alexaprilgarden

this_ photography, art and whatever catches my eye. fan fic, shows and films I can’t stop thinking about. the sea, always. me_genderqueer adhd forty-something. i have friends everywhere. trans women are women, trans men are men. alexaprilgarden on ao3.

[cosmonautroger]

Marco Melgrati

[petaltexturedskies]

Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

[alexaprilgarden]

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[alexaprilgarden]

sea + men

[sparklywaistcoat]

FYI Meta now allows your Insta photos to be mined for AI without your consent unless you opt out.

[yettocome12]

[paperstorm]

I love you weird fanfiction. I love you unpopular kink. I love you unsanitized sex scenes. I love you fics that the mean girls make fun of on twitter. I love you monster fucking. I love you daddy kinks and foot fetishes and water sports. I love you stories about complex human emotions and bad choices with no consequences and characters hurting each other. I love you threesomes or polycules. I love you rare pairs. I love you furry art. I love you dark fantasies. I love you kink that’s so specific and self indulgent it was clearly written just for the person writing it. I love you ships that people think you shouldn’t be allowed to ship. I love you anyone who has the courage to put their art into a public space when that art is weird, or dark, or taboo, or something that will be considered unacceptable by the puritanical fandom police.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

make out with a frenemy. buy noise cancelling headphones. wear office inappropriate attire. quit a toxic workplace. improve your apartment. start a dog walking sidegig. get on first name basis with your local librarians. bully politicians at town hall meetings. get an unexpected piercing. cultivate farmer's market connections. trade recipes with a gossipy old neighbor. unionize your apartment complex. move to the countryside. let a friend take you larping. keep a sword on your mantleplace

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

get a tattoo on your 40th birthday. be tempted to buy a loom. do a charity drag show. sue your landlord. buy a really nice kitchen appliance. volunteer at an anarchist soup kitchen. rediscover a tv show you watched when you were 8. spam your state senators. shop at asian grocery stores. do cosplay. buy trans flags in bulk and mount them along the highway. go viral for unexpected reasons. move in with your best friend. make lemoncello with leftover lemon rinds. run for school board membership. explore pegging.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: i'm delighted to report this post has been responsible for at least one person dumping his ass

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: three four people

[saltwaterandstars]

I listened to an episode of Bill Nighy's podcast this morning and he was talking about self-criticism and said something like For years I ran my mind like a fascist regime - so much brutality and fear.

Me too, Bill, me fucking too.

Let's try not to do that anymore xx

[alexaprilgarden]

OMG so tired.

[alexaprilgarden]

Update: still tired

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[a7estrellas]

PEDRO PASCAL enjoying his tacos de birria

[starpeace]

din djarin got his one big chance to be like “yes i will help you if you do this sidequest!!!” and he was like. it’s on the house, don’t even pay me, i’ll be right there, i will convince other people to also do this as a personal favour to me, i will literally die here beside you and it will be an honour. i have to go to my kid’s parent teacher meeting first though hope that’s okay

[alexaprilgarden]

Not going to leave this in the tags.

[tatooineknights]

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) Dir. Irvin Kershner

[pedropascal24-7]

New/old photos from London Film Festival

[copperbadge]

Public Instagram users, heads up -- Meta just made your images available for AI use.

This reached me through a newsletter I subscribe to (Daily Tech Insider -- I don't know that I recommend it, it's kind of spammy, but does occasionally provide useful intel on AI) and I couldn't find a public version of it to link to so I'mma just copypaste the newsletter's content here:

Meta just launched Muse Image, its new AI image generator, across Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app. It edits photos, generates social-ready images, and powers new Instagram Stories effects. Public Instagram accounts are automatically eligible for AI remixing. Someone can tag a public profile and create new images using that person's photos. Meta says users can opt out (currently only on mobile), but the default leaves photos in play. Worse, users aren't notified when AI content is created with their material, and opting out won't delete images that already exist. Meta is, however, applying an invisible "Content Seal" watermark to track AI origins, and a detection tool is available online for anyone to check images.

The detection tool is actually slightly useful, in that if you want to check if an image is AI generated you can pop it in there, but it will only tell you if it was AI generated through Muse Image. According to Meta, "Images created by Muse Image in the Meta AI app [...] carry a hidden provenance signal that stays intact — even when cropped, compressed, resized, or screenshotted." Which honestly just means that anyone seeking to use AI images for nefarious purposes won't use Meta, and we'll see how long the content seal protocol lasts before Meta wants higher traffic and does away with it.

[betty-draper]

me too grogu