Semiautomagic Mess

Ace | He/him | 37. Interests cycle at either a glacial pace or warp 4, there is no moderated speed.

[the-sensitive-sadist]

Good girls use their safeword frequently btw

[the-sensitive-sadist]

Some people had a weird reaction to this one, so let me clarify some misconceptions and express my perspective a bit more.

When we talk about kink, a lot of the time people treat safe words as if they are exclusively an expression of an absolute limit. A firm proclamation that the scene is too rough, the pain too much, the situation too extreme, and that the entire thing needs to stop. Safeword use in such situations is obviously essential and mandatory in order to bring the scene or sensation to an end and ensure the safety of all participants. This is not, however, the only time a safeword should be used.

They can be used to express when someone is at their limit. They can mean the scene needs to end completely because the sub can't take it anymore at all. But they don't have to mean that. Safewords should be used to pause or stop the scene and break character for any reason. You can also use your safeword to pause and discuss a limit, communicate that something is or isn't working for you, ensure that everything is going to plan, take a water break, go get a toy from the other room, check with your partner about something, pause to change your laundry, or do absolutely anything else out of character related to your scene.

This is why a lot of people use green/yellow/red.

Green - continue

Yellow - pause and make a change (this can be anything from "slow down a little bit" to "I need something different but want to keep going")

Red - I need this situation to be over and for us to get right into aftercare.

What a lot of people seem to miss is that in this framework yellow is also a safeword.

All of this is ignoring the additional dimension that Dominants also need to safeword!! It's completely normal and if you're doing a lot of BDSM it should happen in your daily kink life often. Real life is not a romance novel.

Using your safeword is essential and you should use it all the time, whenever you want. Breaking character during kink is normal, healthy, sexy, and fundamentally essential. Do it more often.

[gorogues]

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[blackheartbiohazards]

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

[elismor]

That last one bears repetition.

You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

unrestrained summer fun

[bobbole]

[wool-skirt-deactivated20240106]

[cursed-saphire-hart]

Magic exists

[ms-demeanor]

My supervisor (experimentally, and while warning me ahead of time so i could be prepared to fix it) tried to use CoPilot in PowerPoint to replace our images with CoPilot graphs for better visuals and I am fascinated.

It increased our error rate while reducing the overall ticket count by two. And redistributed numbers.

It smoothed out our data trend, erasing the actually important-to-report information (that big dip and increase is important):

It erased my security and networking practices and came up with resubmitted tickets out of nowhere and shows an overall downward trend in ticket counts when only one of the five categories is actually trending down.

On another slide it also changed the status of a device from "attention needed" to "healthy," and on yet another slide it removed the captions that I'd grouped with a set of images.

This is your reminder that the robots are stupid and if you work with them you need to check their work.

Some of the stuff it did really well, and genuinely looks better and the numbers were copied correctly. But some of it is resubmitted tickets.

[ms-demeanor]

I maintain that there are uses for AI that are fine and genuinely labor saving, but also it is hot garbage and I would largely prefer not to interact with it.

[ms-demeanor]

Look, I want everyone reading this to understand that the power and water use estimates associated with AI are frequently blown drastically out of proportion, and that it is perfectly fine to do an occasional AI query.

I don't say this because I think that YOU should be using AI for stuff (and if you hate AI, I get it, I don't want to use it either) I say this because one of the absolute best ways I've found to get people to step back from believing everything the AI tells them is to ask the AI a question about something the person you're speaking to is an expert on, or ask it something that YOU are an expert on and point out where the AI's answer is wrong.

I screencapped these images because I want to show them at work to demonstrate to a couple of my coworkers that NO you cannot have the AI compile the report for you without double-checking it. It can't even accurately duplicate a graph it's looking right at. You have to check on the robots, they aren't even actually stupid, they're just autocompleting what they thought you want, and sometimes autocomplete ducks everything up.

[segamascott]

[ralfmaximus]

Sony is killing all physical PlayStation game discs

New games released after January 2028 will be digital-only.

Sony has announced that from January 2028 it will entirely stop the production of physical discs for new PlayStation games. From that point onwards, new releases will only be available in digital versions from the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games released before January 2028 will still be available on disc.

They cite "consumer preference" as the reason, but we all know what's going on. If there's no physical media, you don't really own your game. You're only renting it.

From the way this is worded I think future Playstation consoles will continue to have optical drives, at least as an option.

[eisenkrahe]

[flipocrite]

not she berry or he berry but no berry

and that is berry good

[cameron-possibly]

Been on a bit of a Batman kick lately so here's a design for old Johnny boy, Scarecrow.

I've always liked this idea of Scarecrow becoming almost lost in his costume akin to his southern preacher get-up in the animated series redesign for him but make it go a little further and have him become basically a slasher villain; undead immortality included.

I'd imagine this design I've given Crane to be veeery quiet, almost silent and any words that come out of his mouth are rasping, haggard... like his lungs have collapsed.

He's still intelligent, and that fear gas isn't going away but there's something... lost now. Like whatever lingering humanity Crane had is gone, and now he's this fear-obsessed zombie that acts as the true boogeyman of Gotham.

Also whatever is under his mask now... isn't pretty. Maybe there was a lab accident, or he found the same chemicals that reanimated Solomon Grundy, or he just died but it didn't last because of Gotham's weird gothic curse. Either way, Crane has become this mix of Michael Myers and Herbert West.

[ducissatenebrarum]

German executioner’s sword from 1613 with the inscription “And the Word became Flesh”

[rosieandthemoon]

Sculpture by Ann Harrington

[haus-of-glass]

Daum  |  Amber Tantra Sculpture

[joeinct]

Self-portrait in Bed Chamber, Stone Ridge, New York, Photo by John Dugdale, 1994

[theorahsart]

A comic about book bans, ppl's continued dismissiveness of asexuality, and ppl's lack of understanding around what it means to be queer, and why they should be worried about book bannings.

I'll add smth here cos I learned after posting this on IG that people still aren't entirely understanding how scary and dangerous this is. Ppl kept saying to me 'I can still buy your book in shops though' or 'Its okay, I'll order your book into my library!'

I dont give af about my book lol No one outside of Ace ppl ever read it, its yearly sales don't even cover a month of expenses for me.

The thing you should all be concerned about is that a totally benign unheard of book about someone's every day life is being banned. And those laws listed above are passing through US government right now. One of those laws would make it so that any teacher/librarian in the US could lose their job/go to prison for simply sharing 'ideology'- and I don't mean only lgbtq folk, these laws are attacking black history, civil rights history, disability rep in books. Just talking about these things will now legally be considered a 'dangerous ideology'.

And once that's set into law, the US government has backing via law to go ahead and say 'if these books aren't legally allowed in schools, then they shouldn't be allowed in shops, either.' And from there it sets up a great argument for 'The dangerous content in these books is lawfully being removed from public, shouldn't we be lawfully removing the people living out/promoting this ideology too?'

I can see why ppl don't fully understand how dangerous book bannings are, if they're not familiar with the history of fascism. If you're interested, there are plenty of graphic novels that share this history via first hand accounts- Maus, Persepolis, Banned Book Club.

But guess what? You're on limited time to get these via libraries...cos all three of these books are on banned lists too, and they got nothing to do with lgbtq rep, and everything to do with warning ppl about fascism.

And the US government knows it can get away with this, because they are passing these laws as we speak and barely anyone is doing anything about it or talking about it. I've been trying to talk about it for years and no one does anything except say to me 'don't worry, I'll buy your book!' or say its a badge of honour that I have a banned book.

So I'll emphasise once more. If you live in the USA, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REP ABOUT THESE LAWS!

[deerman-limerence]

@sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

[faun-grove]

unicorn out of captivity, 2022