Mx. Brightside

Corentine, but most people call me Coren. I'm a journalist, poet, amateur fiction writer and sometimes I draw. They/them. Between 20 and ∞ years old.

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[nonevahed]

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

[elizabethanism]

On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.

[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[luna-azzurra]

The two wolves inside every writer: "this is genuinely the best thing i have ever written. i am gifted. i am changed. this paragraph alone justifies my entire existence on this planet." and then five minutes later, same paragraph: "who wrote this. who allowed this. this reads like a golden retriever trying to describe grief. i need to lie down and reconsider everything." both wolves are always wrong. the paragraph is fine. you need a snack.

[starrypawz]

The album Sanctuary by Evanescence is basically 'Hey are you a burned out millennial whose internally still a repressed teenage girl (gender neutral) we gotchu'

[eisenkrahe]

Yes!

[gayhockeyshow]

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free

[killergirlfuria]

Fun fact! Demanding updates is also likely to make authors delay them, either out of spite, or because you bring their mood too low to effectively write!

For me it causes both <3

[pilots-polls]

will you be attending any of the upcoming festivals this summer/autumn?

yes - in europe

yes - in north america

yes - in south america

no

nuance/unsure/maybe/other

Voting ended onMay 27

*we are only counting the festivals for this poll, rather than including the hometown columbus gig, for which we will run a separate poll for. feel free to use this poll as a way of networking and finding out who is going to the same festivals as you!

[bucketofdeltav]

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

[honeybunchesobees]

me: i dont plan out fics, i aint never planned out a fic, i rip that shit off the dome always

finals responsibilities: would you like to study or perhaps work on a report? me: it's time to sit down and plan out the first 5 chapters of this horizon fic i think

[honeybunchesobees]

i got a final exam in two days bro and im planning out 7 chapters of fic

[lixel-5]

i really need to know how many people credit their autism diagnosis to carlos the scientist

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“this writer writes like ai” usually just means the writing is generic, surface-level, emotionless and uninspired bc AI aggregates things and its output is very corpo-speak. if someone says your writing is like chatgpt, then it's time to try and put more personality and emotion into your work, that's all

re: this post

maybe try saying this off anon? if you believe you're right, there's no reason to hide.

whether or not you like it, ai is getting better and it can get into emotions — because it mimics that from how humans write emotions, and it's being developed more and more every day. saying "it's shallow, it never gets better" is like underestimating a threat. so your point is invalid.

and even if you think a fanfic "doesn't have enough depth", quietly ask yourself why you think it's okay and not rude/a dick move to tell the writer that when fanfic is a fun little hobby. not a job.

I've also seen works accused of being ai-generated just because they have perfect grammar.

you people will find anything and everything to try and justify being rude to fanfic writers and fan artists. and then you wonder why more and more writers stop sharing their works. it's sad.

I also want to share my own experience that I have read a fanfic that is very beautifully written, with depth, emotions, angst, everything... only to later check a tag and see that it's "ai-generated".

(granted, this one is on me because I didn't check the tags first)

my point, yes, ai can and does get terrifyingly good at depth, emotions and characterization.

saying "ai-generated work is emotionless" is like denying a problem. and the thing about denying a problem is that it doesn't make the problem go away.

that's all.

[concerningwolves]

You will never 100% idiotproof your creative work & if you try to, you will only succeed in smothering the soul out of it. btw