[maxknightley]

ohhhhh I get it now. the "gifted kid" discourse exists because people see it fundamentally as a sign of Privilege and not as a largely meaningless category that puffs up weird children before setting them up for the same unremarkable lives as everyone else; thus they interpret people going "the educational system gave me false expectations before ultimately abandoning me to the same heartless world as everyone else" as "why am I, The Main Character, not getting everything I ever wanted."

[elegantstyletastemaker]

[catmask]

'you wouldn't pirate a-' i would steal anything from any company. anything in the world. i dont even want it i just hate you

[whiskeyandgrit]

[communistkenobi]

like man doesn’t it fucking suck that there’s not really any public space. that you can’t go anywhere without spending money on food or transportation, that unless you wanna sit on a mall bench all day or browse library shelves you basically can’t do anything in public? even standing in front of a building without paying for something (“loitering”) is illegal. everything is built to punish homeless people which means if you ever want to sit down or rest or exist in public every building and park bench and windowsill is telling you to kill yourself instead. maybe that has something to do with the unpleasantness of online spaces, where everyone is shoved together into a giant digital chamber because it’s the only “public square” still available while also being isolated and alone in their room on their phone because everything sucks and a global pandemic is still happening. like I’m just saying I think that has more to do with how annoying people are on the internet than like mcu fanfiction

[wizardpotions]

Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.

[wangxianficfinder]

oh I wasn’t aware it was feeding the ai. I’ve inserted hundreds of fics into chatgpt for their continuation or for a different plot within the same context just for fun and out of curiosity… but I’ve never posted any of them…

Indeed, anything that is given to AI it can use later to draw from. That's why it doesn't matter if you post them or not as it has now access to those writers' texts without their permission.

~Mod L

[gentil-minou]

for the love of everything that is good and nice DON'T DO THIS

[sidepartskinnyjeans-deactivated]

Please do not do this! I'm happy to talk about 'what ifs' or 'what happens next' even if I can't write a whole fic but PLEASE don't put any fics into AI!

[math-is-magic]

#i'm so exhausted#fic being scraped off ao3 by bots is bad enough#readers actually FEEDING fic into AI is breaking my actual heart#DO NOT EVER FEED FIC INTO AI WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S PERMISSION#99.999% of authors are THRILLED to discuss AUs for their fics#the 'what ifs'#the 'missing scenes'#the possible alternate outcomes#JUST ASK THE AUTHOR TO CHAT WITH YOU ABOUT THIS#most of us would cry with joy if you gave us the chance to ramble about our fics!#DO NOT FEED MY FICS TO AI PLEASE I BEG YOU -@cicerfics

[prismatic-bell]

I saw this when it first went around and actually seriously considered not writing anymore, for the first time in 25 years.

Don’t fucking do this.

[arirna]

[bread-lowph]

😭 (source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jon-fosses-search-for-peace)

[sonatine]

quality advice from jeremy allen white

[kaoinim]

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #2674

So that one day, whether you know it or not, you give someone else who is struggling with a reason to live. – Guest Submission

(Please don’t add negative comments to these posts.)

[nylonpinksy]

[parysienn]

https://www.bontraveler.com/

[sexymotorslifestyle]

[plaidos]

videogame & art software & book bundles!!!

so Humble Bundle is doing some really amazing deals right now, including a fantastic art software bundle (so tell all your artist friends!!!); they’re all pay what you want (as low as $1) and you can literally make all of the money go to charity if you so choose (they let you decide where your money goes!)

without further ado:

Corel Paint with Confidence bundle – a bunch of art software to help you create digital art including Paintshop Pro, Gravit Designer Pro, Photo Mirage, Corel Painter, Pinnacle Studio 23, and a handful of brush packs. this is an absurdly amazing deal – usually you couldn’t pick up any of this stuff for less than $30, but with this bundle you’ll be getting $998 worth of art software for $25 (or less!!!!) – available until the 9th of October

Unity 2019 bundle – have you ever wanted to make your own videogames? because i guarantee you this is the perfect place to start. it gives you all the software you need, plus access to the best professional guides/tutorials money can buy, including a year’s access to Unity Learn Premium which is basically industry standard for learning how to make videogames, with interactive sessions taught by professional teachers, on-demand tutorials, in-depth courses etc etc. again, if you were to buy this stuff separately it would be worth over $1,000, but you can pick it up in this bundle for $15 or less!!!! available until the 15th of October

The Builder Bundle – a bunch of bridge-constructor style building/puzzle/physics games like When Ski Lifts Go Wrong; Tricky Towers and even the absolutely fantastic Bridge Constructor Portal, which is an officially licensed Portal game featuring all your favourite Aperture Science gadgets, and is fully voice-acted by Ellen McLain (voice of GLaDOS). it’s an absolutely fantastic buy even on its own but you can pick it up for less than four dollars – available until the 8th of October

Old School Fantasy Roleplaying – tabletop fantasy RPGs are BIG right now thanks to The Adventure Zone and Critical Roll, but if you’ve ever wanted to play with your friends i really suggest this bundle. there’s lots of classics like Rappan Athuk, Goblins of Mount Shadow, Grimmsgate, Swords & Wizardry, Hyperborea – literally forty-five fucking books of games to pick up for less than $20 (altogether it’s worth $600+). amazing stuff, only available until the 9th of October!!

Level Up Your Python – you wanna learn or brush up on your Python programming? this is a fantastic place to start. there’s over a dozen videos & books included in this bundle to help yourself learn to be smarter with programming!! i really really recommend it – available until the 1st of October!

Tech and Electronics bundle – a bunch of ebooks focused on learning how to make and use electronics. if you study technology (or want to) this is a perfect buy, it’s a bunch of “Make:” books like “Getting Started with Sensors” and “Make: Analogue Synthesizers” and a bunch of guides/emagazines on how to best learn how to make cool electronics-adjacent stuff. if you’ve ever loved fiddling with circuits, plugging things into other things, taking things apart just to put them back together again, this bundle is probably a gift from heaven for you! available until the 7th of October

Bloom County – this’ll get you fifteen full Bloom County comic strip collections, some of them the more classic older ones, but a good deal of them are the newer ones after they started being made again! i don’t know much about the comics but i’ve heard they’re anti Trump so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ – available until the 2nd of October

Network and Security Certification 2.0 – a bunch of, you guessed it, network and security certification books. i don’t know how useful these will be to most people on tumblr but i CAN tell you that you’d be picking up nearly $700 worth of books for $15 or less so if you work/study in security or programming or network then you should probably pick this up pronto!!! available until the 7th of October!

Humble Bundle also does a monthly videogames bundle subscription, a little like a lootbox but they’re pretty much all Steam compatible and you get way more than your money’s worth – it’s $12 a month which will get you around eight whole fully-fledged games. i know what you must be thinking – dumb shovelware that nobody’s ever heard of right? wrong! past months have included games like Call of Duty, Monster Prom, Assassins Creed Origins, Yakuza 0, Purrfect Date, Overwatch, A Hat in Time, Dark Souls III, CIV VI, Life is Strange, Superhot, Undertale, Black Mesa, The Witness, Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher, and literally hundreds more!!! instead of blowing all my money on steam sales i just have a subscription to this and get way more games, for less money, EVERY MONTH, plus they’re super consumer & charity friendly! click here to check it out!

by supporting Humble Bundle, you’ll also be supporting both myself (your local disabled lesbian who could do with the extra cash) and a bunch of really cool charities! Humble Bundle is also unique in that they let you choose EXACTLY where ALL your money goes: if you want it all to go to charity, you can do that. if you wanna split it up between me and the developers, sure, that’s fine too! they give you these funky little sliders so you can divvy it up exactly how you see fit

it’s automatically set to give more money to the developers & Humble Bundle itself, naturally, so if you want to support myself and charity a little more, you gotta click here:

anyways, spread this around, i’m sure lots of artists & aspiring videogame developers will need some of the stuff here, so signal boosts are always appreciated!!! thank you <3

[thegoodvybe]