[squeakitties]

it’s actually crazy how passion and sincerity is the answer

[squeakitties]

if u open up your soul wide its radiance will dazzle and comfort those who need it most. those it isn't intended for will look the other way but you will find peace in honesty

[pickypicnic]

[mikanseinic]

“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

[ledbythreads]

teachers and lecturers think they can reliably spot AI but they can't. Even though AI is used extensively in student essays. Human estimates of LLM writing also over identify writers with English as a second or additional language and neurodivergent writers. You WILL fuck this up if you play AI witch finder general.

I suggest

Do fandom fannishly.

firstly - If you don't like a fic then just close it.

Comment and talk to writers. Do rec lists to share fic. Make art for people's fic. Arrange prompts and games. Ask people who like it for requests. Send pleasant asks. Give praise.

If you hate AI then love the humans. Stop treating fic like a product and you will get far fewer fakes.

[philosopherking1887]

Ask authors about their writing process!! Ask, "How did you come up with that wording? What made you think of that metaphor?" Actual human writers LOVE these questions, so much that we often post ask games on Tumblr to invite readers to ask them (and then get no asks).

Don't phrase them as a "gotcha," of course; ask the way you would if you were completely confident the fic was written by a human. And if you get an answer like "I honestly don't remember" or "it just popped into my head," that doesn't necessarily mean it's AI. But if you get a weird meandering story about a train of idiosynctatic associations, you can be pretty damn sure the author was human.

[glassshine]

[natalieironside]

"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[petermorwood]

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

[essence-of-armbarring]

idiot: Luigi fucking sucks

luigi: 

idiot: sweet jesus

[byjove]

I think a lot of people are pro-life because they know they would have been aborted, that is secretly their motivation and not actually a misguided interpretation of Christian theology or a belief that life begins at conception. They’re say shit like “What if your mom aborted you?” like, okay I wouldn’t be here, that really wasn’t on the table because my parents really wanted me and was on fertility treatments to try to have me. Would your mom have aborted you? Is that what this is all about, you wouldn’t have been born if your mother wasn’t coerced/forced to carry you to term and give birth to you so you feel like everyone else should be forced to give birth to their annoying baby?

[covid-safer-hotties]

[quietstorm-thundathighs]

[probuccalfat]

isn’t it kinda remarkable that becoming the first ever trillionaire didn’t stop him from staying a bullied little boy with an enduring wound where a father should have been?

[energyprison]

popcorn explodes too violently. they need to breed a new one that unfurls like the delicate wings of a newly emerged moth

[dogpuppy]

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[prettyboyhere]

sister post to this

[th3p0rtalmaker]

Without giving away any big spoilers, I genuinely love and appreciate how this specific panel in A Tale of Two Saris was staged/designed:

It's not just an epic group-shot introducing the Shattered Glass Repair Crew. It's also giving us a window into their team dynamic.

Mirror!Prowl is dead-center, flanked by his fellow Evil Autobots - a position of power and focus that naturally draws the reader's eye. He's also the only one whose stance conveys a definite sense of control/authority. Mirror!Ratchet and Mirror!Bulkhead look like they're ready and waiting for the command to attack. And Mirror!Bumblebee is just...being his disturbed self. (Honestly I doubt anyone can keep him safely and reliably under control.)

Overall, I think it's pretty clear who was in charge while Mirror!Optimus was stewing as a severed helm in Emperor Sumdac's basement.

I'm also fascinated by Mirror!Prowl's color scheme, and what significance it might hold in this Shattered Glass Universe. Obviously it's the inverse of TFA Prowl's color scheme, so at the very least I'm guessing he's not paricularly stealthy. He also seems to stand out from the other Mirror!Autobots even more than TFA Prowl stands out from the other Autobots in his universe. And I can't help but feel like there's important vibes/lore being implied.

[hoseoch]

“what are you gonna do, cry about it?” yes . the fuck

[marisatomay]

I was talking about this with a friend but a really interesting cultural shift over the last ohhhhhh ten years maybe is that many people in fandoms view themselves as stakeholders and not audience members. Because of that, they think that the fandom should be running things, or at least have an acknowledged say in how something is run. And every reminder that they are not in control, no matter how small, bothers them.

[marisatomay]

This has always existed to an extent but it used to be very siloed and only noticeably prevalent in certain fandoms and everyone else in fandom spaces generally agreed that it wasn’t healthy to act like that. Now it’s seemingly every fandom with an online presence and it’s all happening much more publicly than ye olde Trekkie forum.

[marisatomay]

I do think that the increase in access to creatives through social media, extended promotional cycles where you do a thousand interviews and all of them get clipped for instagram and tiktok, and an increase in entertainment and fandom aggregate social media accounts which keep people updated on all of those clips and every second of the creative process has had a big hand in creating this sense of ownership that audience members feel. It makes us feel like we’re on the team because we think we know so much. But we are not and we don’t.