The City of Dreams

Multifandom | Please read pinned post | Writer | Sociologist | Aro Lesbian | she/her

[8bitayla]

Welcome to my blog! This is mainly intended to be a fandom blog, but I will post about activism/politics/current issues/etc as well. I tag liberally, but be warned that this blog is not spoiler free (see fandoms in the tags). Not inherently NSFW/18+, but not censored either. Feel free to send me an ask/message if you wanna talk, or to tag me in posts! No fandom discourse please (unless I post about it first, but that’s pretty unlikely).

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[8bitayla]

Ever since we've hit the dates that the AJ trilogy would have been (allegedly, I know the timeline is not as real in canon as we make it out to be lol) people in the ace attorney subreddit have been posting on case dates roleplaying as if they're in-universe and it's my favorite. Love the committment to the bit 11/10. Happy Turnabout Reclaimed day to all who celebrate.

[pangur-and-grim]

what I've learned from having other people edit my work is that I have a sick addiction to commas

[pangur-and-grim]

there have been four editing passes on my spider sex book, and each time they take away so many commas. no fresh commas are being added, this is just a continued culling. if you see a comma in the final book please understand that it survived so much

[pangur-and-grim]

[legsdemandias]

Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”

[legsdemandias]

IMO, blurring the lines between “I’m defending them because they’re right” and “I’m defending them because you’re taking this too far” is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracy–even in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic. 

Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and it’s also extremely dangerous. Mobs don’t think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they can’t be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isn’t someone defending the ~problematic party~ It’s time we re-learn that.

[8bitayla]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey & Ayasato Maiko | Misty Fey, Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey/Original Male Character(s), Ayasato Chihiro | Mia Fey & Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey, Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey & Hanaka Mimi | Mimi Miney, Ayasato Harumi | Pearl Fey & Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey, Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey & Miyanagi Chinami | Dahlia Hawthorne, Ayame | Iris & Godot (Gyakuten Saiban), Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey & Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey, Ayasato Harumi | Pearl Fey & Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey, Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey & Nahyuta Sahdmadhi Characters: Shiso-sama | Holy Mother (Gyakuten Saiban), Torihime | Lady Kee'ra (Gyakuten Saiban), Ayasato Kyouko | Ami Fey, Ayasato Kimiko | Morgan Fey, Ayasato Maiko | Misty Fey, Ayasato Chihiro | Mia Fey, Hanaka Mimi | Mimi Miney, Ayasato Harumi | Pearl Fey, Miyanagi Chinami | Dahlia Hawthorne, Ayame | Iris (Gyakuten Saiban), Godot (Gyakuten Saiban), Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey, Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, Other Characters Mentioned Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Character Study, Gyakuten Saiban 123 | Phoenix Wright Trilogy Spoilers, Gyakuten Saiban 6 | Spirit of Justice Spoilers, Sister-Sister Relationship, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Aunt-Niece Relationship, Heavy Angst, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Emotional Manipulation, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Jealousy, Murder, Dysfunctional Family, Complicated Relationships, Pregnancy, Marriage of Convenience, Fictional Religion & Theology, Trauma, Scheming, Politics, Flashbacks, Fic description and some lines/letters quoted from canon Summary:

“Shichishito”. The treasured Kurain Village heirloom whose name means “7 Branched Sword”. It is said that this sacred sword represents life itself. Though the branches may appear to be infinite, the choices limitless… …like our destinies, the sword comes to but one end. One merciless point. And when the silver cord, the fragile thread that binds us to this world, is severed… …the illusion is revealed and the implacability of fate is finally laid bare…

The rise, fall, and rebirth of the Fey clan

At the BUZZER today but I am here with another chapter. Enjoy!

[wormnextdoor]

i love queerplatonic relationships where one of them is aroace and the other isn't. i love when the allo character has a crush that fades over time. i love when they don't care what they are to each other as long as they're together. i love when romance is an option that they don't choose. i love when both aros and allos feel fulfilled without romance or sex.

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[mildmayfoxe]

i've had this post muted basically since its inception because people are so annoying on posts like this but every once in a while i look through the tags and comments and i'm so proud of everyone who is saying stuff like "i recently managed to include a new vegetable in my diet" or "this mindset made me start practicing dental hygiene more often" or "i'm trying to walk more and i'm not doing it every day but i'm doing it" I'M PROUD OF YOU!! EVEN IF A POSITIVE CHANGE IS SMALL IT IS STILL POSITIVE! DOING SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT AT A TIME IS STILL DOING IT!!!!

[clowngirlcreampie]

yeah I know I burned the fuckk out of that bridge but in my defense how else was i supposed to light my way

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[r0bee]

If no one in the fandom got me my very loyal mutual who has no idea what I'm talking about does!!!

[casperxp]

I want more aromantic characters who are not also asexual !!! I want more characters who 100 percent want to get it on but just don’t feel any romantic feelings for anyone. I want more aromantic characters with “friends with benefits” except it’s literally just that. That’s their best friend and sometimes they let them fuck. More aromantic characters please !!!!

[glitchfang]

there should be a term for characters you personally don't care about but you defend them anyways because the way people treat them is really uncomfortable. like ok this is a very middle-of-the-road character for me but the fandom's either been super misogynistic, racist, etc. about them or harassed innocent people who try to genuinely explore that character warts and all, and i find that more annoying than the actual character.

[androgynousmoonboy]

the term should by 'my client', like you're a lawyer defending your client that you are completely indifferent to but you are obligated by your job (or your morals) to defend

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[incensuous]

just saw someone post “it’s common knowledge ur not supposed to spam reblog from someone ur not mutuals with” …..?????????? am i confused??? IS that common knowledge???? i try not to spam if i can help it but i actually personally love seeing spam notifs lmao??? unless i dont know what spam reblog means

[themountainsays-deactivated2025]

Reblog if you like it when people “spam reblog” from you or whenever that means at any time

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[midnightssea]

I think a lot of people would benefit from unlearning the idea that casual sex is inherently disgusting, harmful, or immoral just because they personally don’t want to partake in it. You can stand up for sexual safety and consent without acting like people who enjoy fucking strangers are degenerates. I take no issue with anyone asserting boundaries or stating that they’re not interested in certain kinds of sex or even sex as a whole. But when you condemn or express disgust at others for engaging in consensual sex, that’s when you start to sound like a puritan.

[midnightssea]

Btw, this includes self-proclaimed “feminists” who shame and lecture women for giving men “access” to their bodies. Bodies are not commodities and sex is not inherently transactional. You don’t lose anything by having sex on purpose with a person you find attractive. Sex is not some metaphysically transformative thing that bonds you to the other person forever. It is literally not that deep.