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Katrina :) Mostly just Tv shows, movies, anything funny. Feel free to talk to me, I'm always looking for friends! Also into kpop but I don't post it much here. Got back into reading again! (YA fantasy fan) 26 | YA Librarian | Asexual

[calc1fire]

I've seen alot of people talk about Grace and Rocky's codependency post Project Hail Mary and Grace getting to the point of not being able to sleep without knowing Rocky is watching but I raise you this:

Going back to Erid and Rocky not being able to hear Grace for the first time.

Rocky who spent over 40 years in complete silence and now has a friend that physically can't stop making noise.

Rocky, who got used to always being able to hear Grace's heart, having to leave the Hail Mary to talk with the other Eridians.

Rocky who doesn't notice how much he's gotten used to it and how much comfort it brought him until its gone.

Rocky who wakes up at his and Adrian's home and isn't immediately greeted with that soft thumping noise.

Rocky who panics in the breif moment where his body is coming back online only to remember where he is.

Rocky who will then find excuses to go hang out with Grace just to listen to his heart again. To be comforted know his friend is alive.

And for the extra angst:

Rocky who is there when the thumping final stops, knowing he'll never get to hear it again.

[lockssteps]

im a fake fan of everything i like because i cant remember anything

[junglejim4322]

Why did 4 months of this year go by in like a week

[junglejim4322]

Where am I

[not100bees]

They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

[god-monsterr]

this reply deserves to be here.

[taahko]

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

[taahko]

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

[mapswithoutwyoming]

And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"

[dustbunnyaac]

I think any time anyone has a migraine $2,000 should be directly deposited in their bank account as compensation

[ficauthor]

[frontmansdefender]

I wish every ad that takes you to app store or any site as soon as your finger accidentally touches it a very. bankrupt and die

[unsolids-your-snake]

My favorite thing about fanfic authors is they can identify any gap in a canon timeline where characters are offscreen and exploit the ever living fuck out of it

They see a time skip of any length and go

[icy-spicy]

[fotibrit]

big fan of the idea that Stark Industries starts selling basic household appliances once the weapons manufacturing gets dropped. SI toaster. SI curling iron.

But with this idea I also need there to be a “stark industries households” youtube channel that is, technically, an official SI channel. But it’s not in the slightest used for marketing or anything of the sort. Tony is the only one with the password and every video uploaded is tony going through how to use that machine.

Someone can’t figure out how to empty their damn fancy vacuum and they look up the model on youtube to figure it out, and are greeted by the CEO of the company doing a WILDLY informal tutorial on how to use it and common issues and such.

The videos are often shot by DUM-E or U. Tony often looks very disheveled, and sometimes there’s unrevealed projects just sitting out in the background. Tony acts like he’s talking to an audience of five people and usually there’s five or six videos uploaded back to back, CLEARLY shot in one sitting.

(Tony likes doing them because it’s a very simple way to ease the “Tony stark dead at ___” headlines without doing a damn press conference. The videos also make people a bit less intimidated by him, and he rarely gets to interact with his creations in an authentic way with an audience.)

[irreparableteacup]

i only like enemies to lovers if it’s gay because i think men who are mean to women don’t deserve to live

[wordfather]

someone at work told me 'oh, just ask chat' when i raised a casual question and i asked what she meant and she said 'you know, chatgpt' like im an idiot. and i should get an award for the fact that i did not start snarling and biting and killing

[moonlitmartyr]

I hate ruminating on what could have been. Out here thinking "if only I locked in when I was 13" are we serious

[eurodynamic]

[kanagenwrites]

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

[eldritchamy]

For my senior year of AP English, I was assigned reading over Easter break. We were instructed to read The Old Man And The Sea, and save the rest of the short stories in the book for the first week back.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

The power and utility of knowing how bullshit works CANNOT be overstated. It is one of the most important skills you can ever have.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

This is also a good string on this topic.

[flowersfeathers]

For the foreseeable future, and maybe for the rest of your life, the first question anyone is going to ask themselves after reading a written document from you is "did they really write this?" And unfortunately, this is an easy question to answer, because GPT has a very distinctive tone and if you don't read or write much you can't detect it enough to fudge it.

As a professor, I know when my students are using GPT. The problem is proving it beyond a doubt. So you can get away with this sort of thing in high school and college, but someday you're gonna have to write a cover letter or an email to a client. And then you'll either have to write something for the first time in your life, or you'll rely on your old friend GPT, and either way your cover letter will get thrown in the garbage.

There are no academic integrity committees or redos in the HR office. Hard as it may be to believe, we're giving you these assignments for a reason.

[quill-of-thoth]

Once again: I got an A+ on philosophy freshman year of college because picking up a text and immediately vomiting out an essay about it was a reflex after 2 years of AP. I wrote my final essay with a 103 degree fever and it was either plausible enough or looked contagious enough to pass. I owe the ability to take humanities classes as a break from work to a miniature old lady who saw me pull a prank on one of her departmental underlings and gave me no choice about taking her class

[teaandcrowns]

As an instructor of college-level lit, I can also tell you that I am not looking for anyone to regurgitate plot to me; as one commenter posted above, I know the texts I've assigned you. I have read, watched, listened, or played it (yes I assign games). I'm looking for your response to the text, your engagement with the text, your ability to interpret deeper themes and meanings in the text, your ability to ask relevant questions and make/see relevant connections to other texts and contexts. A generative AI isn't going to do that well because it doesn't have your thoughts and that's what I, at the college level, am interested in.

Also I have my lit students do a writing prompt at the start of our classes every week about the reading (often things as simple as, "what questions do you have? What lines stood out to you?") and many of them (in a class of 26) frequently write 400-500 words in 15-20 minutes. 600 is almost assuredly not that big a lift when you actually engage with the material.

[cherrypikkins]

all these clothing stores with their 'boyfriend shirts', 'boyfriend hoodies', 'boyfriend sweatpants', 'boyfriend shorts' - every two minutes someone's poor boyfriend is being divested of his clothes for resale and left cold and naked and confused somewhere

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[beardedmrbean]