#get these ai asshole out of creative spaces

[adeceasedtulip]

I've been seeing a lot about that AI company scraping ao3 for works and I know everyone has been filing DMCA take down claims for their work. The OTW has also filed on ao3 users behalf for the stolen works.

The good news is, that the data set has been temporarily taken down but the "creator" of it has filed a counter claim.

And after getting lost down a comment spital (which you can read here) its clear that the "creator" believes that they have a right to it since our works are based off of copyrighted content.

Their exact words in the thread linked were: "You do realise AO3 is a far more viable target for a DMCA than this dataset, right?"

As someone who knows a fair bit about copyright, this is so ignorant. If they bothered to do 5 minutes of googling then they'd see that when the materials are changed and non-profit then it is NOT a viable target.

To everyone who filed a claim and protected your works, keep it up!! People like this need to be shown that stealing from writers, artists and other creatives WILL NOT BE TAKEN LYING DOWN.

[caparrucia]

The point is that you shouldn't harass the people using AI.

Harass the companies that make it.

Attempting to target AI users always, always results in witch hunts and harassment campaigns empowering assholes to root out people at the fringe of their communities. It always ends up targeting brown folk and queer people and anyone who makes any kind of art that you find objectionable because "a real human wouldn't have made that."

And that's a waste of time.

Like, putting aside the fact that harassment and ostracizing for the sake of fetishizing creative work as some kind of marker of humanity (ignoring the fact creative work is in itself deeply steeped in privilege that limits access and availability of resources, as well as the fact that some people just don't GET art and that doesn't make them less human, I challenge you to defend that one bit without falling down the racist, genocidal staircase of "you're not LIKE me, therefore you're not REALLY a PERSON", and that's not even considering the multitude of artistic expressions that get degraded and dismissed because some fucker on a soapbox doesn't think they're artsy enough? IGNORING ALL THAT), this is a stupid way of fighting AI.

Ostracizing public use will only make people try and fucking go underground. Try to be stealthy about it. Fuck that. We don't have time to police potentially millions of people in any given space.

No, focus on the companies. The root cause of it is always the corporations trying to shove the fucking stolen art machines everywhere. Keep the pressure on the fucking shit they've stolen, keep bringing up the nebulous legality of their stuff. Keep bringing up how toxic and risky associating with them is.

Corporations are not people, despite what they desperately try to argue, and therefore they have no rights. They have no feelings. You cannot suicide bait a corporation, but you can sure as fuck tank their brand and therefore their value.

Do you really think bullying some random person off the internet for suspicions of using AI is going to really do anything? Nah. Do you think individual users actually make a dent into corporate interests? Nah.

Most of the Gen AI slop is a grift. It's fraud. It's selling on potential value that has not been realized and will only be realized if we lose the battle of attrition and just give up and stop being virulently angry at the corporations. Targeting individuals is a distraction. It's juvenile and stupid.

I have yet to see a callout about an artist using AI that actually caught someone using AI and pretending it was their work. You know what I have seen? No less than twenty times in 2025 alone? Fucking reactionary assholes bitching because someone's art is "too good to be real" and jealous creeps insisting someone "can't be that prolific without using AI."

Fuck that shit. Why are you platforming fucking crab-in-a-bucket shit instead of focusing on hurting these asshole corporations where it REALLY hurts them?

Oh, right, you don't actually care about AI, you just want to be a dick on the internet because it makes you feel better. Right. Fuck off.

[bee-boiii]

Intro (I srsly should have made this sooner TvT)

Hello! My name is Milo/Mylo, but I also go by Arlo or August.

I am an artist who will draw either digitally or traditionally (mainly digitally).

I also make both oc art and fanart.

🚫 Do NOT repost my work without my permission. If you want, you can reblog my posts here on Tumblr or repost my videos on TikTok. But do not post my work anywhere else without crediting me or asking for my permission. 🚫

Pronouns:

🚫 Do NOT use she/her to refer to me, I am a guy, and it makes me uncomfortable. I will block you. 🚫

Fandoms:

Fnaf

Poppy Playtime

Undertale/Deltarune/Underverse

Creepypasta

Cookie Run Kingdom

Madoka Magica

Mouthwashing

The Amazing Digital Circus

Sonic Franchise

Vocaloid

ROTTMNT

DHMIS

South Park

Alien Stage

Arcane

BATIM/BATDR

Reverse 1999

Ghost Eyes

I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl

Heaven Official's Blessing (tgcf)

I Love Amy

The Gaslight District

Pumpkin Panic

(List may change overtime, lmao).

DNI List:

Trump supporters

Transphobes/homophobes

Xenophobes

Racists

Pedophiles (absolutely not wanted here, gtfo)

Ppl who use/defend AI (doesn't matter what form, get out)

Literally anyone who is just fucking weird or an asshole.

❤️ My blog is a safe space for all, no matter your race, sexuality, gender, etc. ❤️

Do:

Send me requests

Share your ideas

Have a fun time :3

Make fanart

Show your creativity

Ask questions

Don't:

USE MY ART TO TRAIN AI, I HATE AI

Try to incorporate your ocs/own story into my au/version of something I am currently drawing (hopefully this makes sense)

Assume i am a rp blog (bc i am not)

Claim my art as yours

Make any NSFW asks or requests (I rather keep my blog PG)

Rush me to get things done

Pressure me to release more drawings (it'll only drain my motivation to draw)

(These lists also change with time).

Bluesky (drawing + rambling):

Socials:

Twitch (gaming + drawing + chatting):

Anyway, that's it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :3

P.S. I am not taking commissions at this time, so please stop asking. If I do make commissions, I will let you all know.

[ambrosialdesire]

i’m sorry but i’m gonna feed your work to ai.

IS WHAT SOME ASSHOLE SENT ME IN MY INBOX. i genuinely considered deleting my blog 😭😭😭 especially because i had just went on a rant about how harmful ai is.

ANON YOU'VE SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME 😭😭

no but the audacity of some mfker to say that to you, could be a troller but still, people downplay the effects of ai on the earth and it'll never be justified on how they refuse to educate themselves about it; sure, some components of ai can genuinely be helpful, but using someone's hard work, someone's passion and creativity, that can never replace anything in the world. i've never used ai for anything, despite the many tedious discussion posts and replies, presentations, and essays i've wrote, despite all the exams i've gone through, i've never used it once. the only time i'll use ai for anything is to check for any grammar mistakes or plagiarism in college essays (i never plagiarize fics, i can promise everyone that, i try to put credit where credit is due (such as in desiderate with how i visualized bertolt) but that's about it.

i've had classmates ask me why i still bother actually doing the research and typing down everything that comes into my head when doing my assignments, AS IF IT'S DIFFICULT TO DO 😭 literally just find an article that relates to your topic, quote it, and explain why you think it fits your topic LIKE I GENUINELY DON'T GET IT AND I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER DO 💀💀

i don't think you should give up your blog though anon, despite the threats of someone trying to put your work into another machine. i was scared of that too when i started posting my art here but keep on creating, don't let an uncreative lazy loser prevent you from creating art. make sure you report the ai bot if you or your followers can find it, report and block that dumbass, and keep on going with your life. try those ai preventative overlays too, i personally don't use them since i don't really like how it looks on my art, but if you're truly worried about someone stealing, i encourage you to use it.

IF YOU USE AI AS A WAY TO "MAKE" SOMETHING, GENUINELY PICK UP A FUCKING PENCIL, STOP CRYING ABOUT HOW SHITTY YOU THINK YOU'LL BE, AND START DRAWING/WRITING. EVERYONE STARTS SOMEWHERE, WHO GIVES A DAMN IF YOU'RE BAD AT IT FIRST!!!!! and don't even think for a second that anything can hold you back from making art, i've seen so many people with various disabilities and conditions ON tiktok still manage to make personal and beautiful artwork that HAS MEANING AND A HUMAN'S WARMTH. beethoven was literally deaf and made pieces that are still played till this day, monet was going blind yet he still created artwork still looked upon till this day. there is literally NO excuse in using ai to make your own work, don't get me started with being too broke because everyone can make art with anything. even the goddamn cavemen made their own art that's still admired.

i even still hand-write all my notes and study guides IN PEN; i even doodle in pen whenever i'm doing something traditionally BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU LEARN, WITH HANDS AND EYES AND A DAMN BRAIN. i really think that after covid and the fast evolution of ai and technology overall, a really large amount of people forgot common courtesy and respect, especially towards artists and writers in fandoms. god forbid a person try to anything creative these days without ai stealer dick riders nabbing at everyone's ears.

i encourage all to fight against unethical uses of ai, especially in creative spaces. ai "writers" and "artists" have no place in using other people's works and passing it off as theirs. i've seen how difficult it's getting to tell the difference between ai and a normal person's work, and it's truly frightening how quick it managed to develop to become almost untraceable. keep on calling out how bad generative ai use is anon and keep on posting 👍��

AI USERS YOU'RE NOT AND NEVER WELCOME ON THIS BLOG!!!!!!!!

[intergalactic-io]

I’ve said this on other platforms, but nobody gives a shit or even really hears me, so I’m coming here to further scream into the void

You cannot be creative if you use AI

If you create AI art, you are not creative.

If you use AI to write, you are not creative.

To put it in simpler terms…

If you babysit a child, you are not the child’s parent.

If you buy vegetables at the market, you are not a farmer.

If you buy prepared food, you are not a chef.

AI creations are amalgamations of other people’s work. They are not your work.

“But I crafted the prompt, thus I created.”

No, you’re a fucking thief. You arranged the corpses of other people’s imaginations.

You’re less than a taxidermist who stuffs and molds the flesh animals to reflect what they were in life. A taxidermist is not God—you are not an artist.

AI writing has filled the internet to the brim. Every blog is loaded with AI-written clickbait that summarizes AI-written articles from other publications, leading to a whirlpool of bullshit online. It’s even worse on Amazon, a vile company that gleefully sells all sorts of scam shit. Amazon’s e-book and print-on-demand sections—once populated by writers earnestly trying to get their creations to see the light of day—are now filled with AI drek, both from AI-evangelist assholes and pure scum who don’t bother to actually read whatever the algorithm has spat out.

Worst of all are writers who are creative, but utilize AI art. These writers are human blood-traitors.

A mutual explained that some writers resort to AI art because they can’t afford a real artist to make a cover, and covers can sell books. And it’s a decent explanation… to a degree. But it doesn’t change the fact that they are still killing human creativity.

Look at these excuses:

I want a cover, but I can’t pay an artist

I want to make art but I don’t have the skills

I want to write but I have no time

Compare them to these excuses:

I want to drive a racecar but don’t know how to drive

I want to live in a mansion but have no money

I want to go to Mars but it’s literally impossible because I’m not an astronaut and rocketry isn’t advanced enough to get us there, especially the radiation shielding absolutely needed to cross the expanse of space beyond Earth’s magnetosphere that everyone forgets about because they don’t know shit about outer space

Brothers, Sisters, Everyone…

IF YOU CAN’T DO IT, YOU CAN’T DO IT

If you can’t afford an artist, then you save your fucking money until you can

If you can’t save your money, then you can’t get your “dream cover” without betraying your creativity

You are not owed the ability to do a thing if you have no gumption to actually do it

Guess what—

You get better at art by making art

You get better at writing by actually writing

People in wheelchairs who want to play basketball can play basketball. There are entire leagues for people in wheelchairs. But those people in wheelchairs practice basketball—that’s how they get good at it.

In closing

Fuck AI art

Fuck AI writing

And fuck you for thinking you “create” by stealing something

[dead-pidoves-dirt-takes]

It honestly feels like there is very little incentive to share your creative projects on social media anymore tbh.

between the reposters that have been here forever, AI scraping that is opt-out instead of opt-in. Which in itself feels like it’s punishing people who USED to post, and then deactivated. Fandom and social media spaces as a whole getting more hostile, where people don’t feel it safe to interact and share the things they like anymore. It’s like, what is the point? I could get the same thing, keeping it to myself and only sharing it with a couple of my friends, and I don’t run the risk of harassment by some asshole.

In my opinion, we need to get rid of things that discourage interaction as a whole if we want things to get better. And understand that people will share even if they aren’t the designated audience or demographic that was intended for. And it’s not an insult! Most of the time they’re sharing it for their followers who ARE the intended audience.

[artificialwizard]

Venting and rambling about ai art discourse

Feel free to ignore this + this isnt an invitation to argue back and forth with me about ai

My tag system on main for years now has been

#art = abstract art

#representational art = all non-abstract art

( + #dreamscape = art that can't be neatly categorized as abstract or representational + art that reminds me of dreaming )

Bc at the time I created this tag system i was very fed up with abstract art and modern art being dismissed as Not Real Art by some assholes and i wanted to put abstract art first in my space and have representational art be the one that needs a descriptor to differentiate it from "normal"/"real" art

Currently holding myself back from doing something similar to be petty about the never ending ai art backlash/discourse

Haven't been posting my abstract art or ai art online much lately but i still make a lot of both (+ getting back into writing and prob won't be posting much of that either). Sharing art online, other than with close friends, seems like hell to me rn.

Maybe someday i'll start posting my art again it just sucks that anytime i go on any social media from discord to youtube theres an 80% chance i see people shitting on the artistic mediums that i'm most passionate about

And its not like the ai hate train has slowed down the rancid attitudes around abstract art lol, not that I'd stop making AI art if abstract art was more respected

Abstract art is the easiest and most rewarding way for me to express myself creatively and it gels so well with my perfectionism issues bc perfection is Not the point (except when it is, but then its an artistic choice not a constant obligation for every piece). A piece about grief doesnt need to have perfect straight lines or symmetry, the art can be messy if it suits the tone I'm going for.

And AI image and music generation is very exciting to me! I've always been curious about what it would be like getting to see the creation of a new way of making art and its been very cool being able to somewhat follow AI innovations since 2018 and then get to experiment with it myself once more ai tools became accessible!!

Whether im the ai art im making is abstract or representational, i love not having full control over the result! I love bouncing ideas back and forth with the AI. I love having to combine my visual art skills and my language/description skills.

I use midjourney et al. the same way I'd make my OCs in dressup games while brainstorming ideas. Mindless doodling that can often lead to writers block breakthroughs.

I also use midjourney et al. to make quick vent art when I'm feeling strong emotions just like I'd do in my sketchbook or in my digital art apps.

And sometimes i'm using ai to spend hours trying to make something very specific i want to create.

Idk its all just tools to me. Midjourney. Paint Tool Sai. Pen and paper. I get the same joy/relief out of making art with all of the above

Im not aiming for fame or money, i make 0-200$ a year from art, usually 0. I just want to have a little corner of the internet to share my images and reach a handful of ppl who appreciate them and want to discuss abstract & ai art with me thats it. Im not coming for your art job, i dont allign myself with corporations aiming to further disadvantage workers in artistic industries or artists who freelance

Anyway reason #2 i slowed down on posting art is grief has been kicking my ass these past 4 years. Lots of deaths in the family + death of a friend. some relationships were fractured and im grieving those as well.

Reason #3 is started full time library job in november 🎉 its wonderful and its exhausting and im still finding my rythm after years of being chronically un(der)employed and/or in college, but hopefully once life settles down more ill have more and more time to spend on art and writing

Havent vent posted in ages and it feels weird doing it on one of my art blogs so im going to end this with two of my recent(ish) pieces on grief, first made in onelab (not ai, android art app i make 80% of my digital art in) and second in midjourney

Thanks if u read all/most/some of that :)

Think i just needed to be like "man this sucks" so i can move on to "anyway! Art time >:)"

[caspercryptid]

hey i respect u a lot and i love it when ur an asshole but i just want u to know being an asshole to someone who thinks they r trying to help w the whole gpt thing doesnt make them not wanna use gpt it just makes them think the people who want them not to use it are assholes. like fuck gpt but the cake thing is p demeaning & just shuts out the ppl ur trying to advise into ur an asshole and im not listening land. not helping the anti ai movement, just making urself look mean about it yk

While I will fully acknowledge that the "I'm sorry my follower added that comment to your post" cake Is rude as shit, what's also rude as shit is reblogging a post about Chat GPT contributing to the death of creative expression with unasked for advice about using it to replace the work of copy editors instead, especially when that work actively continues to teach chat GPT more shit about how to steal and take work away from myself and people like me.

Perhaps I should have said that in the reblog but there is so little good faith discourse on this website that the one allowance I could make to good faith was not blocking immediately and bothering to respond at all. Bluntly, I'm fucking tired. I once had a harassment brigade against me because I posted a polite reminder that people with HP urls should change those. No matter how nice and polite I am people who want to misunderstand still will, and I didn't reply because I was doing praxis or trying to help the anti-ai movement— I replied because I was annoyed and upset! But maybe that's nihilistic and i shouldn't get jaded and assume everyone I disagree with is going to ignore everything I say and/or send me nasty grams, I'm just tired of writing out long-form thoughtful responses to people who aren't going to listen.

At the core of my irritation isn't actually the anti-ai argument at all— I think people should consider the intent of the OP and if their "advice" will be welcomed, even when the advice is genuine and well intentioned. It's like that post about wanting nice mugs and to own nice things that got brigaded with advice to go to a thrift store. The post is not asking where to find nice mugs. The OP of that post did not want advice on how to correctly use Chat GPT, and I did not reblog it for that.

Thank you for respecting me, even though I'm an asshole. I was a little harsh, but I feel very strongly about this and this is my life and career. I do a lot of slush pile reading and copy editing, and asking chat GPT to do rephrasings for you is the #1 tool of plagiarists. It's really disheartening to see it in my own online space— I could have been nicer about that, I just didn't have the bandwidth this morning to assume good faith.

[snickerdoodlles]

Don’t you feel that if you go on the “loves ao3 more than their own mom” website aka the “can't throw a rock without hitting a writer” website and put in the main tag the opinion that AI writing models are no big deal and don’t do any harm and nobody has any reason to feel hurt over their unethical training in a tone that distinctly resembles the “toughen up snowflake” rhetoric, you might, in fact, just be the one out of line and also an asshole?

*rolls eyes* not what i did nor what i said.

there are many concerns to have with generative AI, such as the ability to extract privatized information from their training datasets, the exploitation of human workers for AI services (tho this one frankly goes for all internet services, not just AI), AI's reinforced biases and lack of learning, and the current lack of regulation against AI developers and AI usage to name a few. in terms of a direct impact on the creative industry, there are several concerns about the uncompensated and unregulated use of copyrighted materials in training data (paper discussing BookCorpus, courtlistener link for writers suing over Books2), the even worse image scraping for diffusion models, screen production companies trying to pressure people into selling their personal image rights for AI use, and publishers getting slammed with various AI generated content while the copyright laws for it are still massively in flux.

i said fanfic does not intersect with AI. actually, i vaguely whined about it in the tags of an untagged post, because i'm allowed to do that on my personal whine-into-the-void space. (which, tumblr is bad about filtering properly in tags and i'm sorry if it popped up anyways, but i also can't control tumblr search not functioning properly.)

there are concerns to be had about AI training datasets (developers refusing to remove or protect private information because it weakens the training data even tho this is a bigger issue for bigger models is my primary concern personally, but the book shadow libraries and mass image scraping are shady ass shit too). but AO3 was never used to train AI. there is a lot of sketchiness involved with AI training data, but AO3 is not one of them.

i get irked when people compare AI generated writing to AI generated art, because the technology behind it is different. to make art, AI has to directly use the source image to create the final output. this is why people can reverse the process on AI art models to extract the source images. written models (LLMs) learn how to string words into sentences and in terms of remembering the specific training data, LLMs actually have a known issue of wandering attention for general written training material like books/articles/etc. (re the writers' lawsuit -- we know AI developers are pulling shady shit with their use of books, AI developers know they're pulling shady shit with their use of books, but unfortunately the specific proof the writers' are using for their case very closely resembles the summaries and written reviews on their books' wikipedia pages. the burden of proof for copyright violation is really hard to prove for books, esp because copyright protects the expression of an idea, not the idea or individual sentences of a work, and LLMs do not retain their written training material in that way.) these are different issues that can't truly be conflated because the methods in which the materials are used and the potential regulation/the impact of potential regulation on them are different.

anyways, back to my annoyances with fanfic x AI -- fanfic is not involved in its development, and if you don't want to read fic made by AI, don't click on fic that involves AI. ultimately, if you read a fic and it turns out AI was involved...nothing happens. if you don't like it, you click a back button, delete a bookmark, and/or mute a user. AI just strings words together. that's it. acting like AI will have a great impact on fandom, or that fandom will be some final bastion against it, is really fucking annoying to me because fandom does not have any stakes in this. there are legitimate issues in regards to developing and regulating AI (link to the US senate hearing again, because there are so many), but "oh no, what if i read a fic written by AI" is a rather tone fucking deaf complaint, don't you think?

[freestylegenius]

In the spirit of calling myself on my shit I have entertained the thought on multiple occasions that doing so publicly must mean that I am indulging in some performative breakdown.

And maybe that’s true. Like who the fuck cares about a sad middle age white woman who no longer has a place in society? Literally nobody. Nobody cares. Even I’m sick of my own shit. I don’t want to hear about it either, but I’m the one in it and I can’t leave. Unless I leave leave.

So why set up a whole ass website and a bunch of socials with a pseudonym? Why be public with it? This has been a monkey on my back for a couple of decades, since I travel the world solo for a year in 2001.

I became a prolific writer on that journey, only to never revisit it again. I tried many times but never stuck with it. Something about experiencing big emotions with nobody to share it with seems to get me to write. So here we go again. Something is here. And I won’t know what it is until I coax it out. All I know if whatever remains hidden in my subconscious is now straight up ruining my life at this point.

And maybe as a bonus to getting out of my way I might also find my tribe. My people. This would be such a blessing. I know they exist. I see them online. Bring me the women, the witches, the intuitives and the deep thinkers. The animal lovers. Those who swim in esoteric angst about what why we are all here and can be gutted by well structured sentence in a book or lyric in a song. And the dancers. Bring me all of the dancers and the musicians too. Bring me people who are moved. Hell, just bring me an emergency contact I can rely on at this point.

I think I was supposed to be a creative. But I was indoctrinated by republican parents who taught me to chase the almighty dollar and all it got me was moderate success, no true fulfillment and a midlife breakdown where I appear to be losing everything I have ever worked for.

While I have often presented as a whiny, entitled, selfish asshole at times, I would like to believe that this is not my true nature. As evidenced by the fact that I feel my heart so deeply that I am moved to tears on the daily. And that feels significant. Like I can’t be here all alone with this giant heart. It seems at least one other person should know about this.

The voices in my head are so loud. The ones telling me I am wasting my time. Why write anything at the point where AI is basically about to take over? Because my self expression matters. Because we need to create. Even and especially if it isn’t marketable. Assigning value to creative pursuits based on their marketability is ass backwards and a tool of capitalism that I would like to see die. Every one of us should be writing, painting, dancing, singing and creating.

I’m writing because we are in unprecendented times and it seems someone ought to document what the hell is happening around the world. Journalism is absolutely dead so it seems to be on us.

I don’t think anything I have written here is worth reading. At all. And that alone in and of itself is an act of defiance. Here I stand, middle age and out of favor in my culture. Taking up space and telling my story. I know nobody is watching. Nobody is concerning themselves with what aging women are doing. But I still exist. I may no longer exist in a company, and maybe the bank will take my home some day and I may not even want to be here anymore and sometimes I don’t. But until then, my presence will be felt. On some level, in some medium. that alone is an act of defiance

I am here creating this because I have never created anything. I have never built or birthed anything before. And I need to leave this earth with more to contribute than money into the pockets of rich men and whatever I contributed to a landfill. And because I don’t know what else to do and I don’t have money for therapy.

We will shift the collective realty when we all shift internally. I will no longer be passive in the creation of the space I inhabit. I have good intentions and a beautiful heart. Why am I passively sitting by watching morally bankrupt men destroy everything that is beautiful.

I shall relentlessly pursue meaning. I will live with intention and pursue meaning. This is how I will live a meaningful life. My delulu will be my fuel. I was born into this fucked up world to reimagine it. I do not feel I belong here because I am meant to change it.

[rain--goblin]

Preach!

Warning: I'm so fucking tired. I am not as nice as the people above my addition.

I see it far too often that when people try to ask questions, they are shamed and told to use Google because other people aren't their personal little teachers.

Humans are social creatures. Humans socialize with each other to learn, no one is "using these people as personal teachers" or "trying to make them work for free" or whatever other stupid shit they come up with, it's beginners looking to people with experience and asking questions and I really don't know why that's such a big deal for people. Like if you're one of the people who withholds answers or shames people for asking questions, you're not cool or cute you're just an asshole.

Research is hard, it's not as simple as just going on Google and asking a question. Thats a good place to start sure, but research and learning is WAY more complicated than that, and not all the answers are just right there on google page 1 or in AI overview (do ya really want someone to rely on AI overview anyways??)

Sure you can get basic information from google, you may find a variety of opinions, but part of the research is talking to other people. The majority of learning about a practice comes from talking to other people who also practice because you can share information and bounce ideas off of people, plus someone who's been in the practice for a while may have information or theories that aren't just readily available with one Google search. And I noticed it's almost always the accounts that parade themselves as information accounts that pull this "use google" nonesense, and if you parade yourself as an informational account you can't get mad when people ask you questions.

As @khaire-traveler said, if you genuinely don't know the answer to a question or maybe you're just tired of answering it all the time, then you can set a boundary or say you don't know. Usually what regular, mature people do when they get repeat questions is they make a pinned post full of FAQs. Or if you're just having a rough time currently and you're burnt out and don't want to answer questions right now, then you can make a post and say that you are currently taking a break. That's fine, you're human too. But what you're not going to do is shame people for trying to use their brains and learn.

It's not just in paganism or witchy spaces that this happens, it's all over the Internet in so many other communities and discussions. But if you're unwilling to talk with people and answer questions and ask questions then you're not much of a community to begin with. Humans communicate. Humans are social creatures. If you can't handle that you shouldn't put yourself in the public eye, and you especially shouldnt act like an authoirty. The people who can't handle that definitely shouldn't be parading themselves as informational accounts.

The Trend of shaming people for trying to learn Really really irks me Because we're already in a crisis where creativity and learning and critical thinking Is under attack. We have created an internet culture where people are shamed for not knowing everything straight out of the coochie and make them afraid of questions or discussions, (gods forbid people make mistakes, right) but then we get upset when people know nothing.

Like, let people ask questions. We all start somewhere and it's better they ask a beginner question and get the answer so they can move on informed versus being afraid to ask questions so just going all willy-nilly and making way more mistakes than is necessary. Nobody knows everything, and if you expect other people to know everything or be perfect at something when they are a beginner, you are the problem and it's time to get off the seat of your high horse.

Besides, the people shaming beginners for not knowing something need to be reminded that they still have a lot to learn to. Even people who have been in a practice for years are still learning. Ask anyone who takes their practice actually seriously and they will tell you straight up that you never stop learning and you never stop asking questions, so to pretend like beginners should know everything or to pretend like beginners have no right to ask questions is definitely a choice.

Also I almost argue that intentionally withholding information from beginners is a tactic to intentionally stunt them so you can continue to feel Superior to other people which isn't a good look.

As someone who spends my whole workday answering repeat questions from kids, I HAVE to laugh when I see people aggressively complaining about beginner helpols asking the same questions. You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum that pays for my health insurance.

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As you said your considering watching "Star Twinkle Pretty Cure" loke with Heartcatch plan too do reviews??

I just finished Episode 16 a few days ago, so I’m about a third of the way into the series. I’ll give my thoughts on it so far.

While I still prefer Tsubomi for her character development, I think Hikaru/Cure Star is a very likable lead with all of the energy she brings to the table. I like how she’s a shameless sci-fi nerd with her love for all things space, mainly constellations and aliens as shown in the first episode. She’s just so full of optimism and eagerness, she fills the role of leader well with how she can easily rally the other Cures. A good example of this was in one episode where Hikaru drew up a redesign for the team’s damaged rocket ship (which I’ll get to later) that the other Cures like so much, they manage to get the repairs done much quicker despite spending some time adding on accessories because of how motivated they are. This is a kind of character trait I really like seeing for leaders, being able to motivate the others to do things outside of the battlefield. Hikaru is just a really fun character so far, and is currently my favorite this season.

Lala/Cure Milky is also a really interesting character so far. Being an alien, most of her episodes deal with her getting to know the human race and its cultures, mainly through her friendship with Hikaru. She starts off more apprehensive to her situation on Earth, but does become more open to learning more. At the same time, this does lead to a flaw where she tends to blindly focus on pure logic and hates failure, much like a certain other alien primarily dressed in blue. There’s an episode where Lala transfers to Hikaru’s middle school and has a pretty bad first day with how little she understands the social protocol, and the next day, she relies on her AI to help her blend in more and understand to the point where she forces herself to stop using her verbal tic “-lun” at the end of her sentences. It shows how much she hates failure, and it says a lot about her character. She still manages to grow past this flaw a little, and I’m looking forward to seeing how else she develops in the series.

Elena/Cure Soleil is basically the big sister of the team kind of like Yuri from Heartcatch, though without the added baggage the latter had for most of her series. She’s referred to as “The Sun of Mihoshi Middle School” by the other characters. Really subtle there, writers. Granted, it’s referring to her friendly attitude towards her fellow students mixed with her athletic skills, which naturally draws a lot of students to admire and look up to her, even Hikaru. Unlike Itsuki, she’s much more relaxed around others and even asks Hikaru to stop referring to her as her sempai, especially since Hikaru has seniority over Elena as a Precure. She’s generally the more level-headed one of the team, and tends to rely on diplomacy more often, like when she diffuses an argument between Hikaru and Lala early on, and later helps to convince some aliens to hand over one of the MacGuffins/toy tie-ins, the Princess Star Color Pens peacefully after helping to defend their planet. From what I’ve heard, Elena and the fourth Cure were added to the show last-minute thanks to executives, but I think Elena fits in with the cast pretty well so far.

Likewise, Madoka/Cure Selene is referred to as “The Moon of Mihoshi Middle School” because she’s... high-class? Fancy? Rich? She’s basically meant to be a foil to Elena in some regards. While Elena is more lax and friendly, Madoka is more stoic and a bit of a perfectionist. While Elena has a happy relationship with her family, Madoka has a much more tense relationship with her father who hates aliens for no reason, and will take any chance he gets to remind the audience how much of an asshole he is. I think he’s running for the Worst Father in Animation Award after hearing Gabriel Agreste won it three years in a row. Madoka generally has the hardest time as a Precure because of how she has to keep it a secret from her xenophobic father, and seems to be struggling with her loyalty. This is mainly because I’m so sick of family drama from Miraculous, but Madoka’s character arc revolving around her relationship with her dad is honestly why she’s my least favorite out of the four.

Fuwa is nothing more than a plot device/cute thing to look at. I mean, at least the fairies in Heartcatch could actually speak in complete sentences, and not say their names like a Pokemon. Prunce is honestly a much more memorable character with his dialogue and plays the role as comic relief well.

I really like the villains so far. They’re all aliens based off Yokai and have their own approaches to the monster of the week formula. Kappard (a Kappa), is a vain warrior who tends to use the imaginations of others to create new weapons to use against the team. Tenjo (a Tengu), views her troops as pawns and uses the the imaginations of others to turn them into giant versions of the show’s grunts, the Nottorei. Aiwarn (a Hitotsume-kozo), is a trickster who uses corrupted Princess Star Color Pens to create the true monsters of the week, the Nottoriga, using the imagination of others. There’s also an Oni-themed alien who’s their boss, but he hasn’t really done much yet. Overall, these villains have some really creative motifs that I really want to see more of. It kind of reminds me of the movie Treasure Planet which did something similar by combining fantasy with sci-fi.

Another thing I really like about this show is how it generally plays with certain sci-fi tropes. The very first time the team goes out into space to search for one of the Princess Star Color Pens, they get into trouble with the locals, who see it as a sacred artifact, and even before that, look down on the Cures for not having fur like they do. It’s a pretty realistic depiction of making first contact with an alien race like that. Another interesting episode is in the aforementioned episode where Lala goes to school for the first time. You’d think that since her kind work are automatically educated by artificial intelligence, she’d be really smart, right? Actually, because of how much she’s relied on an AI to help her do everything, she’s so inept that she can’t even calculate double digits in class like 15+10, and generally struggles on her first day of school.

Generally, I’m really enjoying the show so far, and I’m looking forward to continuing it.