ThinkOutsideMyBox

they/them, neurospicy, fueled by fanon

[1-jar-of-stars]

me about a show i really like: the writers are so fucking stupid

[kholran]

It’s finally happened.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.

[beggars-opera]

@victoriansecret I found your friend!!!

[beggars-opera]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

small things in life that are actually worth living for

your favorite people

your loved ones

your pets

animals

nature

the smell of rain

your favorite fictional characters

your favorite movies

your favorite tv shows

your favorite games

your favorite food

your favorite books

writing fanfics about your favorite fictional characters

reading fanfics about your favorite fictional characters

gay people

old man yaoi

archive of our own

[walmart-the-official]

Y’ALL!!

[mateodoodle]

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

A collaborative Nostr funding initiative to develop strategic pillars for the Nostr ecosystem

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model

[cosmicbiologist]

Spread the word

[captainjacksama]

shiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[fluorescentbrains]

seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

[insomniac-arrest]

I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me

Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.

[furiousfurious]

Left this in the notes

[insomniac-arrest]

😂

[goodattellinglies]

[newsandstuffisee]

[the-gayest-dovah]

[bravehyde]

You need to move off of Google Docs!

I know some people have seen the news recently and may be doubtful of it. To the uninformed, Google Docs has started using AI to find "inappropriate" and "problematic" content, scraping your documents and deleting it. I know some people are unsure if this is real or think this is not going to affect them.

I regret to inform you that this is real.

As I was on a call with some writers and we were moving our documents as a precautionary measure, one person discovered entire pages missing that they did not delete themselves. This is happening to us, it's not a hoax or a rumor, it's happening right now. You need to move everything if you want to preserve it.

If you're a writer with writer mutuals, please reblog this so they know. I rarely write on Google Docs anymore, but I started my fanfics on there, and I would be devastated if I lost works more than ten years old because people decided marketing appeal is more important than creative freedom.

[memecucker]

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

[mala-taste]

If I were writing about firefighters I'd also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I'd do the same for a minority I'm not a part of.

I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.

We need to bring this back.

[mala-taste]

And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it's called Little Details and it's on Dreamwidth!!!!

[captainjacksama]

this just sounds like autists getting to happyrant about their hyperfixations while learning about new hyperfuxations to add to their collection (said as a good thing)

[marikn]

There’s something very specific Merlin does with his eyes whenever he makes a joke to cover up the negative emotion he’s having. I don’t have any gifs and idk exactly how to explain it but you can see it when Gwaine is packing up to leave after his introduction episode, and also in later seasons when he speaks to Arthur and is trying not to worry him.

He’s hiding so much and yet his eyes always betray him. It hurts to watch.

[captainjacksama]

on a scale from Merlin to Tyra Banks, what are your eyes projecting about your current emotional state?

[yayxstitch]

[notbecauseofvictories]

I really do think life is a series of watching other people walk through doors you can't follow them through. I've been thinking about it lately when it comes to marriage---my sister got married recently, and my brother before her, and while the occasions were joyful and I was happy for both of them, it was also like standing in mission control. Or maybe not even that, maybe the 'friends & family' section of the tarmac, several miles from the launch pad entirely. Waving as this intrepid astronaut (the one you would have sworn you knew as well as you know yourself, because you share so much and it lingers in your skin) climbed into a shuttle, jetted off into the darkness.

And then, the person who came back was....different. Not bad different! (Sometimes they come back better, this is also decidedly strange.) Just....different. They have gone somewhere you can't follow, seen and experienced things you will never be privy to. They will go back to that dark, unknown and unknowable country again, once the holiday or other familial obligation is over. And so you spend some time talking to them, nodding and smiling on autopilot while you quietly wonder, did they do that before, and I just didn't notice? Is that new? I don't remember that. I can't remember if---

It's a very strange experience, to be confronted with the fact that people exist outside of you, even those who share 99.99% of your DNA.

[captainjacksama]

this encapsulates a lot of my feelings about having moved overseas.

sometimes it feels like I've stepped back in time to the moment i left, but sometimes it feels like it *should* be the same but things are different in a thousand small ways that sort of break your heart. these people you've loved your whole life are slowly becoming strangers.

you've missed all the steps of growth between now and then, so it has a surreal feeling like you've accidentally stepped into a neighbouring alternate reality, and everything is just a bit *off*.

like walking back into your bedroom and all the furniture has moved 3cm, but not in the same directions. the space between the bed and sidetable was never that large before; what happened here to cause the distance? will i ever know, and what changes will have happened the next time i walk into the room?

I'm sure there is a work in German for the mental and emotional dissonance.

[icaruspendragon]

there are so many words to use in place of “penis” in regards to smut. there’s dick. or shaft. we got cock. member. organ. length. hell, even manhood! all are acceptable replacements.

but what do we have for the testicles? nuts? no thank you. ballsac or, lord forbid, just sac? i’d literally rather be tarred and feathered. using their government name and just calling them testicles? take me out back and gimme the ol’ yeller treatment.

how has the english language evolved so much yet we have no acceptable word for testicles in a sexy context? how can we claim we’ve advanced as a society when the best word for describing when two characters are fucking nasty and the noble and mighty testes are swaying about is balls?

BALLS

[icaruspendragon]

wanna run that one by me again, champ?

[the-mad-dame]

Here ya go. My apologies.

[icaruspendragon]

cheers, mate.

[demonprincex]

i really do believe that the answer to a lot of people's self hatred is not to try and reassure them that they are wonderful and okay and enough, but instead to remind them theyre a completely unremarkable regular ass person who is not the center of the universe or especially important so why would they expect themselves to be some superhuman savior. like there really is a kernel of out of control self importance at the heart of thinking youre an evil lazy piece of shit. because why would you expect you be anything but just like some guy. if you wouldnt expect the guy who works at the vape shop or your mailman or whatever to be able to do something then why would you expect yourself to? youre just some random ass person. its fine

[captainjacksama]

this has put into words the feeling that i have used to find more peace with myself in the last 4 years. I'm just some NPC in our giant infinite universe. The bar for expectations is on the ground.

[frenchgryffindor1960]

[keaganz]

And this boys, girls and nbs is how you SCHOULD READ FANFICTION AND DO THE INTERNET! *heavy breathing from shouting off roof tops*

[captainjacksama]

the AO3 filter system is SO GOOD. I can almost always find exactly what I'm craving, and can easily avoid things I'm not fond of.

I'm 100% sure there are loads of people who hate and don't want to engage with the things I love to read/write.

live and let live.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's important to remember that "neurotypical" just means "still able to cope with society's demands and expectations well enough to avoid being psychiatrized". It doesn't refer to some idealized super human who doesn't have any problems, doesn't struggle with anything, never does anything weird and who thrives under the status quo.

[narukorankofan]

It means "not an autist"

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It does not. "Allistic" specifically means not autistic. Neurotypical means you don't have any psychiatric conditions, not just that you aren't autistic. Autism isn't the only relevant way your brain can be divergent and trying to flatten all discussions of mental divergence into being autistic vs not being autistic excludes so many people and experiences.

[lesbianwyllravengard]

hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Also y'all this really ties into how impactful comments are and why it's so encouraged to leave comments and leave NICE ones. If I hadn't known this was spam, and if I'd gotten this on my currently-updating fic, it would've crushed me and likely convinced me to never update again. Adversely, even one nice comment from someone is enough to motivate me to write and share more. If you read a fic you liked, tell the author that! If you're reading an unfinished fic, leave a comment to say you're excited for more, or comment throughout chapters even! It really is so easy and quick to do, and it's not only nice but it can also completely alter a writer's motivation and inspiration

[drgrlfriend]

Fanfic writers, please be aware that for some reason having bots spam fics with negative comments is a thing now. Not sure what anyone gets out of spreading misery, but just know it's not anything to do with your fic. I got one that was like, "This fic is a delight ... just kidding, it's unfunny and tedious." It was very clearly unrelated to the content of the fic but for someone else it might have been heartbreaking.

[amberarmedheart]

I bring a "I can tie everything to Capitalism" vibe to the table that most people don't like, so with that in mind, let me tell you this:

Capitalism benefits from people losing the will to share stuff for free.

I repeat: capitalism benefits from people losing the will to share stuff for free.

Why? Look at all the "pay per chapter" services that popped up recently, subscription services to read "literature" that you and I know it's barely passable as such but that has the benefit of being sold by Amazon and Co since they started to use the exact same business tactics with books as they did in the good old days of beauty gurus and the 50 new must-have palettes per week model.

Be kind, be creative, be bad at it all but still do it and share it. Don't let regurgitated AI gruel win

[rosemarytales]

*inintellegible screech*

[captainjacksama]

'tis the season to cry first thing in the morning i guess