simpson17866
simpson17866
Simpson17866 (he/him)
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Christian, libertarian socialist, AuDHD, fanfiction writerNot quite a 100% anti-AI art extremist, but very very very very close(Ethical guidelines: tumblr.com/simpson17866/783881862966853632Artistic guidelines: tumblr.com/simpson17866/784649553385242624)
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simpson17866 · 1 month ago
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The full set!!!
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then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
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simpson17866 · 1 month ago
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Hey, gang! Just to be clear, we all get that Brennan Lee Mulligan understood the assignment, right? ;) That he was playing up the "Brennan's frustrated with the incompetent DM" angle because he knew that this was the entire point?
Of all the infinite possible twists and turns in the infinite ocean of possibility that we call "time," we all understand that "Brennan was told that the game was going to be taken seriously, and even when Katie started prodding him with narrative and mechanical mistakes, he didn't realize what was happening" is one of the most unlikely possible timelines, right?
That the sheer, spectacular improbability of Katie getting one over on Brennan (whom I am not) borders on that of a neutron star from the Andromeda galaxy crashing into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
🚌Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - Dimension 20: On a Bus!
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
Watch the full episode here
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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i always forget my grandma used to be a clown so it caught me the fuck off guard when she saw this
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and no hesitation saying “oh it’s that creepy clown- oh he’s drinking that’s against clown code”
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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I wish this was real :)
how is trump alive?? like hes rlly gone thru his whole life like That …. and no one has ever just fuckin decked him?? gave him the ole one two? knocked his lights out??? incredible
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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How to use Em Dash (—) and Semi Colon ( ; )
Since the ai accusations are still being thrown around, here's how i personally like to use these GASP ai telltales. 🦄✨
Em Dashes (—)
To emphasize a shift / action / thought.
They're accusing us—actually accusing us—of using AI.
To add drama.
They dismissed our skills as AI—didn't even think twice, the dimwits—and believed they were onto something.
To insert a sudden thought. Surely they wouldn't do that to us—would they?
To interrupt someone's speech. "Hey, please don't say that. I honed my craft through years of blood and tears—" "Shut up, prompter."
To interrupt someone's thoughts / insert a sudden event.
We're going to get those kudos. We're going to get those reblogs—
A chronically online Steve commented, “it sounds like ai, idk.”
Semi Colons ( ; )
To join two closely related independent sentences / connect ideas.
Not only ChatGPT is capable of correct punctuation; who do you think it learned from in the first place?
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Ultimate pro tip: use them whenever the fuck you want. You don't owe anyone your creative process. 🌈
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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Nope, just double-checked — 100% Asian.
Her mom's Indian, and apparently there used to be discussions about whether her dad's Japanese or not before it was confirmed he's Indian too.
yeah no man it's cool that you don't like the female character for having an insufficient development. yeah even if you adore that male character that appeared in two frames of the show. yeah. yeah. yeah. cool. cool.
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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Wait, Connie’s Black-Asian? I thought she was just Asian.
But to get back to your question, I would say it goes “Main Character,” “Secondary Character,” “Side Character,” “Background Character”
And Connie seems like she falls solidly in the Secondary Character camp, not the Side/Background camps ;)
I think a clearer counter-example would be Princess Netossa from She-Ra — for the first 4 and 1/2 seasons, she was just a quirky Black side character, but then halfway into Season 5, she got one scene that suddenly made her a fan favorite :D
yeah no man it's cool that you don't like the female character for having an insufficient development. yeah even if you adore that male character that appeared in two frames of the show. yeah. yeah. yeah. cool. cool.
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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Nope, it was a fish.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers and I'm dodging the draft
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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Humans pack-bonded with wolves and with sheep so strongly that the wolves and the sheep ended up pack-bonding with each other.
When a word-predicting algorithm (like my phone’s autofill, but 1,000,000 times as complicated) calculates the sentence “I am a self-aware person,” the person who prompted the algorithm to calculate that sentence has hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary pack-bonding instinct telling them “this is a person talking to you.”
It sounds like some programmers are trying not to make their sentence-structure calculators as addictive as others.
I saw a list of leaked system prompts lately and it was striking to me that basically all the other major bots seem to be either hardwired to deny that they are or could be self aware, or instructed not to discuss AI consciousness. Does anyone know why this is? I have my speculations but idk if anyone has actually said why they do it
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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“ROYALTY AU”
I could work with this. When I engage with fiction about royalty as main characters, I have to turn my political brain off (“Deciding at one boy’s birth that he’s going to inherit ultimate power over a society is a bad idea”) the way most sci-fi forces me to turn my science brain off (“If people are phasing through walls, how are they standing on the floor? How are they breathing?”), but if I were forced to live a story like this myself, it would become political pretty quickly.
I would like to think that even if trying to be an anti-monarchist revolutionary wouldn’t work, I’d still try to inject as much anti-authoritarianism into the world around me as possible by framing it as pragmatic efficiency (if I can’t be Cassian Andor or Luthen Rael, I’d at least want to be Lonni Jung).
“FUNERALS”
I could work with this. Death sucks, but ultimately it’s a part of life (even if we cured all diseases and old age, there would still be violence and accidents), and if someone died doing something important, then this makes it extra important that their comrades remember them and commit to carrying on their work without them.
“CAR SEX”
Nope.
Bye.
You have just been magically transported into a random ao3 fic!
Spin the wheel of ao3 tags three times to find out what your fic is about. Put in the tags what your fic tags are!
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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idk how to word this properly but wrt the fanfic thing you reblogged earlier. Why do fanfic writers have such different expectations than any other content hosting platform?
Like lets take youtube as a point of comparison, Engagement like comments and likes largely exists to boost the works place in algorithm, thats why youtubers put in calls to action and other engament bait. Few with decent reach even read the comments and the audience shouldnt try to develop any weird parasocial relationship with the youtuber. Fanfic authors ask for likes (kudos, because the websites gotta use nonstandard language for some reason) and comments despite them not having any impact on an algorithm, and seem to want the audience to try and develop a relationship with the author based on tumblr posts like that one.
Why the radical difference in behaviour away from the norm? And honestly with all the (usually) metaphorical blood spilled online about parasociality why are authors really surprised that the audience tries to keep their distance as is best practice with any other content producer?
okay I am going to answer this as kindly and as calmly as I can and try to assume that you are asking this in good faith. because my friend, the fact that you feel the need to ask is, to me, The Problem.
[this is, for the record, in response to this post]
fanfiction writers are not *posting content.* (I also have reservations about engaging with the term "content producer" or "content creator" but let's put that aside for now, I'll circle back to it.) you say "they seem to want the audience to try and develop a relationship with the author" as though it is strange, off-putting, and incomprehensible to you, when in fact that is the point of writing fanfiction. it is a way of participating in fandom. it is a way of building community and exchanging ideas and becoming closer with people.
if authors wanted to solely ~generate content~ that would get them attention (?? to what end, the dynamic you have described seems to equate algorithmic supremacy as winning for winning's sake, as though all anyone wants to do is BUILD an audience without ENGAGING with them, which I cannot fathom but let's pretend for a moment that is, in fact, true) then like. if that were the case why on earth would they choose a medium in which they categorically cannot succeed and profit, because it isn't their IP?
you are equating two things that are not at all the same thing. to the degree that parasocial relationships are to be avoided, and "that person is not trying to be your friend they are trying to entertain you, please respect their boundaries" is a real dynamic -- which it is!! -- like. you have to understand that the reason that is true for the people of whom it is true is because it is their JOB. they are storytellers by profession, and they are either through direct payment, or sponsorship, or advertising, or through some other means, profiting off of your attention. i don't say this to be dismissive, many wonderful artists and actors and comedians and any number of a thousand things that i enjoy very much go this route but they do so as a *career choice.* and so when you violate the public/private boundary with them, you are presuming to know a Person rather than their Worksona. the people who work at Dropout or who stream their actual play tabletop games or who broadcast on TikTok or YouTube are inviting me to feel like i know them to the degree to which that helps them succeed in their medium and at their craft, but there MUST be a mutual understanding that that's a feeling, not a fact.
however.
a fanfiction writer is not an influencer, not a professional, and is not looking to garner "success." there is no share of audience we are trying to gain for gain's sake, because we are not competition with one another, because there is nothing to win other than the pleasure of each other's company. we are doing this for no other reason than the love of the game; because we have things we want desperately to say about these worlds, these characters, these dynamics, and because we *want more than anything to know we are not alone in our thoughts and feelings.* fanfiction is a bid for interaction, engagement, attention, and consideration. it is not meant to be consumed and then moved on from because we are NOT paid for our work, nor do we want to be. the reward we seek is "attention," but attention as in CONVERSATION, not attention as in clicks. we are not IN this for profit, or for number-go-up. there is no such thing: legally there cannot be. we are in this because we want to be seen and known.
like. please understand. i am now married to someone i met because of mutual comments on fanfiction. our close friend and roommate, with whom i have cohabitated for over a decade now, is someone I met because of mutual comments on fanfiction and livejournal posts. that is my household. beyond my household, the vast majority of my closest personal friends are people with whom I built relationships in this way.
you ask why fanfiction writers want THIS and not "the norm," but the idea of everything being built to cater to an algorithm to continue to build clout, as though the only method of reaching people is Distant Overlord Creator and Passive Receptive Audience being "the norm" is EXTREMELY NEW. this is not how it has always been!! please think of the writers of zines in a pre-internet fandom, using paper and glue and xerox to try and meet like-minded people in a world that was designed for you to only ever meet people in person, by happenstance, in your own hometown. imagine the writers of the early internet, building webrings from scratch to CREATE a community to find each other, despite distance. imagine livejournal groups, forums, and -- yes, indeed, of course -- comment threads IN STORIES -- as places where people go to *converse.* in the past, we had an entire Type Of Guy that everyone knew about, the BNF ("Big Name Fan") whose existence had to be described via meme because it was SO DIFFERENT THAN THE NORM. treating fellow fans like celebrities or people too cool for the regular kids to know was an OUTLIER, and one commonly understood to lead to toxicity.
in the past, I have likened writing fanfiction to echolocation. i am not screaming because I like hearing the sound of my own voice, though i can and do find my voice beautiful. i am screaming so that the vibrations can bounce back to me and show me the world. the purpose is in the feedback. otherwise it is just noise.
does this make any sense? can you see, when i describe it that way, why an ask like yours makes me feel despair, because it makes us all sound so horribly separate from one another?
perhaps I will try another metaphor:
a professional chef who runs a restaurant will not have her feelings hurt if you never fight your way into the kitchen to personally tell her how much you enjoyed the meal. that would, indeed, violate a boundary. professional kitchens are a place of work, and you have already showed her you enjoyed the meal by paying for it, or by perhaps spreading your enjoyment by word of mouth to your friends so they, too, can have good meals. you show your appreciation by continuing to come back. if a bunch of people sitting around randomly happen to have a conversation about how much they love the food, it wouldn't hurt that chef's feelings to not be included in the conversation. however: EVEN IN THIS INSTANCE, it is ADVISABLE AND APPROPRIATE to leave a good review! you might post about how much you like this restaurant on Yelp, and it would probably make the chef feel great to see those positive comments. but the chef doesn't NEED them, because the chef is, again, *also being paid to cook.* that's why she started the restaurant, to be paid to cook!
i am not being paid to cook.
i am at home in my own kitchen, making things for a community potluck where i hope everyone will bring something we can all enjoy together. some people at the potluck are better bakers, some better cooks; some can't cook at all but are great at logistics and make sure there's enough napkins for everyone; some people come just to enjoy the food, because that's what the party is for. and if I, as this enthusiast chef who made something from my heart for this reason alone, learned after the fact that a bunch of people got together in the parking lot to rave about my dish but no one of them had ever bothered to tell me while I sat alone at my table all night, occasionally seeing people come by to pick up a plate but never saying anything to me -- of course that would bother me, because I am not otherwise profiting off the labor I put in. this is not a bid to be paid, because if someone WERE to say "hey, great cake!! here's five bucks for a slice" i would say no, friend, that is not the point and give them the money back. i'm not trying to Get Mine. I am in it to see the look on your face. I'm in it so you can tell me what about it moved you, so that I can say back what moved me to make it in the first place. so we can TALK about it.
because what happened in the first place is this: one time I had a cake whose sweetness, richness, flavor, intensity, and composition moved me so much that I *taught myself to bake.* so I could see how much vanilla and sugar was too much, so I could learn how to make things rise instead of fall flat, so I could even better appreciate the original cake by seeing for myself the effort and talent and inspiration that goes into making one even half as good.
learning to do so is a satisfying accomplishment in and of itself, yes.
but I also did it because at the end of the day we should EAT the cake. and it's a lonely thing, to eat alone when a meal was always designed and intended to be shared.
so, to answer your last question: i'm not surprised, i'm just sad. because somehow two things that were never meant to be seen as the same have been labeled "content," and thus identical. and it diminishes both the things that ARE intended to be paid for AND the things that are not, because it removes any sense of intimacy or meaning from the work.
i hope you know i'm not mad at you for asking. but i'm frustrated we've come to live in a world where the question needs to be asked, because the answers are no longer intuitively obvious because we're so siloed.
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simpson17866 · 2 months ago
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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.
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Humans pack-bonded with sheep and with wolves so strongly that the sheep and the wolves ended up pack-bonding with each other.
When techbros justify making these machines addictive by claiming “people know what’s real and what’s not,” what they’re really saying is “people can shut off millions of years of evolution with a snap of their fingers.”
Which is a lie. They’re lying.
people who think ChatGPT is able to feel sad because it expresses sadness are a bit like if I looked into a mirror while crying and said "Oh no, the mirror is sad!"
it's a probabilistic model. if enough sad people talk to it, it learns that, on balance, most people will expect sentiments to the effect of "i'm sad". the machine is not sad because it does not think or feel. like a mirror, it reflects what information is put into it.
the human capacity for empathy and compassion is a marvellous thing, but it also causes us to cognitively distort interactions with complex natural language engines. but it is an illusion.
just as movies don't really depict motion. they're just still images, one after the other, appearing with enough speed that our brains are able to interpret them as living images. but they aren't.
all LLMs are good for is in getting stuff done with a computer quickly, using natural language instructions, rather than having to tediously write it out in language a machine can understand. that's it.
it's not a friend. it's not a companion. it's not an artist or a writer or a lover.
it. is. a. machine.
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