#ship stance

[liverdoctor]

Looking through anti-proship accounts and it's got me thinking on my views so I'll state them publically for whatever reason just to air it out.

I consider myself neutral ship on the basis of using the "pro-shippery" type ships to cope with something in private is okay. If you are well-minded enough and old enough to reasonably understand that that cannot be done in real life and never should be is okay. Having designated and private corners like server, chats, sites, private accounts is alright. But do not, and I mean do not publically share that material. Do not normalize this kind of relationship. Having com-ship fiction in private is alright, but do not make it public.

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

Let's be crystal clear. Queerbaiting is real. But it occurs when the creators intentionally hint at a queer relationship to lure in a queer audience to give them money, but never actually follow through on their heavy-handed implications of a queer relationship. Queerbaiting does not occur when the creator has been transparent from the very beginning that Malevolent is about friendship and platonic love, meant to work through the toxic masculinity they've lived throughout their entire life, and to express healthy platonic love (and sometimes unhealthy love) between two male-presenting characters. It is not queerbaiting when they emphatically tell each other that they love each other, because love isn't exclusively romantic, and while it is absolutely okay for people to ship them (and something that the creator is totally FINE with, btw), it is not okay to accuse the creator of lying about their relationship when he's been clear about it from the very beginning.

Friendship and platonic love is just as meaningful as romantic love and that's the whole point of Malevolent.

[jojaxcola]

post-wipeout patch up on a tuesday afternoon (embarrassing) [electric guitar]

[comradekarin]

when i got on twitter and said if katara had killed yon rha, zuko’s opinion of katara’s core character wouldn’t have changed (we even see that the split second shot of him seeing her blood bend) but aang’s would have- THEY NAILED ME TO THE FUCKING STAKE YALL! they hated jesus because he told the truth!

[hiekka]

they would have so much potential for gentleness in their dynamic after all their deeper complex-clashings would demand further vulnerability thus trust and understanding...

[arriettyspin]

I HATE how Jinx was turned into a mouthpiece for C_itvi this season. Why did her loathing of Caitlyn just disappear even though she acted exactly how she had feared in her hallucinations, nearly shooting Isha and leading the strike team gassing the Lanes? It almost feels like the writers took the homophobic Jinx memes from season 1 seriously and scrambled to contradict that notion in the most ham-fisted way possible.

I also find it interesting that Jinx (and Ekko, actually) never finds out about Caitlyn's physical and verbal abuse of Vi because no way in hell would she have said "you deserve to be with her" if she had known. And why was her final conversation with Caitlyn in the prison so out of character and forced? Why would Jinx apologise for the death of Cassandra, a councillor who contributed to the oppression of Zaun?

It's clear the writers were too cowardly to give Jinx any kind of strong political stance as a consequence of the Piltover-Zaun conflict being sidelined.

[aroaceleovaldez]

the way the fandom (and canon!) treats Nico versus Meg is so amusing to me given they have like one year between them at best. Meg in TOA is older than Nico in TLO. Why is every 13 year old in TOA babey when Nico is treated like the hottest emo boy who needs to enter a relationship Right Now or he'll Die but he only just turned 14. Meg is even shown to be basically equivalently powerful to a Big 3 kid. but she needs to be chaperoned meanwhile Nico at 11 is just let loose on the world unsupervised after beating up a ghost

[hocooart]

One of my many favourite scenes from Of Saints and Sinners by @morningstarwrites!

This one being from chapter 18 in Heaven, but don't worry - I won't spoiler too much, so you can go ahead and read it yourself! 😊

[renjihoe]

This is the universal love stance:

[skumhuu]

Proshipper = you're against censorship and harassment over fiction & curate your experience on the internet to have a healthy distance from things that make you uncomfortable

Antishipper = you're okay and even encourage harassment towards "freaks" and "weirdos" society deems acceptable to hurt

[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!!!!!

[tennant-the-tigger]

Photo Opportunity

Ext. J Edgar Hoover FBI Headquarters M: Scully, you've got to take a photo of me here!

TXF Fanart ☆ MSR Fanart

[el-sandwich-de-geto]

me tryna follow a blog entirely unrelated to shipcourse: pretty things yaaay :)

blog entirely unrelated to shipcourse: proship/neutral/anti-anti dni

me: >:(

[proshippers-against-censorship]

Lots of people moved over to bluesky from Twitter recently, and they have a thing of blocklist. Where someone can make a list and if you subscribe, you block everyone in that list so it's easier than blocking individually.

There are a few antis block lists, and sometimes people will be put on lists they don't belong on by accident.

I have seen so many people complain about being "accidentally" put on anti list just to click on their profile and them to have "proship dni/proship fuck off" in bio. Or "anti lolisho/proship dni" list and them having it clear in bio that they are thoes.

It wasn't an accident they were added. It isn't a mystery why they were added. It's very clear why, but they are acting like they were blindsided, and the person making the list must be wrong. If you have proship dni/proship fuck off in your bio you will be added to anti/proship dni list.

"I have proship dni in my bio, but it MUST be an accident that I was added to a list of people who also have proship dni in there bios"

Oh heavens.

[flibbertigibbety-jibber-jabber]

ANOTHER Invincible Shitpost (part 3)

I made the AmberEve thing because I love them, and my friend convinced me to draw MarkRex/FireFlight too, so I guess they swapped. Something something a win for bisexuals

More Invincible shitposts: [1] [2] [3] [4]

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The first time I saw this image was in a Pinterest comment section. So that picture is a bonus here because ewhhztdiayeygs I love it so kuch

[raayllum]

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