these people that don't make sense to me. first of all, people that pirate things most likely would/could not pay for it to begin with. so nothing is being lost. but I can understand the argument there, and it's frustrating as a creator myself knowing people like to steal art and things people work hard on. so i get that. what I don't get is when it comes to old video games that haven't been sold anywhere for like 30 years

emulators are pretty easy to get online for old games. i've used them to replay games I had as a kid on my computer instead of trying to get the old Playstation to work. they're fine with that, if you own the game. but they'll often throw a fit about emulating a game you don't own and tell you to go on ebay or whatever to buy a copy of the game before you emulate it......because it....supports the creator....by paying some random middle age man on ebay who found the game in his late uncles basement and is now charging 20x the original price because he googled it and saw it's somewhat rare? I just dont see what the point is in those circumstances. if the company releases the games somewhere in modern time (like how Nintendo has a handful of old games for their online subscription thing on the switch) then sure, you're supporting the creator. but buying an expensive copy from some random nerd for over $100 when it originally cost $10 is dumb and pointless if you're not a collector. so I don't see the problem or argument against emulating those games without owning them.

an example, Playstation used to have demo discs. I played a few games on those I loved, but they were never sold in stores that I could find. I had my parents look everywhere. so I never got to play the full version until emulators! some are pretty rare. and you have to pay over $100 to get one off ebay. i'm not giving that much money to some random person just to play an old weird game I never found in stores as a kid. paying that much to a random "collector" on the internet won't do anything for the creators of this game. it will just put money in that random's pocket. so I'd rather emulated it and played through the game once and be done.

I did this with the game called Tomba like years back. it was only sold on ebay for like $125+ it was kinda fun, but don't think I even finished it. not worth that much AT ALL lmao (out if curiosity, i looked it up and there is actually a newly added "special edition" one sold for a limited time and seems to be in steam now? so if i ever feel like finishing it one day, i will buy it there, but thats not the case for other games ive googled from childhood demos) if you think I am required to pay that much and own an old game that I can no longer buy from the company that made it in order to emulate it, you're being ridiculous. so how is pirating these old games, possibly from companies that don't even exist, anymore harming anyone? games that might never be remade or remastered or resold? it's not. ebay seller will still eventually get someone to buy their outrageously expensive resold game, and I get to enjoy a piece of my childhood without handing over an ridiculous amount of money to someone that won't give it back to the developers of the game anyway.

[everlocked]

i always have these periodic hyperfixations on sia

like ever since i was 13, it just always comes back around and suddenly all i can listen to is sia on repeat for a few weeks or months. then it passes for a while. it hits me very randomly and i’m like oh okay, this is what we’re doing now

at the moment its thunderclouds 🤌🌩️🌈 but it’s been other songs in the past, like elastic heart was a big one about 9 years ago

[bougainvilea]

i just think that if u have an opinion that nobody else shares (or only one or two ppl share) maybe you don't have a full picture, you know?