ebb-is-learning:

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. “you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas”. studies have proven its making people dumber. “i asked ai to generate this meal plan”. its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. “ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign”. its spreading misinformation. “meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid”. its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. “i was talking with my snapchat ai-” theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. “youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification”. my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more “well at least-” “but it does-” “but you can-” im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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yugiohz:

yugiohz:

so funny when 20yo women belittle women in their late 20s, girl that is gonna be you in a time span that’s gonna feel like 3 seconds

“pushing 30 and [having a hobby]” well yes

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nohoperadio:

Do you think you are recognizably “the same person” (in terms of basic personality) as when you were 7 years old?

yes

no

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1tbls:

did you grow up with a grand-aunt/uncle (your grandparent’s sibling) in your life?

yes

no

other????

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“in your life” meaning you met them enough times and substantially enough to remember them. and not just consider them some faceless, theoretical stranger.

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omniscientpenguininatutu:

Calling ALL FANFIC WRITERS

This, ya’ll need to learn this. (Ignore the fact that this is being said by the antagonist but also like he. Has a point.)

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bllbabaggins:

gay-jesus-probably:

narnia-renaissance:

marlinspirkhall:

fireladyofink:

fireheartedkaratepup:

athoughtfox:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

We talk a lot about how in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Pevensie children live full adult lives as kings and queens of narnia before stumbling out of the wardrobe by accident and being children again after like 15+ years. But I’ve never seen the same level of analysis devoted to how in Prince Caspian they return to Narnia and discover that over 1,000 years have passed in Narnia since their last visit.

Imagine undergoing the grief of losing an entire life you lived in another world, being forced back into the body of a child and to grow up all over again without the ability to even talk about what happened in the decades you lost. Every person you knew and loved, vanished, leaving no indication they were ever real and no guide for how to move on.

But returning to that world where you were a King or Queen and discovering that centuries have passed without you and that the people you lost are not only dead, but mostly aren’t even remembered? That’s almost worse.

That series is really something for “worldbuilding threads picked up and never touched again” too like

• in the silver chair it’s confirmed that deep underneath the earth in narnia there’s a molten, fiery abyss world called Bism that is apparently populated and also apparently gemstones are living creatures that live there, and what we understand as diamonds, emeralds, rubies etc. are just the discarded husks of once living creatures
• Jadis is actually not originally from Narnia, but accidentally gets sent there at its creation (making her one of the oldest beings in narnia) and she annihilated all life in her world of origin. she also very much does go to literal actual London and terrorize people. she is like 7 feet tall and can tear iron with her bare hands like it’s taffy.
• Jadis makes it “Always winter and never Christmas”…what the FUCK is her beef with Father Christmas. I know it’s supposed to be like a metaphor or some shit but I’m imagining what exactly the fuck must have happened between them for jadis to specifically want to prevent him from coming to narnia to the extent that her powerful seasonal-change-stopping magic also includes a “fuck that guy in particular” clause.
• like think about it, Jesus is not a thing in narnia, he’s just aslan. and aslan did not get born. ergo, the origin of such a concept as Christmas is the entity Father Christmas. Christmas is not a religious holiday to Narnians it has no symbolic meaning it is just specifically the time of year when Father Christmas fucks around across the landscape giving children gifts, such as very deadly real weapons. There’s no reason for him to do this. It’s just what he does. And Jadis fucking hates it.
• another thing from the magicians nephew that is never brought up again is that Polly and Digory don’t go directly to Narnia, they end up in this intermediate place between the worlds that’s like a forest full of pools leading to other worlds, potentially infinite other worlds, and they end up in Narnia pretty much at random.
• I think it’s also confirmed that Archenlanders were originally from Earth, and are the descendants of a small group of people who traveled to Narnia by accident and got stuck. One wonders why Aslan didn’t whisk them back out. Or why being too old wasn’t a problem for them.
• I think this is early installment weirdness but there are Roman gods in narnia. ?????
• stars are sentient???
• narnia is flat. this is not actually an unresolved thread but I don’t think it’s common knowledge even though in one of the books they literally sail to the edge of the world. caspian specifically thinks it’s super cool that the earth is round

I LOVE the whole concept of Bism. Like Lewis really just said oh yeah there’s a whole world under Narnia where people live and jewels are alive too actually you wear dead ones in your jewellery and then no one ever spoke about it again, not even the fandom

No wonder this series infuriated Tolkien so much. Lewis just threw paint at a wall and jokingly asked the man who’d spent a decade on a single painting if he liked it.

Holy shit there is a lot about Narnia I don’t know.

Writer’s block? Why not try peppering panpsychism into your atheist-turned-christian young adult literature and never addressing it again?

So many fics, so little time.

Fun fact about the woods between worlds thing and what the inspiration behind it was:

This is an illustration of it from the book.

And THIS is a forest full of shell craters from WW1. Which C.S Lewis fought in as a teenager.

I’m sorry @stargirl-and-potts I couldn’t leave your tags there 🥹

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auntie-writing-things:

izzylimon:

Guillermo del Toro on AI

[ID: Video clip of Guillermo del Toro in an interview. He says: “AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That’s essentially that. The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence? How much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they going to make them cry because they lost a son? A mother? Because they misspent their youth? F**k, no.” End ID.]

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goingknowherewastaken:

:

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years…

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the ‘for you page’ is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old “repost comments” on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

“viral” isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we’ve been here longer and we’re familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

Another important point

You need to actually reblog posts for this site to work as it should.

Liking posts only saves them in a spot that no one checks except for the user who liked them. Most people have their liked posts hidden.

Also, this site has a spam bot problem. One way we weed those out is to check the blog to see if it’s actually being used to post legitimate content. If there is absolutely nothing on your blog you’re getting blocked and some users may just straight up report you as spam as a precaution.

Not to mention that the posts you reblog will only be seen by you and whoever follows you. Tagging it “fyp” does absolutely nothing.

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gifsbysimplysonia:

[Image Description: A Tweet that reads: Hey, you. You’re valid for writing fanfiction. Someone has stayed up late reading your words on their phone with auto-rotate off. Someone has dropped everything when they got that update email. Your work has made someone happy and you do it *in your spare time*. You’re awesome. End ID.]

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nachtfaust:

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guerrillatech:

AI under capitalism

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atlas-coolbean:

GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more “asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I’m going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

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robotsafari:

redrawing my favorite gba chain of memories scenes with my own interpretations part 1(?):

“You’re thinking about me… You’re afraid of the darkness I command.”

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martiwikiwi:

Wake up, Goofy!

[ID: Illustration of Goofy and Donald from Kingdom Hearts. Goofy is lying on a bed of flowers in a garden. He is the captain of the royal guard but he fell asleep in the middle of his job. Donald the magician just found him and has important news to deliver. end/ID]

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penneferofvenerburg asked:

Hi @fixyourwritinghabits I've suddenly had this feeling where I don't feel so motivated to write anything how do I try and get away from that feeling pleasssse help?

Thank-you @penneferofvenerburg

fixyourwritinghabits:

• Motivation Tag!
• Guide: Inspiration, Motivation, and Passion post
• Writing Resources: Advice and Motivation Masterlist
• How to Get Out of A Writing Slump (from a better version of Nano)