Mari

she/her/hers 30 scorpio

[proship-froggo]

Fandoms have a serious problem with how creators are being treated these days.

Fandom creators spend hours of their free time to create something to make fandom thrive...for free and for the love of the game.

And what do they get? A wholeass heap of fuck all. No reblogs, no comments, no nothing. And people are surprised that creators are dropping out left, right, and centre??

"Why is there no long fic anymore?" "Why did my favourite writer stop?" "Why is my favourite artist not posting anymore?"

I implore you to ask yourself: "What's the last thing I did to support my fandom? Does my favourite creator know they are my favourite? When was the last time I left a comment under something?"

[ribbonnpurple]

DON'T WANT AI TO TAKE OVER? YOUR INTERACTION MATTERS!

[analogdelight]

wait, you're telling me some "boys" didn't grow up feeling like a lesbian trapped in the wrong body? i thought that was normal!

[analogdelight]

get peer reviewed, because fucking. yeah.

[analogdelight]

hey. hey bestie. i have some pronouns over here you might like, come with me. you can leave that "he/they" over there, you don't need it anymore.

[analogdelight]

GIRL THE EGG COLUMN IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. YOU DO NOT NEED CONVINCING YOU NEED CONVICTION.

LOOKING FOR REASONS IS REASON ENOUGH. BE A GIRL TODAY RIGHT NOW

[the-haiku-bot]

LOOKING FOR REASONS

IS REASON ENOUGH. BE A

GIRL TODAY RIGHT NOW

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

This Fourth of July, I ask that you support Native Hawaiian independence.

The Kingdom of Hawai’i was illegally overthrown with the help of American businessmen and we have suffered under the iron grip of America.

Our land is simply seen as a vacation spot, my people are simply seen as tour guides and hula dancers. We have had our culture, our history, and our people turned into a commercialized joke by America.

The rampant tourism kills our islands with endless hotels, attractions and overcrowding. The housing and living costs are out of control because of the false “paradise” narrative. The Navy poisons our water and destroys our land. Covid has killed so many of my people due to the reckless and selfish nature of tourists. I have lost loved ones to this virus, because tourists “couldn’t stay away”.

My people have suffered. I have suffered.

We are more than your vacation. We are more than an aesthetic.

We are a sovereign nation illegally occupied by the United States of America.

Restore Hawai’i to Hawaiians. End the American Occupation.

See the links below to learn more and to read up on your Hawaiian history.

Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy | HISTORY

What Is the Hawai‘i Sovereignty Movement?

Hawaiian scholar Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio explains the movement asking the United States to return the lands taken during a 18

‘Āina Momona is a Native Hawaiian led community organization dedicated to environmental sustainability, food security and resilience, and so

Red Hill and Kahoʻolawe: A Legacy of U.S. Terrorism

The United States Navy has a history of terrorism in Hawaiʻi (and throughout the world). In 1940 the Navy started to build the Red Hill Fuel

Hawaii reports more than 5,000 new COVID cases, 15 additional deaths in past week

The latest number brings the statewide total since the start of the pandemic to 308,695.

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[victusinveritas]

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

—

PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[ernestsewell]

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”

— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.

[ruinedchildhood]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Reblog to save a duck

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

Quack quack

[ijustgotherebro]

It’s getting to be that time of year where more people are going outside to parks and stuff so i thought it would a good idea to reblog this again

[theofficialvincenzo]

Once I was feeding some ducks from a bag of birdseed I brought with me, and this woman next to me looked so confused and asked what I was feeding them

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”

She then had a look on her face like a new groove was just forcibly carved in her brain and said softly “oh my fucking god”

[hollanovhateai]

ohhh man. apparently when you copy+paste stuff directly from claude into ao3 it includes code. which anyone can find. people have found it in big, popular fics in multiple fandoms 😬. also heated rivalry; some of which the authors fervently denied using AI. link to thread.

link to their complete findings for those without twitter

[phneltwrites]

Writing this up for data literacy purposes. There's a philosophical conversation to be bad about AI but this post is not that, this is just explaining what the Claude fragment ai checker can say and what it can't.

I didn't write the checker and have no involvement with that.

What the tool linked above can say:

This fic includes content that was directly copied from Claude into the ao3 post box

What it can't say:

How much of the fic is ai

What the ai was used for

Reiterating that it only finds Claude fragments so that means that the checker:

Doesn't know if another ai was used

Doesn't know if Claude was used and the copy from Claude feature was used

Doesn't know if content comes from Claude but was first pasted into another document first

Here's some scenarios where ONLY ONE Claude fragment would be detected:

Person goes into Claude, asks it to generate 20k words of a college au meet cute fic. Person pastes the text directly into ao3. One ping

Person asks Claude to generate text that would make their pre-written text look like a tweet, copies that into the ao3 box. One ping 

Person uses Claude as a spellchecker and copies the output into the ao3 box. One ping 

Scenario where Claude ai checker would ping more than once:

Person pastes a paragraph into Claude and asks it to rewrite it more smoothly, copies that into ao3, then does that again

Frequency of code fragment does not equal quantity of ai usage.

Here's a scenario where the Claude fragment ai checker would not detect ai even when that person was using Claude:

Person asks Claude to write their entire fic but then copies it into a Google doc before pasting it into ao3

More does not mean more. This is a binary check of “has fragment or does not have fragment.” 

and GOING FORWARD, because this is such a simple and distinct marker, I expect that no future Claude AI fic will include this marker. It is trivial to remove it. So this is not a preventative future checker. What this IS good for is to read flagged fic and hone a personal sense of what an AI fic reads like.

Today I was also turned onto this fic which can help articulate what makes an output feel like AI, if someone is looking for another training tool.

[ruffboi-mags]

So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

[movebackintime]

https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI

Here ya go

[laziestgirlintown]

In case you need a comfort watch and because Youtube search nowadays sucks rancid farts, I remind you of the Princess Bride Home Movie from the lockdown, starring everybody

[beardedmrbean]

[luxus-aeterna]

𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜 - 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚝 | Main | IG: iridessence

[gildracon]

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 8

[farmgf]

if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it being the last line of the brokeback mountain novella is so crazy it makes me feel like my guts are falling out. if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it. jesus fucking christ

[farmgf]

god. god

[wizard-laundry]

The KIDS act (which contains KOSA) passed the US house, so I would recommend calling your senators and telling them to vote in opposition. I don't think I need to stress the importance of being able to use the internet freely and without privacy barriers being breached.

There are many scripts online you can follow, many ways to tweak your message to fit your senator (ESPECIALLY if they are up for reelection this year). Whether it's a recording you reach or a real person, be straightforward, don't argue, just let your rep know that you are a constituent and you oppose the KIDS act, etc.

Here is where you can search for your senator... call, email, fax, bring them physical letters, show up in person to their offices if you are able.

[abyssalaquarist00]

i just called both my senators offices and it took 30 seconds or less each. if youve never called before here's what to expect:

maybe hold music for like a minute most depending

someone usually picks up right away in my experience

someone who works in the office will be the one answering. they will ask for your zipcode, and what youre calling about (theyve got their customer service voice on, so it eases things a little for those who are nervous)

you can say "i'm calling as a concerned constituent and would like to submit a comment"

say your business. be straightforward, and honest, as the above suggests. you can say its dangerous.

afterwards you can say "that's all for today. thank you" and the call can be over

and tell your friends! do it while youre waiting on laundry, or otherwise in between tasks, on your lunch break, what have you. we got this