#you're making us look bad...... .. .. . ..

[testosterone-tuesday]

As much as I think there is a value in archiving hateful posts as to keep a record of the strong anti-transmasculine sentiment that proliferates certain tumblr spaces, I don't think it is very healthy to regularly expose yourself to post after post of hateful rhetoric.

Coming from someone who used to be on r/AgainstHateSubreddits back when a lot of big hate subs were still up and running. I would spend my time arguing with and witnessing post after post from TERFs and Incels and White Nationalists- and after a while it just exhausts you mentally and emotionally. It's not good for you to do this all the time.

It's important to be knowledgeable about what is being said and done by those who wish to undermine or oppose your existence, but don't drown yourself in it. I also don't find it helpful or comforting seeing a hateful post with 6 likes screenshotted onto a post with 400 likes full of people aghast at its hate. To be honest, there are far more popular and insidious anti-tmasc posts and ideas going around, must we collect every small instance? Is that healthy? Is that productive?

If you're wishing to talk about anti-transmasculinity but are feeling upset by exposure to the worst of the discourse, you can and maybe should block those accounts that's purpose is logging screenshots of hatespeech. There's nothing wrong with needing to distance yourself from persistent examples of how much some people hate you. It is bad for you, and if you're getting stuck in a cycle of exposing yourself to hateful posts and it's hurting you, I'm telling you as someone who had like OCD issues with this, you can and should disengage. Even just take breaks.

It's okay, it's not betraying transmasc people, it's not letting the shitty people get away with posting hate (they'll be doing that anyway honestly). When you're not getting something reflective or informative or productive out of it, you can disengage. You have no obligation to bear witness to any more than you already have, you don't need to participate in the niche dramas or memorize the names of repeat offenders to take part in the conversation about anti-transmasculinity.

A block to even someone you agree with isn't a declaration of war or a betrayal. It is totally reasonable self preservation.

Take care of yourself.

[vaguely-concerned]

thrawn sending eli to cygni while making sure eli is wearing thrawn's clothes (judiciously noted to be at least two sizes too big for him so like cross out that size difference bingo square while we're at it)....... what. hm. mr zahn what IS going on here. 'tactical' deployment of boyfriend clothes on what I can only describe as the flimsiest of reasonings????? you need an imperial uniform tunic that's the wrong size for your boy for this absolute galaxy brain 'nightswan will think that I thought that he thought I would think --' 5D chess move, fine, let's pretend I buy it. it really had to be your tunic that's basically still warm from your body huh. you couldn't have pre-shot up a tunic, it had to be directly off your own back for eli to wear. why does timothy zahn write weapons grade yaoi at every turn seemingly without even realizing it

thrawn (entire genius level intellect currently engaged in somehow maintaining a state of denial): it has to specifically be MY tunic he wears while acting as my unwitting emmisary to my Worthy Enemy (further homoerotic implications) that I've been obsessively playing cat and mouse with this whole book. for. versimilitude. yes. it's crucial, in fact. many leaders fail to see how small details like these, however trivial they appear to an untrained eye, can mean the difference between victory and defeat. however to me, an intellectual, it is obvious that it is vital for this plan to succeed that lieutenant vanto smells like me while speaking to/helping me outsmart my nemesis

[m-e-i-n-a-r-t]

what if kcd2 but in the '60s and also framed by Pet Sounds lyrics?

>>> Part B

I snuck in the sorta-fic, sorta-notes, sorta-script from when I was first playing around w/ this idea & just trying to get some ideas together. It's been appended onto my first MCM AU post (to keep this post from being huge lol) if you wanna give that a read! It's pretty much just a written version of the party scene & Hans freaking out about almost getting shot, so it explains some of what's going on here

[saberspeaks]

WIP!!

------ So far at the moment i have 2 animations almost ready to post; (though one is for a Multi Animator Project so that might be posted in full later on.) One is a GTSW MAP , and the other is a grumbo wildlife animation! Hoping once i get these done and have a break, i think i want to animate something midas related. i have a few ideas--so ill have to see which i land on

[inkykuro]

Some of y'all really need to rewatch early SAMS and it shows. Seriously. Watch Eclipse in his debut episode and get back to me on the whole "he was scared and confused!! 🥺 he's an innocent little bby!!!" front.

He was literally a savage, sadistic bitch and I loved it, personally. He was the villain, and he was a damn fine one at that! He was vengeful, menacing, manipulative, and he was cunning. He literally took over Sun's body and deceived Moon multiple times, sometimes for days.

When he was offered a body, he refused to take it. When he was offered friendship, he refused to take it. Both Sun and Moon did try to offer a peaceful out, but Eclipse refused to take it. He didn't want peace, he wasn't scared, he was angry and he wanted WAR. And he was so fucking cool as a ruthless villain!

Literally boggles my mind that people wanna say he was helpless, scared and confused when that's what he made the protags feel. Moon is hyperventilating after Eclipse goes into sleep mode and outright says he's panicking, Sun is confused AF and literally asks, "Am I going to die?..."

Meanwhile Eclipse is just a happy little camper terrorizing them both and saying, "Oh yeah I'm gonna kill your brother! You can't even tell the difference between me and him teehee!! I'm gonna have so much fun making you suffer loool!!! 🤪" He was so happy don't take that from him- /hj

[ironwoman359]

can I get your opinion on something? I agree that gen AI harms creatives, I would never ever use AI to write. But sometimes I wonder if i'm a hypocrite, I have used it for writing prompts, asking for meet cute ideas for example, or i've asked it for options of potential plot points while im making an outline. I recently had an RP partner that ive had for years leave all at once, ive been lonely. I've used an ai to rp a little bit when my mental health is low. Am I part of the problem? I don't support AI, I don't like what its done to fandom spaces or to anyone who creates. I just don't know. I feel bad about it.

Listen this has been sitting in my inbox for like a month because first I was going to write out this really long thoughtful reply to it that tried to more carefully consider your feelings, but honestly I don't have the energy for that, so you get the unfiltered rant version instead. If you're not in the headspace to hear some harsh things said about you, then bookmark this and come back and read it later. TLDR, yes it's still bad and you should Stop. Like, right now.

I don't care if what you use gen AI for is between you and god and you never post it anywhere. It's still stealing, it's still supporting AI, and it's still wrong. Using AI is in fact being part of the problem, because the problem isn't just posting work that you didn't actually work on yourself and calling yourself a writer. The problem is that AI models are trained on stolen work. This is known. This is not speculation or exaggeration, it is fact. You are still stealing if you use gen AI to "just generate prompts" or "just do private rp." You know where it got those prompts from? Real ass people.

Literally nothing you are telling me you use gen AI for is something you need gen AI for.

You can literally just google "meetcute prompts +tumblr" and you will find SO MUCH that is already out there and was written by real human hands that is ALREADY FREE TO USE. Why do you need the plagiarism machine to baby bird it back to you when you could just go to the source? You can go to writing blogs and read real author's tips for what to do when you get stuck in a scene. You can go to TV tropes for potential plot points in an outline. "Oh but that's derivative" GUESS WHAT ELSE IS DERIVATIVE, BITCH. Literally anything that gen AI will spit back out at you.

And for the love of GOD stop using gen AI to rp. I'm sorry that your friend isn't playing with you anymore (and i mean that genuinely, not sarcastically, it does suck to lose a playmate), but guess what? That's a perfect opportunity to make a new friend! Find other people who want to rp the characters you like or who are down to do oc stuff and go wild! And look I know it's not easy to just roll up to a new group of strangers, I get anxious in social situations too but you've got to push through that and do it anyway. I recently started rping again in a new fandom after years of not doing it and I've met some goddamn delightful people as a result! Using gen AI as a substitute for an rp partner is actively robbing you of the joyful human experience of making new friendships. I'm sorry that you're lonely, but if you keep using chatgpt as a substitute for meeting new people, then I'm sorry but that loneliness will not go away.

The fact of the matter is that you are using AI to write. Rping is writing. Outlining is writing. Writing prompts is writing (omg it's SO disrespectful to writing prompt bloggers to just use chatgpt for meetcute ideas instead wtf), editing is writing, brainstorming is writing, literally every part of the creative process is writing and using gen AI to replace ANY PART OF THAT is using AI to write. Yes even if you don't post it.

This is all without even TOUCHING the environmental concerns of gen AI, like? Just because you're keeping it to yourself doesn't mean that the energy and water wasted to run the plagiarism prompt machine wasn't still expended? Hello? You are in fact supporting AI by using it, because the tech companies that run these programs don't care about your motives or complicated morality, they care about usage numbers, and THAT'S what they use to justify their continued existence.

You literally said you feel bad using it. So stop it. Learn how to google things (with that dumb AI assist turned off) and go meet some new people. Christ alive.

[basket-of-radiants]

am I insane enough tonight to discuss the queer politics of w&t?

[sir-choco-draws]

I was supposed to be doing homework but..... >>

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