#who am I to say

[rcbertleckie]

NATE MANN as ROBERT 'ROSIE' ROSENTHAL MASTERS OF THE AIR · part five

[rcrisdraws]

It's 1 AM. Tumblr scrapped its own content and is negotiating selling it to OpenAI.

The world is truly closing in on artists, which is less to say that I'll ever stop making art bc making art means life to me, but what part of that is going to be shared? I don't know. I seriously don't know...

It's the main reason I left twitter.

I am already sharing less than half of what I make here on tumblr nowadays, not because I don't want to, but what's the point.

I have so many horses; AI can't do horses and it sure as hell won't learn of the back of my work.

I have suggestive fanart that has no nudity in it whatsoever and i am so happy with; following the CEP thing even that has a chance to get flagged bc i've seen it be done to other artists.

I have 10 years worth of work here, i don't want to move. But half of my art got flagged all the way in 2018 and i didn't have the energy to appeal it.

Discord already is selling everything you send through it to OpenAI. Private discord server for art sharing just doesn't work.

So what's the point?

I'm tired...

[clonksterclonk]

[carnalapples]

fill me up, let me overflow

~6000 words, Loghain/Amell, E

“Here,” she says, tossing him the ring. He makes no move to catch it; it bounces against his boot with a little clink, rolling in a circle in front of his foot. Her cheeks burn as he stares at her. She hates how young he makes her feel. “You don’t have to show off for me,” he says. And traitorously, Amell feels a swell of something else, low in her abdomen. He blinks once, slow and bored. She bites her tongue. Hard. Mission Brief: Acting Warden-Commander of Ferelden escorts her newest recruit to assignment at Montsimmard outpost. Complications occur; consequences to be seen.

[transtundras-fr]

I think a dragon can be a bug. Maybe even two

[brooklynisher]

My Little Pony My Little Pony aaaaaaaaaa

Robot design by @grubbylilgoblin (Under the cut)

Pony design by me!!! Pony designs are surprisingly easy and fun to do wowee

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[clovesnz]

Dude I can’t help it I just like having someone to worry over too much. Like apparently it doesn’t matter if I’m actually attracted to someone, my desire to have someone to check in on and take care of is too great. Like maybe I can tolerate being completely sexually disinterested if it means I get all the soft stuff

[lexplosion]

Next chapter of ‘Drink My Pain, Sallow Your Pride’ should be coming out tomorrow night at some point! It got far angstier than I anticipated, and thus is requiering the entirety of my writers brain to make sure the angst is as woeful as it can be. 😅🥲🫢

(There’s a few other things I need to see to that that will also be dealt with tomorrow!)

[m34gs]

Bluesummers: if I destroy EVERYTHING he (Nicholas) loves, then surely he will be wholly devoted to Our Cause

Me, who knows and understands the human desire for Revenge (TM): are you sure bout that

[ghostcrows]

My plumpness is returning (said so cutely)

[official-chekov-enjoyer]

I have an Amazon Prime profile where I exclusively watch queer movies so all my suggestions are queer films. And also Top Gun: Maverick is in my suggested. So…

[wr3nns]

One of these days the masked singer is going to be Elmo. Or Kermit. We're not prepared for that

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on

[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

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[ripplestitchskein]

Setting aside the age old “A lot of women are doing it must be silly or bad” trend of a newish medium that happens with literally anything I do take issue with the idea that recommendations on booktok are somehow worse than recommendations in literally any other space?Recommendations are going to be a mixed bag regardless, taste is subjective in all things.

I just hate the “this is on this platform so it must be bad or low quality by default” mindset. There could be amazing works of literature on WattPad, I dunno, I don’t use it but I do know that there are INCREDIBLE MASTERPIECES on Ao3 that no one ever talks about and then some truly heinously written things that might as well be a daily trending for how often I see them touted. I’ve read some slop I put down after two paragraphs on Kindle Unlimited and some stuff that made me reconsider my entire life it was so good.

I’ve had really close friends I vibe with on every level tell me “you have to read this it’s amazing” and been like “do I even know this person anymore? Do they know me? This is awful” when I do and I’m sure I’ve gushed over something and they’ve checked it out and been like “WTF is she thinking?”

There is going to be garbage in every space, there is going to be treasure, there are going to be things that we’re just posted for a laugh or as a money grab, or written by AI, etc. Just broad sweeping generalizations hurt communities, and authors, and readers though. It makes people feel bad for no reason. You might also miss out on something really special. “Oh it was recommended by booktok it must be awful” or “oh it’s posted on wattpad it must be written by a 13 year old” and really it’s what you’ve been looking for your whole life you just missed out.

I just want people to create things and consume things and find what they like without generalizations or assumptions that Y thing is garbage because it’s on Y platform or was recommended by Y community and Z thing is probably good because it’s on this platform or is traditionally published or is a NYT Bestseller or whatever. It just bums me out that things get written off simply because of something arbitrary like being mentioned in a certain space or hosted on a certain platform.

A good take away though: You might think what you create is garbage but as we can clearly see there are people who love other people’s garbage, so post your garbage because it’s treasure to someone out there.

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead