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Superman 1978 | dir. Richard Donner

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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doesn't have to be a definitive or strongly held opinion, just which option seems preferable currently. also sorry for neglecting the people already married lol in that case obviously just pick what you did!

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Given that the Empire is, at this point, 16 years old at most; and that she was raised in an *Imperial* Kinder-block from age 3; and that the actress who plays her is *45*... how old is Dedra Meero supposed to be?

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Krypto the Superdog Superman 2025 | dir. James Gunn

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I guess a more general version of the point is that in the last 50-ish years, everyday language has borrowed more and more of both the terminology and structural features of technical language. This happens for a lot of reasons. But I think it's mostly not a good thing. For one, being abstract and technical is not actually very useful in the messy real world, where concepts are fuzzy and vague and most things of importance are not quantifiable. For another, if natural language borrows too much of the authority of science and the law, it might find that there's not enough left afterwards for science and the law to do what we need them to do.

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Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Supergirl (TV 2015) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lena Luthor/Winn Schott Jr. (background), Kara Zor-El/Mon-El, Alex Danvers/Maggie Sawyer, J'onn J'onzz/M'gann M'orzz, Kara Zor-El & Alex Danvers, Winn Schott Jr. & Kara Zor-El, Alex Danvers & Winn Schott Jr., James "Jimmy" Olsen & Winn Schott Jr., Kara Zor-El/James "Jimmy" Olsen (background), Alex Danvers & Mon-El, Alex Danvers & M'Gann M'orzz, Mon-El & James "Jimmy" Olsen Characters: Kara Zor-El, Alex Danvers, Maggie Sawyer, Winn Schott Jr., M'gann M'orzz, James "Jimmy" Olsen, Rudy Jones (Parasite), Mon-El (Supergirl TV 2015), J'onn J'onzz | Hank Henshaw Additional Tags: Slow Burn Winthor, slooooow, So slow you'll wonder if the gas is even lit, Borderline avant-garde, Karamel slower than canon, But still at a reasonable speed, Sanvers basically as canon, Winn's on the path to self-improvement, Everything else basically canon with minor changes, Daxam is not a slave culture in this story Series: Part 2 of A Winthor Romance in Three Acts Summary:

“I am better at this kind of stuff than anyone else you will ever meet!”

Winn had never said anything like it out loud before. He wasn't even sure he'd really ever even thought it before. But he knew for a fact it was true.

A pair of malachite-green eyes had told him so.

There's a slew of mysterious deaths surrounding the survivor of an attack at an Arctic research station; Alex comes out to Kara; Kara and Mon-El fight over his new job; and Winn finishes off the project he's working on for James.

An alternate take on episode 2x06, Changes

This week:

 - a different take on the Mon-El kidnapping

 - and Kara POV on the scene in Alex’s apartment - and Kara has other things on her mind...

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Supergirl (TV 2015), Leverage (US TV 2008) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cat Grant & Winn Schott Jr., Kara Danvers & Winn Schott Jr., James “Jimmy” Olsen & Winn Schott Jr., Alex Danvers & Winn Schott Jr. Characters: Winn Schott Jr., Kara Danvers, James “Jimmy” Olsen, Alex Danvers, J'onn J'onzz | Hank Henshaw, Cat Grant, Lucy Lane, Maxwell Lord, Winslow Schott Sr., Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Parker (Leverage), Alec Hardison, Sophie Devereaux (Leverage), Nathan Ford Additional Tags: Foster Mom Cat Grant, Past Child Abuse, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt Winn Schott Jr., Canon Compliant, Sort Of Series: Part 3 of We can start over, better… Summary:

AUs of episodes from the how ‘bout a change of scene universe.

Episode 10 (AU): Leverage team saves Winn

The team had seen a lot and they remembered every case they’d taken, but some stuck out to Eliot. Some for good reasons, some for not so good reasons, and always if there was a kid involved. He made sure to check in on them every once in a while, and he knew Hardison and Parker did too.

Winn’s case was no different.

 1st AU for this series is up!!!! Hope you guys like it!!

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i used to run a Winn Discord a few years ago. if i brought it (or a tumblr community) back would people be keen?

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Humans are unstoppable...Until they aren’t.

I’m not the most eloquent writer, but I’ve had this idea kicking around for a while and figured I’d put it out into the universe.

A lot of the basis for the “humans are space orcs” stuff is the idea that we’re pretty durable compared to many species, yeah? When it comes to physical trauma, we can bounce back from most things that don’t kill us outright, especially given the benefit of hypothetical space-age technology, and adrenaline is one heck of a drug when it comes to functioning under stress. 

But that doesn’t make us unkillable, and even though we can survive debilitating injuries and not die from shock, it doesn’t mean it’s fun. Dying of shock sucks, but at least it’s probably quick.

So - Imagine a ship, adrift in space, slowly being drawn into a star or something. In order to save the ship, someone has to repair the hyper-quantum-relay-majig on the hull or in the engine or whatever. Bit of a problem though- there’s a ton of deadly, deadly radiation (Wrath of Khan style) or poisonous fumes or, I dunno, electrical current, between the crew and the repair. Like, enough to kill most species instantly, so the crew is just like, ‘welp, guess we’ll die then’. But then.

BUT THEN

They ask the human. Because everyone’s heard the stories - you’re basically unkillable, right? Could you survive long enough in there to fix it? And their human goes real quiet for a second, but still says ‘Yeah, I could fix it’. And the rest of the crew is like, ‘Whaaaaaa, it won’t kill you?’ and the human repeats “I can fix it” (which isn’t an answer, but no one catches that, not yet at least), so they send ‘em in. And the human fixes it, they come back, the ship flies to safety, and the crew is thrilled to survive. If the human is a little quiet, well, they’re entitled after pulling off a miracle. Everyone else is just excited to get to the nearest station’s bar to tell their very own human story, cuz, ‘those crazy humans, amiright?’.

The good mood keeps up until the human is late for their next shift. At first it’s just faint unease, but- but they earned a bit of a lie-in, right? No reason to begrudge them some extra rest, even if it is a little weird for them to oversleep. They’ll be fine. Humans are always fine. 

(Right?)

(…Wrong.)

- What is… help. Help!-

- ake up! You have t-

- been days. You need sleep, you-

- nother transfusion. We could-

- out of sedatives!-

A week later, the crew finally reaches the station. They stumble into the bar, haggard and haunted. And over the next months and years a new rumor about humans starts to make its way through space. A rumor unlike any before.

‘Be careful with your humans’ it whispers. ‘Their strength is not always a blessing. Be sure they don’t do something they can’t come back from, because when a human dies… they die slowly.’

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man, The Character really strikes me as someone who would struggle with Same Problems I Have, for no apparent reason

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Okay, so how much did Kryptonians piss *everyone* off that they had to send their aristocratic kids to a planet of primitive apes and not some friendly contemporaries?

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She can't really do jumps without a run-up

Did not engage with yet another 'academic' post about masculinity that operates solely on its own internal logic designed specifically to piss me off, so, DOG:

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Did not engage with yet another 'academic' post about masculinity that operates solely on its own internal logic designed specifically to piss me off, so, DOG:

(We're going camping, the pen is for security)