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world’s most annoying person: AI is going to destroy the world. one chatgpt query causes one nuclear bomb explosion and nobody is sentient anymore because of too much AI

me: i don’t think that is true

other most annoying person: buy my new AI cryptocurrency printer

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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reblog this if you're okay with booping spams please !!

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how it feels to be online these days

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please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please

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Leon is the typa man to be voiced by a woman

Alex is the typa woman to be voiced by a man

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did a little... heh... redesign... just a glimpse into my dark reality...

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FUCK IT for all the posts i've seen of people talking about how they want more asks everyone is still too shy to send them: so HERE

by reblogging this you are asking people to send you asks, silly cat photos, memes, oc infodumps, random headcanons, wips, questions about your ocs and faves, or litterally just saying 'hi'

I will personally be visiting the inboxes of my moots/followers who reblog this, I have quite the hamster photo collection in need of sharing

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that's illegal I will not

Doing one of these but with my mutuals after seeing this image on my dash today!!

..Y'know he may be the god of war but.. I'm not mad. No, no not at all. :)

@xxgalacticambitionsxx @hatbox-apologist @ghostingyourass79 @kittieshauntedourfantasy @emerald194 @thatonerabbit @comical-icicle

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Reblog if you want a bunch of “have you evers” and “would you rathers” in your ask box right now.

Please

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vers w/o text below btw if you try to give me your stupid opinions on personality disorders i will kill block you

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"But narcissist wasn't always a diagnosis. It used to be just a word."

Yeah. So was "cr*pple". It used to be just a word. But then it became a slur against physically disabled people.

And in both cases, there are many other words you can use. There's no possible way that you absolutely must use that one specific word.

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Can you please draw more green eyed girlfailure animatronic duo pretty please they need to be besties rn it's a vision I hope you understand

literally perfect timing i’m watching pizza sim rn!

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🎉🎉IT'S ZOOBLE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉

Bonus:

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