stolen stash of communion wafers

he/him — fandom trash — tf2 mostly — just a silly transmasc art kid — 18

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[rearviewmira]

at some point in your life you will be adding salt to a dish and you will think to yourself "that doesnt look like enough salt." this is the devil speaking. salt is very fine and somewhat transparent. its very hard to see the salt in the dish, and its very hard to tell how much has already been added. if you add too much you will end up with a dish that is unbearably salty and will give anyone who eats it instant heart disease from the amount of sodium

[beebrainedbisexual]

HII mootie!!

Hello! :}

[beebrainedbisexual]

Ok so I’m more a builder than an engineer but i did my best:

His legs pop off frequently so I set about making him a wheelchair as soon as I got him. The person I bought him from said he’d been broken and there’d been an attempted repair, so I wasn’t too surprised. His head also can’t turn, so I’m thinking about making him a neck brace? Anyhoo,

Aside from the usual cardboard, wooden skewers, and beads, I utilized some poker chips, air-dry clay and bottle caps to try and get the wheels as round as I could. Still not perfect, but they were good enough. His medpack doesn’t detach so I cut a hole in the backrest so he could sit more comfortably, which is already difficult with the limited bend of his hips and the labcoat.

For someone without much know-how on the matter, I think I put it together pretty well! I love giving these guys a better quality of life despite their being entirely nonliving lmao

[beebrainedbisexual]

I’m expecting a new NECA figure so I’m constructing a bunk bed for Demo and Engie to make space!

The curtain can move and be tied back, which I’m really proud of. For the base, instead of popsicle sticks, I used some old jenga blocks, and as always, cardboard. I have actual upholstery foam for the mattresses which is a huge step up from sponges! And I have some wooden beads which make for great embellishments and for attaching the curtain rod.

And here it is in all its glory with its occupants!! I’m super stoked with how it turned out.

[wordstome]

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

[wordstome]

(Please don’t harass this person, I want to address this point as well)

Look, I fully acknowledge that people have real attachment to their AIs. I even acknowledged that work in the post. I understand that they bring comfort and tangible benefits to people. That’s why they’re so popular.

But what I would specifically like you to know is that C.AI is unethical because they can take that from you. They can censor your bot, it can be deleted without your consent, and whatever you tell them is fed into the algorithm. And I reiterate, sometimes bots will tell you highly upsetting and triggering content with no warning. It’s an awful position to be in, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.

I get it. I was once in a place where it felt impossible to make friends because I was shy and afraid and never quite knew the right thing to say. It’s a part of life. To be honest, a lot of people are here on Tumblr because we were looking for that kind of connection.

What I want people to know is that we had these problems before C.AI, and we will have them after C.AI. It sucks, and I’m not asking anyone to suffer because “well, it happened to me!” If you have a genuine emotional attachment to a c.ai bot, I know you won’t quit because of ethical issues.

All I ask is that you examine this emotional need and try to wean yourself off of it. You shouldn’t have to be relying on a bot for therapy or emotional support. I know the internet talks a lot about emotional burden and trauma dumping but when you put yourself out there just a little you’ll realize that most people are willing to hear you out and offer comfort as long as you understand boundaries.

I’m sorry, but just because c.ai helps people, that doesn’t mean there’s a “gray area”. I don’t think everybody who uses c.ai is a bad person or hates writers. I understand that these bots are important to people. But when you let something you don’t have any degree of control over hold this much significance to you, it can be used to exploit you. Obviously it’s up to people with actual power to change things like that. But in the meantime, we have to be very careful about these sorts of things. I promise you, you are not attached to the bot. You are attached to the many wonderful things real people have written that the bot has stolen and is using to exploit you.

tl;dr I understand that c.ai helps people. But that doesn’t mean it’s ethical or has a “gray area”. It isn’t safe or healthy to rely on c.ai bots for emotional support. It’s scary to reach out to other people and won’t always be pleasant, but it’s always worth it.

[beebrainedbisexual]

Spy and Nancy (Engie’s ex-wife) are both horrible at maintaining healthy relationships it’s no wonder they get along so well

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

obsessed with the person on reddit who’s been reading thier mum who knows nothing about pokemon the bulbapedia descriptions and then she draws what she thinks they look like from that alone

i love you slightly unhinged old british storybook style pokemon that illustrate the importance of accurate text descriptions i hope reddit user BazF91 and his mum are having a great day <3

[brightstrangeworld]

one of the many things i love about rocky horror is that in the beginning of the movie janet is like "what the fuck what the fuck oh my god what the fuck" while brad is in confident macho man mode, and then by the end of the movie janet is happily sexually liberated while brad is like "what the fuck what the fuck oh my god what the fuck"

[beebrainedbisexual]

I keep seeing things online about how some people think heavymedic is overrated (it isn’t) and that either Medic or Heavy should leave the other for Engineer and quite frankly I think they’re all missing the point. Might I propose a solution:

✨Polycule✨

[beebrainedbisexual]

Kicking myself for not including this earlier

[beebrainedbisexual]

I keep seeing things online about how some people think heavymedic is overrated (it isn’t) and that either Medic or Heavy should leave the other for Engineer and quite frankly I think they’re all missing the point. Might I propose a solution:

✨Polycule✨

[beebrainedbisexual]

CHAPTER FOUR JUST DROPPED WHAT!!!!!!!

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

This one’s kinda maybe a lot longer than my previous chapters uhhhhh but I’m happy with how it turned out :D

[beebrainedbisexual]

Big news i am autistic

[beebrainedbisexual]

I love fankids. It’s such a fun exercise in character design.

[beebrainedbisexual]

Nothing against the guy but when Johnny Splash started singing my game Actually Crashed.

[sashayed]

work made us sign up for midjourney so I asked it to tell me a secret

[sashayed]

i asked it for another secret and i fucking shouldn't have

[beebrainedbisexual]

YAY my newest figure arrived today

His legs (particularly the left one) are a little loose in the knees and he has a little trouble standing so I’m working on making him some crutches :)

[beebrainedbisexual]

Originally drawn for valentines day; forgot to post our favorite gays so here they are now

[beebrainedbisexual]

REBLOGGING FOR PRIDE MONTH BWAAAAAA