the things we do

boredom is a powerful motivator. kitsune13tamlin on AO3 for origonal and fan fiction!

[myiwasboredstuff]

[sharkface]

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

[writterings]

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet

click "Account"

click on your blog

go to "Blog Settings"

go to "Visibility"

Scroll down to the bottom option

turn the toggle ON, not off

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

[sharkface]

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

[writterings]

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet

click "Account"

click on your blog

go to "Blog Settings"

go to "Visibility"

Scroll down to the bottom option

turn the toggle ON, not off

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

[nikkiitalks]

[drtanner]

Just unmute. :')

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[deepwaterfiction]

Text: There’s a second house, hiding in this one. I see the unfamiliar rooms through the cracks by the hinges, and keyholes. I don’t trust its dark red walls, its emptiness, suggesting parasitic hunger.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

[voxette-vk]

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

[booksandchainmail]

according to wikipedia, before

[decepticonsensual]

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

[stele3]

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

[sun-moon-stars-jedi]

[debelice]

From above the Blue Whale almost looks like a submarine...........

[pococurantina]

sees earth's biggest animal: huh. that is big

[elfwreck]

[sew-birb]

Not only is it Earth's biggest animal, it's (as far as we know) the biggest animal to ever exist!

Bigger than any dinosaur, bigger than any plesiosaur. How lucky we are to get to see it!

[cardboardlife]

Crochet cat!

[butterfliesdreamtoo]

That cat is cute and the animation is delightful

[thecollectibles]

A little tired from work by victor cloux

[assassin1513]

⚜️🖤⚜️Raven Diaries⚜️🖤⚜️

[heartnosekid]

everchanginghorizon on ig

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

[ancient-debris]

Angel of War, angular and strange, gleaming silver and gold, Angel of Wonder, pure and one-eyed, looking to stars new and old, Angel of Harvest, simple and hidden, bring nature's sweetness to all, Angel of Health, mysterious and fine, beacon when life starts to fall, Angel of the Deep, crooked and cage-like, guide us across the sea, Angel of Solace, protect us from evil, lead us to where we are free.

[omnybus]

Was inspired by the previous post a while back, and had been working on this on and off for a long while.

You can see the full-resolution versions on My Patreon.

[the-breadwizard]

stealing your tags cause yesyesyes

[mylifeingotham]

[mastomysowner]

cherin_mayuka

[bokkerijder-deactivated20240624]

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

[justasunflowerseed-deactivated2]

pro-AI in the sense of "use it for jobs that are near impossible or highly taxing of humans"

against AI in the sense of "use it to replace human creativity in fields built on human creativity"

[memeuplift]