c0nji

30+ SFW personal/inspiration blog. Anyone under 20 is discouraged to follow or reach out to me.

[c0nji]

I really hope that one day, my life becomes secure enough to not mentally fight for my life every day, so I can finally direct my energy to connecting with people.

---12:52 PM · Jun 27, 2025

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[c0nji]

Tumblr added a "sort by newest/oldest" option to the 'Likes' page, so expect some old posts starting from 2012~ >:3

[ruubell]

[fuck-customers]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I Watched a 55-Year-Old Law Break the AI Hiring Industry — And It Was Overdue

The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee

a bit more context

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[duckbunny]

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

[helenvaughans]

[itsmistybitch-deactivated202605]

These posts are sisters

[lierdumoa]

[kimiko24]

I fucking love this video

[animentality]

[gingersnapwolves]

according to my mother, my father proposed by asking her "are you willing to put up with my bullshit for the rest of your life" and her response was "if you're asking what I think you're asking, you'd better get on one knee and do it right"

[melda0m3]

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

[feathernotes]

stares in webcomics also.... 🥲 I'd love for more people to just take a chance on things that aren't wildly popular or backed by a bigger presence! Take a chance on things that don't generate a ton of fanart or have loud fandoms too! Word of mouth is great but also you should just read things or watch things that you don't know anything about. This post encapsulates so much of my feelings towards what is happening with indie support these days 💯

[queerautism]

Hey so as the economy continues to get worse in the next few years, gambling companies are going to go extra hardcore predatory as people become more desperate. Yes, even more than they already are. You have to promise me right now you're not going to fall for it. No gambling, okay?

This is going to be especially bad with prediction markets and sports gambling, and it's already really fucking bad. But it also goes for loot boxes, blind box collectables, trading card games, and ESPECIALLY gacha games.

[english-mace]

yes labubus are gambling

[motziedapul]

Everyone's making adaptations of Dracula and Frankenstein that are more gay and trans, I want to make an audio drama that's an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo but more gay and trans

But that already exists and it was an anime that was released 21 years ago

If you want a Count of Monte Cristo story where a kiss was involved in the climax between The Count and Albert de Morcerf and their one trans woman character gets away safe and happy with a flourishing modeling career AND it's widely considered one of the best, if not the best onscreen adaptation of the novel, watch Gankutsuou

[sodaforum-deactivated20210711]

Oh I didn’t bring robots. Just my kittens.

[sca-nerd]

[transtessbian]

[beardedmrbean]

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.