#text by this machine

[prinnay]

petal in the machine

[cynical-canidae]

Ok so basically

[catboy-dysphoria]

Posting this as its own post bc I'm so proud of myself for making this

[stropdraws]

guy who owns a stove and cooks over it but doesnt actually use it to heat anything up. whats wrong with him.

[bnmxfld]

Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.

Florence + the Machine / How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

[giarossin]

istg the moment i saw jayce d**th threats i realised how much i overestimated cognitive abilities of this fandom. they were just happy to jump on a hate train without taking a second to comprehend what even happened. "his mind [fucking] suffered", viktor told y'all himself. not to mention what horrors he saw in arcane backrooms. not to mention viktor literally wanted him to destroy the hexcore before he became jesus and literally dumped him because he didn't do it.

[orangechickenpillow]

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis

[scarlettgauthor]

I first posted this in a thread over on BlueSky, but I decided to port (a slightly edited version of) it over here, too.

Entirely aside from the absurd and deeply incorrect idea [NaNoWriMo has posited] that machine-generated text and images are somehow "leveling the playing field" for marginalized groups, I think we need to interrogate the base assumption that acknowledging how people have different abilities is ableist/discriminatory. Everyone SHOULD have access to an equal playing field when it comes to housing, healthcare, the ability to exist in public spaces, participating in general public life, employment, etc.

That doesn't mean every person gets to achieve every dream no matter what.

I am 39 years old and I have scoliosis and genetically tight hamstrings, both of which deeply impact my mobility. I will never be a professional contortionist. If I found a robot made out of tentacles and made it do contortion and then demanded everyone call me a contortionist, I would be rightly laughed out of any contortion community. Also, to make it equivalent, the tentacle robot would be provided for "free" by a huge corporation based on stolen unpaid routines from actual contortionists, and using it would boil drinking water in the Southwest into nothingness every time I asked it to do anything, and the whole point would be to avoid paying actual contortionists.

If you cannot - fully CAN NOT - do something, even with accommodations, that does not make you worth less as a person, and it doesn't mean the accommodations shouldn't exist, but it does mean that maybe that thing is not for you.

But who CAN NOT do things are not who uses "AI." It's people who WILL NOT do things.

"AI art means disabled people can be artists who wouldn't be able to otherwise!" There are armless artists drawing with their feet. There are paralyzed artists drawing with their mouths, or with special tracking software that translates their eye movements into lines. There are deeply dyslexic authors writing via text-to-speech. There are deaf musicians. If you actually want to do a thing and care about doing the thing, you can almost always find a way to do the thing.

Telling a machine to do it for you isn't equalizing access for the marginalized. It's cheating. It's anti-labor. It makes it easier for corporations not to pay creative workers, AND THAT'S IS WHY THEY'RE PUSHING IT EVERYWHERE.

I can't wait for the bubble to burst on machine-generated everything, just like it did for NFTs. When it does some people are going to discover they didn't actually learn anything or develop any transferable skills or make anything they can be proud of.

I hope a few of those people pick up a pencil.

It's never too late to start creating. It's never too late to actually learn something. It's never too late to realize that the work is the point.

[anniilaugh]

🖤 The Emptiness Machine - Part 1.

A lyric comic + an AU where Sanji has had a kind of ”Gollum-Smeagol” situation with Stealth Black for all his life. Tired of being in the back seat Black’s gaslighting intensifies to fully take control. But does Zoro know?

Visit me and this comic at bluesky!🦋

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went to a vending machine, put a quarter in and I got two tiny glass pigs the size of Tic Tacs. Also, Strong Bad said I should get tiny police caps for them.

[reeltoreeled]

TRENT REZNOR for STOP Magazine, Vol. 3. 1990.

[heartfullofleeches]

Friend: "Claw Machine that gives you any prize your heart desires" Huh. Interesting.

Darling: That can't possibly be true. It's a pretty bold statement to claim, and impossible. Like, does a hot monster spouse fall under the umbrella of any prize?

[Soft tapping can be heard from the other side of the glass]

Claw Machine Entity: Hello there :)

[Darling's friend side eyes them]

Darling: Wha- It's not like I knew that would happen!

[one-thousand-cherrytrees]

Hermann As Random Things I Found, a squeal to my Newt post.. Bonus:

[raavenb2619]

I’m not sure when exactly this happened, but I think it’s clear that the aro community really is a community, now.

For the longest time I’ve felt like we were still in stasis, not quite there; a proto-community, yes, but not quite a community. But we have more history now to lean back on, more of each other to talk to and laugh with and cry with and learn from. More people that’ll go forward and make a part of modern aro history. More people that believe us, believe in us, will stand with us if we ask them.

I wouldn’t consider myself an aro elder yet, though each year I’m surprised at how long aromanticism has been a part of my life, how long I’ve been free of doubt or insecurity about my aromanticism, how far we’ve come since I was questioning. Then again, when I was questioning, some of the people I looked up to for guidance were probably close to the age I am now, so I might be there sooner than I think.

And, I’m so so hopeful for all aros, young or old, new or not, because we’ve come so far. Day by day, progress is slow (and yes, it’s unfair, it should be so much faster), but looking back it feels fast. We are our own role models, the people we look up to for guidance. We carve our own path through life, making things up as we go. I used to find that terrifying, because I had no idea what the future would bring. But it’s actually amazing, because I can ignore all these silly “rules” and guidelines about what my life should be, and instead ask, “what do I want my life to be?”

Younger me, you have no idea how awesome your future is gonna be. I’m sorry about the pain and hardship you’ll go through first; it won’t be fair and you shouldn’t have to deal with it. But you’ll make it through, and one day you’ll be me. I can’t wait for you to get here.

[bnmxfld]

Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.

Florence + the Machine / How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

[parallelunivrses]

my cousin is having a baby, and last month I made this baby blanket for her baby! I made this entire blanket in the span of about a month in between classes (and while watching A LOT of Survivor lmao) and finished it THE MORNING of the baby shower. I am so pleased with how it turned out, and now I am wanting to make more blankets :)

the yarn I used was Cascade 220 superwash merino wool, and I was making up the pattern for the blanket as I went!