da-dums towards you with increasing intensity

(she/her) 18+ ● currently hyperfixating on metal on my sideblog Domibella, so go follow that one if that's what you're here for!

[sharktheme]

Btw if you're following me here for metal/metallica/metalocalypse, this blog is a barren wasteland. Please check out my sideblog @domibella , where I actually post about that stuff!

[thewarriorssun]

What I enjoy most about the Great Divide is how complicated it let's itself be. It's about a man who got famous from writing about the sadness of his upbringing, his town and the people in it. He commodified his trauma and made enough money of it to be able to leave. And yet leaving doesn't save him, the opposite. He misses his community so dearly, he wants the best for them, but it can never be the same again and it also isn't the same anywhere else. Staying or leaving, it's a push and pull and none of it will ever feel right and that's the divide he will have to live with for the rest of his life.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

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[the-frightening-ghoul]

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[tigerator]

all uk & brazilian citizens must forfeit their biometric information to third party overseas ai-driven for-profit corportions seeking to harvest and sell this data because, despite the fact we already banned porn, we need to stop you looking at your trans friend's blogs who we habitually mark as mature content because of deeply transphobic moderation that we refuse to address.

thanks.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[spirkbitch]

Do you prefer fanfiction with or without smut?

I only read smut

I prefer it but I’ll read fics without

I prefer no smut but I’ll read it

I don’t read smut

It’s not a consideration/don’t care if it’s

Another answer (explain in the tags)

Voting ended onApr 24

Because I saw some discourse that was upsetting me (ignore the typo it’s too late to fix it)

[solarsyrup]

for whatever reason tumblr has flagged this post from a deleted blog as explicit so I can't even reblog it anymore which is a shame because it's one of my absolute favorites

[daughter-of-sapph0]

tw lying

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[starleska]

THEY REVERSED THE UPDATE!!!!!!

[kawareo]

Tumblr is like our elderly dog and when she makes an especially scary cough we apparently think "oh god it's the big one"

[kawareo]

They're trying to kill her. Go send Feedback about the shitass update it's apparently the only place where they sort of listen

[ichorknight]

on one hand hearing that clints one of the next marriage candidates is my 9/11 as an aspirant wizard fucker but on the other hand i cant help but massively admire the gargantuan swollen nuts on mr barrone as a game dev to soldier on with a plan he must have known nobody was going to like just because it’s what he thought was best for his game. i cannot hate on a man who graduated from i made this video game university with a major in who gives a fuck what you want it’s my goddamn video game. i can only look on in envy

[kropotkindersurprise]

We salute an absolute icon 🫡

[gaylor-moon]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[trauma-tits]

[stephfandomdumps]

fanfic writers, which would you rather get more?

hits

kudos

bookmarks

comments

(not a writer)

Voting ended onFeb 14

[psshaw]

The main problem with "artist" as a career is that it produces an outsized number of books about writers, failed screenplays about failed screenwriters, films about acting, and cartoons about animation or chilling coolstyle with your pals in not-San Francisco. This isn't even on the artists-- if you drag a guy out of a welding workshop and make him write a book, he'll still think he's supposed to write the next Dr. Seuss but he'll wimp out and call it "Mr. Puppy Learns A Lesson". Consumerism eradicated the uncontacted tribes

[psshaw]

I do think that "art has the power to change things" stops applying when your raison d'etre is "I really loved Ghibli films growing up" or "I want to share my kinky power fantasy". To fulfill that phrase, the art should be used as a tool to say important things and make them spread wider. If visual artists are a class who say largely the same things--identity navelgazing, cool things they saw on a screen, safe regurgitated opinions--then the opportunity for change becomes inert. If a bit of world news or history would spice the scene up significantly, things are dire.

That said. Every time someone with no affection for these spaces uses this criticism to paint genAI as harmless, I get one neuron closer to being able to explode people with my mind

[rudeposting]

This is why I’ve been very critical of going to art or writing school if you want to make ‘good’ art. Not saying it can’t be valuable, especially if you already have a point of view and you’re struggling to find the skills to articulate it. But theres a reason why “40 year old writer getting a divorce,” is such an archetype in pretentious books.

If your whole identity is just Artist then 1. Your ego and personal narrative might get in the way of taking actual risks, and you might get too caught up in emulating what success as an Artiste is expected to look like and end up enmeshing yourself and your voice in an already incredibly inbred scene. Ooor 2. Your artistic narrative becomes the struggles of being an Artist, which roughly 99 percent of artists have some type of opinion on, of which half of them have already made into their own thesis.

I have weird-life-story-privilege, but in general ive always been a proponent of the idea that if you have a creative bone in your body you should just go out and experience a bunch of random ass shit. Become the guy at the welding workshop, delete social media, get really into a specific field that is in no way at all associated with creativity. Make mistakes, take risks and feel the consequences under your skin.

That life changing book you read is that way because the author had their own truth to share. Instead of copying their ideas you need to live your own life until youre left with a question or epiphany that just about forces you to pick up a pencil if only to get it out of your own head. You’re a human being, not a xerox.

[psshaw]

YEAH and more practically— dedicating yourself to the study of art as a shut-in online westerner is 1) very fun and 2) priming you to have more skills in production than in having ideas worth producing. But I suppose that’s true of most education these days.

I say this as someone who hasn’t exactly been on a lot of adventures: we unfortunately have no shortage of art by people who don’t go on any adventures. Do a second thing!

[bunnydracula]

the original concept for The Draculas involved (and possibly still involves) TV louis (an example of a truly superior transformative, albeit legal, adaptation of a character that has had free adaptations historically censored by his original author) waking up from nightmares about fan characters for other media trapped in hell by copyright.

i wondered if i could thread that needle in as few panels as possible and wound up with this (possibly batshit) sequence i am nonetheless somewhat thrilled by. THE DRACULA IS AWAKE!

[walmart-the-official]

Y’ALL!!

[mateodoodle]

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

A collaborative Nostr funding initiative to develop strategic pillars for the Nostr ecosystem

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model

[cosmicbiologist]

Spread the word

[tilthat]

TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

via reddit.com

[armedandgayngerous]

that was the Devil

[general-thinks]

I mean they wanted rain

[northerlygale-deactivated202307]

His name was Charles Hatfield and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t make a deal with him, but I am saying that you should be very clear about the terms and conditions

[prokopetz]

I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.