Klisz

homoromantic bisexual autistic ADHD trans gal, she/her. white, physically abled.

[spookeex]

[sunlitmcgee]

@tjodity

[tsunflowers]

this book I’m reading on female evolution for some reason uses bill and hillary clinton as examples of the typical differences between male and female vocal structures and the author is like “imagine if bill clinton had a throat sac like an ape which caused his voice to resonate” don’t say that? I don’t want to imagine that?

[tsunflowers]

billiam clinton saying his famous line “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” in a booming voice that can be heard up to two miles away and everyone starts hooting like monkeys and banging their fists on their chests

[godlessondheimite]

it’s actually really easy to satisfy audiences with Good Representation. you can’t depict someone struggling with their Otherness because that portrays it in a bad light but you have to depict them struggling with their Otherness because if you don’t, then you’re romanticizing how hard it is to be Othered. be super careful not to depict anything that might be adjacent to a common stereotype but if you go too far to avoid all stereotypes, then you’re still building the characters around stereotypes, which is a stereotype in its own way. if your storyline uses tropes, then it’s cliche, but if it avoids tropes, then it’s inauthentic. if you lampshade any of this, then you’re speaking down to your audience but if you don’t acknowledge this, you’re also speaking down to your audience. this is all really easy stuff i don’t know why people don’t get it.

[relationshipcrimes]

not to tell people what to do but as someone who’s been in fandom since i was like twelve, i promise that the only good fandom experience involves limiting your friend circle to, like, seven people. when you’re in a city, you don’t make friends with every douchebag on the street. stringently vet the people who are allowed to influence you. in an age of people and companies constantly demanding your attention and energy, your happiness will grow best like flowers in a greenhouse in a terrible city; a contained, curated space allows happiness to flourish. keep it small and don’t be sorry to tell people to stay the fuck out of your greenhouse.

[relationshipcrimes]

you get it

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag from humanTeaPot reading: no good fandoms only good friends /End ID]

[t00thpasteface]

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

[cannibalcaprine2]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[talking in private to a tgirl I saw being pulled around on a leash by an older woman] many moons ago I slew my master, and now I am beholden to no one. I would do the same for you, my friend.

[mollyjames]

There are a lot of people who start creative projects with no business or financial plan, because "who cares, it isn't important, we'll figure that out later". And you can't let yourself become that person. Not because I'm a sneering finance bro who thinks your woke animated youtube series wont make money, but because if you don't you'll wind up financially exploiting your friends for years

[mollyjames]

Look, it's none of my business if you wanna work yourself to the bone for no money so you can make your dream project a reality. I think you shouldn't, but also let's be real that's basically a rite of passage for young creatives. But as soon as you start involving other people? You need a plan. You need to be able to compensate them for their time, and you need to have it in writing

[karthonic]

For freelancers: I recommend getting yourself a copy of the Graphic Artists' Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines for reference-- the newest one dropped last year (I have the 16th edition). It helps you figure out your pricing, how to create a contract for various projects (and you can access free PDFs of templates you can use to modify for your own projects)! It's a good place to start and refer to-- even colleagues who are decades in the business (and former Guild Members too) still use it.

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[penumbralwoods]

btw if you've ever wondered why i make posts like this and get really obnoxious about nonbinary positivity. this is why

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

[xfhsfh]

@this-is-nonbinary-joy

[queer-joy-detector]

Queer joy detected!

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

sonce the sports are happening big rn where i live i made a handy chart of all the phrases i use to communicate with my loved ones during these trying times. i thought others might find it useful too

ive discovered you can have whole conversations with people using just these phrases and none will be any the wiser that you dont even know what sport it is theyre talking about

[psychotic-gerard]

me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

[nojerama1996]

This. Please. Whether I'm avoiding spoilers for a show or people promoting eating disorders, if I block a tag it means I don't want to see it. Spell your fucking tags properly.

[dracl-dragon]

!!!!!!!

DO NOT CENSOR TAGS

AND SURE AS FUCK DON'T CENSOR WARNING LISTS/WARNING TAGS

[brightlotusmoon]

WE SAY SHIT HERE SIR

[crabanarchy]

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

[crabanarchy]

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

[puthy]

how you can tell the post is really bad

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

tumblr version of "you sir have won the internet. have an updoot"

[barbeloth]

man come on

[shnowyfox]

it would be so awesome

it would be so cool

[retroactivebakeries]

when you were a child, the worm named LANGUAGE ate its way into your brain and cursed you to understand the letters and the syllables and the sense of speech, doomed you to commas and clauses and passive voice, took the meat of you and twisted it with words. this is why you’re able to post about maids and berries and flasks and catgirls and whatnot, so it’s pretty great. make sure to thank the worm named LANGUAGE the next time you see it!

[egregore-engine]

imagine, if you will, that it's 2005. and google is around and a useful and usable tool for things. and it's also like, not perfect, because nothing is, and obviously has a lot of inbuilt problems. but imagine everyone was like "google is bad because it doesn't have a Soul." and "actually google is killing the library." and "google is something only uncreative bastards use." and then imagine you are someone who understands that google is like, a basically neutral tool, and not only that, but one which will become so mundane and banal as to basically fade into the fabric of social reality, because it is a useful technology that got integrated into how we interface with the world. this is how I feel about everybody culture warring about AI. I don't think you have a real argument for your qualms, I think you're a liberal making idealist errors and a not even particularly useful idiot.

[egregore-engine]

like there are issues to have with the technology as there are with any technology but people don't view "AI" as a technology, they view it as some kind of horrific devil homunculus golem without any understanding of how it functions or its social or political externalities. the reality is that it is here to stay and will become as integrated with your future as the internet is to you now. you are simply behind the curve.

[birgenworth]

History has proven time and time again that once a new technology is invented there is no undoing or destroying it. Every attempt to halt the progress of a new and useful technology has failed miserably and it's clear that the only way to deal with it is to accept its existence as a foundation upon which to educate people in its use so that we can collectively develop more efficient, productive, environmentally friendly, and safe ways of using it.

The ability of the masses to be able to do this is obviously limited by the economic and political systems under which we live and capitalists will of course chase profits over environmental and social safety whenever possible, but that means the solution is not to destroy and shame AI into non-existence (which, historically, we have no reason to believe will actually work), and instead to dismantle capitalism, a much more feasible goal that is historically more likely to succeed than eliminating machine learning and generation altogether.

[reachartwork]

had a little "duh" moment yesterday. the problem with chatgpt-4.0 (the evilest one) and, indeed, the problems with all ais is not the fact of what they do, but rather, how they do it. that is to say, chatgpt-4.0 was designed deliberately, via post-training, for certain metrics such as "user retention". that's where the evil lay - with the openai, not the gun they made, per se.