you ever read a fanfic and just sit back and think…someone wrote something THIS good… and then just….published it on the internet….for free…..
I love you, fanfic authors
every single time
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you ever read a fanfic and just sit back and think…someone wrote something THIS good… and then just….published it on the internet….for free…..
I love you, fanfic authors
every single time
i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”
the moral of the story
Thank you for finding the perfect words to describe why I will adore RebelCaptain until the day I die 🙏 🙌 🥹
Reblog if you honestly have NEVER sent anon hate.
It pains me that only 14,000 people can honestly reblog this
Rule of thumb I go by:
Anon is 👍 if you’re embarrassed, shy, or trying to respect (shield) someone else’s privacy.
Anon is 👎 if you’re angry, jealous, or upset.
Simple as that.
If you’re not willing to sign your name to something; it’s worth taking a minute to stop and ask yourself “why?”.
Notice - Blog Undergoing Construction & Organization (Effective 12/20/22)
Currently starting the process of giving my Tumblr a total makeover for the first time in years. My apologies if things get a bit messier or confusing before they get better. Thanks for your understanding & patience.
Update (June 10, 2023):
Lol. About that… 😬🤦♀️😂
This project is still in the works but I’m definitely stalled out on it for the moment - in large part because of the ADHD medication shortage here in the U.S. (aka that silent public health crisis no one outside of the ADHD community is talking about?!?!)
Yeah, it might be getting better, but we don’t seem to be out of the woods quite yet.
I’m having to save most/all my “self-organizational” brain power for non-optional things.
However - please hit me up if you have any advice on organizing old posts & reblogs dating years back onto new, fandom-specific side blogs 😊🙏
“… plagiarism may be more about social inequity than individual deceit.”
I recognize it’s a sensitive issue for many writers & content creators. If possible - try closing your eyes, taking five deep breaths, and reading this essay with an open mind (and an open heart). You might just be glad you did. 😉🤗❤️
While most believe the contrary, some people understand that plagiarism is not necessarily deceitful or deserving censure, writes Jennifer A
Disclaimer: Not Mine! 😊
“Hey Kay, Who and What’s Your Source?”:
Fair Warning:
Starting now, I’m blocking “blank blogs” that have/will follow me.
Notice - Blog Undergoing Construction & Organization (Effective 12/20/22)
Currently starting the process of giving my Tumblr a total makeover for the first time in years. My apologies if things get a bit messier or confusing before they get better. Thanks for your understanding & patience.
House Mormont
"Here We Stand"
Sigil: Bear
Colors: Green and Black
Seat: Mormont Keep, Bear Island
"We Are Not a Large House, But We Are a Proud One"
The Mormont bears are fierce, loyal, resilient, protective, aloof, brave, humble, and strong-willed.
House Mormont values loyalty, survival, and the protection of their own.
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
House Martell
"Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"
Sigil: Sun and Spear
Colors: Gold and Orange
Seat: Sunspear
"Girl or Boy, We Fight Our Battles; But the Gods Let Us Choose Our Weapons"
House Martell differs from the rest of the seven kingdoms. They are progressive, passionate, short-sighted, equal, defiant, vengeful, and proud.
House Martell values individuality, equality, and resistance.
A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.
- Hope Jahren
As a (self-assessed) 1w9, I feel like one of the simplest yet most significant differences between 2s and 9s (and therefore 1w2 and 1w9) in Enneagram is this:
2s want to be not just wanted but needed.
9s want to just be.
House Velaryon
"The Old, The True, The Brave"
Sigil: Seahorse
Colors: Aquamarine and Silver
Seat: Driftmark
"History Does Not Remember Blood. It Remembers Names"
House Velaryon is one of the few ancient houses that survived the doom of Valarya. They are proud, mystical, brave, adventurous, commanding, and skilled at sea.
House Velaryon values pride, history, and position masters of ships.
I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
GRRM named the Dance of the Dragons era House Tully characters after The Muppets / Sesame Street characters
Grover, Oscar, Elmo, & Kermit
🤣🤣🤣
If fanfic writers are needing some Tully character names, here’s a(n incomplete) list of some others that fit the “theme”:
Elon Musk did not create an AI trained on your fanfiction.
Hi, AI ethicist + fanfiction expert here. (This is one of those times where I feel uniquely qualified to comment on something…)
I’m seeing this weird game of telephone about the Sudowrite AI that I think started out pretty accurate, but now has become “Elon Musk created an AI that is stealing your fanfiction” (which frankly gives him far too much credit). I can probably say more about this, but here are a few things that I want to clarify for folks, which can be boiled down to “Elon Musk has nothing to do with this” and “this is nothing new”: Elon Musk is not involved in any way with Sudowrite, as far as I can tell. Sudowrite does, however, use GPT-3, the widely-used large language model created by OpenAI, which Elon Musk co-founded. He resigned in 2018, citing a conflict of interest due to Tesla’s AI development. It wasn’t until after he left that OpenAI went from being a non-profit to a capped for-profit. Elon Musk doesn’t have anything to do with OpenAI currently (and in fact just cut off their access to Twitter data), though I can’t find anything that confirms whether or not he might have shares in the company. I would also be shocked if Elon actually contributed anything but money to the development of GPT-3.
Based on Sudowrite’s description on their FAQ, they are not collecting any training data themselves - they’re just using GPT-3 paired with their own proprietary narrative model. And GPT-3 is trained on datasets like common crawl and webtext, which can simplistically be described as “scraping the whole internet.” Same as their DALL-E art generator. So it’s not surprising that AO3 would be in that dataset, along with everything else (e.g., Tumblr posts, blogs, news articles, all the words people write online) that doesn’t use technical means to prohibit scraping.
OpenAI does make money now, including from companies like Sudowrite paying for access to GPT-3. And Sudowrite itself is a paid service. So yes, someone is profiting from its use (though OpenAI is capped at no more than 100% return on investment) and I think that the conversations about art (whether visual or text) being used to train these models without consent of the artist are important conversations to be having.
I think it’s possible that what OpenAI is doing is legal (i.e., not copyright infringement) for some of the same reasons that fanfiction is legal (or perhaps more accurately, for reasons that many for-profit remixes are found to be fair use), but I think whether it’s ETHICAL is a completely different question, and I’ve seen a huge amount of disagreement on this.
But the last thing I will say is that this is nothing new. GPT-3 has been around for years and it’s not even the first OpenAI product to have used content scraped from the web.
Viserys I - Mini Character Study
I just had a random thought as to whether Viserys’ preoccupation with dragon dreams & his dream of an Aegon crowned was partly due to or resulting from the same insecurity demonstrated by Aemond and Rhaena as “dragon-less Targaryens”?
House Stark
"Winter is Coming"
Sigil: Wolf
Colors: Grey and White
Seat: Winterfell
"The North Remembers"
A typical Stark can be seen as cold, loyal, resilient, just, defensive, grim, and honorable.
House Stark values duty, honor, and survival above all.
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
― Jodi Picoult
One reason I think it’s important that tumblr understands that AO3 emails spark dopamine and not serotonin other than the fact that I’m a neuroscientist who is very tired is because dopamine is part of the reward system.
I honestly think that emails from AO3 affect the reward system very similarly to gambling. When you get a sudden, random reward (AKA a comment on your fic), it feels great, and you want that again. But as the gambler writer, you have very little control over when the rewards come in or how many. There are games fandoms where you might have a higher chance of getting a response, or tropes, pairings, etc, but in the end, the reward is up to fickle fate (or possibly fantastic marketing on your part if you know how).
Randomly received rewards are incredibly addicting.
Similarly, not receiving a reward when you think you should get one feels very, very bad.
People who are more satisfied in their lives are less susceptible to the highs and lows of gambling and other addictive behaviors. If you are finding your relationship with you AO3 stats page or AO3 emails is unhealthy, it might be worth it to 1. turn off email notifications (so the randomness of the reward is removed) 2. Pick a time each week to check for comments (now it’s on a schedule) and 3. See if there are ways to improve your life elsewhere so that your mental health does not fluctuate with the whims of strangers sending you comments.
It’s not a moral failing to like attention. I have no judgment for people who get into a negative cycle with these things. This is for your mental health. Writing can be so rewarding for so many reasons, and I really just want to see other people find the joy in it.
This post has been going around again, and the question you should ask yourself is not, “am I addicted to emails/comments/AO3?” But “does posting fic put me in a bad mood? Do I get anxious waiting for emails? Is my relationship with AO3 causing me mental pain?”
The problem isn’t whether you are “addicted,” the problem is whether you are experiencing painful emotions in response to a hobby that should be fun. That’s what needs evaluation.
You don’t appreciate just how good Ao3′s search system is until you try to find something on any other Internet archive.
Don’t take Ao3 for granted, people. It’s so good.