this elegy would love to save everything

Penni. Catholic. ask me about space opera. if you're reading this, i love you. icon by @holly-warbs, header photo taken by me

[distance-does-not-matter]

[veryfilthyshit]

agreed.

[istherewifiinhell]

[ID: a ball cap that says in english and chinese:

Don't rush to work / Don't be late for lunch 上班别急 / 午饭可别迟到了

END]

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[lakemojave]

Also you guys are gonna shit when you see how awesome my cane is

[lakemojave]

It's unfair how much this thing owns i need to take this thing out even when my leg is healed.

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

no way

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

[theythembobdylan]

this is my one wild and precious life fucckkkkkkk fuckkkkkk fucckcckkkkkkk

[faustique]

i love friendships that influence me to be kinder, smarter and healthier. i love when people have a positive impact on me.

[womaninwinter]

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic ← everyone read this article on AI's efforts to court the humanities right now.

Or simply read these paragraphs, which to me are the key thing:

But some of their questions seemed completely off the point to me. Was AI a new kind of entity, demanding a new metaphysics? What would it mean for a large language model to have a “character”? How should that character be formed? Could Anthropic’s Claude chatbot suffer, or be harmed?

But I didn’t want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about addiction and dehumanisation, about power and accountability. I don’t for a minute think AI needs a new metaphysics, and nothing that was said in the “exclusive briefing” I attended made me change my mind about that. But there was resistance to my efforts to change the subject. I worried that behind this wish to draw attention to Claude’s “status” there was a hope for a kind of baptism, a moral and intellectual credit note.

So important to remember that, in conversations about the morality of AI, we have to keep dragging the focus away from the machines and back to the people they are affecting. 'Is AI a moral agent?' Not a relevant question! 'Is AI being deployed in a way that prioritises the actual good of users? What is the actual good of users? How does the physical infrastructure of AI impact the local people and their environment?' Relevant questions!

[slygirlboy]

its awesome as fuck to have an evil castle in a bog i get to just sit in my chambers everyday and watch as the forces of good slowly sink into the mud as they try to approach

[slygirlboy]

why is the treeline rising

[slygirlboy]

SINKING SINKING SINKING

[slygirlboy]

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

[awesomebutunpractical]

If you murder me, and they catch you because you had your phone pinging off cell towers the whole time, I am haunting you exclusively to Point and Laugh.

[ruesdeluxe]

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

[fedoraspooky]

whoever's idea it was to have womens t-shirts have those tiny sleeves that go way up into the armpits must have done that maliciously

[geyfrog]

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships

[kryptonians]

Tumblr’s one true talent is making me sick of things I’ve never seen or read or heard.

[vampantheon]

on the topic of disabled characters, though, i think a LOT of artists give characters mobility aids that their character wouldn't actually benefit from using.

i'm sort of having a mild brain fog moment rn so i can't fully articulate what i'm on about, but i think a lot of able-bodied artists view things like canes and crutches as interchangeable. and they often don't know enough about the wide range of mobility aids to make an informed decision about what their character might actually use based on their disability

i also think that aids like walkers and rollators are sort of viewed as "cringe" on some level, and many people view them to be "just for old people," so many artists will opt for giving a character who has full-body pain and fatigue a cane (which, in many cases, can potentially WORSEN full-body pain) instead. and a lot of people don't realize that most wheelchair users are able to walk, so they don't consider it an option for characters with chronic pain

[vampantheon]

idk it's kind of frustrating. i've genuinely never, ever seen a character that uses a rollator before. not once. i cannot name a single one. i know of multiple ocs who are described to have full-body pain, dizziness, and fatigue that are drawn as cane users and are never shown with wheelchairs or walkers, though

[vampantheon]

it's also sort of sad? i've been diagnosed since i was twelve years old, and i only heard of rollators LAST YEAR. and that was only because i saw one irl and immediately asked what it was. i wonder how many disabled people out there don't even know it's an option solely because they're completely underrepresented online and in media

[vampantheon]

if you're a creative with a disabled oc, PLEASEEE check out this link. it's a very nice and detailed guide for telling which mobility aids suit someone's needs best. it's incredibly important to make the right choice for your character! mobility aids tell you a LOT about someone's lived experience. picking the right one will communicate to your audience #1 what your character goes through #2 that you UNDERSTAND what your character goes through!

[circusheart]

No death cab for ugly? Ugly has to walk?