Alder

he/they -- art bugs plants paganism

[aldernorth]

How to look completely gender neutral. Like entirely. I want people to look at me and have zero fucking clue what is going on here. It would bring me such joy

[aldernorth]

Started learning fingerloop braiding today :) this is the grene dorge. P good for a first try I think, def gotta work on tension lol

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[disterbia]

[aldernorth]

In my soul I think I am perhaps a springtail

[noodle-the-queen]

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some of y’all will be engaging in witch hunt, accusing writers left and right and then wondering why more and more writers take their works down and don’t share them with you ungrateful losers anymore.

“this fic looks like it was created by ai” yeah that’s because ai was trained on human-made works and it was trained to mimic human-made works.

you claim you hate ai because ai harms real artists, yet you are out there accusing and harassing artists because “their vibes just aren’t right”. at this point, you are the ones who cause more harm — to art and the writing community — than ai does.

you are the ones killing art and writing community, the community you want to “protect against ai”.

so at this point, you’re killing the community faster than ai is. good luck when the community you want to protect has no human-made work left because you accused and harassed genuine artists/writers away and the only things that are left for you to read are actual ai-generated fics.

if you think a fic is ai and if that bothers you like it does me, quietly exit the tab and avoid their future works like a normal, decent person. because with every "this fic looks ai" comment, there's always a chance of you wrongly accusing an innocent writer and further harming the writing community as a whole.

[centaurself]

in celebration of april 13, i present all four known photos of neil, who banged out the tunes 19 years ago today

source: theagilerat.com (click right to see all four photos!)

[darknesshaspurplehair]

Neil banged out the tunes 20 years ago today 😭😭😭

[toffeeandtatertots]

Happy April 7th. Football is about to get so weird.

[aldernorth]

New chapter came to me as if in a vision

[depsidase]

[aldernorth]

One minute of Tetramorium caespitum eating potato with ambience (birds, mowing, boyfriend watching lockpickinglawyer).

[jayyyyyy-is-gayyyyyy]

Iron lung spoilers(?)

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[aldernorth]

I need it to be warm and green outside or I am going to start being violent.

[spacefroggoo]

[aldernorth]

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

In case any of my followers on here would like to read it or have seen my occasional yap about fanfic writing. Yes I write MHA fanfic. Yes I have more planned but have writer's block about this one. Yes it is kinda bad. I enjoy it.