#im legitimately upset about this

[mikelogan]

can anyone who even remotely gives a shit about letterboxd and/or using/seeing custom posters please upvote my suggestion on their feedback forum?

apparently tmdb (where letterboxd hosts their posters from) is cracking down on "fan art" which even includes posters that are simply changed to black and white or have a different text color, even if everything else is the same.

i, and a lot of other people, put a lot of time and effort in to customizing our lists. this is why i pay to be a patron on letterboxd. unless they decide to host somewhere else or make it so you can upload a custom poster right to letterboxd, i literally don't see a point in paying for it anymore.

pictures for example (and follow me here if you want to):

literally none of these posters are the originals. every single one is custom. i didn't make all of them, but i have made well over 300 and have spent hours doing so. i understand that this might not be important to everyone, but like. can i please have a little joy in my life?

anyway, moral of the story: please upvote my suggestion here.

[skitskatdacat63]

Please take my low effort shitpost of our two Aston flopboys

Basically:

[bi-the-wei]

Random thoughts about my weight

Im a heavier gal. (Full disclosure about 240lb currently) I am working on getting more vegetables and exercise in my life, but for the foreseeable future Im still gonna be a heavier gal.

Im gonna look heavy no matter what i wear.

So im gonna wear what i like. Hiding my arms doesn't make them look thinner

This is something ive lived by for the past few years and honestly, while its hard at first to fight the instinct to hide my arms or legs or whatever, once you stop it feels so much better.

Also i still have the instinct to explain why im heavy, like that makes a difference if ive had health issues or some "reasonable explination" makes it more excusable to be the weight i am when in reality no one should ever have to explain themselves for something like that. Regardless of the reason im fat, I deserve basic human respect without excuses.

Which brings me to the fat positivity thing. To me it's never been about wanting to be fat or fat being healthy or unhealthy or whatever. Its about it doesnt matter if you're healthy or not you still deserve to be treated well and with dignity.

I remember my friends laughing at a girl who rode her bike in our neighborhood all the time because "youd think shed be skinnier with all that biking" which is just utter nonsense. I didnt speak up then when i should have but i still think about it often. The girl wasnt even big. I have no idea what their problem was.

But how do you expect someone to even get exercise when theyre larger when you laugh at them when they try? Make it make sense it doesn't

Just like idk

Let people live? And leave them alone? Treat people with basic respect?

I dont generally feel any particular WAY about my weight, its just there, but sometimes i do concider it and get mad on my blubber belly's behalf.

[strangegutz]

Played some of the new Sims 4 expansion today before something happened and the game became completely unplayable (stuck on loading screen, been troubleshooting all night and nothing works) have the screenshots I took before EA took my money and ran. guess I'm not allowed to relax- back to dolls and drawing!

[vimmark]

dragon age fans have an uncanny ability and endless drive to make themselves unhappy and demoralized. every bit of veilguard information we've gotten so far has been encouraging and what you react with is "but what if the things they haven't talked about yet are bad :("

please get well and consider how little benefit there would be to a marketing plan that starts with the best possible news and tapers off into irrelevant or disappointing aspects instead of the other way around

[fun-k-boards]

I really love giving gifts to people I wish I knew my mutuals irl so I could send them little trinkets :((

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

Using my brain like a metal detector to figure out what the FUCK it wants to do

[waterberry-strawmelon]

i hate feeling ashamed.

[fizzseed]

HERE I WAS. FOOLISHLY LULLED INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY BY TALK OF CUTE COWS AND A BURNING FIREPLACE

[quietwingsinthesky]

WAIT. i just remembered i have a whole doctor who fanfic archive bookmarked. i wonder if its still up.

[skitskatdacat63]

I wish AI images didn't make me so intensely upset. Just the existence of them bothers me a lot, because it's just clutter without meaning or emotion or any genuineness. But recently something happened that made me very upset, and I feel so irrational saying this, but it really gave me this sick, heart-wrenching feeling, and I wish it would stop. My mom was looking through Facebook, and showed me this image of birds that to me was so obviously AI. But she wasn't 100% sure it was fake, only telling me after I had told her it was definitely AI, that she had been a bit unsure about it.

I hate how intense my feelings are about it, bcs it made me want to irrationally almost infantalize her without meaning to. It just made me overwhelmingly sad that this is state of things. That people are being fed this imitation, this trash, and aren't familiar enough to recognize it all the time. Every time I think about it, it hurts my chest.

[eepybogboy]

so i had heard that some of the newer releases of Monster High dolls were being made with a different type of hair fiber and that a lot of people were upset about this.

i did not, until last night, realize exactly how bad it is.

i had some of the original MH dolls as a kid, but i wasnt able to tap into the collecting hobby until i had become an adult, years after my old toys had already been donated (a tragedy, but not really the point) and before the new reboot was launched. so my doll collecting hobby really began with Rainbow High. i loved that they came with a second outfit, they had long, soft, styleable hair, and they had substance to their bodies! unlike barbie dolls, RH has curves and weight in your hand when you hold them. i thought that was awesome.

anyway. i knew that RH didnt use the saran hair that barbie often used, and that mattel used for MH back in the day and in the reboot. being new to the concept of different types of hair, it didnt matter much to me. i could see the pros and cons of both saran and the type of hair RH used.

now, recently, i tried to buy Skulltimate Secrets Draculaura for my roommate for their birthday, and amazon let me wait a whole month for them to ship it before saying, just kidding, we dont have it, heres your money back. RUDE AS HELL!

well fine. now the SS Fearidescent is out, so ill just get them that one instead. i see in the reviews that her hair type is different, they voice disappointment but ultimately shes still cute and theres not a lot that we, as consumers, can do about it except maybe complain.

and im thinking, whatever, im used to RH hair anyway, and yeah its more staticky but its still pretty soft, so how bad could it be?

well, she came in the mail yesterday, and we were pretty disappointed at just how bad it could be.

ive come to realize that RH hair is not made of polypropylene, the new material theyre giving MH as of this line (ive heard that theyve given g3 clawdeen this type of hair before, which is a whole other can of worms that isnt one of the points of this post), but for rainbow high they generally use Nylon (correct me if im wrong) which is still cheaper and less authentic to real hair than saran, but is still generally pretty soft.

ive never had a doll with pin straight hair (and almost no styling product) feel this BAD in my hands. its coarse, lightweight, and easy to frizz, just from a quick finger comb. i soaked her in hot water and conditioner, and shes only a little bit softer.

i had my partner, who, besides being supportive of my hobbies and listening to me talk about it, knows next to nothing about the differences between types of dolls, feel the difference between the first g3 Drac, RH Karma Nichols, and Fearidescent Drac. on a few quick comparative touches, they noted that saran feels the most like real hair, while RH nylon feels kinda soft but not quite as nice. then they touched new Drac, and all they said was, "ah. depression."

i didnt have my hopes up at all but my expectations were still shattered. i legitimately didnt realize it was this bad. the downgrade is Immense. ive seen people rag on RH hair, and this is WORSE. i seriously cant believe how much worse it is. i didn't think mattel would make a $30 Beloved Brand Name doll with all those accessories and give her DOLLAR STORE KNOCKOFF HAIR, but i guess thats on me for holding a corporation to any sort of production standard in 2023 🙃

anyway, all this is to say, hair fiber snobs, im so sorry and i get it now. this shit sucks.

[wander-wren]

some of you may remember that post i made about a new kind of bot comment--a request to upload my fic to youtube. like a podfic, but read by a crap ai with an ai thumbnail and a clickbait-y title. i appreciated the getting-permission bit, but was otherwise not a fan.

yesterday i was alerted by a different, much kinder bot that a very similar content farm stole my fic for the exact same kind of youtube video:

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i checked it out, and it was indeed true. according to the article linked in that comment, this team uses a bot to read transcripts of thousands of videos and compare them to ao3's public database, then manually confirms any videos that the bot flags. it only works for ao3 fics, unfortunately, since there isn't the same kind of database for ff.net or wattpad.

i honestly care a lot less about the ~thievery~ (my feelings on copyright are complex, moreso in the fandom realm) and more offended by the lack of courtesy or integrity or any kind of care for the work. shame. they even LIED in the video description and said they have author permission! the gall. disappointed but not surprised. also, according to the linked spreadsheet, this channel was monetised, which is just ugly.

i've submitted a DMCA complaint form as suggested, which feels a bit weird, but whatever gets the job done. we'll see if it pans out.

in the meantime, the fic in question is here, if you want to check it out

(side note: this is part of my bnha bdsm au, and is a story about sexual assault and recovery with a hefty dose of dealing with constant surveillance and the way the media twists a narrative and the stress of trying to have a functional relationship amidst both those things, so it's....very funny to me that this one specifically was stolen to put alongside videos like "what if deku had an animal quirk" and "what if deku was a rockstar")

also we should all laugh at the video. look at this shit

i'm offended, tbh. anyone who has read the fic should know why but also just, like, in general. it makes no sense for the story! i know i shouldn't be upset over the lack of integrity a content farm youtube channel has, but i am! i am upset! put in some goddamn effort, the disrespect, for real.

if you are so inclined, you can read more about the project that is working to get these videos taken down and even join them here. the google sheet is not being publicly updated anymore (it appears they are working on a new system that hasn't been fully implemented yet), but if you want to check for your own fics that may have been caught pre-april 3rd, look here.

additionally, this is a good time to point out that podfics (fanfic audiobooks) are a very valuable form of fan creation and this could be your sign to get into it! i'm not a podficcer myself (yet; who knows), but there are plenty of guides here on tumblr and on ao3 to help you get started.

[235uranium]

back from the barbie movie and I certainly have Thoughts on what the movie was doing but overall I do think it's worth seeing! it's fun

[icestardragonhc]

Friendly reminder: If I catch you post/ reblog AI art and follow me I'll throw you into the pits of hell.

I would rather have 1000 p0rnbots follow me than any of you leeches.

[t4tstarvingdog]

hey wait i just remembered the incident