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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York, USA

Submitted by Anonymous

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a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

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welcome to the Murdersex zine, a zine celebrating all things sex and murder. but um. we don't want to romanticize it or anything so don't make your submissions too murdersexy. we will do extensive background checks on all applicants and if we decide a past work of yours has too much sexy murder we'll have to remove you, sorry. we have limits, you know, we want a tasteful gory spread you could put on your coffee table, and having the Wrong people in it would kill the vibe (and we condemn all killing! wholeheartedly!)

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“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)

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I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

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Thinking about a world where, because Merlin is magic itself, he does magic all the time, but like unconsciously and at a very high level/power, so to speak, and maybe it's even painful to him.

So his mother writes to Gaius, and they somehow come up with the idea of giving Merlin iron cuffs to wear. To not draw too much suspicion, they get ones that are thin, to look more like bracelets rather than cuffs, and possibly get them engraved too.

I've read fics where Merlin's put in cold iron cuffs and because he's magic in a physical form, and it's essentially like cutting off his airways, so all the built up magic ends up breaking the cuffs; but I thought it'd be interesting if because Merlin is magic and basically a god in human form, the iron doesn't really effect him, or in this case, it grounds him and allows him better control over his magic. So, truly, no one ever suspects Merlin of having magic, because whenever asked about the bracelets, he'll answer and say that they were gifts from his mother (maybe they go with a story that it was one of the few things Merlin’s father left for Hunith).

And maybe just to add some Merthur elements, when he starts to try to court Merlin (whether merlin recognizes it as courting or not), he gets him silver jewelry, only to notice how the colors of the metals kinda clash and then learns that they're actually iron. He's confused by it, but brushes the strangeness way with a, "well it wouldn't really make sense if Merlin had silver," and just saves this information somewhere in his brain, where it resurfaces when someone accuses Merlin of being a sorcerer (bc I'm headcanoning that any magic user would be in pain if they come in contact with cold iron, except of course Merlin, bc his magic just flows through the iron like it's any other element of the earth)

I might just be projecting my own desires and interests for jewelry.

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Merlin aesthetic: a study in contrast

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I bet he'd stare at lil guy for HOURS

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"I asked ChatGPT-" Well I asked the immortal Dragon that Uther chained in the caves beneath Camelot and HE told me to commit treason

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Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”

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I saw a post a while ago that joked about how fanfic writers love to give characters non-specific paperwork when they need the characters to be bored or tired from a long day. They speculated it’s because a lot of fanfic writers are either very young, or typically not very familiar with the jobs they’re writing about. And now that I’m back into reading merlin fanfiction I’m obsessed with how the equivalence of this for Arthur is shit to do with wheat and grain. Merlin wants to know where Arthur is? Oh he’s probably in a boring council meeting about wheat yields. Why has Arthur had a long day? Well he was spending all day surveying the grain storage for the upcoming winter. Arthur’s been arguing with other nobles? Probably because they all want more of the grain grown on their own land. This man is micro managing every single stalk grown in the kingdom of camelot no wonder he never noticed merlin’s magic

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*post reveal*

Merlin: fuck, are you going to kill me?

Arthur: what, no, of course not. You're my best friend, I already knew. I was just waiting for you to tell me. I am working on legalizing magic, you wanna help????

Merlin: oh my god. This is everything I've ever dreamed of

Arthur: haha, yeah :)

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Arthur grabs Leon by the shoulders: Leon!!!! I fucked up!!!! I did NOT know about his magic!!!!

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Original tweet: (x)

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arthur in text posts

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the more I think about it the more I sort of desperately wish morgana had been around to see merlin’s magic reveal. like imagine being her in that moment!! even if by the end she was sort of a cartoonishly evil villain, she started down that path because she became convinced that the pendragons would kill her without a second thought if they knew what she was. that arthur, the boy she grew up chasing around the castle and having sparring matches with wooden swords, would kill her. and the more sorcerers he and uther burned, the more morgana believed she would never know peace unless they were gone for good and it was her ruling in their stead.

and then merlin confesses. and arthur is hurt, and he’s betrayed, but in the end he tells merlin to never change. and in that moment—the most angering, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking moment of your entire life—you realize that maybe that could’ve been you.

but instead, you lost everything and everyone you ever loved.

at least merlin has, too.

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be so real with me if I were on total drama island and I fucked up so bad would you vote me off. I'm talking like I fucked up really bad. like unforgivably