deliciously complex

"infinity goes on in both directions" LIVE FIERCELY AND PASSIONATELY.

[thirst-for-boys]

Desmond Chiam via Eric Owes' photography IG (x).

[thirst-for-boys]

Desmond Chiam via Sami Jayne's IG story.

[thirst-for-boys]

Desmond Chiam via Eric Owes' photography IG (x).

[main-character-magazine]

Desmond Chiam | Photobook Magazine (2023)

[shegiles]

Joy Ride (2023) dir. by Adele Lim Stephanie Hsu and Desmond Chiam

[venacoeurva]

The Do’s & Don'ts of interacting w/ content creators, & other people you don’t know well mutually I slapped together for Twitter.

This ended up being more Don'ts than Dos but I feel like people need more help learning what NOT to say once they stray away from simple compliments and questions.

[pokemon-ash-aus]

Reminder for everyone ^^

[mewtwoandme]

👆

This! THIS, THIS, THIS!!! This right here!!

[spitblaze]

extremely funny when AI artists feel the need to put watermarks on their images

[spitblaze]

like oh you're worried about misattribution and image theft huh. you're worried that someone's gonna take the image you made and claim it as their own. or strip away the context and your name. or use it in ways you didn't consent to. boy that sure would suck huh. i bet that would feel really bad. i bet that would be really annoying. i b

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

[ikoruk-okomot]

“are you a boy or a girl?”

“well i’m actually multiclassing so i have levels in both”

[the-little-pierre-deactivated20]

★ Lois x Clark ★ My adventures with Superman

~ It's a little different than what I draw, but I love them 😭💕 I couldn't resist ~

[memeuplift]

[pusheen]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Rapunzel concept art for Tangled (2010) by Claire Keane

[entertainmentindustryupdates]

they’re already trying to change the narrative of the strike.

[xiaolanhua]

the first ever babygirl to exist

[joyflameball]

FIRST DRAFTS. They were only letting the writers do FIRST DRAFTS before filming, shooting, editing, and airing. FIRST FUCKING DRAFTS. JESUS CHRIST.

[animentality]

[aniseandspearmint]

Really, the answer to most 'so many cases of X didn't use to exist!' complaints is that THEY USED TO DIE.

Allergies? Gluten intolerance? Cystic Fibrosis? Seizures? Asthma? Diabetes?

THOSE USED TO BE ALL BUT DEATH SENTENCES.

[frankiensteinsmonster]

Y'all ever notice that when people say "There were never that many X people before!!!" X people almost always seem to be Housebound due to Lack of Accessibility or Chance of Severe Illness, Unrepresented because no one Put A Name to the Demographic, Oppressed with Physical Violence and Societal Ostracization, or straight up fucking Dead?? Just me?

[stephendann]

Hiya friends, The 1988 edition of me came extremely close to dying from an allergy to milk, because my bronchitis became acute bronchitis which basically kept heading into "Next Available Worse Option" until by stroke of fortune, we found the 1988 version of allergy testing, and I didn't die of drowning by my own fluid filled lungs.

35 years ago, I was nearly taken out of existence by milkshakes. They did not bring boys to my yard, they nearly brought this boy to be buried in the yard.

People surviving and thriving with harder to survive conditions says we're winning society. We should encourage more of it.