#so don't come at me

[kedreeva]

I'm going one up the thread to remove the comment below this one stating that AO3 is an archive for fanworks that have been created and these "fics" have been created. That's tautologically untrue. Ai-generated "stories" have been generated, not created. It is a machine vomiting up what it has been fed, not a fan working to create. Do not mistake one for the other.

THAT SAID.

AO3 IS an archive, that part is true. And allowing these kinds of works IS important but not because they are creations, and certainly not because they are fan creations (as they were generated by a machine, not created by a fan. They were POSTED by a fan). But because people are GOING to do this regardless of if it is allowed, and allowing it means there are tags they can use that allow people to filter against it and ignore it. Disallowing it, as stated above, means it still gets posted, but with no tags or warning. That's bad. That's so much worse than just allowing it.

On top of that, there is unfortunately merit in the recording of when people used machines to generate a facsimile of human creation. This doesn't mean those stories have merit as stories, because they don't. But archiving their existence as a part of fandom history - even if it's a part you don't like - and allowing people a safe avenue to display them in a way that allows others to avoid them is important. Minding your own business is a skill you MUST learn in fandom. Don't like, don't read is a mindset you MUST cultivate even when it applies to you, instead of being your defense.

We cannot avoid repeating history if there is no record of it, and keeping records is what an archive is for. You don't have to like every word in the archive to understand why censorship is bad.

do people have no shame anymore?

[daenerystemper]

seeing jon.sas/stan.sas (on twitter) compare ar/ya st/ark to vis/erys ii tar/garyen to defend san/sa almost killing her sister due to bae/lish's influence before br/an tells her not to do that & saying that ar/ya coming back from essos distant & cold & traumatized means she's just as bad as a violent abuser is actually so wild to me...

[garlicbreadish]

evan was never loved properly, and barty never knew how to love properly.

[carmen-berzattos]

I wish that when people are evaluating ships and analyzing what works and doesn't work about it from a narrative perspective that they wouldn't appeal to chemistry. Chemistry is just a poor analysis of the narrative significance of the relationship because:

It's incredibly subjective whether you perceive chemistry between two actors or not, and your interpretation of the chemistry between those actors is just as subjective

some of y'all think a man and a woman looking at each other is chemistry

some of y'all just think the two actors look hot together

[undeadsomulo]

Character Analysis: Sirica

Sirica.

 I've been thinking of this character like, a lot. Back then, during purgatory of reception week at formerly-known Fort Hood, I binged-watched KRBAY during my days slowly decaying in my barracks room going through the motions of being processed into my new unit. It was just comfort waves washing over me so a lot of details were mushy and I usually only watched it after I drank a lot. So I wasn't fully paying much attention to the episodes. 

Now, I have been rewatching it again to get some ideas (okay, mostly one episode) and this girl shows up for a sinful amount of short time in the entire series and she's the most interesting character ever?

I just realized something about episode 60. She has this really cool multi-weapon that isn't really made clear where she obtained it from but it does have the Holy Nightmare Logo on the handle. It seems like a high possibility that Holy Nightmare also manufactures weapons as well. 

Here's what I think and kind of connected these dots myself. I may not have been the only one to do it, but here's my humble take:

King Dedede is ordering his monster of the day. As he's talking about the "invader" CS speaks as if he knows of her. Immediately like "oh white alien girl?" there was some familiarity when talking about her. Also, I don't think it's a flimsy coincidence that CS sent the very monster that killed her mother. 

What am I getting at?

I think CS dude gave Sirica her weapon.

How would she have known that Meta Knight was on mission with her mother and the whole story of what went down? And not even really the whole story but somehow a painted version that Meta Knight left Garlude for dead? I think CS fed into it and I know that Kirby is target number one for elimination but the Star Warriors and Nightmare aren't exactly best friends. 

I fully believe it was in hopes that Sirica would take down Meta Knight AND Kirby but CS (who's canonically a dickhead) wanted to give Sirica a big hate boner for Meta Knight and then simply have Kirisakin just kill them all off. 

But I found it interesting that CS spoke of Sirica like he knew of her by extension through Garlude.

Also, Sirica sucks at aiming. Someone please give her aim bot. I'm not trying to paint her like some incompetent idiot, she's been around the block obviously, but I get the vibes she's still getting used to her weapon. I know it's a children's show and they can't exactly show characters getting riddled with holes but I like to think Sirica was only somewhat trained enough to use the weapon.

Like I couldn't totally see a young hot-blood, out for vengeance being easily manipulated and maybe CS guy casually training her. Like putting Sirica in some battle arena where she practiced against low-tier demon beasts. Honestly could totally see that. Then Sirica sent out on the hunt for Meta Knight after being spoon-fed some lies. 

Sirica knows how to use her weapon well enough to get what it needs to do and switch it to whatever she needs it to do but these are just some nuances I picked up on the English dub that I thought it'd be interesting if this were the case rather than "lol she must've stolen it". 

I may have glazed over some details, again I watched the English dub because I have to comb through YouTube and other sites to really find the episodes and the English dub is all I can really handle if I'm being honest. I could go into a little bit about how Meta Knight didn't immediately recognize Sirica either. Most likely because he never:

1. Has seen her grown up.

2. Never actually met her in the first place only heard of her through Garlude. 

I'm just saying Sirica had to remind him of her mother, and that can be chalked up to a lot of things because I'm sure Meta Knight has known a plethora of warriors in his time and has seen so many of them fucking die that eventually faces just start blurring together. 

Because life and precious time being against me, it has been a hot minute since I sat down and actually watched the anime. But I do casually still try to do so because now, as an adult, I can fully appreciate it more and even stem my own headcanons from it. 

[ohihopeicanchangethislater]

To be completely honest, I don't know that much about the Josh Hutcherson meme that's going around.

But I think it's funny that the actor from the movie based on the jump scare internet horror game is now an internet jump scare

[me-writes-prompts]

So I was watching 'You' on Netflix, and I think to myself that Joe is all of us. You, me, every single person. Except, some of us don't turn into a Joe. Like the character. We don't give in to the monsters that live inside us, unlike Joe. We aren't truly honest to our selves unlike Joe, who decides to give in to his demons. Give in to intrusive thoughts. But on the other hand, we exhibit self-control. A lot of it. Every day. I think that's what makes us apart from Joe, even though secretly we all yearn to be a Joe. And that's a really bold statement to make. (Thank you for coming to my ted-talk lmaooo)

[gonzoscrimalpast]

Left Behind

OK I don’t usually get into my Harry Potter (Drarry) feels any more, but I was thinking about this fanfic idea last night... 

The Battle of Hogwarts left Harry Potter with a life-altering traumatic brain injury (I just think having a horcrux ripped from your brain would be messier...), shattering his dreams of becoming a Auror. The aftermath demands years of grueling therapy and convalescence, and even then, he remains frail and uncertain of his future. While his friends moved forward, going back to school and building careers and lives, Harry can't escape the feelings of loneliness and displacement.

Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy emerges from a stint in Azkaban, bitter and anger, but determined to forge a new path for himself. A chance encounter brings Harry and Draco together. Surprisingly, they discover that they might just be the missing pieces in each other's journey to start over...

P.S- Ask me where I think Ginny is in all this. 

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[transrevolutions]

the thing terfs (and transphobes in general) don't seem to get about sexual preferences re: not being attracted to certain genitals is that like. okay. you have a preference. this feature is a turn-off. but that does not mean it is necessary to constantly broadcast how unattractive and undesirable you find people with this feature. you do not have to do that. in fact, it is generally considered quite rude. sexual compatibility or lack thereof has nothing to do with moral purity or legitimacy.

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[elucubrare]

there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.

[abisalli]

A Robin lineup of sorts :) (sorry for no Carrie, Maps or Matthew... I was tired)