Starlight, Oxygen & Dreams

She/Her, 30's, Lover of Sci-fi, Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal, Art and beautiful words.

[knivesandteeth]

I love Garak and Kira because their characters are like... Yeah, trauma doesn't make you a better person. Sometimes trauma makes you a bitter, caustic individual filled with regret and self loathing. That doesn't make you any less worthy of care or healing or community. It's not the trauma that saves you, it's community and being given the love we were denied. Pain isn't virtue.

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[ivycrowned]

The older I get, and the more on fire the world seems to be the more I feel comforted and SEEN by Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld.

Not because all the books are inherently comfortable so much as because they feel like someone taking you by the hand and saying; “I know. I’m just as angry about this bullshit. But we can hold hands. But the sun still rises. But hope is still important. Hope wears steel toed boots and smiles with pink and bloody teeth and will make you laugh and will make you cry. It’s not okay. But we’re in the shit together, and some day it’s gonna be less shit.”

This got away from me.

What I’m saying is, I’ve got a shovel.

[terrypratchettappreciation]

Well put.

[epifamy]

Jon Bon Jovi in “Born To Be My Baby”

[blueeyesatnight]

Much like Triple Frontier someone made this for other men but we know different

[blueeyesatnight]

Oh yeah this is for the boys.

yup.

just confirming.

This is for the boys.

[heatherbels]

Please don't go into this movie thinking you're going to just be watching some fun eye candy, I truly beg of you all.

I don't want to spoil the plot of the film here, but, if necessary, Google the Von Erich family and prepare to cry. Their story is one of the most relentlessly heartbreaking things you'll ever hear 💔

[lone-nyctophile]

This world is unbelievably apathetic to night owls.

[lilaeleaf]

Some poor suffering gobs!!

[lilaeleaf]

Digital download available in my Ko-Fi shop!

• 10 transparent PNGs of each design

• 10 HD PNGs with a background

• 10 PNGs with a white outline for digital sticker purposes (i.e discord)

[mcdreary]

I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.

[heatherbels]

Depressing to see 500+ notes on AI "art" of Pedro being shared on here. There's work by real artists that doesn’t get a fraction of that love.

[mangakasanakajenw]

These picture generating prompters have no shame…..

[mistysblueboxstuff]

i wish all ai prompters a very go fuck yourselves

[germaniamarquez]

Pedrito is my comfort against anxiety

[fitzdyke]

Researchers hope their report will change the way local and national governments invest in community services

I haven’t seen this article posted anywhere outside of my immediate library-sphere so I wanted to shout about it - remember that supporting your local libraries is super duper punk rock 📚❤️

[aquitainequeen]

Thoughts from David Slack on 'AI' and copyright

(the voice theft in particular is really depressing)

[jraker4]

Some fucking techbro (or techbro simp) saying ‘you can’t copyright a voice’ is *literally* some straight out of folk legend shit. Like having your soul or voice stolen by a malevolent being or device.

It’s all but impossible for me to believe anyone claiming that ‘you can’t copyright a voice’ is a good thing believes it’s a good thing, versus thinking they can’t be stopped. Scumbags.

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[catasters]

[floral-poisons]

kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

genuinely don’t know if this post will go around because my interactions outside of hcs are shit, but i hope it does.

[bogleech]

The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories. Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)

[dduane]

Like it or not… this.