Mr D-Man

African American guy with ADHD and autism/Unlabeled Cis He/Him who loves fiction of all types, as well as daydreaming and writing. I just post/reblog things related to stuff I love watching, good writing advice, and whatever else interests me. My Letterboxd profile if you're interested: https://boxd.it/9d0Fh

[submersero]

[worldwatcher-d]

One of the greatest instances of music in the history of cinema!!!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be recreating the scene in my head but with me and a bunch of fictional characters from various mediums.

Can y'all tell that I'm AuDHD now?

[poltergeistsoup]

Just two blokes

[fuzzydiez]

Gorillaz + the backrooms : >

[mintseeds]

this was a lot funnier in my head ngl

[stuart-pot-gorilla-z]

hehe

[theniccvls]

Still haven’f forgiven you.

[stuart-pot-gorilla-z]

It's either offending ya or our noses, mate...

[izamon]

MYTHS ARE MEANT TO BE ADAPTED

Ancient myths were told by travelling bard. They were sung to please an audience. To praise a king, to teach children lessons, to entertain the people of the time.

The ancient versions were not written for us. They do not match up to our societal expectations. They do not teach lessons that we consider useful. They tell tall tales rather than histories.

Which is why adaptations very much can and should change things.

It's not a book from a few years ago that they're remaking into a new medium. It's an ancient and well-known story that they're recrafting for a new audience.

Medusa is the perfect example. The original story is a warning of the dangers of messing with gods (The even earlier original has her born a monster with no backstory at all). Today we switch the perspective of the narrative, and she is a victim of higher powers treating her as an object, as many women are today.

It is for the same reason that while in the original Odyssey Odysseus spends a year with Circe and has 2 children with her, in almost any modern adaptation he refuses her advances. Because Odysseus and Penelope's loyalty to each other is a consistent theme of the story, so we adapt it to fit our definition of loyalty.

These myths are meant to be passed down, shared and changed for a new audience to enjoy and learn from.

So while Percy Jackson, Epic the Musical, The Odyssey (2026), even Troy (2004), are not perfectly accurate to the original stories, they are adaptations. They are valid as what they are - new versions of old tales. Repeated time and time again, different but the same. Teaching the same core, human lessons while not losing sight of the audience they are aimed at.

[keltoid]

[movfieme]

The one piece live action cast to voice their characters in LEGO ONE PIECE 🏴‍☠️

[alienirlart]

Maybe if brothers stopped staring into sunsets, they’d start living long happy lives?

[clandestinewhore]

[chardysstuff]

“𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍….? 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝. “

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I rewatched the marineford arc last night. Why? WHY do i do this to myself 😭😭

Also might do a Ghost!Ace keychain, i need it

[slozhnos]

sometimes you just need to reacquaint yourself with the story of the baudelaire orphans and their woeful journey

[ellesthots]

PSA for people who might not know: @glimmerfics is a site that uses AI to produce choose-your-own-adventure fics. an author on the site writes a little bit, and then AI slop fills in the rest. a reader gets some free ‘turns’, and then they have to pay for more. Glimmer profits both off of fanfiction and AI slop.

Glimmer claims to partially ‘offset’ the environmental harm through purchasing carbon offsets. they claim to care about artistry and cite sharing the concern of AI in fandom, but immediately throw it away with some bullshit excuse about only using AI as a ‘tool’, because they ‘don't believe machines can replace human creativity’. they also claim that their goal of butchering man-made art via injecting randomized AI slop into it is because they ‘want to live in a world where more people are making art, not fewer’. sinisterly hollow sentiments, all of it.

i am sick of AI-shills co-opting accessibility arguments to justify causing harm. art is HUMAN MADE. across ages, across abilities, across every single human variable, art can and does persist. this language spits in the face of every disabled artist. every poor person creating in the spaces between. every marginalized person crafting art under oppression. AI does not make art accessible, because it does not make art period.

AI is not a tool, it is a miserable disaster and a despicable weapon. it wreaks havoc on local communities where data centers are built. people dying at rapid rates from cancers and other preventable illnesses directly related to air, water, and land pollution. it is forcing states to go into droughts from stealing all the fresh, drinkable water. it is kicking people out of their careers and preying on vulnerable populations to work for them. it is stealing and scraping people's work, and stealing people's REAL art, including other fanfic authors who do not consent. it is also wildly inaccurate. it also sends people into psychosis and causes them to end their lives.

sites like Glimmer normalize all of that violence, and how they try to wrap it in a velvet bow further normalizes, erases, and justifies it. as an artist who sits at the intersection of many of the identities these AI-proponents claim to be helping, I am appalled. i know many others are too. it's imperative we call out leeches like these in creative spaces.

i don't give a fuck if Glimmer responds and says whatever PR statement they think will be ‘transparent’ and help weasel their way out of real accountability. i don’t care if they say every bit of money goes back into developing the site: any site that uses generative AI in fandom spaces should not exist. especially not with charging users money in direct exchange for fanfiction. it puts the entire fandom community at risk. it mocks and endangers what they insist they care about.

i don't care what reasoning, anecdotes, placation, loopholes, dismissals, or logical fallacies they may employ to rationalize their platform in their potential response to this post. the entire foundation of their business is actively causing harm to the world and the community they claim to love. unless they stop using generative AI entirely (and stop monetizing fanfiction), whatever they say is hollow. these people know they can get away with it, they have users who either don't know the damage AI causes or don't care, and have people singing the praises of the platform. a lot of people applaud bad things. it doesn't make them any less bad.

there are valid ways to create ACTUAL choose your own adventure fics that do not perpetuate violence and oppression (like Twine!). Glimmer can dig their heads in the sand and pretend they're paving a path all they want, but it's a path to hell.

FUCK AI and fuck opportunists. please repost to spread the word, because i've even run across some of these 'fics' and their posts in the wild and been swindled.

[ilovenarutosmm]

Don't use glimmer it's ai yall

[theatredeslestat]

‼️SPOILERS AHEAD‼️

If this episode has proven anything about the current status of the fandom, it’s that not nearly enough people have read the books. So let’s talk about it.

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Yes, that whole rant Claudia said was in fact on brand for her and is very much who she truly is and is what she actually thinks. She doesn’t particularly like either of them but Louis was always her pawn because he’s easier to manipulate than Lestat. That has been established in the books for a good while.

Yes, The specific things Claudia said to/about Louis was to hurt him and to get a reaction. Claiming the writers ruined the scene with that and saying Claudia would never is in fact wrong. I’m sorry. Claudia is vicious and brutal when she lets the facade drop and as she is constant pain and filled with anger in death, there’s no reason for her to sugar coat her feelings.

Armand will always be the most vicious vampire when it comes to enforcing the rules. BUT he will turn a blind eye if it’s something he’s doing that’s against them. That’s just who he is.

With The Vampire Chronicle’s, it’s is a known fact if you’ve read the books and paid attention that Vampires can live for a little bit without their heads attached to their body. So as long as it gets put back they will get back up. So, Armand and Daniel doing that was purely to stop Lestat and Louis from doing the concert. Armand wouldn’t actually kill Louis or Lestat, there’s no benefit for him in that, but temporarily making them incapacitated is beneficial for now.

Every single character in The Vampire Chronicles is complicated, trauma driven, and multidimensional. Every. Single. One. Excusing one characters actions by saying “they’re traumatized, it’s not their fault” but then turning around and not allowing the same thing for other characters is wrong. Again, I’m sorry. You can have a favourite character ( I clearly do too) but you still should have a basic understanding of the rest of them and know that they’re all very similar in so many ways.

At the end of the day, the choices made by writers are always intentional and serve a purpose for later seasons with this show. That’s been proven multiple times now. And people need to remember that ALL of these characters are bad. They are vampires, they are monsters, not human. Their emotions and actions are not logical to humans.

*edit because some people clearly are misinterpreting that last sentence:

By “Their emotions and actions are not logical to humans” I mean they feel more intensely and their actions represent that. So, what WE would deem unreasonable, unnecessary, or unforgivable, to them, it is something that could be logical in that moment or something that is more debatable morally.

You are entitled to your opinions and feelings about the show and the characters but that doesn’t change the story being told or who these characters are as a whole.

[februairy]

sang penghibur

[the-irreverend]

And yet people still come to his defense...

Looking at you, Alex Meyers

[mossteriouslydrawn]

The Baudelaires…

[nature-travel-photography]

Mesa Arch Moonrise Eye - Author: Puzhio

[joxter-coded]

*que Lemoney Snicket quotes