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Art by Servane Altermatt

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“my bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea,”

are we talking about the same body of water here, which is weird, or different bodies of water, which is even weirder

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nobody freak out but im about to start generating some large translucent red circles upon the floor to indicate an incoming AOE attack

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and it is of course well known that dragons are very cutes

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Whales! I know this is kicking in an open door but folks, they are really fucking big

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If I don't stare at The Character for at least one hour a day, I start to wilt

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in a perfect world i never have to say a single word ever

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I’m going to preform medical malpractice on you cuz I love you

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oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

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im only a man when im a grown ass man and im only a woman when god forbid women do anything

any time other than that? im a fucking Echidna

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they should make a pill that makes people in their 20s feel good about where their lives are going

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thinking two characters have had sex does not equal shipping at all… i dont have to like it i just know it happened

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Hello little snake, I've come to enjoy your squirming

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Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me

sometimes you do just have to lie to children.

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pet cigarette

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The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.