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A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

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please bring back 2014 indie pop (i could care less that a few of these songs were pre or post the 2014 era if the song fits it fits)

cecelia and the satellite by andrew mcmahon in the wilderness

i wanna get better by bleachers

cigarette daydreams by cage the elephant

ways to go by grouplove

girls by the 1975

miracle mile by cold war kids

take a walk by passion pit

little talks by of monsters and men

tongue tied by grouplove

midnight city by m83

undercover martyn by two door cinema club

i can talk by two door cinema club

young blood by the naked and famous

kids by mgmt

1901 by phoenix

young folks by peter bjorn and john

daylight by matt & kim

animal by neon trees

stolen dance by milky chance

out of my league by fitz and the tantrums

talk too much by coin

greek tragedy by the wombats

chocolate by the 1975

anna sun by walk the moon

everybody talks by neon trees

what you know by two door cinema club

dancing on glass by st lucia

FEEL FREE TO READ THE PART AT THE TOP WHERE I SAY ITS NOT ALL FROM 2014 THANKS!

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Chainsaw Man Cinema

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lesbian velma is canon (+ more of her being a disaster gay)

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—about god

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she’s a 10 but the sleepiest woman to have ever lived

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toxic/cheater eren x weak/forgiving reader is the worst troupe you could ever think of n almost every eren fanfic is like that .

actually scratch that , it’s not just eren fanfics it’s literally any fanfic u could think of

i hate it so much they could call her all type of names n hurt her yet she’s the one apologizing first

like let’s switch the roles n be creative or sumn

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This expression meme is gold.

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“x ship is normalizing incest-”

Buddy

If game of thrones hasn’t normalized incest by now (pulling over 10 million views in the 7th season alone) then a small fandom ship most certainly won’t

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fucking raw in fanfiction is fun and all but we all know to practice safe sex, right? WE KNOW THIS, RIGHT????

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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Calling for a general strike on Wednesday, June 1st, 2022, lasting until our rights are secure. If you're human, don't go to work. Refuse to work until the right to abortion is the law of this country.

Useless billionaires in this country make money off your work, they use that money to buy off the supreme court, they use that money to payroll anti-abortion laws across this country.

Stop up the money they use to do it.

Wednesday. Wednesday June 1st, 2022. Strike. Strike until your rights are safe.

Grind this country to a halt and keep it stopped until everyone is permanently equal before the law at a federal level, at a state level, at a local level.

Strike in your home life too. If your partner has come out of the woodwork supporting abortion bans, stop sleeping with them. Stop doing their dishes. Stop making food for them. Stop helping pay their bills. They don't give a damn about one of your fundamental rights and until they do you should not give a damn about them.

Tell people in your life why you are striking. Ask them to come with you in solidarity. Take this to facebook, take it to twitter, take it to tiktok, take it to IG, tell Jamila Jamil, everyone around you. Explain why it matters that women must be treated equally before the law at every level in the United States.

Strike.

Strike on June 1, 2022. It's a Wednesday, it's called "hump day" with wagging eyebrows and leering smiles by creeps at work. Strike.

I'll be posting some links for supporting local abortion rights funds tomorrow when there are more spoons in the drawer.

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trying to finish this gojo smut piece but I can’t stop thinking about rengoku’s thick ass thighs 😭

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Omg he's ITALIAN

Fuck, so I think my fanfic era is personally starting. This guy I've been crushing on, musician with tattoos, kinda emo, FUCKING LIKES ME. And get this. HE'S LIKED ME FOR A COUPLE YEARS, AND HAS FANTASIZED ABOUT TAKING ME AGAINST A CLASSROOM PIANO. I'm hyperventilating 🙈

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Ooh. Please please make more self-inserts. Not only is it fun you have no idea how much it can help you be kind to yourself. Have the hero of the franchise fall in love with you for what you think are your annoying quirks. Have the wisest man in that fictional world, tell others that your are the kindest and the smartest person he has ever met. Have the evil guy fall for you and revoke his evil ways cuz youre just that hot. Allow yourself to be loved by the fictional characters you look up to and in time you may also begin see how wonderful you really are.