#who u could have a connection with

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[bunnihearted]

being too weird and unlikable and off putting and always being shunned and turned into an outcast everywhere i go and not having felt the connection and healing friendship has on you for so many years has really done a number on me

[hardly-an-escape]

it's funny – as an American who writes a lot of fanfic for mostly British shows, but reads a lot of fanfic for both British and American shows, I do kind of get a feel for when someone is writing characters who don't share their own nationality.

and it definitely goes both ways; there are Britishisms that pop out at me in fics for American shows, and Americanisms that come out of British characters' mouths.

and I'm certainly not immune! I think I'm pretty good at writing British English, but I'm sure there are American words and turns of phrase that still sneak through. and equally, I've read/watched SO much by English and Irish writers that I'm sure I use weird Britishisms myself that sound natural to me but not to other Americans.

I don't know, it's just one of my favorite little things about fanfic and fandom in general. I feel like britpicking isn't a term that's used that often these days, but that's what it is. and I love that it goes both ways.

[aq2003]

i saw a post saying boom was good bc it feels like it could be done with any doctor/companion duo and honestly that was one of the things i felt was wrong with it

[dulcebot]

DON'T GIVE ME IDEASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and when hiraeth releases their final mini album before a year long hiatus or more so poppy can focus in her health + kaia can do her own things + yvan can do musicals and do whatever projects they want because in the dulceverse yvan will be glinda for wicked instead of ari bc i can do whatever i want this is my silly universe and i can do whatever but two months in and vivi's rent is due and the lights are flickering and the eviction notice is at the front door and none of the girls are answering her calls despite them being together at poppy's vacay home in lake como so she had ONE chance and ONE dream she had NO OTHER CHOICE so she got out a dusty and retired angel of the season project and got these three talented girls from diff companies that she's been eyeing to be hiraeths little sister unit and it's all fun and games until the new girlies don't do good because there will never be another hiraeth / another kaia poppy and yvan and they have a lot to carry on their shoulders even during predebut and there's a lot of self doubts and hesitance and insecurity and tension between vivi and even themselves and it becomes a really big problem where they don't stand each other or just refuse to understand each other and it will be a story of them slowly becoming and understanding that they are their own person, either alone or together as they try to carry on a legacy even when they are not hiraeth they are THEMSELVES!

LORE SPEAKING they were born / created by "mother" the exact day each seasonal angels broke their own loop by eating their forbidden fruit = giving into temptation and they are little angels who were born to parallel hiraeth as hiraeth weren't "pure" anymore but ffs the little sisters wanted to be like them wtf....... and then they were left behind in celestias castle or palace i don't remember what it was and they hold some kind of grudge because why did they leave and not us?! why did they not took us with them?! but eventually hiraeths doctrine cult like messages gets to them and they are not ready to break their loop but instead they start shaking things up in celestia's castle palace whatever and being a pain in the ass for "mother" because they are sharing to other angels that they could be and do more outside mothers doctrine and this even makes the little sisters realize that they are their own person/angel and they are not the seasonal aengels as much as mother wanted them to be and maybe they start their own "cult" and its not like "mother" can force them to leave celestia because they are perfect w no sins!

[eggbagelz]

gale voice here feel the pulse of the magic in my heart that will eventually be the end of me. im on my knees before you like an animal showing its belly. im in excrutiating pain bc of the contact with the magic in my heart but please dont take your hand away please dont stop touching me

[sainz]

a closeted 20 year old that comes from a conservative rural family falling in love with a openly gay 18 year old on spanish prime tv

[kuromi-hoemie]

lol i love how yesterday morning i was like “i love nightmares pls send me one” and i had 3 back to back 💀

*hesitantly* i ... i love nightmares..? send me one... once a week? no, twice a week

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

13 fans that complain that 14/15 getting to be more stable / connected to people is a "slap in the face" of 13 era are like... being so deliberately doylist-oblivious dkflsjd and like tbh? self-victimizing at that point. i don't even know. like these people will say "wow did you all even watch the show!!" all the time and then like. forget that the doctor rarely ever mentions companions after they regenerate (does it happen? yes, but i can count it in the palm of my hand). specially when they change writers, 3 doesn't go around talking about ian and barabara or jamie at all. like. it's not a specific thing. it's not about rtd and co hating 13 it's just. how the show has worked. for 60 years dsklfjkjkj (insert 14: "donna if i were to mention everyone that has tragically "died" in front of me every episode, we would be here forever")

and also some thasmin fans being kind of... I'm gonna say it honestly, kind of jealous that 14/donna get queerplatonic married, are kind of showing their hand bc it's admitting that actually yeah, yaz's ending was kind of dissatisfying to them (according to this complaint. which like. sdklfjs as i said in that other post... the 13/yaz ending can be rlly poetic/satisfying depending on How U Look At It (from many angles: closes circle on grace/graham 'im thankful for the time we did have' from ep 1 / noir vibes of 13's era: alec hardy and ellie miller *can't* be together bc it would go against the tone / "running out of time" is narrative justice on 13 for being so selfishl-y cage-y and oblivious for So Long / aromatic reading where 13 never reciprocated) , but when ppl complain about this they are very clearly not even interested in those readings (not genuinely). but like, if u didn't like yaz's ending... mate, that's on chibnall. that's the ending chibnall wanted to tell. like if u didn't like it and would have preferred what 14 got like,,,, take it up to him, damn sdlkfjds it would be like complaining about moffat not bringing back donna and giving her her memories back and making her immortal during 11's first season. it's just absurd.

[the-trans-dragon]

A fish walks into a bar.

"Hey, there you are!" the bartender says. "We've been lookin' all over for you! Where've you been?"

The fish says, "Canada."

[bunnihearted]

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[lilpuffyart]

MV human characters who were badly used but had such an interesting idea around them, I love you (looks at the KOTM and GvsK crew)

[aroacettorney]

dont mind me. im simply just putting together a ludgercasey angst collection.

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[swiftcast-selene]

Day 26: Faith

what you take from the earth, take care to sow again. such are the teachings of the Matron.

[anonymousbathtub]

The true nature of the mushroom pope (”The Voice”) revealed, Petr and his new human friend - Raphael - conspire to take them down for good! (An assassination performed by two 12 year olds can't be that hard, right?)

When finishing this painting I thought it’d be fun to mock it up into a mid-game menu screen concept :) 🍄

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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