#Rant over lol)

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

also, this is probably a stupid complaint, but i hate that spop pushes the idea of “cats are mean and aggressive, it's in their nature”.

as someone who has raised a LOT of cats in their lifetime, i need y'all to understand that cats aren't inherently mean. they value their boundaries (like any human being. shocker!) but once you gain their trust, they are some of the most compassionate and empathetic creatures you can come across.

[sinfulblondebimbo]

This is a personal post, but feel as if this is also my safe space…

Farm work is not for the faint of heart.

Being the farmer’s daughter who is wanting to take a different approach to the brand and ranch, but having a family full of stubborn men is not for the faint of heart.

If you ate today, thank a farmer.

If you have clothes, blankets, and other fabrics, thank a farmer.

I have literally worked non stop around the clock today from having a breeched calf, to having half of one of the fields not wanting to produce any crops… which is a HUGE hit to our money factor.

[illegiblehandwriting1]

fyi i swear something's going on w/ legend, neither he nor wars are emotionless i promise, they're both just mentally ill but in different ways. leg sees problem. ignores feelings. fixes problem. (can't fix the problem.) wars sees problem. saw problem wrong. realizes what he did. wants to take it back. (can't take it back.) Also if y'all are disappointed about their arcs, sorry? i guess? point isn't them though, the point is that it's an aftermath story. If i can stuff in more bonus themes within the theme then that's a huge plus (emotionally repressed explorer leg, wwI vet wars yeet)

anyhoo bear with me, Things are Happening. Setup is occurring. and Hylia fans I swear I won't insult her forever, she's actually pretty chill.

writing hard. halp

[doccywhomst]

genuine question, how do you feel about the timeless child concept as, like, a long term writing decision? (i think it was fun in concept at the time of watching, but the more i think on it, the less i feel like i like it as a longstanding writing decision? if that makes sense :[ regardless, i'm more curious on how others into the series feel on it)

my opinion on TTC changed wildly from start to finish. i was super excited at first because i thought it would take the show in a brand new direction, away from Gallifrey and towards the Doctor's mysterious new origins, but it actually did the opposite. we never got answers - just lots of vague drama about Gallifrey. woohoo. 🎉

it feels like RTD is about to steamroll all of that lore as well, and to be honest, i think he should. imo, it was a failed attempt to bring new mystery to an old character, and it sent everyone on a pointless wild goose chase.

i was excited for a story arc to finally GO somewhere (*cough* name of the doctor, the hybrid *cough*), but alas... yet another dead end. why does every recent addition to the doctor's character feel hopelessly inconsequential??? i think TTC was a bad writing choice because it had nothing to say, and thus predictably went nowhere.

(i get it: this is a show about change and nebulous time travel shenanigans, and the doctor has many simultaneous timelines, so nothing can be set in stone - but i'm getting a bit tired of chasing geese set loose by mediocre showrunners.)

[keepfight1n]

thinking about how neil said that joel wouldn't have avenged ellie if the tables were turned in tlou2 and how i disrespectfully disagree

[smol-lizord]

I really hate how major forms of communication wind up becoming overridden with scams and advertisements. Like it was all the scam phone calls to start, and now most people including myself we won’t even dare to pick up for numbers we don’t recognize. Then emails! Nope, corporations need to send us like 20 advertisements a day even if you opt out of them they still find some sort of way to get through. Heck there’s been times where I’ve BLOCKED emails and adverts from them still wind up in my inbox. How about texts? It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even open that app most the time because I’m just absolutely bombarded with bank scam texts and again more advertisements I didn’t sign up for. I’ve missed texts from friends because the were buried in the sea of scam texts. Even on messaging apps and social media like 99% of the time the messages are from bots trying to steal your info. I needed to rant about this, it literally kills me. I want to communicate with people I know and care about but the things that are supposed to help with that are overridden by advertisements and scams

[todaysromano]

10.28.2023

Today, Romano showed up to America's Halloween party dressed in one of his old military uniforms from the late risorgimento period. He had, of course, been in Rome until it was finally captured in 1870.

Romano's outfit definitely turned the heads of some of the other countries that had fought in this war including France, Austria, and Prussia, but Italy definitely noticed the outfit as well. Fortunately, enough time (and other wars) had passed since the risorgimento that wounds had healed between the nations and no new fights broke out. It helped that Romano was the losing party and the one to bring up the topic.

The worst part of the party was that one too many nations had a bit too much to drink and a small fight broke out about who had the best costume.

[no-passaran]

It doesn't matter how much you post about transgression and being proud to be weird and queer as in fuck you and going against society's expected behaviours if you then turn around to ridicule and infantilize the people who diverge in other ways that aren't the same ones as yours or the couple more that internet discourse has made you care about.

I'm saying this because of a poll going around in my dash (won't link because it's not a matter of these people in particular, it's much more widespread) asking people if they've taken a certain drug and people commenting different variations of 'why has this poll only reached children' or not believing the results when they see that most of the voters say no. I assure you most people (specially young people) who don't like the things that are expected of them like going out on clubs and drinking alcohol and doing some of the popular drugs of their subculture are already getting enough shit for it and don't need any more people trying to shame them into following the majority or telling them they're children for doing what they choose and not what others think is the Correct and Appropriate Hobby for this age group/demographic.

I never see this term in English-speaking internet but Latin American activism often talks of the 'right to the free development of personality'. Maybe it needs to go viral before many people really take it into account and get rid of the ideas that their hobbies, their interests and their way of living are the only correct ones and everyone else has something wrong with them or hasn't grown up, because clearly you can't be a healthy adult and not be just like them. There are always going to be people who like different things on Earth, and we can only get used to it.

[everoutoftouch]

Nana x Hachi (Bodyguard by Beyoncé)

[sharplimeade]

I feel like the reason marichat was really popular was because both Marinette and chat noir were their best selves when they were together. Like I feel like the being ladybug puts a gigantic weight on Marinette, who is already pretty anxious and Adrien has such a constricting schedule and daily life that he only feels like himself when he's chat noir and they're also both best friends so they already feel comfortable with each other but if you add their true personalities in the mix they really just combine so well in this Ted talk I wil

[beachyserasims]

In the evening I just get obsessed with my projects.. like throughout the day I'm totally fine if something comes up and I can't get to it but when the moon comes out... it's like an insatiable need to work on it and if i cant then i feel like a wost wittle puppy 😫

[goldenflurry]

I’m very much experimenting with how to draw these guys

[fandomfluffandfuck]

Oh. my. fucking. god. you guys. My next term of college starts tomorrow and I'm having So Many problems with my tuition billing. The amount of stress I have over it is Unmatched 😅

[tabl3]

currently experimenting on Tasha's new design

[deesi-academia]

omg people who constantly ask for kaam i get u dont worry. IGNORE MAARO GOOD. GIRLBOSS

They make me want to commit no body no crime even in broad daylight next to a police station

[ariel-gremlinzkeep]

This right here is the thing.

When people were blowing up sharing the "get your art/writing off ex-twitter" a lil bit ago they were met w/ a lot of people (correctly) pointing out the first parts of the TOS. The bit about them being allowed to distribute your posts w/o risk of copyright against them.

Yeah. That was standard. Worded a bit freaky imo, but standard enough.

It's *this* that was the main issue. The legalese for feeding your creative works into the AI generating machine.

It was pointed out by some that it is more akin to an advancement in the algorithm to cater posts & ads to you in a more personal way.

While yeah. Maybe that is true. It will def be an at first thing. Ain't no way it will *stay* that way. It'll ever so slowly slip into feeding the AI generated image/writing/voice algorithms. It *will* end up being plagiarism & in some cases it's essentially theft of identity when talking the deep fakes & the voice ones.

Do I think more sites will adopt this policy?

Yeah. I am sure they will. They will make money off of it.

Do I think we should still make a fuss & stink & remove ourselves before we are fed into the ever churning mill of gnashing digital teeth that is AI generated art/voices/writing?

Also yes.

While I can totally understand the appeal of using AI generation for INSPIRATION on a personal level. Hell. Even a small business level. *But* the big fat cats will use it in nefarious ways.

They will use it to replace the script writers. The Novelists. The background artists. The animators. The logo/marketing artists. The promo artists. The character designers. The voice actors. The singers. The songwriters. The FUCKIN DEAD in the case of deep fake shit. & so many more.

This tool that should have been just that. Another tool to be used to aid the Creative. Will be used by the industry to choke the life out of the Creative.

It is heartbreaking.

It is sooooo important right now to not support it. Especially with the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes right now. Their lives are already being ruined by this shit.

Don't feed the machine. It don't matter if it's an indie Creative or a big bucks Creative. Just don't do it. Please. Maybe the tool can be used again for its (being optimistic here) original intent as an aid tool, but right now it's not good.

AI generators shouldn't be permitted to replace Creatives.

Period.

Heads up for artists - Twitter has updated their privacy policy to enable any and all tweets to be used to train AI models.

If you have your art on there you may want to take it down before it comes into effect on September 29th