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Febuwhump 2026 Masterlist

About a week past the deadline but all prompts filled!

AO3 Collection

This yeah I named every fic after a song as a bonus challenge! Here's the completed Spotify Playlist

Full list of fic prompts with the fandoms and characters + AO3 + Tumblr links beneath the cut ❤

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fealty-to-thee

More characters ending disabled and happy NOW

#reblog

writers-bane

The thing is, writing is not just putting the Character in a situation. It's also putting myself, the writer, in a situation (having to write)

#reblog

taproot-bread

You know that weird phase where you are not asleep yet but your mind starts doing whatever and you can't really control it? Yeah.

#reblog

orteil42

some of you seem to be under the unfortunate impression that i enjoy finishing things. i enjoy making things

#reblog

rainrein

i love creating oc x canon ships i think more people should do them and i think more people should be really, really, really weird about them

#reblog

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

#reblog

wonderstruck

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#the inheritance by ilona andrews

okay no but "It's only online you end up screaming and shouting and being attacked by [gender criticals]" is SUCH bullshit coming from a cis man but especially one claiming to be a pillar/champion of the LGBTQ+ community

like when was the last time you marched for trans people? attended a trans event? fucking went to a pub with visibly trans women?

i'm so sick of this man running his mouth someone shut him the fuCK UP

#the ONLY person that man understands and likes is gay men and I am BOOOOORED #russell t davies #rtd critical #off topic #ish #he's still a writer but it's more of a rant than an actual crit hfgksjh #mine

mndvx

russell t davies are you also close friends with homophobes and racists or is being friends with transphobes where you stop and draw some sort of line of where you tolerate bigotry and hatred?

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

maple-seed

Both options convey that he's horny

cleo-fox

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

#reblog

sistertaxon

why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead

thesylverlining

this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job

kittyknowsthings

Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety?

systlin

“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.”

totohoy-blog

I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…

systlin

I mean.

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.”

musicalhell

This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future. So the next time you see artwork like this:

Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”

fuckstaffposts

Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*

rpluvsyj

This post is a blessing

wittyusername97

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