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finch // he/they // butch lesbian // 18 // ceo of serial designation v // variety of fandoms // don't rb personal text posts // i block freely (proshippers and similar dni)
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finch, he/they butch asexual lesbian, 18 (i am ok interacting with older adults, be aware i am younger than you!)
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no dni; i block freely and also block proshippers on sight
mutuals can dm me/ask for discord
i have a special interest in dragons and birds you can send me the lowest quality pic of a bird possible and ill go YIPPEE YAY WAHOO
you can send me a blorbo and ask for a bird assignment and i will happily do so
i change fandoms suddenly and refuse to make sideblogs. take all of my interests or leave it
tag nav and fandom list under cut
squawks.txt; personal text posts
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squawks.pdf; my writing tag, fic announcements and writing posts go here
squawks.ana; media analysis/theories
pigeon message; ask tag (mutuals also get a funny personalized tag)
my art; old art tag no longer in use
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save; things i wanted to save for one reason or another. might be helpful life stuff, might be an art tutorial, might be a funny post
fic: i want you to be here (but please don't come near); my murder drones post-canon longfic that is v-centric. features v/uzi/n and a lot of big feelings.
fang and tooth; my oc story/fantasy duology that i have been working on for about 3 years. someday itll be real. hopefully.
dnd: cycle of violence; my current dnd campaign that i am so so so normal about.
vervain; my pc from said campaign, a tabaxi oath of ancients paladin devout to chauntea, and with very normal feelings on necromancy.
FANDOMS!!! (bold is current hyperfix)
all of these have their tags saved in my search bar
murder drones
undertale/deltarune
in stars and time
daredevil
slay the princess
portal 1 & 2
life is strange 1 & true colors
ace attorney
just roll with it riptide
and more! (not listed bc i dont post abt them frequently enough)
do you want a warm, weighted, vibrating plushie that acts like a heat seeking missile and intermittently stabs you? What I have just described to you is Felis catus and there is a dark secret to it
one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.
Here’s my tip jar if anyone wants to help—I have a big doll convention I’m tabling at with my team next month, and I’m using the last bit of my money to get out there and make money for my family lol
several asks in my inbox about the nolan odyssey now that it's out so i will make my One Obligatory Post and so that i can be free to pass through the gate of false dreams and never think about it again
personally i have stopped caring about the movie itself in terms of whether it's a "good" version of the odyssey. there are things i have heard about it that i think are kind of dumb choices to make but i also like my odysseus to suck bigly and unrepentenly and tbh the version of odysseus in my head is not a very homeric one at all! it's more informed by things like the philoctetes and the aeneid because i personally find those depictions more interesting. there are also things i've heard that intrigue me but i refuse to pay money to see this movie
what i find is more important to focus on is the conversations about things like the treatment of shooting locations or the fucking iranian artifacts turned into jewlery for an american actress to wear while the us is actively waging war against iran. just as any ancient telling of odysseus's story, the nolan odyssey does not exist in a vacuum. i'm sure there are interesting things to analyze in the movie as a story but personally the issue that concerns me more is the analysis of this movie as a way for the classics to once again be interpreted and used by someone from a powerful colonizing nation for entertainment while actively appropriating aspects of other cultures. like it feels like heavy handed satire at this point except it's real. if we're going to give this movie critical attention i just think this is more important to think about than whether the movie is "good"
also i think the trojan horse looks dumb as hell and troy 2004 did a way better job at it. which is saying something.
I call this piece "If I Hear You Breathe A Single Word Calling Her Neglectful Or Uncaring Or A Deadbeat Drunkard One More Time I'm Beating Your Ass Into Its Atomic Subparticles"
can anyone help a black transmasc with food for the next few days? i get paid on monday (july 27) but in the meanwhile im stretched thin on food and need to pick up a few things to last till then. if anyone could spare even $1/$2/$5 that would be greatly appreciated
i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.
Amnesty International backing down (hiding its report) when threatened with JKR's lawsuits just shows how weak the liberal human rights framework really is. It never seems to flinch when governments criticize it, but the moment an influential Westerner pushes back, it suddenly loses its nerve.
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:
generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.
analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.
game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.
losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.
notice as well a refusal to mention any kind of "bad" ai other than the kind that "steals shit". putting aside even what was said here about ai ethics being much more about context than the actual literal computing a particular ai does, the "bad ai" isnt the facial recognition software currently helping drive an attempted genocide in the US, it's the ai that doesn't respect copyright law. it's kind of hilariously grim how much bourgeoisie class interests have suddenly become the uniting "progressive" opinion.
its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being
i like that ppl r thinking abt town names and things thats very good to be aware of but just to be clear this is actually specifically about other things actually, the things everyone but those looking up their nation forget about
sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree
if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings
others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!
theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption
"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!
yes talk about town and location names but you need to look farther than that. it gets so much worse, i promise
scrolling through a fandom tag is like wrong, wrong, blocked for being weird about the kid MC, wrong, wrong, actually so bad it makes you mad in real life, cool fanart, wrong, blocked for being transphobic, wrong, wrong, harmless but annoying roleplay blog, wrong, oh hey this artist is really good im gonna follNevermind, wrong, wrong, that's oomf, wronggg so wrong AND. 1 note post from 5 hours ago that says "i got a new screwdriver today" that uses every main tag for some reason
I’ve been thinking on it a bit further and I think that the reason that Nolan’s odyssey has the problems that it does is that it’s afraid to be seen as unserious for even one second.
Like they could’ve and in my opinion should’ve had Zendaya as Athena descend from the heavens in full battle armor but they didn’t. It would’ve been accurate to the original text.
We can’t have anything look rediculous in this movie though I guess. Can’t have a cyclops thinking that a guy is named Nobody. Can’t have a drugged up island of silly lotus eaters that Odysseus has to physically drag his men away from.
Anyways I did mostly enjoy this movie I swear but I wish they’d gotten silly with it even just once.
canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana
a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.
an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.
fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.
these are all different words with different meanings.
