Fandom and funnies

Art acc: @otpin-arts 🍁 I mostly reblog posts from fandoms I’m in and funny posts.

[vanshoundd]

Nemesis smelly coat

[joanofexys]

queer themes in x-men my beloved. Angel binding his wings. Bobby’s parents asking if he’s tried just not being a mutant. Nightcrawler and catholic guilt. The existence of cherik. Everything with Scott/Jean/Logan. Mystique and Destiny.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[theforestknows]

I did one of the memes.

I call this one Executive Dysfunction.

[knightclubbing]

having to stop your conversation with a coworker when a customer walks in has the same vibe as two knights talking ildly on guard duty who have to quickly shut up and resume their positions as the king walks by. at least. i think so

[homunculus-argument]

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

[maybe-veves]

I mean honestly everything that Arab traveler said lines up with the Arctic areas, except the white hair part, I don't know where that originates from, or if it's accurate

[xenotiic]

If I had to guess, maybe they had albinism? Or maybe it's one of those cases where kids sometimes start out with one hair color and develop a different one when they get older. This is all conjecture, but something to consider.

Still really cool tho

[emma-d-klutz]

guys, the traveler just wasnt used to blondes

[choccy-zefirka-deactivated20251]

[neoladyapollonia]

Also, languages develop words for colors over time so they get grouped with the closest one. That's why people with orange hair are called redheads. The word for red is generally the third color that gets a name. There wasn't always a word for the color orange, but there have almost always been people with orange hair.

And the Romans in Rome were fascinated by the Celtic slaves brought back from the British Isles because of their fair hair and skin.

[homunculus-argument]

For the sake of "I would not believe it either if I didn't live here" kind of context, this is a perfectly normal hair colour for children where I'm from. It darkens to a dark ash blond/sand brown when they grow up.

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

So what I learned from this is even in modern times, people don’t know or believe that Scandinavians are just that pale and blond without jumping to “albino” first

You wouldn’t have believed the 10th century Arab guy either.

[deathbyotpin123]

Idk, I have thoughts and I don’t know how to form them into cohesive sentences. But if we truly want to see less AI used we need to learn to love “trash” and “bad art” more.

[tomatette]

Aside from your example that sucks big time, btw, there are ways to investigate suspicious artwork and there are pages where you can check the art you find suspicious and they can tell you very detailed why a piece seems human made or not. It is not always correct so use with caution but it might give you a direction at least. If art is suspicious and detected as AI you can check if the artist in question posts sketches, recordings, wips,... Every artist should be able to easily show you proof of the work not being made by AI and if I was an artist in question, I'd rather have someone ask me for proof than thinking of me as suspicious and I am sure most honest artists would agree. It sucks that we even have to be suspicious these days but sometimes, signs are there and investigating is not too difficult.

Hey again, Nonny. I think I have to make myself clearer.

I do not approve of the "investigating approach" at all.

These pages you're talking about? AI checkers? Are AI too, and by checking someone's art you're feeding it to AI. They're also far from reliable, so I don't recommend using them.

Anywho.

Every artist should be able to easily show you proof of the work not being made by AI

Hm ... Another thing I don't agree with. Why artist probably could show you proof - what entitles you to ask for it?

if I was an artist in question, I'd rather have someone ask me for proof than thinking of me as suspicious and I am sure most honest artists would agree.

That is your opinion. And I'm sure a lot of people share it. But does that mean someone who doesn't want to share their process is automatically suspicious?

No, sorry, Nonny, I think that's a slippery slope you're going down. One that leads to witch hunting and people - real people! - getting hurt.

If you're suspicious, just wrinkle your nose and scroll on. Maybe block the person in question. Rant to your friends about it if you have to. But don't start going after people. It's not cute. You're not on the higher ground, even if you might think you are.

And there could be consequences you might not be able to repair.

[deathbyotpin123]

Can I add my two cents?

Sketches and timelapses can be generated too. Sometimes people sketch over generated works and use that as “proof” it’s drawn. So those prove nothing.

I’ve seen very popular artists get accused their art was AI by people who just discovered them when in reality it “looks AI” because that artist’s art was used in training data sets… So even having a long online presence means nothing.

Witch hunts do nothing too. If someone is using AI they will just make a new account and move there. The best thing to do really is just to scroll by. People who post AI art online do it to get attention (likes, kudos, comments…). Best we can do is not give them attention and hope they might give up on the whole generating pictures thing and go do something else. 🤷‍♀️

[reinvent-and-believe]

actual ray of sunshine carter vaughn

[vorimar]

Marchwarden has spotted you.

You are dead.

[the-bedheaded-league]

I've finally posted my fic from the GORGEOUS anthology, Very Sincerely Yours! My story follows a series of coded letters written between Holmes and Watson during the years of the hiatus. The absolutely gorgeous illustrations are by the lovely @soussune.

Thank you so much to @haedraulics and @inevitablies for putting @very-sincerely-yours-zine together. This was one of the coolest projects I've ever been a part of and I'm so honored to be included amongst such amazing artists and writers. <3 <3 <3 If you haven't yet, go grab a copy of the PDF so you can see these illustrations how they're meant to be displayed! And, of course, so you can see all of the other incredible pieces included in this top-notch collection.

[baelorsbeard]

Had a ridiculous reference pic on my phone that I needed to exorcise 😂 Anyway, what if Baelor had just reached out in the Ashford solar and honked one. What if.

[exitwound]

when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”

[existential-celestial]

and ashbery said “accept yourself as numerous”

[soracities]

and when mahmoud darwish said “I am besieged by contradiction” and when lewis carroll said “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then”

[cuppydogshane]

that is actually my main principle of explicit fic is that the personalities stay On during sex.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[kedreeva]

I scheduled this in 2025 to give you all a week to make Moon Day Monday preparations! I think I will order a little rocket cake or bake some moon phase cookies!

[dduane]

It's coming, cousins. ...This could be as big as March 15th if we made it that way...

[valtsv]

i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this

[amazoogle]

[kvothbloodless]

Hey. Hey!

[puke-ur-gutz]

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[ivy-michaels]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.