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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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Whatever souls are made out of, ours were bought at the same shitty big-box craft store.

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hei xiazi and zhang rishan headcanons I will never be talked out of:

they met back in the day when rishan was fo ye's fu guan, definitely committed a whole bunch of arson and murder they narrowly escaped being arrested for, and a whole bunch of other stuff fo ye had to pay bail for

fo ye spent the rest of his life carefully monitoring hei xiazi's whereabouts to make sure he and rishan were never in the same city unsupervised. sometimes he hired hei xiazi for BS he made up on the spot because it was cheaper than paying for the property damage

fo ye was also a little jealous they didn't invite him to the Shenanigans, but he's too Official and Responsible to do those sorts of things anymore and he does pout about that on er ye's couch.

when Rishan takes on fo ye's mantle, he keeps xiazi on speed dial to mess with people who annoy him. Just, straight up says 'here's a bunch of money, do whatever you want so long as I don't have to hear from them for the next month'

Rishan unknowingly mirrors fo ye's frustration with having to keep up appearances and not being allowed to be the agent of chaos he was born to be. xiazi is aware of this and sometimes 'kidnaps' him on vacations where they go burn down a wang family warehouse or training facility or the summer home of some corrupt government official.

they've never been caught, but poorly drawn police sketches have ended up on wanted lists rishan has had to make arrangements to have deleted

xiazi is also one of the few people who understands the Immortality Depression, who would also - probably - give fair warning before trying to shank rishan (and vice versa). rishan and xiazi have definitely fucked about it, but even the suggestion they ever dated would be met with some sort of reaction on a scale of confusion to horror (also the ghost of fo ye starts screaming from the afterlife)

rishan has definitely made green pepper fried rice for xiazi and it's their go-to currency, other than favors and flammable materials.

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Another reason to ignore negative comments (especially on AO3)

So at work I’ve been forced to learn about “AI Agentic Workflows”. But being an AO3 author, I couldn’t help but think of how this technology affects authors on AO3 (and honestly on other social media platforms too).

What I learned was this: Agentic AI workflow software makes it extremely easy to automate, and bulk-post, HIGHLY-STORY-SPECIFIC negative comments to AO3 fics.

If you’re not familiar with what an AI Agentic Workflow is, I highly recommend informing yourself. You’ll be hearing it a LOT very soon. Basically, it’s a linked linked chain of AI prompts on one/many software platforms. Each “agent” completes a task. Then it hands off the completed task to the next AI Agent in the chain, which builds on it. Then that result is handed off to another agent, etc etc, even potentially to a final agent which analyzes what worked well and what didn’t, and changes what the other agents do.

There are a ton of repercussions here.

But let’s stay focused on AO3.

With AI Agentic workflow software, a person/group who wants to silence the voice of a community can easily scrape a tag, analyze stories by the thousands, then post thousands of highly customized, story specific negative comments, all without a human being ever seeing your words.

They could even set up AI agents watching to see if you delete your story, or delete your profile, which would be a marker of success. That success marker could be shared back to the other AI agents, and the whole workflow could be changed via automation to use that more effective approach.

I’m sure the OTF is working on ways of stopping this. I’m sure most social media companies are too.

But as usual the tools to create havoc are ahead of the ones to prevent havoc.

Anyway.

TL;DR: If you get a highly-story-specific negative AO3 comment — it does NOT MEAN it was written by a HUMAN! You were probably just story 20,031 in a scraped database of 50,000 stories, all of which were being targeted because they belong to a group/topic/tag that some shitty group or agency wanted to silence because of their horrible political or social.

Don’t let them silence you. They never looked at your words to begin with.

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"What do you want from a remake" I DON'T WANT THEM. I DON'T WANT ANOTHER SOULLESS NOSTALGIA-FILLED CASH-GRAB. I DON'T WANT ANY OF THEM. I DON'T WANT ADAPTATIONS THAT KILL THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE OF THE THING THEY WERE BASED UPON NEITHER THE SHOT-BY-SHOT DESATURATED RECREATIONS. I WANT ORIGINAL STORIES!!! NOT REMAKES OF MOVIES THAT AIN'T EVEN 30 YEARS OLD!!!​AAGGGGGHHH

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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

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The Entirety of Tumblr from Tumblr has been Chucked in to the ocean! You're all wet now.

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genuinely i think everyone would be so much happier if we simply accepted that fanfiction isn’t supposed to be realistic at all, it’s just supposed to make you happy. ​these freaks are currently 20k words into pining for each other while living under the same roof and working the same job, fuck realism tbh

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People who insist tumblr must be 90% LGBT because their self-curated dash is have never gotten a weird comment on a post and went to check the person's blog and discovered an entire deep subculture of christian and tradwife users reblogging anti-abortion quotes and transphobia between each other. I promise you they're on here.

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being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

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People I'd like to get to know better tag game

Tagged by @nemaria ! Thank you!

Last song listened to: The HU - Shihi Hutu

Currently watching: Guardians of the Dafeng. Not very far into it right now though. Also Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu HAIKARA!

Last movie: Poked at my iQIYI history and apparently it was Di Renjie: Secret Soldier Borrows the Road Fell down the Di Renjie/Detective Dee/Judge Dee rabbithole after watching Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty and well, that rabbithole is easily as deep as the DMBJ rabbithole, if not deeper. The only reason I'll run out of material to watch is because I can't find anywhere to watch it lol

Currently reading: Babel - R. F. Kuang, A Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham, Legend of Exorcism vol 2 - Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Savoury my beloved

Relationship status: Single with no inclination to mingle

Last thing I googled: Raspberry Pi. Then decided I was too tired to look into that properly and here I am.

Currently working on: Fanfiction. Supposedly. Multichaptered PeiFengQing stupidity, and a silly ZiNing modern AU oneshot I thought of thanks to a prompt generator. Oh, and I started a stupid short FengQing oneshot but idk if I'll finish it, it was kind of a flow of consciousness thing I started after getting another stupid idea. Pretty burned out so nothing is getting done fast.

Tagging: @takenene @feanope @nemainofthewater @omgpurplefattie @lasenbyphoenix @jgydidnothingwrong @silvandar if you wish to join in, no pressure! Plus anyone else who wishes to consider themselves tagged!

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Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu HAIKARA! ep.01

Can Taishō era punks potentially out-gay their very gay descendants?? 👀