Chaostheorie's Fandom Blog

Where I ramble about my current fandom obsessions and reblog all of y'all's cool stuff. they/she | English & Deutsch Tatort sideblog @chaostatort

[chaostheorietblr]

Hello, I'm a real person!

Since this is apparently a concern with new accounts that just start following people, I will write a short introduction about myself to hopefully prove that I am not a bot.

I am Chaostheorie on AO3, fairly new to the whole online fandom thing, and now dipping my toes into fandom on Tumblr.

I go through various fandom obsessions, my current main ones are the queer historical romance novels by British author KJ Charles and the long-running German crime show Tatort, as well as Lord of the Rings. I usually read a lot, mostly speculative fiction and romance.

I live in Europe, but have variously lived in Europe and North America throughout my life and have cultural ties to both. I speak English, German, Dutch and some French.

Looking forward to seeing all of y'all's cool stuff!

Edit: I made a side blog for all the Tatort stuff I want to reblog, so nobody gets annoyed on main. It's @chaostatort.

[fleshst4r]

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we're not going to make it

we will make it

it'll take too long to rebuild ourselves

we will make it

but what if we don't wake up in the morning

we will make it

i don't see a future with me in it

we will make it

we'll give up long before then

we will make it

im scared

i love you. we will make it

Voting ended onApr 11

[animnightmare]

The votes on this post. Oh. A poem in poll form, interactive art, the fact we can see how the other people reading it felt. im. this is really good.

[lala-lovesie]

Oh man, the emotional experience of reading down through this and deciding that I'll click on one of the "we will make it" options, and then reaching the end and selecting the "I love you we will make it" option, only to see that almost 2/3 of everyone else's done the same. I'm sitting here crying. What an amazing act of art, I'm so glad I got to experience it before the poll closed.

[feministtalks]

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

Yes to all of this, but I'm also pro-Laura who just does not want kids and wants to have sex

[recurring-polynya]

me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.

[excuse-me-thanks]

“i should take a walk for my mental health” boring, tired, i don’t even really wanna do it tbh

“i need to check the perimeter” i need to check the perimeter

[that-gay-jedi]

[specialagentartemis]

why does it take SO much energy to keep your house only sort of clean

[antiadvil]

it's wild that popular discourse around migraines is that there are too many people who claim to have migraines but "just have bad headaches". this is the exact opposite of my experience? i'm still trying to convince several of my friends that their "bad tension headaches" that are unilateral, throbbing, cause light sensitivity, nausea, etc, are migraines lmao. migraine is underdiagnosed and undertreated by every metric i can think of.

this narrative is not harmless! it prevents people from getting treatment that could really benefit them. so i would like it to die. thank you.

[shamebats]

As a guy who went to see a neurologist only to "rule out migraines" because I thought I had "tension headaches at worst and also it's not that bad really" only to realize by tracking my headache days that I have very bad chronic migraines just with no aura (most people with migraines don't have them), I co-sign this 100%.

Just starting abortive medications already improved my quality of life so much and now that my doctor started me on preventatives, I might actually be able to have more than a handful of headache-free days each month.

Migraine is frequently misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis or tension headaches according to research. Mostly because people have a very rigid (inaccurate) idea of what it actually is.

But even if it's not migraine, you still deserve treatment for your headaches. Just because someone else has them worse than you doesn't mean you don't deserve relief.

What Type of Headache Do You Have? | American Migraine Foundation

Learning about the different types of migraine and headache disorders can help you better understand your symptoms and discuss them with you

[roach-works]

yeah i found out awhile back that the 'pressure headaches' that i get that 'aren't that bad' (but still leave me feeling sick and dysfunctional all day) were migraines. i now take a low dose of a preventative medication and the number of shitty rain days i have per month has dropped from like ten to two. it's great.

[captaindibbzy]

In my experience anyone who has chronic pain of any kind ALWAYS under diagnoses it in part cause people who DON'T have chronic pain always tell them how it's Not That Bad Just Get Over It and it takes a lot of fighting to get anyone (including doctors) to do anything about it. Fucked if I know why. Everyone seems to think we're making it up. I've never met anyone who is making it up.

[ghosthorse-tracks]

Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

[japaneseaesthetics]

A)  A silver articulated model of a praying mantis, the wings chiselled and signed under the inner wing Muneyoshi

Japan, Meiji (1868-1912) Length: 4 inches (10 cm)

B)  A silver articulated model of a cicada, the wings and head well chiselled and signed under the inner wing Muneyoshi.

Japan, Meiji (1868-1912) Length: 2½ inches (6.25 cm)

C)  A silver articulated model of a hornet, with protracting sting. The wings well chiselled and signed under the inner wing Muneyoshi.

Japan, Meiji (1868-1912) Length: 2¼ inches (6 cm)

[biglawbear]

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He—wait. Why dost the Lord hath clippers.

[biglawbear]

The Lord sheareth me.

[teaboot]

“Jesus Shaves”

[ritavonbees]

that i learned that this emoji 🪅 is a Mexican pinata and not a biblically accurate party hat...

[jingerpi]

hate hate hate how sites are increasingly trying to make right click saving images impossible. facebook, instagram, reddit (app), pinterest*, etc... all make you jump through hoops just to save an image. can you guys not please. how ddo i make them stop. can we get one of those EU regulations or whatever that makes them all comply, or are we going to have to wait for global socialism for that. ugh

[desktop-assistant]

Right-Click Borescope - Chrome Web Store

List all images under your cursor, even ones hidden by other elements

Right-Click Borescope – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Right-Click Borescope for Firefox. List all images under your cursor, even ones hidden by other elements

[acanuk]

oh look, the exact tool that would have saved me SO much time and energy trying to find images hidden in the source code 🙃

[drtrinitysantos]

"if being hard on yourself was going to work it would have worked by now" okay well being soft on myself isn't working either so what the fuck is left. medium? I gotta be medium with myself? I gotta ask the fucking ghosts for help? is that it?

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[welcomedtonewyork-deactivated20]

I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

[boykavalier]

THE PITT 2.15 "9:00 P.M."

[fractally]

With this sudden amount of conversation of AI-assisted fics and such, is there a specific fic or fics that people are talking about as being "super popular" but obviously AI written? I feel so out of the loop

(Feel free to send me this on anon if you don't want to comment something publicly. I won't publish anything that names an author / fic)

[darlingofdots]

I believe the uptick in conversation is in reaction to this. The Reddit post links to a conversation/document that explains a specific html markers which proves that a piece of text has been copied + pasted directly from Claude AI, and then includes a rundown of how many of these markers were found in a subset of very popular fics in the Heated Rivalry tag on AO3, some of which are extremely popular and successful (as in, very high stats, are talked about and recommended a lot, authors have name recognition).

This marker only exists if text was copied directly from Claude AI into the AO3 text box. It wasn't originally identified in a fandom context and doesn't occur if the text was copied from Claude into ie a Word doc or if a different LLM was used. It also doesn't differentiate between text that was completely generated by Claude and text that was only edited by Claude for formatting or spelling.

The main takeaway from this experiment is, in my opinion, that AI use in fanfiction is widespread and ubiquitous and not detectable to most people. There is no reliable way to tell if a text was written using AI because of how LLMs work and what they were trained on, but a lot of people ARE using AI to write fanfiction and the results are good enough to make AI use rewarding.

The other thing is that it complicates the way fandom as a community talks about AI use in fic. Most people don't want to read fic that uses AI, which disincentivises writers from disclosing their AI usage. People have been using AI accusations to bully and harass authors, which is bad because bullying is bad, but also apparently a lot of authors are using AI and vehemently denying it when asked. Reconciling all of this in a way that satisfies all the different interests and ideals about fandom conversations is going to be really, really difficult and probably get really, really ugly.