#such a fucking insult to writers

[frostwork]

So when I told my friends DA was “my city now” i did not anticipate Bioware to purge the entire team and kill the franchise in less than a week but now its somehow true so uh general stance unchanged about writing quality I hope all of the axed writers flourish and I will now even less apologetically rework DAV because Biosquare killed it and it is in fact my city now

[aka-indulgence]

Me looking up “list of english profanities” so I can find the right curse word that sounds the most satisfying

[urheavenlylux]

Just read a few chapters of a popular overlord Huskerdust fanfic. So many parts are just blatantly written by ChatGPT. I’m so fucking sick of this shit. Has anyone else noticed this??

It’s the vague descriptions/abstracts. ChatGPT fully relies on abstracts so what you get are odd phrases like “Angel displayed romantic emotions” and “The beautiful garden unfurled before them, full of gorgeous scents and pretty blooms.” It sounds so alien. Unnatural. Maybe because it’s written by a fucking computer. And this fic has tons of kudos too.

IF YOU USE CHATGPT TO WRITE FOR YOU, YOU ARE NOT A WRITER. PERIOD.

Also, how hard is it to warn your audience that you use AI to write?

[gingerswagfreckles]

Lol 😆

[werewolves-are-real]

Go fuck yourself anon

This morning I received an extremely condescending ask, where an anonymous person said they were heartbroken by my recent 'pro-Israel' posts and could not in good conscience engage with my works until I learned to have 'empathy.'

I immediately deleted it, because it was idiotic. But here's the thing: I don't usually post about the war. So then I started thinking about what I posted recently that might be viewed as pro-Israel. And now I'm mad.

Here is a list of posts that might be CONSTRUED as pro-Israel (by this person) starting from most recent back to Oct. 7th:

-A post joking about a misspelled 'happy Hanukkah' greeting

-A post about different types of menorahs

-A post talking about a Philedelphia-based Jewish man who was targeted by violent rioters for the crime of.... donating to a civilian-led non-profit that provides free medical services to Israel.

-A post about misconceptions over the names of places in Israel, and how the Hebrew words are fucking old and basically have nothing to do with colonialism regardless of what you think about the war.

-A post condemning the denial of Hamas rape victims, because Hamas are terrorists, regardless of anything else you might believe about the war,

-A post talking about what zionism actually means, historically, since it's kinda a relevant issue and some people use it improperly.

-A post also talking about the definition of genocide.

-A silly posts about Jewish prayer emojis

-A post which I will quote here, actually:

-A post about biased media coverage.

-A post about a Jewish journalist who feels unsafe.

-A post calling out people for only caring NOW, and only getting angry at Israel, rather than – for example – neighboring Egypt refusing to open the border. Because people love hating Israel without figuring out why.

-Another post by Jewish people alarmed by how VIOLENT people are getting toward them.

-A post again pointing out that you can think both Israel and Hamas are doing bad things, actually.

-A post where I lament that I can't post the next chapter of Without Reason because it included a scene with a synagogue and there's no way I can post it without people assuming it's some sort of commentary on the war.

-A post I can't rapidly summarize but that basically criticizes people being callous and, again, anti-semitic while pretending anti-semitism doesn't exist.

That's it, that's all I can find in a quick search since Oct. 7th. You might notice that none of these are really explicitly pro-Israel. In fact, most of them aren't about Israel at all, and they certainly don't demonize Palestine. So what I'm gathering is that this anon is deeply hurt by my posts about *checks notes* – Jewish holidays, Jewish terminology, and rising anti-semitism.

And a desire for people to calm down and use nuance in their discussions, which I guess is scary to some folks.

My most recent posts are about the holidays. If you cannot read a 'happy hanukkah' message without conflating your political anger – about a war on the other side of the world - with anger toward all Jewish people, I am asking you to examine YOUR lack of empathy, and particularly why it does not extend toward Jews.

And if you don't want to 'engage with my work,' great! I don't write to entertain anti-semites :) So get the fuck away from me.

[gwensy]

gonna be annoying in the tags

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

Hey!!

This is a general post so feel free to spread it but

Can people please learn how tags on tumblr work?

If you mention a thing AT ALL in a tag, no matter if it's just one word in a sentence, it WILL show up when people search that thing! Yes even if you are complaining about said thing.

So if you want to make a negative post about a particular fandom or media or fans of a certain thing, can you please either not mention it in the tags or divide it like "star//wars" or something like that.

No matter how annoying you find a thing, the majority of people who like it are just trying to have a nice time. I keep seeing like... hurtful and insulting and rude posts in tags I frequent and it's not great. So can people PLEASE learn how this works. Thanks so much!!

[dullahandyke]

the insanity that is gyaxa is really working against me here. aura your stupid workplace is making it hard for me to contrive a way to shove a bitchy woman in the room with you so you can lez out

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

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[rearranging-deck-chairs]

see dirk gently is good bc all these people are clearly weird but they dont say that out loud they just act on it

[taegularities]

oh but he IS a fucking asshole. fucking other women before they got married just because there's no label between him and oc isn't enough???? (while he's clearly CLEARLY approaching oc and fixing things between them, duh) so you have to fucking ruin his redemption arc because surprise surprise he had an illegitimate son. so many other things to plot yet you always have to pick the shittiest one, fuck you

??? LMFAO??????? who ruined your day, babe? where do you get all that anger from, for a fucking FANFIC? if it doesn't suit your taste, then find something you like elsewhere? he coped with heartbreak by sleeping with one (1) woman while they were broken up (not even together) and yes, the 19th century will make ppl have babies bc there was no contraception. you wouldn't be whining if this was a modern day fuckboy jk fic. he was allowed to do whatever the fuck he wanted to before he even fell for oc or approached her.

i always pick the shittiest plot? then wtf are you still doing on my blog and why haven't you gotten lost wayyyyy before sending this ask? i'm confused. like are you okay. do you just like being upset or… i'm not sure. either way, be a cunt somewhere else, there's enough shit to deal with and i so do not have any patience left for shit ass rotten people like you lmfao this is for you

[queer-reader-07]

i see a lot of talk about people being exhausted with the good omens fandom because all they see is takes they disagree with/outright make them angry. and while i understand that, i'm kind of the opinion that you curate your own fandom & internet experience and if you're seeing takes you don't like you can block people and not engage. cuz tbh, i think engaging with the shitty takes just makes you more upset than if you were to just leave it alone.

[inknbrew]

You're a coward and you will die alone and without anything to live for because of the pain you'll go through,

History will not wait for you and you will be forgotten by every living thing that has ever existed on earth.

[obitoslay]

Somebody commented on my hashimada fic asking for a looking for forgiveness update …. Feeling murderous

[quietwingsinthesky]

I’m kind of new in the Supernatural fandom and I genuinely do not understand the hate so many people seem to have towards Sam. Like, when I first started watching, I thought Sam and Dean fans would be pretty evenly distributed. Are the majority of the viewers Destiel fans that hate anyone that isn’t part of their favorite imaginary couple, or is something else going on? Is Sam just unlikable to that many people?

Well. Okay. We can’t discount that Destiel is a major factor in this. You know, for one thing, a lot (and I mean a lot) of destiel content will just cut Sam out, which to be fair is not uncommon for ship content as a whole but when you’ve got such a juggernaut as destiel, it definitely affects fandom perception as a whole. That’s not even getting into how people who haven’t watched the show will then get into destiel and not supernatural, meaning the only Sam things they get are scraps from within a largely dean-and-Cas-centric narrative.

There was, probably still is, a sizable amount of people who would happily say they skipped the first three seasons to get to Cas, which is!! The first three seasons are a lot of Sam! (And of building Sam and Dean’s relationship, central to the show!) Starting in s4 launches you straight into the demon blood arc with no context of what Sam was like before or how desperate and grief-riddled he would have to be to get to this point, meaning all people see is Sam Acting Bad. And first impressions are hard to fix.

To be fair, it’s not only on destiel and it’s wider effects on how the fandom perceives… anything. (And that doesn’t just effect perception of Sam, either! It leads to distorted views of other characters, im thinking John and Benny rn, they get the worst of it.) The show itself also fails Sam. A lot. He is consistently underwritten, his agency is undermined and then that’s never addressed, and his interests are never really shown as cool and quirky like Dean’s. Dean gets episodes around his love of cowboys, Sam gets his love of true crime mentioned now and then, you see what I mean.

People will say insane shit about Sam. Like, “Sam is boring” is the least egregious take I’ve ever seen. From “Sam going to Stanford was selfish and bad” to “How Dean treats Sam is okay and normal because Sam doesn’t leave him”. It’s just. It’s very weird.

Full-disclosure, I consider myself a fan of both brothers, but I’ve got heavy Sam bias in my own ships and what I tend to reblog. So take that as you will.

(P.S. anyone else with thoughts or a different view on the fandom trends, feel free to chime in.)

[cloudluvs]

it was incredibly frustrating to see keeley once again be the pacifier between roy and jamie. it's been three seasons and she's still having to deal with their jealously and conflict. like, why do the writers oppose her having healthy relationships romantically and platonically?