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Jay/Oswin | 19 | enby | he/they My brain is full with media.

[nyle-style]

Masterpost

Hey, the name’s Oswin (he/they)! I’m a hobbyist digital artist + animator (and also a huge nerd)

You can find my other socials in my carrd

Also check out my art in my artblog

Currently watching: Classic Who

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Fandoms I mostly talk about:

Doctor Who/Torchwood, Star Trek, Interview with the Vampire, BBC/CBS Ghosts

Other interests:

music/music theory, ornithology

My asks/messages are always open! Don’t be afraid to reach out to me. I love talking about shared interests

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[byjove]

could you imagine if it happened this pride month

[strawbebbynya]

all yall make jokes about couples and their nonromantic third wheel having fun together, but im the one getting treated to food tonight by the couple im nonromantically third wheeling. you wish you were me

[whitachi]

I'm sorry I read this as "necromantic third wheel" and went on a very rapid powerful imagination adventure. hello lovebirds I'm the skeleton here for breadsticks

[strawbebbynya]

I'm in love with your imagination. We should get our necromancers to set up a play date sometime

[fellshish]

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

[romanitas]

#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

basically i like to pick my interests based on what will be most embarrassing for me at any given time

[suchscary]

ermes excellence

[fording-the-styx]

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[pretending-shes-beside-me]

i’m sooooo tired of chess fans who think they’re better than everyone because they prefer the original london or original broadway productions over the current one !!! and i say that as someone who LOVES Judy Kuhn’s Florence.

hating on nicholas christopher for his choice to hold out the note longer in endgame (and claiming he isn’t acting when that show is HEAVY on his damn shoulders) or discrediting aaron tveit for having the key lowered for pity the child isn’t cute!!!

you’re allowed to not like the current production, as there are obviously some flaws, but to completely disregard all the work the entire cast and crew has put in is bonkers !!

here’s adam pascal in chess in concert because his all white outfits mean a lot to me

[nyle-style]

I may very very heavily disagree with many of the writing changes that the current revival makes but I will admit that if there’s one thing going for it is that the performances are OUTSTANDING. The cast is out here giving it their all every single night and I don’t understand any hate they could get. Sure Aaron as Freddie or Lea as Florence isn’t exactly my cup of tea but I will never ever downplay their talent as performers (and this goes for the whole cast and crew!!!). If you have issue with the writing that’s one thing, but don’t nitpick actors needlessly just because you want more things to hate about the show

[crimsonbutch]

butch is an extremely diverse identity that intersects lesbianism and strives for a masculinity that is not rooted in the patriarchy. butch is a gender identity that means many things to many different people, not just cis white lesbians. that includes studs, butches on t, butches who are trans, butches who transitioned, butches who use he/him, butches who have a weird gender, boydykes, lesboys, and especially butches of the working class. if you don't support them then you don't actually support butches.

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this

[butchdogs-md]

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

[ghostapop]

i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

[the-gay-goblin]

Only day you can reblog this

[catchymemes]

[liarsblade]

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

[liarsblade]

[a-potato-of-death]