#just fucking do it

[scarlettgauthor]

I first posted this in a thread over on BlueSky, but I decided to port (a slightly edited version of) it over here, too.

Entirely aside from the absurd and deeply incorrect idea [NaNoWriMo has posited] that machine-generated text and images are somehow "leveling the playing field" for marginalized groups, I think we need to interrogate the base assumption that acknowledging how people have different abilities is ableist/discriminatory. Everyone SHOULD have access to an equal playing field when it comes to housing, healthcare, the ability to exist in public spaces, participating in general public life, employment, etc.

That doesn't mean every person gets to achieve every dream no matter what.

I am 39 years old and I have scoliosis and genetically tight hamstrings, both of which deeply impact my mobility. I will never be a professional contortionist. If I found a robot made out of tentacles and made it do contortion and then demanded everyone call me a contortionist, I would be rightly laughed out of any contortion community. Also, to make it equivalent, the tentacle robot would be provided for "free" by a huge corporation based on stolen unpaid routines from actual contortionists, and using it would boil drinking water in the Southwest into nothingness every time I asked it to do anything, and the whole point would be to avoid paying actual contortionists.

If you cannot - fully CAN NOT - do something, even with accommodations, that does not make you worth less as a person, and it doesn't mean the accommodations shouldn't exist, but it does mean that maybe that thing is not for you.

But who CAN NOT do things are not who uses "AI." It's people who WILL NOT do things.

"AI art means disabled people can be artists who wouldn't be able to otherwise!" There are armless artists drawing with their feet. There are paralyzed artists drawing with their mouths, or with special tracking software that translates their eye movements into lines. There are deeply dyslexic authors writing via text-to-speech. There are deaf musicians. If you actually want to do a thing and care about doing the thing, you can almost always find a way to do the thing.

Telling a machine to do it for you isn't equalizing access for the marginalized. It's cheating. It's anti-labor. It makes it easier for corporations not to pay creative workers, AND THAT'S IS WHY THEY'RE PUSHING IT EVERYWHERE.

I can't wait for the bubble to burst on machine-generated everything, just like it did for NFTs. When it does some people are going to discover they didn't actually learn anything or develop any transferable skills or make anything they can be proud of.

I hope a few of those people pick up a pencil.

It's never too late to start creating. It's never too late to actually learn something. It's never too late to realize that the work is the point.

[andiv3r]

Hashtag I Am making Bad Decisions

[altocat]

There is no hetero explanation for the way Sephi talks and looks at cloud

Square is tripling down on Sephiroth's evil gay crush on Cloud and I am HERE for it.

[rainyfestivalsweets]

3/21/24

I had a rough night. My periods continue to be the worst, but last night after CBD for the intense pain, I burrito'ed myself between the heating pad and the electric blanket, which covered most of the pain areas.

Although I was up and down and felt like I was bleeding out, I managed to wake up (late ugg) but with less pain.

Today I had a triple shot energy drink my friend gave me. 90 cals 9g protein.

Then I worked. And worked out. A dumbell circuit, step workout and a short gluten workout. Then I took a luxurious shower and lotion.... and put my waist trainer on. Open at the bottom to not pressure my screaming uterus.

Oo, that lady who snarkily commented YoU hAvE tO cHaNgE yOuR LiFeSTyLe is gonna be so fucking pissed.

Idk. If you ever feel like you need to do that to some internet stranger.....DON'T.

You don't know what anyone is suffering. What I go thru on the daily. If you don't like what you read, how about you fuck all the way off?! How about that.

Especially if you are not a follower of the blog.

Life is hard, why do people insist on making it fucking harder on strangers?

So it has been awhile. That bitch made me feel unworthy of wearing a waist trainer that I BOUGHT & PAID for, dieted to fit into, and had on hand. But I have it on today because I deserve to use ALL the tools at my disposal.

So if you don't like it, fuck off. What now? Exactly motherfucker. 💯 Fucking nothing.

120 pounds down, shooting for a new low on this journey.... and currently a badass MFer, killing weights, cardio, work, AND FT CAREGIVING!

I can't wait til I can say 130 pounds down!

140 pounds down!

150 pounds down!

160????? 🤩🤩🤩

[system-of-dead-stars]

Fuck i’ve hurt him again

[impossiblesoul13]

My poor baby Suf!!!!

Y'all send him LOVE!

[rottenfleshnbones]

"thinking about cutting my face" then do it. coward

[redwolf17]

Me, praying I can finish Dany V today:

[cometchasr]

hes a stupid idiot and cant drop the honorific

[sadlyacr]

And a couple more for ya I guess. Ft. A beer both that my friend and I did. Interesting to say the least

[awhoreforeddiemunson]

woow, long time no see huh?

I have made the choice to go on a writing haitus. I'm so sorry guys but it looks like it will take some time for me to pick up writing again.

I've been focused on other things lately. One of them being Shifting. I have been trying for two years now and right now I have never felt so close to my DR and DR-self.

I am shifting to my Fame DR and I've been scripting like crazy. And honestly the script I am making is the very fiest script I am happy with and really connect with. My other shifting friends have noticed I have turned into my DR self in my CR. I am still me of course but sometimes I can notice the small changes.

I like to believe that you can also shift your ways in you CR. This helps me shifting and feel closer to my DR.

If you would like; you can ask me questions about shifting or my DR.

My shifting experiemce right now is that I have made a little minishift (if that's real, I like to believe I have just shifted but I was there for a few seconds)

I have dreams that relate to my DR and the people I scripted in my DR are also in my dreams, especially my SO. (I think you already know who I'm talking about)

Angel numbers are being shown to me daily and it makes me really excited!!

Here are some affirmations that help me and maybe they can help you;

I am going to shift, I am a conciousness and I can easily shift to another reality. Shifting is and intention and I fully intent to shift. I am safe. Shifting is easy, Nothing is stopping me from shifting to my DR.

And sometimes if you're like me I would need some "agressive" affirmations;

Just fucking shift already, you know you can do it.

See?! you are shifting, YOU ARE SHIFTING.

NO ONE CAN STOP YOU,SO WHY BITCH ABOUT IT!! YOU CAN LITERALLY JUST GO. LIKE " WOOP HERE I AM BITCHES, I'M IN MY DR."

[catatonic-kitten]

I wish I wasn't such a fucking pussy

[incandescent-creativity]

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Warrior is streaming, I am hitting some cardio.

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.