sometimes literary analysis does feel like taking a hit of cocaine and i think that’s a fair thing to say
I've survived my first day on Tumblr
Achievements:
- Don't shoot! I'm friendly!: Prove you're not a bot
- AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings
- Friends?: Gained a mutual
- I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr
- MY EYES!: Change the site palette
- Great Idea: Reblog a post
- They love me: Have a post reblogged
Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one
Containment Breach
the key to understanding kermit is that line from the original muppet series where lesley anne warren is like "i thought you were the only person here who wasn't crazy" and kermits like "me not crazy? i hired the others" that guy loves chaos. he loves crazy shit, and he loves being the guy who has to handle the crazy shit. he deliberately creates these circumstances! he puts himself in these positions! and then he's like "i cant believe youre making me do this." anyway that frog is more human than any of us
im curious what's the first meme you remember seeing? mine was numa numa
wow some of yall are babies
#It's a trap!#although idk if I'd've called it a meme at the time#the first one I remember labeled explicitly as a meme was I can haz cheeseburger#and that was probably early/mid high school so like#2007-2008ish?#EDIT: I see people tagging flash videos#in which case I feel Homestar Runner needs a mention (esp. Trogdor the Burninator)#as does the omg shoes video#as does badger badger badger badger mushROOM mushROOM#if we add videos then there's a ton#however idk if I count those/would have thought of those as memes
Saw my first post with someone admitting they used chatGPT to ‘write a fic’ which they then shared here on tumblr and on Ao3.
To be clear, using AI to churn out a piece of fiction is not writing.
Using a bot (possibly one that was trained using a scrape of Ao3, that is to say, the theft of work from every writer who has posted their work on Ao3) is NOT WRITING.
It is theft. It isn’t creation. It’s a regurgitation of the consumed collective work and effort and heart and time of every writer who has shared their work on Ao3.
‘I’m not a good writer’ is no excuse.
Want to be a writer? Put in the time everyone else does to practice.
Don’t feel confident in your work? Open yourself up to the same vulnerability and risk that the rest of us do.
You don’t get to use a fucking bot to vomit out an approximation of a story and pretend you’ve got skin in the game.
The sad thing? This bot-assembled fic wasn’t bad. It was bland, but it had internal logic, some passing context to character and canon. It wasn’t like those early AI art pieces that had surreal compositions and extra fingers. It wasn’t immediately obvious it was made by a bot.
In this instance the person who posted it admitted they had used a bot. Which, actually, I have some respect for. But it probably isn’t the first and it won’t be the last.
I don’t know that there’s a solution to this, but it is both hurting my heart and enraging me.
I'm highly sorry to anyone that has ever send an ask to me and didn't get a reply. There's a 99.999999% chance I did see it. I did read it. I did start to reply. But I got distracted and then I forgot and when I saw it again it could've been hours/days/weeks after. And then I felt too embarrassed to reply that I just pretended not to see it.
bad blood by bastille was literally insane. a song about Pompeii AND a song about Laura palmer AND a song about icarus. things we lost in the fire???? wtf was this guy on. possessed by a modern day library of alexandria. daniel in the den.. bro experienced one single past life regression then asked david lynch to interpret it
The nature of Tumblr not showing follower counts is that every mid-sized blog will have a small subsection of people absolutely convinced they're following/mutuals with a celebrity.
"Wow, I'm friends with a lot of queer folks. Wonder why that is?" - cishet on the verge of making a huge discovery
New tumblr users I am begging you. You don’t need to do all of them, but you need to at MINIMUM have a profile picture, a title, a blog description, and/or have liked a non-porn post, just one, or you’re gonna end up blocked and reported like a wildfire. Literally just one of those things flags to people that you’re not a bot. The more the better.
now i dont condone cheating but u have to admit the historical importance adultery had on good music
The Lighting of the Beacons
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - dir. Peter Jackson
the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can't wear any cool jackets. and everyone's going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you're the crazy one
Um yes HELLO but if you aren't reading The Long Way Home what are you doing with your life. Read if you like:
- Hill House style haunted places
- Greek mythology
- Tim and Jason being shitty in the Realest way possible
- Tim and Jason being utterly Unshitty in the Realest way possible
- Enemies-to-reluctant-allies-to-brothers pipeline
- Weird ass ghosts doing weird ass things in extremely interesting and creepy ways
- Really good writing? Like oh my god it keeps taking me off guard?
Idk man, this fic deserves like 10000 more hits than it currently has, I'm obsessed, I'm being really normal about it, I read it today instead of doing my adult marketing job. I'm so jazzed to see where it goes. I literally yelled and threw my phone at the end of chapter 11.
Anonymous asked:
Sp did you ever figure out what was up witht he noodle dragon?
oh anon I'm ill about it
every time i see a post claiming jason is tim's favorite robin i just. y'all put some respect on dick grayson's name or so help me god,
It's important to me that Dick Grayson is a fashion disaster. That he's the subject of 'is this trendy or is it just that Dick Grayson is wearing it' twitter threads at least once a month. I want him to dress exclusively like Chris Pine in paparazzi pictures is what I'm saying. Examples for visual learners--