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rewatching atla rn im at the part where azula pulls up to omashu and renames in honor of ozai and all i can think is that if zuko tried that shit ozai would probably call it tacky and give the whole city right back to the earth kingdom he hated that mf bad 😭😭
In response to anon explaining how they use AI instead of a beta reader to teach them how to write:
I appreciate that you’re emphasising that AI isn’t something to be simply trusted, nor that it should be given any kind of writing. However, from the point of perspective of someone who writes essays on their stories explaining in detail how/why I made which writing choices, with the explicit goal to help others understand how I put a story together, it’s quite crushing to read that you’d rather go and ask AI to teach you how to do that.
I don’t mean to offend; I’m just letting you know that it feels very, very personal and hurtful. Because I know full well that AI can teach you that because I and many, many other authors have taken the time and effort to explain how our writing works and how we decide what to keep, what to cut, what to tidy up and what to expand. And our work has been scraped and used without giving us any credit, so you can ask AI how to teach you the same things that we have spent hours upon hours trying to explain to the best of our ability. Essays and guides you could have found with a simple search, no AI required, in a day and age where search engines tend to be very good and every good bookshop and library will have guides on writing.
Because that’s the other side here. I have spent many, many years trying to get to this point, have worked with beta readers, have read books (like The Art of War for Writers) and essays on the internet, have read books myself and made notes of what I liked about a specific author’s writing style. I have notebooks full of quotes from my favourite books and random funny, thoughtful, interesting and otherwise memorable statements people have made in my vicinity, that I have noted down since I was about 13 and pick up when I get stuck, just to leaf through and see if anything jumps out at me. Very often something does.
By the by, I, too, struggle with communication. I have no official diagnosis, but I am somewhere on the spectrum, and I’ve always struggled to understand people around me. Taking the time to observe others, note down what they said, remembering their reactions and then going and putting all of it into a fictional setting, trying to imagine what would have made a character say that, what would have made another react like that – then getting feedback from my beta readers on what I had written, has helped me learn ways how I can improve my communication and interpretation of what others are telling me.
It is profoundly saddening to me to read that your choice is to use AI for all of that. And it’s even more saddening that you seem to believe that AI is giving you the tools that you needed. Because the tools AI is giving you are actually the tools that I and others have been creating for decades.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us.
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Jesus fucking christ this reddit shit lmao
Uuuhhhh.. Friend, you might not have noticed, but we’re a bear blog
Where are our 408,022 notes then?
give us a minute, the narnia blog didn’t get there over night. this is the slow build website
we got nothing but time (and bears) honey
wow that slow build's really slow building huh
Sometimes posts don't take off, and that's just our cross to bear
My Bearother in Christ please make this happen
Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction
i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes
protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later
And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"
you're a dog. You live with a family. A man, a wife, two children. The man yells a lot. He throws a plate. Worst rage ever. Thousands of years ago, an ancient bargain. You know your duty. Protect the pack. That bastard isn't pack anymore.
I cannot tell you how much freer and better it is when you just post whatever and don’t care about your follower count
It’s all made up
reading a good poem makes a poem of your own start bubbling in your chest. like woah someone just turned the heat of the stove on high
I’ll never forget the time my parents said they were going out for a few hours, and left my siblings and me at home by ourselves (ages 9-14), and instead of going nuts or just sitting around, we all rushed and did our hair and makeup and got dressed as fancy as we could; sister pulled out the wine glasses and grape juice and made an hors d'oeuvres platter, another googled how to play poker, pulled out chips from a different game, dimmed the lights, and we set up a fancy 4-person gambling den at the kitchen table and played until my parents said they were on their way back with dinner. Then we quickly picked everything up, washed our faces, changed back into our casual clothes, and pretended nothing ever happened. They never found out.
This is our reality here in Gaza: killing, forced displacement, executions, living under fire, and shortages of medicine, food, and potable water. This is the current reality in Gaza.
The current situation is extremely difficult. There are no basic necessities for life here; life itself is almost nonexistent. Besides the lack of food and water, my father and my niece Iman are suffering. She is going through the worst days of her life, and she is only two years old. She has spent her entire life in extremely difficult circumstances and a war of genocide.
My father, who has cancer that could end his life, please don't ignore him. Please donate to save him and give him a decent life. Please don't leave us alone in this suffering. Please donate now. Your donation makes a huge difference and greatly helps in surviving. Please donate now.
Look at the horrors of what life as a Palestinian entails. Its unfair that anyone should be forced to live like this. Please show some compassion and donate to Nader and his family so they can see some relief.
The suffering is far worse than what's shown on the news. Life here is practically nonexistent; there are no basic necessities. Please help us and don't ignore us. Donate now, please.
please make sure to help nader with whatever you can!
Nearly 300 people have shared this and not a single person has donated. My father could lose his life while you ignore us. Please donate now! We need €3900 to reach our goal. Please donate now and save us all.
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Never has it been more needed! Help Nader & his family, do what you can.
How to check if your post(s) have been affected by Tumblr's recent auto content flagging spree:
In case you haven't noticed, Tumblr's automatic flagging and filtering system has been having a field day this week. Whatever is going on is specifically targeting reblogs and flagging/hiding them, while the original post remains unflagged, meaning the original poster does not receive any sort of notification that their post(s) are affected.
What kind of posts are being affected? I think that this latest flagging spree is heavily targeting posts with images. And by images, I mean any sort of image file. This is only a theory based on my own evidence, other posts may still be affected, too. But in my case, something as simple as a plain black 3 pixel divider triggered it (and I know this to be true because I reblogged a post as-is [FLAGGED], reblogged it with the divider image removed [NO LONGER FLAGGED]).
The only way to see if your post(s) have been affected is to individually go into the notes for any you want to check. In my experience, my affected posts have been entirely random, and some were posted years ago.
Find a post that you know had reblogs with tags
The 'reblogs with comment or tags' section will now be blank if the post has been affected
If you go to 'other reblogs' (blank reblogs) and try to click into them, they will all show up greyed out and hidden on the user's blog
Currently, the only way I can see to fix this is if the users who reblogged your post(s) go to their 'Review flagged posts' tab and submit an appeal. Note that this appeal process appears to be automatic. I tested this several times, and the appeal was approved in less than a minute.
And if your post(s) are affected, the only interim solution I have found is to edit the original post, test out removing images if applicable, and reblog it again to see if the flag has been removed. Unfortunately, it seems this will only help with future reblogs. It will not retroactively fix the reblogs that were flagged.
Why is this a problem for writers (and artists + other creators)?
Something as simple as a plain divider separating the fic summary can trigger this.
Writers are now losing years worth of reblogs that contain meaningful feedback.
Writers have no way of being notified about affected posts, because the flag only triggers in the reblog.
Flagged reblogs are automatically hidden, meaning that affected posts can no longer be reblogged. Defeating the entire purpose of the reblog website where the goal is to reblog and share content across the community.
I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.
it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.
tbh I feel like most of society’s rhetoric around “protecting children” comes from the same place as deep-patriarchy rhetoric on “protecting women”, where the idea is that they’re sacred and valuable but also treated essentially as property, and the the desire to protect them is largely experienced as a desire to ensure that those property rights are sacrosanct
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
