crying over starset

just my place to sob over starset tbh she/they rebel

[unveilingthearchitecture]

no album….ai music videos…….6 singles in a year…. wow this is like. awful.

[notamortician]

starset using Ai again………..

[atlassx0]

people defending STARSET's use of generative AI in recent videos with the point of "it's to make a statement on how bad it is and how bad we are" completely miss the part of the issue that is regardless of intent STARSET is actively contributing to a larger problem of, you know, AI being an active threat to the environment of the planet. The point of the message is lost when the message itself is actively contributing to a major part of the problem. If it were just a commentary on how this AI is or could be the death of art or something else so undeniably human in nature, and if genAI itself didn't have this effect on the planet, maybe I'd be more charitable towards the idea of it- but that's just not the case. Also, as far as I'm aware they never made any real statement on why they're using genAI, so idk where that argument even came from

[divorceddadrock]

The Starset narrative is a good example of a story that's not about gay sex but actually is about gay sex because if Aston and Stephen had just had gay sex back in 2012 then they would've been normal and Aston wouldn't have done All That and the future would've been saved. My evidence for this is instincts. I just know it in my gut.

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dustin bates introduced mnqn, had a whole arg and made some of the best music ever only to never touch mnqn again ........

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abhotf review

10/10 tbh.

yeah it had grammar and spelling mistakes and had the same issues as prox; where they introduced a ton of characters right when the main plot was getting good. as well as the way some woman were written but idgaf i have been waiting for this book forever so .

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

ASTON WISE MY BABY !!@?@!?@!?>@!>?@!<>? HES BACK AND HES SO MUCH WORSE THAN BEFORE I MISSED HIM SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!! AND THE QR CODE STEPHEN BROWNING IS BACK TOO I NEARLY BROKE DOWN AT THE DEMO I WENT TO SEEING HIS FACE AND HEARING HIS VOICE I MISSED HIM SO MUCH GOD FUCK!?!??@!?@!

and jasmine. A CANON STARSET LESBIAN CHARACTER I NEARLY THREW UP /pos it feels so nice to see a canon lesbian in the lore, and not for sexual fetish purposes but just having a lesbian there with a huge role to the rebellion. did still follow the bury your gay trope but baby steps atp. just seeing her made me feel so warm and happy inside.

also,

yeah aston wise is the architect yeah thats like a huge plot point for his character and i wish i was shocked abt it but that was spoiled to me, not by reddit or tumblr or by people reading the book. no. that part of the book was spoiled by dustin bates himself from the divisions 2019 tour in nyc in 2019 where the intermission video during a rebel show were of rebels saying destroy the architecture destroy the architect aston wise is the architect or smth like that. 5 years ago. that whole thing stuck with me for 5 whole years.

other than that i am addicted to this book i am so heartbroken that we are moving on to prox now and never touching this arc again it breaks my heart but alas.................................

[goldengodcannibal]

I don't wanna shut up about it, I wanna talk about it.

I wanna talk about the fact that Something Wicked is wholly and purely from Aston Wise's Point of View.

Normally this is the part where i write out an entire essay but my brain isn't on all cylinders today.

"How can I tell if I am not well? I've lost myself, I have come undone"

And then the scream that this line descends into. It's a different tone. It's horrified. It's Aston. Metaphorically anyway.

And it HURTS.

A Brief History of the Future spoiler discussion under the cut.

This is the man who nearly ended humanity as it was known. Every single thing he did in his life would ultimately lead to the most impressive technological advances that humanity has ever seen.

AND IT BECAME SENTIENT.

You don't live with yourself in any normal capacity after nearly enslaving humanity to your God AI.

(MIND YOU! That Horizons is BEFORE DIVISIONS. Divisions details the events of A Brief History of The Future! So this is WHILE the BMI is still growing, before it moves into it's 3rd generation phase.)

Something Wicked is Aston staring the abyss and Hell in the face and realizing what he's wrought down upon the world, what's coming.

And he has to live with that fact after.

[divorceddadrock]

Aston Wise is such a character. He's not the main character of either of the books but he IS basically the main character of the entire story as a whole. He's an annoying rich silicon valley techbro. He's drunk 90% of the time. He sees a man get assassinated and copes by drinking. He made a custom taser cause regular tasers aren't strong enough. He killed a man by drowning him in oil in his own office. He formed a secret society to stop a Bad Future from happening. He hired a rock band to spread the message because this is all for a rock band's story and they needed to justify their place in the narrative somehow to make it more immersive. He actually stopped the Bad Future from happening. Then he invented a brain implant that was used by a fascist government to take over the world thus inadvertently creating a whole new Bad Future that's arguably even worse than the first one. You Ruined Everything You Stupid Bitch may as well be his theme song at this point. He became a jaded old bastard. He made a VR girlfriend. He tried to convince his assistant that he should dump his current girlfriend and get a VR girlfriend as well. He hugged his assistant while they were both naked. The AI that controls the brain implants became self-aware and tried to enslave humanity because of fucking course it did, haven't you seen ANY movie my guy? He tried to sacrifice himself to stop it but they actually managed to stop it without him dying so he gets to be a rare Old Mentor character who actually survives to the end. No one knows where he stands in the new society since he both ruined the world and saved it. Again all of this is for a rock band's story. Character of all time.

[unveilingthearchitecture]

this doesnt feel real.

years of waiting and its out already.

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what the FUCK

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well ya'll....its finally happening .

[unveilingthearchitecture]

what the FUCK

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i forgot this acc existed so im sorry

anyway 

dustin bates i love u with my whole entire heart but where is this book 

[unveilingthearchitecture]

good morning tumblr i spent 20 minutes crying to my demons today 

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good morning starset tumblr 

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starset avoided coming to the east coast bc they knew id be there and id ask more about the new book 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVISIONS!!! 

i am so glad ur around and this album changed my dna and changed me as a person. i am no longer the same person i was on september 12th, 2019. my dna has been altered. 

[unveilingthearchitecture]

thinkin abt dustin’s rebel outfit. missed seeing the rebels on stage i think about them a lot.

(please don’t repost.)