#it's looking good for us folks

[devilishheart]

is this anything

[sadkachow]

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still actively seeking out and using AI.

Once again.

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.

(Bold/italicized text: You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.)

Even if you’re just using it to make fun of it or show how bad it is.

Even if it’s only for your personal use, and you don’t plan on sharing it with anyone.

Even if you’re “just” roleplaying on Character AI.

If you are willing to justify your usage of a system created and profiting off of stealing from artists and writers, a symstem that is destroying the Earth, then you were never as “against that system” as you think you were. Being anti-AI isn’t something that exists only in name. You can’t claim to be against AI if you are willing and able to use it as soon as it benefits you. You can’t say you’re for writers’ and artists’ rights if you’re using the very thing that is causing them harm. You can’t claim to care about climate change and saving the Earth if you are participating in the system that is destroying it.

There is no middle ground here.

There is no “Oh, but I-“.

If you have the knowledge of what generative AI is doing, of how it is hurting people, and you choose to use it anyway, you aren’t  against it. You aren’t fighting against that system, you’re upholding it.

You can say how much you hate AI and how horrible you think it is, if you choose to use it anyway, then your actions and your words are not lining up, and the former reveals so much more than the latter.

Stop pretending like AI is something you can condemn only in name, while using it to your heart’s content in your free time. All it does it tells writers and artists that you don’t really care about us, and that any actions you claim to be taking to protect us are performative at best and lies or even outright malicious at worst.

You are—and I mean this in the kindest way possible, even with the fury that generative AI invokes in me—a complete and utter hypocrite. AI is not your friend. It is a tool, and it is a tool that steals from writers and artists in order to function. It is a tool that is using levels of energy and emitting amounts of polution in order to be maintained that are actively damaging the Earth. No matter how much you try to justify using it to yourself, that doesn’t change.

Stop hiding under the guise of being anti-AI while continuing to use it yourself.

[moonverc3x]

(gosh I hope that comic is at least readable- Ignore all the inconsistencies, I've never drawn and colored a comic before 😭) Anyways- meet the heroes of yore! sort of... you get to know what they look like at least!

Im finally getting around to publicly sharing some tidbits of lore with yall! Originally the "heroes of yore" spiel Galacta reads was going to be just text but I thought people would probably like it a little better if there was a comic to accompany it!

and im. not sure how to end this post?? I suppose I can say that Meta and Galacta Knight are open for asks!!! Im hoping I can keep the energy to keep this thing going, but only time will tell!

[coldshrugs]

glamtober #31 - supernatural: mothman

my favorite american cryptid. i spent half my childhood in appalachia and those mountains are haunting and comforting. there's something nice about a fucked up creature trying to warn folks away from harm. this fit is silly but we can pretend she found it in eorzea's version of spirit halloween, right next to the sexy chirurgeon costumes.

items used:

head: tonberry head (jet black | ruby red) body: quaintrelle's ruffled dress (jet black | jet black) arms: demonic gloves (N/A | ruby red) legs: bunny tights (N/A | jet black) feet: makai priestess's longboots (ruby red) fashion accessory: fallen angel's wings

[erinwantstowrite]

folks what is another way to say "recovering crash out" because i don't think peter would say this (because peter is from 2016ish), but i can not think of another word or way to say this meaning

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dragonagedastferaasdf]

[lovelyrotter]

ill probably delete this in a minute but ive just been fuckin boggled by what ive seen across tumblr in the last few days in particular. its why i havent really been around. like holy fucking shit, its really like some of yall just dont want a chunk of the trans community to exist. like some of yall are thisclose to saying it verbatum. way too many already have. 'shut up sit down be quiet and smile for us' type shit, gee where have i heard that before. oh yeah my entire life cause i was forcefully gendered as someones daughter. shock horror i know. you might be surprised to remember and/or learn that very few trans folks know theyre trans before we're 5, or even 10, and that that gendered experience stays with all of us in both/either small or large ways. either bc we literally dont have a solid identity yet (bc we're very small children), dont have the words, we're repressing it out of fear from how others will treat us, we're actually enjoying or enjoyed being another gender in our childhood, or we just genuinely didnt fuckin know until shit lined up later in life. weird isnt it that transmascs dont pop out as 6'1 brick shithouse cis men when we're born so yall know for certain that we're confused lost girls/women oops i mean big dangerous scary men. its almost like we're transgender too. none of yall actually know what intersectionality is or means

[threadneedle]

[droppedpears]

Back then space seemed endless. Now it's empty.

a sort of companion piece to my anya one; i just think they share more parallels than people realize

[uncanny-tranny]

I love you smile lines and worry lines and grey and white hair and wrinkles and purple spiderweb veins and the process of aging and living in a body that is standing the test of times. I love you experiences that make you wiser and stories that make you laugh, and every little process that happens to get to the point where you have so many memories because you have the fortune to be here and be so radiant

[whatudottu]

Something something Decepticon recruitment (+physical exam) yada yada putting my Malay twins headcanon to good use and making names (and a non-typical matrilineal last name as opposed to a patrilineal last name) for them :P

Old fanfiction as well as echo chambering myself I have got some headcanons in my mind that do not make surface level sense but have Syakir and Darwesh bin Kalsom!

[front-facing-pokemon]

[mcnyoom]

gotta respect Oscar’s commitment to never once having a good hair day

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

I've seen you describe Moth Wizard as a "sort of anthology", and I'm curious: do you have a favorite story in particular? And why is it your favorite? :00

Thank you so much for the ask!!

I uh haven't really gotten that far, I have a specific idea of what format I want to use and a few half thought through ideas for stories and characters I think will be really cool, but the actual writing and plots are still very lacking 😅

But I do have a favorite among the incomplete stories! Or at least a character arc I'm really excited about! I originally got the idea for it because I saw a post that said something along the lines of "no matter the setting your story should have a talking skeleton" and I just went "ok!" and proceeded to interrogate the concept of a talking skeleton philosophically. And I ended up creating Brakha, who is one of my favorite characters and the one who's made me cry the most by far!

The basic premise is this: A Jewish cis perisex man (named Natan, meaning "he gave") dies old and is buried. His skeleton is given life and eventually develops free will and a conscience: its own new soul.

This soul is not happy about the fact that they're using someone else's corpse, in fact they feel pretty terrible about it. It wasn't their choice to be created, but it doesn't feel right that these bones were not too long ago a man with a loving family. You can't just go stealing corpses like that, after all!

So this soul tries to learn more about this man, trying to figure out how to do the right thing, and what even is the right thing? Could they just go lay back down in the grave? Forever? Can they leave? Can they somehow find out what Natan would have wanted them to do?

They talk to people who knew him, they talk to rabbis, hoping their insight from the man's own religion will be helpful, they try to talk to Natan in some way, asking for a sign. But there are no easy answers. No one can give them permission to exist, nor revoke it, and Natan is gone. You can't ask the dead for guidance either.

They are eventually forced to confront the harsh reality: you have free will and you have to use it, and that necessarily means you can be wrong.

Did you know that "rest in peace" is a Christian expression? In Judaism, the thing to say is "may their memory be a blessing."

As they learn to accept that they are alive in Natan's corpse whether they like it or not, she starts to finally look inward. She discovers that existence is a little less of a burden as a woman. She sees Natan's Judaism and feels she wants to understand it better, and the rabbis she consulted are happy to teach her. She eventually decides to convert, feeling a connection to Judaism similar to what she feels for womanhood.

And after careful thought, she chooses her Jewish name. In Natan's memory, she is Brakha, meaning "blessing".

At this point I have no idea if it's a good story to an outsider, but as a trans person who is trying to convert to Judaism and has spent a whole lot of time in despair wishing I didn't have free will, wishing I didn't exist, wishing someone could just tell me what to do... yeah. I wouldn't really call it autobiographical, but it definitely deals with things that are important to me and that I deeply connect with.

I hope this answers your questions!

Thank you again so much for the ask!! It makes me so happy when people show interest in Moth Wizard <3

[fallloverfic]

I love singNsong again reminding people in Side Story that Dokja wanted other people to read TWSA (he wrote reviews and comments! It was his first wish), and he only stopped bothering because people harassed him for it. He didn't gate-keep the story. When he's avoiding talking to Sangah about it at the beginning of ORV, it's because he knows what happens when he tells people about the story, not because he's gate-keeping it from her. He notes he's not proud of his hobby (likely because he's been bullied all through his life, including for reading the thing he loves): he finds it embarrassing to talk about, and better respects her studying Spanish in her free time (learning another language is a generally accepted thing in society). He assumes she won't care or will look at him funny (or worse) for when she learns about the novel he's into.

Basically anyone writing "let's gatekeep ORV" posts because of the anime announcement or because they dislike the manhwa or some other weirdness, y'all are the villains in the scenario.

The literal climax of the story is about sharing ORV with as many people as possible. What story were y'all reading?