#purposefully

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"I'm sure you know the story of Hansel and Gretel and how they wandered into the woods and almost got baked and it's a story of warnings about not being greedy and heedless and running off, because it's meant to control you" Ok please don't write a fairytale retelling if you clearly haven't read the fairytale in years perhaps ever.

[cocomuffy]

ai has risen to power in fandom spaces because of new fans being nervous to express themselves and be fans that's it send tweet

i'm going to be very vulnerable, and please finish the post after this admission, but i used to use ai to roleplay. character ai had just released, i didn't know much about it, yadda yadda yadda. i feel very guilty. but now, especially with all of these shapes.inc ads or whatever trying to pull me into ai roleplay relapse, i ask myself why?

it hindered my fandom experience, it was kind of boring and i was constantly mad at it for misunderstanding things. so why did i still use it?

especially with shapes.inc, it's clear that these people don't NOT like fandom. they really like it. ai is a supplement to their fandom because they feel some sort of intimidated by putting fanworks into the space. there's a deeper conversation to be had on why.

the reason, i think i used it anyway, was that it felt safe.

we've made such a mockery of ocs in fandom space that even thinking about using your oc with another person makes people feel squeamish. is it a mary sue, is it a hyper manic pixie, is it just a stupid emo character, etc? the stupid AI bot probably wouldn't even know it wasn't from the franchise, so it would be better to play with that. there is a really bad RP drought for ocs IN GENERAL right now.

character compliance isn't an issue because you're the only one in the fandom seeing it if you butcher someone's character in order for something to happen. i know a lot of perfectionistic types that keep things to themselves because they aren't sure that it's accurate enough. those types might go to these sorts of things where they won't be judged.

unless your fanwork is "good art", it's wattpad fiction or looked down upon. or, it's barely even noticed. and that can be discouraging for some people. i'm not saying every fanwork has to have a bajillion likes, i'm just saying that a lack of commenting, reblogging, kudos-ing, etc. in these spaces make for a drier experience overall.

i'm not saying all people do this and i'm not saying that this is anyone's fault in particular, but i am saying that i think this is why a lot of people are turning away from these spaces right now and into the hands of something like that.

PLEASE discuss under this post, i'm very interested. also just to reiterate: ai bad, don't use that. ai very bad. what i'm trying to deduce is why ai is in fandom space, and what we can do to fix it as fans.

[theriverdraws]

That’s what I’m thinking. 60 HP seems to be neutral or considering someone an acquaintance. Kris and Noelle heal each other 70 hp, and if “Kris hates Ralsei” is true, then they don’t have a very high opinion of each other, which clearly isn’t the case

Yeah yeah.

Plus I do have a theory that maybe Kris will end up liking ralsei more and more as the chapters go by. Because with the "toy horns" theory it would like, be symbolism with self love and stuff, and also it would make Ralsei's inevitable disagreement and battle with the gang in the future hurt even more

[xiaoluclair]

do you ever just think about how wholly max and charles encompass everything they represent? everything they belong to in their very way of being to the point where onlookers cannot help but bring the very idea of fate into it? (rhetorical questions because who hasn’t at this point.) like, i cannot think of red bull or ferrari without thinking of one or the other, respective. and i cannot fathom imagining them in any other team because of how deep the connection seems, the relationship and mutual adoration, devotion. max is moulded from the horns of a bull - (can we do this for another ten, fifteen years together) - while charles is stitched from the hooves of a horse - (it is a dream since child to drive for the red cars). they bring entire countries to their knees, to their feet, rule thousands of hearts and then some more. tie them together over one common prayer and this prayer is them, and the power they hold is almost terrifying. people deem them as predestined, speak of mythos being birthed from their stories still in the writing or maybe already written. they painted dreams in the sky with different brushes and strokes that would lay over each other perfectly, started to reach for them with hands far smaller than the love that lifts them up today from people across different planes of place and age they connect like constellations, stars they marked forever ago with the hope of tracing them together. scuffing sand and prancing souls, blinking orange and red like the blood they’d let bleed out before ever leaving.

and i think i need to go to sleep.

[sevenspoonfulsofsugar]

jim being raised to avenge their family and internalizing their grandmother’s mission of vengeance, but learning that there is so much more to life just by virtue of knowing oluwande and the revenge crew, that they don't always have to be the weapon they were forged into, that they are allowed to think about their own happiness before others'

[gabiioartist]

Cupid concepts

[warriors-last-words]

I see a lot of posts + jokes about small dogs being the vicious ones, but I’ve now owned both large and tiny dogs, and all they ever collectively wanted was head pats, so idk maybe you’re all just bad dog owners

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

ohhhhh I need this book y'all

I thought I needed it before but I had no idea