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˖ ࣪𖣠 they/them , INFP , writer, drawer, intermittant user multifandom, stucky, arcane, six of crows, mlp˖ ࣪ ࣪𖣠

[iyafaffagaba]

The little brain worms have been whispering in my ears, so here comes pony jinx!!

[lesh732]

Uhh... Did I get something wrong?

[little-origami-irises]

fluttershy also because she was my favorite pony

[iyafaffagaba]

Every time i do digital art i remember why i don’t do digital art.

anyway, here’s a glorified flat paint of my some of my goats that i started before valentines (hence heart balloons) and never finished. uhhgggggggg

[rillils]

just musing out loud, but pre-war steve noticing the unmistakable pink of scratch-marks between bucky's shoulder blades while bucky's getting dressed in the morning, and burying his suddenly too-warm face in his pillow because he did that. steve did that. last night. with his very own fingernails. and now bucky's gonna go out into the world, go to work, talk to people, maybe drop by his folks' place, say hi to his little sisters, buy bread to bring back home, and no matter where he goes, he's gonna be wearing the tell-tale mark of steve's pleasure right there on his flesh, like a signature. and nobody's gonna know, but steve is. steve knows. steve is strangely and spine-tingling-ly pleased by this knowledge. steve is speedrunning through a horny crisis at 6.27 am and he's not sure how to deal with it, besides trying not to stare at his... handiwork for too long.

meanwhile bucky's standing in the kitchen, ironing his own shirt, unaware of the pink little welts peeking out from his undershirt, wondering what's got his best guy smiling secretively behind his cup of coffee, and why steve's ears are so red-hot they're almost glowing this early in the morning.

[iyafaffagaba]

handiwork

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

You’ll be on my mind, my destiny

[iyafaffagaba]

get in the zone, auto zone

[swiftlyconehead]

hyperpigmentation timebomb ver

nikkotari on twitter

[itsclydebitches]

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think this is an incredibly important post for a lot of reasons. You have to write a bad book in order to learn how to do something. You have to suck at playing an instrument before you can improve.

Struggling is part of the process, and I've had a lot of people argue with me that it shouldn't be who fail to see the point. When you replace an composer with an AI music generator, an artist with an AI-generated image, or an author with an AI-generated fanfic, you are missing out on the critical, fundamental experiences humans need to learn and grow. You are robbing yourself of essential skills you need as a person.

AI is not like a calculator, or a synthesizer, or a prompt generator. It's not a tool to aid in your process of understanding or creating something. It is replacing your ability to learn things, and that is going to do so much damage if you let it.

[buck3t-barnes]

“Whatcha drawin’ Stevie?”

[iyafaffagaba]

marie kondo style, IT BRINGS JOY they will never go to the goodwill bins 🤞

[cinnabarfangs]

sdn office holiday party GONE WRONG GONE SEXUAL 💔 inspired by this tweet

[iyafaffagaba]

lucinfernos is forever my goat

[cinnabarfangs]

HOLLY JOLLY YAOI CHRISTMAS!!! i've not been in the christmas spirits at all but it's the day of celebrations here in finland today and i'm going to visit family so i wanted to rush and get something done lolol

i actually wrote a (mel)jayvik christmas fic last year! it still holds up well imo so if u wanna see talis family christmas shenanigans head on over to my ao3 :]

(clean art under the cut)

[wakeuplouie]

ekkos hands in jinxs hair is my roman empire

[lonisaiou]

Oh they're helpless

close ups and bonus sketch !

[lazylittledragon]

can't get enough of this weird little family right now :'))

extras!!

[avasillva]

My immortal companion is Claudia. // Even though Wednesday is literally the tunnel at the end of my light, I can't imagine my life without her in it.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S02E07: I Could Not Prevent It WEDNESDAY S02E07: Woe Me the Money

[ge0-z]

Hey guys is it gay to cut your initial into your best friend and is it gay for him to like it💔

This is somewhat inspired by @sharpth1ng ‘s fanfiction Debaser!!! it’s not a scene from the fic but I quite enjoy the idea of Billy cutting his initial into Stu…. and Stu liking it because of course he does

Version with no lyrics under here !

[iyafaffagaba]

totally normal behavior (both the carving of the initial, and my reaction to the art)

[multifandumbmeg]

Gnawing on the bars of my enclosure because WHAT DO YOU MEAN moreso than the cane Kaz Brekker needs to walk he views Inej as his security blanket? He, fearless predator, The Bastard of the Barrel, is distinctly terrified to have her out of his sight? Not just for her safety, but it's like he just realizes in that moment he hasn't been apart from her since they met and he doesn't want to is terrified to be. The exact second he realizes just how much he's come to rely on her.

[whimzzzyarts]

HE LOVES HER TO PIECES AND CANNOT BREATHE WITHOUT HER!!!!

I recently saw some YouTube shorts about book boyfriends who couldn't function normally without their girlfriends, AND NONE OF THEM FEATURED KAZ WHICH PISSES ME OFF!!! Don't they have any idea that Kaz is always just barely hanging off of the brink of insanity when Inej leaves his sight for even a second??? He's already near hyperventilating and losing his mind so badly that he has to keep her in his mind at all times as his final resort of Inej-given comfort. He is just hopeless without her.