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🟊 fandom blog 🟊 currently: kpop, 9-1-1 fic writer sometimes

[nitewrighter]

[haildiscordia]

[zombieofdrake]

Here’s dril’s candles on a graph for reference.

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[isuckattechnology]

Audio:

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!

[selenesedits]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[candycoloredwolf]

Anyone gonna mention how this guy actually preformed live with Carly Rae Jepsen?

[restfromthestreets]

I’m gonna scream is2g

[galaxa-13]

I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.

[robertreich]

Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

[theunicorncomic-blog]

[randomushroom]

HE FOUND TUMBLR??????

[robertreich]

I’ve been here the whole time.

[birdnormal]

cats are small and you can pick them up

[birdnormal]

periodically people respond to this saying that their cat is difficult to pick up, due to size or pointiness. i just wanted to clarify that I never said that all cats were easy to pick up, nor that picking up every cat is a good idea. my simple belief is just that you Can pick up cats. if you try. what happens next is not my concern.

[hawnks]

30+ year old women are the backbone of this website

[drbased]

reblog if you're literally 30+

[transhuman-priestess]

Tumblr did not “Goncharov” Poob. Poob is Glupp Shittoing Tubi/Pluto/Roku Channel/Hulu/etc.

[gender-luster]

none of these words are in the bible. or the dictionary, for that matter.

[pressworksonpaperblog]

from “baths”, 1987.

[hollowerror]

*echoing down the hall* welcome back to a gaaaame changer

[adhdedrn]

He’s been here the whole time.

[penny-anna]

Have an electrician over today & he comes through from the kitchen like 'i was looking at that poster on your wall wondering how I hadn't heard of the movie so I googled it. What is the point. Is it just there to catch people out.' And I'm like, well,

[penny-anna]

Well,

[penny-anna]

1) if u want a Goncharov poster make sure to get one from the actual artist:

https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/Goncharov-Movie-Poster-by-art-of-beelz/132489850.1G4ZT

2) this isn't even the only bit of wall art I own that could be described as a fake movie poster.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either

[andhumanslovedstories]

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

[thomrainierskies]

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

[zenosanalytic]

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

[thebuckandeddiething]

"our fans have created a ship name for us"

no no back up a bit sorry *fans* created?

[baggebythesea]

European Citizens' Initiative - Ban on conversion practices in the European Union

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

European Citizens' Initiative is a mechanism to bring issues direct from the people to the EU commission. I strongly urge every citizen of the European Union member states to sign this Initiative to ban conversion therapy and similar persuasion practices.

[evanna11]

The deadline for this is may 17th, and a lot of signatures are still needed. If you're a EU citizen, please consider signing!

You do need to give some data in the form (full name, where you live, birthday), or you can use a form of electronic ID, because this is an official EU thing. But it only takes a minute to do it.

And please reblog so more people can see it!

[chickenonabicycle]

↑↑↑ THIS IS AN OFFICIAL EU THING ↑↑↑

THEY WON'T STEAL YOUR DATA.

These things are a way to make your voice heard. If enough people sign it, the EU IS LEGALLY BOUND to at least reply to demands like these.

Not enough people know about European Citizen Initiatives. Keep an eye on the site and sign initiatives you agree with. They've made real changes in the past, but the important ones never get enough votes because no one fucking knows they exist.

There was a UBI one a few years ago that never got through because no one knew about it and a fair amount of people who did find out assumed it was a scam and didn't sign, for example.

Again: this is NOT like Change.org or whatever. This is REAL.

SIGN EUROPEAN CITIZEN INITIATIVES WHENEVER YOU SEE ONE YOU AGREE WITH.

[kiefbowl]

I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person

[twisted-little-fairy-story]

#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life

[joshuaballsett]

[babbhad]

[cipheramnesia]

[marseny]

[joasakura]

[kitsunekat9]

@official-penis-posts ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[official-penis-posts]

Unethically sourced 

[ultrafacts]

A cyanometer is a device used to measure the intensity of blue in the sky, often used in meteorology and atmospheric studies. It typically consists of a series of blue color patches or a color gradient, allowing the user to compare the sky’s color to these reference colors.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Do you like the wheel of the sky

[friend-crow]

Well I like that it doesn't take 5 minutes to scroll past.

[sandersstudies]

Hey, you reblogged that AI post and I was surprised to see something so mean on your blog. "If you cant write unassisted, fuck you, youre a disgrace to the community." Is that really something you want on your blog?

Just in case this isn't a spam message:

Posting AI-generated content to a platform intended to be an archive for writers is not appropriate use of the platform. On a platform intended for human creation, it is rude and inappropriate to clog search results with AI-produced content which often plagiarizes the work of human authors.

Use of generative AI is also horrible for our environment, leading to massive waste of fossil fuel energy and water. We should not be doing damage to our planet for the sake of generating (robot-produced, often plagiarized) fiction, especially when the joy of fiction comes from the creation and emotion of real people.

Rather than giving a prompt to a generative AI, people should consider attempting to write their own work, or asking another writer from the fandom if they would be interested in writing it. Anyone who is capable of typing a prompt into ChatGPT is capable of writing a story. The first attempts may not be amazing, but that is true of any skill, and anyone can improve with time and practice - and while ChatGPT may give you big returns in your time, it doesn't give you practice, growth, or creativity, which is where the joy of writing should come from.

[fofflesnave]

To add to this, generative AI isn't an assistant for disability. Something that assists you helps you complete a task. You do the task yourself, the thing assisting you just helps you manage parts that aren't possible for you. Assisted writing could be using dictation, using a screen reader, relying on a spellchecker, typing instead of writing by hand, etc.

You aren't doing the writing yourself if you use generative AI. You're offering up a single sentence and asking a machine to steal the hard work of others so you don't have to actually write anything. The hard work you steal may well belong to people who actually need assistance with writing, and absolutely will not appreciate seeing the struggles they overcame being turned into slop for others to claim as their own.

Enjoy the creative process. Be part of the creative process. Don't become reliant on AI to the point where you can't think, create or act for yourself. This is why AI isn't an assistant. It takes independence and from you, instead of helping you realise it. It convinces you that you can't do things, instead of helping you try. It tells you to just leave it all to the machines and don't bother yourself with the fun (and struggles) of creating.

[sl-walker]

If you use generative AI, fuck you.

[shadowmaat]

Generative AI generates content. That means the person using it isn't doing the work themselves. And that means it isn't a tool, it's a bypass. And it's a bypass used by lazy, entitled people who are more interested in "content" than in telling a good story. People who want headpats for being "creative" when they're so unoriginal they can't even do the work themselves.

Spellcheck, voice-to-print, screen readers, etc. aren't "AI," they're tools. They are what writers use to help capture their stories that they wrote. The writer does all the real work of creating and then uses tools to assist them in getting it down properly. Folks who try to lump it all together with shit like chatgpt are deliberately arguing in bad faith so that they can their machine-generated bullshit behind real tools that actually help.

[angstandhappiness]

SO TRUE

[mama-qwerty]

To repeat an oft seen quote:

"Why should I bother reading something you didn't bother to write?"

AI isn't 'helping' you write. It isn't 'assisting' you. It isn't some tool for disabled people. You're telling it what you want, and it's stealing words from other sources to string together a story. All you're doing is slapping your name on it to post online for back pats and high fives.

Just as an art AI isn't 'creating' that picture for you, it's stealing bits and pieces from other artists to copy and paste it together in some semblance of a (kinda sorta) cohesive image.

I'm sick of this argument that AI 'helps' new writers or artists. It doesn't. It's actually stunting your ability to USE YOUR OWN BRAIN and come up with scenarios and stories on your own. And every fic or fanart that's posted using AI just clutters up the space for those of us who write and draw each line ourselves.

We're not being "ableist". Miss me with that bullshit. We--as in, those of us who actually write and draw with our own brains--are having a hard enough time getting eyeballs on our work, so having AI created slop filling our spaces makes us testy.

We work really hard on our craft. Don't demean it by claiming your computer generated content is in any way equal.

[wigglesthedragon]

As a disabled person, with disabilities which include severe brain fog and memory problems as well as some problems with vision and hearing and a ton of problems with my joints (I have dislocated bones by writing), I find the excuse that generative AI is some kind of accessibility tool so insulting. I'm out here taking copious notes to check for continuity and keep my ideas where I can get ahold of them and taking all kinds of ridiculous measures like taping my fingers and shoulders and collarbones and ribs in place so that I can get my ideas and my words out. If it ever comes down to me not being able write, rather than writing at a high cost, and AI is my only option, I'll give up because whatever the AI spits out is not my story. And while writing a real story from my own brain puts ~me~ through a lot, it doesn't damage the rest of the world the way AI does.

And at the end of the day, storyteller is one of the most traditional societal roles of disabled people, across many cultures. I'm not letting that get taken away from me by some shitty computer program.