MyWordsMyChoice

Neither the best writer, nor the worst, just one who is trying to remember what it is to love writing. For now, that means fanfiction. AO3: MyWordsMyChoice

[foxes-in-love]

[melodysbookhaven]

halfpaintedhouse on Instagram

[mathew]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[chopnuts]

SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

@paperstorm

[raychleadele]

Just an absolute fucking orb of a creature

[unstablefrog1]

It feels appropriate

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

10 Worst characters in Good Omens🔪

10. There aren't

9. Any characters

8. In Good Omens

7. That deserve to be labelled

6. As the worst

5. Because all the characters

4. Have their own

3. Backgrounds and characteristics

2. Which make them unique and interesting

1. Metatron

[drunkwario-deactivated20210407]

Anon hate from the late 1800’s.

[airspaniel]

What I love most about this is that this person was SO INCENSED at the recipient that they couldn’t even wait the days/weeks it would take for the mail to go through. No, they had to say “FUCK YOU” as soon as fucking possible and, AND, let the recipient that they were not done with the fuck you, nay, this was merely the first volley in what would undoubtably be a dressing down of Biblical proportions.

[sixyearsofcollegedownthedrain]

i will gleefully reblog this every time i see it

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

oh hey its the post i based this off of

[autosadist]

WHAT is this tp holder...

[autosadist]

pissyphus

[kvothbloodless]

Sisyphus had to roll stuff up a hill. You can clearly see theres no room to roll here. No, this poor figure is forced simply to hold his burden where it is for all eternity. Thus:

Shatlas

[geekerypeekery]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

Well there's no reason to be loo-d about it.

[ID: A shelf in a bathroom, tilted diagonally; three rolls of toilet paper sit on the shelf, and are held in place at the bottom by a little figure who appears to be pushing them up a hill.]

[myjetpack]

This week’s cartoon for Guardian Books.

[mellific]

all sorts of echoes in these caverns

twitter / store

[redrola]

[timelordgifs]

Wow. Isn’t it spectacular? What a universe. What a planet. Just when you think you’ve seen the lot, there’s something like this. It’s stunning. Yes, it is.

[gsirvitor]

[ecifircasic]

UNMUTE OMG

[pagesinmylife]

I cannot stress enough to Tumblr staff that they do not need to change the site. Do not try to be like Twitter. Do not try to be like Reddit. Do not alter how this site works.

Tumblr will be the most popular social media site if they continue letting all these other sites implode

[cmoroneybooks]

AI using your writing to train.

Hey writerly friends! Here's your warning that Google is making updates to terms and service allowing them to mine your data and train AI with it. It's focused on emails right now but Google docs facing a similar change is on the horizon.

Keep your eyes peeled for terms of service updates because you've already accepted future changes once you hit accept the first time. Unpublished novels do not have the same copyright protections as published novels and lawsuits are much more difficult to win. I would highly recommend anyone with a large amount of writing in Google docs start removing it from that platform.

If you don't want your writing used to train AI (and to be clear you won't be paid for it) then it's time to start looking at alternatives to Google Docs.

Some thoughts on alternatives

Microsoft Word - unlikely to implement AI training

Microsoft Word is possibly the safest bet at the moment. The Office suite makes most of it's money from corporate licensing. That depends heavily on strict privacy rules. The risk to their reputation is too high to even attempt it on just the personal version of Word. If you want to be very very cautious, get Word Professional as there is ZERO chance of it being used for AI scraping.

$159.99 USD one time purchase OR subscription model for $69.99 per year which comes with all of the Microsoft Office suite and significantly more cloud storage.

Microsoft Word Professional is $439.99 USD. You really don't need it for writing.

Scrivener - unlikely to implement AI training

Scrivener would probably not survive the kind of controversy AI scraping would cause as their customers are exclusively writers.

$59.99 USD one time purchase per platform (if you switched from windows to mac you would need to repurchase.)

Libre Office - read all the terms and conditions or don't risk it.

Libre Office has an AI tool. There are no stories circulating about them scraping user's data but they're not near as big as Google and may not have drawn enough attention yet.

Free! (Which unfortunately makes data scraping more likely.)

Also don't forget:

Platforms like Ao3, Wattpad, Smashwords and possibly even Tumblr are all being targeted by AI companies for data scraping. In fact OpenAI are being sued for doing just that.

Be careful where you post your writing.

That's all folks!

[ppaemeu4]

snake is here!

[hacvek]

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

[theswisscheeserag]

I apparently commented this on someone’s fanfiction while almost unconscious and had no memory of this event until today, a week and a half later, when the author responded to that comment and I got the experience of reading my own writing for the first time. I, too, will be thinking about this for the rest of my life.