#But the creativity to do THIS with it?? absolutely insane

[yandere-daydreams]

saying "i love the way you write" and then suggesting that the writer's works be fed to a machine which will try to simulate the style of the writing on the principle of defining the word combinations the writer likes to use (no understanding of the text it produces, no intelligence which would make comprehending the meaning behind those word choices possible) is truly insane to me. they are either lying about loving the way you write or have absolutely no clue about ai. i'm not sure which is worse.

at best it's "i want something that looks like you even if it's not you" (how yandere of them). at worst it's "i will read anything the slop machine produces about my blorbo as long as i don't have to bother thinking on my own". sorry. i cannot stop thinking about that fucking ask. i am spinning it in my mind the way they should be mentally microwaving their blorbo.

generally i just don't think people are very familiar with creative writing as an art form. people can define a style and feel behind certain pieces of writing, but kind of lapse when it comes to acknowledging that style and feel as a deliberate by-product of a real person googling 'satisfaction synonym' for the three-hundredth time. on one hand, it's not something i think people can really be blamed for not interrogating, but on the other, i do think it signals back to a cultural delusion that art just kinda pops out of nowhere for no reason with no thought behind it. like not everything is just a straight-forward representation of real life made to be pretty and nothing else. sometimes we do be thinking about things, tragically.

[selemina]

He's about to board his opponent for a heart to heart, litterally!

We love a Gildedguy that does not fuck around! :D

[catstar91]

Ok phandom peeps, I need to get something off my chest. I cannot stop thinking about it, it’s so funny that this happened to me!

So I’ve been casually perusing the DP fandom for a while, right? Like for several years at least! What can I say? I like art! So at various points I had talked to my aunt about some stuff related, like fun stuff about the phandom and the existence of ghost king aus and stuff. Recently though, I found a fanfic that I spent AN ENTIRE DAY reading and doing nothing else! Like I stayed up late the night before, woke up to immediately read more! I don’t normally read fanfics, let alone any long form story, cuz my attention span is shit and has been shit basically all my life! So in the evening when I was a good chunk of the way through the fic, I talked to my aunt about it! Cuz it’s funny! I found a lot of things in it very amusing and wanted to share!

And then she asked for a link…

The next thing I know, within a few months, probably 3 months later at most, my aunt starts telling me about phandom lore I had never even heard of before! She literally made an ao3 account!!! Guys I am floored! I’ve been idly watching from the shadows for so long, and then I accidentally get my aunt into the phandom and she starts telling me about a red duck candle that’s apparently been integral DPxDC lore for YEARS!

What have I DONE???

[thedrotter]

average minecraft gameplay of elementary school kids (+the og doodle of it I did like. months ago)

[katyspersonal]

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[corviiids]

jesus ive posted EIGHT (8??????) fics (/chapters) this year and FOUR of them were in june. happy pride?????

[br1ghtestlight]

kinda funny that the prize for winning a season of inanimate insanity is literally just the Responsibility of running a small business full-time with no employees and also you don't even get paid. like they're literally just spending their money to have MORE responsibility and do more work. why would anyone want that

but i guess its cute that they love each other so much that they're willing and even excited to get the opportunity to do that work for each other with NO benefits

[allthetropes]

OKAY, AO3 CHILDREN, GATHER ROUND

peek = verb = to take a look

peak = noun OR verb = the summit, to come to the highest point

pique = verb = to rouse

The boy peeked around the corner at the peak of the mountain, his interest piqued by the noise he was hearing. If I have to read one more fic that says something like "this will peek your interest" i'm gonna lose it

oh, that's another one

lose = verb = to fail or misplace [looz]

loose = adjective = baggy, not tight [loos]

and while I'm at it

affect = verb = to change

effect = noun = a change

blond = adj = male with yellow hair

blonde = adj = female with yellow hair

brunet = adj = male with brown hair

brunette = adj = female with brown hair

fiancé = adj = male betrothed

fiancée = adj = female betrothed

( yes all of those suck, blame the french )

revenge = noun = a victim gets their own back on the person that made them suffer

avenge = verb = back-pay is given to a bad person in the name of their victim but not by the victim themselves

desert = noun = large wasteland

dessert = noun = meal course, typically at the end of the meal, usually consisting of something sweet

breathe = verb = to inhale and exhale

breath = noun = the air that is inhaled or exhaled

bridal = adj = belonging to a woman on her wedding day

bridle = noun = tack for around a horse's head (can also sometimes be a verb meaning to restrict and lead somebody or something)

[bandzboy]

telling kpop stans to see idols as human is like talking to the biggest brick wall in existence

[puppppppppy]

save me old flipnote studio MVs.......

[essektheylyss]

What are the Midst appendices? I’ve been vaguely meaning to listen but that sounds super interesting conceptually

They're REALLY interesting! Basically later in the day after every new episode, Midst puts out some kind of found document(s), often related to the episode, but also sometimes not!

The range of these is pretty broad, from magazine covers to the contents of someone's desk to excerpts of textbooks on different aspects of the universe, so you get a really interesting set of perspectives on small aspects of the world, and the worldbuilding for Midst is utterly buckwild in the best way, so it's SO fun. (This week's was a public transit map, and I had some delightfully punctilious conversations about the weird nuances of how transit even works in that particular location.) There's weird stuff about megafauna! The timekeeping is wild! This society has its own version of Teen Vogue and Jonas Spahr is the sexiest man alive!

Midst is such a delight of a show because the attention to detail is painstaking and astounding and if you like lore and worldbuilding, it is really phenomenal and a master class. (Genuinely, I will keep saying it, but it makes me writhe with envy.)

Also, if you do listen, I gotta plug the episode coverage over on @encyclopediacr which now has all of the appendices linked on their episodes list (and in individual episodes' infoboxes)! Which is much easier than trying to sort through the hellscape that is the twitter feed.

[hechose]

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[soutsuji]

There's an English class on Golden Age detective fiction being offered next semester but the prerequisite for it is the intro to literary study class required for all English majors (which I haven't taken because I'm in a hard STEM major and don't have much time for electives, which means that I have to be really picky with my electives and only go for stuff I like AND doesn't have an awful workload) and also even if I did have that prereq, I wouldn't be able to take the class because it's at the same time as one of my major reqs. And also I'll be in two labs next semester and one of them is pure hell so like I literally don't have the time to take more than 13 credit hours (as tempting as it is to keep up my streak of taking 17-18 every semester even though it's been like really pretty bad for my social life and hobbies). Sigh. (Pressing my hand wistfully against the glass) maybe someday they'll offer the class again

[cleargreyskies]

7 months, 7 days, and I have finished campaign 2 of Critical Role.

[raplinesmoon]

i think the thing that no one tells you about being forced into being a high achieving child/teen is how much it comes to fuck you over later in life when you can’t do anything without holding yourself to an insane level of perfectionism and then you realize it’s basically leeched all the fun out of any hobbies you created for yourself and left you with a shell of a personality

[jvzebel-x]

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