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look at this idiot not aware that his body is warm and his touch comforting everyone point and laugh
#homestuck#hom3stuck#home24uck#home2t4ck#dirk strider#jake english#dirkjake#admin draws#fanart#i got sick of looking for a ref so i doodled this real quick yesterday#ive been in a 'need hug' mood especially after the exam and sleeplessness preceding it#and thinking stuff#so what better way to process all of this than you guessed it. shoving it onto dirk#short tags this time cos im doing something else but i have lots of things i want to make.... its a shame im not feeling it again#if someone wants to give me excuses to talk about them the ask box is open for more than just rqs
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What is religions place in moral and ethics arguments in your opinion? I saw one of your posts and i was curious :))
It was smth about how you can't really be reliant on religion as a defense on its own because you'll never really be able to properly hold a discussion. Any argument wherein one party's only defense is "god says it's wrong" or "the bible says it's wrong" is a copout and already kind of doomed to fail from the start. And how it's also frustrating to go up against someone who uses that as their only counterargument (i.e. my dad) because there's really no way to argue against it without offending them. It can't be the end all be all argument because God is only real to the people who believe in him, and this stance will ultimately be worthless on people with any differing belief. I spent an Hour talking with my dad about capital punishment and it was because his only reason for why the death penalty is morally okay is because the government authorized it and God says that we should respect the authority.
You can't really use God in a moral argument until you can definitively prove to the opposing party that God exists and is fully omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent. You will not be able to tell an atheist woman that abortion is bad because God says so, that would not work and would only antagonize her further. Something something what is god to a nonbeliever. Religion isn't like fully exempt from arguments or whatever, it has its own place in them, especially with how influential it is in every culture, but if man is born with free will then let him think without the constraints of a theoretical god's law
#wolfy tedtalks#wolfy religious tedtalks#open discusiions are great because you get to talk to diff people with diff perspectives#its why echo chambers are bad#let the free man freely think. dont put him in a room or his thoughts will start echo#also i say theoretical as in if i was not christian i woild not believe god exists. he would not be real to me#also its pretty presumptous to assume that your holy book and holy god claims precedence over other people's books and gods
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standing in front of a firing squad would have been easier than reading this script i need to be shot
#this is hands down the most insane script ive read i was sitting slack jawed half the time#not because its Outrageous but because. oh my fucking God#frank sure does have too much influence over *gestures broadly* This.#to see their dysfunction presented like this. is. so.#like. of course the reason they cant be nice to each other is because they all expect some kind of Trick. we see this again in s12#they've set a precedent where everyone is unable to be vulnerable out of fear that someone else is going to take advantage of them#its about knowing to Never let their guard down. because they can't afford to be stupid enough to think someone was being nice#its literally about them not trusting each other. they know each other. care about each other. but they're all still at war with each other#anything could be a trojan horse#and even when they try to do something thoughtful it's ruined bc their motives are being questioned and that provokes a defense#''of course i wasn't being Nice that's stupid why would i ever do that for you'' because otherwise theyre leaving themselves open to attack#i think this episode works purely because theyre All trying to change this at once and since theyre all aware of that fact#its like oh okay youre not fucking with me because we've established we're all trying not to be cynical#i cannot even begin to dig into the pure autism of this entire. not even just the episode premise. the whole basis of the gang's dynamic.#like yeah of course a group of weird neurodivergent people is hypersensitive to this#its the same thing as mac and dennis in suburbs questioning wally's intentions/demeanor welcoming them to the neighbourhood#literally in defense mode all the time because they expect the worst from people and they haven't had any reason to think otherwise#marder and rosell get it but thats not exactly new and surprising <3#but wow this script adds so much. at least for me.#iasip#it's always sunny in philadelphia#ada speaks#character meta#for good measure
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#my whimsy precedes me#set in shadow the hedgehog#requests are open fellas#shadow the hedgehog#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#shadow#year of shadow#fanart#art#comic
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The whole discourse about the privacy/secrecy/support thing has been sitting with me for a few days (I mean other than it always does to a certain degree) thanks to all the excellent discussion happening and I know I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before, but I think what we're seeing and what we're going to learn (e.g. from TTPD) is that it wasn't just the support issue, but how it was shown/handled.
We've all gone out of our way to show that introversion =/= lack of support. Someone can be shy, reserved, etc. and still show up for their partner, whether in public or at home. To chalk any of the differences up to the clash between introversion and extroversion is unfair to folks who count themselves among either tbh.
@thisisctrying said something the other day that hit the nail on the head about how if that support had been offered in private, there very well may not have been a Joever to begin with, or at least not at this point in time. (Sorry for loosely paraphrasing, and for namedropping you! Long time listener, first time poster.)
If this were a case where the "shy" partner said, "I am really uncomfortable with the spotlight personally and do not want to court it, but I will support you in your ambitions and offer you whatever you need to make them happen and make the glare bearable," I suspect that would have gone a long way to making Taylor feel seen and comfortable in pursuing her goals in the way that she now has. Again, that might have been more akin to the balance that seemed to have been struck around 2019 from what we can see, but even speaking in a general sense, there are lots of couples out there, celebrity or not, that have similar approaches where there are highly driven people and busy careers involved.
(A famous example being Dolly Parton's marriage. Tbh I know next to nothing about her and Carl, but she's always heralded as an example in this regard, because her husband is famously uncomfortable with the spotlight and hasn't accompanied her to public events in decades, but she's said that she never minded that because that was always work to her, and what was important was that he supported her in pursuing all her career goals and basically ensured she had a place to call home to return to at the end of the day.)
We're kind of in a brave new world with her current relationship because it felt like, at least at the start, we were maybe watching her figure out her boundaries in real time as to what she was comfortable with or not and adjust accordingly. Like so many have said, I fully believe the extreme privacy thing was initially driven by herself and her experiences in 2016, and she needed that quiet time to recover from all of the things and figure out how to exist in the world again.
Stating the obvious, it seemed like eventually privacy was equated with secrecy, turning the relationship and the celebrity into the elephant in the room and something to never be spoken of to the outside world. People are free to choose whatever works best for themselves and their relationships, and for some the separate public lives might work, but the “kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” theme is all over her work and it’s clear that it’s a sore spot for her, because she’s been made to feel shame just for the life she leads so many times in the past.
What I’m trying to say is that it’s pretty obvious something Not Great was happening behind the scenes, which didn’t just amount to “she wanted to be a public celebrity and he wanted to be a private hermit.” (Also, in case anyone forgot, this is a person who also chose a public-facing career who also has to engage in press for it, but I digress.) As her career reached new heights post-folklore, if she had the support at home to do all the things without judgment and with encouragement, and in turn offer the same support to her partner, she may have very well lived just fine with that, not unlike Dolly Parton’s case.
By reading between the lines in all the press since, as well as comments on tour and general ~vibes~ with TTPD teasers, it seems like one of the issues was that that was likely not the case. There was all the stuff that we saw — the reticence to acknowledge each other in the media (particularly on one side), the lack of public support even at events at which they were both in attendance for their respective jobs, the great lengths they went to not to be photographed together at events they attended yet no problem taking pictures with other friends and coworkers, the jobs that separated them, the withdrawing from the public even for work accomplishments, etc. Which could all be manageable if a couple chooses to do so together and are not inherently a sign of trouble in themselves.
But what we’re seeing now I think is a reflection of the things we weren’t seeing then, and it seems to indicate some very deep hurt. (I know, call me Captain Obvious.) And like so many have been saying, it feels likely that that part of that hurt is rooted in that very lack of private support where a person would expect it from their partner. Obviously as a Taylor fan blog I’m going to be more inclined to understand her side of a story, but tbh, it’s also because… this is sooooooo common, and something I’ve experienced in my friend group. (@taylortruther is right when she says most breakups are the same one way or another lol.)
One partner is resentful of the other’s success, or resentful that the other’s priorities begin to evolve as new experiences unlock new goals, or feels the other’s ambitions are not worthy of pursuit, and coupled with perhaps their own struggles in the same domain, it’s easy to see where that can chip away at the other partner’s morale and faith in the relationship. I know I’m just speculating here, but I also don’t think it’s totally unfounded. (Again, because a) I’m picking up what she’s putting down and b) it happens to sooooooo many women even among us dull normals.)
With all the pointed mentions about how much Taylor feels supported in her current relationship and how she in turn loves to offer the same show of support to not only her partner but other loved ones, how she’s stepped out more in the last year to a whole host of events, how she’s mentioned feeling like she locked herself away for years and she’s just proud of her partner and happy she can show up for him even if the chaos around it is unsettling, it paints a picture of what perhaps was happening before last year.
To feel like you’re all alone in carrying the weight of the relationship (or burden of it), of twisting yourself into knots to accommodate the other person’s boundaries (or insecurities) but not feeling reciprocity for your own has to be so painful. (The idea that it may have been even darker and to have a partner not only be unreceptive to your own needs but even perhaps resentful/dismissive/belittling of them is even more painful to think of. I guess we’ll find out when TTPD comes out if that was the case, too.)
At a certain point, that lack of acknowledgement will force your hand to be able to reclaim yourself. And it feels like the further removed Taylor in particular is from it, the more she moves from being sad about the life she felt she gave up by leaving, to angry at the life she felt she was giving up by staying. Especially being in a relationship now where it seems like everything comes much easier, where she can be open about the person she’s with and show up for them, all the stuff that seemed as challenging as climbing Mount Everest in her past is nothing more than a molehill at best in her current life.
TL;DR: I don’t think it’s privacy that inherently spells doom for a celebrity relationship like this; it’s the mutual support and respect that does. If Taylor had felt that in the later years of her previous relationship, I think we could be seeing a different, though not necessarily unfulfilled, person right now in 2024, who’d be happy on tour but whose personal life would look a little different. But it seems like by losing that support she lost parts of herself, and we’ve seen her reclaim that in spades in the last year, and perhaps to degrees she didn’t even realize she could from before all the Bad Stuff started happening in her young adulthood.
I know this was extremely long-winded and unnecessary, especially about total strangers we only know through scraps fed through the media, but I just always bristle at this idea that issues like these boil down to “personality differences,” as though one person wants to live in a city and the other on a remote island, or some shit like that. The whole support (and gender tbh) issue is one that’s just very close to my heart because again, I have seen it play out with so many of my friends in long term relationships and marriages and I just think people in relationships (and women in particular in some circles) deserve better than to feel like they’re being, well, tolerated.
#thisisctrying and taylortruther sorry for tagging you two!#can remove if needed!#but you guys made me think a lot#this was inspired by a conversation i had with a friend the other day#where she relayed an argument she had with her partner#who basically felt slighted that he wasn’t getting acknowledgement for all the housework he does — which is. just. the dishes#and she was like ‘wow congrats you’ve done the dishes — i do every other fucking thing to keep this household afloat in ways you see#and don’t see and i never ask for praise because it’s just stuff that needs to get done because that’s how you support your family’#and it just reminded me that some partners (and a certain kind of man in particular) just… think their struggles take precedence#when their partners drown in them everyday but keep things afloat out of necessity and are never recognized or supported for it#(my friends have shitty husbands/boyfriends can you tell lol)#long post#again the way i just feel like i know the vibes of ttpd in my bones are 😵💫#i feel like i have a lot more thoughts but I’m trying to be more gracious and less parasocial so#also just want to again defend the introverts of the world by reiterating that being introverted does not mean unsupportive#being a shitty partner does though!#writing letters addressed to the fire#it’s also just like… i feel like if Taylor had had even a modicum of the support in private and even public she needed#she’d probably still be with you know who and wouldn’t have considered leaving let alone doing it#because it would have felt like enough and like it was what was needed for both of them#whereas we’re seeing a completely new side of her open up now because this is the first time she’s ever had that support from a partner#in her adult life at least#and it’s like it’s opening up things she didn’t know she needed or wanted#muses acquired like bruises
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*taps mic* Celebrities do not owe you insight into their sexuality, nor do they have to define or abide by your standards of how they act regarding their sexuality. You do not know them personally enough to inspect their private lifestyle in such a way, and even if you did that behavior still isn't warranted. Just because celebrities are more known to the public, doesn't negate the fact that they are people with feelings and aspects of their lives that they might prefer to keep quiet about. Sexuality, in general, is an intimate thing, that everyone experiences and expresses differently, and having random strangers deny or question their queerness does more harm than good. Stop acting like you're entitled to it.
#“but-but they played this queer character in this role-” okay and? it's literally their job. as long as the character they played wasn't#riddled with harmful stereotypes or other problematic things than that fact alone still doesn't give you the right to hound the actor on#whether or not they're queer same thing goes for musicians#“but queerbaiting-” was primarily used towards media not real life people bc that often needs proof which often involves#searching and inspecting these people's private lives behind the scenes (which is problematic) and opens up more can of worms bc#you have to ask yourself why you view these people as queerbaiting without knowing them personally? what aspects of queerness do you feel is#not being met and why does it necessarily have to be?#conversations like this can also rise double standards and other negative aspects within the queer community itself with for example#bisexuality where an actor could be seen with/or dating someone of the opposite gender and be questioned if they're really bi#even though the whole (one) definition of bisexuality involves being attracted to two or more genders#this happened with kit connor#ive also seen this happen with asexuality and people trying to worm their way into famous people's sex lives---very weird#even more so if a celeb came out as one sexuality but changed to one that better fit them now all of sudden their queerbaiting 🤨?#there's also a dangerous precedent when race is involved bc often times poc queer individuals are with the brunt of this criticism bc they#often don't abide by view of queerness that is primarily driven my many (not all) yte queers#you can see this with megan thee stallion & victoria monet both singers who are bi but are often denied by members of the queer community#bc of their relations with men (even though that doesn't/shouldn't negate their sexuality at all) and are sometimes demanded that they act a#certain way only for on the flip side to be accused of aiding into the fetishization of wlw relationships it's very flip flop#the singer khalid was literally outed recently!#this can be very harmful especially for celebs who are probably still navigating who they are for themselves#this ties into how celebs aren't treated as human and bc they are famous certain people believe they are entitled to every aspect of them#stop harassing people#lgbtq#lgbtq community#queerness#queerbaiting#celebrity culture
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strategically cropped wet vampire sex thumbsupemoji @barbwritesstuff
perhaps it's bold to tag you but if other people have drawn the shower scene then i can too
#my art sex edition#yeah sure that'll be my tag for that#thicker than if#he's been doing things to meeee (and my mc) (evident by the picture)#every so often i open up the game and make the exact same choices because i want to see them again#also i checked your blog to see if there was any precedent on saucy images i think i'm good#and to any followers that may be reading this. i literally have never mentioned this but i keep up with many interactive fiction wips
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haiii pik :] i'm usually Scared to ask this in your inbox out of nowhere because i don't wanna bother at the wrong time but,, , uhm i have been Thinking. about the cocoa and lc agent azrael duo quite a bit lately and. this is all just a hypothetical for Funsies and i do no want to disrupt your original plot in the facility but just. wanting to talk about what it'd be like if they actually got to work together in the facility ^_^ considering cocoa's whole yk. That. and azrael's own problems i wonder how it'd be like for them to have be assigned to suppress higher risk level abnos and deal with later ordeals., ,this may or may not be an invite to talk extensively but it's all up to you o7
CRACKS KNUCKLES. I Can Do This >:] verily !!
quite a lot to chew on tbh... honestly, the starting would be the hardest part ithink. or at least, on her end it would be.
this got quite long and rambly. continue if you will. 👍
see like, cocoa isnt really Averse to interaction in any sense of the word-- she was honestly quite friendly, if a bit spacey. towards the start of her being Like That, i mean. super airheaded, will honestly just go along with things if you drag her along. she just kinda. ":)?" ":)!" ":)??" she doesnt really register that much, but just kinda matches the energy of whoevers around her.
but at the same time, shes very distant in the sense that. She Is Not Paying Attention. kinda resets between scenes, if you will. you have to be pretty persistent for her to ever actively remember anything-- let alone for her to Act on that memory. shes silly and will play around, but also she like. Really Super Doesnt Care, actually. the "and" in the "yes, and", if you will. (also she doesnt really. Speak. she has certain basic phrases and echoes whats said around her, but only ever really Responds that way.)
otherwise, shes very mechanical. does as she does and doesnt think about it too hard. however, its hard to notice the Drive of her actions unless you Really pay attention to her. because it usually just comes off as "She Just Does What She Wants. we just dont know what that is. shes surely got her reasons though." all it really is is habit, though. habit and the vague idea of Yeah Thats Close Enough To What People Do, Sure.
all that to say, youre gonna have a Really hard time reaching her that way. she is Not paying attention and Will Not Remember. though, depending on where azrael is in his whole . Everything. it could be different. if hes still locked in his Distancing state, i imagine theyd be. pretty wholly neutral. yknow the whole 'weve never talked but we sit at the same bus stop at the same time every day in silence so now itd be weird if they werent there' thing? like that. in idle downtime, they are just. next to each other, vaguely. (id have to wonder if azrael would notice how consistently Still she is. if anything would come of this. she is present to a very common degree, but never Does anything, past when shes called for something. she herself is unbothered by this, but..?)
if hes more in his Prying state, being more curious, things could be a smidge different. i can imagine that, given azrael's background and how he functioned towards the start of his arc, the way she acts might. bother him, a little. not necessarily "irritate," but more. "Somethings Not Right Here." she wouldnt make it any easier to find out (given that she doesnt even hide it on purpose really,) but there Are little notes to be picked up from her.
i dont think anything could be done for her that would "wake her up" in that state, but i think he Would be able to become a part of her Normal. just. yeah. that one. that one thats always there, and then comes and sits next to me, and talks about things. not quite consciously, but she'd come to Expect him to be there. just kinda passively gravitates. makes room for him, if you will.
now, combat-wise. honestly? i think theyd work pretty well together. iirc az is more dps focused, given the whole. Motions To All Of Him. despite the Big Fuckoff Sword, cocoas actually more of a tank role when it comes to combat. she just. Takes It. its honestly really reckless-- she doesnt even Try to dodge a lot of the time. you can toss her around like a ragdoll and shell just get back up. even if shes pretty critically injured, she just. keeps doing it. the "Just Win" approach, if you will. shes a persistence predator. theres no reason for her to Stop when she starts, so she doesnt. itd be. really dangerous, if she wasnt a little freak of nature jdhfbgjdhf
which is to say, cocoa would be very very capable of covering for azrael if ever they had to face a threat together. though, more pressingly, to me, this is where more of cocoas character gets the chance to show through. she works well, very thorough, very reliable in her role; but her demeanor is a Very stark change from her usual. Violentce(tm). its the closest to Actually Agitated that she can get at that point. the "mechanical" descriptor becomes less of a similarity and more. um. concerning.
the thing is, too, is that she gets uneasy when someone else is in the line of fire. its hard to tell if this is some sort of concern, or if its just that she doesnt like having to keep track of another variable to work around. (its both. unfortunately, she represses the 'concern' Hard, and it kind of comes across as irritation. or um. as 'irritated' as she can get, really.) which is, again, to say; she will get Very restless if someone has to cover for her. shes entirely task-oriented, but theres a certain Tension she seems to put off when things get dire.
...that she entirely seems oblivious to the instant things calm down. and i think that would be what tips azrael off about. yk. Something Being Wrong With This One.
so like. the thing about these two is that cocoa is like, wholly Entirely incapable of exerting any sort of Anything of herself for a very long time. however, azrael very well could have the patience and persistence to simply. chip his way in. again, become part of her normal. becomes Habit. if he does, its hard to say that she Notices, but the way she acts does Change. routine starts to form Around him, and all. and honestly... that is really, really important to her.
because like. if someone is constantly just There for her, she will do the same thing back. maybe not entirely consciously, but still enough to be noticeable. she isnt very capable of reaching out, but she Does know that patience. and will simply allow things to be, to be said, without positing any expectation.
(i cant really speak much on either of their respective breakdowns-- azrael's because i feel it is not my place to speak (and cocoa is terribly suited to this sort of thing past essentially just being a punching bag,) and cocoa's because. um. Well Thats Quite A Lot. its something she only reaches due to the presence of another character (You Know Her.) and only really gets out of due to being a) Exhausted, and b) Stopped From Doing Serious Damage To Herself (and others..) in all honesty, i cant really say she Solved much past being able to see herself a bit more. but thats an aside.)
past everything, though, in her more conscious state... i do actually genuinely think they could get along pretty well. they have a very similar calmness about them, for lack of a better term. stillness. azrael would. also very much enable cocoa's sharp tongue, which is Really funny to think about. stupid little thinglets staring at you from a distance. silently, but the judgement in it is nigh tangible.. jhdbfgjd
they have this odd sort of dynamic, to me; this kinda dry, kinda sharp sort of reaction to things. cocoa very much (in the cat sort of way,) mirrors azraels demeanor, simply because well. he feels like the type of character she would genuinely start to trust, once she gets the ability to. shes still heavily passive, but remembers more, and goes out of her way to accommodate him. cat bringing you leaves and twigs but its things he may have said he'd liked at some point. (she also gets much more Defensive of the people she chooses to like, so that as well..)
her method of showing closeness to people is incredibly, Incredibly quiet, but i think he'd be able to do it, if he can push through those first barriers. she's hard to goad into much of anything, so you rarely ever get anything out of her, but it Does affect her.
i do also think about the funny little "Thats My Friend." whiteboarddoodle from the other day cause like. thats Exactly it, really. like.. she would just. "oh. we're friends? okay cool :)" and would play that part until she actually gets the mind to register "oh wait. youve been here the whole time. oh. okay."
tl;dr theyre getting wellcheers together in the break room. in my heart. yay <33
#did my best boss!! o7#piktalk#pikocs#i spoke mostly broadly about them; i took awhile bc i um i. um. had to . i went n did a tagdive so i could get my azrael lore better djbfgj#but!! genuinely. their potential dynamic is very interesting to me; iwanna study it under a microscope.. a. a michaelscope.#i kept the Facility vague since. tbh; its not that different from other ones; save for the. The Problems. . The Problem. Singular.#and honestly i havent quite detailed the specifics yet! figuring it out.. but. an aside.#tried to leave things a bit more open; mostly just extrapolating on my thinglet; just in case it sparks any potential ideas or anythin :]#putting them next to each other like dolls. u umnderstand.#oh uh! things i didnt have the flow to mention.#i think cocoa is a decent enough sparring partner. she does stem mostly defensive; as its not in her precedent to yk.#fight her teammates. shes got that. if you will. training dummy disposition. aha.#early on; she doesnt like her teammates being in danger. she completely shuts the thought out. But;#she gets more volatile if its someone she cares about. because she doesnt like that it matters to her.#that funny little tangle of restrictions starts to argue and it makes her malfunction a little. girl things.#awake; though; shes much Much more aware and stubborn about it. drawing fire is Her job; sit Down. doesnt matter how shes doing.#never really stops being reckless.. shes more amicable to cooperation; but. she. > >... >:/.... <:/#she. is still working on it. aha.
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ok i've done some light research. if you want a software engineer/fic writer's inital take on lore.fm, i'll keep it short and sweet.
my general understanding of lore.fm functionality:
they use OpenAI's public API. they take in the text from the URL provided and use it to spit out your AI-read fic. their API uses HTTP requests, meaning a connection is made to an OpenAI server over HTTP to do as lore.fm asks and then give back the audio. my concern is that i wasn't able to find out what exactly that means. does OpenAI just parse the data and spit out a response? is that data then stored somewhere to better their model (probably yes)? does OpenAI do anything to ensure that the data is being used the way it was intended (we know this probably isn't true because lore.fm exists)?
lore.fm stores the generated audio (i am almost certain of this because of the features described in this reddit post). meaning that someone's fic is sitting in a lore.fm database. what are they doing with that data? what can they do with it? how is it being stored? what is being stored, the text and the audio, or just the audio?
i find transparency a very difficult thing to ask for in tech. people are concerned with technological trade secrets and stifling innovation (hilarious when i think about lore.fm, because it doesn't take a genius to feed text into AI and display the response somewhere, sorry to say). and while i find the idea of AI being used to help further accessibility on apps that don't yet provide it promising, i find the method that lore.fm (and OpenAI) chooses to do this to be dangerous and pave a path for a harmful integration of AI (and also fanfiction in general -- we write to interact, and lore.fm removes that aspect of it entirely).
we already know that AI companies have been paying to scrape data from different sources for the purposes of bettering their models, and we already know that they've only started asking for permission to do this because users found out (and not from the goodness of their hearts, because more data means better models, and asking for permission adds overhead). but this way of using it allows AI to backdoor-scrape data that the original sources of the data didn't give consent to. maybe the author declined to have their fic scraped by AI on the site they posted it onto (if the site asked at all), but they didn't know a third-party app like lore.fm would feed it into an AI model anyways.
what's the point of writing fics if i have no control over my own content?
#i could talk about harmful integrations of AI for days#but this way of using it definitely sets a bad precedent#and i think ao3 unfortunately didn't anticipate this kind of thing when it was created#and so i don't want to blame ao3 entirely because they are a group of independent devs that are volunteering to do this#but i also think they either need to make an effort to protect text from being scraped this way#or they need to lockdown the site altogether#we call it fail-closed in cs terms#and right now it's fail-open#the problem with that is that there are probably people posting to ao3 right now that have no idea this is going on#and they don't know they should lockdown their fics#and now their fics are being fed into this model and they have no idea#idk#lore.fm#fanfiction#ao3
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found an acoustic version of white knuckles by ok go a few nights ago and i think it's slowly driving me insane <3
#pointless post is pointless#the original feels like it's about joyful catharsis and relief and letting go of regret and moving into the future with open arms#this one feels like the deep melancholy and regret and dawning acceptance of disappointment that precedes it#'nothing ever doesn't change. but nothing changes much.'#the ''white knuckles'' of the original are letting go. the acoustic ones are still holding on. if that makes sense.
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LISTEN listen shuro wants to be more genuine and open and needs to learn to not be a pushover. literally Who better to practice with than laios like Literally
#LIKE WHATS HE GONNA DO??? GET U IN TROUBLE COS U SAID SOMETHING SLIGHTLY WRONG#i understand that this becomes. complicated. a bit by the end of the manga cos of status#but like. cmonnn#OUGHHHH UGHGOGH OK WAIT LIKE. their fight was already an example of this#but sets a bad precedent becos now it seems like the only time shuro is really sincere is when getting angry#so maybe at the start its like that but someone (kabru??) catching on to this and like#idk helping him along like u could try being more open about other things like#concern (he has many) or annoyance or affection#and actually venting annoyance from the beginning probably stops it from escalating into actual anger later...#anyways. yep sjbffjjcjv
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i can’t believe it’s 2023 and the “only gay actors should play gay roles” argument is not only alive and kicking on twitter, but thriving. need you guys to shut the fuck up and log off so bad 😭
#im in the trenches for straight actors to play gay roles bro#because number ONE you don’t actually know if they are or not#which leads nicely to point number 2 — it’s none of your fucking business whether they are or not#basically it all just kinda translates to ‘I hate closeted people and I don’t think they deserve to work’ lmaooo#but also like imagine going into Starbucks and the hiring manager asks if you kiss girls#acting is a job and we should (literally) never allow people to be hired on the basis of their sexuality#you know why? because that opens the door for them NOT to be hired on the basis of their sexuality :)#thats never a precedent which should be allowed to exist#even if you think ‘oh but this is a special circumstance and it’s because it’s a public role’#that’s called a slope babe and it can get very slippery very quickly#Hollywood is powerful and stories are powerful and the media is powerful#and it’s ability to normalise and justify things at a rapid pace shouldn’t be overestimated
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re: this post and Kirk and Pike and their drinking habits
Kirk doesn’t seem to drink alone. At least we never see him drink alone as a captain. Aboard the ship, it’s always McCoy who brings him or pours him a drink in order to make Kirk relax. He often brings the alcohol as a comfort, as a way to make him talk. It’s almost a ritual that is always initiated by McCoy for Kirk’s own sake. McCoy does it as a friend, but he also does it from his position as Kirk’s doctor.
“Sometimes a man’ll tell his bartender things he’ll never tell his doctor.”
Pike doesn’t have anyone like that. Pike presents himself as everyone’s friend, and he makes sure it’s him who’s there for everyone, and that reflects even on the times when he’s in his own quarters talking to Una or Spock and it’s him who’s being “comforted”. At those times, it’s still Pike who plays a host and offers them a drink. For his own sake because they won’t do it for him. He pretends they’re his bartenders since that role doesn’t belong to anyone, and he needs to pour himself that drink.
Una is almost like Pike’s McCoy but not really. At times, Spock is almost like Pike’s McCoy but not really. He’s like twenty years younger than Pike and inexperienced, among other things. Neither of them have the option to question him and press him in the way that McCoy can with Kirk because neither of them can relieve him of his command. And M’Benga doesn’t seem to want that role.
Mister Spock, the man on top walks a lonely street. The chain of command is often a noose. is as real for Pike as it’s real for Kirk. Pike just has a more open personality and a way to captain the ship that make him seem less lonely on the outside.
#snw nonsense#tos nonsense#jim kirk#james t kirk#christopher pike#leonard mccoy#headcanon times#in case everyone sees it differently lol#yes the bartender quote is by boyce to pike but boyce and pike are mccoy and kirk#but you can also see it as pike had that person in the past but now he doesn't and he improvises#because the reliance on alcohol is something that helps. especially when he needs to open up#but he often also drinks because of grief#and pike isn't really as reliant on una emotionally as kirk is reliant on mccoy emotionally#or at least he doesn't make it look like it atm#anyway there is a reason why kirk needs mccoy and just spock isn't enough#even when spock tries to approach kirk from some emotional angle a scene with mccoy will either follow or precede#it's the way tos is done
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This is the last thing I'm probably gonna say on Palworld for a while but look
listen.
I'm just begging people to give this thread a look and stop being in denial.
Drawing inspiration from the same concept is one thing, but more-or-less tracing a model and barely tweaking it is a whole other kettle. I'm not going to bat for Nintendo here, because at the end of the day no matter what happens I doubt Palworld will put a dent in Pokemon's profits.
I just want people to stop harping on the fucking sheep and sending death threats to the devs. Make your case but for fuck's sake make it well and don't threaten to kill someone over it. The fuck is wrong with y'all??
#lot of ''art theft/AI is bad unless it's happening to someone I don't like'' happening lately#please don't say that like you think it could never happen to someone or something you actually DO care about#this can't be a good precedent to set#it WILL backfire#anyway#like I said#I actually want Palworld to succeed but not if the AI accusations are true#and not with stolen assets#my mind is open and willing to be changed#because#again#I actually really want to play this game#but I'm not going to unless there's solid proof against the AI accusations#and the fakemon theft accusations#and the straight up whole ass stolen/traced assets thing is sorted#*dox babbles
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The Tale of the “Poltergeist King”
There’s this very strange character that is mentioned in CV3′s ENG manual called the Poltergeist King, and he has no relevance to the plot of the game, only acting as the “keeper” of sorts to the Belmont’s sub-weapons (it’s just a made-up explanation for why they appear in random places).
In fact, he’s depicted in Captain N (which is how I even knew about this character in the first place). And altogether with the depiction given to him in the show along with the manual, I decided to make my own connections, oh-ho-ha.
“But Mew, how did you even get to this conclusion??”
Well... in Captain N, the Poltergeist King could take the form of a whirlwind.
Also, here’s another thing. Trevor isn’t entirely sure of the details in this tale (maybe Leon was a crummy storyteller). I have it so the “Poltergeist King” is not actually one person, but the name given to the Getsu Clan member taking on the role, and so it is possible Leon had met a different Getsu on his journey.
#this is a totally random thing I put together#but I was doing it for my own lil'rabble and reference#also I may as well get more used to trevor's (pretty) hair again#anywho simon was planning on visiting his ancestor here and his friend happened to tag along and got noticed#and that's when simon would explain his story with the getsu :>#now I know fuma is considered the 1st leader of his clan#but he had brothers and their swords were passed down for generations before them#so there are other getsu members preceding him I dunno#maybe it was one of his brothers-- let it stay open to interpretation ;V#doodle-daas#comics#castlevania#getsu fuma den#ralph c belmont#trevor c belmont#simon belmont#fuma getsu#anti netflixvania
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do you think Spite feels drawn to mages like spirits and demons do in the Fade or does that nature disappear/dampen during possession
#just staring at my entire Ossuary scene opening with Spite literally circling my mage Rook#and now thinking too hard about the reasoning being simply she's a mage so she's gonna be a little tantalizing#like demons leaking through beelining for mages makes a lot of sense to me#(and is a funny way to explain why my Rook had to run for her fucking life in every fight in game lmao)#but now I'm scared there's like a precedent I missed in side content or from DA2 specifically#“man I wonder why Night doesn't post much fanfic or fanart” I do this constantly#spend too much time researching and compiling info lmaooo I need to sleep
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