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[vixyz-aac-hoard]

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[mobius-m-mobius]

- Loki S01x01 - Glorious Purpose - Loki S02x06 - (contrapuntal poem credit to @too-bees-poetry)

[ndostairlyrium]

it's missing my beloved advisors hours

[elbdot]

Ooooo. Alola disliking Mega evolutions but Haru and Guzma being okay with Dyna-/Gigantamaxing is so fun take

My understanding of pokemon lore and gimmick mechanisms are vague at the best, but honestly... If we remove the increase of size, what is the difference between mega evolutions and gigantamaxing?

Is Alolans issues with megas based on how it "forces" a physical change and therefore potentially painful for the pokemon? Gigantamaxing does the exact same thing or even "worse" changes (in my personal opinion: mega vs dynamax gengar)

Is their issue about mega evolution making the pokemon more violent? Dynamax raids and a huge part of the Galar story line proofs that dynamaxing does the exact same thing. One could even say it is even more dangerous since it can not be predicted/controlled without modern science.

Is it because Megas are based on "mystery energy"? Again... Dynamaxing...

So either there is history between Galos and Alola that has lead to huge bias or Alolans just like Galar's culture more due the similarities it shares with their own (the Galar Legue being quite similar to Alola's Island Challenge but with a big stadium fight at the end)

As said... I probably forgetting some lore that explains this all (outside the multiverse and Alola being older region than Galar, ergo could not comment about Dynamaxing in their pokedex) but I am really interested to see how the boys will justify their stand on dyna-/gigantamaxing IF you decide to take the story there.

I postponed answering this ask to THIS WEEK since my reply would've been quite spoilery for todays update

PERSONALLY I like to think that Guzma and Hau *ahem, excuse my strong language* are talking out of their asses and don't actually know much about Dynamaxing/Gigantamaxing and especially not the problems Galar is facing due to the unstable energies causing Pokemon to randomly turn gigantic in the wild.

If they were more informed about it, I think they'd be far more critical of it, since you are correct: Dynamaxing causes FAR more damage and is an active threat in the region, unlike mega evolution, which is a state that doesn't randomly happen and CAN be controlled.

But Hau and Guzma literally only know Dynamaxing from watching the League matches on TV - and with Galar hosting one of the biggest and most reputable Leagues in the world, how could there POSSIBLY be anything wrong with Gigantamaxing, riiiight?

It's the typical scenario we're all too familiar with of knowing a little bit but thinking we know everything about something without actually having done much research on the topic.

[bananonbinary]

a part of the "any censorship, yes even of the real bad stuff, is a bad idea" discussion that i don't really see people talk about much:

art is history. there's stuff out there that i think is genuinely heinous. pick-up artistry. stuff about ethnic cleansing and White Genocide. racist old movies and other things that i feel are objectively immoral and causing harm.

but there's another part of me, the part that wanted to be a historian and preserve everything, that sees the value in keeping it around. even if it were possible to ban these things without any collateral damage, even if i wish a lot of this stuff had never been written, now that it has been, we can't cover it up. we can't pretend it hasn't happened, isn't happening, that tearing it from the shelves will mean our society didn't create this thing.

you don't have to leave it unchallenged, you can and should criticize it. but to pretend the thing you hate simply isn't there is to absolve it of any wrongdoing. the awful things need to be brought out into the light to be dealt with, not hidden away where they can fester. and after it's been challenged, it needs to be remembered.

[elf-trash]

reposting this bc the OP blocked me (and is blocking anyone else who disagrees which means blocked people can't reblog) and i want to say this loud and with my whole chest!!!!!

another Dragon Age fic was recently outed as being AI, and this is what the writer had to say for themselves about it:

so actually, Grammarly uses generative AI and is just as bad as ChatGPT. it also objectively makes your writing worse, it sucks the voice out of your prose and turns it into corporate sounding homogenized paste. it's also unethical for all the same reasons any generative AI is unethical. get a writing group and have a real human beta read for you if you don't trust yourself to check your own grammar etc. but honestly something unpolished and written entirely by your human brain and human imagination will ALWAYS be better than AI slop.

also, the part about published authors doing this is patently untrue. i know this is a huge problem in the self-publishing space, but most publishers now are including clauses in their contracts that expressly forbid the use of AI in ANY part of the creative process. this includes using ChatGPT to generate or clean up outlines or Grammarly to spellcheck and revise. so if you're trying to publish, don't fucking do this or you could literally be asked to return an advance if you get caught.

i've posted about this in the past, but AI detectors are actually shocking accurate these days. i've tested them extensively recently and they can consistently and correctly flag individual sentences written by ChatGPT in an otherwise original passage. and they almost never flag false positives. so the argument that AI detectors can't be trusted is just flat out wrong. are they correct 100% of the time? no. but can they indicate with a high degree of accuracy if AI was used in some capacity? absolutely, especially if there is additional evidence.

and for all the people hand wringing about AI detectors flagging false positives, let me just say this: if something is not AI written it is very easy to prove. you can't write anything of any considerable length without leaving a massive paper trail of notes and drafts. almost all writing software tracks changes and makes it very easy to prove you wrote something yourself. being falsely being accused of AI isn't actually a real problem and is only being made to seem as such by people who are trying to get away with and justify using AI or who are worried about getting caught.

i think a lot of people are just lured by a seemingly easy shortcut, and to their untrained eye, what the AI is spitting out feels "better" to them than their own writing. but i promise you it's not. trust your own brain and put in the work to improve at your craft rather than outsourcing the gift of your imagination to a robot that steals from other people's work.

i will continue to die on this hill!!!!!

[glitter-stained]

Ngl it really peeves me when the debate about Jason's ethics regarding killing in the batfam mixes up the question of him being a moral character in regards to sticking to his own philosophy (aka compromising with what he thinks is right to salvage relationships, but also exploding trains to evade capture, killing random goons in a gang war, etc) and the question of him being a moral character in regards to whether his philosophy is right. And even with regards to his philosophy there is his philosophy on politics, crime control and harm reduction, and his ethical philosophy itself (utilitarianism, aka focusing on intended positive consequences of actions for the greater good rather than the action being fundamentally moral or immoral in itself). Those are different things. Those require different debates and should not be conflated together. I'm not even saying Jason is right! I think utilitarianism and deontology both suck and fail at providing sufficient guidelines for moral behaviour. ("Everybody still loses" like the nihilist clown says. The symbolism of that one scene is pretty cool on that regard.)

And I think some people at dc would very much like for you to make the connection that because Jason is harming civilians/killing unnamed goons, he is a bad person, and as such you don't need to examine the way his stance on moral philosophy (utilitarianism) opposes Batman's. But that's not right, they don't get to wiggle out of the fact that utilitarianism vs deontology is a complicated debate that has been going on for ages, that there is no clear-cut answer where Batman fundamentally comes out on top, they don't get to use the fact that Jason (in the era currently discussed) is a villain to saddle us with a false dichotomy of "well jason is wrong about stuff so batman has to be right" to avoid addressing the actual question. The traits of the people being tied on the tracks do not change the shape of the trolley problem. The traits of the person deciding to pull the lever do not change the shape of the trolley problem. It's still one lever, three people tied on one track, one on the other, do you pull the lever. That's it. Yes, bending the metaphor to address other questions (such as "who keeps tying people to the tracks" to question systemic violence or "how does my bias, my prejudice and empathy impact my decision to pull the lever depending on who is on the tracks") are interesting but that's not what the debate is about. If I wrote an essay about the trolley problem in high school and focused primarily on the nature of the people being tied on the tracks, I'd get a big fat zero with "off-topic" written in red all over my essay, so I'm not inclined to allow DC comics to get away with it.

[zombidog]

✮ lambbite! ✮

-> This is a drama/discourse-specific stance that summarizes to a single concept: don't bite if you aren't willing to be bitten.

-> LambBite is about returning the energy given, especially in arguments or discourse. If someone approaches/reacts/behaves in a calm, civil, and/or mature manner, a lambbite being will do the same. If someone is hostile, insulting, immature, and/or accusatory, a lambbite being returns that in their responses/interactions. This stance directly advocates against the idea that others should be responsible for placating aggressors and those who do wrong, rather than holding said aggressors accountable for their behavior.

-> It's important to note that this stance does not extend to supporting genuinely harmful retaliation (doxxing, harassment, death threats/sui baiting, etc.). This stance doesn't encourage or condone actions like these, and instead places emphasis on unapologetically calling out and spreading awareness of those behaviors if they occur.

if this name is already in use or if there's already a very similar term to this, please consider this an alternate term/recoin!

[chaimateur]

You were rewatchin’ Letterkenny with yer pals the other dayyy…

I told you I’d fuckin draw it @bisexualcrowley

[lonisaiou]

this turned out to be my last project of the semester and got me an amazing grade (thanks teacher for appreciating punk Marceline) (+hence I decided to make her human instead of vampire, which isnt a big of a difference, just the ears lol)

enjoy my most beloved Human Marceline in all her punk glory

[inseparabiles]

#highkey envy everybody in the tags#who gets asks like 'please write piss kink yesterday'#where the fuck are you getting your freaks from#high society life has made me so prim and proper#got my pinky up when I drink my fucking tea

would you like write smut like that? is that why you haven't because you don't get asks like that and you would if you did? asking for a friend

It's genuinely. Like don't get me wrong we do like writing our genfic, we do love our all of that that we're doing anyway and people seem to like reading, but it's like

I guess it's been oddly branding? And I don't know if it's that people now take that brand as a "well you wouldn't do this thing and asking it of you would be weird and I'm going to respect your implicit boundaries by not doing it" or if it's more like "we, the audience that you have, want this specific thing that you're already writing and when you part from it it's HIGHKEY WEIRD and OFFPUTTING" or a mix of both but

would we like to get the kind of unhinged requests that we're seeing all over the tags? Get slapped in the face with an ask that's just so out there? Write explicit for the sake of explicit without having to find a better excuse for it? Yes. God. Yes. We would.

[marzipanandminutiae]

if you're terrified for your country's elections next year because a lot of people seem to think the solution to the government handling an international conflict in an abysmal and deplorable way is to let a group of total monsters who would handle it MUCH worse AND also potentially doom huge swaths of oppressed people at home as well as our entire literal planet get into power, by ignoring the way our deeply flawed but also deeply entrenched system realistically works

clap your hands...?

(I cannot understand trying to stop heinous and unnecessary killing- which disgusts and saddens me, too! how could it not?! -by handing the election to people who want to do even more of that exact thing. the math isn't mathing, as they say)

[danthropologie]

What did Christian say?

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[asthedeathoflight]

Anti-bootleg sentiment is soooo frustrating as someone who's studying theater academically. I mean in general being in academia makes anti-piracy arguments so fucking frustrating. I will always, ALWAYS, value the preservation and accessibility of knowledge over the "potential" profit someone could have made on it. Period. The whole anti art-piracy argument is that people who pirate would otherwise pay to experience that art in the "correct" way and thats just as false a premise as netflix claiming that everyone who password shares would otherwise buy their own account. And for mediums like theater, bootleggers are very often the ONLY PEOPLE PRESERVING THIS ART. I know video recordings arent the way youre "supposed" to experience theater - literally everyone who watches them is. But without that video preservation, the study of theater becomes just the study of play texts. And most theaters DO preserve archival recordings of plays for their own records and theyre not available ANYWHERE. Do you know how much money that theater could make if i could pay them $15 to watch a shitty single camera recording of a play they produced in 2010. It is so frustrating to watch my entire field dedicate itself to destroying knowledge just because theoretically i guess i might not pay to go see the play? That closed in 2010. Or buy the play script. That was never printed. Or whatever the fuck they think is going on.

[deoxysandthesolarsystem]

Weirdcorebased, a -based term that refers to systems that are based on the weirdcore aesthetic. This can include music, images, and anything relating to it. This can mean a system's innerworld, headmates, roles, or functions are affected by weirdcore, but it's not necessarily an origin. If this has been coined before, feel free to use this as an alternate term. This term (and flags) can be posted anywhere, credit preferred when posted to wiki sites.