Sunflowers on Fire

I'm a pessimist trying to pose as an optimist pretending to be a realist. Believe me, I'm just as confused as you are.

[wirewrappedlily]

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Writer, humourist, absolute nutter, and learning witch

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[kawareo]

screaming, crying, throwing up, as I force myself to write a story i'm very passionate about and love writing and have no obligation to write except that i want to

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I saw somebody be wrong on the internet and I didn’t respond (don’t want to get involved) and I’m being SO brave about it

[startledoctopus]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I should never have made this post because now every time it gets a new note I’m reminded of how wrong that one person on the internet was.

[caspersgraveyard]

reblog to remind them how wrong that one person on the internet was

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

THEY WERE SO WRONG. ON THE INTERNET.

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

What were they wrong about?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

NO I AM BEING SO BRAVE ABOUT IT

[toastyphilosopherturtle-deactiv]

It’s been a year- I do believe that the silence has been expired

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

THEY SAID STORIES DON’T NEED CONFLICT BECAUSE HAYAO MIYAZAKI MOVIES ARE GREAT AND DON’T HAVE CONFLICT IN THEM

THEY SAID MIYAZAKI MOVIES

DON’T HAVE

CONFLICT

[friendlyfrankenstein]

op you were in fact braver then any marine what the sam hell

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

[the-real-nikki19]

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

[rose-of-pollux]

Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.

[concentfortea]

[gallusrostromegalus]

Me, Waking people up to holler about Spoilers with a 3 AM @ Everyone in the discord:

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

[were--ralph]

oh shit wait brainblast incoming

[were--ralph]

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[were--ralph]

starting october and through to halloween on this site there should be a splatfest-type thing for tumblr where you choose a team like team vampire vs team werewolf, maybe a third one maybe not, but idk maybe the team with the most posts gets like a cool badge or something at the end

[were--ralph]

@humans @staff you're welcome

[were--ralph]

there should be a team vampire vs team werewolf counter at the top of the site and during october you get a fun little badge next to your name just something for fun

[were--ralph]

Choose Your Team

Team Vampire

Team Werewolf

Voting ended onSep 7, 2025

OBVIOUSLY reblog this because I appeal to werewolves and this needs to break containment so it gets a fair shot but i also want more people to see this in general

[furiouswritingbiologykid]

@vampires-official let's get some more vampire representation here!

[vampires-official]

official vampire post

[sugar-crash31]

[teaboot]

I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

[teaboot]

Humans keeping cats and dogs as family members is like three prodigy assassins being introduced in the back of a shady nightclub and 45 minutes later they’re 6 crunchwrap supremes deep passing a blunt in the back of a shag carpeted Volkswagen microbus rating Oreo varietals by fuckability

[miseria-fortes-viros]

tumblr users have the unique ability to string together sentences never before seen in all of human history and yet they conjure up such specific visceral imagery that you can’t help but be a little in awe. and i think that’s beautiful

[teaboot]

Love and peace on planet earth

[reimenaashelyee]

My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

[caliharte]

It never gets old and it always makes me cry.

[weshallbekind]

@ilgalantuomo ❤️

[fillielitsa]

All 13 full moons of 2023

[teaboot]

Every look ICONIC! Our lady can NOT flop!

[theconcealedweapon]

[flightyquinn]

Some other bangers;

"Jack of all trades, master of none" ... "but ofttimes better than a master of one."

"Blood is thicker than water." "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb."

"Money is the root of all evil." "The love of money is the root of all evil."

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

there's also "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" which conservatives are oh so fond of saying

bootstraps are, well, straps on your boots. you cannot physically pull yourself up by them, and that's what the original phrase meant. "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps" is meant to be an impossible task

[adorkastock]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

The second part really matters.

[kedreeva]

Some more:

"Birds of a feather flock together- until the cat comes." - The first part gets quoted a lot in a "find your people" kind of way, but the full quote is a warning about basing relationships on "feathers" (looks, surface details, etc) only.

"Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back." - The first part is often used like a warning against curiosity, but the full quote encourages it.

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." - The first part is often used to get people to do stuff first/fast/early, but the full saying imparts that sometimes, not being the first can work out better.

"Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour." - The first part is often quoted in a "cool it/relax/stop" type way, but the full quote encourages slow and steady progress.

"Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ." - Just because it's an idea y'both had, doesn't make it a good one.

[sofiee-shea-deactivated20250427]

Being alive is kinda out of my price range right now

[anexperimentallife]

This whole thread is cool and wholesome.

[weedyshurgusburgus]

something they have control over!!! yes!!!!!!!

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

My number one tip for straight men (I mean, it could conceivably work for other genders and sexualities, but you’d have to adjust it quite a bit) is: inagine they’re a man.

Imagine that you just randomly told some bloke in a pub that he has beautiful eyes.

That you walked up behind your coworker Jim and started caressing his neck and shoulders while talking to him about the budget.

That you just sent a large and unexplained bouquet of flowers to Darren in Accounting.

That instead of complimenting a coworker on her breasts, you complimented him on his dick.

Does the action now seem weird? Uncomfortable? Do you no longer want to do it now that it isn’t directed at somebody you are sexually attracted to?

That strongly suggests that your action has a sexual aspect to it and therefore probably counts as sexual harassment!

[glorious-spoon]

I have a large, colorful tattoo on one arm. I’ve had multiple strange men cross a room to tell me how awesome it is, frequently while I’m at work, and it has never made me uncomfortable.

A couple of weeks ago, someone yelled out a car at me ‘I FUCKING LOVE YOUR BOOTS’, which was awesome.

It’s just… it’s really not hard to compliment people in a way that isn’t creepy, if your goal is actually to compliment them and not to slide a ‘btw I’m thinking about fucking you’ under the radar.

[belfast62]

Good advice! Applicable in many ways…..

[instructor144]

This is actually pretty good! 

[technofeudalism]

[dear-ao3]

[thatgirlonstage]

Ao3 subscriptions are so fucking wild to me. Every time I write my silly fanfictions and post them 124 people get an email just to let them know that this idiot is posting their fanfictions again. I send 124 people an email every time I write smut. Imagine sending 124 physical letters out just to be like “hello everyone, I put some guys we made up in our heads through the horrors again.” Absolutely absurd. I am kissing all of you on the lips.