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like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

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Reblog if you love traumatizing / violating your Blorbos and putting them in ✨situations✨

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”

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blocking people who think you owe them an argument is SO sexy, and so fulfilling. try it if you haven't!

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its nice being a woman (in some sense of the word, let's not get into the details of genders), that way I know that whatever I'm feeling is definitely just hysteria and not anything to pay any mind to. Why have I cried multiple times today over nothing? The hysterical and illogical female brain, don't worry about it? Why am I annoyed by things I know is either my or nobody's fault? Women be crazy. Why was I more inclined to bite myself than food this morning? Stuid woman, it's not your fault you can't function normally, you're just not capable of better

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Reminding myself that sometimes we have to do things we consider awkward or cringe just to set the precedent

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I really hate a lot of the advice on the Internet about taming birds.

So much of it is literally "isolate your birds so they bond to you instead of each other" or "clip your bird's wings so it can't get away from you when it feels nervous." I'm no expert, but that's fucked up, man.

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who up feeling like they weren't made for this world

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recently realized that dad really just doesn't seem to understand why people just like hang out to be together... Like nothing against him ofc, great guy, but like if he's not interested in an activity he's not doing it with you and if he's interested in an activity and you're late he's not missing out for your sake and if he's eating breakfast and calls you to eat as well it's not because he wants to spend time together, he just wants you to eat and he may be gone by the time you get there

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woke up today convinced I was actually a ghost... Now I'm certain it was just bc I've been watching the series Ghosts but like if I was dead that'd change upsettingly little for me... Like sure, couldn't use my phone anymore but I'd... If I couldn't use my phone I might be more present in my family's lives since they'd be the only thing that'd change... I'd be more present if I was actually just dead and I know that should be my call to change my ways but it's really not, as a ghost my first thought was how to sneak away so nobody noticed the blankets moving and as a recently realized living I decided I didn't care and just wanted to hide away

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TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord. 

Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread. 

HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI. 

Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual. 

Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online. 

Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.  

Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.  

ETA: because many have asked, yes this is fine for anyone to use for any reason, I give it to the world. If it’s convenient to link back to my tumblr (or to my author website at extribulum.wordpress.com) that’d be lovely, but don’t feel obliged. Use it in good health, my ledans! 

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Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

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Steve O Smith SS25 RTW