#it's pretty discourse free

[solargeist]

Have you read "they're are monsters nearby" before?

I forgot who's the writer but it's a pretty popular fic in the scarian fandom

Is that the zombie apocalypse one ? Or something like that. I believe it’s in my read later, but I haven’t started it !

[silverhalla]

when I was little I used to play clue with my sister and when I won by being like “okay YOU don’t have the candlestick and I don’t have the candlestick and there are no more cards, so it’s gotta be the candlestick” she would get really mad and tell me I was cheating because I wasn’t supposed to be making assumptions like that and she didn’t understand where I was getting the info from, so I was ruining the game for her

anyways I don’t rly get why people on twt are THAT mad about veilguard spoilers because they do not seem that deep

[ghonorrhead]

ughhhh fucking long ass rant below because I need to get something off my chest but I HATEEE clogging up my stories on insta with drama… I hate drama period… but yeah, gonna talk about icky things below so don’t read if you don’t wanna :T

if you *genuinely* believe I am any sort of p-word (don’t wanna say it because it makes me wanna throw up), you need to get ahold of yourself because you’re fucking stupid and an awful character assessor. if you *genuinely* believe that I draw cp or enjoy any of that sick bullshit, you need to have your head caved in with a heavy ass hammer fr idgaf anymore you’re genuinely a shit person if you’re spreading baseless gossip about me over something as trivial as a fucking art style man

do these people have any fucking idea of the weight that their words hold? I haven’t even been on insta for a week and im already being cancelled. for what you may ask? Because of how I fucking draw apparently??? You’d think that I was drawing heinous and graphic cp by the way people are shitting themselves but no. what started all of this was a doodle of mine I did of gy//jo kissing.

it’s this one ^

to make a long story short, some dickhead reposted my doodle on their story and got their friends to go along with them, saying that J//ohnny looks 14 and that he looks like a child, g//yro looks like a creep, “this is why I left the fandom”, etc etc. They then called me a p-phile and insisted that I was drawing graphic depictions of cp???

I only made a response to that because I don’t tolerate any unwarranted slander to my name, because how tf are you going to be accusing me of drawing that sick bullshit??? where tf is the supposed cp??? you’re a dumb fuck, genuinely. rot in hell and boil alive in liquid shit idfc, I’d normally ignore these haters but this isnt even hate. there are serious ass accusations that hold so much weight behind them??? are you serious right now??? trying to paint me as something im not just because you’re a bit uncomfy with how I draw???? get over yourself holy shit hop off my dick you sensitive prick

I seem to have altered some of the gy//jo fandom fandom on insta, because now im even having some mutuals turn on me. okay great. I didn’t care for you anyways but now you’re spreading that baseless and incredibly harmful bs too? I had never bore witness to such chronically online behavior holy shit… literally a bunch of sheep following their leader, slandering me to no end if it means that they won’t look bad to their audience…

had an ex mutual on insta make their own story post about me. talked about how they like my art but it made them “uncomfy”. okay, perfect. you shouldn’t have followed me first then?? sorry to hear that???

then they talked about how my Johnny looks like he’s 10????? that’s a new one :I

^ funny how nobody bats an eye at these character for example though… even though I’ve heavily based my chibi art off of them… but whatever… (they’re both well over 18, mind you)

then they start legit saying shit like “UwU this makes me uncomfy because g//yro is so much more big than small feminine twink J//ohnny ;-; uguuuu they can do whatever they want though!! 🙈🙈 hope they find the right audience for them…” (whatever the fuck that means. fuck you, actually.)

you see ra//mona and lu//cas here??? see how he looks so much bigger and “mature” than ra//mona? see how she looks small and “feminine”?? great, now have you read the comics? do you see how both of them are adults, despite their appearance??? perfect, now you can see where I get yet ANOTHER big inspo for my gyjos :)

an example of my HEAVILY STYLIZED and CARTOONY-CHIBI gy//jos for reference ^u^

anywayssss…

not to mention that young looking people exist… fuck, im a young adult rn (20-25 age range, no im not going to tell you my age) and i get told EVERY DAY at work by complete strangers, mind you, that i look 14-16. I know, insane. lock up any potential romantic interests of mine because i look young and they’re definitely predators :)

am I so wrong for wanting to project a bit of myself onto Jo//hnny? Is it really so different from doing poc or lgbtq headcanon with a character? God forbid I give Johnny some of my own features… I thought we were in a more progressive mindset now as a community =_=

please, do tell me if you think im wrong here. you’re free to unfollow/block/whatever-the-fuck, but keep my name out of your smelly mouth and, respectfully, rot in hell !!!

[brettdoesdiscourse]

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If a person with a vision impairment is not wearing their glasses, they will have a harder time navigating the world around them. If a person with a physical disability that requires a cane does not have their cane, they will have a harder time navigating the world around them.

Disability definition for anyone who wants it: a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities.

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[kiwisandpearls]

inspired by a certain post in the proship tag i just wanna say this before i go back into my little hole:

i think discussions on how shipcourse has become very overblown are very important but i think just as important as discussions that shipcourse has become way bigger and more concerning than needed are discussions of why shipcourse has become the beast it is today, is there anything we can do to…not make shipcourse as big as it is, and is shipcourse a possible precursor to real world issues such as censorship of fictional media?

idk…i just don’t think saying “shipcourse is dumb and has hurt people” is really enough to unpack the actual damage shipcourse has and may continue to do.

[blessphemy]

once in a while when i'm in the murderbot fandom tag i see a shark fin of ship discourse and i'm like wrow... i guess there's shipping out there. so anyways.

[skrunksthatwunk]

skrunk did you know your marking on shinigami eyes changed from friendly to anti

yeah i've been told. it's bc i reblog stuff about transandrophobia and intersexism and exorsexism and these things are thought to be transmisogynistic (they're not, it's just other people discussing their oppression). if it makes you uncomfortable (which is totally understandable) feel free to search around my blog, but i don't think you'll find anything all that objectionable there

[buntress]

Breaking my hiatus for a moment to say I firmly, completely stand with @idwl. We have never really spoken, not in any real sit down way at least, but harassment like this is fucking vile and disgusting.

I will not sugarcoat it, anyone who participated in it is not fucking welcome here. In fact if you've participated in this at all I straight up fucking hate you. I want nothing to do with you. You are vile, horrible, disgusting people who are using people like me as a crutch to harass a mentally ill person just to feel like you are better. That you are just, that you have done nothing wrong. You disgust me to my deepest core and we as a community do not accept or stand with you.

Till, if you see this, I am sorry this has happened to you. You are so very loved, even by complete strangers like me, and do not ever let these horrible people convince you otherwise. You have done so much for this community, created terms that have truly brought people together. You are good, you have done good, and while we may not know eachother I truly hope for the best for you. Please take all the time away that you need, if you decide to come back we will be waiting with open arms.

If anyone has an issue with my stance on this situation, feel free to say something in my askbox! I will be happy to rip you apart for the world to see! Cowards.

[clarabowmp3]

TTPD the album, especially the main part is so misunderstood. I feel bad for Taylor so many fans and not many people really engaging with what her new project actually said and is mostly aimed at.

Oh hmm I think it depends what you’d say the main part is? Maybe it’s just cuz I can’t separate art from reality all that well but I think what stopped me personally from fully engaging with this album like I usually do was how hellbent she seemed on making herself some kind of victim that has been pushed to the edge and now can’t help but be a villain. While she did suffer in some ways (the emotional strain of stepping away from a years long relationship, having the ‘love of your life’ ghost you), it puts me off when I see her trying to reframe/manipulate certain parts of her image.

For eg fresh out the slammer: no one was forcing her to stay with Joe? I sympathise with how complex the situation must have been in so long London but I just think it’s not a good look to equate staying with one of the few people who didn’t turn their back on her in 2016 to being imprisoned. Like we’ve heard reputation, the title track of lover etc like she has albums worth of their love. Even if the relationship soured towards the end/they just grew apart, it doesn’t make sense to be so harsh and cutting about it. Songs like these feel like she’s still trying to frame herself as a poor defenseless victim when she’s really a fully grown woman capable of taking charge of her life. Even if it was such a messy complicated situation where she rlly was unable to walk away, it’s just petty to act like the victim in what seems like a fraught mutual breakup. Even in who’s afraid of little old me: the whole ‘they say I’ll sue you if you step on my lawn’ line (I go into it deeper here)

The point I’m trying to make is for me I didn’t get around to perceiving ttpd as a piece of art until maybe a month or so after its release, but it does have some interesting themes. I think esp with the eras tour and how she’s tapped into a much larger gen z audience over the past 2 years, the public component of her music has become the center of attention even more, especially on twitter. As long as she stays at this similar level of popularity, I can’t see much meaningful discussion or analysis happening of either ttpd or her future albums, because all the general public seems to like focusing on is who or what she’s singing about, rather than the music itself

[diodellet]

Realized I haven't seen you around for a little while, hopefully life / school isn't kicking you too hard ❤️

ohhh ner, u kind kind soul😭😭💕

uni is treating me like a piece of gum i cant wait for finals to be over😭😭 i miss being here and brainrotting over cute guy

[9w1ft]

like i said, they’re all quiet! 😆😆 and i’ve missed them 😌 i think if you weren’t around before lover it would be extra easy to not know they exist.

[iusedtousemyrealname]

Hey! Today my Dash is largely smut and angry Left Wingers yelling at the world again, despite me not following anyone significantly different over the past year. Tumblr Nature is healing!

[gibbearish]

god do we have to do fucking ace discourse again of all things

[sirfrogsworth]

This is one of those things where the discourse is just completely broken. Both of these takes are shit and no one is concerned about the actual problem.

Republicans want to bring back incandescents because they just want to trigger the libs and have decided light bulbs are woke.

And the "LEDs are fine" crowd are throwing people with flicker sensitivities under the bus. And, no, you don't have to be "pretty far on the spectrum" to notice a difference. And even if you did... why in the world is this person so dismissive of the millions of autistic folks?

LEDs, for the most part, are superior to incandescent bulbs. Collectively they save people billions of dollars in energy costs and greatly reduce fossil fuel use. You have more options for color and brightness. You can control them with your phone. LEDs are fantastic.

Unfortunately there is a design flaw that makes LEDs hard to use for certain people. Due to AC power, most LEDs have a 60hz refresh rate. Meaning they turn off and on 60 times per second. With incandescents this didn't matter because the filament didn't have time to lose its glow between cycles.

Most people cannot see this flicker in LEDs. But there are millions of people who are sensitive to it and it can cause migraines and discomfort.

The solution is definitely not to go back to incandescents. There are flicker free LEDs and I think with some regulation we could make sure all LEDs are flicker free or at least make sure flicker free bulbs are easy to find and not priced at a premium.

Thankfully there is a group testing bulbs to find the ones that will most likely cause no discomfort. They call themselves the Flicker Alliance and their website has a pretty decent selection of tested and approved bulbs.

So if you feel like your LED bulbs might be causing you distress, that is a good resource to try. I think there is also something you can do to make sure the LED drivers are using DC power, but I haven't really looked into that.

[latenings]

question for the 10 people that follow me. do you follow blogs that share whatever. and are CELEB DISCOURSE FREE. please & thank you🙏

[chromegnomes]

the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous

like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross

but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening

the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand

but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory

by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:

Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)

No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)

Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)

it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law