Eternal Fear

Speaking English and Russian. Preferable pronounce they/it. Feel free to dm me.

[eternal-fear]

Fëanáro in Utumno

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[robertfagden]

lets all horrifically torture our favorite characters together Forever

[right-up-my-allie]

no borax no glue

[questions-about-blorbos]

If your Blorbo asked you to cannibalize human flesh with them, would you do it? *Assuming Prion diseases and other diseases weren’t an issue, and the meat was 100% safe

Yes, I’d try it

Depended on how it was prepared / I could be persuaded to try it

No, I would not try it

Voting ended onJul 17

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

[not0an0expert]

You know what. I want bf!4c disability metaphors too. I want 4c feeling gross or unhelpful when he gets to Blue because his slime gets everywhere. And that wasn’t a problem in the swamp, but here people give him annoyed looks for it, and he starts apologizing reflexively. And gets hit with relief that he didn’t realize was pent up when someone says “don’t apologize, you’re all good.” I want 4c offhandedly mentioning something he does differently than humans because he’s a slime, and the humans looking at him with pity that he feels uncomfortable with. I want well meaning but unhelpful humans fawning over him and trying to protect him because he’s just so squishy, he needs to protected, and he just wants them to leave him alone.

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[brawltogethernow]

Look what my friend with no social media posted to the chat with the damning staggered timestamps of 1:11, 1:37, and 1:42 A.M.

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[rneliflua]

"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

[rneliflua]

blorbofication to me is when you love a character in such a laser focus way that you somewhat detach them from the narrative from which they are inserted and treat them in a way roughly similar to how you'd treat an oc for which you still have no story and just like to put them in situations just for fun. which there's nothing wrong with btw, it's just that it can easily lead to people forgetting the character engine in a narrative and not just a barbie doll

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[soosmain]

Emergency commissions + Mini Art Raffle

Hello hello!

Took me a hot minute to write this post cus i forgot how to advertise on main...

First off, Im sorry for the inactivity in terms of posting, and the slow updates in terms of current commissions. Life had gotten rather messy. Nothing too dire of course, but its been tricky trying to stay on my feet. I tried to hold off on reopening until I settled down a bit, but unfortunately I need to help make rent so, Emergency Comms it is!

At my current capacity, I will only be taking in 3 or 4 at most.

To sweeten the pot, I will be hosting a little ⭐️art raffle⭐️, of sorts! Of the people that reblog this post in the upcoming 24 hours, 3 randomly chosen can win a sketch of their choice! (One character, halfbody or bust, preferably warhammer). Note that its one entry per person, so no spam reblogs please.

Here's a link to my Ko-fi again to see prices, for inquiry/discussion surrounding the commission, please contact me at Mildlydampbog on discord.

Lastly, I just wanna thank all of you for your continued support and understanding, I know it's kinda cheesy to say but I realy wouldnt be here without your support!

[soosmain]

Well, holy shit that was fast-

Im almost at a loss- thank you so much?! For reaching out so quick and for your donations

Which is truly very kind of you, but please dont feel obligated to throw coins into my cup, i much prefer working for it! Regardless your support means so much to me

All 4 slots have been filled !

[iconuk01]

I did NOT have these on my bingo card for 2026!

A Jaina and Jacen Solo twin pack from Star Wars Black Series!

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[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you guys aren't gonna like this but if you want ao3 to be a neutral archive that will host anything that includes shit made with ai no matter how objectionable you find that

[anyasadventures]

Ugh. I hate AI fics but you're RIGHT. Just like with everything else we don't like, we can still just. Not engage with it.

[signoraviolettavalery]

no. I disagree. ao3 is an archive of fan content. as in, created by fans. An AI is not a fan. it's not a person. it can't write or create. ao3 is an archive of transformative work and chatGPT cannot perform meaningful transformative work, it can only regurgitate slop.

and yes, as others have said, ao3 still does have certain limitations. You can't plagiarize - and AI is a plagiarism machine, you can't post 'iso' or 'placeholder' fics, etc. It can absolutely choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without censoring the acual content.

[lynati]

^^^^^

[firelxdykatara]

Except that Ao3 absolutely cannot choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without opening the door to the very censorship it was created to avoid.

Because there is no way to tell with 100% accuracy that a piece of writing was created by or with the aid of generative AI, and anything less than 100% accuracy is completely unacceptable, no nuance, no exceptions. You can tell with 100% accuracy if something is not a fanwork--like an ISO or placeholder post that does not contain a fanwork--and you can tell with 100% accuracy if a fanwork contains a link to a payment apparatus or is otherwise soliciting payment for fic in violation of the TOS, so these things can be disallowed and, when discovered and reported as violations, dealt with by PAC. And you can tell with 100% accuracy that a fic has been plagiarized, meaning that it has pulled entire passages word for word from another fic and this can therefore be detailed in a report in order for PAC to take action. (This is important to note because while generative AI is in fact The Plagiarism Machine, that can only be proven on the back end via the datasets used to train it. You can't actually look at generative output and tell which place the words were ripped from, because LLMs operate on statistical probabilities of word order, not actually pulling phrases wholesale from a specific work.)

But you cannot tell with 100% accuracy that a particular passage has been generated with AI.

And we are already seeing the problem with spurious AI accusations! People are claiming that 'excessive use of em-dashes' is a 'tell' for AI, when the only reason em-dashes exist in AI-generated output is because the machines were trained on human-generated writing that used them! (And as a writer who frequently ODs on em-dashes and italics, I find that particular 'tell' especially insulting. My overuse of em-dashes comes from my own brain, thank you very much.) So the only way to actually tell that someone on Ao3 is using AI to write their fic is if the admit as much up-front.

Guess what would happen if Ao3 decided to ban AI fics from the platform? Those fics would stop being tagged, and then we'd run into the exact same problems we had on FFN with fics being grudge-reported by bad faith actors, which was one of many reasons Ao3 was created in the first place--so that people couldn't do that.

Generative AI sucks and I think everyone who uses it to create fics is a loser, but I'd much rather be able to avoid them by excluding a tag or muting an author than have to worry about some asshole who hates me trying to get my fics deleted by reporting me to PAC for suspected AI use.

[dewdropdaffodil]

i love the tags by @silvysartfulness

[flamingwell]

The corollary to this is that when people tag AI fic appropriately, you CANNOT send hate in the comments!! Because you know what happens then? People will stop tagging for AI! You must click the back button (and block the tag and maybe the author too) and come here to vent instead. Otherwise we'll be left with piles of untagged AI slop on AO3.

[xrd]

*does this to you*

[xrd]

Frankly beautiful way of phrasing it

[carcassfrotting]

sorry i accidentally called you "my victim" when someone asked about our relationship status. it will happen again.

[teratomika]

the worst ship ever ig

[luna-azzurra]

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.