#this isn't negativity or anything it's more just thinking

[project-sekai-facts]

The saki glue theory isn’t true?!

I mean it is just a theory… A GAME THEO-

Okay, I’ll stop. But I do wonder why you think that especially since that theory is incredibly popular.

The Saki glue theory, at least from what I've seen, says that if Saki died in middle school it would mean that none of the units in the game would form. The things is, it literally makes no sense if you think about it properly for more than a few seconds.

Of course Leo/need wouldn't exist, because it's not Leo/need without all four of them, and Saki was a key player in mending their friendship. As for Tsukasa, by middle school he was already a theatre kid, so he's not just gonna drop that because his sister died. Yes he would be greatly affected by it but he also wouldn't quit (it's during this point that he actually pushed aside and forgot his original motivations, so he doesn't associate Saki with his dream here). And Tsukasa would still encourage Toya to rebel against his dad, so Toya still meets Akito and they still form Bad Dogs and eventually VBS.

When it comes to MMJ and N25 it becomes really obvious that this theory is grasping at straws. The main explanations I've seen as to how Saki could possibly affect them is that Shiho and Honami become depressed, so Shizuku quits idol work to be there for Shiho, and Honami never becomes Kanade's housekeeper so doesn't call an ambulance for her when she collapsed of dehydration, and Kanade dies.

It just doesn't make sense at all. Yes, Shizuku loves Shiho and would obviously be there to comfort her, but she isn't just going to quit being an idol for that. Shizuku is her own character with her own complicated feelings towards said idol job. She isn't going to drop everything for her sister. And while I think Honami would still become a housekeeper, if she didn't Kanade would just have another housekeeper who probably would've found her the exact same way Honami did. Also at least some people who push for this forget that Shiho and Honami already were not in a great place mentally when Saki was in hospital in middle school. We already have insight into how they coped with losing Saki (not in that sense) and MMJ and N25 still exist despite this. Yes grief is different, but you get the idea.

The Saki glue theory is just a cheap grab at angst rather than anything that actually considers how Saki would impact other characters and their relationships. Yes she does affect some characters but she is not going to drastically rewrite the narrative if she dies nor will everyone close to her become too depressed to function. If we're being really, really, honest, you can kinda tell this theory probably exists partially to give pointless angst to her brother, which is a whole separate issue.

Like, Saki is important to some characters don't get me wrong, but she's only important to the narratives of four, those being the other members of Leo/need, and Tsukasa. She absolutely does not affect every character in the game, even by proxy. Chart:

I'm not saying angst in fandom is a bad thing, and it can be interesting to explore darker and more negative themes/emotions with characters who don't get to experience these a lot in the source material, but within this fandom there is an issue with pulling out nonsensical explanations for dark stories, which like 50% of the time involve killing off the chronically ill character. And a lot of those are to write angst for her brother and ignoring what actually is written in canon about him and his relationship with Saki. Ableism and misogyny with one move. Real nice.

[infiniteorangethethird]

Every time I see a description of autistics and their routines, esp ones aimed to make allistics understand better, I feel like my experiences as an actually autistic person are completely misrepresented by it. And it's entirely possible that it's just me always finding posts that weren't meant for me specifically, but I've never found anyone talk abt autistic routines and be like "yep, that's me, that's how routines feel to me".

It sometimes feels like that even the most well-meaning of posts or articles or whatever boil down to the idea that, at the end of the day, an autistic person's routine doesn't serve any "real" purpose. That routines are just what we got used to over time, and as such they bring us familiarity and comfort, but beyond that familiarity and comfort they are senseless and pointless. That you should respect an autistic person's routine (so long as it's not harming anyone) - despite it being obviously nonsense.

And to be clear, I don't think there's anything wrong with routines "just" for the sake of familiarity and comfort, and I do agree that you should respect ppl's boundaries even if they don't make sense to you. This isn't the problem. My issue is that every time I take a look at my own routines, I could take each and every part of it and tell you exactly what specific purpose it serves and why it cannot be removed without serious negative consequences.

For example. I tend to eat at the same times every day, because my body sucks at telling me properly when I'm hungry and sticking to time instead of bodily sensations allows me to ensure I eat properly. I always go through my morning routine the same way because "morning routine" is a lot easier to remember than remembering each and every element of getting ready, individually, every morning. I take the same route to work every time because paying attention to my surroundings is extremely taxing, and walking the familiar path lets me turn off my mind and let my instincts instead of conscious decisions direct me.

And this perspective changes why I might be upset about changes in routine as well. It's not just upsetting because it's unfamiliar and scary, it's upsetting because the consequences can be downright painful. If I don't eat on time I might forget to eat at all and could end up in a too-hungry-to-eat spiral that can take days to escape. If my morning routine is messed with I am almost certain to forget at least one step of it, which, depending on the step, can mess with my entire rest of the day (for instance, forgetting to pack my bottle and not being able to drink as a result).

So much of the advice I see floating around regarding these routines seems to be of the belief that they don't actually stem from anything besides habit, and as such the negative reaction to deviation from these routines is purely emotional (and irrational). Even in the better cases that don't just outright dismiss this emotional reaction as something to be ignored, there's still this undertone that the emotional reaction can be culled and autistic ppl can be taught how to be more adaptable and how to let go of these routines, by showing them how to handle the emotional reaction better.

And while I don't necessarily think this is bad advice (it can be really helpful esp as an autistic person to figure out ways to step outside your already rather small comfort zone, so advice like this is actually greatly appreciated), but I really wish there was more acknowledgement of routines that are based on more physical and practical stuff and can't be changed with determination and patience alone. That sometimes the emotional reaction is completely rational and justified, and that some routines can't really be changed without facing some incredibly negative consequences.

[vladdyissues]

Every time I watch Vortex, I feel Vlad was forced to spend time with Danny, but during this period, Vald did not show any retaliatory negative emotions behind Danny's back that he couldn't see. Instead, Vald revealed more helplessness, distress, and confusion (even watching Danny laugh while playing video games together, which I declared to be the most furry pompous pep moment in the entire show). To be honest, I was really surprised when I first watched this episode, after all, it is well known that Vald promotes revenge... We saw Vald abandon Danny in the end, but can you say that Vald's performance during this period was really the same as his previous fruitloop?

During the crisis, Vald abandoned Danny and left, but he didn't throw out a bunch of dramatic and evil laughter and sarcastic words. Instead, he didn't show too many expressions, just like he didn't do anything more extreme because of guilt that he didn't even know. It was also like forcing him to do cruel things to Danny in order to deny his wavering heart and tell himself that nothing had happened.

Vald still hasn't realized that he needs to change or wants to change, but he has indeed been shaken by the time he spent with Danny.

The Vortex incident is not only Danny's emotional management class, but also Vald's emotional management class. Unfortunately, Danny graduated early, and Vald has too much homework to overcome, with 20 years of obstacles still to be overcome.

We need more time for Danny and Vald to be forced together due to the chaos caused by Vortex! Quantitative change will become qualitative change! (Nodding)

Speaking of emotional management class, why not ask Jazz to help out one day? Jazz needs practical experience, Vald needs psychological counseling, and Danny needs to feel Vald's troubles through Jazz Speaking of which, Jazz actually had a similar experience with Vald, in the episode about nanorobots

Let me be honest, when Jazz went to Vald's house, he didn't give serious psychological counseling to the person who needed it the most in the whole drama. Instead, he tried to use psychology to defeat Vald and let Danny know that he had the ability to help him. It made me feel that although Jazz was smart and capable, she still had a mentality of being a minor

And Jazz's roles as an older sister and a psychological counselor... How should I put it? In the series, I feel that when facing Danny, I use my therapist role more to help him, and when facing others, I use my older sister role to protect my younger brother. As an older sister, she is almost perfect, but as a psychologist who wants to contribute to society? If Jazz really wants to become a psychotherapist, he also needs to learn to actively adopt the approach of a psychotherapist towards others in need. Think about it carefully... Jazz's attitude towards family and friends can be seen to be very protective, loving, and attentive. She is the best sister to Danny, but besides that, Jazz is actually polite but not interested in others, isn't she?

This feature of not caring much about anything other than what he is interested in, and having a little bit of unconscious arrogance and innocence towards dangerous things, really looks like Jack... In addition, Jazz did intentionally approach Vald without any good intentions (for Vald), so it's no wonder that Vald was not shaken at all when he was with Jazz and when he treated Jazz afterwards... I have to say that if there was no hatred towards Jack due to accidents, then the person Vald hated the most, or the person he didn't care about the least, should be Jazz... They are incompatible

So... Danny is really happy when he's with Vald, unlike Jazz playing chess with Vald. Danny couldn't even pretend to be happy due to his weather ability, without any disguise of his own abilities. While possessing strong power, he was unparalleled in his openness, so open that others could see all of his emotions. Vald is always wary of others. Now when he sees someone with him, that person shows genuine happiness without disguise or deception. How could he not be shaken in his heart when faced with such a situation

(When he married Mads, Vald felt insecure because he believed deep down that the other person didn't really love him, so he did everything he could to control her.）

In a sense, weather events were the most favorable events to promote a positive relationship between them

……And also, Danny's emotions will change with the weather... Does that mean Danny can't hide his true feelings, which is too convenient for Vald to manipulate... After spending some time with Vald, won't Vald really use this feature in reverse

This is why Torrent of Terror is one of my favorite DP episodes ever.

Vlad was remarkably normal about having to take care of the emotional needs of a teenager. He immediately took responsibility for keeping Danny safe and calm, sent off Sam and Tucker to chase down Vortex, then took Danny into his own home and proceeded to cook him meals and play games and spend time with him without once complaining. (Danny, on the other hand, is a complete fucking brat.)

Vlad forgets to leave the tomatoes off Danny's sandwich? He doesn't even turn into Plasmius to try to escape Danny's little tantrum tornado. (Maybe he knows the sight of Plasmius will upset Danny and refrains from shifting form? That's extremely perceptive and considerate of him. Could be why he waited until Vortex returned to shift into his ghost form.)

Danny can't take losing a video game and blows his cool (literally)? Vlad whips out his checkbook and pays for all the damage.

I also think Vlad was 100% speaking the truth when he told Danny, "You know how much I care for you." (He also seems to be pretty good at playing video games, so maybe he enjoyed this little date outing to the video game convention, too.)

Vlad also agrees to give Danny a foot massage later (at night, in his house, just the two of them, totally normal), but we never got to see that because Vortex returned and Vlad's job was complete. And even then he didn't react with extreme vengeance and violence. (Though he did manhandle Danny a little lol. Nothing Danny couldn't take.)

Vlad showed that he was perfectly capable of being kind and patient and thoughtful and accommodating in this episode, but since it was played for laughs instead of taken seriously, I think it was sort of forgotten.

[frankthesnek]

Saw a tiktok this morning that really rubbed me the wrong way, and I'm still thinking about it... so rant incomeing!

The tiktok was talking about bad fanfiction reading habits. They were saying how they noticed they had this really bad fanfic reading habit that they wanted to correct next year. In the comments, a bunch of people were agreeing with them and saying they also had this bad habit and wanted to fix it.

What was the bad habit you may ask? Not leaving comments? Not leaving kudos? Not sharing the fics they liked? Oh, no no. The bad habit was reading shorter one shot fics. Excuse me, how is that a bad habit?

The reasoning for why it was a bad habit were things like: I read to fast so I end up reading a lot of little stories instead of one big one (yeah so?), it makes you spend too much time jumping between fics (why is more fics bad?), they take away from real fics (I'm sorry what?), reading one shots encourages bad writing habbits (excuse me, how?), I fall for the story but then its just done cause the author was too lazy to keep going (disrespectfully fuck you!)

I could not believe how many people were calling reading one shots a bad habit and justifying it in a that put a negative spin on that kind of story and author!

Don't get me wrong, having preferences is fine! I prefer things in the 4-12k range. Everyone has that sweet spot where it just feels like the perfect length, and that's okay. But to call out reading an entire type of fic (one shots) as a "bad habit" and "something to be fixed" is so rude and disrespectful.

When you say a fic isn't worth reading because of the length, that its not real writing, or its reinforcing bad writing habits to read it—what you are saying to the authors of those fics is, "you and your writing are not worth anything and the 3k words you gave me for free aren't good enough." That is not okay.

Having preferences is okay. Discounting fics because they are small is not. Reading one shots is not a bad habit, and writing one shots is not a bad habit.

[kopiicryptid]

I think it's interesting but also nightmarish how the mouthwashing fandom can't decide whether or not they like Curly.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong in liking his character, in fact I think it's quite understandable considering how we can probably find a bit of him in us all and how he was meant to be written that way. He has good intentions, he's a people pleaser, he has mental health issues that he keeps closed off about, he feels lost in his life, he wants to keep the peace. However, it becomes all the more nuanced when you consider despite all these 'good' traits, he still ends up failing, making huge mistakes, and worst of all, an enabler.

Like I said in my analysis of his humanity, to portray him a saint is to ignore his failures as a captain, a friend, and a 'good' human and how they led to the demise of his crew. Yet to portray him as a monster only furthers the message of his dehumanization in the game and in real life, taking away from the point of his character and what makes him so horrifying—that he was just an ordinary man and yet his inactions led to such consequences.

Regardless of his struggles, regardless of his past, regardless of even if he knew, understood, and was upset by Anya's situation, nothing changes the fact that his first instinct was to 'fix it', how to get Jimmy out of trouble. Again. Not to comfort Anya, not to show her support, not to consider his options, not even chastise his friend. Because of that, he is worthy of criticism and even hatred or disgust as well. You can find sympathy for his flaws up until the point where it starts to negatively effect the people around him, something that simply can't be ignored about his character. Intentions are fine and all, but it's the effects that can last forever.

Though it pains me to see how black and white the fandom treats his character, even as someone who deeply resonates with Anya. I know people tend to enjoy throwing around the term 'morally grey' with him as an excuse, but I find the best way to describe Curly is, well, just a man. Someone who grew up with all the privileges of a man but experiences the same struggles of the average human. I believe Curly could've most certainly handled the situation a lot better but the problem is he didn't and that is simply something we need to accept as his fault.

Although as Anya says, "I want to believe our worst moments don’t define us." And that is so, so crucial when it comes to Curly's character. Often times I feel angry at him, for his indecisiveness, his power and privilege that he takes for granted. But often times I also see myself in him, a person that is lost, influenced by the world they grew up in and making mistakes and errors as a result of that despite trying their best to do what they believe is right. He isn't a saint, he isn't a monster, he's a human being, one that failed to do the right thing.

You are allowed to love him. You are allowed to hate him. Feeling sympathy or disdain for such a character is only human after all, we cannot deny that about ourselves when it comes to the tragedy that is Curly's character and story. But I don't think that either opinion should be ignored, belittled, or worse, harassed over, and I have seen that time and time again with this fandom.

[alasijia]

I'LL IMAGINE WE FELL IN LOVE

ft. subaru kagami, haku kusanagi, zenji kotodama

summary ; the hotarubi ghouls and lyrics from blue by yung kai.

notes : hi tkdb fandom i got roped up in this silly game and started writing for it. oops. sorry if they're ooc in any way, im still kinda new ... (ﾉД`)

SUBARU KAGAMI

"You'd be mine, would you mind if I took your hand tonight?

Know you're all that I want this life."

Subaru had never been one for physical affection. He'd feel far too guilty about having taken an nonconsensual glimpse into the other person's memories. Poor boy, really.

There's no difference in his reaction when your fingertips brush against his skin when you had picked up the sweet little treat Subaru had offered you from his hand. You barely even had any time to react before he started apologizing profusely, slipping on his gloves.

Subaru paused when he felt your hand on his skin again, images of your memories flashing through his head. He tried to pull away, only to find that your hand was wrapped tightly around his wrist. He looked up at you, an understandable look of confusion and surprise marring his pretty features. "I don't have anything to hide from you." Is all you say, with that sweet smile Subaru had fallen for. Your hand moves from his wrist, instead slipping your fingers between his own.

He finds himself unable to stop the pink dusting his cheeks, eyes wide.

You, however, took that as a negative reaction, pulling your hand away. But as soon as you did, his face fell almost imperceptibly, and he gently wrapped his hand around your own again.

Subaru thought it was greedy of him. He had everything already, fame, influence, the academy's trust, and so on. But he couldn't stop this feelings of wanting more.

No maybe not, because he would throw away all of those things if he could have you. You're the only thing he wants in this life.

HAKU KUSANAGI

"My love will always stay by you

It's stuck with you forever, so promise you won't let it go

I'll trust the universe will always bring me to you."

Haku has a playful and flirtatious aura about him that isn't lost to those he graces with his presence. It's simply in his nature – "a devilish charm," as Zenji puts it.

Him doing all these romantic gestures of giving you his umbrella or jacket, or walking you back to the cathedral after you've helped out in Hotarubi never really crossed your mind as, well, romantic. Though that seems rather silly now if you were to think about it.

But now you're wondering if this is all really just platonic when you find your hand on his chest, his heartbeat drumming against it steadily. It's faster than usual, you note. "Feel that? It's all yours, princess." He says in his usual playful, light-hearted tone. And for a second you want to reply with "Feel what? Your tit?" but the words die on your tongue as you catch sight of the distinctively soft gaze he has on you. The way he's looking at you doesn't match the tone he's saying those stupidly romantic words with, and you're not sure anymore whether you want to believe that this is all still purely platonic or that it's been romantic this whole time.

You don't say anything in response, but the way your body relaxes and you move to lean your head on his shoulder speaks volumes. Maybe you can't be together in this life, but the way he looks at you has you believing that Haku would find you in the next one, and the one after, and so on, no matter what it takes.

ZENJI KOTODAMA

"I think I'll picture us, you with the waves

The ocean's colors on your face

I'll leave my heart with your air"

Beauty can be found in anything. Zenji, being the artistic and passionate man he is, couldn't agree more to this statement. He finds beauty in anything and everything, even the seashell you picked up by the shore. He even wrote a poem about it.

Having been so distracted by Zenji's singing, you accidentally dropped the seashell, the object getting washed away by the waves. Without thinking, you ran into the water to chase after it, the small waves crashing against your feet as you trudged deeper and deeper into the ocean.

At some point, Zenji must have noticed you were missing, judging from his exclamation of "My dear! Be careful!" coming from behind you that the whole beach could probably hear... if he wasn't a ghost. Either way, his voice was enough to stop you from going any further, now realizing that you were knee-deep in the water.

You take a few steps back, a sigh escaping your lips as you realize and accept that that seashell was good as gone.

What you didn't realize though, was the way Zenji was looking at you. The moonlight casted a soft, silver glow on your face, highlighting your features. Zenji always knew you were beautiful, but this moment in particular, he could almost feel his heart beating wildly in his chest as if he were alive again. He truly felt like he could ascend right at that moment.

You had your gaze fixed on the horizon in front of you, and was only broken out of your trance as you hear Zenji start to compose yet another ode, only this time, it was about the fair maiden in front of him.

[tanadrin]

I don't think g exists--or, more accurately, I don't think it's a useful model for anything--because cognitive faculties are too diverse. The analogy I just made on another post I think serves well: it's not useful to model an A factor of general athleticism, even though athletic ability is correlated in a general way. A skilled basketball player isn't automatically a skilled baseball player; a skilled weightlifter isn't automatically a skilled runner. While somebody who does zero exercise will be routinely outperformed at any athletic task by someone who is generally sporty in some sense, we have a much finer-grained understanding of athletic performance and athletic ability than a generic A. We can measure running speed, weightlifting capacity, reaction time, etc., and we don't assume that just because someone is a fast runner they are a strong weightlifter.

Sure, there are probably conditions that negatively affect performance across all cognitive tasks nearly uniformly, in much the same way my condition of "doesn't ever do any exercise" negatively affects my performance across all athletic tasks nearly uniformly. And if you came up with some sort of general AQ test it would probably be pretty easy to identify negative outliers like me.

Intelligence involves a lot of different skills. Any useful account of intelligence has to take into account those skills in a specific way, just as any useful account of athleticism has to be able to distinguish between the ways in which LeBron James and Michael Phelps are extraordinarily athletes. And such an account is probably going to make the genetic correlates of intelligence much clearer. It would be much more interesting and useful to examine, say, the way in which specific genes affect how memories are formed and recalled than it would be to try to find lots of different genes that seem to influence a nebulous G factor, in the same way it's much more interesting and useful to examine the way Michael Phelps' genetics give him an anatomy suited to swimming fast than it is to try to find lots of different genes that correlate in a vague way with a nebulous A factor.

From a cognitive perspective, talking about a g factor of intelligence just doesn't make any sense to me. Intelligence isn't an RPG stat or a magic ingredient that exists in some human brains and not others. Modeling it as such and trying to measure it as such is incoherent.

Can you explain in what what you think eugenics doesn't work? Does this basically boil down to skepticism about the accuracy of GWAS studies? My understanding is that academic consensus is "G probably exists, disentangling direct genetic inheritance vs genetic cultural inheritance is complicated but possible, we can identify a number of alleles which we're reasonably confident are directly causally involved in having a higher G factor"

when it comes to intelligence, its heritability, and its variation at the population level, my understanding of the science is:

highly adaptive traits don't, in fact, vary much at the genetic level between populations of a species because they are strongly selected for. in an environment where a trait is being strongly selected for, a population that failed to express that trait strongly will be rapidly outcompeted.

intelligence is probably the quintessential such trait for humans. we have sacrificed a great deal of other kinds of specialization in favor of our big brains. we spend an enormous amount of calories supporting those brains. tool use, the ability to plan for the future, the ability to navigate complex social situations and hierarchies in order to secure status, the ability to model the minds of others for the purposes of cooperation and deception means that we should expect intelligence to be strongly selected for for as long as our lineage has been social and tool-using, which is at least the last three million years or so.

so, at least as a matter of a priori assumptions, we should expect human populations not to vary greatly in their genetic predisposition to intelligence. it may nonetheless, but we'd need pretty strong evidence. i think i read this argument on PZ Myers' blog a million years ago, so credit where that's due.

complicating the picture is that we just don't have good evidence for how IQ does vary across populations, even before we get into the question of "how much of this variation is genetic and how much of it is not." the cross-national data on which a lot of IQ arguments have been based is really bad. and that would be assuming IQ tests are in fact good at capturing a notion of IQ that is independent of cultural context, which historically they're pretty bad at

this screed by nassim nicholas taleb (not a diss; AFAICT the guy only writes in screeds) makes a number of arguments, but one argument I find persuasive is that IQ is really only predictive of achievement in the sense that it does usefully discriminate between people with obvious intellectual disabilities and those without--but you do not actually need an IQ test for that sort of thing, any more than you need to use a height chart to figure out who is missing both their legs. in that sense, sure, IQ is predictive of a lot of things. but once you remove this group, the much-vaunted correlations between IQ and stuff like wealth just straight-up vanishes

heritability studies are a useful tool, but a tool which must be wielded carefully; they were developed for studying traits which were relatively easy to isolate in very specific populations, like a crop under study at an agricultural research site, and are more precarious when applied to, e.g., human populations

my understanding based on jonathan kaplan articles like this one is that twin studies are not actually that good at distinguishing heritable factors from environmental ones--they have serious limitations compared to heritability studies where you actually can rigorously control for environmental effects, like you can with plants or livestock.

as this post also points out, heritability studies also only examine heritability within groups, and are not really suited to examining large-scale population differences, *especially* in the realm of intelligence where there is a huge raft of confounding factors, and a lack of a really robust measurement tool.

(if we are worried about intelligence at the population level, it seems to me there are interventions we know are going to be effective and do not rely on deeply dubious scientific speculation, e.g., around nutrition and healthcare and serious wealth inequality and ofc education; and if what people actually want is to raise the average intelligence of the population rather than justify discrimination against minorities, then they might focus on those much more empirically grounded interventions. even if population differences in IQ are real and significant and point to big differences in intelligence, we know those things are worth a fair few IQ points. but most people who are or historically have been the biggest advocates for eugenics are, in my estimation, mostly interested in justifying discrimination.)

i think the claims/application of eugenics extend well beyond just intelligence, ftr. eugenics as an ideology is complex and historically pretty interesting, and many eugenicists have made much broader claims than just "population-level differences in intelligence exist due to genetic factors, and we should try to influence them with policy," but that is a useful point for them to fall back onto when pressed on those other claims. but i don't think even that claim is at all well-supported.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

kinda wild to me that one of the most compelling aspects of both Chuuya and Kunikida's characters to me, that I never really see talked about, is how they're heavily set on a doomed crash course towards complete and utter destruction, and how I am so, so worried for them both.....

[olliepurples]

mdarc chapter 4 spoilers (tw negative)

i'm a couple of doors into the mystery labyrinth, and it's getting a little annoying having shinigami and yuma go "but how could this have happened? who could have done this?" when i literally knew it was yakou as soon as the game told me that the poison had a delay. this is so silly like "how could anyone have got past this, they would have died in thirty minutes!" ok! narrow your suspect pool to people who die in the next thirty minutes then! damn!!!

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[glindyupland]

I just think it’s silly that so many people complain about Villain Amaya as “wasted potential” and that “we were robbed” like-

My pals, post canon fan fiction is right there. The desire to free her husband is right there. Either by touching an evil book while being too eager to remember the obsidian oil, or being possessed by contact (ie what she believes is true loves kiss) when trying to reason with him in the dungeon.

We don’t need a rewrite, we can have a continuation. Both can be true. Amaya is a complex character, she can handle it.

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

blehhh not them making a queer character say the no homo line :/

[egginfroggin]

I usually try not to get too negative on my blog, but I have to say that one thing that I'm worried about with AI art is the possible accusations that could be placed on people with certain artstyles (surrealism, hyperrealism, etc.) that are more prone to the "uncanny valley" effect, or even just artists who are in that midway point where most of a piece looks great but there's a few things that are anatomically questionable.

I think it's fine for people to have suspicions, but I'm worried that people will come to expect things such as progress videos or shots as a given, and that this will intimidate young or new artists, making them feel incredibly pressured to provide things that they shouldn't have to. And, speaking from experience, pressure does not do good things to the creative mind.

I'm worried that people will start seeing inconsistencies or awkward anatomy and immediately react with accusations of AI. It's happening on other platforms, and probably also on Tumblr, and as much as I dislike AI, I think that people need to learn to slow down and really look at something before making that accusation.

What good will stamping out AI with vigor do if innocent artists get caught in the crossfire and stop creating out of fear? What good will it do if the next generation of artists is too scared to share and inspire each other?

Genuinely, I would personally rather deal with AI images existing while still being able to freely share my actual works than I would deal with tiptoeing around very real people who would dismiss my hours of work (and musculoskeletal pain) as worthless and not real. Let artists still be free for goodness' sake.

I can be more thoroughly worded later if anyone asks, and this will probably be sorely misinterpreted, but I just need to get this out and I'm tired.

TLDR: It's fine to be against AI-generated images, but please check yourself and be careful who you accuse of using such technology before you get someone innocent caught up in it. AI-generated art isn't great, and neither is putting down someone's hard work as fake.

[wereh0gz]

Not feeling great abt some of my creative endeavors rn

[vulpixelates]

😩 dang it. i go to draw for the first time in forever and my stupid pen is acting up aoeifjaoi i think i might need a new nib or something

[dan-crimes]

I love writers I love when they ramble on abt characters and their motivations, their core values and the reasons why they react to things in certain ways and having character interactions work off of each other due to their differing ways of viewing the world and in general I just love character analysis