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@graphicsoda82

Chubby F/o headcanons are the best <33

reblog if agree

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I’ve been silent for too long and can no longer bear to keep this inside: @alvaeris is a good person and deserves many good things.

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@alvaeris

I’ve been silent for too long and can no longer bear to keep this inside: @alvaeris is a good person and deserves many good things.

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Maneater from Lethal Company

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Shifting Quiet Dump

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this is how some of y’all look and it’s so transparent…..

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you're absolutely right. Why do you think I'm on vc with you like 24/7? X)

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Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

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hey its me your immune system. looks like we caught somethin here. try sneezing real fast see if that gets rid of it. yeah no dice, huh... alright lemme try filling your lungs with fluid. no yeah i do it all the time dont worry works like a charm. hmmm... still no good... alright well just hold tight here for a minute maybe it just needs time to start working. in the mean time ill go fire up the ol' neuron cooker n see if that helps

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rb if feminine-presenting trans-masc people are valid

i want a close friend to know that theyre accepted

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@nes0kasa

"death do us part!" Incorrect. You are forever fucking stuck with me. You will never leave me. I will find you in every single lifetime.

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i was reading a 'dark romance' book that is SO OBVIOUSLY ragebait and it's so annoying

i'm doing a project on the effects of the evolution of the dark romance genre and its effects on the demographic of teenage girls with my friends for an official school thingy because this is a topic we could rant about for DAYS (negative) and so I am doing market research and oh my god its so bad literally WHO would find this attractive

i'm on chapter four and you know what has happened? the ml has raped the fmc like seven times already THERE IS NO PLOT ITS JUST FUCKING RAPE SCENE AFTER RAPE SCENE LIKE HELLO

what happened to real dark romance. what happened to tragedy and betrayal and actual angst WHY IS DARK ROMANCE JUST AN UMBRELLA FOR BOOKS THAT ROMANTICISE RAPE MISOGYNY AND ABUSE NOW

AND WHY ARE THEY BEING MARKETED AS 'steamy emotional love stories' TO TEENAGERS WHAT THE FUCK

i just KNOW that they're all being written by sexually repressed middle aged women

ITS SO FUCKING IRRITATING THEY TRY SOOOO HARD TO BREAK SEXIST STEREOTYPES AND END UP PROPAGATING THEM INSTEAD

THE WRITING ISN'T EVEN GOOD. HOW THE HELL DID THESE BOOKS GET PUBLISHED

AND WHY DO PEOPLE ON TIKTOK RAVE ABOUT THEM LIKE IT'S ANYTHING SPECIAL

BECAUSE IT'S NOT!!!!!! IT'S ALL THE SAME COOKIE CUTTER NONEXISTENT PLOT WITH THE SAME HORRIBLE BADLY WRITTEN SMUT AND TEN THOUSAND SEX SCENES

okay i'm going to stop now i got to my station

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I WISH IT HAD ALL BEEN DIFFERENT!!!!!

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An attempt in redesigning Hermes..also a commission! Sorry for the quality (again)