#i don't create enough content to justify an instagram

[dissociationdude]

leafcrowns/luciiid/sockbois/dani

LEAFCROWNS ON DEVIANTART, CREATOR OF CLOCKWORK (Creepy Pasta) raped me in my grade nine year and sexually abused me for the remainder of the relationship. He was 2 years older than me.

A lot of people probably wonder why leafcrowns doesn't post as much anymore and assumably, it's because I have called him out now on several platforms for his sexual abuse. Initially when I posted this news, I posted it with my poetry project about it, and I only posted it to instagram, facebook, and deviantart. I also shared it with someone who I thought would be safe, and they turned out to be his roommate at the time. They both talked me into taking his name out of posts, but it was not because I wanted to, they made me feel like I had to. Dani attempted to take accountability for his actions but did nothing aside from justify what happened with his own abuse story. He saw what he did as wrong, but still tried to play things off like he didn't do any wrong to others after me, he didn't know that's what he was doing at the time, he was mentally ill, etc. So I did, initially take his username out of the posts, as I was confronted by LeafCrowns to do so, and manipulated into thinking he has grown, changed, and healed. After verifying what he said to me with other sources, including talking to another person he had abused similarly, I have realized he has not changed. I found out he had drawn FERAL pornography and sent it to a minor https://twitter.com/safomeART/status/1417941354110402561 and honestly that is just enough for me to put his name back onto posts.

LeafCrowns is a chronic manipulator and victim blamer. He will do anything to make himself seem like a victim in these scenarios, including me calling him out, evidently, as he tried to claim I was attempting to profit off of the abuse with making my poetry project available for a dollar. I had the paywall for safety reasons, to make sure my poetry doesn't get in the wrong hands.

I can't stand to see so many minors on this site worshipping him for creating Clockwork. I don't put it lightly when I say he is sexually coercive, manipulative, and uses healing as a front for everything he does. He wants to keep himself painted as a soft person, and I won't allow him to do so. He sexually abused me for 11 months of my adolescence, confronted me about this project apologizing and claiming he did no wrong to anyone but me, and lied to me to keep his image up. He is dangerous. Do not interact with him if you're under 18.

If you're interested, the project is here. I guess it's my proof. I also still have the conversations we had saved of him telling me to take his name out and just manipulating me.

TLDR; Daniel is an abusive piece of shit, you can like his characters, but make sure to keep in mind who's content you're enjoying.

[anonymousotherworld]

just watched the last 2 ep of pyramid game~~

here are my thoughts on the drama (mostly the finale). please feel free to share your thoughts here as well!

[content warning? mentions of abuse, stalking]

(this post contains spoilers: if you wish to avoid spoilers to the drama, don't keep reading)

like is suji the new class leader since doa got expelled? or did she transfer? the introduction is the same as when she first got transferred to the class.

this will be a little scattered and all over the place. I'm just typing as I think of things to say!

the ending?? the twins saying they want to play baek harin's game and then entering *the* class ?? sung suji introducing herself ?

I wonder if there will be a 2nd season or if this is just one of those dramas that end on a cliffhanger.

ngl at first I thought woori was yerim's stalker because of how much she checked yerim's instagram. I'm really proud of her though! the actress did such a good job portraying her character

and jang daah omg. her acting is so good! she portrayed baek harin's madness so well. justifying her actions by using the fact that she was bullied. hurt people really do hurt people. same as dayeon. she was abused and became abusive towards others. I'll be honest I don't feel bad for them though. just because you've experienced bad things, doesn't mean you have a free pass to be a bad person.

I really like that this was 10 episodes. the show was well paced! the plot twist at the end of every episode made me so addicted. if I started watching this after it had ended, i probably would have binged the show in one sitting.

although the craziest character in my opinion is the orphanage lady. the teacher(?) that created Pyramid Game & penalized literal children?? like how can you do that to kids?? telling yang soeun that she'll lose her blanket & blouse if she doesn't do well?? and not giving the kid enough food because she only got 1 question right?? that's abuse.

I really the convenient store guy/woori's brother. his constant reaffirmation that it's not the girls' fault that they got bullied. he was truly a mvp of the show.

[uncloseted]

1 Sorry but as an artist, part ofyour response to the ai art ask is disappointing. Ai art is not a tool for artist - it's a system built from stealing from artists to produce finished pieces. It's akin to asking for a screwdriver and someone handing you a fully built IKEA shelf. It's built to replace artists, not help them visualize anything. It is completely different to computer animating where that still requires artists to work and craft the animation. You don't just press a magic 'animate'

2 button and everything is done for you. The idea that ai art makes art more accessible is a trash take too. Art is one of the most accessible things out there. All you need is pen and paper. Sure you might not get the results you want, but art requires training. Art isn't a talent you're born with - it's something people train in for many years. It's like expecting I deserve a black belt in karate asap because I really like karate and think I'm entitled to short cut my way to it. There are

3 hundreds of amazing disabled artists out there who draw with their mouths or feet. Artists are already losing their jobs to ai and to hear more people claim how it's 'just a tool' hurts. It's sad enough that my art has been stolen from me and fed into ai without my consent and hearing people say it's a tool and I should be fine with it sucks. My career is already in danger. I admire you as a person but it hurts to see these 2 takes from you as it echos what all the ai bros use to justify theft

I'm sorry if I seemed like I wasn't taking the threat of AI art to commercial artists seriously in my original post. As I said, I do think it's a real problem, and I think we have to start regulating it from now because otherwise it's likely that big corporations will try to cut costs by using AI to create mostly decent work instead of hiring humans to do work that’s actually good or resonant. Already, AI has become a big threat to writers and actors in the film and television industry, and it's one of the big reasons the WGA and SAG strikes happened last year. As you mentioned, there's also a huge problem with how AI models are trained. Artists should be able to choose whether or not they want their work used to train an AI, and, if they do choose to share it, they should be fairly compensated for that work.

That said, I do think that at its core, AI is just a tool. It can be used for all sorts of purposes, some productive, some destructive. I don't think the ways that AI can be used for destruction is a reason to get rid of it entirely. Rather, I think the ways it can be destructive have to be carefully considered and protected against. I don't think that professional creative settings should be allowed to use AI to replace their human artists. But I do think that there are a lot of people who are using AI in really unique in innovative ways, and I don't think they should be prevented form doing that. For example, I know a professional illustrator who has a series on Instagram about a whimsical gnome. He writes the entire thing himself, he will sometimes do animations for it, but the majority of the visual content for this series is hyper-realistic AI-generated video (I think based on his illustrations). It's not something he could create on his own, and it's not something he has the money to hire an entire production crew to create, especially because I don't think he actually makes any money off of these stories. He's creating art that he enjoys making and that other people enjoy viewing, and I don't think there's anything morally wrong with that. Is it less effort than hand-animating illustrations for it? Sure. But I don't think sheer effort is what makes art good or meaningful- if it was, artists like Basquiat or Warhol or Mondrian would be considered terrible. Art (at least, fine art) is art because of what it has to say and the way it chooses to convey that meaning. If people can find ways to create art that's emotionally resonant and meaningful using an AI, I don't think there's fundamentally anything wrong with that (as long as the art in question isn't being created using a stolen data set, which a lot of AI generated art currently is).

[leopardprintismybrown]

Your last post actually made me remember something, don't you find kind of creepy the fan accounts and idolization of Queen's members children and significant others? It must be weird for them, and to be honest it's kind of stalkerish. And it's interesting that it seems to be Roger's family who has more of this. I haven't see such towards Brian's children for example. I don't know for me it feels weird.

Ok, first of all I don’t like how the fans act on Instagram (but also Facebook and Twitter), and it can be a coincidence but the biggest amount of disinformation and disrespect comes from the Instagram fandom. Sometimes I see people on Tumblr spreading gossip and rumours, justifying themselves by saying that they read it on Instagram, and that is enough for me. Many accounts also repost things from other social media withouth giving credits. 

That being said, there are also some Instagram profiles that provide amazing rare photos, but I prefer Tumblr because it allows more space for discussion and to share different kinds of content, without interacting personally with Brian, Roger, or their families. A Tumblr blog is effectively a fansite, which I think is very different from what Twitter or Instagram can provide.

As you might have guessed, I personally wouldn’t ever create an Instagram account for Queen’s family members, but if those fans want to talk about them as - after all - we all do on Tumblr, that is how being a fan of something works on Instagram: by creating an account to post pictures. What I find creepy is when they interact with the person they idolize and when they repost their personal photos from their private accounts. Rory’s account is now public so if I want to point out with the due respect something that she does or how she’s close to her family, I think there’s nothing wrong with it. Whereas, if Dominique sees a like in her notifications from someone that uses her own name, that is weird and it goes a bit too far. In my opinion, of course.

[bobbystompy]

68 Quotes I Enjoyed From 2019

Below are my favorite quotes from 2019. Though most occurred throughout the year, some took place before but were encountered during.

1) “I don’t bitch about Millenials.

John Entwistle once complained that he didn’t understand rap. Pete Townsend said, ‘It’s not our job to understand it. It’s our job to get the fuck out of the way.’

New generations come of age. The older generation’s job is to shut up and adapt.” - @danagould

2) “I can’t do drugs with you until we kiss.”

3) “If you pay me $50 I'll show up to your funeral but stand really far away, holding a black umbrella regardless of the weather, so that people think you died with a dark and interesting secret.” - @DanaSchwartzzz

4) “A human being is a dangerous thing to let loose in a room with itself, when it cannot think.” - Roger Ebert

5) “There are no bad bourbons, only better bourbons.” - Dave Hernandez

6) “You can’t put a dollar in a kimono.”

7) “This is how it was.” - rampant takeaway from watching ‘Superbad’ several years after its release

8) “What if I had been born fifty years before you in a house on the street where you lived / Maybe I’d be outside as you passed on your bike / Would I know? / And in a wide sea of eyes, I see one pair that I recognize” - Ben Folds, ‘The Luckiest’

9) “Learn the rules so you can break them.”

10) “Nobody makes chili for two.” - Stacy Massey

11) “‘Best city in the world,’ I mutter to myself, as i adjust my ‘driving blanket’.” - Chicago resident Deanna Belos, during the 2019 Polar Vortex

12) “Dude, no one’s ever got arrested for listening to Counting Crows.” - Ricky O’Donnell, justifying late night music volume at his party

13) Bill Belichick: We’re going to have fun tonight. Rob Gronkowski: Yes we are. We deserve it. Belichick: You’re damn right. Gronk: I haven’t stepped out in like eight months. I gotta step out tonight. Belichick: I’m with you, man. I’m even going to step out. Gronk: Oh, I like it!

A Super Bowl winning exchange.

14) Center David Andrews thanked Bill Belichick for giving him "a shot".

Belichick disagreed with it.

Andrews: Thank you for giving me a shot. Belichick: A shot? I didn't give you shit. You earned it! I don't give anything.

Another Super Bowl winning exchange.

15) “We elected one of the very worst living human beings to be President, and it's exhausting. Each and every day, it's an exhausting slog, just to exist in a world where that's true.” - Michael Schur

16) “Some of y’all always picked Odd Job when you played Goldeneye and it shows” - @thedad

17) “Any app is a dating app if you try hard enough.” - Z.W. Martin (though he says it’s lifted)

18) "Once you're as woke as I am, you learn to feel bad all the time.”

19) “Everything’s a balance beam when you’re 90.” - John Dingell

20) [I wake up in a world where The Beatles never existed]

Me: Check out this song I just wrote

[I begin playing “Ob La Di Ob La Da” without having first built up years of goodwill]

Crowd of people: Wow, this sucks ass

-- @seanoneal

21) “People change people.” - Corey Matthews, Girl Meets World

22) “The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.” - William Goldman

23) “Dan could be like a difficult uncle. I didn’t love his fire-breathing conservative politics. I didn’t love the transformation that came over his novels. In Semi-Tough, he created two benighted Texas jocks and laid their prejudices bare. He was declaring himself a member of the Mark Twain coaching tree. In later books, Dan seemed to be trying to prove he could still tell a racist joke. He insisted that his memoir—the last truly immaculate piece of writing he delivered—include a tirade against political correctness. When his editor said people might be offended, Dan said, ‘Fuck people.’

There are certain writers whose style you pilfer. Certain writers whose moral fiber you try to inherit. For me, Dan represented a third category: a writer whose aura you replicate—or, failing that, try to stand in for a while.” - Bryan Curtis, on Dan Jenkins

24) “Never marry anything. Never choose. Even in love, it's better to be chosen.” - La Dolce Vita

25) “An uncluttered, uncomplicated happy ending might sound wonderful, but it’s hardly ever satisfying. Because the value of great stories lies in the tension between desire and need, between the yearning for the ideal, and the unshakable conviction that ideals don’t really exist, at least not the way we want them to. A great story should hurt a little when it leaves us. There should be some hope, but that hope should remain somewhere just an inch beyond our fingers, because that’s the truth. Even if you had all the perfect moments in the world, you’d still be reaching.” - Zach Handlen, on the Futurama series finale

26) “You can’t see him because he has sunglasses on.” - Alissa Levy

27) “The cinema is the greatest art form ever conceived for generating emotions in its audience. That's what it does best. (If you argue instead for dance or music, drama or painting, I will reply that the cinema incorporates all of these arts).” - Roger Ebert

28) “‘Are you gonna let politics ruin a friendship?’ 

Yes tf I am

People talk about politics as if it’s this isolated, abstract concept that only matters at election time. Somebody’s politics is their world view. It’s whether they think certain human beings deserve rights. It’s how they think the world should be. And if somebody thinks that the world should be colder, meaner, less accepting and downright hostile to people that are different to them, then sure as fuck is the friendship over.”

29) “Can the Supreme Court get me mushrooms?” - J-Papp

30) “Any song under two minutes already has a head start on its way into my heart. Just scream at me and then leave me.” - Drew Magary

31) “Long neck cold beers never broke my heart.” - Clemson Tom

32) “I’d just like to point out that the last spoken words of Game of Thrones were: 

‘I once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel.’”

- @Authoroux

33) “Just once before I die, I want to toss my keys to someone and tell them ‘Bring the car around’.” - Mike Skully

34) “For all the weight they're given, last words are usually as significant as first words.” - Grand Maester Pycelle, Game of Thrones

35) “The best remedy for unrequited love is a trip around the world.” - Cheers

36) [on switching from a hotel to a motel]

Manny: I don't like the sound of that. A lot of amenities disappear when an H turns into an M. Jay: Hey when I met you, you were eating cereal out of a bucket.

-- Modern Family

37) “You and Lindsey don’t want to be ‘estranged’. Estranged is the relationship we want to have with our mothers.” - MegFil

38) “Cigarettes are undefeated.”

39) “My toes are like my fingers on my feet. I can pick stuff up with them.” - Tracy Cunningham

40) “Republicans govern without shame, Democrats shame without governing.” - Bill Maher

41) Sam: I don’t understand the vagaries of the Internet Josiah: Post often, without thought, and you’ll either get cancelled or cancel someone else.

-- Blink-155

42) “Hang a lantern on your problems.”

43) “What a weird web we weave.” - The Situation, The Jersey Shore: Family Vacation

44) “Let the ocean worry about being blue.” - Alabama Shakes, ‘Hang Loose’

45) “Honesty without tact is cruelty.” - Shelley Rokos

46) “My whole life is the wrong porn link.”

47) “One parent can take care of 10 kids, but 10 kids cannot take care of one parent.” - Joe Gestetner, via “an old Yiddish saying”

48) “There are no heroes in the room.” - Classics of Love, ‘Gun Show’

49) “If I am a little dismissive, it's only because of my harrowing backstory.” - Mitchell, Modern Family (on why he doesn't like sports)

50) “Every time I’m wearing black, I meet a dog.” - Tracy Cunningham

51) “Shower sex? Why would I fuck in my crying chamber” - @chridollarsign

52) “My theory about quarterbacks, having written about some of them, is you either have to believe in god or think you are a god.” - Mina Kimes

53) “The contradictions of capitalism always manifest in our lyrics if you look deeply.” - Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker, Riot Fest 2019

54) “Got a ‘hang loose’ from the weakside bartender.”

55) “It’s Jennifer’s birthday always.” - Eric Hutchinson 

56) “I can’t think of a less relevant artist in 2019 than Kanye West. A Jesus freak in a MAGA hat. Yeah, congrats dude -- you’re every grandma who watches ‘Young Sheldon’ and mails checks to Joel Osteen now.” - Dan Ozzi

57) “The past and future are in the mind. I’m in the now.” - Tom Brady, via someone else

58) “Sometimes you walk around boring places and you feel like the most exciting thing in it.” - Drew Magary

59) “Sitting is the new smoking.” - Modern Family

60) “I'll straight up fight folks at a book club and discuss books at a fight club I really don't give a shit anymore.” - George Wallace

61) “Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.” - Rose Garvey via wine country

62) “It’s all ‘ok boomer’ until you need someone who can drive stick shift.” - @OrdinaryAlso

63) “He likes the result of the math.” - Dad, talking about my worst subject frustrating during the process but satisfying in the end

64) Stepmom: Do you want a Bears urn or Alabama urn? Dad: Ask me after they play Auburn.

65) “A cold body carries a warm heart.” - Stefanos Tsitsipas’ Instagram, after his Iceland sabbatical

66) [preparing a dish called the Sandwich of Justice with his friend’s recipe]

"The fun thing about it is when you give it to someone, you can say 'Justice is served.’ That's, uh, Ryan's line. I built my whole life on the backs of my friends." - You Suck At Cooking

67) “Usually three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead.” - The Irishman

68) “An artist can't control who consumes their content any more than a chemist can control how their chemicals are used once they're created.” - Brian Crooks