life is shit as always

Flip they/them im here to party

[hualianisms]

verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

tumblr users will be like “i’ll be the first to admit i didn’t read anything you said, but here’s my take on it:”

[cash4bees]

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

[contemptible-scoundrel]

how it feels to decline when the self-checkout kiosk asks to round up fourteen cents to support homeless veterans

[princesshaiku]

Heart Shaped Versace Medusa Purse ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

[heavensghost]

Accidentally put my whole fucking heart into something that wasnt fucking meant for me again fucking hell

[pseudomantis]

I miss being 9 years old and watching alien sighting videos on YouTube and getting so scared I felt sick

[squeakitties]

"do it scared" gets exhausting when you're The Fearful Afraider and everything is scary even when you're in your 30s

[rainbowgaez]

ok guys but imagine how hard it's gonna hit if something good ever happens again

[barikonen]

when ozymandias king of kings tells u to look upon his works and despair but, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

[escapismsworld]

Interior of The Oranienbaum Palace, Russia.

[mountainbaby25]

Hillsides of green

[fandaniel]

what the fuck

[fandaniel]

been in my head for days

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

just read the phrase "steel wrapped in velvet" in an otherwise very good fanfic and felt ice thru my veins before i realized it was last updated before covid. i want all data centers to explode for many various reasons but presently for the anxiety it has spiked in me when i'm trying to mind my own business reading sesskag smut on a lazy wednesday

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

to clarify it's not the phrase itself, it's the prevalence of it in LLM / generative AI. fics like these with perfectly reasonable metaphors and turns of phrase were scraped mercilessly, becoming the fodder that current AI generated writings are based on.

some people latch onto the emdash, an innocent bystander that has been the subject of great misfortune thanks to generative AI, but he's not the only casualty in this war.

you'll see phrases that are obvious, like "it's not X, it's Y" to mollify the user ("That's not abuse, it's a trauma response") or the similar but differently used "not X not Y just Z", often used in tandem with the poor sweet emdash ("Her eyes met his, and he saw something flicker there—not calculation, not surprise. Just heat.") or another three-parter that uses short bursts of description punctuated by bold-italics for emphasis: "She was quick, precise, deadly." these are somewhat easily spottable, and you can almost always bet on it being genAI for these ones (my deepest condolences for natural users of these phrases, but they're poisoned now. i'm so sorry for your loss.)

but my personal least favorite poisoned phrase, and the subject of this post, is genAI describing tense dialogue (or even cock itself) as "steel wrapped in velvet" or "a silk-wrapped dagger" or some other equivalent that was, not even a decade ago, a perfectly average thing to write in your smutty fanfic, but is now just another screaming red flag that my brain latches onto because it's a current-day sign of boilerplate AI writing.

and pisses me off. the only saving grace is to find these phrases in pre-covid writings. that isn't to say it's DEFINITELY genAI 100% of the time when found post-covid (esp since some kids are literally LEARNING to write based on these which is fucking depressing), just that it's a massive red flag, because genAI kidnapped and slaughtered them.

again. my deepest condolences to natural users of these turns of phrase. but no one 'in the know' can see these phrases anymore without suspicion.

[incredibly-cold]

Genuinely this stuff is why I don't plan to write again. I don't care to keep up with which phrases have been scraped and even if I did it would be different in a month anyway. Who wants to put their heart and soul out there to be accused of using ai? And since the date can't prove my innocence if I'm writing it now, there probably would be accusations. Which tbh really sucks since I missed out on like 8 years of writing bc of multiple traumatic brain injuries. And yeah there's lots of people saying not to assume but for each of those desperate pleas there's 4 or 5 posts like this where people just can't trust it and therefore can't enjoy it. No moral here the world just sucks for creators now.

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

i completely agree.

it's miserable, ive gotten tons of (hopefully well meaning) comments asking if this or that scene was "ai-assisted" and it's so disheartening and depressing and makes me just not want to even write at all, forget posting it. it's too painful to get comments like that but even more painful to be hyper-critical of my own writing and overly invested in whether something sounds too 'ai-accented' to myself.

like how can i say 'keep at it we'll all get through it together some day' when i myself have such a knee jerk reaction to simple, once-common turns of phrase?? it's totally hypocritical of me. even while i want to hold on to hope for a better future, i'm still suspicious and i'm still a hypocrite and it's still miserable.

another reason i want data centers to mysteriously burn down and ai bros to disappear.

i want my earnest hope back.

[bloobydabloob]

I thought I scheduled this oops. Hellooo

[youtendtoforget-deactivated2025]

I’m ready to be transformed by the ibuprofen . I’m ready to be born again in its purifying light.

[platonbatonn]

meowphonse elric