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ynnu-64

day at the lake 🌱

shigeoreum

“All beautiful things must come to an end.”

Henry wondered if this too was beautiful.

runawaymarbles

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

zz9pzza

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

runawaymarbles

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

kyraneko

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

jeffsatyr

(ID in alt)

elodieunderglass

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

illusoryfem

dr-cassie-mckay

eva stratt + looking at ryland grace

bonus:

cow-inthe-closet

friend whos always planning everything: hey guys lets do something this week!! when are you all available?

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)

friend whos really into genshin impact: does anyone want to play genshin impact

beelze0-0

“You are mine, beautiful boy”

Prints available here

CW: smoking, blood

(ID: image 1: Armand and young Daniel curled up together in bed in an apartment in Paris, sunlight coming in through a window image 2: Armand lighting his cigarette from Daniel’s on Night Island in Miami image 3: Armand crouching over Daniel’s body after transforming him into a vampire on the floor in Dubai with the destroyed pages of the script scattered end ID)

meanbossart

🎤I know they're losing and I pay for my place 🎵 🎶🎶By the ring🎶🎶🎶

human-pet-they

Call of Duty character x fem!reader fanfiction that drops small but very unnerving hints of characterisation and personal history onto the self-insert, until eventually the entire concept of the piece of writing as erotica is dropped and it becomes a pointillist character study of a very opaque character

reticent-vampire

The Vampire Lestat 3.04

mismedleym

toward the sun, from the sun

saintcarnate

this-world-of-beautiful-monsters

the thing about Dennis Cooper writing torturerape rpf of famous musicians is that well you know it happens, we've all seen it. writing torturerape rpf of a guy he knew personally and had sex with, and admitting that this is what he was doing, feels far more extraordinary to me.