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SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn

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photo: ElI Bond

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when my shelter cat passes by me, he pauses for a second, and looks up. He is waiting for me to lean down, and touch my hand against his side, so that when he keeps walking, my hand skims across his fur. he doesn't really need attention. he has his own thoughts and plans. but after more than a year of living in our home, he has come to expect a moment of kindness whenever he crosses my path. if I don't do it, he will follow me. "where is your hand?" he asks, with his plaintive and impatient eyes. I give it to him. he bumps against it like a balloon before wandering away. this is a poem to me

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“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

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The authenticity to be found in its soundtrack is reflected throughout the film. The members’ demon-fighting weaponry reflects the real tools and practices of shamanism, and Rumi, Mira, and Zoey all wear the traditional norigae accessory attached to their waists. Even the [weapons] for HUNTR/X resemble a norigae knot! Rumi’s weapon is based on the Four Tiger Sword, a ritual blade used during the Joseon Dynasty. In Korean cosmology, the four cardinal directions are guarded by four mythic tigers, and this sword symbolizes their protective strength. Zoey’s sinkal as one of the most unique weapons with close ties with Shamanic history. Used in shamanic gut ceremonies, the sinkal is a small ritual dagger—not for combat, but for symbolic cleansing. The sole purpose is to “cut” spiritual negativity and protect the ritual space. Meanwhile, Mira’s woldo, also called gokdo...is a pole weapon with a massive crescent-shaped blade. Used by elite military units during the Joseon Dynasty, it demanded strength and agility. It was also featured in court dances and processions, choreographed to evoke harmony between heaven and earth.

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field research

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its crazy how teeth problems can fucking kill you and not only are dental services not free they cost a ludicrous amount and require an entirely different type of insurance than the rest of ur body. aside from the eyes, of course, which need a third type of insurance. What are we even doing man

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💛 *puts my protag in the cube* 💛

Very proud of how that shoe turned out ngl 👟✨ Trying to figure out a pose to fill the space for this one was rlly fun! I think I’ve finally settled on an inking pen preference so now I need to build the habit of using vector layers for my inks 💪😤

[DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES / ACCOUNTS] ♻️reblogs are lovely tho!♻️

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I'm kinda curious now... Anyway reblog for bigger sample size, blah blah blah

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Oh so it was just straightup embezzlement. Fantastic, I was hoping it was.

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i just need a break from everything for a year or a century

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we usually think of mood as a scale from 1-5, but there's actually a negative scale too, where the frown turns back into a smile, but just a little insane !

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do you think in fantasy settings with long-lived elves where elf-human relationships become common you’d have discourse about whether it’s unethical to pursue a human in your first century because your life with them basically functions as like, training wheels for the rest of your life. like regardless of whether or not it’s true, i bet there’d be a common feeling that elves who do that and then end up with another elf later are basically just using the human’s whole lifespan for character development and then moving on to a longer-term relationship they actually have to take seriously. and then there’d be a reaction that’s like how are those marriages less ethical than a centuries-old elf getting with a human with vastly less life experience, and also obviously in the first example it’s actually the human who’s problematic for being more relatively mature than the elf

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