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this couldn’t be said any better

THIS. Like, we cannot keep having this conversation. "Hey I noticed you follow x but they ship this/watch this/read this/follow this fandom which is problematic." I don't care. Unless this person is a nazi, a terf, or something along those lines, I literally don't care. I have a degree. I'm pursuing a master's. I got bills to pay, a house to maintain, food to make, places to be. I do not give a single flying fuck about this person shipping something weird. Let them. I don't care. It's their problem. We're talking about 2D lines here. If you have a problem with me for not having a problem with someone (again, unless this someone is a genuine piece of shit) then go, don't even bother, I'm an adult with adult responsibilities and duties. Someone doesn't see your blorbo the way you do? I'm sure the 2D blorbo who doesn't even exist won't mind, and neither should you if you don't want to face liver failure before you turn 30. "Agree to disagree" is a reasonable state of mind for these things, it's okay if not everyone appreciates/hates/thinks the same as you, I promise.

sensitive-clothes

what tag do you put your Cassidy X Charlie under?

Also thoughts on Elizabeth?

Not sure what you fully mean by the first question but I guess I'll go with Wholesome Yuri. For Elizabeth Afton? I think she's cool. She has a cute design and voice and an interesting relations to the aftons and the other ghost kids which can be very fun to explore

sharkrad08222222

I was meaning, how can I find more of your Cassidy X Charlie art.

thatgordongirl

My minor complaint of the day is Plants vs Zombies not automatically providing a lawn mower in every lane anymore, you have to watch ads if you want them. Feels so scummy

sharkrad08222222

I think older versions of the game are still laying around, can probly dig that up.

princesscas

I say this as both an author and someone who has been in fandom for a long time (15+ years): I do not trust the AO3 'Claude AI detector' skin. In fact, I will never trust any future "proof of AI" tools. Why? Because it's impossible to 100% know if someone used AI in any capacity.

I am anti-genAI, especially in creative fandom spaces, but I'm even bigger against witch hunts and harassment. Because that's all what this "exposed authors" document list (and future lists) is going to do. It doesn't matter if there's a big disclaimer about NOT attacking the people listed. The internet will do what the internet does nowadays and backstab anyone they deem unworthy, especially toward ones that they've been given the greenlight to attack. The obsession and paranoia about wanting to make sure that every single fandom creation is not made with AI is, quite frankly, getting out of fucking hand. No, I don't want to read AI works. But I don't have enough time in the day or much less the ability to care about checking. If I suspect something is amiss, I'll just do the fandom of old: Don't Like, Don't Read. Don't Like? Don't Engage. Hit the back button.

No one owes anything to anyone. No photo proof. No video proof. No screenshots or anything else.

Lastly: Instead of calling out authors who might be using AI to help them create, why not encourage the use of non-AI resources? Writers Helping Writers. An old fashioned thesaurus. Word Hippo. And so much more that is out there, which some people may not even be aware about.

fsbc-librarian

This “detector” has already been proven to show false positives. It’s crap. It’s fear mongering and witch hunt inciting.

There are people out there using grammarly to edit their work because English might not be their first language, or they don’t know enough people to find a beta, or they’re dyslexic, or god knows how many other reasons.

There are people out there who are on the spectrum and their written work reads like ChatGPT because that’s how their brain works. There are people out there who are so goddamn skilled at what they do, others struggle to believe it’s real.

Do you know who else was like that? Michelangelo. Do you know *how many people* have stood in front of the statue of David and thought *how the fuck did any human create that?*

There are soo many telented people out there who are infinitely better than you, be it written word or drawn image, or hell, even a photoshopped picture. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do.

Stop adding to the witch hunts. Stop trying to cancel people loudly.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

It costs nothing to be kind.

headspace-hotel

AI is imitating the patterns in human-made writing

It's impossible to detect whether text was created by AI because the patterns AI writing follows come from human writers

Like, that's literally what an LLM is and does, it imitates the patterns that humans use when they construct language

storm-of-feathers

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

emeraldspiral

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice

archaeologistproblems

Archaeologist problems: when the Newfoundland and Labrador Government and Provincial Archaeology Office (PAO) go hard-line on erasing Innu history for years, to the bafflement of basically every archaeologist outside the PAO, and it’s hitting the headlines hard this month:

Innu Cultural Guardian Jodie Ashini says she thought National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, would be the perfect day to open the Innu Pak

For the record, as far as I can tell every other rational archaeologist (including me) thinks this is pretty fucked up:

A letter signed by eight anthropologists and archaeologists at Memorial University expresses support for Innu in the ongoing dispute with th

iplaywithstring

Loring questioned the reason for the government's approach to date. "It's about minerals, power. It's about NATO low-level flying. Government wants control over land that is ancestral Innu land, belongs to the Innu, and so by denying their land claim based on this spurious historical misinterpretation- that's the dark side. And whether that's true or not I don't know. But it certainly has that appearance," he said.

archaeologistproblems

If so, the PAO has been instructed on this for a while. I distinctly remember a PAO archaeologist making a flat statement about “lack of evidence” during the question period at an archaeology conference a few years ago, and there was a stunned silence from the rest of us.

lostinhistory

Hey, you wanna see something funny?

So yesterday, the CBC published this article:

The San Juan is almost ready to recreate a centuries-old journey to Canada.

It's about how archaeological work at Red Bay, Labrador, has allowed a Spanish boatbuilder to recreate the San Juan, a 16th century Basque whaler that sank in Red Bay. Representatives from various Canadian groups were the guests of honour at a maritime festival in Spain, and next year the replica San Juan is going to sail to Red Bay (neat!)

BUT

if I may draw your attention to this section of the article:

Boatbuilders and Indigenous leaders came over to chart a new course for relationships that first started 500 years ago. When the Basque whalers came to Labrador to hunt whales, they met Innu and Inuit. What we know about that relationship comes from European diaries. Michael Barkham says there were good relations with the Innu. “The accounts say they come aboard our ship and we eat and drink and barter goods,” said Barkham.

These diaries are from the 16th century. There is documentary evidence in Spanish archives proving that the Innu have been in Labrador for longer than 300 years.

The government is spewing bullshit.

filmphotofranz

beezii

the two types of katt monroe star fox

sivavakkiyar

The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.

stillnaomi

Every single one of the 599 refugees the US admitted last month was a white South African, according to data the State Department’s Bureau of Population released Friday.

In fact, so was every other refugee admitted this year. Since October 1, 2025, the US has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. Three—admitted last November—were from Afghanistan. No other refugees were admitted.

marbleguard

And this is only half the story. They are also revoking the legal status of existing immigrants granted protected status due to fleeing dangerous conditions in their home countries… and let’s look at which countries they are:

Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work au

cdlum

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sookayheresthething

What is the most dangerous animal each character could individually take in a fight (prep time allowed, no fire arms or vehicles. You can have sword or bow or club etc. fight will take place in animal's home turf)?

I don't have any idea what I'm talking about here, but:

Dakota could probably survive an encounter with a wolf? but just one wolf by itself, not a pack. I think she could probably use a bow (she definitely has firearms training and might also be trained in shooting a bow) and bows are Deadly if you know how to use them

June could maaaaybe kill a bear? she's small and quick and hard to hit, and bears have thick hides but june's knives are very sharp

if MMS is anything like me, the guy he's based on, then it's not gonna go well if we go any scarier than, like, a stray cat. and even then, if I went up against a really mean stray cat I'd probably just run.

if you gave Nat a sword then I feel like she could kill an alligator on land but not super easily

Nelson's from Aotearoa, the "chill animals" capital of the world, so I feel like she's not prepared for anything bigger than a large parrot

I dunno about Trish, I'm having a hard time gauging her tier here

Trent would talk a big game about how he could kill a lion with his bear hands. and, like, to be fair, if he had the guts, he's physically capable of at least severely wounding a large predator. but in reality he would probably run screaming from a particularly nasty raccoon

the fauna of the world are lucky that Tony doesn't like hurting things because there is no animal on planet earth who would survive an encounter with a Tony determined to kill it

austen has actual training in both hunting and wielding a sword so I feel like they could take down mostly any animal you'd be likely to find in, like, an american forest

elliot has absolutely killed a wolf to protect a child or something at some point

douglas could fight a rhino and lose

sookayheresthething

forgot about austen's axe, so take what I said about austen and add like +5 to it

sharkrad08222222

What's a wolf doing by a child? More of the Park Rangers fault for not clearly marking and informing Families of wolves in the area and their terroity limits? Did the Family not watch over the child?

dat-soldier

Caprice for Anon

brehaaorgana

Greatest hits of FIFA cultural exchanges thus far:

Learning about flyovers and pyrotechnics at American games being a thing

Non-americans discovering the size of American football stadiums....for high schools in texas. Also the size of our stadiums in general.

Going to baseball games as a side treat! Lmao.

Non-americans losing their minds over "like, 100 petrol pumps," at buc-ees.

Related: Americans often forget how huge target and Walmart is.

People discovering American BBQ

Non-americans being obsessed with mid American restaurant chains like Golden Corral and Taco Bell

A lot of them really did feel god in this chile's apparently

The rightful obsession with waffle house

New understanding of American Big Drink With Ice supremacy as summer creeps in

Begrudging acceptance of mandatory water breaks during games

Americans realizing we have a Team USA and we are not, in fact, just "hosting our friends" from around the world — mostly because we won our first match and our team is decent??? Not amazing but not the worst.

Side rant: us women's football team is legendary good and we should care about that more like. Hello???

Admitting Americans are right about air conditioning

Related: the english team did warm ups in Florida RIP, and also the there's a video of the French team just being like fuck the heat, fuck the sun, this is so hot...

Americans who do not normally care about international football but fucking love a sport and cheering so we're just hyping whatever team is nearby, like we see a party and just show up and learn the chant. Like sorry many of us don't know shit about soccer but if we see a bunch of people in viking helmets or kilts or holding a bunch of flags and cheering we're game.

TAILGATING!!!!

I already said this but American yellow school bus is an international celebrity

The Scottish drank Boston dry of beer apparently, like they quadrupled what Boston normally sells for fourth of July weekend. SAM ADAMS HAD TO GET AN EMERGENCY BEER DELIVERY.

Also the English team fans got kicked out of The Londoner pub in Dallas after drinking 5,000 beers and going over max capacity lmao

Free refill drinks, tortilla chips & salsa.

So many non-americans are going to be here for the 4th of July for our 250th anniversary which is going to be great and hilarious

Non-americans discovering ranch as a beloved condiment

Non-americans understanding American obsession with hamburger now

Japan's homebase is in Texas and the cultural differences are frankly great and also the Japanese fans are SO NICE and helped clean up the stadium after a match???

All the short videos with the eagle screech (which I think is actually a hawk but whatever)

official-dad-blog

Like yeah America's government is literally the Legion of Doom, but we generally aren't that bad. I'm glad the world is seeing the little things that there are to love in America.

whatbigotspost

It's very interesting to me how many of these revelations are related to the US south, non-costal areas, and Texas, specifically. It's almost like our exports of media worldwide overly portray life in NY/LA and the rest of us live differently.

It is hilarious to me, specifically, to hear of the Bucees wonderment. Like, yeah I know, my Hoosier family demands that they stop at one every time they visit Texas too. It's still mindboggling whole groups of USians, so join the party world!!!