Friendly Neighborhood Demon

trio | she/her | on ao3 with the same name, all fic here tagged #trio's words | icon by @maxguevra

[ao3legendarium]

FIC SPOTLIGHT: The chips are set to fall by icopythefax aka @exactphoify

I wish I had the words to describe this fic. I've binged it all over the past 24 hours and it's some of the most fun I've ever had reading anything. It also might be my favourite characterization of Ilya Rozanov in all nearly 400 heated rivalry fics i've read since i got into this fandom in january. I loved absolutely every aspect of it, I fully support Ilya's crimes, and it would have brought me to tears multiple times if i weren't on mood stabilisers an absolute gigachad.

Seriously. Read it. There is nothing to regret. Unless you get very triggered by homophobic language because there's a lot of that. But still try to read it if you can. This fic deserves the million-hit milestone.

[eaveplzzz]

Just had a movie/book idea pop into my head where you go through a story as this young man falling in love with a young woman.

But there’s these weird flashes to like medical stuff. And you think it’s foreshadowing that she, or you, are gonna get ill from a terminal illness.

And then once we’re truly fully in love with her, we can’t imagine loving any other person more or life without her in it.

 we wake up.

And We are the girl. And this is a mental health rehab place. She just learned how easy to love she really is. And how much everyone in her life wants her to stay. And how small her flaws really are.

(Haven’t decided if I want it to be a recreation of her own real memories from her husband‘s perspective or the pov man never existed in the first place.)

[lavenderprose]

[Rose Landry voice] His birthday is June 15th? Oh my god he's a Gemini. Oh my god Shane it all makes sense now. No babe listen--do you know what time he was born--can you ask--

[fuckrozanov]

goodmorning this is your assigned shane of the day

[vesnuszki]

shane hollander bouncing on it in the passenger seat of ilya’s faggy orange lamborghini aventador hitting his head on the ceiling bump bump bump because it’s a really small fucking car send post

[thatdamnokie]

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

[commonstarguy]

[dyrkz]

[lemondr0pz]

[conscious-naivete]

[scoobydoodean]

why is dean so funny and perfect? 🤔 I think we should start disk horse about how impressive his comedic timing is and how his face is made for smooching and how his milkshake brings all the girls and boys to the yard <3

So true 😌

[bees-reads]

After Shane and Ilya get married Ilya is so happy to finally change his pfp to be one of him and Shane. To piss Ilya off Hayden also changes his pfp to him and Shane. Cue different NHL players slowly changing their pfp to photos of them and Shane. It basically becomes and unspoken trend that when you enter the NHL you need to get a photo with Shane Hollander to change your pfp as a right of passage.

[disc80s]

with my dad being a computer technician and showing me the *magic* of the internet at a very young age, growing up on the internet was inevitable. it is often why i felt like i didn’t belong in my own friend groups when i was a teen, because they grew up watching greek tv series and i grew up watching say, doctor who and supernatural before these shows even aired here. i found community online so easily when i should have been cultivating it irl instead.

i lost out on so much of my country’s culture (things that even to this day i am oblivious to) and it’s often a lighthearted laughing matter within my friend group –how much i don’t know about my own country, about actors, artists, memes, references, series, even greek online culture– but it also comes with a heavy sense of not belonging. bc i dont feel like i 100% belong here and i surely don’t 100% belong in any of the English-speaking countries whose culture i have consumed since i was little.

they should invent a countryplace where i belong fr

[creepy-scrawl]

Where's that post about feeling as a foreigner in your mother tongue 🫩

[disc80s]

oh… that was my post from years ago, still very relevant i guess

[the-haiku-bot]

oh… that was my post

from years ago, still very

relevant i guess

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mishacolins]

11.18 // 14.10

[goodluckdetective]

So Hank Green got caught using AI and it’s a whole huge blow up, and I really don’t have much interest in adding to the pile on.

However, I do think this case is great example of what happens when smart people decide they can use these systems “responsibly.”

Let’s put aside the plagiarism and the energy use for a second (not that these don’t matter, but they’re not relevant to my point at the moment) and pretend these systems were made with entirely properly obtained info and ran on only solar, but otherwise were entirely the same. If you’re a person, you might think “okay, I’m going to only use this to come up with ideas for my next paper: I’m going to do all the research myself and the writing, I’m just gonna brainstorm topics.”

The thing is, even if you’re trying to limit use to just “brainstorming” the chatbot isn’t going to limit itself to just brainstorming. You might ask it “what should I write about involving Greek history” and it may suggest “the plague of Athens” but it’s also going to suggest some “basic info” on the plague of Athens that you might end up picking up and deciding your topic is. It’s going to provide you with “research.” And even if you decide to check that research yourself, that’s still setting you down a specific path you might not have picked organically.

And speaking of double checking its “research”, fact checking is a time heavy process. Not only now do you have to read the original text the bot provided, but you also have to compare it line by line with the summary the bot provided. That’s more time than it would have taken to just read the article by itself. And with any time heavy task, people are going to get lazy. And in original research being lazy might mean skimming a paper or an abstract, chatbots allow you to be lazy without looking at the article at all.

And soon enough, despite telling yourself you were only going to use it for brainstorming, you have offloaded topic generation, research and eventually even drafting because that’s what these bots are intended to do. They are not meant to serve as research tools or help brainstorm or serve as a bouncing off board: they are built to encourage maximum engagement. And that means if you go at them with the best of ethical intentions, they are built to tempt you to use them as much as possible, regardless of whatever line you drew in the sand for yourself.

Anyway, my main thought here is you are not smart enough to outwit the dopamine machine. It wants your attention and nothing more. Do not assume you can resist just because you know what’s under the hood.

[goodluckdetective]

Whenever you decide to use a tool, you should consider “what is this tool designed to do” and for LLM’s that answer is “maximize user engagement.” Anything else is in service to that goal.

[goodluckdetective]

My read of this came from Hank’s own response to the situation which you can find here. I’ve screenshotted the part in particular that drew my attention and spawned this post below:

Obvs, Hank’s situation is not the same as the scenario I laid out but I think the snippet above gets back to my main point which is these tools are built to encourage interaction and that’s a hard thing to avoid, regardless of intentions.

Some other notes:

1. As stated, I don’t bring this up to add to a pile on, just to use this as an example of something I’ve seen happen with folks trying to engage in this tech with an ethical framework. This is because-

2. Frankly, I think shame is a shit motivator. I bring all this up to try to draw attention to something I find under discussed which is what these LLMS are meant to do, and what they are advertised for which are often very separate lists. (I didn’t even get into how they’re meant to train off user data but that’s another can of worms). If you want to discourage AI use, it’s a far better strategy to listen to why the person is engaging with AI and then address that reason.

3. I don’t want to come off as someone trying to scare folks that they’ll get addicted just by touching the stuff: my point is merely that is it critical to know what something is made for before engaging with it. This actually goes for a lot of tech besides AI like Google or social media (which are also designed to 1. Capture your attention and 2. Show you advertisements). AI isn’t a special kind of evil in this way, merely a continuation of a tech trend where a product is sold to a consumer with the goal of the time of the consumer becoming the source of revenue.

4. I have book recs on this topic. As you can guess, this is an academic interest of mine. But that’s another post if folks are interested.

[sandmandaddy69]

[liltoaster]

[shane-bug]

✨️ I married my best friend ✨️

insp.

[enki2]

[billymayslesbian]

nothing worse than seeing one of those "i dont like any female characters because every woman is badly written ☺️" type posts where the persons icon is from a property youve seen/read and your favorite character from said thing is a woman. like first of all, fuck you?????? you dont like blorbo bleebus?????????????

[grabmyboner]

Shane and Ilya go to the Pikes house for dinner party. Jackie has invited all her friends and their kids and Hayden could only convince one friend which is Shane to come but with Shane comes Ilya. They arrive and Ilya is wearing a Boston raiders shirt and Hayden is immediately like no get out of my house. Ilya ignores him and greets Jackie and all her beautiful friends with a kiss on the cheek and a hug and they are all smitten over Ilya much to Hayden’s dismay. Flash forward to post dinner and the kids are running around and Jackie and Hayden are cleaning up and baby pike starts crying so Jackie asks Ilya to get him if possible which Ilya is delighted because he loves babies and also he loves annoying Hayden. So he grabs baby Arthur and is rocking him back and forth watching Hayden wipe down a table and then suddenly Arthur does the biggest puke all down Ilya’s shirt. Hayden laughs and is like wow that actually improved the shirt. Jackie is like omg ilya im so sorry give him to me and then takes the baby. Ilya is like no is ok don’t worry about it and then all of Jackie’s friends are like come over to the kitchen we’ll clean you up and Ilya is like is ok look here and just takes off his shirt in front of everyone and all the women are hehehehehe and Hayden is like oh my god is this guy serious and Shane has had one too many glasses of wine and is just staring at his shirtless husband. Anyways Hayden hates his life and Ilya loves his.