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i made my dream banner with art from @kenjo-arts bc dreams my blorbo. anyone can interact but thats your prerogative, if you see shit here that's your fucking problem

im jess. i don’t give a fuck about your fandom purity bs. use multiple pronouns for me. i mostly run on a queue but not always. i dont tag spoilers

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#original bullshit

mockiatoh

Saw several people angrily responding to this one & all I can say is she’s 100% right

cressidascowper

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) + trivia

#gif #project hail mary

sztupy

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

#fuck generative ai

antianakin

People seem to really really desperately want Jedi characters to get married, to the point of coming up with some kind of specific Jedi marriage vows or practices that wouldn't somehow be forbidden as if it is impossible to be in a long term serious relationship without getting married at some point. Or as if the problem is the specific wording of the vows and not the INTENT behind them, the EXPECTATIONS that come from having a legal spouse.

Relationships are about love, marriage is a business transaction, and while many people tend to conflate the two these days, there IS a difference between them that matters. Jedi don't get married because it is a business transaction that comes with stipulations, but this does not keep them from having relationships. If they wanted to get married, they could simply stop being Jedi, but most if not all Jedi we ever meet seem perfectly happy to just not get married.

goblinwithartsupplies

This applies to the prequel Jedi/ old Jedi Order and maybe(?) the sequel trilogy.

Luke’s Jedi Order in legends is an entirely different order. Luke didn’t see the point of the rule and worked out his system which seemingly works.

If you want married Jedi look to the future legends. Literally all of them are in some complicated relationship (solo twins). Join us we have Jedi love stories.

antianakin

This is sort-of missing the main reason that Luke's Jedi Order in Legends tends to have relationships which is that the information that Jedi weren't supposed to get married HADN'T BEEN REVEALED YET when most of it was being written. That came FROM the Prequels, and Attack of the Clones specifically. So yes, tons of stuff is in Legends that got retconned later by Lucas's own canon. Luke in Legends also sometimes can't jump from 10 feet up without dying, even though we see tons and tons of Jedi jumping from hundreds if not thousands of feet high and being absolutely fine in later canon media.

But that's not really what people are looking for when they do the thing I mention in this post. The fans who do this are generally trying to find ways for Jedi to get married that should still fit into the restrictions of the Prequel trilogy's lore. They're not trying to ignore the Prequels and probably don't WANT to do so, so they won't necessarily be interested in reading something that can't take the Prequels into account at all and isn't even set in the same time period with any of the same characters.

But the ways that they attempt to find ways to force marriage into the Jedi's way of life often demonstrates a lack of understanding of WHY the Jedi didn't get married. It also just demonstrates an extremely amatonormative way of seeing the world and a refusal to accept that some people may simply not want to get married or just aren't fussed about the idea of never getting married. And lastly, it demonstrates a lack of creativity in considering different kinds of relationships that don't INVOLVE getting married as the pinnacle that everyone wants to reach.

So sure, you can go back to Legends content and find Jedi who never treat marriage as an issue because the writers had no concept that they NEEDED to treat it as an issue, but that's really genuinely beside the point of this whole post.

#jedi lover

henryscavills

siderealsandman

This is what a nat 20 on an intimidation check looks like

#gif

keitheaverage

I just learned yesterday that Pikachu, my favorite Pokemon, was originally designed not by Ken Sugimori (he only finalized the design), but by a female graphic designer named Atsuko Nishida.

Also after googling her, I found out that she’s also designed Sylveon–another favorite PKMN of mine. She’s also illustrated some very pretty Pokemon cards!!

Thank you Ms. Nishida! :-) May you get more credit and love for your contribution to the Pokemon franchise.

bluekeaton

as a camera shy person myself, knowing she hides behind plushies is just amazing

cat-harman92

Her and Yoko Taro are legends at hiding from cameras. xD

mizulyn

Here’s some other Pokemon she’s designed, for anyone curious:

source: x

and not to derail this post into anything overtly political, but: If it weren’t for a woman in the gaming industry, we wouldn’t have freakin’ Charizard. I feel like that’s something more people should know about!

#pokemon

abrieftasteoflove-deactivated20

adultwednesdayadams

Something Rotten!

ariaste

omg a musical song about COMPLAINING ABOUT WRITING My whole life I have been waiting for this. MY WHOLE LIFE.

once-upon-a-reblog

OH MY WORD

erebusodora-deactivated20190104

YES.

catdaggers

@tinydadman

bambis-baby

I REBLOG THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES ON MY DASH AN I HAVE LOVED IT EVERY TIME

schmergo

I saw this show live on Shakespeare’s birthday and it was amazing!

satellite-shakespeare

They always leave out my favorite part of the song:

SO YOU WRITE DOWN A WORD

BUT ITS NOT THE RIGHT WORD

SO YOU TRY A NEW WORD

BUT YOU HATE THE NEW WORD

AND YOU NEED A GOOD WORD

BUT YOU CANT FIND THE WORD

OH WHERE IS IT

WHAT IS IT

WHERE IS IT-

*INCOHERENT SCREAMING*

killerblackberrypie

@petermorwood on the off-chance you haven’t seen this yet

petermorwood

Like it…

And I’d like to have heard the missing bit as well, an evocation of those times when neither dictionary nor thesaurus nor synonym finder are of any help at all…

inqorporeal

You’re in luck, they made a music video for it!

@alrtist

aw i found the sequel!! ;U;

ozi-uwu

A actual fucking hero dude

constance-mcentee-deactivated20

I’m tempted to say, “Not all heroes wear capes,” but I get the impression this Fine Fellow probably owns more than one.

#storytime

frownyalfred

FYI, it majorly ticks people off if you use the Hal Jordan/ Green Lantern tags when the post is actually about Batman/ Superbat/ the Batfam and Hal/ another Lantern is simply a side character/ plot device.

It's a numbers thing: the Batman tag has 1.8 Million followers vs Green Lantern with less than 6500. By tagging Hal literally every time he's mentioned, people are making it hard to actually find content about Hal in his own tag.

And no, you can't just block people either, because it's always a different person! It's not an issue with any single person. No one would bat an eye about 1 in 100 or even 1 in 50 batposts. But they make up a very significant chunk of the tagged content.

It's forcing people to play the world's most annoying game of whack-a-mole. (And I don't even want to play it, because I actually like Batman, especially your stuff. Just.. not when I'm searching for Hal content lmao.)

I obviously can't force you and other people to change the way you tag. But I can beg you to consider it. So here I am.

Thank you for listening.

Okay, I'm going to say this as gently as possible because I keep getting asks like these and I don't really think we're on the same page. There are a few points I want to get out of the way before I talk about tagging itself.

You are frustrated because there is a lack of Hal Jordan content

You are frustrated because there is a lack of high quality Hal Jordan content

You are frustrated because Hal Jordan content is not as popular as Batman content

Tag "etiquette" is a rapidly evolving and nebulous thing, and I don't think it's as straightforward as you and other tag purists make it out to be. There are some core components more people agree on - tagging hate in a different tag, for example - but beyond that?

You cannot control what other people tag, like you suggest. And I want to suggest to you, that asking people to not tag a character when they are making a post about them/involving them is a well-intentioned but impossible request.

Here's why: You mention that you don't enjoy finding posts where Hal Jordan is a "side character" or "plot device." The problem is, if Hal Jordan is mentioned by name in the post, that's a pretty straightforward tag for the average Tumblr user. "Oh, Hal has a line in this mini chat fic? I'll tag him." They're not thinking about catering to your experience, or your desire to see exclusive, high-quality Hal Jordan content. They're tagging the guy because he shows up in the post, full stop.

Another issue is the ability to filter in the opposite direction -- without tagging Hal Jordan in posts, you also remove the ability for other users to filter him out of posts, regardless of his role "size" in that post. If he's not tagged, he's harder to filter around. That's why we have tags - to find and to avoid content.

I got feedback while writing love comes quickly that I shouldn't have tagged Batlantern in my posts about their jealousy/love triangle because the Batlantern wasn't "endgame." The problem was, Batlantern literally happened in that fic. It happened in the posts. And so I tagged those posts with the ship, because guess what? The posts were about Batlantern. They weren't "endgame", but that's not how tagging works. It's how you want it to work, but that's not how most people think or have used tags.

I think the overall problem here is that you, and other fans (I've seen this same discourse about Duke and other characters who don't get enough "fandom time") use the Tumblr tag as a way to find and enjoy content about your favorite character. There's nothing wrong with that, but it involves a ton of sifting. And yes - even those in the Batfamily/Batman tags have to do this, too.

Where we differ in opinion, I suspect, is that I don't think sifting through your character tag is a great way to find high quality, character-focused posts. And I don't think we should expect it to be. The tag is an unedited, unfiltered swill of a variety of posts -- some with Hal Jordan as the focus, some with him as a secondary JL character, and some where he's mentioned in passing.

I see people get very defensive and "protective" of these character tags, and you correctly identify that that kind of protectiveness is fruitless. I posit that it is because you, not the random accounts tagging Hal Jordan on a JL post, are using the tag filter/search incorrectly. You have expectations for Tumblr that are neither realistic for the platform, nor how it has been historically used.

But listen -- the tag search is the place you start. You sift, you filter out posts, and eventually you find blogs that post high-quality content that focuses on your character exclusively. You follow those blogs, and eventually your dashboard is the stream of Hal Jordan-focused posts, both new and reblogged, that you want the character tag to be.

The problem is, as I suspect you've seen, there just aren't as many Hal Jordan or Duke-focused blogs putting out content at the rate of the Batman/Batfamily tags. And that's really disappointing, and I don't want to skip over that. It really sucks, and unfortunately sometimes our only option is to either 1) accept that 2) create our own content or 3) convince others to create content. But shaming people for using the tag "wrong" -- not what you're doing here, to clarify, but just what I've seen -- isn't the way to achieve #3 there at all. You just turn people off ever mentioning that character again.

You might think this is a harsh take, and you might think that I contribute to the issue you are experiencing. There is a way for people to use Tumblr and for you to enjoy your content. But it involves work on your end, and managing expectations. And of course, a general level of respect from people creating posts and tagging them. I hope you're not upset with this response, but I think it's the last I'll say on the subject.

#fandom

phoenixyfriend

"Mandalorians love kids!" Okay? So do most people, you're not special

phoenixyfriend

Copying this from my conversation in the notes because apparently a lot of people don't know that the whole "Mandalorians love kids" thing is uhhhh fascist rhetoric.

This is greatly oversimplified because I'm supposed to be at work and I'm not actually an expert in this topic but hopefully it's a decent overview of the more political side of why I dislike this fanon:

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A lot of the rhetoric that surrounds the Mandalorian fandom is very military by nature, and 'this military/warrior society, which yearns for an imperial past, holds up their children and the protection/care of those children as a symbol of how they are better than others' is classic far-right/fascist propaganda. It simultaneously has them positioning themselves as 'better than other cultures' by implying those others have lesser standards for childcare, smokescreens actual abuse (what do you mean I'm hurting my child? no, my culture CARES for children, unlike yours. and it's for their own good, anyway), and is used as justification/fuel for high-control policies that invade privacy (surveillance state, current IRL online ID age verification laws) and stamp out minorities (anti-trans laws).

Death Watch can justify their high militarism with 'we can't protect Mandalorian children unless we can bring guns everywhere we go.'

Does every fic follow through with the IMPLICATIONS of a highly militarized group like the True Mandalorians (specifically those at Galidraan) espousing a rhetoric about caring more for children than other cultures? No, of course not, most people are just jumping on a bandwagon of fanon about Mandos being really gung-ho about caring for kids.

But unfortunately, it has the mix of 'there's nothing in canon that actually supports this,' 'this is fascist rhetoric,' and 'this is logically inconsistent with the rest of the galaxy.'

#jedi lover

what-even-is-thiss

Talking to allo people who haven’t really interrogated how society has told them to view sex feels like that bit in SpongeBob where Patrick keeps failing to put his hand on the lid

what-even-is-thiss

Sex is just a thing. No it’s just an activity. It doesn’t have to be… no listen it’s just an activity. An activity. It’s just a thing. A thing. No it’s not the same for everyone it’s just an activity. No it’s a value neutral activity. An activity. An activity.

what-even-is-thiss

I’ve been experiencing this lately with people trying to argue with me about my views on sex work.

“You can’t compare sex work to other types of work because having sex you’re not enthusiastic about is really traumatizing”

I’m sure for a lot of people that’s true but for me sex and masturbation occupy a similar emotional space to brushing my teeth or doing the dishes and I certainly don’t feel traumatized about it and I know for a fact that I’m not the only person who feels this way.

Also I think that someone physically and violently forcing me to brush my teeth might end up being traumatizing.

Sex is so taboo and mythologized that people have forgotten the mechanics of it.

Yeah sex might be sacred and important to you. To me it’s a chore I’ve gotta do sometimes. Like cooking. I love cooking and put great importance on it and who I do it with. A lot of people just cook to live though.

Yeah if to you sex has a lot of emotions caught up in it I’m not gonna tell you that you’re wrong for feeling that way. That’s normal. It’s not a universal experience though. And if you can’t accept that, then too bad. Other people’s personal realities don’t exist to confirm your personal worldview.