#i'm a garbage human

[icharchivist]

lmao a mod just to spill the discourse on the nexus? really? this is where we are coming to?

oh no how dare people find fault with the da4 writing, i'm going to make the most annoying mod of all time just to make fun of them because i'm soooooo mature

[hotasfahrenheit]

ah, youth

listen you lil shit, when you get older maybe you'll realise that actually plenty of people want to be isolated thank you very much, my house is very nice and i prefer to be there as much as possible okay

i'll fight about it 🥊💥💣🔥

[sleepinglionhearts]

I'm not in eclipse path of totality, but my area of Texas is going to get around 99.2% coverage (or so staff at our state park say...)

It's cloudy as all hell, but it did make for a pretty cool picture.

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

[steviewashere]

Over the last two years, I have spent hours upon hours sitting at my computer and writing, expanding, and sharing my fanfic ideas. I sit with an idea, I love the idea, and then I write the idea. I structure it, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into it, and I then post it.

I don't do this hobby for anybody but myself. This is all self-indulgent, every last bit of it. I join challenges because I enjoy a writing challenge. I join holiday exchange things because I want to gift a person some art or writing about one of their favorite pairings or some of their favorite characters.

At no point have I used AI. I refuse to use generative AI for anything. I think it's cheap and shitty and pointless.

If you're using generative AI for fandom purposes, you're lame and a loser. You choose to love something made by humans—something that took hours upon hours, months, and years—and force it down an AI's gullet, watch it choke on words, and then mama bird regurgitate it into your fucking hands. And then what?

You post it? You post it with a generative AI tag? You post it with excitement? You share something that desecrates not only the source material you based it on, but the characters you apparently love?

Give me a fucking break.

If you love characters or a pairing, you create for them. You create an AU, you revive them, you make them hold each other, you spin them around in your head at all angles until you could describe them to a T. If you love a source material, you put your heart and soul to show how much you want to praise it, how much you want to love it, how much it means to you.

Generative AI has no place in fandom. Not at all.

Also, you can't make a statement in a fanfic about how you hate generative AI, how cheap and stupid it is, and then turn around to generate AI for a character's dialogue—even if they're a robot that speaks with generative AI. What you do instead is view what other people have posted about AI, you hobble together what could be shown off as something similar to how a generative AI program may speak, and you write the dialogue your-fucking-self.

Imagine picking up a hobby full of creativity and fun and going, "Wow, I really don't have the time for this," and instead of commissioning somebody or sending a fic idea to somebody, you turn around and shit on the hobby by generating it. Instead of loving your fandom friends, instead of loving the showrunners and the authors and the directors and the actors, you turn around and let man-made horrors amalgamate the semblance of love in the shape of smears and six-toed feet and stairs that wrap and curve and disappear into utter nonsense.

You're a fool and a phony and a complete fucking coward for not even trying to be creative on your own.

You do it bad. You do it pathetic. You do it shitty. And then you learn and you read and you get better.

It may have taken me two years to get to where I'm at, and I may have posted some terribly written bullshit, but at least I fucking did it. At least I took the first step towards being better, and that was trying. I tried and I'm better for it.

AI is horseshit and has no place here. Go fuck yourself.

[urfavoritemistake]

honestly had no idea mspec lesbian exclusionism is still a thing on tumblr. maybe bc a bunch of its believers have blocked me? i still think there's more acceptance for it here than on twitter but damn. must be quite a sad existence to hold onto pointless hatred most people moved on from years ago

[aq2003]

bro why did no one tell me how good don juan in soho was <- talking about a play like 10 people have seen

[kdramaxoxo]

Just a shout out to Jisoo’s new boyfriend Ahn Bo Hyun!

[bookvvitch]

Every other car company watching Elon Musk crumble

[bredforloyalty]

i'm in the third year of a three year degree i can't quit now

[magicshop]

no way am I seeing 🪖 pictures in the cc tags... y'all are sick

[queen-mabs-revenge]

always on my marxist bullshit, but the idea that a parent must be solely devoted to their child to the wholesale detriment and complete exhaustion of themselves is exactly why the bourgeois family is an act of universal violence. no one gets the care they need in that situation, and the ruling class continues to profit off of unpaid reproductive labor through the propaganda that parental exhaustion and monomaniacal devotion is pure, noble, and the only way a child can be raised without harm.

blended families, extended families, and other forms of borderless communal childcare have been the norm for the majority of human existence. the bourgeois family is an unnatural, alienating imposition completely geared towards justifying ruling class generational wealth consolidation, and beatifying a system that compensates 0% of the labor it takes to provide care, comfort, safety, hygiene, etc. for the reproduction of both tomorrow's and the next generation's labor.

anyway real facts this is why mainstream storytelling never can hit just right when it tries to tell the stories of parents and children with both being fulfilled and complete human beings. it literally can't propose a resolution to those contradictions unless it wants to start asking a whoooooole lot of other questions about families and social reproduction under capitalism....

[mingot-studios]

does anyone know if those rumors of vivzie "wasting" money on A-list voice actors is true?

[cosmicsproutcake]

Look, I haven't read Twilight, probably never will, and the movies do a really bad job of accurately portraying certain aspects from the books, but my sister has read them, and based on her descriptions of events, I feel like way too many people are just wildly misunderstanding what imprinting is and how it works :/

[marcusrobertobaq]

Poorly Edited Low-Quality Screenshots: Markus With a K, Part V [of ?]

[peglarpapers]

many balanced and nuanced takes occurring in the 'adults reading children's literature' discourse arena however i am unable to contribute to any of them since we have collectively stumbled onto the one very specific discussion that makes me so angry i lose the ability to think