salty lemon, sour breadsticks

[ao3 and art blog: @moldychocc]

[breige]

[irondive]

guys we're running out of time

[alexlimone]

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[trickstarbrave]

[your-fave-hates-ai]

YOU

YOU HATE AI !!

[soviet-furries]

Nu Pogodi!

Soyuzmultfilm, 1972

[hemipenal-system]

this isn’t what i normally post here but firefox just switched ceos and this “anthony” dumbass is trying to put more “ai” slopware into it, meaning more bloat and privacy loss

if you use this browser you should go to their support forums and complain about it

[bedabug]

[henk-heijmans]

A young girl lying on a statue of a blacksmith, Bismarck National Monument, Berlin, 1961 - by Floris M. Neusüss (1937 - 2020), German

[vampiref1echelon]

Webbonso :3

[eliolikesapricots]

happy look at your boy's boner wednesday

[beybuniki]

avdol warm-up :D

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you teleported to your main special interest! will you survive?

yes

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[wizardarchetypes]

NOT THE BUBONIC PLAGUE FOLKLORE OF NORWAY IN 1349 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[liesmyth]

muoio malissimo

[crillina]

What a funny story...

[liesmyth]

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

okay context for the non-italians. long story short: it's pretty much impossible from an engineering perspective. there are very strong and swirly currents that make it not feasible to just build a bridge where the coasts are the closest - it would have to be built in a spot where the distance between the coasts is wider, a little too much for a bridge possibly, but also, like, outside of the cities, which means it would still be quicker for people to step on the ferry than drive all the way to the bridge. the ferry is quick, cheap, also they've introduced sustainable non-polluting boats, so, literally no one in either sicily or calabria wants a useless bridge, even if it could be built safely.

on top of that... it's a seismic area. you really don't want to make engineering experiments there.

governments have tried to figure out a way to build that bridge at least from the 60s, afaik, but engineers have just come to the conclusion that nope.

also: people in sicily and calabria have reason to believe that if a project like that gets given the green light, it will end up fattening the pockets of corrupted politicians and mafia groups.

pretty straightforward right? yeah... NOPE!

the italian right has been waving the proposal of building that bridge for decades. every once in a while, when you think you're free, BAM the right-wing politician genius of the moment comes up with the law proposal to build the bridge. it used to be berlusconi, now berlusconi is dead, recently it's been salvini. they propose to build the bridge, the left says "what the fuck", and the right goes see!! the left doesn't want progress and development for the country!! they want the country to languish and die!!

(in the meanwhile taxpayers' euros go into paying commissions that need to figure out how to build the bridge, ignoring that there's been a billion commissions over almost a century that have all come to the conclusion that nope.)

(also remember what i said about corrupted politicians and mafia groups? well try to guess the reason it's the right-wing parties that keep insisting on building this fucking bridge.)

it's become a total national joke. mention the bridge on the strait to an italian, they'll laugh as they go through the 5 stages of italian political grief.

[spectrology]

guess what...

[33-16]

i am not a fic writer but i enjoy reading lestappen a lott, and just wanted to pop in and say something regarding the use of AI in fics recently.

It is very discouraging to see how "common" AI use has become. Some of my favorite writers spend months crafting plots, writing drafts and editing only to see the space dominated by people churning out thousands of words in the matter of a few days. If you are also like me, a reader who doesn't write, your duty is to avoid engaging with these works. If you don't give them attention, they will not be able to continue abusing this space in this manner.

and to all the wonderful writers on here, please don't let this disturbing pattern discourage you. keep sharing your magic into the world. your versions of lestappen are what keep our fandom together between long breaks and tough droughts.

tagging some of my favorite writers who put in hard work and strongly discourage AI use, please go show them some love: @xxredwineandambiencexx @ladysomething @fueledbyremembering @sixteenhearts @ferrarisma @fabbyf1 @toppamplemousse @loquarocoeur @adutchlover @chock-and-bates @unlapped @formula-fun @usedtobetam @breathofnyx @gingerf1 @drivestraight @amarynas @mvlionheart @reveushe @verstappentime @hitthatapex

you all deserve the world <3

[adutchlover]

When I first joined this fandom, I was a reader of many of these tagged writers. Over time, I gained the courage to post my own stories after having already posted in the K-pop fandom (god knows my chanbaek fics). I've found true friendships, that are not just part of my writing progress, but my life outside here. People who help me continually improve, both my English (which isn't my native language) and my plots. Even with my entire writing process, I still struggle with my own insecurities every day and still have dozens of plots created and unpublished.

At the time, over a year and a half ago, Lestappen stories were less than half what they are now.

In the meantime, me and others were plagiarized by a "writer" who used a tentative friendship to steal my time, creativity, and The Invitation (co-written with Randomwordsonpaper), as well as the ideas for the camboys fic (the everyone watchin' us verse) and my vampire fic (sink your teeth) (which are two plots I loved, and after that I lost the desire to write the sequels, at least for now). Now, the person who did this (callumsgirl, tadejsgirl, pitlanelover, madameleclerc, and possibly many other names she uses to trick other writers) is now posting stories written in AI. As I mentioned to @33-16, there's so much AI stuff that now we always wonder if a new writer is just good and decent, or if they're AI.

With all this AI stuff, from SEVERAL writers lately, posting any of our stories is difficult, because even for us, being among these people is uncomfortable. It's really sad to see what the F1 fandom has become, and at what cost? Ego? FUCKING HELLLL, writing stories should be an escape zone, our happy bubble, not a cock-measuring contest!!!

Following @33-16 post, I need to also tag these writers that I love the fics and that give their passions to give us amazing plots: @randomwordsonpaper @autumnapricot @drivestraight @eaurouge-sangnoir @toppamplemousse @moonlight0starlighte @hanquality

[endless-skyway]

I've been thinking about how to add onto this well-written post by @adutchlover. It says so much, but barely scratches the surface of the story that I haven't really told anyone.

The person at the centre of this particular call-out was my co-author at the time that their use of AI was discovered.

You'll notice that my pseud is still attached to works that we did together. I'm confident that there are very little to no amounts of AI within those works. The reason I haven't removed them is because I put so many hours and thousands of words into them. I have a lot of emotions around all of that writing, which I'm still working through many months later.

My ex-co-author's use of generative AI was discovered by a mutual friend of ours (@miss_vivi_reads). She is a wonderful person, and a loyal reader of both F1 and Cycling RPF. She knew something wasn't quite right and did some sleuthing.

My gut was also telling me something was off, too. I spoke to Vivi, as I had the same suspicions regarding not AI, but copy and paste of a different story.

What followed was a week of putting puzzle pieces together, working things out, meeting @adutchlover to compare stories, and finding out that some things were not entirely honest.

The person in question created a new account on AO3, and started posting stories in the F1 fandom that were entirely created by generative AI. They pretended to be a different person, to become friends with F1 authors. They started commenting on their F1 "stories" with their own account to drive up "engagement" — and even those comments are AI.

I have had a lot of emotions to work through about this situation, and I've been lucky that many of my friends have been so supportive.

This isn't the full story - it's a very long, convoluted story, but I'll save that for another time — perhaps.

I'm sharing this so that members of the Cycling RPF fandom who follow me are aware.

If you're going to use generative AI to write fic, keep it to yourself. If you decide to post works, make them your own. Make them through hours of plotting, writing, editing, deleting, second drafts.

Generative AI helps no-one, and when involved in a situation like this — it just hurts everyone.

[mistressaccost]

she birthed him from her mind like zeus with athena. took the scraps of another person and made him like victor frankenstein. he’s her creation. her design. her favorite little lab rat. her child….

[dzook]

yeah.

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

Fun Fact: The fictional town in Severance called "Ganz" means "whole" in German