[avantegarda]

Listen, I basically understand the appeal of "dark romance" novels. I'm not here to kinkshame. We're all freaks here.

What I WILL say is that personally, I find the genre impossible to enjoy because I spend the entire book thinking "if a man ever spoke to me like that I'd slam dunk him into the trash."

[slimemode]

not quite

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

[moon-chanter]

Time for my yearly

[depsidase]

[generalissimo-kneedeepincynide]

You spend decades thinking on how to destroy capitalism, how to fight Goliath as David. How even scratching the monster in the context of national liberation will be a nightmare. And then Goliath procedes to blind himself, cover himself in gasoline and set himself on fire

[leavingsaidwoods]

Fuck me, the amount of time and effort I put into validating data, and they've gone and added the fucking hallucination generator to it.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

well you can't blame them, it's not like excel already had a way to add up numbers or anything

[treestomeetyou]

This feels like when you’re finally invited to sit at the Adult Table and learn all the family lore in the most surreal infodump of all time

[bloomeng]

recommending comics is like “if you ignore the racism and the sexism and the inconsistencies it’s actually still pretty bad but every once in awhile there’s a moment that hits you so hard that it makes you stare at the wall”

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

[enki2]

[nebulaedaniel]

im so speechless. the way that nothing changes and everything changes. it doesn't matter but it so extremely does matter. it's the most normal thing in the world, and the biggest deal ever. you know.

[disruptiveempathy]

People put so much into seeing Stonewall as this symbol. And at the time we just thought, ‘Oh, I guess it’s just that time of the month when cops raid the bar, so they can make their numbers for arresting fags for the month of June.’ But people get so concerned about the details. I don’t know about all the crap I’ve heard all these years. Sometimes it’s ‘Oh, someone threw a high-heel shoe.’ Sometimes it’s ‘No, gurl, it was a Molotov cocktail,’ or ‘Somebody slugged a cop.’ All I know is that night, they came in, and nobody budged. I guess we were just sick of their shit. And suddenly we were fighting, and we were kicking their ass. The cops had to back up into the bar. We had them cornered. Next thing you knew, the riot squad was there, and baby, it was on. ‘The night of Stonewall’ is how people talk about it, but it was more like a week. People want to know the little details, but what I remember most is being scared as hell. We were fighting for our lives. They’re still killing us; they’re still not giving us the respect we’re due for putting up with their shit all these years. I’m giving you the facts about how shit’s been from the beginning, and what’s gone on, how the law was in our daily lives—the facts! And so with regard to that producer lady, the whole time I just thought to myself, ‘There’s gonna be so much of me on the cutting-room floor.’

—Miss Major, from Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

[fishthingdaily]

Today’s fish thing are these fish ties!

[hashtagloveloses]

this is how yuri on ice season 2 can still win

[sunlightbuck]

i love when something huge happens in a fandom you aren’t a part of it’s like hearing a loud eruptive cheer from the apartment next to you and you can hear the music and the sounds of the party muffled through the wall and you aren’t sure what they’re celebrating but you’re happy for them.

[wdapteo]

this is The funniest timeline

[animentality]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Thought I should make a separate post regarding this debate too.

"Do you think AO3 should ban AI generated works?"

Well, in theory, it may sound ideal. But in reality? No.

I am not a fan of AI, but "do you think AO3 should ban" never actually solves a problem. Because how can you tell what's AI and what's human made? It is extremely hard to tell, and going around accusing authors of using AI — just because you suspect they do — does more harm than good. Chances are that you're accusing real writer of being AI and ruining their day at best, making them quit writing at worst.

And the act of banning never stops something from existing. It only makes it more difficult to find or avoid. Tumblr bans porn, but you can still find porn on Tumblr. The only difference is that they're no longer tagged as porn, which means you're more likely to stumble upon them because blocking the tags no longer works when they are not tagged as porn.

The same applies to AI generated works on AO3. For now they are tagged as "AI generated". You can avoid them if you don't want them.

Once they're banned, people will no longer tag them as AI, which means you have more chance of unknowingly reading and leaving kudos on AI.

Also, no, unless an author says "this was written by AI" you cannot tell for sure if something was written by AI. Em dashes aren't evidence of AI. Long and overly described paragraphs aren't evidence of AI. Real human writers do write like this and AI was trained to mimic real humans' works.

If AO3 bans AI, you will be dealing with witch-hunting, genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using AI left and right, and AI works no longer being tagged as AI (meaning they are almost impossible to spot and avoid)